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Survey of Literature
Authors and Works
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aeschylus | Classical; The Orestia |
| Aristotle | Classical; Poetics |
| Euripides | Classical; Medea/The Trojan Women |
| Homer | Classical; Odyssey/Illiad |
| Plato | Classical; The Republic |
| Sappho | Classical; "Hymn to Aphrodite" |
| Sophocles | Classical; Antigone/Oedipus Rex |
| Horace | Classical; The Odes |
| Juvenal | Classical; Satires |
| Ovid | Classical; Metamorphoses |
| Virgil | Classical; The Aeneid |
| The Venerable Bede | Medieval; Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum |
| Caedmon | Medieval; Hymn |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | Medieval; The Canterbury Tales/Troilus and Criseyde/The Legend of Good Women/Parlement of Fowles |
| Chrétien de Troyes | Medieval; Yvain, The Knight of the Lion/Perceval, The Story of the Grail/Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart |
| Christine de Pizan | Medieval; The Book of the City of Ladies/The Book of Three Virtues |
| Geoffrey of Monmouth | Medieval; Historia Regum Britanniae |
| John Gower | Medieval; Confessio Amantis/The Tale of Apollonius of Tyre/Vox Clamantis |
| Julian of Norwich | Medieval; Relations of Divine Love |
| William Langland | Medieval; Piers Plowman |
| John Lydgate | Medieval; The Life of our Lady/The Fall of Princes/The Troy Book |
| Sir Thomas Malory | Medieval; Le Morte D'Arthur |
| Marie de France | Medieval; The Ysopet Fables/The Legend of the Purgatory of St. Patrick |
| Samuel Daniel | Renaissance; Delia |
| Michael Drayton | Renaissance; Idea |
| Elizabeth I | Renaissance; The Doubt of Future Foes/"On Monsieur's Departure" |
| Mary Sydney Herbert | Renaissance; The Tragedy of Antonie/"A Dialogue between two shepherds, Thenot and Piers" |
| John Heywood | Renaissance; "Of Books and Cheese" |
| Ben Jonson | Renaissance; "To Celia" |
| Thomas Kyd | Renaissance; The Spanish Tragedy |
| John Lyly | Renaissance; Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit |
| Christopher Marlowe | Renaissance; The Jew of Malta/The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus/Hero and Leander/"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" |
| Sir Thomas More | Renaissance; Utopia/The History of King Richard the Third |
| Thomas Nash | Renaissance; The Unfortunate Traveller/Summer's Last Will and Testament |
| Sir Walter Ralegh | Renaissance; "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" |
| William Shakespeare | Renaissance; The Merchant of Venice/Othello/A Midsummer Night's Dream/Sonnet 116: "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" |
| Sir Philip Sydney | Renaissance; Arcadia/Astrophil and Stella/The Defense of Poesy |
| Edmund Spenser | Renaissance; The Faerie Queen/Amoretti and Epithalamion/The Shepheardes Calendar |
| Lady Mary Wroth | Renaissance; The Countess of Montgomery's Urania |
| Aphra Behn | Restoration; Oroonoko |
| William Congreve | Restoration; The Way of the World |
| Daniel Defoe | Restoration; Robinson Crusoe |
| John Dryden | Restoration; Absalom and Achitophel/Annus Mirabilis/All for Love |
| Anne Finch | Restoration; "The Apology" |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Restoration; She Stoops to Conquer, The Vicar of Wakefield |
| Thomas Gray | Restoration; "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" |
| Samuel Johnson | Restoration; The Rambler/The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia/A Dictionary of the English Language |
| Samuel Pepys | Restoration; The Diary |
| Alexander Pope | Restoration; Rape of the Lock; An Essay on Man |
| Christopher Smart | Restoration; "For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry" |
| Jonathan Swift | Restoration; A Modest Proposal/Gulliver's Travels |
| John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester | Restoration; "The Imperfect Enjoyment" |
| Anne Bradstreet | Colonial; "Upon the Burning of Our House"/"The Tenth Muse" |
| William Bradford | Colonial; Of Plymouth Plantation |
| J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur | Colonial; Letters from an American Farmer |
| Jonathan Edwards | Colonial; Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
| Olaudah Equiano | Colonial; The Interesting Narrative |
| Benjamin Franklin | Colonial; Poor Richard's Almanac |
| Thomas Harriot | Colonial; Brief and True Report |
| Thomas Jeffereson | Colonial; Notes on the State of Virginia/The Declaration of Independence |
| Cotton Mather | Colonial; Pillars of Salt/The Wonders of the Invisible World |
| Samson Occum | Colonial; "A Short Narrative of My Life" |
| Thomas Paine | Colonial; Common Sense |
| John Smith | Colonial; The General History of Virginia |
| Phillis Wheatley | Colonial; "On Being Brought from Africa to America"/Poems on Various Subjects |
| Michael Wigglesworth | Colonial; "The Day of Doom" |
| John Winthrop | Colonial; A Model of Christian Charity |
| Charles Brockden Brown | Revolutionary; Wieland |
| William Hill Brown | Revolutionary; The Power of Sympathy |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Revolutionary; The Spy |
| Benjamin Franklin | Revolutionary; Poor Richard's Almanac/The Autobiography |
| Washington Irving | Revolutionary; The Sketch Book |
| Thomas Jefferson | Revolutionary; Notes on the State of Virginia |
| Thomas Paine | Revolutionary; Common Sense/The American Crisis |
| Susannah Rowson | Revolutionary; Charlotte Temple |
| J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur | Revolutionary; Letters from an American Farmer |
| Royall Tyler | Revolutionary; The Contrast |
| Phyllis Wheatley | Revolutionary; "To the University of Cambridge, in New England"/Poems on Various Subjects/"On Being Brought from Africa to America" |
