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1. John Dryden
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther

2. Bram Stoker
Dracula
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'

3. Albert Camus

4. Oscar Wilde

5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

6. Samuel Langhorne Clemens

7. Pen names of Bronte sisters (Charlotte - Emily and Anne)
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
The Plough and the Stars

8. Gertrude Stein

9. James Boswell
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Currer - Ellis and Acton Bell
The Life of Samuel Johnson
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'

10. Flannery O'Connor
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
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

11. Nathaniel Hawthorne

12. Sean O'Casey
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
The Plough and the Stars
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'

13. Sir Walter Raleigh

14. Richard Sheridan 'The School for Scandal' 1777
inscape and instress
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - 'On the Pulse of Morning -' 'Still I Rise'
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface

15. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

16. Goethe

17. Mark Twain

18. Kate Chopin

19. Allen Ginsberg - 'Howl'
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
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--'
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
In a fair season when soft was the sun

20. Keat'S 'Ode to a Nightingale'

21. Christopher Marlowe
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Lyrical Ballads
The Aspern Papers - Henry James

22. William Congreve
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
Struldburgs
The Way of the World - Love for Love

23. Endymion (John Keats - 1818)

24. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

25. Philip Sidney
The Oresteia
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
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia

26. Gerard Manley Hopkins

27. Salman Rushdie

28. Eugene O'Neill

29. Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone
On Liberty - 'What is Poetry?' - The Subjection of Women - Autobiography
Sophocles
The Oresteia
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'

30. First line of The Iliad

31. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

32. Emily Dickinson
'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'
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
"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
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

33. John Stuart Mill

34. Henry James
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
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil

35. Opening lines of Dryden'S Mae Flecknoe

36. Henry David Thoreau

37. William Carlos Williams

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

39. Gerard Manley Hopkins
'This is the way the world ends/This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.'
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
inscape and instress
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'

40. William Butler Yeats

41. John Gower - 1390 - treatment of a suffering lover
Dracula
Confessio Amantis
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'

42. Opening of Canterbury Tales

43. Marcel Proust
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)

44. Robert Burns

45. Alexander Pope
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

46. Horace Walpole
Things Fall Apart
U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel - Nineteen Nineteen - The Big Money)
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'
Castle of Otranto

47. Matthew Arnold

48. Walt Whitman

49. Isabel Archer confronts her destiny and finds it overwhelming. Inherits a large amount of money and is victim of Machiavellian scheme by two American expats - Gilbert Osmond and Madame Merle. Set mostly in Europe - esp. England and Italy. Pansy - Cas
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
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'
'This is the story of an angry man'

50. John Skelton
Struldburgs
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 Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'