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1. Northanger Abbey
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'
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe

2. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
Mr. W.H.
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
The Plough and the Stars
Daisy Miller - Henry James

3. Washington Irving

4. Mary Anne Evans

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

6. 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
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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.
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal

7. Samuel Beckett
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
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'
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

8. Henry James
Martinus Scriblerus Club
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
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
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great

9. Gulliver'S Travels - everyone is 6' tall and cruel
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'
Lyrical Ballads
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
Lilliput

10. George Bernard Shaw

11. Ernest Hemingway
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
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 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
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours

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

13. Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
inscape and instress
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'

14. Mark Twain

15. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Pyramus and Thisbe

16. William Carlos Williams

17. Emily Dickinson
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
"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
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II

18. Philip Sidney
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
inscape and instress

19. Richard Wright
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Lyrical Ballads
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'

20. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
'The Balcony'
The American - Henry James
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''

21. John Dryden
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'

22. Horace Walpole
Castle of Otranto
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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

23. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'

24. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
Beowulf
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
The pathetic fallacy
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England

25. Daniel Defoe
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Mark Twain'S real name

26. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

27. D.H. Lawrence

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

29. Albert Camus

30. 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
Beowulf
The Sun Rising
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
The American - Henry James

31. Alexander Pope
The pathetic fallacy
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

32. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
Lyrical Ballads
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
The pathetic fallacy

33. James Baldwin
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Le Morte D'Arthur
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
'Silence - cunning - and exile'

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

35. Edmund Spenser
George Chapman
Laputa
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
The American - Henry James

36. Samuel Pepys
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
Confessio Amantis

37. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
Lilliput
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Martinus Scriblerus Club

38. James Boswell
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)

39. Ben Jonson

40. Lord Byron

41. Edmund Spenser - 1590
The Faerie Queene
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'

42. George Eliot
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando

43. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

44. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
Things Fall Apart
Castle of Otranto

45. W.E.B. DuBois
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
Under the Volcano
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

46. Geoffrey Chaucer
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Hudibras
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess

47. Joseph Conrad

48. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses
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
Houyhnhnms
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley

49. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
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 Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair

50. Samuel Johnson
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Lyrical Ballads
Houyhnhnms
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare