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GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works
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1. Final lines of Lycidas by Milton - pastoral elegy for Edward King - his colleague at Cambridge that drowned
2. Joseph Conrad
3. Mark Twain
4. 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
Laputa
The American - Henry James
Beowulf
Le Morte D'Arthur
5. T.E. Lawrence
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
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'
Piers Plowman
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
6. Edgar Allan Poe
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
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
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
7. Sean O'Casey
The Plough and the Stars
The Playboy of the Western World
Amelia Lanyer
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
8. Langston Hughes
9. Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Anthony Trollope
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
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
11. T.S. Eliot'S The Waste Land
12. E.e. cummings
13. Eugene O'Neill
14. Christopher Marlowe
The pathetic fallacy
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Brobdingnag
'each man kills the thing he loves'
15. Samuel Johnson
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
The Sun Rising
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
16. 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
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
George Orwell real name
17. Lord Byron
18. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
The Task - Olney Hyms
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Mr. W.H.
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
19. Gulliver'S Travels - utopian land of giants that highlights the failures of English goverment
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Brobdingnag
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
20. Robert Louis Stevenson
21. Elizabeth Gaskell
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
inscape and instress
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
22. Keat'S 'Ode to a Nightingale'
23. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Utopia
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
24. Salman Rushdie
25. Ezra Pound
26. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
George Eliot'S real name
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
'The Balcony'
27. Ernest Hemingway
In a fair season when soft was the sun
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
George Orwell real name
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
28. Samuel Beckett
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'
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
29. Alan Ginsberg
30. Henry Fielding
George Chapman
The Oresteia
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
George Eliot'S real name
31. Mansfield Park
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
32. Marcel Proust
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'
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
'To a green thought in a green shade'
George Orwell real name
33. Edith Wharton
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
34. John Lydgate
inscape and instress
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Mr. W.H.
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
35. George Orwell
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
36. James Boswell
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
'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.'
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
37. Jonathan Swift
38. Alexander Pope
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
'The Balcony'
39. Thomas Carlyle
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Pyramus and Thisbe
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
40. Walt Whitman
41. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
42. Samuel Butler
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
Hudibras
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 Balcony'
43. William Blake
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
The Tyger
44. Anton Chekhov
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
"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
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
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
45. Dylan Thomas
46. Charles Dickens
47. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
The Faerie Queene
Yahoos
Pyramus and Thisbe
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
48. Horace Walpole
George Orwell real name
Castle of Otranto
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
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
49. Early English translator of Homer
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
Castle of Otranto
George Chapman
Sophocles
50. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion