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1. Ernest Hemingway
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
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
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) - Euphues and His England (1580) - Campaspe - Sapho and Phao - Gallathea - Endimion - Midas - Love'S Metamorphosis - Mother Bombie - The Woman in the Moon
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair

2. Alfred - Lord Tennyson

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

4. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
Lilliput
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
The Life of Samuel Johnson

5. Oscar Wilde

6. Richard Sheridan 'The School for Scandal' 1777
'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'
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes

7. William Faulkner

8. Samuel Beckett
The American - Henry James
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
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9. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
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'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
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10. Last paragraph of James Joyce'S 'The Dead' from Dubliners

11. Last lines of Walt Whitman'S 'Song of Myself'
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 Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.

12. Alexander Pope
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry

13. D.H. Lawrence

14. Samuel Langhorne Clemens

15. E.M. Forster
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
'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
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church

16. John Donne
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
The Sun Rising
'To a green thought in a green shade'

17. Opening lines of Dryden'S Mae Flecknoe

18. Gerard Manley Hopkins

19. James Baldwin
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'

20. William Butler Yeats

21. Emerson - 'Self-Reliance'

22. George Bernard Shaw

23. John Ruskin
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'
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last

24. John Stuart Mill

25. Christopher Marlowe
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Castle of Otranto
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'

26. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
George Eliot'S real name
'The Jungle'

27. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
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 Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)

28. Geoffrey Chaucer
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
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 (
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II

29. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
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
Pyramus and Thisbe
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
'To a green thought in a green shade'

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

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

32. John Dos Passos
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Dracula
'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. Philip Sidney
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
Mr. W.H.
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Struldburgs

34. Ben Jonson

35. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Amelia Lanyer
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil

36. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
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
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.

37. T.S. Eliot

38. W.H. Auden

39. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
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
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Piers Plowman

40. Ezra Pound

41. Gertrude Stein

42. Edith Wharton
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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

43. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
George Chapman
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Lyrical Ballads
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing

44. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

45. Opening of Canterbury Tales

46. Algernon Charles Swinburne

47. Mark Twain

48. Mary Anne Evans

49. George Meredith
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory

50. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow