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1. William Faulkner

2. Samuel Beckett
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Le Morte D'Arthur

3. Joseph Conrad

4. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
The Way of the World - Love for Love
The Oresteia
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'

5. Dylan Thomas

6. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Romeo and Juliet - play in Midsummer Night'S Dream
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Pyramus and Thisbe
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'

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

8. George Bernard Shaw

9. Ben Jonson

10. John Dryden
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Mark Twain'S real name
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther

11. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Amelia Lanyer
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire

12. Thomas Hardy

13. Maya Angelou

14. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
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 Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
'Incident'
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

15. Edmund Spenser
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Mark Twain'S real name
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion

16. E.e. cummings

17. William Carlos Williams

18. William Blake
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
'To a green thought in a green shade'
The Tyger
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'

19. Mansfield Park
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
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

20. Emerson - 'Self-Reliance'

21. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Martinus Scriblerus Club
Le Morte D'Arthur
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'

22. Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
The Task - Olney Hyms
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island

23. Samuel Butler
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Hudibras
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'
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'

24. James Joyce

25. T.E. Lawrence
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus

26. Mark Twain

27. Daniel Defoe
Culture and Anarchy - 'The Scholar Gypsy -' Essays in Criticism - 'Dover Beach -' 'The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -' Friendship'S Garland - 'The Study of Poetry -' 'Literature and Science'
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church

28. John Milton
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
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
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Utopia

29. Matthew Arnold

30. John Skelton
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
Utopia
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
The Sun Rising

31. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

32. Henry James
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
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

33. Charles Dickens

34. Eric Arthur Blair
Beowulf
Hudibras
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
George Orwell real name

35. Mary Anne Evans

36. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
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
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'

37. Dedication of Shakespeare'S sonnets
Mr. W.H.
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface

38. D.H. Lawrence

39. Oscar Wilde - 'Ballad of Reading Goal' (written as Sebastian Melmoth)

40. Flannery O'Connor
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
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.

41. W.H. Auden

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

43. Ralph Waldo Emerson

44. Eugene O'Neill

45. Walt Whitman

46. E.M. Forster
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
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
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable

47. Christopher Marlowe
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
Tamburlaine the Great

48. Ezra Pound

49. William Blake
''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
Beowulf
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

50. Edmund Spenser - 1590
'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 Faerie Queene
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess