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GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works
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1. Herman Melville
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2. Goethe
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3. T.S. Eliot'S The Waste Land
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4. Marcel Proust
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
5. Gerard Manley Hopkins
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6. Miles and Flora seem to be haunted by ghost of their country estate'S former employees - Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. Told by their English governess
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
The Beautiful and the Damned - This Side of Paradise - Tender is the Night - The Great Gatsby - The Love of the Last Tycoon - 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
7. Malcom Lowry
'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
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
Under the Volcano
8. Geoffrey Chaucer
Yahoos
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
9. Kate Chopin
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10. William Cowper
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
The Task - Olney Hyms
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
11. Thoreau - 'Walden'
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12. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred - Lord Tennyson
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13. Anthony Trollope
Piers Plowman
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
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
14. Charles Lamb
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
15. Last lines of Walt Whitman'S 'Song of Myself'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
"Death is a dialogue between the spirit and dust -" "Because I could not stop for death -" " There is another sky -" "I'm Nobody! Who are you? -" "I Started Early - took my dog - -" Nobody knows
Endymion - The Fall of Hyperion - Lamia - 'Ode to a Nightingale -' The Eve of St. Agnes - La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad - 'On First Looking Into Chapman'S Homer -' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
16. Samuel Johnson
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
The Beautiful and the Damned - This Side of Paradise - Tender is the Night - The Great Gatsby - The Love of the Last Tycoon - 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
17. Algernon Charles Swinburne
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18. Flannery O'Connor
Hudibras
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
Wise Blood - The Violent Bear it Away - Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose - A Good Man is Hard to Find - Everything that Rises Must Converge - The Complete Stories
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
19. Christopher Marlowe
Lilliput
Tamburlaine the Great
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
20. Mansfield Park
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
21. John Stuart Mill
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22. John Donne sermon - 'Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions'
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23. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Beowulf
Amelia Lanyer
The Task - Olney Hyms
24. Charles Dickens
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25. Salman Rushdie
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26. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow
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27. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'
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28. Joseph Conrad
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29. Honoré de Balzac
Amelia Lanyer
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
The Ambassadors - Henry James
30. William Butler Yeats
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31. W.H. Auden
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32. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
The pathetic fallacy
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
'This is the story of an angry man'
33. John Dryden
The Old Man and the Sea - For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Sun Also Rises - A Farwell to Arms - Death in the Afternoon - The Garden of Eden - The Nick Adams Stories
'each man kills the thing he loves'
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
34. Gertrude Stein
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35. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
Struldburgs
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
36. Matthew Arnold'S Culture and Anarchy (sweetness and light originally coined by Jonathan Swift'S Battle of the Books)
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37. Robert Browning
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38. William Wordsworth
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39. Opening of Canterbury Tales
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40. T.S. Eliot 'The Hollow Men'
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41. James Baldwin
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
42. Final lines of Lycidas by Milton - pastoral elegy for Edward King - his colleague at Cambridge that drowned
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43. Lord Byron
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44. Eugene O'Neill
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45. John Webster
'each man kills the thing he loves'
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Utopia
46. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
Sophocles
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
47. John Fenimore Cooper
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
The Tyger
Mark Twain'S real name
Things Fall Apart
48. Virginia Woolf
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49. Langston Hughes
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50. 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
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The American - Henry James
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Under the Volcano
