GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. Samuel Beckett
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
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
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'


2. Daniel Defoe
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
'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
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'


3. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''


4. William Butler Yeats

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5. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'
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
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Confessio Amantis


6. Sense and Sensibility
George Eliot'S real name
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
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'


7. John Lyle

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8. John Dryden
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Hudibras
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.


9. Marcel Proust
'To a green thought in a green shade'
The Faerie Queene
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)


10. John Donne
The Sun Rising
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas


11. William Makepeace Thackeray
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
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography


12. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
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
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter


13. Goethe

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14. 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 American - Henry James
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Laputa


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

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16. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
Lilliput
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
Utopia


17. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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'
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing


18. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
inscape and instress
The Playboy of the Western World
Martinus Scriblerus Club


19. Arthur Rimbaud

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20. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
Dracula
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
Daisy Miller - Henry James
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England


21. Robert Herrick

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22. Charles Lamb
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess


23. James Baldwin
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
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Mid-seventeenth century diarist


24. Henry James
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Lyrical Ballads
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


25. Charles Dickens

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26. Eugene O'Neill

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27. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

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28. Last lines of Walt Whitman'S 'Song of Myself'
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.


29. Ann Radcliffe
The Task - Olney Hyms
"Death is a dialogue between the spirit and dust -" "Because I could not stop for death -" " There is another sky -" "I'm Nobody! Who are you? -" "I Started Early - took my dog - -" Nobody knows
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard


30. Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
Hudibras
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'


31. Dylan Thomas

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32. Upton Sinclair

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33. Jonathan Swift

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34. Richard Wright
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great


35. Early English translator of Homer
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
George Chapman
The Task - Olney Hyms


36. Kate Chopin

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37. Malcom Lowry
Under the Volcano
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 Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider


38. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
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
Laputa
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--'


39. Anton Chekhov
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
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
Daisy Miller - Henry James


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

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41. Isabel Archer confronts her destiny and finds it overwhelming. Inherits a large amount of money and is victim of Machiavellian scheme by two American expats - Gilbert Osmond and Madame Merle. Set mostly in Europe - esp. England and Italy. Pansy - Cas
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
The Playboy of the Western World
Laputa


42. Sean O'Casey
The Plough and the Stars
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus


43. W.H. Auden

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44. Emerson - 'Self-Reliance'

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45. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The pathetic fallacy
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
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--'


46. William Dean Howells
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
George Orwell real name


47. John Webster
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
'Incident'
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil


48. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

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49. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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50. Horace Walpole
Castle of Otranto
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Piers Plowman