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James Agee
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US non-fic novel. A Death in the Family. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Hans Christian Anderson
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Denmark fairy tales. Ugly Duckling. Tinder Box, Little Mermaid.
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Sherwood Anderson
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US short story, novel. Winesburg. Ohio
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Maya Angelou
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US poetry. I know why the cage bird sing.
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Jane Austen
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romantics/transcendentalists
England novel. principally know for novels sof manners and middle class english society. Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Mansfield Park. Emma. |
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JM Barrie
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England novel. Peter Pan. The Admirable Crichton.
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Ray Bradbury
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US science fiction. The Martian Chronicles
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Bertlot Brecht
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Germany drama. Threepenny Opera. Mother Courage and her children.
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Charlotte Bronte
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romantics/transcendentalists
England novel. victorian novelist. Jane Eyre |
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Emily Bronte
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romantics/transcendentalists
England novel. victorian novelist. Wuthering Heights. |
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Pearl S. Buck
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US novel. The Good Earth.
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George Gordon Byron
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romantics/transcendentalists
England poetry. major figure in romantic movement, and inspiration for the byronic hero. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Don Juan. |
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Lewis Carroll
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England child lit. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland. Through the Looking Glass.
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Willa Cather
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US novel. O Pioneers! Death Comes for the Archbishop.
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Miguel de Cervantes
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middle ages/ renaissance
Spain novel, wrote the 1st modern novel. Don Quixote |
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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middle ages/ renaissance
England poetry. chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle class. Canterbury Tales., troilus and criseyde |
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Anton Chekhov
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Russia short story. Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull. Three sisters.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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US novel. The Last of the Mohicans. The Deerslayer.
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Stephen Crane
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US novel poetry. The Red Badge of Courage, The Black Riders. The Open Boat.
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Daniel Defoe
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English novel. Moll Flander, Robinson Crusoe.
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Dante Alighieri
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middle ages/ renaissance
Italy poetry. considered to have single handedly founded modern european literature; perfecredterza rima or rhyme in threes. The Divine Comedy (the inferno, purgatorio, paridiso). |
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Charles Dickens
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romantics/transcendentalists
England novel. Oliver Twist. David Copperfield. Bleak House. A Tale of Two Cities. Great Expectations. |
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Emily Dickenson
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romantics/transcendentalists
US poetry. A bird came down the walk. Because I could not stop for death. |
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John Dos Passos
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US novel. Manhatten Transfer. USA.
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Alexandre Dumas
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France novel. The Count of Monte Cristo. The Three Muskateers.
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George Eliot
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England novel. Thill on the Floss. Silas Marner. Middlemarch.
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TS Eliot
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romantics/transcendentalists
US England poetry. Christiona poet and theorist. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The Waste Land. Four Quartets. |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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US poetry. Concord Hymn. Brahma. Self-Reliance.
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Euripedes
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antiquity
Greece drama. chiefly responsible for introducing the technique of deus ex machina (The bacchae. Medea. The Trojen Women. |
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William Faulkner.
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romantics/transcendentalists
US novel. major author of the american south. Sartoris. The Sound and the Fury. Absalom Absalom! The Bear. |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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US novel. The great gatsby. Tales of the Jazz age. Tender is the night.
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Gustave Flaubert
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romantics/transcendentalists
France novel. Madame Bovary. L'education sentimentale. |
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EM Forster
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England novel. A room with a view. A passage to India.
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Robert Frost
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romantics/transcendentalists
US poetry. major american poet. Mending Wall. The Road not taken. Stopping by the woods on a s snowy evening. birches |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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romantics/transcendentalists
US novel. american transcendentalist. The scarlet letter. The house of the seven gables, Tanglewood Tales. |
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Ernest Hemmingway
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romantics/transcendentalists
US novel. known for lean prose and ardently masculine themes and characters. The sun also rises. A farewell to arms. The old man and the sea. |
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Herman Hesse
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Germany novel. Siddhartha, Steppenwolf.
