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1. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'

2. Maya Angelou

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

4. Gulliver'S Travels - utopian land of giants that highlights the failures of English goverment
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Brobdingnag
'To a green thought in a green shade'

5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Lyrical Ballads

6. Mansfield Park
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
'To a green thought in a green shade'
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
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

7. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Things Fall Apart
Hudibras
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing

8. Henry David Thoreau

9. Jean Genet

10. Gerard Manley Hopkins
'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.'
inscape and instress
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard

11. 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 Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
The American - Henry James
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

12. 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
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal

13. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry

14. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
Things Fall Apart
'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.'
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'

15. Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
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
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
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 (

17. Geoffrey Chaucer
George Chapman
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard

18. Thoreau - 'Walden'

19. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
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
Martinus Scriblerus Club
Daisy Miller - Henry James
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs

20. Samuel Langhorne Clemens

21. Herman Melville

22. Ben Jonson

23. William Carlos Williams

24. John Keats

25. W.E.B. DuBois
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
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
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography

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

27. Emily Bronte

28. William Congreve
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
The Way of the World - Love for Love

29. Gulliver'S Travels - unhappy immortals who wish they could die
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Struldburgs
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'

30. Sir Walter Raleigh

31. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
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'
The pathetic fallacy
Yahoos
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'

32. John Donne
inscape and instress
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
The Sun Rising
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'

33. Sylvia Plath

34. Last paragraph of James Joyce'S 'The Dead' from Dubliners

35. Dylan Thomas

36. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
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'
Tamburlaine the Great
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'

37. Sense and Sensibility
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

38. Walt Whitman

39. Samuel Pepys
Lyrical Ballads
Piers Plowman
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte

40. Arthur Rimbaud

41. Eric Arthur Blair
inscape and instress
'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'
George Orwell 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

42. T.E. Lawrence
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'

43. Flannery O'Connor
The American - Henry James
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
Utopia
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways

44. Charles Dickens

45. Anton Chekhov
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
The Oresteia
George Chapman

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

47. Edmund Spenser - 1590
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
'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 Faerie Queene
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom

48. E.e. cummings

49. Rainer Maria Rilke

50. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Piers Plowman