GRE Literature: Subject Test Authors And Works

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1. John Ruskin in Modern Painters
Le Morte D'Arthur
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
The pathetic fallacy


2. William Butler Yeats

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3. Imaginary philosopher in Thomas Carlyle'S Sartur Resartus
Professor Diogenes Teufelsdröckh
The House of Mirth - The Age of Innocence - Ethan Frome - A Backward Glance
Past and Present - The French Revolution - Sartur Resartus
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


4. Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Choephoroe - The Eumenides. About the cursed house of Atreus
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
Yahoos
The Oresteia
child prodigy - French poet and literary innovator. 'The Drunken Boat'


5. George Orwell
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
1984 - Animal Farm - Homage to Catalonia
A Tale of a Tub - The Battle of the Books - Gulliver'S Travels - A Modest Proposal
Catherine Morland - the Allens - Henry Tilney - John Thorpe


6. 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
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'
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
Lolita - Pale Fire - Ada or Ardor - Speak - Memory


7. Walt Whitman - 'Song of Myself'

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8. John Lyle

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9. William Carlos Williams

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10. Ovid'S Metamorphoses - basis for Manciple'S tale in Canterbury Tales
Coronis and Phoebus Apollo
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Castle of Otranto
George Eliot'S real name


11. Lawrence/Laurence Sterne
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 Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy - A Sentimental Journey through France and England
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
The Blithedale Romance - The Scarlet Letter - The House of Seven Gables - The Marble Faun - 'Chiefly about War Matters -' 'Young Goodman Brown'


12. John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi - The White Devil
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
Things Fall Apart
The Weary Blues - 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers -' 'A Dream Deferred -' 'I - Too - Sing America'


13. D.H. Lawrence

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14. Mark Twain

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15. Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note - The Dutchman - Blues People
Pateson - 'The Red Wheelbarrow'
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
'The snow falling faintly through the universe'


16. Alexander Pope'S The Rape of the Lock - 1717
Arabella Fermor/Belinda - Lord Petre - Slyphs
Shirley - The Villette - The Professor - Jane Eyre
'The Yellow Wallpaper -' Herland
''Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all'


17. William Blake
'Rage - rage against the dying of the light' and 'do not go gentle into that good night'
The Task - Olney Hyms
The Tyger
The Way We Live Now - Palliser novels - Chronicles of Barsetshire


18. Sylvia Plath

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19. Geoffrey Chaucer
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'
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 Fame - Troilus and Criseyde - The Book of the Duchess
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent


20. Henry Fielding
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
Tom Jones - Joseph Andrews - Shamela - Amelia o The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
The pathetic fallacy
'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.'


21. Emily Bronte

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22. Gulliver'S Travels - flying island where practical projects neglected and impractical projects pursued
Laputa
The Stones of Venice - Unto this Last
Millamant - Mirabell - Mr. Fainall - Lady Wishfort - Foible - Mincing
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


23. Early English translator of Homer
George Chapman
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
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
Essays of Elia - Tales from Shakespeare


24. Christopher Marlowe
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
"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
Tamburlaine the Great
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'


25. Club formed by Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift - dedicated to the ridicule of folly/satire
Leaves of Grass - 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry -' 'Song of Myself -' When Lilacs in the Dooryard Bloom'd -' 'O Captain - My Captain'
Martinus Scriblerus Club
considered the national poet of Scotland - wrote Auld Lang Syne - 'To a Mouse'
Walden - 'Civil Disobedience -' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers


26. John Henry - Cardinal Newman
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
The Faerie Queene
Arcadia - Defense of Poesy - Astrophil and Stella - An Apology for Poetry


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

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28. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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29. E.M. Forster
Under the Volcano
'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation'
Aspects of the Novel - A Passage to India - A Room with a View
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


30. Opening lines of Dryden'S Mae Flecknoe

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31. Ezra Pound

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32. William Cowper
The Task - Olney Hyms
'Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'
most prolific poet of 15th century - Troy Book - The Siege of Thebes - The Fall of Princes
'The Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'


33. Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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34. Matthew Arnold

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35. Sense and Sensibility
Not I - Endgame - Waiting for Godot - Murphy - Watt - Malloy - Malone Dies - The Unnameable
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
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon
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


36. Richard Wright
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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
Native Son - Black Boy - The Outsider
Leatherstocking Tales (Natty Bumppo) - The Last of the Mohicans


37. Gulliver'S Travels - Houyhnhnms' slaves - look like humans - idiots and violent - only governed by passionate and not reason
'The shot heard round the world'
Upon Appleton House - The Rehearsal Transprosed - An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell'S Return from Ireland - 'To His Coy Mistress'
Yahoos
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood - Lucy Steele - John Willoughnby - Colonel Brandon


38. Maya Angelou

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39. The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century
Mr. W.H.
The Book of Snobs - Catherine - Vanity Fair
Beowulf
Midnight'S Children - The Satanic Verses - 'The Prophet'S Hair'


40. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Don Juan - Childe Harold'S Pilgramage - 'She Walks in Beauty -' 'They say that Hope is happiness'
Hesperides - Noble Numbers - 'To the Virgins - to Make Much of Time -' 'Corinna'S Going a Mayin''
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
Queen Mab - Prometheus Unbound - The Cenci - The Masqu of Anarchy - Alastor - Adonais - The Revolt of Islam - Mont Blanc - A Defense of Poetry


41. 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 Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'
The American - Henry James
'The Cry of the Children -' 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim'S Point -' Sonnets from the Portuguese - Aurora Leigh - 'How Do I Love Thee'
Annus Mirabilis - Absalom and Achitophel - Mae Flecknoe - All for Love - The Hind and the Panther


42. Daniel Defoe
'The Wreck of the Deutschland -' 'The Windhover -' 'Spring and Fall'
Wuthering Heights - 'Often Rebuked - But Always Back Returning'
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Rubinson Crusoe - Moll Flanders - The Shortest Way with the Dissenters; Or - Proposals for the Establishment of the Church


43. James Baldwin
To the Lighthouse - Mrs. Dalloway - The Waves - Jacob'S Room - A Room of One'S Own - Modern Fiction - Between the Acts - Orlando
Go Tell it on the Mountain - Notes of a Native Son
The Idea of a University - Apologia Pro Vita Sua - Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - The Grammar of Assent
'Whan that April with his showres soote/The droughte of March hath perced to the roote'


44. John Skelton
'each man kills the thing he loves'
Beowulf
George Chapman
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


45. Mansfield Park
Daisy Miller - Henry James
the Bertrams - Fanny Price - Mrs. Norris
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 Odour of Chrysanthemums -' Lady Chatterly'S Lover - The Rainbow - Women in Love - 'Why the Novel Matters'


46. Thomas Macaulay

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47. Malcom Lowry
Under the Volcano
Mrs. Warren'S Profession - Pygmalion - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - Saint Joan - Man and Superwoman
A la recherche du temps perdu (Rememberance of Things Past/In Search of Lost Time)
'All human things are subject to decay/And - when fate summons - monarchs must obey.'


48. Robert Herrick

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49. John Berryman
The Sun Rising
"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
The Dream Songs - 77 Dream Songs (wrote about Henry or Mr. Bones)
Ulysses - Maud - The Idylls of the King - 'The Charge of the Light Brigade -' 'Tithonus -' 'Break - Break - Break -' 'Locksley Hall'


50. Countee Cullen

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