Literature In English Flashcards
This “Lonesome Dove” author dedicated his novel “The Desert Rose” “to Lesley, for the use of her goat”
Larry McMurty
Her novels The Paris Apartment (2022) and The Guest List (2020) are New York Times best sellers.
Lucy Foley
A 20th century Nigerian writer whose works include “Things Fall Apart” (1958) and “Arrow of God” (1964)
Chinua Achebe
his novels focus on the clash between traditional, African values and culture, and the encroachment of colonialism and westernization
In 1965, this Indianapolis-born novelist published “God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater”
Vonnegut
This 20th century American writer and critic was posthumously awarded a 1958 Pulitzer Prize for “A Death in the Family”, his only novel
James Agee (AYjee)
He was best known for his classic “Let us now Praise Famous Men”, with photos by Walker Evans, an account of sharecroppers in Alabama during the 1930s. 
A 19th century American author known for his many books in which poor boys become rich through their earnest attitudes and hard work
Horatio Alger Junior
A true story of spectacular worldly success achieved by someone who started near the bottom is often called a “Horatio Alger story ”
“LOVE” IS WITHIN THE TITLES OF 3 OF HIS MOST FAMOUS BOOKS; A FOURTH, “THE RAINBOW”, CALLS LOVE “THE FLOWER OF LIFE”
D. H. Lawrence
A 20th century British author. Two of his best regarded works are Sons and Lovers and Women in Love Lawrence is known for his frank treatment of sex and for the racial ideas on society and the family that he voiced in his books
His novel Lady Chatterly’s Lover was banned of obscene in both Britain and the United States. In the United States, the band was appealed to the Supreme Court, which it overruled. 
All the world’s a stage is the beginning of a speech in this play
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
The monologue is also called “The Seven Ages of Man” because it treats that many periods in a man’s life: his years as an infant, schoolboy, lover, soldier, judge, foolish old man, and finally “second childishness and near oblivion”
Most of the action of the play takes place in the forest of Arden, to which several members of the Duke’s Court have been banished 
This writer read her poem “On the Pulse of the Morning” at Bill Clinton’s 1993 inaugural ceremony 
Maya Angelou
She was a 20th century African-American writer, whose best known work is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings an autobiographical account of growing up as a black girl in the rural south 
In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar who says the speech that begins “friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”?
Mark Antony
The speak addresses the crowd at Caesar’s funeral, in it he repeats several times the words “Brutus is an honorable man“. The speech is Anthony’s funeral oration over Caesar, who Brutus has helped killed. “Brutus is an honorable man” is ironic, as Antony is attempting to portray Brutus as ungrateful and treacherous. He succeeded in turning the Roman people against Brutus and the other assassins 
This Welsh poets’s “Fern Hill” says, “Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs… and happy as the grass was green”
Dylan Thomas
Category: American Plays
THIS DRAMA IS SET AT A SUMMER HOME IN AUGUST 1912; ACT 1 TAKES PLACE AT 8:30 A.M.; ACT 4 IS 15 1/2 HOURS LATER, AT MIDNIGHT
Long Day’s Journey into Night
By. Eugene O’Neill
Long Day’s Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O’Neill in 1939–1941 and first published posthumously in 1956.
The youngest of Alcott’s March sisters
Amy
Meg, the oldest, beautiful and rather vain, but sweet; Jo the main focus of the books, a spirited tomboy; Beth, a sickly, gentle musician who dies in the first novel; and Amy, pampered and artistic 
A friend of Shakespeare, this “Song: to Celia“ poet and playwright was buried standing up in Westminster Abbey 
Ben Jonson
The biography “Two Lives”, about Gertrude Stein and this partner investigates how they survived Nazi Europe
Alice B. Tolkas
She wrote “The Hunger Games” and also co-wrote the screenplay for the movie based on it
Suzanne Collins
He wrote “A Confederacy of Dunces”
John Kennedy Toole
Irishman Yeats wrote a poem entitled this holiday “1916”
Easter
It commemorates the martyrs of the Easter Rising, an insurrection against the British government in Ireland in 1916, which resulted in the execution of several Irish nationalists whom Yeats knew personally.
