GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. James Baldwin
Sophocles
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways


2. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Sophocles
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Struldburgs


3. Samuel Beckett
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
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
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable


4. Jeffrey Aspern - Modeled after Lord Byron) as long-dead famous poet - biographer is trying to secure some papers from Aspern'S former mistress and homely daughter. Set in Venice.
Beowulf
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View


5. Alexander Pope
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
'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.'
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'


6. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
'The Jungle'
Houyhnhnms
Piers Plowman
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable


7. Virginia Woolf

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8. Richard Sheridan 'The School for Scandal' 1777
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
Hudibras
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris


9. William Faulkner

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10. George Bernard Shaw

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11. Samuel Butler
Hudibras
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
'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'
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James


12. John Gower - 1390 - treatment of a suffering lover
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
Confessio Amantis
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'


13. Ezra Pound

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14. Ben Jonson

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15. John Donne

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16. Robert Louis Stevenson

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17. Opening of Canterbury Tales

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18. Algernon Charles Swinburne

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19. Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
The Ambassadors - Henry James


20. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
Things Fall Apart
'To a green thought in a green shade'
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
Martinus Scriblerus Club


21. Andrew Marvell

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22. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

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

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24. 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
The Plough and the Stars
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
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'


25. James Joyce

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26. John Berryman
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'


27. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

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28. Geoffrey Chaucer
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
George Eliot'S real name


29. Herman Melville

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30. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
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


31. George Eliot
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 Playboy of the Western World
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
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner


32. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
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.
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Pyramus and Thisbe


33. Upton Sinclair

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34. T.S. Eliot

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35. Richard Wright
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
The Sun Rising
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider


36. John Donne
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
The Sun Rising
Dracula


37. William Makepeace Thackeray
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Under the Volcano
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
George Chapman


38. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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39. Matthew Arnold

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

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41. Sense and Sensibility
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Confessio Amantis


42. Follows trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of his widowed fiancee'S supposedly wayward son - Chad Newsome. Strether is to bring the young man back to the family business - but he encounters unexpected complications. The t
The Ambassadors - Henry James
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog


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

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44. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
'The Balcony'
Beowulf
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot


45. W.H. Auden

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

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47. John Lyle

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48. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
Mr. W.H.
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
'The Jungle'
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo


49. Last lines of Walt Whitman'S 'Song of Myself'
Le Morte D'Arthur
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
Confessio Amantis
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'


50. Washington Irving

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