GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads


2. Samuel Johnson
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
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
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
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'


3. Keat'S 'Ode to a Nightingale'

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4. Elizabeth Gaskell
'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.'
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Pyramus and Thisbe
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte


5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth
The American - Henry James
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Lyrical Ballads
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'


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

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7. Samuel Pepys
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
Lyrical Ballads
Mark Twain'S real name


8. 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.
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Beowulf


9. Gertrude Stein

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10. James Joyce

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11. John Milton
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
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight


12. Washington Irving

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13. Thomas Carlyle
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Tamburlaine the Great
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church


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

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15. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
The Oresteia
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'
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
'Youth -' Lord Jim - Heart of Darkness - Nostromo - The Shadow-Line - Typhoon - The Secret Agent - Under Western Eyes - Victory - An Outcast of the Island


16. Henry Wadsworth Longsfellow

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17. Gulliver'S Travels - unhappy immortals who wish they could die
'Incident'
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
Struldburgs


18. Goethe

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19. Vladimir Nabokov
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
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
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory


20. James Joyce

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21. Honoré de Balzac
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
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Biathanatos (defense of suicide) - Pseudo-Martyr - Ignatius His Conclave - The First Anniversary (1611) - The Second Anniversary (1612) - Poems (1633) - 'Hymn to God My God - in My Sickness -' 'Death'S Duel' (own funeral sermon) - Songs and Sonnets (


22. Rudyard Kipling

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23. D.H. Lawrence

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24. Oscar Wilde

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25. E.e. cummings

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26. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
Brobdingnag
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
In a fair season when soft was the sun


27. James Baldwin
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'
La Comedie humaine - Pere Goriot
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot


28. William Butler Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree

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29. Arthur Rimbaud

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30. 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
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
'The shot heard round the world'
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo


31. John Stuart Mill

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32. Northanger Abbey
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'


33. 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
'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.'
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo


34. Langston Hughes

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35. Last lines of Walt Whitman'S 'Song of Myself'
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
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


36. Thoreau - 'Walden'

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37. Andrew Marvell - 'The Garden'

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38. Salman Rushdie

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39. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Biathanatos (defense of suicide) - Pseudo-Martyr - Ignatius His Conclave - The First Anniversary (1611) - The Second Anniversary (1612) - Poems (1633) - 'Hymn to God My God - in My Sickness -' 'Death'S Duel' (own funeral sermon) - Songs and Sonnets (
Castle of Otranto
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
The Sun Rising


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

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41. Henry Fielding
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
'The Balcony'
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog


42. George Meredith
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
Mr. W.H.
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. Thomas Hardy

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44. Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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45. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
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
Laputa
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Tamburlaine the Great


46. Gerard Manley Hopkins

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47. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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48. John Ruskin
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last


49. Ezra Pound

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50. First Englishwoman to publish a substantial volume of original poems (1611)
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
'Sweetness and light -' 'philistinism'
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'
Amelia Lanyer