GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'


2. Jean Genet

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3. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
'The Jungle'
Martinus Scriblerus Club
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface


4. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses
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 Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
Houyhnhnms


5. Last paragraph of James Joyce'S 'The Dead' from Dubliners

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6. James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock -' The Waste Land - 'Murder in the Cathedral -' 'The Hollow Men' - Ash Wednesday - Four Quartets - The Cocktail Party - 'Old Possum'S Book of Practical Cats'
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia


7. Kate Chopin

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8. Miles and Flora seem to be haunted by ghost of their country estate'S former employees - Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. Told by their English governess
Tamburlaine the Great
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'


9. 'The Way of the World' by William Congreve - 1700
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
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
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing


10. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
First lines: 'April is the cruelest month - breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land - mixing/Memory and desire - stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.' Last lines: 'Datta - Dayahvam - Damyataya./Shantih shantih shantih'
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
The Oresteia


11. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
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
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
The Tyger
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'


12. Sean O'Casey
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
The Sun Rising
The Plough and the Stars


13. T.S. Eliot

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14. E.M. Forster
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours


15. Gerard Manley Hopkins

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16. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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17. Flannery O'Connor
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
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


18. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
George Chapman


19. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

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20. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'

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21. Mary Anne Evans

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22. Edgar Allan Poe
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
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry
First lines: 'April is the cruelest month - breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land - mixing/Memory and desire - stirring/Dull roots with spring rain.' Last lines: 'Datta - Dayahvam - Damyataya./Shantih shantih shantih'


23. Samuel Pepys
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
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'
Lilliput


24. Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
The Playboy of the Western World
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair


25. Sylvia Plath

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26. 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
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
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Way of the World - Love for Love


27. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
Sophocles
The pathetic fallacy
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse


28. T.E. Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
"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
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Houyhnhnms


29. Alan Ginsberg

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30. Robert Browning

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

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32. James Baldwin
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
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
Under the Volcano


33. Henry James
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Houyhnhnms
Pyramus and Thisbe
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


34. George Bernard Shaw

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35. John Lyle

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36. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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37. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland


38. Rainer Maria Rilke

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39. Malcom Lowry
Under the Volcano
The Plough and the Stars
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)


40. John Fenimore Cooper
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
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans


41. Sense and Sensibility
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times


42. Edmund Spenser
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
Yahoos
The Way of the World - Love for Love
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--'


43. William Blake
The pathetic fallacy
The Tyger
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist


44. W.E.B. DuBois
Three Lives - 'Tender Buttons -' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
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 Turn of the Screw - Henry James


45. William Carlos Williams

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46. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Amelia Lanyer
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
The American - Henry James


47. William Congreve
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
The Way of the World - Love for Love


48. John Dryden
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther


49. Marcel Proust
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
Things Fall Apart
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Yahoos


50. George Meredith
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great