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1. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

2. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
Laputa
The Oresteia
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
Houyhnhnms

3. Alexander Pope
"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
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

5. 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 Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
The American - 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 (

6. Nadine Gordimer

7. Edmund Spenser - 1590
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
The Faerie Queene
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'

8. John Skelton
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
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
The pathetic fallacy

9. John Lyle

10. Lord Byron

11. William Dean Howells
Amelia Lanyer
The Rise of Silas Lapham
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
'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.'

12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

13. Philip Sidney
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View

14. Christopher Marlowe
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

15. Daniel Defoe
The Tyger
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

16. Ernest Hemingway
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
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
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'

17. Robert Herrick

18. Sean O'Casey
Utopia
The Plough and the Stars
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.

19. Salman Rushdie

20. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'

21. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
Utopia
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 (
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
The Tyger

22. 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
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
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Things Fall Apart

23. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

24. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
Lyrical Ballads
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) - Euphues and His England (1580) - Campaspe - Sapho and Phao - Gallathea - Endimion - Midas - Love'S Metamorphosis - Mother Bombie - The Woman in the Moon
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.

25. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
The Oresteia
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
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
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell

26. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
Hudibras

27. William Congreve
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
The Way of the World - Love for Love

28. Thomas Carlyle
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
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'

29. William Butler Yeats

30. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Sophocles
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'

31. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh

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

33. Vladimir Nabokov
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
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
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'

34. Countee Cullen

35. Early English translator of Homer
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
George Chapman
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'

36. Oscar Wilde - 'Ballad of Reading Goal' (written as Sebastian Melmoth)

37. Walt Whitman

38. George Meredith
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
The Sun Rising

39. W.H. Auden

40. John Webster
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Martinus Scriblerus Club

41. Ezra Pound

42. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Amelia Lanyer
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
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

43. Christopher Marlowe
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Tamburlaine the Great
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'

44. John Stuart Mill

45. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
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
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'

46. Charlotte Bronte
Piers Plowman
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'

47. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
Daisy Miller - Henry James
The Plough and the Stars
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess

48. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

49. Sense and Sensibility
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
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon

50. Nathaniel Hawthorne