Authors Flashcards
(114 cards)
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Aeschylus
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Prometheus Bound, The Persians, The Oresteia Trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides), The Supplicants, Seven Against Thebes
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Maya Angelou
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (autobiography), On the Pulse of Morning (poem, inauguration)
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Jane Austen
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Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sanditon (unfinished)
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Honore de Balzac
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La Comedie Humaine (The Human Comedy)
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John Berryman
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The Dream Songs
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William Blake
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Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience (The Tyger, The Lamb), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Albion
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Men and Women are equal), Mary Shelley’s Mother
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Ficciones, The Aleph
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Anne Bradstreet
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1600s, American, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
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Anne Bronte
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey
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Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre, Shirley, Biography: The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Emily Bronte
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Wurthering Heights
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Robert Browning
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Men and Women, The Ring and the Book, “My Last Duchess,” “Porphyria’s Lover,”
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Robert Burns
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SCOTTISH POET, “Auld Lang Syne,” “To a Mouse,” “A Man’s A Man for A’ That,” “Ae Fond Kiss,” Scots Wha Hae, (important)” “Tam O’Shanter,” Halloween, “The Battle of Sherramuir”
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Samuel Butler (1600s)
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Hudibras
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Samuel Butler (1800s)
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Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh
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Lord Byron
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Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, “She Walks in Beauty”
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Albert Camus
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The Stranger, The Rebel, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague
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Thomas Carew
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“A Rapture,” Cavalier Poet (Charles I supporter)
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Thomas Carlyle
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Essayist, Sartor Resartus (Fiction qua Philosophy) Called Economics “The Dismal Science,” French Revolution: A History (basis for Tale of Two Cities), Heroes and Hero-Worship
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Thomas Chatterton
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Forged Medieval Poetry under alias Monk Thomas Rowley
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Kate Chopin
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Southern American Short Story Author, The Awakening, “Desiree’s Baby,” “The Story of an Hour,” “The Storm”
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria
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William Congreve
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British late 1600s Playwright, The Way of the World
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William Cowper
British 1700s poet, Olney Hymns (contains "Amazing Grace" by John Newton, cowriter), John Gilpin, The Task
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Hart Crane
1900s American Homosexual poet, The Bridge
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RH Dana Jr.
Lawyer/Memoirist, Two Years Before the Mast
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Dante Alghieri
The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)
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Petrarch
Wrote A Lot of Poems About "Laura"
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Boccaccio
Decameron (Canterbury Tales), On Famous Women
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Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, The Pickwick Papers, Bleak House
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Emily Dickinson
American poet, lived alone, Hyphens, "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
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John Donne
Early 1600s Metaphyscial Poet, "Meditation 17 (For Whom the Bell Tolls), A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Elegies
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John Dos Passos
Manhattan Transfer, USA Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919, Big Money), Communist-->Republican (friend of Hemingway, pissed during Spanish Civil War)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov, Notes From the Underground, The House of the Dead, The Gambler, The Double, Poor Folk
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John Dryden
1600s poet, Heroic Couplet, Alexandrine. Absalom and Achitophel, MacFlecknoe
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WEB Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk, Black Reconstruction in America.
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Richard Wright
Native Son, Black Boy, The Outsider, Uncle Tom's Children
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TS Eliot
The Wasteland, The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, Four Quarters, Murder in the Cathedral.
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George Eliot
Adam Bede, Middlemarch, Silas Marner, Daniel Deronda
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Self Reliance," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," "The Poet," "Experience
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Henry David Thoreau
Walden, "Resistance to Civil Government"
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George Etherege
1600s Dramatist, "The Man of Mode"
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William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying, Light In August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and The Fury, "A Rose for Emily," Snopes Trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion)
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Henry Fielding
1700s novelist, Tom Jones
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EM Forster
Howard's End, A Room with a View, A Passage to India
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Robert Frost
A Boy's Will, North of Boston, "Mending Wall," "Acquainted with the Night," "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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George Gascoigne
1500s poet/translator (Shakespeare influence), A Hundredth Sundry Flowres, A Discourse of the Adventures of Master FJ
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Victorian Class Novels, Gothic Short Stories, Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Wives and Daughters, uses "nesh," Dialect
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Turn of the Century American, "The Yellow Wallpaper," Women and Economics (about being at home=oppression)
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Allen Ginsberg
"Howl"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, The Minister's Black Veil
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Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms, For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
1800s Catholic British Poet, Sprung Rhythm
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William Dean Howells
