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Literary Figures & T
Literary Figures & Terms
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| Absalom and Achitophel | Historical Allegory, satire, lampoon | John Dryden |
| The Pilgrim's Progress | Allegory of Ideas, moral and religious, prose narrative | John Bunyan |
| Paradise Lost | Episodic Allegory, blank verse, epic poem, | John Milton |
| L'Allegro | Allegorical Imagery | John Milton |
| Il Penseroso | Allegorical Imagery | John Milton |
| Everyman | Allegory, Morality play, translated from the Dutch, Didactic | unknown |
| The Faerie Queene | Allegory, verse romance, Archaism, Heroic mode, epic genre, planned 12 books wrote only 6, spenserian stanza | Edmund Spenser |
| Gulliver's Travels | Allegory, satire, prose, in 4 books | Jonathan Swift |
| Ode on the Poetical character | Allegory, lyric poem, literary Criticism | William Collins |
| To Autumn | Ode, Allegory | John Keats |
| Divine Comedy | Sustained Allegory (dream vision) | Dante |
| Roman de la rose | French,Sustained Allegory (dream vision) | translated by chaucer |
| House of Fame | Sustained Allegory (dream vision) | Chaucer |
| Piers Plowman | Sustained Allegory (dream vision), Middle English, religious poem in alliterative verse | William Langland |
| Faust | Goethe, Sustained Allegory (part 2), drama, verse | Goethe |
| Promtheus Unbound | Sustained Allegory, drama, verse, play, based on Greek model | Shelley |
| The Dynasts | Sustained Allegory, drama, verse, epic drama | Thomas Hardy |
| novels of Franz Kafka | Sustained Allegory | |
| The Nun's Tale | beast fable & exemplum (Allegory) | |
| Fables for our time | Fable | James Thurber |
| Animal Farm | beast fable (Allegory), satirical Allegory, Political Allegory | Georg Orwell |
| The Pardoner's Tale | exemplum (allegory) | Chaucer |
| Astrophel and Stella | Allusion, sonnet cycles (the first) | Sir Philip Sidney |
| Through the looking glass | Lewis Carroll | |
| Finnegans Wake | Jamse Joyce | |
| Moll Flanders | Picaresque Novel, novel of characters | Daniel Defoe |
| Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot | Alexander Pope | |
| The Rape of the Lock | mock-heroic | Alexander Pope |
| Bible , Translation of King James | Archaism | |
| Christabel | coleridge | |
| The return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | |
| Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | Ballad | Thomas Percy |
| English and Scotish Pupular Ballads | Ballad | Francis J. Child |
| Erl-King, Erlkonig | Ballad | Goethe |
| Rime of Encient Mariner | Ballad, his contribution to Lyrical Ballads | coleridge |
| Proud Maisie | Ballad | Sir Walter Scott |
| La Belle Dame sans Mercie | Ballad | Keats |
| Lenore | Ballad | G.A.Burgur |
| LyricalBallads | Ballad | Wordsworth |
| on the bathos: The art of Sinking in Poetry | Bathos, Parodying "on the sublime" | Alexander Pope |
| Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat | Anticlimax, mock-heroic | Thomas Gray |
| Howl | Beat achievement | Ginsberg |
| On the Road | Beat achievement | Jack Kerouac |
| Parallel Lives | Biography | Plutarch |
| Lives | Biography | Izaak Walton |
| Lives of the English Poets | Biography | Samuel Johnson |
| Life of Samuel Johnson | Biography | James Boswell |
| Essays | Autobiography | Michel de Montaigne |
| Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth) | Autobiography | Goethe |
| Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners | Religious Autobiography | John Bunyan |
| The Prelude | spiritual Autobiography in verse, blank verse | Wordsworth |
| A la recherche du temps perdu | partly Autobiographical works of prose fiction | Marcel Proust |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | partly Autobiographical novel prose fiction the relation between the artist and society | James Joyce |
| Invisible Man | partly Autobiographical works of prose fiction | Ralph Ellison |
| Beowulf | First english epic, Germanic, with Pre-christian materials, allusive, no rhyme but alliteration, 3000 line | anonymous |
| The dream of the road, Andreas, Guthlac | Old English Poams | |
| GenesisA, Genesis B, Exodus, Daniel, Christ and Satan | Old English Poams | |
| Laws, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | Old English Prose | King Alfred |
| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Romance, Alliterative verse, Religious, Comedy of manners | anonymous |
| Ancren Riwle | Middle English Prose ,Religious | |
| The form of Perfect living | Middle English Prose | Richard Rolle |
| Translated parts of the Bible | John Wycliffee | |
| The Four P's | Interlude, 15-16th | John Heywood |
| The plays of the weather | Interlude, 15-16th | John Heywood |
| Venus and Adonis | Methological-erotic poems | Shakespeare |
| Hero and Leander | Methological-erotic | Marlow |
| As you Like it | Romantic Comedy, source:Lodge Rosalynde | Shakespeare |
| Twelfth Night | Romantic Comedy, source: Rich's Apolonius and Silla | Shakespeare |
| Measure for Measure | tragicomedy, problem play | Shakespeare |
| The Winter's Tale | tragicomedy, romance, source: Greene's Pandosto | Shakespeare |
| Ralph Roister Doister | First regular English Comedy | Nicholas Udall |
| Needle | Comedy, Renaissance | Gammer Gurton |
| Gorboduc or FErrex Porrex | First regular English Tragedy, blank verse | Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville |
| Spanish Tragedy (Hieronimo Is Mad Again) | Revenge tragedy, Under the influence of Seneca | Thomas Kyd |
| Hamlet | Revenge tragedy | Shakespeare |
| Richard III | Villain tragedy,historical | Shakespeare |
| Tamburlaine the Great | Heroic Tragedy | Marlowe |
| Dr. Faustus | Heroic Tragedy, Bombast | Marlowe |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Heroic Tragedy,source:North's Plutarch, history (chronicle play) | Shakespeare |
| Songs and Sonnets | 1557 | 40 poems by Surrey, 96 of Wyatt, by Tottle |
| Campaspe | prose comedy | lyly |
| Endimion | Allegorical play | lyly |
| The white Devil | Renaissance | John Webster |
| The Duchess of Malfi | Renaissance | John Webster |
| The Knight of the Burning Pestle | comedy | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher |
| The Maid's Tragedy | tragedy | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher |
| Aeneid Translation | Blank verse | Earl of Surrey |
| Ecclesiastical History of the English People | in Latin, Old ENG | Bede (Father of Eng. History) |
| Hymn | Old Eng. Verse | Caedmon |
| The Dream of the Rood | Cynewulf | |
| Book of the duchess | imaginative, daring, elegy | Chaucer |
| The Canterbery Tales | various types: verse romance, fabliau, exemplum,fable, homily, saint's life, 17000 lines | Chaucer |
| Troylus and Cryseyde | his longest poem,chivalric romance | Chaucer |
| The Legend of Good Women | Chaucer | |
| The Parliment of Fowls | Cryptic love vision | Chaucer |
| Morte Darthure | in prose, romance | Sir Thomas Malory |
| Utopia | LAtin, | Thomas More |
| History of king Richrd III | in Eng. and Latin, history | Thomas More |
| Epitaph on Wyatt | Earl of Surrey | |
| Seasons | Blank verse | James Thomson |
| Idylls of the King | Blank verse | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| The Ring and the Book | Blank verse, a poem on the vast scale of a long novel | Robert Browning |
| Arcadia | pastoral romance in prose | Sir Philip Sidney |
| The Defence of Poesy (An Apology for Poetry) | essay , his term for all imaginative literature | Sir Philip Sidney |
| The Shepheard's Calendar | poem in 12 books:each month of the year, archaic language | Edmund Spenser |
| Epithalamion | marriage song | Edmund Spenser |
| Prothalamion | marriage song | Edmund Spenser |
| Amoretti | Sonnet cycle | Edmund Spenser |
| Complaints | a volume of poems | Edmund Spenser |
| Colin Clouts Come Home Againe | Pastoral | Edmund Spenser |
| Revolt of Islam | under the influence of Spenser,in Spenserian Stanza | Shelley |
| The Lotus-Eaters | poem, under the influence of Spenser | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| The Massacre at Paris | Marlowe | |
| Jew of Malta | tragedy, grotesque Comedy | Marlowe |
| Edward the Second | chronicle history play ( Holinshed's Chronicles), drama of character | Marlowe |
