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1. Alan Ginsberg
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
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
Wilhelm Meister'S Apprenticeship - The Sorrows of Young Werther - Faust - Theory of Colours
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'

2. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
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
'Paul Revere'S Ride -' 'Evangeline -' 'The Song of Hiawatha -' Voices of the Night - Ballads and Other Poems - Hyperion
The Oresteia

3. Daniel Defoe
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
George Chapman
Mr. W.H.
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church

4. John Dryden
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
Dido Queen of Carthage - Jew of Malta - Doctor Faustus - Edward II

5. 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
'And I shall have some peace there - for peace comes dropping slow'
'Sailing to Byzantium -' 'Leda and the Swan -' The Countess Cathleen - 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree -' 'The Second Coming'
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans

6. Milly Theale - an American heiress stricken with a serious disease - and her impact on the people around her (Kate Croy - Merton Densher)
Under the Volcano
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
George Orwell real name
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James

7. First line of William Langland'S Piers Plowman
The Sun Rising
In a fair season when soft was the sun
Dracula
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'

8. John Fenimore Cooper
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
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
The Stranger/The Foreigner/The Outsider - A Happy Death - 'The Rebel'
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')

9. Thomas More - early 1500s - humanism
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Utopia
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'

10. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
Laputa
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The Lying Days - The Conservationist - Burger'S Daughter

11. Thomas Macaulay
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
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Lays of Ancient Rome (inc. 'Horatius')
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Mid-seventeenth century diarist

12. Ezra Pound
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Moby Dick - Pierre - Typee - Omoo - White-Jacket - The Confidence Man - Billy Budd - 'Bartelby the Scrivener'
The House of Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'

13. Richard Sheridan 'The School for Scandal' 1777
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
The Tyger
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
Lilliput

14. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
Martinus Scriblerus Club
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People

15. William Dean Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham
'Howl -' 'A Supermarket in California'
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
'Funeral Blues -' 'September 1 - 1939 -' 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats -' 'As I Walked Out One Evening -' 'Lullaby'

16. 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
The Rise of Silas Lapham
Mr. W.H.
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'

17. Ben Jonson
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - Modern Love - Essay on Comedy - The Egoist - Diane of the Crossways
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
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'
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'

18. Philip Sidney
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
The Way of the World - Love for Love
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World

19. John Berryman
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways and other Lucy poems - 'The World is Too Much With Us'
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)

20. Mansfield Park
Amelia Lanyer
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Things Fall Apart

21. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

22. George Etherege 'The Man of Mode -' 1676
Mr. Dorimant - Sir Fopling Flutter - Mrs. Loveit
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners
The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'

23. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
'do I contradict myself?/Very well then... I contradict myself/I am large... I contain multitudes.'
Mr. Horner - Mr. Pinchwife - Sir Jasper Fidget - Mrs. Squeamish - Mrs. Dainty Fidget
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
Yahoos

24. George Eliot
Adam Bede - Middlemarch - The Mill on the Floss - Daniel Deronda - Silas Marner
The Playboy of the Western World
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'
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

25. Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Ocean to Cynthia - The Lie - The Nymph'S Reply to the Shepherd - History of the World
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'

26. William Cowper
Under the Volcano
The Task - Olney Hyms
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom

27. Mary Anne Evans
Mark Twain'S real name
The Faerie Queene
George Eliot'S real name
The Pilgrim'S Progress - Grace Abounding for the Chief of Sinners

28. Emerson - 'Concord Hymn'
Le Morte D'Arthur
'The shot heard round the world'
Tamburlaine the Great
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon - Gent. (includes 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow')

29. James Joyce
'Silence - cunning - and exile'
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Ulysses - Finnegans Wake - The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man - The Dubliners ('The Dead -' 'Araby')
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View

30. Ernest Hemingway
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Poems and Ballads (esp. to Sappho) - 'Hymn to Proserpine -' 'The Triumph of Time -' Songs before Sunrise - Tristam of Lyonesse
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
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte

31. Final lines of Lycidas by Milton - pastoral elegy for Edward King - his colleague at Cambridge that drowned
Sir Peter Teazle - Maria - Lady Sneerwell - Sir Benjamin Backbite - Charles Surface
Sophocles
The Vanity of Human Wishes - The Dictionary - the Rambler essays - Rasselas - Lives of the Poets - The Preface to Shakespeare
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

32. T.E. Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Le Morte D'Arthur

33. Virginia Woolf
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
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
The Plough and the Stars

34. William Congreve
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
Becky Sharp - Amelia Sedley - Miss Pinkerton'S Academy for Young Ladies - Rawdon Crawley - Sir Pitt Crawley - George Osborne - William Dobbin - Joe Sedley
The Way of the World - Love for Love
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes

35. John Lyle
Long Day'S Journey Into Night (1941)
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
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
Pyramus and Thisbe

36. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Piers Plowman
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Kubla Khan - Biographia Literaria - Cristabel - 'Frost at Midnight -' Lyrical Ballads
Nature - 'The American Scholar -' The Dial - 'Self-Reliance -' Experience -' 'Compensation -' 'The Over-Soul -' 'The Poet -' 'Politics.' 'The Concord Hymn -' 'The Rhodora'

37. E.e. cummings
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
'I Carry Your Heart With Me -' 'Buffalo Bills'
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 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

38. Anonymous author of Cleanness and Patience - Pearl
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'

39. Samuel Pepys
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
Daisy Miller - Henry James

40. Lord Byron
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
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans
Kidnapped - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Treasure Island - 'Requiem'
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'

41. Sir Thomas Malory; one of first books printed in England
Dracula
Le Morte D'Arthur
Mid-seventeenth century diarist
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal

42. Robert Browning
'To be great is to be misunderstood' and 'Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.'
'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 pathetic fallacy
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'

43. Kate Chopin
The Awakening - 'The Storm -' 'The Story of an Hour -' usually wrote about Louisana
Lawrence of Arabia - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
The Cantos - 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley -' 'A Girl -' 'Ancient Music'
Brobdingnag

44. Gulliver'S Travels - unhappy immortals who wish they could die
'The Balcony'
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
The Bell Jar - Ariel poems ('Daddy')
Struldburgs

45. Elizabeth Gaskell
Lilliput
Mary Barton - Ruth - Cranford - Wives and Daughters - North and South - The Life of Charlotte Bronte
The Life of Samuel Johnson
George Eliot'S real name

46. First line of The Iliad
'This is the story of an angry man'
Sonnets to Orpheus - Dunio Elegies - Letters to a Young Poet -The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - 'The Panther'
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes

47. Charles Dickens
Houyhnhnms
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
Nicholas Nickelby - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty - Hard Times
Under the Volcano

48. William Blake
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
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 Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Lilliput

49. 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
The Plough and the Stars
Sophocles
Brobdingnag

50. Ann Radcliffe
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry
Under the Volcano
The Mysteries of Udolpho
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland

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