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1. Gerard Manley Hopkins

2. Marcel Proust
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
George Eliot'S real name
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare

3. Ernest Hemingway
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
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

4. T.E. Lawrence
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Hudibras

5. Northanger Abbey
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
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe

6. Christopher Marlowe
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
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'

7. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
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
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'

8. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'

9. Maya Angelou

10. Bram Stoker
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
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
The Oresteia
Dracula

11. Virginia Woolf

12. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
The pathetic fallacy

13. Flannery O'Connor
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 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
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider

14. Edmund Spenser
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion

15. Gulliver'S Travels - unhappy immortals who wish they could die
The Way of the World - Love for Love
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
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Struldburgs

16. Jean Genet

17. John Ruskin
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
The Ambassadors - Henry James

18. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

19. Salman Rushdie

20. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
The Playboy of the Western World
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh

21. Dylan Thomas

22. Edith Wharton
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'

23. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
The Oresteia

24. Rudyard Kipling

25. Daniel Defoe
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Piers Plowman
Mark Twain'S real name

26. Philip Sidney
Lyrical Ballads
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman

27. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

28. William Carlos Williams

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

30. John Bunyan - 1684

31. John Fenimore Cooper
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
The Way of the World - Love for Love
'each man kills the thing he loves'

32. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
'each man kills the thing he loves'
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair

33. Samuel Butler
Hudibras
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'
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'
'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'

34. Upton Sinclair

35. George Eliot
Confessio Amantis
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
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
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte

36. 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 American - Henry James
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last

37. Endymion (John Keats - 1818)

38. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
The Ambassadors - Henry James
'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 Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs

39. Walt Whitman

40. Thomas Hardy

41. William Wordsworth

42. D.H. Lawrence

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

44. John Keats

45. John Dos Passos
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
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Mid-seventeenth century diarist

46. John Gower - 1390 - treatment of a suffering lover
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
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'
Confessio Amantis
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire

47. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
'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.'
"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 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
Amelia Lanyer

48. Isabel Archer confronts her destiny and finds it overwhelming. Inherits a large amount of money and is victim of Machiavellian scheme by two American expats - Gilbert Osmond and Madame Merle. Set mostly in Europe - esp. England and Italy. Pansy - Cas
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

49. Ezra Pound

50. George Orwell
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
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Things Fall Apart