| The Passionate Shepherd to his Love | Poem | Marlowe |
| Dido,Queen of Carageth | tragedy | Marlowe in collaboration with Thomas Nashe |
| Richard the Second | tragedy, chronicle play | Shakespeare |
| Romeo and Juliet | tragedy, source:a poem by Arthur Brooke | Shakespeare |
| A Comedy of Errors | Comedy | Shakespeare |
| The taming of the Shrew | Farce | Shakespeare |
| The two Gentlemen of Verona | Comedy, romantic plot | Shakespeare |
| Love's Labour's Lost | Comedy of Manners | Shakespeare |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Comedy | Shakespeare |
| The Merchant of Venice | Comedy | Shakespeare |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Manners | Shakespeare |
| All's Well that Ends well | dark Comedy, Source: a story from Boccaccio's Decameron | Shakespeare |
| Troilus and Cresida | Problem Play | Shakespeare |
| King Henry the Fourth | tragedy, History play, source: Hollinshed's Chronicles, chronicle play | Shakespeare |
| Henry the Fifth | history play, source: Hollinshed's Chronicles, chronicle play | Shakespeare |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | Farce | Shakespeare |
| Julius Caesar | tragedy, source:North's Plutarch, history (chronicle) play | Shakespeare |
| Coriolanus | Political tragedy, source:North's Plutarch | Shakespeare |
| King Lear | tragedy, source: Hollinshed's Chronicles & Sidney's Arcadia | Shakespeare |
| Macbeth | tragedy | Shakespeare |
| Othello, the moore of Venice | tragedy, source: Giraldo Cinthio's Hecatommithi | Shakespeare |
| Cymbeline | romance, tragicomedy | Shakespeare |
| The Tempest | romance, tragicomedy | Shakespeare |
| Pericles | romance, tragicomedy | Shakespeare |
| sonnets | Sonnet cycles | Shakespeare |
| The Rape of Lucrece | Mythological-erotic poems | Shakespeare |
| Volpone(the Fox) | Satirical comedy | Ben Johnson |
| Epicoene (The Silent Woman) | Comedy | Ben Johnson |
| The Alchemist | Satiric Comedy | Ben Johnson |
| image of time | comedy | Ben Johnson |
| The Devil is an Ass | comedy | Ben Johnson |
| Every man in his Humour | comedy of humours | Ben Johnson |
| Sejanus | tragedy | Ben Johnson |
| Every man out of his Humour | Satiric comedy | Ben Johnson |
| Bartholomew Fair | Comedy | Ben Johnson |
| When I Consider how my light is spent | Sonnet | John Milton |
| On His Blindness | Sonnet | John Milton |
| Comus | masque, pastoral | John Milton |
| Lycidas | elegy, pastoral(on the death of Edward King) | John Milton |
| Areopagitica | A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, his best Prose | John Milton |
| Paradise Regained | epic poem, blank verse | John Milton |
| Samson Agonistes | tragedy | John Milton |
| To Althea, from Prison | Richard Lovelace | |
| To Lucasta, on going to the wars | Richard Lovelace | |
| The Compleat Angler | Prose, Art of river fishing | Izaak Walton |
| The Conquest of Granada | Heroic Play | John Dryden |
| Aurengzebe | Heroic Play | John Dryden |
| Marriage a la Mode | Comedy in blank verse | John Dryden |
| All for Love (the world well lost) | play in blank verse, tragedy, based on Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra | John Dryden |
| Don Sebastian | play | John Dryden |
| The Rehearsal | Comedy, burlesque | John Dryden |
| Essay on Dramatic Poesie | prose | John Dryden |
| MacFlecknoe | Satirical Poem (attacking Shadwell) | John Dryden |
| The Country Wife | satirical play ,comedy of manners | William Wycherley |
| The Plain Dealer | play | William Wycherley |
| The Old Bachelor | comedy | William Congreve |
| THe Double Dealer | Comedy | William Congreve |
| Love for Love | Comedy | William Congreve |
| The Way of the World | Comedy of Manners | William Congreve |
| The Holy War | prose, Allegory | John Bunyan |
| She Stoops to Conquer | Comedy of Manners | Oliver Goldsmith |
| The Traveller | Poem in Heroic meter | Oliver Goldsmith |
| The Deserted Village | Poem in Heroic meter | Oliver Goldsmith |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | story | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog | short Poem | Oliver Goldsmith |
