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Literary Figures Flashcards

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Aeschylus

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Ancient Greek dramatist who specialized in tragedy. Prometheus Bound

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Sherwood Anderson

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American short story writer. Winesburg, Ohio (most famous collection)

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Honoré de Balzac

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19th century French writer known for La Comédie Humaine

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Samuel Beckett

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Irish-born French novelist and playwright. Existential works like Malloy and Waiting for Godot.

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Saul Bellow

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American novelist awarded Nobel Prize in literature. Novels: Herzog and Humboldt’s Gift

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William Blake

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Songs of Innocence and Experience

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Charlotte Brontë

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Pen name Currer Bell. Jane Eyre and Shirley.

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Emily Brontë

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Pen name Ellis Bell. Wuthering Heights

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John Bunyan

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Pilgrim’s Progress

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Lord George Byron

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Romantic poet. Don Juan and Child Harold’s Pilgrimmage

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Albert Camus

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French writer and Existentialist best known for novels The Stranger and The Plague

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Lewis Carroll

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Charles Dodgson. Alice in Wonderland

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Spanish writer- Don Quixote (first modern novel)

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Chekhov

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The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Romantic - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

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19th century French author. Published the Claudine novels and The Innocent Wife

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Joseph Conrad

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Polish born British writer. Heart of Darkness and Under Western Eyes

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Stephen Crane

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Civil War novel Red Badge of Courage

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Charles Dickens

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1812-1870. (Victorian) Great Expectations

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John Donne

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Metaphysical poet late 1500’s to early 1600’s. The Flea and “Death be not Proud”

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Dostoevsky

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The Idiot

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Theodore Dreiser

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American naturalist. Novels Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy

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George Eliot

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Mary Ann Evans. Victorian novelist- Middlemarch and Adam Bede

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T.S. Eliot

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British modernist who wrote “The Waste Land” and “Love Song”

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Euripedes

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Along with Sophocles and Aeschylus, a preeminent Ancient Greek dramatist

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William Faulkner

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Southern novelist- The Sound and the Fury, Absolom! Absolom!

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Gustave Flaubert

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coined phrase “the mot juste” the perfect word

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Robert Frost

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Mending Wall

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Allen Ginsberg

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Beat poet; Howl

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Johann von Wolfgang Goethe

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German writer, critic, wrote Faust

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Dashiell Hammett

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American writer of noir (detective) fiction. Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man

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Thomas Hardy

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19th century English writer. Novels Far From the Maddening Crowd, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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Hermann Hesse

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Swiss-born German writer - Siddhartha and Steppenwolf

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Homer

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Iliad and Odyssey

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Langston Hughes

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20th century poet, novelist, Harlem Renaissance. “Weary Blues” “Mother to Son” “Harlem” and “Theme for English B”

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Henry James

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Expat American writer. Novels The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller

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Samuel Johnson

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Wrote first dictionary

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James Joyce

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Irish author- Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

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Franz Kafka

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German existentialist novelist- The Metamorphosis

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John Keats

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English Romantic poet- “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

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Jack Kerouac

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American Beat poet and novelist- On the Road

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Longfellow

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American Romantic poet “Songs of Hiawatha”

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Christopher Marlowe

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Shakespeare’s contemporary. Tamburlaine the Great and Dr. Faustus

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Henry Miller

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20th century American writer - Tropic of Cancer

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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

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French playwright and actor. Plays: Tartuffe and The Misanthrope

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Lolita (protagonist Humbert Humbert)

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Eugene O’Neill

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20th century playwright - Desire Under the Elms, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh

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George Orwell

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Eric Blair. English author of satirical political novels. Animal Farm

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Ovid

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Roman poet whose poems (Metamorphoses) were a major source of inspiration for Renaissance and Baroque writers

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Petrarch

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Renaissance Italian poet

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Plutarch

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Greek essayist. Monumental tome: The Parallel Lives

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Ezra Pound

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American born poet why typified the Modernist movement

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Marcel Proust

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French novelist. Book series- Remembrance of Things Past

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Salman Rushdie

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British novelist most notable for the death sentence imposed on him by Ayatollah Khomeini for his novel, The Satanic Verses

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Sappho

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Greek female poet whose work little remains today

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Sir Walter Scott

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Scottish novelist - Ivanhoe

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George Bernard Shaw

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Irish playwright. Pygmalion and Saint Joan

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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English poet during Romantic movement. Husband to Mary Shelley. Wrote Prometheus Unbound.

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Sophocles

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Greek dramatist. Oedipus Rex

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Edmund Spenser

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Master of the epic poem. Best known for The Faerie Queen

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Gertrude Stein

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Coined the term “the lost generation”

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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19th century English writer- Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Jonathan Swift

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Irish born English writer, satirist. Gulliver’s Travels and “A Modest Proposal”

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Leo Tolstoy

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Russian novelist- War and Peace, Anna Karenina

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Mark Twain

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Samuel Clemens

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John Updike

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American novelist- Rabbit, Run and Bech at Bay

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Virgil

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epic Aeneid

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Voltaire

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18th century French philosopher, helped shape Age of Enlightenment. Candide

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Tennessee Williams

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A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie

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Virginia Woolf

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British novelist. To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway

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William Wordsworth

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English Romantic poet. Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge

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William Butler Yeats

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Irish playwright and poet. The Winding Stair

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Emile Zola

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French writer and essayist of the naturalist school. “J’Accuse” decried the French government’s role in the Dreyfus Affair

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