Works and Authors Flashcards
Beowulf
Unknown author. Epic poem.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Unknown author. Narrative poem.
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer. A collection of 24 stories.
Le Morte d’Arthur
Sir Thomas Mallory. Prose (rework).
The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser. Epic poem.
Like as a Huntsman
Edmund Spenser. Sonnet.
On Monsieur’s Departure
Queen Elizabeth I. Poem.
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Queen Elizabeth I. Speech.
A Farewell to Arms
Sir George Peele. Lyric poem.
Sonnet 15/You that do Search
Sir Phillip Sidney. Sonnet.
Sonnet 19/On Cupid’s Bow
Sir Phillip Sidney. Sonnet.
Sonnet VI/Delia
Samuel Daniel. Petrarchan sonnet.
Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare. Sonnet.
Sonnet 64
William Shakespeare. Sonnet.
Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare. Sonnet.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare. Play, comedy.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare. Play, tragedy.
Henry V
William Shakespeare. History play.
On the Life of Man
Sir Walter Raleigh. Poem.
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe. Play, tragedy.
Orchestra, or a Poem on Dancing
Sir John Davies. Poem.
To Penshurst
Ben Jonson. Poem.
The Sunne Rising
John Donne. Poem.
The Flea
John Donne. Poem.
Meditation XVII
John Donne. Poem (two-paragraph meditation).
To the Ladies
Lady Mary Chudleigh. Poem.
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe. Novel.
The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope. Mock-epic poem.
The Furniture of a Woman’s Mind
Jonathan Swift. Poem.
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
William Blake. A collection of illustrated poems.
The Little Black Boy
William Blake. Poem.
Holy Thursday
William Blake. Poem.
The Chimney Sweeper
William Blake. Poem.
The Garden of Love
William Blake. Poem.
London
William Blake. Poem.
The Human Abstract
William Blake. Poem.
A Poison Tree
William Blake. Poem.
The Sick Rose
William Blake. Poem.
The Tyger
William Blake. Poem.
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave Related by Herself
Mary Prince. Life narrative.
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole. 1st gothic novel.
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen. Novel (satire of gothic).
Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth. Poem.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth. Poem.
Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Collection of poems.
Grasmere Journals
Dorothy Wordsworth. Biography.
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poem.
Ozymandias
Percy Shelley. Sonnet (Petrarchan, Shakespearean).
On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year
Lord Byron. Poem.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats. Poem.
Bright Star
John Keats. Shakespearean sonnet.
When I Have Fears
John Keats. Shakespearean sonnet.
Hard Times
Charles Dickens. Novel.
The Cry of the Children
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Poem.
Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Poem.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred Lord Tennyson. Narrative poem.
Ulysses
Alfred Lord Tennyson. Poem.
Mariana
Alfred Lord Tennyson. Poem.
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold. Poem.
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Robert Browning. Poem, dramatic monologue.
The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church
Robert Browning. Poem, dramatic monologue.
Recessional
Rudyard Kipling. Poem.
The Widow at Windsor
Rudyard Kipling. Poem.
Mrs Warren’s Profession
George Bernard Shaw. Problem play.
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw. Play.
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Short story.
Anecdote of a Jar
Wallace Stevens. Poem.
Bantams in Pinewoods
Wallace Stevens. Poem.
Snake
D. H. Lawrence. Poem.
Araby
James Joyce. Short story.
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Ernest Hemingway. Short story.
The Crucible
Arthur Miller. Play.
Half-Hanged Mary
Margaret Atwood. Poem.
Resurrecting the Dolls’ House
Margaret Atwood. Poem.
Heart
Margaret Atwood. Poem.
War Photo 1 & War Photo 2
Margaret Atwood. Poems.
Gateway
Margaret Atwood. Poem.
Design
Robert Frost. Petrarchan sonnet.
Desert Places
Robert Frost. Poem.
Mending Wall
Robert Frost. Poem.
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Adrienne Rich. Poem.
Diving into the Wreck
Adrienne Rich. Poem.
Metaphors
Sylvia Plath. Poem.
Suzanne
Leonard Cohen. Poem.
Signs and Symbols
Vladimir Nabokov. Short story.
The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter. Play.
Old Times
Harold Pinter. Play.
The Demon Lover
Elizabeth Bowen. Short story.
What’s that Smell in the Kitchen
Marge Piercy. Poem.
A Work of Artifice
Marge Piercy. Poem.
Stage to Lordsburg
Ernst Haycox. Short story.
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson. Short story.
Do Not Go Gentle
Dylan Thomas. Poem (villanelle).
Villanelle for our Time.
F. R. Scott. Poem (villanelle).
One Art
Elizabeth Bishop. Poem (villanelle).