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Homor
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Antiquity
Ionia epic. Products of a non-literate culture. 1st works of western literature. The Iliad. The Odyssey |
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JD Salinger
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US novel. The catcher in the rye. Franny and Zooey. A parfect day for bananafish.
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Carl Sandburg
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US poetry. Chicago. Grass.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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France novel. Nausea. Being and Nothingness. No Exit.
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Friedrich von Schiller
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Germany drama. Don Carlos. The maid of orleans. Wilhelm Tell.
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Walter Scott
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Rob Roy. Ivanhoe. Kenilworth.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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romantics/transcendentalists
England poetry. romantic poet who mastered metaphor and metrical form. Ozymandias. To a skylark. Ode to the west wind. |
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Sophocles
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antiquity
Athens drama. Added 3rd speaking character and moved greek drama further from religious commentary to mre basic human interaction. Oedipus at Tyrannus. Oedipus at Colonus. Antigone. Electra. |
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John Steinbeck
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romantics/transcendentalists
US novel. american novelist whose major theme was the life of the american worker. Of Mice and men. The grapes of wrath. Cannery Row. The pearl. |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Scotland novel. The strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. Kidnapped.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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romantics/transcendentalists
US novel. american novelist, wrote the most important novel of the abolitionist movement. Uncle Tom's Cabin. |
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Jonathon Swift
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the enlightenment
England satire. noted for his direct style, clear, sharp prose and critical wit. The tale of a tub. Gulliver's Travels. A modest proposal. |
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Alfred Tennyson
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England poetry. Idylls of the king. Chargeof the light brigade. Crossing the bar.
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William Makepeace Thackery
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England novel. Vanity Fair. The Memoirs of barry lyndon.
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Henry David Thoreau
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romantics/transcendentalists
US essay. american transcendentalisty and social theorist. Civil disobediance. Walden. |
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Leo Tolstoy
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romantics/transcendentalists
Russia novel. War and peace. Anna Karenina. |
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Ivan Turgenev
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Russia novel. Fathers and Sons
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Mark Twain
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romantics/transcendentalists
US novel. essayist, satirist Life on the mississippi. The adventures of tom sawyer. the adventures of huckleberry finn. |
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Jules Verne
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France sci fi. 20,000 leagues under the sea. Around the world in 80 days.
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Virgil
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antiquity
Rome epic. popularized the pastoral poem and the concept of civic virtue. The aeneid. |
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Voltaire (francois-marie arouet)
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neoclassical period
France satire. progressive philosopher and free thinker best known for synthesizing french and english critclal theory. Candide, zadig |
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HG Wells
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England sci fi. The Time Machine. The war of the worlds.
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Edith Wharton
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US novel. Ethan Frome. The age of innocence.
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Walt Whitman
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romantics/transcendentalists
US poetry. Leaves of Grass. O captian!my captain! |
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Oscar Wilde
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romantics/transcendentalists
England poetry novel. dramatisit, social critic. The ballad of reading in jail. Lady windermer's fan. The importance of being earnest. The picture of Dorian Gray. |
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Tennessee Willams
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romantics/transcendentalists
US drama. The glass menagerie. A streetcar named desire. Cat on a hot tin roof. |
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Thomas Wolfe
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US novel. Look homeward. Angel. You can't go home again.
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Virginia Woolf
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romantics/transcendentalists
England novel. modernist novelist and early feminist. Mrs. Dalloway. A room of one's own. To the lighthouse. |
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honore de balzac
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france
novel le pere goriot, eugenie grandet |
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charles baudelaire
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romantics/transcendentalists
france poetry. french symbolist poet. flowers of evil (les fleurs)de mal |
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matthew arnold
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england
poetry dover beach |
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wh auden
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england
poetry musee des beaux arts |
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samuel beckett
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romantics/transcendentalists
ireland/france drama. irish-born french playwright and novelist; themes include existentialism and absurdity. waitng for godot, endgame |
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saul bellow
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canada/us
novel the adventures of augie march, humboldt's gift |
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elizabeth barrett browning
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romantics/transcendentalists
england poetry. sonnetes from the portuguese |
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robert browning
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romantics/transcendentalists
england poetry pippa passes, bells and pomegranates, my last duchess |
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albert camus
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algeria/france
novel the plague, the stranger, the rebel |
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samuel taylor coleridge
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romantics/transcendentalists
england poetry. foremost literary critic of the romantic period. the rime of the ancient mariner, kublai khan |
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joseph conrad
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romantics/transcendentalists
poland/england novel. ukranian born of polish parents, major english post-colonialist novelist. lord jim, heart of darkness |
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pierre corneille
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france
drama medee, le cid |
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ee cummings
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romantics/transcendentalists
us poetry, known for non-traditional forms of poetry. anyone lived in a pretty how town, my father moved through dooms of love |
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john donne
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england
poetry, meditations death be not proud, devotions upon emergent occasions |
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fyodor dostoevsky
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romantics/transcendentalists
russia novel notes from the underground, crime and punishment,the idiot, the brothers karamazov |
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theodore dreiser
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us
novel sister carrie, an american tragedy |
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john dryden
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neoclassical period
england poetry, essay. influential in establishing the heroic couplet. a song for st. cecilia's day, absalom and achitophel, alexander's feast, heroic stanzas |
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george eliot(mary ann evans)
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romantics/transcendentalists
england novel. the mill on the floss, silas marner, middlemarch |
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federico garcia lorca
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spain
drama, poetry the house of bermarda alba, blood wedding |
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gabriel garcia marquez
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columbia
novel one hundred years of solitude, the autumn of the patriarch |
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andre gide
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france
novel the immoralist, the counterfeiters |
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allen ginsberg
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us
poetry. american beat poet. howl, kaddish |
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johann goethe
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germany
drama, novel faust, the sorrows of young werther |
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nikolai gogol
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russia
novel, drama, short story dead souls, the inspector general, the overcoat |
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maxim gorky
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russia, drama, the lower depths
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thomas gray
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england
poetry elegy written ina country churchyard |
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thomas hardy
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england
novel the mayor of casterbridge, tess of the d'urbervilles, juse the obscure |
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bret harte
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us
short story the outcasts of poker flats, the luck of roaring camp |
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william dean howells
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us
novel the rise of silas lapham, a hazard of new fortunes |
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aldous huxley
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england
essay, novel the doors of perception, a brave new world |
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eugene ionesco
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romania, france
drama the bald soprano, rhinoceros |
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henry james
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us
novel daisy miller, the turn of the screw, the wings of a dove, the golden bowl |
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ben jonson
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middle ages/renaissance
england drama/ playwright volpone, the alchemist |
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james joyce
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romantics/transcendentalists
ireland novel, short story. premier modernist novelisty of ireland. pioneered stream of cnscious and non-linear narratives. a portrait of the artist as a young man, ulyssis, dubliners, finnegans wake |
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franz kafka
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romantics/transcendentalists
austria novel. major existentialist novelist. the metamorphosis, the trial, the castle |
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jack kerouac
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beat generation
us novel on the road, the dharma bums |
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dh lawrence
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romantics/transcendentalists
england novel, short story, poetry women in love, lady chatterley's lover, the rocking-horse winner |
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andrew marvell
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england
poetry to his coy mistress |
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edgar lee masters
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us
poetry spoon river anthology |
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w. somerset maugham
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england
novel of human bondage, caskes and ale, the razor's edge |
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guy de maupassant
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france
short story the necklace, the umbrella |
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edna st. vincent millay
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us
poetry the harp weaver and other poems |
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sean o'casey
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ireland
drama juno and the paycock |
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flannery o'connor
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us
novel, short story wise blood, everything that rises must converge |
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clifford odets
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us, drama
waiting for lefty, awake and sing |
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harold pinter
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england
drama the birthday party, old times |
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luigi pirandello
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italy
drama 6 characters in search of an author |
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sylvia plath
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us
poetry, novel ariel, the bell jar |
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alexander pope
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neoclassical period
england poetry essay. classicist and wit who formulated rules for poetry and satirized british social circles. the rape of the lock, the dunciad, an essay on man |
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katherine anne porter
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us
short story, novel pale horse pale rider, ship of fools |
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ezra pound
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us
poetry personae, cantos |
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marcel proust
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france
novel remembrance of things past |
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aleksandr pushkin
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russian
poetry drama eugene onegin, boris godunov |
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francois rabelais
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middle ages/ renaissance
france satire. introduced satirical narrative. gargantua and pantragruel |
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jean racine
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neoclassical period
france drama. renowned for lyric poetry based on greek and roman literature. andromaque, bernice and phedre |
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samuel richardson
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england
novel pamela or virture rewarded, clarissa harlowe |
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rainer maria rilke
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germany
poetry the buino elegies, the sonnets to orpheus |
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arthur rimbaud
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france
poetry a season in hell |
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edwin arlington robinson
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us
poetry richard corey, miniver cheevy |
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william saroyan
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us
drama novel the time of your life, the human comedy |
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george bernard shaw
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romantics/transcendentalists
ireland drama. irish born british author and playwright. arms and the man, major barbar, pygmalion, st.joan |
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richard sheridan
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england
drama the rivals, the school for scandal |
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philip sidney
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england
poetry astrophel and stella |
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tobias smollett
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scotland, england
novel the adventures of roderick random, the expedition of humphrey clinker |
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aleksandr solzhenitsyn
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russia
novel. major russian novelist and social critic. one day in the life of ivan densovich, the gulag archipelago |
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edmund spenser
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middle ages/ renaissance
england poetry, popularized the used of allegory the faerie queen, astrophel |
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gertrude stein
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modernist
us poetry autobiography. american modernist author. 3 lives, tender buttons, the autobiography of alice b. toklas |
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laurence sterne
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england
novel tristram shandy, a sentimental journey |
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wallace stevens
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us
poetry sunday morning, the emperor of icecream |
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august strindberg
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sweden
drama the dance of death, miss julie |
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john millington synge
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ireland
drama riders to the sea, playboy of the western world |
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dylan thomas
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wales
poetry do not go gentle into that good night |
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paul verlaine
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france
poetry chanson d'automne |
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john greenleaf whittier
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us
poetry the barefoot boy, barbar frietchie |
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william carlos williams
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us
poetry paterson, the red wheelbarrow |
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william wordsworth
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romantics/transcendentalists
england poetry. romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his nature poetry. i wandared lonely as a cloud, the daffodils, ode: intimations of immortality |
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willam butler yeats
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romantics/transcendentalists
ireland poetry, dramatist sailing to byzantium, Easter 1916, wind among the reeds, the winding stair |
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emile zoe
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france
novel germinal, nana |
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langston hughes
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harlem renaissance
us poetry harlem, the negro speaks of rivers |
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victor hugo
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france
essay novel the hunchback of notre dame, les miserables |
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henrik ibsen
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romantics/transcendentalists
norway drama norwegian playwright and forerunner of the expressionist movement. a doll's house, the wild duck, hedda gable |
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washington irving
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us
short story rip van winkle, the legend of sleepy hollow |
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john keats
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romantics/transcendentalists
england poetry. most versatile of the romantics. endymion, the eve of st. agnes, ode on a grecian urn |
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rudyard kipling
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india/england
poetry, short story, novel gunga din, just-so stories, the jungle book, kim |
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sinclair lewis
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romantics/transcendentalists
us novel, social critic main street, elmer gantry, babbitt |
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jack london
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us
novel the call of the wild, white fang |
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henry wadsworth longfellow
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us
