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GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works
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1. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
Martinus Scriblerus Club
Things Fall Apart
'The shot heard round the world'
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
2. E.M. Forster
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
The Tyger
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
3. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
The Oresteia
Amelia Lanyer
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
4. Mary Anne Evans
5. John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
'The shot heard round the world'
Utopia
6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
'The Balcony'
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Hudibras
Lyrical Ballads
7. Dylan Thomas
8. Malcom Lowry
The Sun Rising
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Under the Volcano
9. John Stuart Mill
10. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
Yahoos
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 American - Henry James
'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.'
11. Countee Cullen
12. Arthur Rimbaud
13. Albert Camus
14. Ezra Pound
15. Robert Burns
16. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'
17. Opening of Canterbury Tales
18. Henry Fielding
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
19. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
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
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
20. Algernon Charles Swinburne
21. Eugene O'Neill
22. Horace Walpole
Confessio Amantis
"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
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Castle of Otranto
23. John Skelton
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
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
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
The American - Henry James
24. William Butler Yeats
25. Dylan Thomas
26. 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 American - Henry James
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
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
27. George Bernard Shaw
28. Ben Jonson
29. Daniel Defoe
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
30. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
31. John Lyle
32. Kate Chopin
33. Thomas Hardy
34. Edmund Spenser
Laputa
Sophocles
'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'
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
35. Emily Dickinson
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
"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
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
36. Sense and Sensibility
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
'This is the story of an angry man'
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
The Life of Samuel Johnson
37. Alexander Pope
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
'To a green thought in a green shade'
'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.'
38. William Carlos Williams
39. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
The Sun Rising
Amelia Lanyer
40. Alfred - Lord Tennyson
41. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
'This is the story of an angry man'
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
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
42. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Pyramus and Thisbe
Sophocles
George Eliot'S real name
43. Eric Arthur Blair
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
George Orwell real name
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
The American - Henry James
44. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The pathetic fallacy
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
'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'
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'
45. W.E.B. DuBois
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
'This is the story of an angry man'
Laputa
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
46. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Beowulf
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
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
47. Andrew Marvell
48. William Congreve
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
The Way of the World - Love for Love
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
49. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
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
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
Confessio Amantis
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
50. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
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
'The shot heard round the world'
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Mr. W.H.