| Jane Austen | Romantic; Northanger Abbey |
| William Beckford | Romantic; Vathek |
| William Blake | Romantic; "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"/"The Tyger" |
| Lord Byron | Romantic; "Lara"/"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"/"Don Juan"/"The Giaour; A Fragment of a Turkish Tale" |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Romantic; "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"/"Frost at Midnight"/"Religious Musings" |
| William Gilpin | Romantic; Observations on the River Wye |
| Thomas Gray | Romantic; Journal in the Lakes |
| John Keats | Romantic; "To Autumn" |
| Lady Caroline Lamb | Romantic; Glenarvon |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis | Romanic; The Monk |
| Ann Radcliffe | Romantic; The Mysteries of Udolpho/The Romance of the Forest/The Italian; or The Confessional of the Black Penitents |
| Mary Shelley | Romantic; Frankenstein |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Romantic; "Mont Blanc"/"Alastor"/"Prometheus Unbound"/"Queen Mab" |
| Frances Sheridan | Romantic; The History of Nourjahad |
| Horace Walpole | Romantic; Castle of Otranto |
| William Wordsworth | Romantic; "Tintern Abbey"/The Prelude/Guide to the Lakes |
| Mary Austin | Realist; The Land of Little Rain |
| Ambrose Bierce | Realist; "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" |
| William Booth | Realist; The Darkest England/The Way Out |
| Charlotte Bronte | Realist; Jane Eyre |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Realist; "Cry of the Children" |
| Josephine Butler | Realist; "Our Indian Fellow Subjects" |
| Charles Chesnutt | Realist; "The Wife of His Youth" |
| Kate Chopin | Realist; The Awakening |
| Charles Dickens | Realist; David Copperfield/Great Expections |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Realist; Souls of Black Folk |
| Elizabeth Eastlake | Realist; "Lady Travellers" |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | Realist; Mary Barton |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Realist; "The Yellow Wallpaper" |
| George Gissing | Realist; The Odd Women |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | Realist; "A White Heron" |
| Rudyard Kipling | Realist; "The White Man's Burden" |
| Anna Leonowens | Realist; The English Governess at the Siamese Court |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | Realist; "Minute on Indian Education" |
| Henry Mayhew | Realist; London Labour and the London Poor |
| Christina Rossetti | Realist; "Goblin Market" |
| Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton | Realist; Who Would Have Thought It? |
| John Ruskin | Realist; "Of Queen's Gardens" |
| Mark Twain | Realist; Life on the Mississippi/The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Booker T. Washington | Realist; Up From Slavery |
| Constance Fenimore Woolson | Realist; "Miss Grief" |
| Willa Cather | Modernist; My Antonia/"Paul's Case" |
| Hart Crane | Modernist; "The Bridge" |
| H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) | Modernist; "The Walls Do Not Fall" |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Modernist; The Souls of Black Folk |
| T.S. Eliot | Modernist; "The Hollow Men"/The Waste Land/"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| William Faulkner | Modernist; The Sound and the Fury/"Barn Burning" |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Modernist; The Great Gatsby |
| Susan Glaspell | Modernist; Trifles |
| Ernest Hemingway | Modernist; A Farewell to Arms/"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" |
| Langston Hughes | Modernist; "The Weary Blues" |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Modernist; "The Gilded Six-Bits"/Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| James Joyce | Modernist; Ulysses/"Araby" |
| Nella Larsen | Modernist; Quicksand |
| Katherine Anne Porter | Modernist; "Flowering Judas" |
| Ezra Pound | Modernist; "In a Station of the Metro" |
| John Steinbeck | Modernist; The Grapes of Wrath/"The Chrysanthemums" |
| Jean Toomer | Modernist; "Reapers" |
| William Carlos Williams | Modernist; "The Red Wheelbarrow" |
| Virginia Woolf | Modernist; To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway |
| R. Ammons | Postmodernist; The Snow Poems |
| Gloria Anzaldúa | Postmodernist; Borderlands/La Frontera |
| John Ashberry | Postmodernist; "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" |
| James Baldwin | Postmodernist; Going to Meet the Man/Go Tell it on the Mountain |
| Donald Barthelme | Postmodernist; Snow White; The Dead Father |
| Raymond Carver | Postmodernist; Cathedral |
| Annie Dillard | Postmodernist; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
| Ralph Ellison | Postmodernist; Invisible Man |
| Allen Ginsberg | Postmodernist; Reality Sandwiches/Howl and Other Poems |
| Joy Harjo | Postmodernist; Tje Woman Who Fell from the Sky |
| Jack Kerouac | Postmodernist; On the Road/The Dharma Bums |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | Postmodernist; The Woman Warrior |
| Toni Morrison | Postmodernist; Sula/The Bluest Eye |
| Flannery O'Connor | Postmodernist; A Good Man is Hard to Find/Wise Blood |
| Sylvia Plath | Postmodernist; "Ariel"/The Bell Jar |
| Thomas Pynchon | Postmodernist; Gravity's Rainbow |
| Anne Sexton | Postmodernist; The Death Notebooks |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | Postmodernist; Ceremony |
| Gary Snyder | Postmodernist; Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems |
| Adrienne Rich | Postmodernist; "Diving into the Wreck" |
| John Updike | Postmodernist; Rabbit, Run/The Witches of Eastwick |
| Alice Walker | Postmodernist; The Color Purple |
| Tennessee Williams | Postmodernist; A Streetcar Named Desire |
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