| The Rivals | comedy of manners | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| The School for Scandal | comedy of manners | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| The Critic | Satirical Play | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| Essay Concerning the Human Understanding | Philosophical Prose | John Locke |
| Essay on Criticism | Poem in Heroic Couplets | Alexander Pope |
| imitation of Horace | Poem in Heroic Couplet | Alexander Pope |
| The Dunciad | Satire (part comic and part serious) | Alexander Pope |
| Essay on Man | Poem, in Heroic Couplet | Alexander Pope |
| Moral Essays | four Poems | Alexander Pope |
| Ubu roi | Literature of absurd | Alfred Jarry |
| The Trial | Literature of absurd | Kafka |
| Metamorphosis | Literature of absurd | Kafka |
| The Bald Suprano | Literature of absurd | Eugene Ionesco |
| The Lesson | Literature of absurd | Eugene Ionesco |
| Waiting for Godot | play, Literature of absurd, comedy | Samuel Beckett |
| Endgame | Literature of absurd | Samuel Beckett |
| Molloy, Malone Dies | novel, Literature of absurd, antihero | Samuel Beckett |
| The Unnamable | novel, Literature of absurd, antihero | Samuel Beckett |
| Catch - 22 | black comedy | Joseph Heller |
| V | black comedy | Thomas Pynchon |
| The World according to Garp | black comedy | John Irving |
| Tomb Thumb the Great | parody, bombast | Henry Fielding |
| The Tragedy of Sophonisba | James Thomson | |
| The Waste Land | Blank verse, a central text of modernism, Stream of Consciousness | T.S. Eliot |
| Frost at Midnight | Blank verse | Coleridge |
| Tintern Abbey | Blank verse | Wordsworth |
| Tears,Idle Tears | Blank verse | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Sunday Morning | Tears,Idle Tears | Wallace Stevens |
| The Splendid Shilling | parody (of Lost paradise) | John Phillips |
| Joseph Andrews | parody (of Pamela), satire on Pamela | Henry Fielding |
| Pamela (Virtue Rewarded) | Epistolary novel, novel of Character | Samuel Richardson |
| A Christmas Garland | parody | max beerbohm |
| Cold Comfort Farm | parody | stella gibbons |
| Possession | parody | A.S. Byatt |
| Across the River and into the Tree | Hemingway | |
| Beggar's Opera | burelsque | john gay |
| Threepenny Opera | bertolt brecht | |
| Kurt Weill | bertolt brecht | |
| To his Coy Mistress | carpe diem | andrew marvell |
| The Characters | theophrastus | |
| Murder in the Cathedral | verse drama, use of chorus in drama | T.S. Eliot |
| Our Town | play | Thornton Wilder |
| The Crucible | history (chronicle) play | Arthur Miller |
| A man for all Seasons | history (chronicle) play (a bout sir Thomas Moor) | Robert Bolt |
| Rosalynde | Romantic comedy | Thomas lodge |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Comedy of Manners, Farce | Oscar Wilde |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Poem in blank verse | Thomas Gray |
| The Bard | Ode | Thomas Gray |
| Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College | Thomas Gray | |
| Journal of the Plague Year | prose | Daniel Defoe |
| Robinson Crusoe | prose | Daniel Defoe |
| The Tatler | essays | Richard Steel |
| The Spectator | essays | Joseph Addison |
| Cato | blank verse Tragedy | Joseph Addison |
| The Conscious Lovers | Sentimental comedy | Richard Steel |
| The Battle of the Books | argument on modern and ancient books | Jonathan Swift |
| Tale of a Tub | attack on religious Ideas | Jonathan Swift |
| A modest Proposal | a mock argument | Jonathan Swift |
| A Dictionary of English Language | Samuel Johnson | |
| Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia | novel, philosophical romance | Samuel Johnson |
| The decline and fall of the Roman Empire | historical book, 6 books | Edward Gibbon |
| Speech on American Taxation | Edmund Burke | |
| Speech on Concilation with America | Edmund Burke | |
| Letter to Sheriffs of Bristol | Edmund Burke | |
| Reflections on the French Revolution | Edmund Burke | |
| Clarissa Harlowe | novel | Samuel Richardson |
| Tom Jones | a Picaresque novel, in 18 books, his masterpiece | Henry Fielding |
| The history of Jonathan Wild, the Great | satire, a real criminal | Henry Fielding |
| Roderick Random | picaresque novel, modelled on Le Sage's Gil Blas | Tobias Smollett |
| Peregrine Pickle | Tobias Smollett | |
| The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker | in the form of letters, novel | Tobias Smollett |
| Tristram Shandy | novel, in 9 books | Laurence Sterne |
| A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy | Laurence Sterne | |
| The Castle of Otranto | novel of terror, Gothic novel, about 12 th or 13 th cent. | Horace Walpole |
| Vathek | novel of terror (a bout the grandson of Harun al-Rashid) | William Beckford |
| The Mysteries of Udolpho | novel of terror, Gothic novel | Ann Radcliffe |
| Romance of the Forest | novel | Ann Radcliffe |
| The Italian | Gothic novel | Ann Radcliffe |
| A Sicilian Romance | novel | Ann Radcliffe |
| An Italian Romance | novel | Ann Radcliffe |
| Poetical Sketches | poems | William Blake |
| Songs of Experience | William Blake | |
| The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | prose | William Blake |
| Lines Written above Tintern Abbey | romantic meditative poetry | William Wordsworth |
| Westminster Bridge | sonnet, emotional view of London asleep | William Wordsworth |
| London | William Wordsworth | |
| The Daffodils | William Wordsworth | |
| The Solitary Reaper | William Wordsworth | |
| Lucy | William Wordsworth | |
| Ode on Intimations of Immortality | William Wordsworth | |
| The Excursion | in 9 books, middle part of a philosophical work | William Wordsworth |
| Kubla Khan (A Vision In a Dream) | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
| Dejection: An Ode | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
| Tragedy: Remorse | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
| Biographia Literaria | a philosophical and autobiographical work | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Childe Harold | written in Spenserian Stanza | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| The Giaour | means: "the Christian" | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| The Bride of Abydos | tragic love story | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| The Corsair and Lara | in heroic couplet | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Don Juan | George Gordon, Lord Byron | |
| The Assyrian came down | short poem | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Alastor ( The Spirit of Solitude ) | Blank verse | Shelley |
| The Cenci | tragedy play | Shelley |
| Adonais | Elegy on the death of Keats | Shelley |
| Ozymandias | Sonnet | Shelley |
| The Cloud | lyric | Shelley |
| To a Skylark | lyric | Shelley |
| The Indian Serenade | lyric | Shelley |
| Stanzas Written in Dejection near Naples | lyric | Shelley |
| Ode to the West Wind | Shelley | |
| Endymion | in 4 books, allegory | John Keats |
| Isabella (The Pot of Basil) | Based on Boccaccio's Decameron, a poem on ottava rima | John Keats |
| The Eve of Saint Agnes | a narrative poem in Spenserian stanza | John Keats |
| Hyperion | on the model of Milton's Paradise Lost, epic poem | John Keats |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | John Keats | |
| To a Nightingale | ode | John Keats |
| On first looking into chapman's Homer | sonnet | John Keats |
| Sense and Sensibility | novel, Her first work | Jane Austen |
| Northanger Abbey | novel, Her shortest major work | Jane Austen |
| Mansfield Park | novel | Jane Austen |
| Emma | novel | Jane Austen |
| Persuasion | novel | Jane Austen |
| Pride and Prejudice | novel | Jane Austen |
| Characteristics | essay | Thomas Carlyle |
| Sartor Resartus | autobiographical novel | Thomas Carlyle |
| The French Revolution | history, epic work | Thomas Carlyle |
| Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell | Thomas Carlyle | |
| The History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Fredrick the Great | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Past and present | a prose work | Thomas Carlyle |
| Latter-day Pamphlets | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Modern Painters | A five volume treatise on art | John Ruskin |
| The Stones of Venice | John Ruskin | |
| Unto this Last | John Ruskin | |
| The Strayed Reveller | poem | Matthew Arnold |
| Rugby Chapel | poem | Matthew Arnold |
| The Scholar Gipsy | poem | Matthew Arnold |
| Memorial Verses | Matthew Arnold | |
| Empedocles on Etna | poem | Matthew Arnold |
| Essays in Criticism | Matthew Arnold | |
| Literature and Dogma | full length study of the Bible | Matthew Arnold |
| Culture and Anarchy | Matthew Arnold | |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Gothic novel | Oscar Wilde |
| Chiefly Lyrical | poems | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Morte D'Arthur | put Malory's story into blank verse | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| The Passing of Arthur | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | |
| In Memoriam | elegy for Hallam | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Ulysses | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | |
| The Princess | 5 lyrics | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Becket | play on the life of Thomas a Becket | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Maud | experimental monologue, epic | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| The Lady of Shallot | poem | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Pauline | Robert Browning | |
| Strafford | historical tragedy | Robert Browning |
| Sordello | poem | Robert Browning |
| Pippa Passes | dramatic poem | Robert Browning |
| Dramatic Lyrics | Robert Browning | |
| Dramatic Romances | Robert Browning | |
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Robert Browning | |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese | Sonnets | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Aurora Leigh | a novel in verse | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| The Blessed Damozel | the embodiment of Pre-Raphaelite verse | Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| Goblin Market | collection of poems | Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| The Princes Progress | poem | Christina Georgina Rossetti |
| Pickwick Papers | his first novel | Charles Dickens |
| Household Words & All the Year Round | magazines | Charles Dickens |
| David Copperfield | semi - autobiographical | Charles Dickens |
| Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | |
| Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | |
| Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | |
| A Tale of two cities | Charles Dickens | |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | |
| Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | |
| Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | |
| Hard Times | Charles Dickens | |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood | uncompleted novel | Charles Dickens |
| The Life of Jesus | translation | George Eliot (Marian Evans) |
| Adam Bede | George Eliot (Marian Evans) | |
| The Mill on The Floss | George Eliot (Marian Evans) | |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot (Marian Evans) | |
| Middlemarch | her masterpiece | George Eliot (Marian Evans) |
| Scenes from Clerical Life | George Eliot (Marian Evans) | |
| Daniel Deronda | George Eliot (Marian Evans) | |
| The Inchcape Rock | short poem | Robert Southey |
| The Battle of Blenheim | Short poem | Robert Southey |
| Life of Nelson | prose | Robert Southey |
| The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | a free translation from Persion | Edward Fitzgerald |
| Calderon's plays | translation | Edward Fitzgerald |
| the Agamemnon of Aeschylus | translation | Edward Fitzgerald |
| Waverly | novel | Sir Walter Scott |
| Guy Mannering | novel | Sir Walter Scott |
| The Antiquary | novel | Sir Walter Scott |
| Old Mortality | novel | Sir Walter Scott |
| Rob Roy | novel | Sir Walter Scott |
| The Heart of Midlothian | novel | Sir Walter Scott |
| Ivanhoe | novel | Sir Walter Scott |
| Kenilworth | novel | Sir Walter Scott |
| Quentin Durward | novel | Sir Walter Scott |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | novel | Thomas Hardy |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | novel | Thomas Hardy |
| Tess of D'Urbervilles | novel | Thomas Hardy |
| The Woodlanders | novel | Thomas Hardy |
| Under the Greenwood Tree | novel | Thomas Hardy |
| Jude the Obscure | novel | Thomas Hardy |
| Life's little Ironies | novel | Thomas Hardy |
| Arms and Man | his first play | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Devil's Disciple | George Bernard Shaw | |
| Man and Superman | a comedy | George Bernard Shaw |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | George Bernard Shaw | |
| Major Barbara | play | George Bernard Shaw |
| Saint Joan | play | George Bernard Shaw |
| Pygmalion | a comedy | George Bernard Shaw |
| Mrs. Warren's Profession | play | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Man of Destiny | George Bernard Shaw | |
| Heartbreak House | play | George Bernard Shaw |
| Back to Methuselah | a play in 5 parts | George Bernard Shaw |
| Almayer's Folly | Joseph Conrad | |
| The Nigger of the "Narcissus" | novel | Joseph Conrad |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | |
| The Secret Sharer | Joseph Conrad | |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad | |
| The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale | novel | Joseph Conrad |
| Under Western Eyes | novel | Joseph Conrad |
| A Vision | mystical prose treatise | W. B. Yeats |
| The Tower | W. B. Yeats | |
| The Winding Stair | poems | W. B. Yeats |
| Dubliners | collection of short stories | James Joyce |
| Ulysses | one day in the lives of citizens of Dublin in the year 1904, novel, stream of consciousness | James Joyce |
| Finnegans Wake | the theme of death and resurrection, Stream of consciousness, allusions | James Joyce |
| Portrait | James Joyce | |
| Sons and Lovers | autobiographical novel | D. H. Lawrence |
| The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence | |
| Women in Love | D. H. Lawrence | |
| The White Peacock | his first novel | D. H. Lawrence |
| The Trespasser | novel based on the experience of his friend Helen Corke | D. H. Lawrence |
| Aaron's Rod | D. H. Lawrence | |
| Kangaroo | set in Australia, on the theme of leadership | D. H. Lawrence |
| The Plumed Serpent | set in Mexico, on the theme of leadership | D. H. Lawrence |
| The Ladybird | novellas | D. H. Lawrence |
| The Fox | novellas | D. H. Lawrence |
| The Captain's Doll | novellas | D. H. Lawrence |
| St.Mawr and the Princess | novellas | D. H. Lawrence |
| Sun | novellas | D. H. Lawrence |
| The Escaped Cock | novellas | D. H. Lawrence |
| Love Poems | Poetry | D. H. Lawrence |
| Amores | Poetry | D. H. Lawrence |
| Nettles | Poetry | D. H. Lawrence |
| Look! We Have Come Through! | Poetry | D. H. Lawrence |
| Bay | Poetry | D. H. Lawrence |
| Last Poems | Poetry | D. H. Lawrence |
| Four Quartets | poem | T.S. Eliot |
| The Family Reunion | play | T.S. Eliot |
| The Cocktail Party | verse drama | T.S. Eliot |
| The Sacred Wood | Collection of essays | T.S. Eliot |
| Homage | Collection of essays | T.S. Eliot |
| The Metaphysical Poets | T.S. Eliot | |
| Tradition and Individual Talent | his famous essay | T.S. Eliot |
| Modern Fiction | essay | Virginia Woolf |
| A Room of One's Owne | contribution to feminist criticism | Virginia Woolf |
| The Three Guineas | contribution to feminist criticism | Virginia Woolf |
| Mrs Dalloway | novel, Stream of consciousness | Virginia Woolf |
| To the Lighthouse | novel, Stream of Consciousness | Virginia Woolf |
| Orlando | biography | Virginia Woolf |
| The Waves | Her most experimental novel, Stream of Consciousness, her masterpiece | Virginia Woolf |
| The Jungle Book | Collection of Short Stories and Poems | Rudyard Kipling |
| Kim | novel | Rudyard Kipling |
| Strange Meeting | poem | Wilfred Owen |
| Anthem for Doomed Youth | poem | Wilfred Owen |
| Dulce et Decorum Est | poem | Wilfred Owen |
| Brave New World | Dystopian Literature | Huxley |
| Limbo | Collection of Short stories | Huxley |
| The Dance of Death | poem | W. H. Auden |
| Look Stranger | poem | W. H. Auden |
| On This Island | W. H. Auden | |
| Another Time | W. H. Auden | |
| Nones | W. H. Auden | |
| About the House | W. H. Auden | |
| City without Walls | W. H. Auden | |
| Plays in collaboration with Isherwood: The Dog Beneath the Skin | W. H. Auden | |
| The Ascent of F6 | W. H. Auden | |
| On the Frontier | W. H. Auden | |
| Where ANgles Fear to Tread | his first novel | E. M. Forster |
| Howard's End | novel | E. M. Forster |
| A Passage to India | his most acclaimed novel | E. M. Forster |
| The Longest Journey | his second novel | E. M. Forster |
| A Room with a View | E. M. Forster | |
| Aspects of the Novel | a minor classic of criticism, a discution of technics of fiction | E. M. Forster |
| Burmese Days | expression of his dislike of imperialism | George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) |
| The Road to Wigan Pier | a documentary account of unemployment in the north of England, a milestone in literary journalism | George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) |
| Coming Up for Air | Written in Shadow of World War II | George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) |
| Shooting an Elephant | Journalistic essay | George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) |
| Critical essays | Journalistic essay | George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) |
| Inside the Whale | Journalistic essay | George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | Dystopian fiction, pessimistic satire about the threat of political tyranny | George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) |
| Hommage to Catalonia | George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) | |
| Krapp's Last Tape | Samuel Beckett | |
| Happy Days | Samuel Beckett | |
| Murphy | novel | Samuel Beckett |
| Watt | novel | Samuel Beckett |
| The birthday Party | Harold Pinter | |
| The Dumb Waiter | Harold Pinter | |
| The Caretaker | Harold Pinter | |
| The Homecoming | Harold Pinter | |
| No Man's Land | Harold Pinter | |
| Look Back in Anger | play | John Osborne |
| Luther | John Osborne | |
| A Portrait for Me | John Osborne | |
| Watch it Come Down | John Osborne | |
| The Old Huntsman | Siegfried Sassoon | |
| Counter - Attacks | Siegfried Sassoon | |
| Satirical Poems, Virgil, Sequences, Collected Poems | Siegfried Sassoon | |
| Clouds, The Old Vicrage Grantchester, The Dead | Rupert Brooke | |
| War Sonnets: The Soldier | Rupert Brooke | |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead | play | Tom Stoppard |
| The Real Inspector Hound | Tom Stoppard | |
| After Magritte | short farce | Tom Stoppard |
| Jumpers | Tom Stoppard | |
| Travesties | Tom Stoppard | |
| The Four Seasons | play | Arnold Wesker |
| The Wedding Feast | play | Arnold Wesker |
| Caritas | play | Arnold Wesker |
| The Kitchen | Arnold Wesker | |
| Chicken Soup with Barley | Arnold Wesker | |
| Roots | Arnold Wesker | |
| I'm Talking about Jerusalem | Arnold Wesker | |
| Chips with Everything | Arnold Wesker | |
| This Very Own and Golden City | Arnold Wesker | |
| The Friends | Arnold Wesker | |
| Decline and Fall | satirical novel | Evelyn Waugh |
| Scoop | satirical novel | Evelyn Waugh |
| The Anti-Death League | spy story | Kingsley Amis |
| The Green Man | ghost story | Kingsley Amis |
| The Riverside Villas Murder | detective fiction | Kingsley Amis |
| The Alteration | science fiction and fantasy | Kingsley Amis |
| The Russian Girl | gloomy farce | Kingsley Amis |
| Lucky Jim | farcial comedy | Kingsley Amis |
| Lisa of Lambeth | his first novel, an experiment in naturalism | Somerset Maugham |
| Of Human Bondage | his first really successful novel, semi - autobiographical | Somerset Maugham |
| The Moon and Sixpence | novel | Somerset Maugham |
| Cakes and Ale | LIght - hearted comedy | Somerset Maugham |
| Ashenden or The British Agent | a collection of short stories | Somerset Maugham |
| Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul | novel | H. G. Wells |
| The History of Mr Polly | H. G. Wells | |
| The Time Machine | novel | H. G. Wells |
| The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | |
| The First Men on the Moon | H. G. Wells | |
| Ann Veronica | H. G. Wells |
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