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1. John Skelton
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
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 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
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley

2. George Orwell
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry

3. Herman Melville

4. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
Yahoos
'The shot heard round the world'
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World

5. Jean Genet

6. John Lyle

7. Nadine Gordimer

8. Kate Chopin

9. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
Hudibras
Pyramus and Thisbe

10. Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
The Playboy of the Western World
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'

11. William Butler Yeats

12. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
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
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II

13. William Wordsworth

14. George Eliot
Yahoos
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner

15. William Blake
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
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 Balcony'

16. Thomas Macaulay

17. Eric Arthur Blair
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
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
George Orwell real name
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans

18. Christopher Marlowe
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
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
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'

19. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The pathetic fallacy
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
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

20. George Bernard Shaw

21. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
Beowulf
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
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'

22. Eugene O'Neill

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

24. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Laputa
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry

25. Emerson - 'Self-Reliance'

26. Flannery O'Connor
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
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
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

27. Horace Walpole
The American - Henry James
Mark Twain'S real name
Castle of Otranto
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte

28. E.M. Forster
Brobdingnag
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
The Task - Olney Hyms
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)

29. Dylan Thomas

30. James Joyce

31. Elizabeth Gaskell
Under the Volcano
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'

32. Washington Irving

33. William Faulkner

34. Jonathan Swift

35. Henry Fielding
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
'each man kills the thing he loves'
The Playboy of the Western World

36. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
Things Fall Apart
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The Way of the World - Love for Love
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'

37. Ernest Hemingway
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
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

38. Arthur Rimbaud

39. John Fenimore Cooper
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--'
'This is the story of an angry man'
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'

40. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

41. T.E. Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
'Silence - cunning - and exile'

42. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
'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
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Lyrical Ballads
Brobdingnag

43. George Meredith
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
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
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways

44. Endymion (John Keats - 1818)

45. Countee Cullen

46. Oscar Wilde

47. Robert Herrick

48. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
The Oresteia
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Piers Plowman

49. Alfred - Lord Tennyson

50. William Cowper
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
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
The Task - Olney Hyms
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'