In a classic of American fiction, these 2 boys get a $6,000 reward each after finding money that Injun Joe hid in a cave
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
20th century, British-American writer and critic whose works include collections “The Double Man“ and “The Dyer’s Hand“. He is best known for his poetry, which was influenced by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War and Christianity
W.H. Auden
Born: February 21, 1907, York, United Kingdom
The Spanish Civil War was fought in the late 1930s in Spain. 
Having spent most of the first 40 years of her life in China, this author was the first American woman to win both a Pulitzer Prize and a Nobel Prize
Pearl S. Buck
Winston Groom’s novel about a not so smart guy became this Oscar winning 1994 film
Forrest Gump
Who wrote the 1922 novel Babbitt?
Sinclair Lewis
The title character, an American real estate agent in a small city, is portrayed as a crass, loud, over optimistic boor who only thinks about money and speaks in cliché such as “you’ve gotta have pep, by golly!“
By extension a “Babbit” is a narrow minded, materialistic businessman 
A twentieth-century African American author. His writings, mostly about the black experience in the United States, include NOVELS, such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, and ESSAYS, such as “The Fire Next Time.”
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes, an intelligent teenager in 1930s Harlem, and his relationship with his family and his church.
On holiday in Jamaica, this Terry McMillan title heroine goes gaga over a much younger man
Stella
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Published 1996. Movie in 1998.
Category: B F Q
A standard American reference work for quotations from literature and speech
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Originally published in 1855 by John Bartlett 
An English author and artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. An early leader of romanticism, he is best known for his collections of poems. “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”.
William Blake
Blake illustrated printed and distributed all of his books himself 
The first stanza of the poem “The Tiger,“ from Songs of Experience , by William Blake reads:
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry
An eighteenth century Scottish author, best known for his “Life of Samuel Johnson”
James Boswell
Boswell became a general term for a biographer: “James Joyce found his Boswell in Richard Ellmann”
19th century English poet, best known for Sonnets from the Portuguese. The most famous of these sonnets begins “how do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wife of Robert Browning 
Robert Brownings many poems include “the Pied Piper of Hamelin“ and “My Last Duchess“
The central character in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Leatherstocking Tales , such as “The Last of the Mohicans”, where he is called Hawkeye.
Natty Bumppo
Natty, a settler, is taught by the native Americans and adopts their way of life 
“The Last of the Mohicans” (1826)- the leading character is Uncas, a noble native American, who helps a British family of settlers during the French and Indian war 
Which 18th century poet recorded the words to “Auld Lang Syne” (the words had been passed down orally)
Robert Burns
Auld Lang Syne is a traditional Scottish song, customarily sung on New Year’s Eve; the title means “Long Time Past.” The song begins:
Should auld (old) acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to min’?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?
American writer of “hard-boiled” crime drama and political activist best known for The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man and Red Harvest.
Dashiell Hammett
New York Times bestselling author of thrillers including The Good Girl, The Other Mrs., Local Woman Missing and Just the Nicest Couple
Mary Kubica
19th century English poet who was a leader of romanticism and whose best known work is Don Juan, a long poem of satire
Lord George Gordon Byron
A Byronic hero is a kind of hero found in several of the works of Lord Byron. Like Byron, a Byronic hero is a melancholy and rebellious young man, distressed by a terrible wrong he committed in the past
Joseph Conrad: “Lord _____”
Jim
Pen name of Charles Ludwig Dawson,
Lewis Carroll
a 19th century, writer, scholar, and photographer best known for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Through the Looking Glass (1872) is the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In it, Alice passes through a mirror over a fireplace and finds herself once more in an enchanted land, where she meets Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty and other amazing creatures.