poetry the children's hour, the village blacksmith, evangeline, hiawatha |
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niccolo machiavelli
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middle ages/renaissance
florence essay. the prince outlined a governmental structure based on the self-interest of the ruler. such rule is still called machiavellian. the prince |
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thomas mann
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germany
novel buddenbrooks, death in venice, the magic mountain |
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christopher marlow
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middle ages/renaissance
england drama. author of 1st real historical drama and 1st english tragedy. the tragical history of dr. faustus, the jew of malta |
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hermen melville
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romantics/transcendentalists
us novel, short story. american transcendentalist. typee, omoo, moby dick, billy budd, bartleby the scrivener |
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arthur miller
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us
drama death of a salesman, the crucible |
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john milton
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middle ages/renaissance
england poetry. puritan poet noted for allegorical religious epics. lycidas, paradise lost, samson agonistes |
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moliere(jean-baptiste poquelin)
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neoclassical period
france drama. perfected literary conversation and intoduced everyday speech to theatre. le misanthrope, school for wives, tartuffe |
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toni morrison
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us
novel tar baby, beloved |
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vladimir nabokov
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romantics/transcendentalists
russia/us novel lolita, ada, pale fire, invitation to a beheading. |
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eugene o'neill
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romantics/transcendentalists
us drama the hairy ape, anna christie, mourning becomse electra, the iceman cometh, long day's journey into night, moon for the misbegotten |
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thomas paine
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england/us
essay common sense, the rights of man, the age of reason |
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edgar allen poe
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romantics/transcendentalists
us poetry, short story. american transcendentalist who dealth with macabre issues of insanity and horror. annabel lee, the raven, the tell-tale heart |
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mary shelley
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romantics/transcendentalists
England poetry. romanitic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work. frankenstein, the last man |
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sappho
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antiquity
verse fragments, early greek poetry. |
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aeschylus
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antiquity
responsible for the origin and development of greek dram; introduced 2nd speaking character and concept of conflict. oresteia (agamemnon, chophori, and eumenides) |
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aristophanes
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antiquity
considered the father of greek comedy. lysistrata, the clouds, the birds |
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plato
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antiquity
father of western philosophy. republic, apology, symposium |
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aristotle
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antiquity
introduced and popularized the concept of literary criticism. the poetics |
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ovid
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antiquity
brought erotic verse to popularity metamorphoses, Love's remedy |
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giovanni boccaccio
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middle ages/ renaissance
introduced the use of the vernacular in classically focused literature. the decameron |
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francesco petrarch
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middle ages/ renaissance
his works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism. the canzoniere |
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francis bacon
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middle ages/ renaissance
founder of the inductive method of modern science and philosophical writing about science. |
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joseph addison
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the enlightenment
outstanding poet, critic, and playwright whose numerous essays marked political free thinking of his time. the tattler, the spectator, cato |
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benjamin franklin
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the enlightenment
scientist, educator, abolitionist, philosopher, economist, policial theorist, postmaster, and statesman. Defined the colonial new world in his writings; principle firgure of the american enlightenment. poor richard's almanac, observations on the increase of mankind. |
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jean jacques rousseau
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the enlightenment
libertine whose focused prose inspired the french revolution. social contract, the new heloise |
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william blake
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the enlightenment
visual artist and poet who defied neoclassical convention with subjects of truth and beauty. songs of innocence, songs of experience |
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christina rossetti
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english
poet goblin market |
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upton sinclair
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american novelist and social critic, characterized as a muckraker.
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henry miller
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controversial american novelist.
the tropic of cancer, the tropic of capicorn |
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zora neale hurston
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american novelist and Harlem Renaissance
novelist folklorist their eyes are watching God, tell my horses |
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elizabeth bishop
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american
poet |
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nadine gordimer
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south african novelist
a sport of nature |
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james baldwin
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american poet and novelist
the fire next time |
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adrienne rich
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american poet
aunt jennifer's tigers |
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vs naipaul
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post-colonist novelist, born in trinidat of indian parents, raised in england.
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sylvia plath
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american
poet novelist ariel, the bell jar |
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thomas pynchon
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reclusive american novelist
vineland, gravit's rainbow, the crying of lot 49 |
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alice walker
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american
novelist the color purple, possessing the secrets of joy |
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salman rushdie
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known for dath sentance placed upon him by ayatolla khomeni because khomen believed rusdie's subject matter to be blasphemous
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