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1. John Berryman
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
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)

2. Gerard Manley Hopkins

3. W.E.B. DuBois
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
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'

4. John Stuart Mill

5. William Carlos Williams

6. James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
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'

7. Daniel Defoe
"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
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess

8. Edith Wharton
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World

9. Henry David Thoreau

10. Vladimir Nabokov
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
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
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'

11. William Faulkner

12. Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. F. Scott Fitzgerald

14. John Lydgate
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes

15. Eugene O'Neill

16. Alexander Pope
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Le Morte D'Arthur
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'

17. Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain'S real name
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
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'
"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

18. Flannery O'Connor
Things Fall Apart
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 Tyger
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'

19. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
'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.'

20. James Joyce

21. Honoré de Balzac
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'

22. Gertrude Stein

23. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Laputa
"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. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
The Oresteia
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Amelia Lanyer
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'

25. Elizabeth Gaskell
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son

26. Eric Arthur Blair
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
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
George Orwell real name

27. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Dracula
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Pyramus and Thisbe

28. Walt Whitman

29. Marcel Proust
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
The American - Henry James

30. Goethe

31. Thomas Carlyle
The Plough and the Stars
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
'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'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus

32. Sean O'Casey
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The Plough and the Stars
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando

33. Ezra Pound

34. James Baldwin
George Chapman
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
The American - Henry James

35. Edgar Allan Poe
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
Dracula
'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 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'

36. Endymion (John Keats - 1818)

37. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
Daisy Miller - Henry James
Sophocles
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'

38. Richard Wright
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider

39. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
Lilliput
Utopia
Struldburgs
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'

40. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

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

42. Charles Dickens

43. Rudyard Kipling

44. John Keats

45. Geoffrey Chaucer
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--'
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess

46. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

47. Mary Anne Evans

48. Rainer Maria Rilke

49. Early English translator of Homer
Houyhnhnms
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
George Chapman
'The shot heard round the world'

50. First line of The Iliad