20th century American writer known for his hard-boiled mysteries featuring private detective Philip Marlowe, whose adventures chronicle the seamy underside of Southern California
Raymond Chandler
Many of his works, including The Big Sleep and Farewell, My lovely have been adapted into films
Who wrote the 1797 evocative poem “Kubla Khan” about an exotic emperor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It begins with “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/ A stately pleasure-dome decree…”
Coleridge was a leader of Romanticism. He also wrote the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
“Come live with me and be my love” is the opening line of “The Passionate Shepard to His Love” by this English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era
Christopher Marlowe
Shakespeare:
The youngest of King Lear’s three daughters
Cordelia
King Lear at first thinks her ungrateful to him because she refuses to flatter him as her sisters do; he soon finds out that she is the only one of the three who genuinely cares for him
King Lear is a tragedy about an old king who unwisely hands his kingdom over to two of his daughters. The daughters, who had flattered him while he was in power, turn on him; their actions reduce him to poverty and eventually to madness. Cordelia remains faithful to him 
Who wrote the poem, “There is no Frigate like a Book”
Emily Dickinson
She was a nineteenth century poet know. For short evocative poems. Some of her other best known poems begin “Because I could not stop for Death/ He kindly stopped me” and “I’m nobody! Who are you?”
Author of memoir “Out of Africa” about the time from 1914 to 1931 that she lived on a coffee plantation in what is now Kenya
Isak Dinesen
Nom de plume of Danish writer Baroness Karen Blixen. The book was the basis for the 1985 movie of the same name
“death, be not proud”, “no man is an island”, and “for whom the bell tolls” are expressions drawn from this 17th century English poet and clergyman
John Donne
Was famous for his intricate metaphors, as in the poem he compares two lovers to the two legs of a drawing compass
Wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
A 19th century Scottish author. He spent the last few years of his life as a planter and storyteller on Samoa in the south Pacific Ocean. His other works include Treasure Island, and a Child’ Garden of Verses. 
A 20th century American author best known for the three novels that make up U.S.A., a complex and technically innovative portrait of the United States, in which the country itself acts as a protagonist.
John Dos Passos
In this epic poem about leaving heaven, John Milton created Pandemonium, the capital of Hell
Paradise Lost
Author of the popular 1751 poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”. It contains the lines “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen/ and waste its sweetness on the desert air,” and “the paths of glory lead but to the grave”
Thomas Gray
Another line is and “far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife/ Their sober wishes never learned to stray,”
she received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, becoming the first Black female writer in history to be honored with the prize.
Toni Morrison
Who wrote the 1927 novel Elmer Gantry?
Sinclair Lewis
The title characters is successful preacher in the Midwest. Lewis stresses the importance of insincerity and clever publicity in the rise of Gantry.
Lewis was a 20th century American author known for using his novels to criticize aspects of American life, such a small town narrowness, insincere preachers, and the discouragement of scientific curiosity. His books include Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and Main Street. Lewis won the Nobel prize for literature in 1930. 
18th century English author known for his novels including “Tom Jones” and “ Joseph Andrews” a parody of the contemporary novel
Henry Fielding
“Get thee to a nunnery” is a line in this Shakespeare play
Hamlet
The advice Hamlet gives to Ophelia when he bids he live a life of celibacy
British historian who wrote the classic English historical literature “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”
Edward Gibbon
He said he conceived of the masterpiece while he was”sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol”
“God’s in his heaven—All’s right with the world” is a line sung by a little Italian girl, Pippa, in the poem “Pippa Passes” by this poet
Robert Browning
18th Century English poet whose many poems include “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and “My Last Duchess”
The first land that Lemuel Gulliver visits in “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift. The inhabitants, though human in form, are only 6 inches tall.
Lilliput.
Something “Lilliputian” is very small. The expression is especially appropriate for a miniature version of some thing.
Gulliver also travels to Brobdingnag (where people are seventy feet tall), and the land of the Houyhnhnms (where horses are the intelligent beings, and the humans, called yahoos, are the mute brutes of labor)
The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic romance novel by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
It tells the story of the Pyncheon family and their ancestral home in Salem, Massachusetts
Hawthorne was a 19th century author known for his novels and short stories that explore themes of sin and guilt
Category: American Playwrights
This author of The Little Foxes was also known for her controversial memoir Pentimento, which included the tale “Julia,” later adapted into a 1977 Oscar-winning film.
Lillian Hellman
Her plays, such as The Children’s Hour and Toys in the Attic often deal with controversial social and psychological themes
“The horror! The horror!” Is spoken by this dying adventurer in Heart of Darkness (1902)
Kurtz
Short novel by Joseph Conrad. It concerns a seafarer, Marlow, who is sent to the interior of Africa in search of a mad adventurer named Kurtz.
