Works and Authors Flashcards

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Beowulf

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Unknown author. Epic poem.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Unknown author. Narrative poem.

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The Canterbury Tales

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Geoffrey Chaucer. A collection of 24 stories.

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Le Morte d’Arthur

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Sir Thomas Mallory. Prose (rework).

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5
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The Faerie Queene

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Edmund Spenser. Epic poem.

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Like as a Huntsman

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Edmund Spenser. Sonnet.

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On Monsieur’s Departure

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Queen Elizabeth I. Poem.

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Speech to the Troops at Tilbury

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Queen Elizabeth I. Speech.

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A Farewell to Arms

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Sir George Peele. Lyric poem.

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Sonnet 15/You that do Search

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Sir Phillip Sidney. Sonnet.

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Sonnet 19/On Cupid’s Bow

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Sir Phillip Sidney. Sonnet.

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12
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Sonnet VI/Delia

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Samuel Daniel. Petrarchan sonnet.

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Sonnet 29

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William Shakespeare. Sonnet.

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14
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Sonnet 64

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William Shakespeare. Sonnet.

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15
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Sonnet 130

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William Shakespeare. Sonnet.

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16
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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William Shakespeare. Play, comedy.

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17
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Hamlet

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William Shakespeare. Play, tragedy.

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18
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Henry V

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William Shakespeare. History play.

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19
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On the Life of Man

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Sir Walter Raleigh. Poem.

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20
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Doctor Faustus

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Christopher Marlowe. Play, tragedy.

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21
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Orchestra, or a Poem on Dancing

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Sir John Davies. Poem.

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22
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To Penshurst

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Ben Jonson. Poem.

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23
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The Sunne Rising

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John Donne. Poem.

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24
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The Flea

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John Donne. Poem.

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25
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Meditation XVII

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John Donne. Poem (two-paragraph meditation).

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26
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To the Ladies

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Lady Mary Chudleigh. Poem.

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27
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Robinson Crusoe

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Daniel Defoe. Novel.

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28
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The Rape of the Lock

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Alexander Pope. Mock-epic poem.

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29
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The Furniture of a Woman’s Mind

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Jonathan Swift. Poem.

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30
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Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

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William Blake. A collection of illustrated poems.

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31
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The Little Black Boy

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William Blake. Poem.

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32
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Holy Thursday

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William Blake. Poem.

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33
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The Chimney Sweeper

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William Blake. Poem.

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34
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The Garden of Love

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William Blake. Poem.

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35
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London

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William Blake. Poem.

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36
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The Human Abstract

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William Blake. Poem.

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37
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A Poison Tree

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William Blake. Poem.

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38
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The Sick Rose

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William Blake. Poem.

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39
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The Tyger

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William Blake. Poem.

40
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself

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Mary Prince. Life narrative.

41
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The Castle of Otranto

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Horace Walpole. 1st gothic novel.

42
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Northanger Abbey

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Jane Austen. Novel (satire of gothic).

43
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Tintern Abbey

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William Wordsworth. Poem.

44
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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William Wordsworth. Poem.

45
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Lyrical Ballads

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William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Collection of poems.

46
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Grasmere Journals

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Dorothy Wordsworth. Biography.

47
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Kubla Khan

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poem.

48
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Ozymandias

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Percy Shelley. Sonnet (Petrarchan, Shakespearean).

49
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On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year

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Lord Byron. Poem.

50
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Ode on a Grecian Urn

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John Keats. Poem.

51
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Bright Star

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John Keats. Shakespearean sonnet.

52
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When I Have Fears

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John Keats. Shakespearean sonnet.

53
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Hard Times

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Charles Dickens. Novel.

54
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The Cry of the Children

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Poem.

55
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Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Poem.

56
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The Charge of the Light Brigade

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Alfred Lord Tennyson. Narrative poem.

57
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Ulysses

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Alfred Lord Tennyson. Poem.

58
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Mariana

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Alfred Lord Tennyson. Poem.

59
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Dover Beach

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Matthew Arnold. Poem.

60
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Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

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Robert Browning. Poem, dramatic monologue.

61
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The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church

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Robert Browning. Poem, dramatic monologue.

62
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Recessional

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Rudyard Kipling. Poem.

63
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The Widow at Windsor

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Rudyard Kipling. Poem.

64
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Mrs Warren’s Profession

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George Bernard Shaw. Problem play.

65
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Pygmalion

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George Bernard Shaw. Play.

66
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The Yellow Wallpaper

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Short story.

67
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Anecdote of a Jar

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Wallace Stevens. Poem.

68
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Bantams in Pinewoods

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Wallace Stevens. Poem.

69
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Snake

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D. H. Lawrence. Poem.

70
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Araby

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James Joyce. Short story.

71
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A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

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Ernest Hemingway. Short story.

72
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The Crucible

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Arthur Miller. Play.

73
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Half-Hanged Mary

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Margaret Atwood. Poem.

74
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Resurrecting the Dolls’ House

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Margaret Atwood. Poem.

75
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Heart

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Margaret Atwood. Poem.

76
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War Photo 1 & War Photo 2

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Margaret Atwood. Poems.

77
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Gateway

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Margaret Atwood. Poem.

78
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Design

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Robert Frost. Petrarchan sonnet.

79
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Desert Places

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Robert Frost. Poem.

80
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Mending Wall

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Robert Frost. Poem.

81
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Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

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Adrienne Rich. Poem.

82
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Diving into the Wreck

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Adrienne Rich. Poem.

83
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Metaphors

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Sylvia Plath. Poem.

84
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Suzanne

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Leonard Cohen. Poem.

85
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Signs and Symbols

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Vladimir Nabokov. Short story.

86
Q

The Birthday Party

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Harold Pinter. Play.

87
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Old Times

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Harold Pinter. Play.

88
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The Demon Lover

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Elizabeth Bowen. Short story.

89
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What’s that Smell in the Kitchen

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Marge Piercy. Poem.

90
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A Work of Artifice

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Marge Piercy. Poem.

91
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Stage to Lordsburg

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Ernst Haycox. Short story.

92
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The Lottery

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Shirley Jackson. Short story.

93
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Do Not Go Gentle

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Dylan Thomas. Poem (villanelle).

94
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Villanelle for our Time.

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F. R. Scott. Poem (villanelle).

95
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One Art

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Elizabeth Bishop. Poem (villanelle).