GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
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 Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
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'


2. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
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
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent


3. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
"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 Tyger
Houyhnhnms


4. Eric Arthur Blair
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
George Orwell real name


5. William Blake
The Tyger
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.
Yahoos
George Orwell real name


6. Arthur Rimbaud

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7. Charles Lamb
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
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'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare


8. Thoreau - 'Walden'

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9. William Carlos Williams

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10. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The pathetic fallacy
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners


11. Sense and Sensibility
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Beowulf
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'


12. Charlotte Bronte
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
'The Balcony'


13. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

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14. Sir Thomas Malory; one of first books printed in England

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15. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
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'
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Mr. W.H.


16. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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17. Thomas Macaulay

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18. Joseph Conrad

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19. Daniel Defoe
Sophocles
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire


20. Upton Sinclair

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21. William Wordsworth

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22. Oscar Wilde

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23. Robert Herrick

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24. W.H. Auden

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25. Malcom Lowry
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
Under the Volcano
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'


26. George Meredith
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
'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 House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways


27. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
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
Utopia


28. Richard Wright
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'


29. Northanger Abbey
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son


30. Christopher Marlowe
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
Tamburlaine the Great


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

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32. Christopher Marlowe
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'


33. Alan Ginsberg

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34. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
Hudibras
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing


35. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
'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'
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget


36. Salman Rushdie

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37. William Cowper
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Under the Volcano
'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
The Task - Olney Hyms


38. Flannery O'Connor
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
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
Things Fall Apart
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


39. 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 House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
The American - Henry James
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People


40. Vladimir Nabokov
Piers Plowman
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
The Task - Olney Hyms
'Incident'


41. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Amelia Lanyer
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The Plough and the Stars
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry


42. Thomas Hardy

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43. Last lines of Walt Whitman'S 'Song of Myself'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads


44. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
'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.'


45. Geoffrey Chaucer
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
'The Jungle'


46. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
Confessio Amantis
The Oresteia
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


47. John Fenimore Cooper
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
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
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son


48. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
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--'
Castle of Otranto
Pyramus and Thisbe


49. Thomas Carlyle
'The Balcony'
George Chapman
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion


50. John Gower - 1390 - treatment of a suffering lover
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
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'
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'
Confessio Amantis