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1. Thoreau - 'Walden'

2. Philip Sidney
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Beowulf
The Tyger
The American - Henry James

3. Nadine Gordimer

4. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
The pathetic fallacy
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Piers Plowman
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire

5. T.S. Eliot 'The Hollow Men'

6. John Stuart Mill

7. Thomas Hardy

8. Ben Jonson

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

10. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
The Tyger
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'

11. Ann Radcliffe
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
'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 Tyger

12. George Orwell
The Plough and the Stars
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'
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Daisy Miller - Henry James

13. Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'

14. Sylvia Plath

15. James Joyce

16. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

17. Christopher Marlowe
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
Laputa
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II

18. Edmund Spenser
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)

19. Matthew Arnold'S Culture and Anarchy (sweetness and light originally coined by Jonathan Swift'S Battle of the Books)

20. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'

21. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

22. Joseph Conrad

23. Emily Dickinson
'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'
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
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

24. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
George Chapman
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
The Faerie Queene
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England

25. Lord Byron

26. John Webster
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal

27. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Things Fall Apart
'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
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable

28. Eugene O'Neill

29. Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. Gertrude Stein

31. Emerson - 'Self-Reliance'

32. Geoffrey Chaucer
'The shot heard round the world'
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England

33. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'

34. T.E. Lawrence
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
George Orwell real name

35. Andrew Marvell

36. Oscar Wilde

37. Daniel Defoe
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.
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
The Faerie Queene

38. Samuel Beckett
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
Beowulf
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable

39. Robert Burns

40. Last paragraph of James Joyce'S 'The Dead' from Dubliners

41. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

42. Robert Herrick

43. Honoré de Balzac
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
'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'
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot

44. Emily Bronte

45. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England

46. D.H. Lawrence

47. In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred - Lord Tennyson

48. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
"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
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'

49. William Butler Yeats

50. Kate Chopin