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GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works
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1. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
The Tuning of Elinour Rumming - Elegy on the Death of the Earl of Northumberland - Speculum Principis - The Bowge of Court - Phyllyp Sparrow - A Lawde and Prayse Made for our Souereigne Lord of the Kyng - Magnyfycence - Speak - Parrot - Colyn Cloute
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Piers Plowman
2. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The American - Henry James
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
3. Final lines of Lycidas by Milton - pastoral elegy for Edward King - his colleague at Cambridge that drowned
4. Thomas Carlyle
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Philadelphia Negro; The Souls of Black Folk; John Brown; Black Reconstruction; Black Folk - Then and Now; The Negro; The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part That Africa Has Played in World History
5. Virginia Woolf
6. Langston Hughes
7. Vladimir Nabokov
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:/Its loveliness increases; it will never/Pass into nothingness; but still will keep/A bower quiet for us - and a sleep/Full of sweet dreams - and health - and quiet breathing.'
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
8. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
The Philadelphia Negro; The Souls of Black Folk; John Brown; Black Reconstruction; Black Folk - Then and Now; The Negro; The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part That Africa Has Played in World History
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
9. Edgar Allan Poe
Lilliput
The Faerie Queene
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - The Stylus; Eulalie; To Helen; Ulalume; Eureka; The Cask of Amontillado; A Dream Within a Dream; Tell-Tale Heart; Fall of the House of Usher
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
10. Robert Herrick
11. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
George Chapman
Once upon a midnight dreary - while I pondered - weak and weary - Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore - While I nodded - nearly napping - suddenly there came a tapping - As of some one gently rapping - rapping at my chamber door.
12. Mansfield Park
The Sun Rising
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
'Ballad of Reading Goal -' 'De Profundis -' Lady Windermere'S Fan - A Woman of No Importance - An Ideal Husband - 'The Critic as an Artist -' Salome - The Portrait of Dorian Gray - The Importance of Being Earnest
13. Walt Whitman
14. Thoreau - 'Walden'
15. Samuel Butler
Hudibras
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
16. Geoffrey Chaucer
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Amelia Lanyer
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
17. Edmund Spenser
Mr. W.H.
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
The Task - Olney Hyms
18. Gulliver'S Travels - utopian land of giants that highlights the failures of English goverment
Brobdingnag
Biathanatos (defense of suicide) - Pseudo-Martyr - Ignatius His Conclave - The First Anniversary (1611) - The Second Anniversary (1612) - Poems (1633) - 'Hymn to God My God - in My Sickness -' 'Death'S Duel' (own funeral sermon) - Songs and Sonnets (
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
19. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
First lines: 'April is the cruelest month - breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land - mixing/Memory and desire - stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.' Last lines: 'Datta - Dayahvam - Damyataya./Shantih shantih shantih'
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
'This is the story of an angry man'
20. Northanger Abbey
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
21. William Cowper
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Brobdingnag
The Task - Olney Hyms
22. Washington Irving
23. Henry James
The Aspern Papers - The Golden Bowl - Daisy Miller - the Turn of the Screw - The Portrait of a Lady - The Wings of the Dove - The Ambassadors - The American
And now the Sun had stretch'd out all the hills - And now was dropt into the Western bay; At last he rose - and twitch'd his Mantle blew: To morrow to fresh Woods - and Pastures new
The pathetic fallacy
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
24. Charlotte Bronte
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
25. Christopher Newman - good-hearted but gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe - looking for different world than the harsh world of 19th century American business. Mostly concerns his courting of a young widow from aristocratic Parisi
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
The American - Henry James
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
26. John Lydgate
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - A Pair of Blue Eyes - Far from the Maddening Crowd - The Return of the Native - The Mayor of Casterbridge - The Woodlanders - Jude the Obscure
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
27. William Blake
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Poetic Sketches - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Experience - Jerusalem - The French Revolution: A Prophecy - America: A Prophecy - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Visions of the Daughters of Albion - The Four Zoas
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
The Mysteries of Udolpho
28. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
29. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
30. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
31. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred - Lord Tennyson
32. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Houyhnhnms
The Task - Olney Hyms
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
33. William Blake
Hudibras
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
The Tyger
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
34. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Faerie Queene
35. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
36. T.E. Lawrence
'The shot heard round the world'
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
37. Jean Genet
38. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow
39. John Donne
40. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
Castle of Otranto
Lilliput
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
41. Last paragraph of James Joyce'S 'The Dead' from Dubliners
42. James Baldwin
Houyhnhnms
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
'The Jungle'
George Eliot'S real name
43. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
inscape and instress
44. John Keats
45. T.S. Eliot 'The Hollow Men'
46. F. Scott Fitzgerald
47. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
Utopia
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
The pathetic fallacy
48. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Martinus Scriblerus Club
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
49. Upton Sinclair
50. John Dryden
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Le Morte D'Arthur
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe