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GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

Subjects : gre, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Thoreau - 'Walden'


2. Philip Sidney






3. Nadine Gordimer


4. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues






5. T.S. Eliot 'The Hollow Men'


6. John Stuart Mill


7. Thomas Hardy


8. Ben Jonson


9. Final lines of Lycidas by Milton - pastoral elegy for Edward King - his colleague at Cambridge that drowned


10. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675






11. Ann Radcliffe






12. George Orwell






13. Anton Chekhov






14. Sylvia Plath


15. James Joyce


16. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'


17. Christopher Marlowe






18. Edmund Spenser






19. Matthew Arnold'S Culture and Anarchy (sweetness and light originally coined by Jonathan Swift'S Battle of the Books)


20. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'


21. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow


22. Joseph Conrad


23. Emily Dickinson






24. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne






25. Lord Byron


26. John Webster






27. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence






28. Eugene O'Neill


29. Ralph Waldo Emerson


30. Gertrude Stein


31. Emerson - 'Self-Reliance'


32. Geoffrey Chaucer






33. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676






34. T.E. Lawrence






35. Andrew Marvell


36. Oscar Wilde


37. Daniel Defoe






38. Samuel Beckett






39. Robert Burns


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


41. Samuel Taylor Coleridge


42. Robert Herrick


43. Honoré de Balzac






44. Emily Bronte


45. John Henry - Cardinal Newman






46. D.H. Lawrence


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


48. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)






49. William Butler Yeats


50. Kate Chopin