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

2. Henry Fielding
'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.'
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
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
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''

3. John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
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'
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
George Chapman

4. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
Failing to fetch me at first - keep encouraged;/Missing me one place - search another;/I stop somewhere - waiting for you.
In a fair season when soft was the sun

5. Eugene O'Neill

6. Thomas Macaulay

7. Emerson - 'Self-Reliance'

8. W.H. Auden

9. Goethe

10. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
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
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Yahoos
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)

11. Jonathan Swift

12. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

13. 'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley - 1675
Prince and the Pauper - Life on the Mississippi - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'S Court - Roughing It - The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress - Letters from Earth - 'Votes for Women -' The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Adventures of H
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget

14. Gulliver'S Travels - intelligent - clean-living horses
Houyhnhnms
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard

15. George Meredith
'This is the story of an angry man'
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways

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

17. Ann Radcliffe
Prince and the Pauper - Life on the Mississippi - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'S Court - Roughing It - The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims' Progress - Letters from Earth - 'Votes for Women -' The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Adventures of H
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
The Mysteries of Udolpho

18. J. M. Synge
The Playboy of the Western World
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')
Brobdingnag
The Task - Olney Hyms

19. Richard Wright
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
The Life of Samuel Johnson

20. Upton Sinclair

21. Samuel Butler
Hudibras
'The Jungle'
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'

22. Keat'S 'Ode to a Nightingale'

23. William Blake
'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
In a fair season when soft was the sun
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
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess

24. William Langland - search for the right way to salvation - controversial as it explores rebellion - revolution - social and religious issues
Piers Plowman
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface

25. Sir Walter Raleigh

26. William Faulkner

27. Opening lines of Dryden'S Mae Flecknoe

28. Alan Ginsberg

29. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
Yahoos
Houyhnhnms
'no man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent - a part of the main'
Utopia

30. Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'

31. Eric Arthur Blair
George Orwell real name
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James

32. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

33. John Stuart Mill

34. Jean Genet

35. 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.
'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night -' 'Fern Hill -' Under Milk Wood - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Dog
'The weariness - the fever - the fret'
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')

36. Henry David Thoreau

37. Christopher Marlowe
Pyramus and Thisbe
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Martinus Scriblerus Club

38. Countee Cullen

39. Herman Melville

40. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
The pathetic fallacy
Under the Volcano
Pyramus and Thisbe
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh

41. Alexander Pope
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

42. Algernon Charles Swinburne

43. John Webster
Utopia
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--'
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil

44. Gulliver'S Travels - utopian land of giants that highlights the failures of English goverment
Pastorals - an Essay on Criticism - The Dunciad - The Rape of the Luck - Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Brobdingnag
'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
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

45. Kate Chopin

46. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'

47. Anton Chekhov
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
George Eliot'S real name
Three Sisters - Uncle Vanya - The Cherry Orchard
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')

48. Chinua Achebe'S retelling of Nigerian independence
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
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 (
Laputa
Things Fall Apart

49. Matthew Arnold

50. Virginia Woolf