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1. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred - Lord Tennyson
Le Morte D'Arthur
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
Mr. W.H.
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last

2. Mark Twain
Prince and the Pauper - Life on the Mississippi - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'S Court - Roughing It - The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress - Letters from Earth - 'Votes for Women -' The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Adventures of H
'This is the story of an angry man'
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')

3. Jeffrey Aspern - Modeled after Lord Byron) as long-dead famous poet - biographer is trying to secure some papers from Aspern'S former mistress and homely daughter. Set in Venice.
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
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'

4. John Donne sermon - 'Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions'
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Beowulf
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

5. Alexander Pope
inscape and instress
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
The Tyger
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'

6. Marcel Proust
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
Sophocles
'The Balcony'
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)

7. Mary Anne Evans
George Eliot'S real name
The Task - Olney Hyms
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
'The Balcony'

8. Virginia Woolf
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'
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' The Waste Land - 'Murder in the Cathedral -' 'The Hollow Men' - Ash Wednesday - Four Quartets - The Cocktail Party - 'Old Possum'S Book of Practical Cats'
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog

9. Thoreau - 'Walden'
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
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
Prince and the Pauper - Life on the Mississippi - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'S Court - Roughing It - The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress - Letters from Earth - 'Votes for Women -' The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Adventures of H
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'

10. Richard Wright
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
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
Plain Tales from the Hills - 'White-Man'S Burden -' 'The Man Who Would be King.' 'Mandalay -' 'Gunga Din' Something of Myself - Jungle Book - Kim - 'If--'

11. Bram Stoker
Dracula
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
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

12. James Baldwin
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Go Down - Moses - The Sound and the Fury - As I Lay Dying - Absalom - Absalom! - Light in August - 'A Rose for Emily' - 'Red Leaves' - 'That Evening Sun' - and 'Dry September'

13. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
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.
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
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'

14. Robert Herrick
The American - Henry James
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
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
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''

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.
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'
Amelia Lanyer
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' The Waste Land - 'Murder in the Cathedral -' 'The Hollow Men' - Ash Wednesday - Four Quartets - The Cocktail Party - 'Old Possum'S Book of Practical Cats'

16. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Piers Plowman

17. Countee Cullen
'Incident'
Castle of Otranto
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
inscape and instress

18. Henry James
'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
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
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
Yahoos

19. Alan Ginsberg
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'

20. E.e. cummings
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son

21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Daisy Miller - Henry James
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Mr. W.H.
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' The Waste Land - 'Murder in the Cathedral -' 'The Hollow Men' - Ash Wednesday - Four Quartets - The Cocktail Party - 'Old Possum'S Book of Practical Cats'

22. Ben Jonson
Every Man in His Humour (1598) - The Mask of Blackness (1605) - Volpone (1606) - Epicoene; or - The Silent Woman (1609) - The Alchemist (1610) - and Bartholomew Fair (1614) - 'Song to Celia'
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
The Rise of Silas Lapham

23. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Utopia
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes

24. 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
Mark Twain'S real name
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
The American - Henry James
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal

25. T.S. Eliot 'The Hollow Men'
Piers Plowman
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
'This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.'

26. Ann Radcliffe
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
'The Jungle'
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman

27. Emily Dickinson
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
'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
"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

28. Robert Browning
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
The Ambassadors - Henry James
'My Last Duchess -' 'A Gramarian'S Funeral -' 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came -' Men and Women - Dramatis Personae - 'Caliban upon Sebetos -' The Ring and the Book - 'Love Among the Ruins'
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)

29. 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
In a fair season when soft was the sun
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) - Euphues and His England (1580) - Campaspe - Sapho and Phao - Gallathea - Endimion - Midas - Love'S Metamorphosis - Mother Bombie - The Woman in the Moon
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface

30. Rudyard Kipling
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
Plain Tales from the Hills - 'White-Man'S Burden -' 'The Man Who Would be King.' 'Mandalay -' 'Gunga Din' Something of Myself - Jungle Book - Kim - 'If--'
Under the Volcano
'My Last Duchess -' 'A Gramarian'S Funeral -' 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came -' Men and Women - Dramatis Personae - 'Caliban upon Sebetos -' The Ring and the Book - 'Love Among the Ruins'

31. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley

32. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Brobdingnag
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
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

33. Elizabeth Gaskell
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
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
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Martinus Scriblerus Club

34. John Donne
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
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 Sun Rising

35. Gulliver'S Travels - utopian land of giants that highlights the failures of English goverment
Brobdingnag
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness - starving hysterical naked - dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry d
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'

36. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
The American - Henry James
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell

37. Honor de Balzac
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Sophocles
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
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

38. E.M. Forster
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View

39. William Congreve
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
The Way of the World - Love for Love
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
George Orwell real name

40. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
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
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) - Euphues and His England (1580) - Campaspe - Sapho and Phao - Gallathea - Endimion - Midas - Love'S Metamorphosis - Mother Bombie - The Woman in the Moon
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'

41. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
Go Down - Moses - The Sound and the Fury - As I Lay Dying - Absalom - Absalom! - Light in August - 'A Rose for Emily' - 'Red Leaves' - 'That Evening Sun' - and 'Dry September'
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Lilliput
George Chapman

42. John Keats
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness - starving hysterical naked - dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry d
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
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'

43. Thomas Macaulay
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface

44. Goethe
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness - starving hysterical naked - dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; Angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry d

45. Keat'S 'Ode to a Nightingale'
Yahoos
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'

46. John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
'This is the story of an angry man'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist

47. Alfred - Lord Tennyson
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
George Eliot'S real name
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon

48. Christopher Marlowe
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'

49. Langston Hughes
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
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Yahoos

50. Philip Sidney
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Le Morte D'Arthur
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry

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