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1. Anton Chekhov
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - A Pair of Blue Eyes - Far from the Maddening Crowd - The Return of the Native - The Mayor of Casterbridge - The Woodlanders - Jude the Obscure
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
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

2. Daniel Defoe
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
The American - Henry James
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View

3. Thomas Macaulay

4. George Bernard Shaw

5. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Lilliput

6. Algernon Charles Swinburne

7. Langston Hughes

8. Edgar Allan Poe
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
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 Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'

9. Eric Arthur Blair
George Orwell real name
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory
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

10. Thomas Carlyle
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
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
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Piers Plowman

11. Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Le Morte D'Arthur

12. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
Martinus Scriblerus Club
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair

13. William Wordsworth

14. Gulliver'S Travels - unhappy immortals who wish they could die
Struldburgs
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
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 Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England

15. Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. Keat'S 'Ode to a Nightingale'

17. William Blake
The Tyger
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'
Mr. W.H.
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface

18. John Berryman
Sophocles
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)

19. Edith Wharton
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Beowulf
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal

20. Robert Herrick

21. Jeffrey Aspern - Modeled after Lord Byron) as long-dead famous poet - biographer is trying to secure some papers from Aspern'S former mistress and homely daughter. Set in Venice.
Dracula
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair

22. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
Piers Plowman
Pyramus and Thisbe
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
'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'

23. James Baldwin
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son

24. J. M. Synge
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
The Playboy of the Western World
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire

25. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Laputa
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography

26. Lord Byron

27. Gertrude Stein

28. Emily Bronte

29. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
"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
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--'
Things Fall Apart
Sophocles

30. William Blake
The Plough and the Stars
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
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
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'

31. Eugene O'Neill

32. Mark Twain

33. Richard Wright
Le Morte D'Arthur
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Confessio Amantis
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing

34. The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
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.
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
'Ballad of Reading Goal -' 'De Profundis -' Lady Windermere'S Fan - A Woman of No Importance - An Ideal Husband - 'The Critic as an Artist -' Salome - The Portrait of Dorian Gray - The Importance of Being Earnest

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

36. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
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
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget

37. Gerard Manley Hopkins

38. Sylvia Plath

39. Geoffrey Chaucer
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''

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

41. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

42. Northanger Abbey
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
Houyhnhnms
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Tamburlaine the Great

43. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

44. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
Piers Plowman
'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 Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

45. Maya Angelou

46. Horace Walpole
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
Castle of Otranto
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

47. Gerard Manley Hopkins
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
inscape and instress
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
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'

48. Philip Sidney
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:/Its loveliness increases; it will never/Pass into nothingness; but still will keep/A bower quiet for us - and a sleep/Full of sweet dreams - and health - and quiet breathing.'
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'

49. Edmund Spenser - 1590
The Faerie Queene
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
'This is the story of an angry man'

50. John Milton
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'
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 Faerie Queene