Francis Ford Coppola based his 1979 film Apocalypse Now on a version of Conrad’s story set in the Vietnam War.
Author of the novel Their Eyes were watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. A member of the Harlem Renaissance also known for her collection of African-American lore, Mules and Men
“If music be the food of love, play on” is the first line in what play
Twelfth Night
The speaker is asking for music because he is frustrated in courtship; he wants an over abundance of love so that he may lose his appetite for it
In the nursery rhyme, what could Jack Sprat not eat
Fat
Jack Sprat could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean
And so betwixt them both
They licked the plate clean
Long before the Queen of Hearts, the command “Off with his head!” was cried by what Shakespeare king?
Richard III
Before it was a feature-length ad for Huey Lewis, “American Psycho” was a polarizing novel by what three-named dude?
Bret Easton Ellis
An American author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for his novels, such as “The Turn of the Screw” and “Portrait of a Lady”
Henry James
The philosopher and psychologist William James was Henry James‘s brother 
“To justify the ways of God to men” is the declared aim of this poem
Paradise Lost
John Milton- the poem’s subject is the fall of man; it also tells the stories of rebellion and punishment of Satan and the creation of Adam and Eve.
John Milton dictated Paradise Lost after he went blind
“Lean and hungry look” is a phrase from what Shakespeare play?
Julius Caesar
Caesar remarks, concerning one of the men conspiring against him, “Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.” Caesar means that Cassius looks dangerously dissatisfied, as if he were starved for power 
If you’re looking for Mr. Robin Goodfellow, ask for this Shakespearean character
Puck
Author of non-fiction books “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “The Lost City of Z”
David Grann
“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” is the title and first line, known as the African-American National Anthem was written by brothers, including this author also known for his novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
James Weldon Johnson
He was a writer, diplomat and civil rights leader of the early 20th century. He encouraged writers of the Harlem Renaissance. 
In a nursery rhyme, who puts his thumb in a Christmas pie and pulls out a plum?
Little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie:
He put in his thumb,
and pulled out a plum,
And said, “what a good boy am I!“
19th century poet who’s works include “The Song of Hiawatha” and “Paul Revere’s Ride”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The Song of Hiawatha” was an epic based on the story of an actual Native American hero. The historical Hiawatha was in Onondaga from what is now in New York State, but Longfellow makes him an Ojibwa, living near Lake superior. 
“Paul Revere’s Ride” begins with the lines:
Listen, my children, and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
What is the first line of the poem ‘Daffodils’ by William Wordsworth?
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Who is Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello?
The treacherous villain who lies to Othello and drives him to murder
What warning does Julius Caesar receive in the play Julius Caesar?
Beware the Ides of March
What is the first line of the play Twelfth Night?
“If music be the food of love, play on”
Twelfth Night is a comedy by William Shakespeare. The two central characters are twin brother and sister; each thinks that the other has been lost at sea. The sister disguise herself as a boy and goes to serve the Duke of the country, a bitter man disappointed in love. The brother reappeared and marries the woman who the Duke has been pursuing, and the sister marries the Duke.
What is the theme of the poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ by John McCrae?
Describes the scene of some of the worst fighting of World War I
What does ‘Invictus’ mean in Latin?
Unconquered
What novel did Ralph Ellison publish in 1952?
Invisible Man
Which two works are best known by Washington Irving?
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Rip Van Winkle
What is the famous line from A Tale of Two Cities about sacrifice?
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done
What does the opening line ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’ refer to?
The time of the French Revolution
A character from Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1775 play The Rivals, her name is synonymous with humorous misuse of words.
Who is Mrs. Malaprop?
Context: Mrs. Malaprop is known for her comedic misuse of words that sound similar to the correct ones but have completely different meanings, a linguistic error now called a “malapropism.” For example, she once said “He is the very pineapple of politeness,” instead of “He is the very pinnacle of politeness.” The character’s name itself derives from the French mal à propos, meaning “inappropriate.” Her humorous speech exemplifies the wit and satire of the play.
Fill in the blank on the nursery rhyme:
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With __ __, and _____,
And pretty maids all in a row
Silver bells, cockleshells
“Three Guineas” is a book-length 1938 essay about pacifism by what acclaimed author of “Jacob’s Room”?
Virginia Woolf
Who wrote the essay often called a masterpiece of irony: “A Modest Proposal“ (1729)
Jonathan Swift
Swift emphasizes the terrible poverty of 18th century Ireland, by ironically proposing that Irish parents earn money by selling their children as food
Swift was an 18th century Irish author also known for “Gulliver’s Travels”
The 20th century American author known for his witty poems, many of them published in the New Yorker. They are marked by outrageous rhymes, such as those in “The Baby” (a bit of talcum/is always walcum) or in “Reflections on Ice-Breaking” (candy/is dandy/but liquor/is quicker)
Ogden Nash
Shakespeare play which includes the line: neither a borrower or lender be
Hamlet
Polonius, a garrulous old man, gives this advice to his son
The 1865 poem “Oh Captain, My Captain,” was written by:
Walt Whitman
The poem is about a captain, who dies just as his ship has reached the end of a stormy and dangerous. The captain represents Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated just as the Civil War was ending.
Classic character who described himself as “one that loved not wisely but too well“
Othello by William Shakespeare
This was the description of himself after he has murdered his wife in a jealous rage
Othello was a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character, A Moor, or dark-skinned Muslim, is a general commanding the forces of Venice. The villain Iago convinces Othello that Desdemona, the General‘s beautiful and faithful wife, has been guilty of adultery; at the end of the play, Othello smothers Desdemona
Author of the play Peter Pan (1904)
James Matthew Barrie
The Pilgrim’s Progress was a religious allegory by this 17th century English author
John Bunyan
Christian, the central character, journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Along the way, he faces many obstacles, including the Slough of Despond. He’s eventually successful in his journey, and is allowed into heaven.
The best known poems of this 18th century English poet are “The Rape of the Lock,” “An Essay on Criticism,” and “ An Essay on Man”
Alexander Pope
He was known for his satiric wit and insistence on the value of classicism in literature: balance, symmetry, and restraint
The line “There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow” is from this play
Hamlet
The line suggests that a divine power takes a benevolent interest in human affairs
A tragedy by William Shakespeare. The king of Denmark has been murdered by his brother, Claudius, who then becomes king and marries the dead king‘s widow. The ghost of the dead king visits his son, Prince Hamlet, and urges him to avenge the murder. In the course of the play , Hamlet, a scholar, slowly convinces himself that he must murder Claudius. The play ends with a duel between Hamlet and the courtier Laertes, and the death by poison all the principal characters.
Author of the 1895 book The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
The novel is about a young man whose romantic notions of heroism in combat are shattered when he fights in the Civil War
Author of Robison Crusoe (1719)
Daniel Defoe
Crusoe an English sailor, is shipwrecked and cast ashore alone on an uninhabited island. With great ingenuity and energy, Crusoe set out to civilize his surroundings: he clothes himself, grows crops, and builds and furnishes a house. Eventually, he has the company of his servant, Friday, a man he has saved from cannibals. Crusoe is finally rescued after spending 28 years on the island.
Scottish author of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who wrote his historical novels such as Ivanhoe and Waverley, and poems including “Lady of the Lake”
Sir Walter Scott
1939 story by James Thurber about a henpecked husband with extravagant daydreams: he imagined himself as a hero pilot in wartime, world-famous surgeon, and a soldier who can face a firing squad without fear
“ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
An ordinary person who dreams of a romantic life may be called a “Walter Mitty”
James Thurber was a 20th century American author and cartoonist. His humorous drawings, short stories, and essays, poke gentle fun at the lives and folly of men and women.
A 19th century English poet, whose poems include “To a Skylark”, “Ode to the West Wind” and “Ozymandias”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (BISH)
He was one of the leaders of romanticism. Like John Keats, he died at an early age.
His second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wrote Frankenstein
Name of the merciless money lender in The Merchant of Venice
Shylock
He demands a pound of flesh from the title character of the play after the merchant defaults on his debt.
Shylock is a Jew, and there has been controversy over whether Shakespeare’s portrayal of Shylock contributes to the prejudice against Jews. Shylock is a cruel miser, and eventually he’s heavily fined and disgraced, but he maintains his dignity. At one point in the play, he makes a famous, eloquent, assertion that his desire for revenge is the same desire that a Christian would feel in his place . “I am a Jew,” says Shylock. “Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?“
“Ford County”, his first collection of short stories, is set in Ford County, Mississippi, like his novel “A Time to Kill”
Grisham
The playwright of A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
The 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning play is about the decline and tragic end of Blanche Dubois, a southern Bell, who, as she puts it, has “always depended on the kindness of strangers.“
Williams is famous for his plays which portray violent passions of ordinary people. His plays also include “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof“ and “The Glass Menagerie“
The musical Kiss Me, Kate, by Cole Porter, is based on this Shakespeare play
The Taming of the Shrew
In this Shakespeare comedy, the “shrew“ is Katharina, or Kate, a wildly moody woman. She meets her match in the spirited Petruchio, who marries her and behaves even more wildly than she, meanwhile treating her as if she were a kind and gentle lady. By the end of the play, she has been reformed, and she makes a memorable speech urging wives to submit to their husbands .
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever” is the first line of the poem “Endymion” by this poet
John Keats
Endymion, figure from Greek mythology, was a mortal granted eternal youth by Zeus, at the request of the moon goddess, Selene, who loved him for his beauty. It is also the name of one of New Orleans Carnival’s largest parades and super krewe
“There is a tide in the affairs of men” is a line from this play
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Brutus is urging his comrades to seize a fleeting opportunity in an armed conflict: “there is a tide in the affairs of men /which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”
The name of the 1932 novel by the American author Erskine Caldwell about a family of sharecroppers from Georgia and their many tragedies
Tobacco Road
A nine letter word for one who attends a film, or the title of a 1961 prize winning novel by Walker Percy
Moviegoer
Valentine and Proteus are the title characters in this play, first published in 1623
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Shakespeare opening lines:
Completes the opening sentence “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of…”
York
Richard the III (1592)
Rereading it nearly two decades after he wrote it, which novel did William Golding denounce as “boring and crude”?
Lord of the Flies
Poet of the 1913 poem “Trees”. It includes the lines: “I think that I shall never see / A poem as lovely as a tree.”
Joyce Kilmer
Name the novel:
19th century novel. The main character is Becky Sharp, an unscrupulous woman who gains wealth and influence by her cleverness
Vanity Fair
By English author William Makepeace Thackeray
20th century American writer known for such collections as The Golden Apples and her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Optimist Daughter
Eudora Welty
Her works are known for their depiction of the people and life of the rural south. She lived in Mississippi.
Promiscuous Mara is one of the many fascinating women in “Sexus”, by this author who wrote two famous books about the tropics
Henry Miller
Author known for her subtle set tires of New York City society, such as “The House of Mirth” and “The Age of Innocence”
Edith Wharton
She is an American author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Author of the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray“
Oscar Wilde
Wilde was an Irish born author of the late 19th century, who spent most of his career in England. He was famous for his flamboyant wit and style of dress. His best known works also include the play “The Importance of Being Ernest“. He urged art for art’s sake.
Wilde was convicted of homosexual activity and spent two years in prison. The poem “The Ballad of the Reading Gaol“ (jail) is based on his experiences there.
On February 27, 1812, this poet addressed the House of Lords for the first time, speaking on the Luddite rioting
Lord Byron
The sonnet, “The World Is Too Much with Us” in which the poet complains that people are too attached to the trivial things of the world, and not sufficiently aware of nature as a whole is by this poet
William Wordsworth
He was a 19th century, English poet, and one of the leading figures of romanticism.
This author’s “The Man in the High Castle” was adapted for television by Amazon Prime
Philip K Dick
Regarded by many as the greatest modern poet in English, some of his best known poems are “Sailing to Byzantium, “ “The Second Coming,” and “Among School Children.”
William Butler Yeats
An Irish poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
