People And Their Works Flashcards
(101 cards)
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Aeschylus
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Oresteia, Agamemnon, Chophori, Eumenides
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Aristophanes
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Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds
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Aristotle
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The Poetics
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Euripides
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The Trojan Women, Helen, The Bacchae
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Homer
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Odyssey, Iliad
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Ovid
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Metamorphosis, Loves Remedy
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Plato
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Republic, Apology, Symposium
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Sappho
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Early Greek poetry
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Sophocles
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Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Electra
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Virgil
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The Aeneid
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Dante Alighieri 1265-1321
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Divine comedy, The Inferno, Purgatorio, Paridiso
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Francis Bacon 1561-1626
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Essays, The New Atlantis
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Giovanni Boccaccio 1313-1375
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The Decameron
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Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400
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The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavrdra 1547-1616
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Don Quixote
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Ben Johnson 1573-1637
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Every Man in His Humor
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Nicolo Machiavelli 1469-1527
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The Prince, La Madrigola
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Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593
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The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus, Edward the Second
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John Milton 1608 -1674
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Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
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Francesco Petriarch 1304-1374
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The Canzoniere
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François Rabelais 1494-1553
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Gargantua, Pantagruel
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William Shakespeare 1564-1616
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Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, 12 night, Richard III, Julius Caesar, much ado about nothing, sonnets
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Edmund Spencer 1552-1599
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The Faerie Queen, Amoretti
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John Dryden 1631-1700
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Alexander’s Feast, Heroic Stanzas
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Moliere(Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) 1622-1673
Don Juan, Tartuffe, The Misanthrope
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Jean Racine 1639-1699
Andromaque, Bernice and Phaedre
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Joseph Addison 1672-1719
The Tattler, The Spectator, Cato
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William Blake 1757-1827
Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
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Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
Poor Richard's Almanac, Observations on the Increase of Mankind
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Alexander Pope 1688-1744
The Dunciad, the Rape of the Lock
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778
Social Contract, the New Heloise
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Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
Gulliver's Travels, Tale of a Tub
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Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) 1694-1778
Candide, Zadig
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Jane Austen 1775-1817 principally known for novels of manners and middle-class English society
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice
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Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867 French symbolist poet
Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal)
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Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855 Victorian novelist, sister to Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre
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Emily Brontë 1816-1848 Victorian novelist
Wuthering Heights
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 English poet, married to Robert Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh
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Robert Browning 1812-1889 English poet, married to Elizabeth Browning
Bells and Pomegranates
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George Gordon Byron better known as Lord Byron 1788-1824 major figure in romantic movement, and inspiration for the Byronic hero
Don Juan, classic poetry
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 foremost literary critic of the romantic period
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Joseph Conrad 1857-1924 Ukrainian born of Polish parents, major English post-colonist novelist
Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim
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Charles Dickens 1812-1870 English novelist
Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
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Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 American poet
Because I could not stop for death
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821-1881 Russian novelist
Crime and Punishment, Notes from the Underground
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George Eliot 1819 1880 English author
Mill on the Floss
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Gustave Flaubert 1821 1880 French novelist
Madame Bovary
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Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 American transcendentalist
The Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables
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Henrik Ibsen 1828-1906 Norwegian playwright and forerunner of the Expressionist movement
A Doll's House
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Franz Kafka 1883- 1924 major existentialist novelists
The Metamorphosis, The Castle
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John Keats 1795-1821 most versatile of the Romantics
Hyperion, On a Grecian Urn
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D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930 English novelist
Lady Chatterley's Lover, the Rainbow
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Herman Melville 1819-1891 American transcendentalist
Moby Dick, Billy Budd
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Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror
Fall of the House of Usher, the Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven
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Christina Rossetti 1830-1894 English poet
Goblin Market
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Mary Shelley 1797-1851 romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work, sister of Percy Shelley
Frankenstein, The Last Man
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Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 romantic poet who mastered metaphor and metrical form, brother to Mary Shelley
Adonais
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Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811- 1896 American novelist, wrote the most important novel of the abolitionist movement
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Henry David Thoreau 1818-1848 American transcendentalist and social theorist
Walden
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828-1910 major Russian novelist
War and Peace, Anna Karenina
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Mark Twain better known as Samuel Clemmens 1835-1910 American novelist, essayist, and satirist
Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer
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Walt Whitman 1819 1892 American poet
Leaves of Grass
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Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 English novelist, deamatist, and social critic
The Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray
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William Wordsworth 1770-1850 Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical poetry in much of this nature poetry
The Prelude, Lyrical Ballads
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James Baldwin 1924-1987 American poet and novelist
The Fire Next Time
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Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 Irish born French playwright and novelist; themes include existentialism and absurdity
Waiting for Godot, Happy Days
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Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1979 American poet
Collected Works
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E.E. Cummings 1894-1962 known for nontraditional forms of poetry
Tulips and Chimneys
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T.S. Eliot 1888-1965 Christian poet and theorist
The Waste Land
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William Faulkner 1897-1962 major author of the American South
The Sound and the Fury, Absalom! Absalom!
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Robert Frost 1874-1963 major American poet
Birches, the Road Not Taken
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Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997 American beat poet
Howl
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Nadine Godimer 1923-South African novelist
A Sport of Nature
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Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 known for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters
The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms
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Langston Hughes 1902-1967 Harlem Renaissance poet
Collected Works
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Zora Neale Hurston 1901-1960 American novelist and folklorist
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tell my Horse
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James Joyce 1882-1941 premier modernist novelist of Ireland, pioneered stream of conscious and nonlinear narratives
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
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Jack Kerouac 1922- 1969 American beat poet and novelist
On the Road, Dharma Bums
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Harper Lee 1926-American writer
To Kill a Mockingbird. His only novel
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Sinclair Lewis 1885-1951 American novelists and social critic
Babbitt, Elmer Gantry
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Arthur Miller 1915-2005 American playwright
Death of the Salesman, the Crucible
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Henry Miller 1891-1980 controversial American novelist
The Tropic of Cancer, The Tropic of Capricorn
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Tony Morrison 1931-American novelist
The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved
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Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977 Russian novelist
Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading
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V.S. Naipaul 1932-post colonialist novelist, born in Trinidad of Indian parents, raised in England
Enigma of Arrival, House for Mr. Biswas
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Eugene O'Neill 1888-1953 major American dramatist
Anna Christie, the Hairy Ape
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Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 American poet and novelist
Ariel, The Bell Jar
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Ezra Pound 1885-1972 American Poet
The Cantos
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Thomas Pynchon 1937-reclusive American novelist
Vineland, Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49
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Adrienne Rich 1929-American poet
Aunt Jennifers Tigers
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Salman Rushdie 1947-known for death sentence placed upon hum by Ayatollah Khomeni because Khomeini believe Rushdie's subject matter to be blasphemous
The Satanic Verses, Shame
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JD Salinger 1919-2010 reclusive American writer
Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey
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George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 Irish born British author and playwright
Arms and the Man, Saint Joan
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Upton Sinclair 1878-1968 American novelist and social critic, characterized as a muckraker
The Jungle
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Aleksander Isayevitch Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008 major Russian novelist and social critic
The Gulag Archipelago
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Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 American modernist author
3 Lives
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John Steinbeck 1902-1968 American novelist whose major theme was the life of the American worker
Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row
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Alice Walker 1944-American novelist
The Color Purple, Possessing the Secrets of Joy
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Tennessee Williams 1911-1983 American playwright
A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie
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Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 Modernist novelist and early feminist
A Room of One's Own, To the Lighthouse
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William Butler Yates 1865-1939 Irish poet and dramatist
The Wind Among the Reeds, The Winding Stair