Turn of the Century American Author, "Christmas Every Day," The Rise of Silas Lapham
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Henrik Ibsen
Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House (biggest), Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder
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Langston Hughes
Black Nativity, "The Weary Blues," Jazz, "Let America Be America Again"
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Henry James
The American, The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady, What Maisie Knew, Daisy Miller, The Ambassadors
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Samuel Johnson
A Dictionary of the English Language, The Rambler, London, The Vanity of Human Wishes
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James Joyce
Dubliners, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake
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John Keats
To Autumn, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on Indolence, Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightgale, Ode to Psyche
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Charles Lamb
Essays of Elia, Tales from Shakespeare (Children's Book), RESPONDED TO WORDSWORTH/COLERIDGE
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Walter Savage Landor
Early 1800s poet/writer, Imaginary Conversations (self-explanatory, about fictional/historical characters conversing)
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William Langland
1300s! poet, Piers Plowman
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Hugh Latimer
1500s poet, got killed by Mary (Oxford martyr), theologian
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DH Lawrence
Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover, "Odour of Chrysanthemums," "The Virgin and the Gypsy"
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TE Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence of Arabia)
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Wyndham Lewis
Early 1900s Brit Painter/Writer, Blasting and Bombardiering (autobiography), Tarr (titular character, Paris)
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Malcolm Lowry
Early 1900s Brit, Under the Volcano
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John Lyly
1500s, Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit
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Christopher Marlowe
"The Passionate Shepard to His Love," Hero and Leander, Edward the Second, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
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Herman Melville
Moby Dick, Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby
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JS Mill
On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, Utilitarianism
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Edna St Vincent Millay
Early 1900s American Poet
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John Milton
Paradise Lost, Areopagtica
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Samuel Pepys
Late 1700s British Guy, For His Diary (Eyewitness account of the Fire of London, Second Dutch War, Great Plague)
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hated by Poe, "Paul Rever's Ride," The Song
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Alexander Pope
"Rape of the Lock," "Essay on Criticism," "Essay on Man," (Both Poems), "Dunciad"
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Ezra Pound
The Cantos, Ripostes Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
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Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time (A la recherche du temps perdu), Swann's Way
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Rainer Maria Rilke
German Turn of the Century Poet, Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, Very Religious
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Arthur Rimbaud
Late 1800s French Poet, Decadent/surrealist
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John Ruskin
Art Critic, "The Stones of Venice,"
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George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Saint Joan, Man and Superman, Heartbreak House
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Anton Chekhov
Late 1900s russian, Uncle Vanya, The Bet
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Ozymandias," "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Skylark," "Music," "When Soft Voices Die," "The Cloud," "The Masque of Anarchy," "Prometheus Unbound," "Alastor," "The Revolt of Islam," "Adonais,"
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Sir Philip Sidney
1500s Poet, "Astrophel and Stella," "The Defense of Poetry," "The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia"
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Sophocles
Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes,
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Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queen
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Charles Algernon Swinburne
Turn of the Century Brit, Poet, Helped Encyclopedia Britannica
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Alfred Tennyson
Victorian British Poet, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "In Memoriam AHH," "Tears, Idle Tears," "Crossing the Bar," "Ulysses," "Tithonus"
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Dylan Thomas
1900s Welsh poet, "Do Not Go Gentle into that good night," "And death shall have no dominion"
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Mark Twain
Duh, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, the Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Pudd'nhead Wilson,
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John Webster
Shakespearean era Dramatist, The White Devil (Italian murder/corrpution with Pope Paul IV), The Duchess of Malfi (Italian, again, the pope, again)
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Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence, the House of Mirth, Ethan Frome,
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Oscar Wilde
Gay Irishman, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salome, De Profundis (prison is bad),
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Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, The Waves, The YEars, Jacob's Room, NIght and Day
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William Wordsworth
The Prelude (autobiographal), Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge), "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden," "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," "We Are Seven," "The Tables Turned," "My Heart Leaps Up," Look for LUCY
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WB Yeats
Irish Poet, "The Tower," Plays, In love with maud Gonne, "The Second Coming"
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Euripedes
Medea
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Aristophanes
The Clouds, Lysistrata, The Knights, The Clouds, The Wasps,
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Ben Jonson
"To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare," Volpone, The Alchemist
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Robert Herrick
Julia Poems, "To The Vrigins, to Make Much of Time"
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Andrew Marvell
"To His Coy Mistress"
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Thomas Gray
"Elegy Written in A Country Church Yard"
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William Langland
Piers Plowman
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Sir Thomas Malory
1400s, Le Morte D'Arthur
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John Bunyan
The Pilgram Progress
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William Wycherley
1600s Dramatist, The Country Wife
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Richard Sheridan
The School For Scandal
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Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
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John Henry, Cardinal Newman
Apologia Pro Vita Sua (switched from Anglican to Catholicism), The Idea of A University (Very Direct, Point-by-Point, about why Liberal Arts Educations)
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Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach, Essayist who hates Philistines and uses the phrase "Sweetness and Light" in "Culture and Anarchy"
