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Major Authors/Books
WGU Major Authors and Books
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John Gay | The Beggar's Opera |
| Anne Bradstreet | The Author to her Book |
| Jonathon Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
| Thomas Gray | An Elegy written in a Country Churchyard |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe |
| Robert Herrick | To the Virgins, to make much of time |
| Henry Fielding | Tom Jones |
| Alexander Pope | The rape of the Lock |
| John Dryden | Mack Flecknoe |
| William Congreve | The Way of the World |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick |
| Mary Shelley | Frankenstein |
| Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |
| John Keates | To Autumn |
| George Elliot | Middlemarch |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass |
| Emily Dickenson | Because I Could Not Stop for Death |
| Kate Chopin | The Awakening |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| Ezra Pound | The Cantos |
| Virginia Woolf | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Alice Walker | The Color Purple |
| J.D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye |
| James Joyce | Ulysses |
| William Faulkner | The Sound and the Fury |
| e.e. Cummings | Anyone Lived in a Pretty how Town |
| T.S. Elliot | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | We real Cool |
| Anne Sexton | Cinderella |
| Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar |
| William Butler Yeates | The Second Coming |
| Langston Hughes | Theme for English B |
| John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Arthur Miller | The Crucible |
| F.Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| Earnest Hemingway | Farewell to Arms |
| Robert Frost | Fire and Ice |
| Wilfred Owen | Anthem for Doomed Youth |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Slauterhouse Five |
| Toni Morrison | Beloved |
| Norman Mailer | The Executioner's Song |
| Terrance McNalley | Angels in America |
| Christopher Marlowe | Dr. Faustus |
| William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost |
| Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene |
| Ben Johnson | To Celia |
| Michael Drayton | Since There's No Help, Come let us Kiss and Part |
| John Donne | A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
| Sir Phillip Sydney | Astrophel and Stella |
| Lady Mary Wroth | The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania |
| Juan Ruiz | The Book of Good Love |
| John Gower | Vox Clemantis |
| Margery Kempe | The Book of Margery Kempe |
| Sir Thomas Mallory | Le Morte d'Arthur |
| William Langland | Piers Plowman |
| Anna Comnena | Alexiad |
| Unknown | Beowulf |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | Canterbury Tales |
| Sophocles | Antigone |
| Aristophanes | Lysistrata |
| Sappho | Hymn to Aphrodite |
| Horace | The Odes |
| Ovid | Metamorphoses |
| Virgil | The Aeneid |
| Homer | Odyssey |
| Euripedes | Medea |
| Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound |