Famous authors and their works Flashcards
Hamlet
Shakespeare
The Iliad; The Odyssey
Homer
Oedipus the King; Antigone
Sophocles
Medea; Cyclops
Euripides
Divine Comedy of Dante; Aenid
Virgil
Odes; Satires; Ars Poetica
Horace
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Beowulf
Unknown author 8th-11th centuries
Tale of Genji
Shibiku
Spiritual Couplets
Rumi
The Divine Comedy
Dante
The Decameron; On Famous Women
Boccaccio
The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer
Le Morte D’Arthur
Malory
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais
Don Quixote
Cervantes
The Faerie Queene
Spenser
Dr Faustus; Tamburlaine the Great; The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Marlowe
Volpone; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair
Jonson
A Valediction, Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed; A Fever; Death Be Not Proud
Jon Donne
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Herrick
Paradise Lost; Areopagitica
Milton
To My Dear and Loving Husband, The Burning of Our House
Bradstreet
To His Coy Mistress; The Garden; An Horatian Ode
Marvell
The World; Peace; Silex Scintillans
Vaughn
Tartuffe; The Misanthrope; The School for Wives
Moliere
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Bunyan
Principia Mathematica
Newton
A Modest Proposal; Gulliver’s Travels
Swift
Pastorals; The Rape of the Lock; Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; Ode on Solitude
Pope
Candide; The Age of Louis XIV; Essay on the Customs and the Spirit of the Nations
Voltaire
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards
Poor Richard’s Almanack; The Autobiography
Ben Franklin
The Life of Richard Savage; London; The Vanity of Human Wishes; Irene; The Oxford English Dictionary
Samuel Johnson
Encyclopedie
Diderot
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
Speech to the Virginia Convention
Patrick Henry
Common Sense; The Age of Reason; The Crisis, No. 1
Thomas Paine
The Declaration of Indenpendence
Thomas Jefferson
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah _____
Equiano a.k.a Gustavas Vassa
Poems on Various Subjects: To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth
Phyllis Wheatley
Songs of Innocence and of Experience; Milton, a poem; The Tyger
William Blake
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lyrical ballads: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; Composed Upon Westminster Bridge; The World is Too Much with Us (From ‘Songs of Experience’)
Wordsworth
The Rime of the Ancient Mariener; Kubla Khan, Christabel
Coleridge
Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle; The Devil and Tom Walker
Washington Irving
She Walks in Beauty; When We Two Parted; Don Juan
Lord Byron
Leatherstocking Tales; The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
To A Skylark; Ozymandias; Ode to the West Wind; Music; Queen Mab
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to a Grecian Urn; When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be; Ode to a Nightengale; To Autumn; On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Keats
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Nature, Self-Reliance, Brahma, Concord Hymn
Emerson
The Minister’s Black Veil; Dr. Heidegger;s Experiment; The Scarlet Letter; The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sonnet 43: How do I love thee; Sonnet 14: If thou must love me, let it be for nought; The Cry of the Children; Grief
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls; Paul Revere’s Ride; The Cross of Snow; The Song of Hiawatha; Evangeline
Longfellow
Ulysses; In Memorium A.H.H.; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Idylls of the King; Break, Break Break; The Lady of Shalott
Tennyson
The Raven; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Fall of the House of Usher; Eldorado; To Helen
Poe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Little Foxes (under pen name Chris Crowfield)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vanity Fair
Thackeray
My Last Duchess; The Pied Piper of Hamelin; Porphyria’s Lover; The Ring and the Book; Men and Women
Robert Browning
Great Expectations; David Copperfield; Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
Jane Eyre; Villette
Charlotte Bronte
Walden; Civil Disobedience; Resistance to Civil Government
Thoreau
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
A Narrative of the Life of ______, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass
The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Middlemarch
George Eliot
Moby Dick; Billy Budd; Bartleby, the Scrivener
Herman Melville
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Notes from the Underground; Crime and Punishment; The Idiot
Dostoyevsky
The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta
John Rollin Ridge
An Enemy of the People; Hedda Gabler; A Doll’s House; Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen
Silent Noon, Broken Music, Insomnia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
War and Peace; The Power of Darkness; Anna Karenina; A Confession, How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Tolstoy
Because I could not stop for Death; I’m Nobody, Who Are You?; A Bird Came Down a Walk; If Those I Loved Were Lost; Heart, We Will Not Forget Him!
Emily Dickinson
Goblin Market; Remember
Christina Rosetti
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Jabberwocky; The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carrol aka Charles Lutwidge Dodgson