GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. James Baldwin
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
Houyhnhnms
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son


2. Sylvia Plath

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3. James Joyce

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4. Richard Sheridan 'The School for Scandal' 1777
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface


5. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The pathetic fallacy
'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.'
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)


6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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7. Sean O'Casey
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
The Plough and the Stars
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church


8. William Blake
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
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
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'
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana


9. Follows trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of his widowed fiancee'S supposedly wayward son - Chad Newsome. Strether is to bring the young man back to the family business - but he encounters unexpected complications. The t
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
The Ambassadors - Henry James
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 (
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair


10. Isabel Archer confronts her destiny and finds it overwhelming. Inherits a large amount of money and is victim of Machiavellian scheme by two American expats - Gilbert Osmond and Madame Merle. Set mostly in Europe - esp. England and Italy. Pansy - Cas
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'


11. Richard Wright
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
The Oresteia
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Castle of Otranto


12. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
The Sun Rising
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
George Eliot'S real name
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair


13. Gertrude Stein

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14. T.S. Eliot

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15. First line of The Iliad

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16. John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
The Playboy of the Western World
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'


17. Final lines of Lycidas by Milton - pastoral elegy for Edward King - his colleague at Cambridge that drowned

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18. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses
Brobdingnag
Houyhnhnms
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'
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes


19. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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20. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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'
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion


21. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

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22. Geoffrey Chaucer
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
Mr. W.H.


23. James Boswell
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
The Reason of Church Government (1642) - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643) - Areopagitica (1644) - Poems (1645) - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649) - Eikonoklastes (1649) - Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth (166
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe


24. Thomas Macaulay

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25. George Eliot
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
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Mr. W.H.


26. George Orwell
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Amelia Lanyer
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'


27. William Congreve
'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.'
Amelia Lanyer
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
The Way of the World - Love for Love


28. Charles Dickens

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29. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent


30. Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
Confessio Amantis
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit


31. Early English translator of Homer
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
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
George Chapman
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans


32. Henry Fielding
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon


33. Jean Genet

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34. Mansfield Park
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
The Aspern Papers - Henry James


35. Henry James
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
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
Lyrical Ballads


36. Kate Chopin

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37. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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38. Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
Hudibras
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'
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon


39. Ernest Hemingway
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
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
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Lilliput


40. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'

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41. John Donne

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42. John Fenimore Cooper
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Confessio Amantis
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'


43. John Skelton
Mr. W.H.
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
'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.'
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'


44. Dylan Thomas

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45. E.M. Forster
Houyhnhnms
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe


46. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Brobdingnag
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'


47. Endymion (John Keats - 1818)

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48. John Donne sermon - 'Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions'

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49. Samuel Beckett
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island


50. Edith Wharton
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans