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1. John Lydgate
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
'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

2. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'

3. Edith Wharton
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
The Playboy of the Western World

4. Horace Walpole
Castle of Otranto
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
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland

5. John Dos Passos
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'

6. Daniel Defoe
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Martinus Scriblerus Club

7. Geoffrey Chaucer
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)

8. F. Scott Fitzgerald

9. Kate Chopin

10. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Mr. W.H.
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil

11. T.S. Eliot'S The Waste Land

12. Albert Camus

13. Ezra Pound

14. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
Lilliput
Hudibras

15. Gerard Manley Hopkins

16. John Donne

17. Algernon Charles Swinburne

18. Dylan Thomas

19. John Fenimore Cooper
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'

20. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

21. Goethe

22. Gulliver'S Travels - utopian land of giants that highlights the failures of English goverment
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Brobdingnag
Lilliput
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son

23. Lord Byron

24. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
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--'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
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

25. Thomas Macaulay

26. Ralph Waldo Emerson

27. Andrew Marvell

28. James Joyce

29. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
Lyrical Ballads
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
The American - Henry James

30. William Makepeace Thackeray
Yahoos
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil

31. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Utopia
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

32. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
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'
Beowulf
Daisy Miller - 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'

33. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
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'
In a fair season when soft was the sun
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Beowulf

34. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

35. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son

36. Honoré de Balzac
Lilliput
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography

37. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre

38. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Mr. W.H.

39. Edmund Spenser - 1590
The Faerie Queene
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion

40. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
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

41. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
The Oresteia

42. Samuel Beckett
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Under the Volcano

43. Edmund Spenser
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
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'
Tamburlaine the Great
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget

44. Salman Rushdie

45. Maya Angelou

46. Christopher Marlowe
'The shot heard round the world'
Dracula
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance

47. Gerard Manley Hopkins
inscape and instress
Yahoos
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
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

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

49. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
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
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
Martinus Scriblerus Club
The Tyger

50. Ben Jonson