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ORIGIN OF AUTHORS
FTCE ENGLISH 6-12 EXAM PREP
| Author | Country of Origin | Notable Works |
|---|---|---|
| Homer | Greece 800 BC | Iliad and Odyssey |
| Sappho (FEMALE) | Lesbos, Greece | Hymn to Aphrodite |
| Sophocles | Greece 400 BC | Antigone, Odepus the King, Electra |
| Euripides | Greece 484 BC | Medea, Electra, Hippolytus |
| Aristophanes | Greece 427 BC | The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds |
| Virgil | Roman 41 BC | The Aeneid |
| Publius Ovidius Naso (OVID) | Roman 8 AD | Metamorphoses |
| Dante Alighieri | Italian 12th century | The Divine Comedy |
| Geoffery Chaucer | British 14th century | Canterbury Tales |
| Sir Thomas Malory | British 15th Century | Le Morte D'Aurthur, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table |
| Francois Rabelais | Paris, France 16th century | Gargantuan and Pantagreul, Rabelaisian |
| Michel de Montaigne | France 16th century | "Essays" |
| Christopher Marlowe | British 16th century | Edward II, Jew of Malta, Tamburlain the Great |
| William Shakespeare | British 16th century | Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Henry V |
| Edmund Spenser | British 16th century | Faerie Queen |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Spanish 16th century | Don Quixote |
| Ben Johnson | British 16th century | The Alchemist, Valpone, Epicine |
| Francis Bacon | British 17th century | Instaruratio Magna |
| John Donne | British 17th century | The Sunne Rising, The Bait, To Catch a Falling Star |
| John Milton | British 17th century | Paradise Lost |
| Jeb-Babtiste Poquelin (MOLIERE) | Paris, France 17th century | L Taruffe, The Misanthrope, School for Wives |
| Samuel Pepys | British 18th century | "Diary" |
| John Dryden | British 18th century | The Wild Gallent, All For Love, The Maiden Queen |
| John Bunyons | British 17th century | The Pilgrims Progress |
| Alexander Pope | British 18th century | An Essay on Criticism |
| Daniel Defoe | British 18th century | Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders |
| Johnathan Swift | Irish 18th century | Gulliver's Travels |
| Henry Fielding | British 18th century | Tom Jones, Amelia, The Champion |
| Samuel Johnson | British 18th century | Irene, The Lives of the Poets, Vanity of Human Wishes |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Swiss 18th Century | Julie, Emile, Discourse on the Science and Arts, The Social Contract |
| Robert Burns | Scottish 18th Century | A Red, Red, Rose and Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect |
| James Boswell | Scottish 18th Century | An Account of Corsica, The life of Samuel Johnson |
| William Blake | British 18th Century | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Songs of Innocence and Experience |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | German 19th Century | Hermann and Dorothea, Faust, Sorrows of Young Werther |
| William Wordsworth | British 19th Century | Poem, "The Prelude" |
| Samuel Taylor Coldridge | British 19th Century | Kubla Kahn, Christobel |
| Jane Austen | British 18th Century | Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion |
| George Gordon Byron | British 18th Century | Don Juan, Manfred, Bebbo |
| William Cullen Bryant | American 19th Century | Thanasopsis, To a Waterfowl |
| Sir Walter Scott | Scottish 19th Century | Waverley Novels, Robe Roy, Ivanhoe |
| Washington Irving | American 19th Century | Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow |
| Percy Bysshe Shelly | English 19th Century | Prometheus Unbound, To a Skylark |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly | English 19th Century | Frankenstein |
| John Keats | English 19th Century | Ode to Psyche, To Autumn, Ode on Melancholy |
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