GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. James Joyce

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2. Arthur Rimbaud

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3. Jonathan Swift

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4. Sir Walter Raleigh

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5. Edmund Spenser - 1590
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
The Faerie Queene
'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'
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'


6. Christopher Marlowe
Martinus Scriblerus Club
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'


7. E.e. cummings

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8. Geoffrey Chaucer
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess


9. 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
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
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'
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland


10. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

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11. John Berryman
Laputa
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'


12. Winterbourne courts young - flirtatious - nouveau-riche American girl in Europe
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Daisy Miller - Henry James
'The Jungle'
Hudibras


13. Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Laputa
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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


14. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'

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15. Goethe

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16. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
Confessio Amantis


17. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
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'
George Eliot'S real name
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'


18. 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
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'
The American - Henry James
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando


19. Eugene O'Neill

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20. Robert Burns

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21. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

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22. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
The pathetic fallacy
Piers Plowman
'To a green thought in a green shade'


23. Christopher Marlowe
The Plough and the Stars
Tamburlaine the Great
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)


24. Walt Whitman

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25. James Joyce

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26. Virginia Woolf

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27. Gerard Manley Hopkins
'To a green thought in a green shade'
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
inscape and instress


28. John Gower - 1390 - treatment of a suffering lover
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Confessio Amantis
Struldburgs
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance


29. Mansfield Park
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)


30. Maya Angelou

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31. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
The Oresteia
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
Amelia Lanyer


32. John Dos Passos
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)


33. John Donne

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34. Robert Herrick

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35. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
The Shepheardes Calendar - Complaints - Colin Clouts Come Home Againe - Amoretti - Epithalamion - Prothalamion
'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'
Yahoos
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse


36. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
Martinus Scriblerus Club


37. Bram Stoker
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Dracula
'Incident'
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--'


38. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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39. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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40. Philip Sidney
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
The Ambassadors - Henry James
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
Beowulf


41. Ben Jonson

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42. Ann Radcliffe
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Lilliput
The pathetic fallacy


43. William Makepeace Thackeray
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'
George Orwell real name
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'


44. John Milton
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
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
Laputa
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory


45. Elizabeth Gaskell
Hudibras
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo


46. William Congreve
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--'
The Way of the World - Love for Love
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
Beowulf


47. Charles Lamb
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare
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'


48. John Fenimore Cooper
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
'each man kills the thing he loves'
The Ambassadors - Henry James


49. William Wordsworth

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50. W.E.B. DuBois
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 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
Tamburlaine the Great
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'