Praxis Ii 5039 Authors & Works

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Father of English Literature; Medieval writer (poet); 1343-1400); The Canterbury Tales; The Parlement of Foules

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Edmund Spencer

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Early Tudor poet; The Faerie Queene

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Christopher Marlowe

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Elizabethan writer; Hero and Leander, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

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William Shakespeare

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Considered the foremost dramatist in world history; Elizabethan writer; 1564-1616; Renaissance period; best known for plays: The Tempest, Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, etc.

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John Donne

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Jacobean poet; The Indifferent, The Good-Morrow, A Valediction: Of Weeping

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Ben Johnson

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Jacobean writer; To John Donne, Volponne (or The Fox), To My Book

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George Hebert

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Carolinean poet; The Altar, Redemption, Affliction

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John Milton

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Carolinian then Commonwealth/Puritan Interregnum poet; Paradise Lost, On Shakespeare

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Sir Thomas Browne

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Commonwealth/Puritan Interregnum poet; Hydriotaphia, Religio Medici

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John Locke

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Restoration Period English writer; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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John Bunyan

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Restoration Period English writer; The Pilgram's Progress

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John Dryden

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Restoration Period English writer; Epigram on Milton

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Jonathan Swift

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Augustan Age English writer; Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal

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Alexander Pope

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Augustan Age English writer; An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Ode on Solitude

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Samuel Johnson

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Age of Johnson English writer; The Vanity of Human Wishes, A Short Song of Congratulations

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James Boswell

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Age of Johnson English writer; The Life of Samuel Johnson

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William Blake

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English Romantic poet; To Spring, To Autumn, Songs of Innocence and Experience

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Robert Burns

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English Romantic poet; Auld Lang Syne; A Red, Red Rose

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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English feminist/Romantic Period; A Vindication of the Rights of Women

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William Wordsworth

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English Romantic poet; Lyrical Ballads, Lucy Gray, The Solitary Reaper, A slumber did my spirit steal

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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English Romantic poet; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Frost at Midnight

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Lord Byron (George Gordon)

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English Romantic poet; She Walks in Beauty, Don Juan,

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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English Romantic poet; Ode to the West Wind, To a Sky-Lark, Ozymandias

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John Keats

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English Romantic poet; Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Victorian English writer; Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh

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Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Victorian English writer; Ulysses, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Kraken

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Mary Shelley

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English Romantic writer; (or The Modern Promethius)

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Charles Dickens

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Victorian English writer; A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist

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Robert Browning

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Victorian English writer; Porphyria's Lover, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, My Last Duchess

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Emily Bronte

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Victorian English writer; Wuthering Heights

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Charlotte Bronte

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Victorian English writer; Jane Eyre

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George Eliot

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Victorian English writer; The Mill on the Floss

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Christina Rossetti

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Victorian English writer; Goblin Market

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Lewis Carroll

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Victorian English writer; The Jabberwocky, The Walrus and the Carpenter, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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Oscar Wilde

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Victorian English writer; Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Ernest

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Thomas Hardy

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Victorian English writer and realist; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure

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Joseph Conrad

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Victorian English writer; The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Sharer

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Chinua Achebe

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Postmodern; Things Fall Apart

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William Butler Yeats

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English Modernist; The Second Coming, Lapis Lazuli

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Virginia Woolf

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English Modernist; To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves

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E.M. Forester

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English Modernist; Room With a View, A Passage to India

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James Joyce

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English Modernist; Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners

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T.S. Eliot

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English/American Modernist; jazz poet; The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock, Journey of the Magi, The Waste Land

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George Orwell

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English Modernist; 1984, Animal Farm

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Samuel Beckett

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English Postmodernist; Waiting for Godot

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Dylan Thomas

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English Modernist; Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

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Seamus Heaney

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Irish Modernist poet; The Forge, Punishment

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Benjamin Franklin

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American Colonial Period; Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, The Ephemera, The Way to Wealth

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Thomas Paine

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American Colonial Period; Common Sense, The Age of Reason

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Thomas Jefferson

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American Colonial Period; The Declaration of Independence

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Washington Irving

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American Transcendental Period; Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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James Fenimore Cooper

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American Transcendental Period; Last of the Mohicans

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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American Transcendental Period; Nature, The American Scholar, Self-Reliance

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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American Transcendental Period; The Scarlett Letter, Young Goodman Brown, The Celestial Railroad

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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American Transcendental Period; A Psalm of Life, Excelsior, The Slave's Dream

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Edgar Allan Poe

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American Transcendental Period; The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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American Transcendental Period; Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Henry David Thoreau

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American Transcendental Period; Walden (or Life in the Woods), Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking

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Walt Whitman

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American Transcendental Period; free verse poet; Leaves of Grass

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Herman Melville

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American Transcendental Period; Moby Dick; Bartleby, the Scrivener

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Emily Dickinson

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American Transcendental Period; free verse poet; Wild Nights--Wild Nights!, I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--

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Louisa May Alcott

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American Transcendental Period; Little Women, Transcendental Wild Oats

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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)

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American Realist; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Henry James

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American Realist; The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of a Dove

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Kate Chopin

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American Naturalist; The Awakening, The Storm; The Story of an Hour

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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American feminist; The Yellow Wallpaper

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Edith Wharton

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American Victorian; Souls Belated, Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth

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Stephen Crane

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American Naturalist; An Episode of War, The Red Badge of Courage

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Jack London

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American Realist; Call of the Wild

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Willa Cather

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American Modernist; My Antonia, The Song of a Lark, O Pioneers!

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Gertrude Stein

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American Modernist; The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Three Lives

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Robert Frost

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American Modernist poet; The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice

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William Carlos Williams

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American Modernist poet; This is Just to Say, The Widow's Lament in Springtime, The Red Wheelbarrow

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Ezra Pound

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American Modernist poet; To Whistler, American; The River; Villanelle: The Psychological Hour

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Eugene O'Neill

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American Realist playwright; Long Days Journey Into Night

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Zora Neale Hurston

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American Modernist; Harlem Renaissance; Their Eyes Were Watching God, How It Feels to Be Colored Me

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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American Modernist; The Great Gatsby

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William Faulkner

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One of the greatest authors of Southern literature; American Modernist/ Naturalist (1897-1962); As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, A Rose for Emily, Light in August, Absalom! Absalom!

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Ernest Hemingway

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American Modernist/ Naturalist; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea

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Langston Hughes

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American Modernist; Harlem Renaissance; jazz poet; Mother to Son, Democracy, Mulatto, Song for a Dark Girl

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John Steinbeck

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American Modernist/Realist; The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men

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Eudora Welty

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American Modernist; The Optimist's Daughter, Petrified Man

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Tennessee Williams

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American Modernist/Realist playwright; A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Minagerie

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Ralph Ellison

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American Modernist; Harlem Renaissance; The Invisible Man

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Saul Bellow

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American Modernist/Naturalist; The Adventures of Augie March

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Arthur Miller

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American Modernist; Death of a Salesman, The Crucible

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Kurt Vonnegut

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American Postmodernist; The Cat's Cradle, Slaughter House Five

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James Baldwin

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American Postmodernist; Go Tell it on the Mountain

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Flannery O'Connor

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American Postmodernist; Good Country People, A Good Man is Hard to Find

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Toni Morrison

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American Postmodernist; Beloved, Sula, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon

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Maxine Hong Kingston

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Chinese Feminist/Multiculturalist; The Woman Warrior

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Alice Walker

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American Postmodernist; The Color Purple

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Sandra Cisneros

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Contemporary Chicana Lit; The House on Mango Street

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Sylvia Plath

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American Postmodernist; The Bell Jar

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Dante Alighieri

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High or Late Medieval Period; Inferno, Divine Comedy

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Maya Angelou

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American poet; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Jane Austen

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Romantic English writer; Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma

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Ray Bradbury

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American Postmodernist; Farenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles

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Albert Camus

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Existentialist/Absurdist; The Stranger, The Plague

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Spanish writer; Don Quixote

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Daniel Defoe

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Augustan Age (neoclassical) English writer; Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Crime and Punishment

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Alexandre Dumas

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French writer during English Victorian Period; The Three Muskateers

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Gustavo Flaubert

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French writer during English Victorian Period; Madame Bovary

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William Golding

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English Modernist; Lord of the Flies

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Joseph Keller

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American Postmodernist/Satirist; Catch 22

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Homer

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Homeric or Heroic Period; The Iliad, The Odyssey

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Victor Hugo

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French Romantic writer; Les Miserables

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Aldous Huxley

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English Modernist; Brave New World

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Henrik Ibsen

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Norwegian Romantic/Realist; coined the "father of realism"; The Doll House, Hedda Gabler

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Franz Kafka

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Austrian Modernist/Existentialist; Metamorphosis

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Plato

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Classical Greek philosopher/ The Republic, Symposium

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Ayn Rand

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American Postmodernist/Realist; Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead

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Enrich Maria Remarque

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German Modernist; All Quiet on the Western Front

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J.D. Salinger

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American Postmodernist; The Catcher in the Rye

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George Bernard Shaw

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Irish Modernist; Pygmalion

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Upton Sinclair

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American Progressive writer; The Jungle

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Sophocles

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Classical Greek tragedian; Oedipus the King, Antigone

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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English Victorian writer; Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde

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Amy Tan

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Chinese-American writer; The Joy Luck Club

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Leo Tolstoy

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Russian writer; War and Peace, Anna Karenina

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Virgil

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Classical Roman poet; The Aeneid

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Voltaire

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French Enlightenment writer; Candide

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Richard Wright

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American writer; Harlem Renaissance; Black Boy, Native Son

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Columbian writer Postmodernist writer; One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Julia Alvarez

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Dominican-American Postmodernist writer; How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

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Sir Thomas Malory

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Medieval English writer; Le Morte d'Arthur

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Thomas Gray

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Augustan Age English poet; "Elegy of a Country Churchyard," "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West"

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Anne Bradstreet

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Colonial Period American poet; The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up in America