GRE Literature in English (REA) (8 page)

Johnson, Samuel, Dr.
Life of Cowley, The Lives of the English Poets, “Of Bashfulness,” “The Preface to Shakespeare,” Rasselas, The Vanity of Human Wishes

Jonson, Ben.
Discoveries
, “Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison,” “On My First Son,” “Perfection in Small Things,” “Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue,” “To the Reader,”
Volpone or The Fox

Joyce, James.
Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
*
Ulysses

Kafka, Franz.
A Hunger Artist, The Metamorphosis

Keats, John. “Endymion,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,”
Isabella
, “La Belle Dame sans Merci,”
The Letters
, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode on Melancholy,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer”

Kempe, Margery.
Book of Margery Kempe

Kerouac, Jack.
On the Road
*

Kitto, H.D.F.
Form and Meaning in Drama

Koch, Kenneth. “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams”

Kyd, Thomas.
Spanish Tragedy

Lactantius Caecilius (or Caelius) Firmanus.
Divinae Institutio-nes

La Fontaine, Jean de. “The Acorn and the Pumpkin”

Langland, William.
Piers Plowman

Lardner, Ring. “Haircut”

Lawrence, D. H.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Horse Dealer's Daughter,”
John Galsworthy, The Rainbow,
“The Rocking-Horse Winner,”
Sons and Lovers, Surgery for the Novel -Or a Bomb, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Mann, Why the Novel Matters, Women in Love

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.
Monad-ologie

Leonard, William Ellery.
Two Lives

Le Sage, Alain-Rene.
Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane

Lessing, Doris.
The Golden Notebook, Sunrise on the Veld

Lessing, G.E.
Laokoon

Lewis, C.S.
The Allegory of Love

Lillo, George.
The London Merchant

Lindsay, Vachel. “The Leaden-Eye'd”

Locke, John.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.
Keats, The Song of Hiawatha, Evan-geline

Longinus.
On the Sublime

Lovelace, Richard. “To Althea, From Prison”

Lowell, Amy.
Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

Lowell, James Russell.
The Biglow Papers, A Fable for Cities, The Present Crisis, Thoreau

Lowell, Robert. “For the Union Dead,” “Mr. Edwards and the Spider,” “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket”

Lubbock, Percy.
The Craft of Fiction

Lyly, John.
Campaspe, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Machiavelli, Niccolo.
The Prince

Mackenzie, Henry.
The Man of Feeling

MacLeish, Archibald. “Ars Poetica”

Macpherson, James. Fingal, Temora

Magna Carta

Malory, Sir Thomas.
Le Morte D‘Arthur

Mansfield, Katherine.
Bliss, The Garden Party

Marlowe, Christopher.
Doctor Faustus
, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,”
Tamburlaine the Great

Marvell, Andrew. “Damon the Mower,” “The Garden,” “To His Coy Mistress”

Mather, Cotton.
Magnalia Christi Americana, Manuductio and Ministerium

Maturin, Charles Robert.
Melmoth the Wanderer

The Mayflower Compact

Melville, Herman.
The Apple Trees, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, Moby Dick

Mencken, H.L.
The American Language, The Novel

Meredith, George.
The Egoist

Middleton, Thomas.
Women Beware Women

Mill, John Stuart.
Autobiography, On Liberty, What is Poetry?

Miller, Arthur.
All My Sons, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman

Milton, John.
Areopagitica, Comus,
“How Soon Hath Time,” “Lycidas,”
Of Education,
“On Shakespeare,” “On the Late Massacre in Piedmont,”
Paradise Lost,
*
Samson Agonistes,
“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent”

Molière.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Tartuffe

Moody, William Vaughn. “An Ode in Time of Hesitation”

More, Sir Thomas.
Utopia

Morris, William. “The Defense of Guenevere”

Morrison, Toni.
Beloved,* Song of Solomon

Nabokov, Vladimir.
Pale Fire

Naipaul, V.S.
The Mystic Masseur, A House for Mr. Biswas

Newman, John Henry.
Apologia pro vita sua, The Idea of a University

Newton, Sir Isaac.
Light and Colors

O'Casey, Sean.
Innocence and Experience

O'Connor, Flannery. “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”

O'Connor, Frank.
Guests of the Nation

O'Neill, Eugene.
Desire Under the Elms, The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Mourning Becomes Electra

Orwell, George. 1984,
* Animal Farm,
*
Coming Up for Air
,
Dying Metaphors, The Problem of the Golden Rule, Shooting an Elephant

Osborne, John.
Look Back in Anger

Owen, Wilfred. “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” “Dulce et Decorum Est”

Paine, Thomas.
The Age of Reason

Parker, Dorothy. “But the One On the Right”

Parnell, Thomas. “A Night-Piece on Death”

Pater, Walter.
Leonardo DaVinci, The Renaissance

Peacock, Thomas Love.
Nightmare Abbey

Philips, Ambrose. “The First Pastoral”

Philips, John.
The Splendid Shilling

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing.
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

Pinter, Harold.
The Caretaker, The Homecoming

Plath, Sylvia.
The Bell Jar
, “Daddy,” “Mirror”

Plato.
The Beast and the God in Man, The Republic *

Plautus.
Menaechmi

Poe, Edgar Allan.
Annabel Lee, The Murders on the Rue Morgue,
“The Raven”

Pope, Alexander. “Eloisa to Abelard,” “Epistle to Miss Blount, on Her Leaving the Town after the Coronation,” “An Essay on Criticism,” “An Essay on Man,” “The Rape of the Lock,” “To a Lady”

Pound, Ezra. “The Lake Isle,” “A Pact,” “The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter”

Proust, Marcel.
Remembrance of Things Past

Pynchon, Thomas.
The Crying of Lot 49

Quinn, Michael.
Form and Intention

Radcliffe, Mrs. Ann.
The Italian, The Mysteries of Udolpho

Raleigh, Sir Walter. “The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself,” “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd,” “Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son”

Rand, Ayn.
Atlas Shrugged
,
Fountainhead

Ransom, John Crowe. “Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter,” “Janet Waking,” “Piazza Piece”

Reynolds, Sir Joshua.
Discourse XIII

Rice, Elmer.
The Adding Machine

Richardson, Dorothy Miller.
Pilgrimage

Richardson, Samuel.
Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded

Rodin, Auguste.
Art in Life

Roethke, Theodore. “The Bridge,” “My Papa's Waltz”

Rossetti, Christina. “Goblin Market,” “Remember”

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. “The Blessed Damozel,”
The House of Life
, “A Superscription”

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
Confessions, The Social Contract

Rowe, Nicholas.
The Fair Penitent

Ruskin, John.
The Society of Books, The Stones of Venice

Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye

Sandburg, Carl. “Chicago,” “Fog”

Sartre, Jean-Paul.
Nausea, No Exit, The Respectful Prostitute

Schiller, Johann.
The Maid of Orleans

Scott, Sir Walter.
Waverly Novels

“The Seafarer”

The Second Shepherd's Play

Shakespeare, William.
Antony and Cleopatra,
*
As You Like It
, *
Cymbeline, The Comedy of Errors
,
Hamlet,* Henry IV Part I
,
* Henry IV Part II, Henry V,
*
Henry VI, Julius Caesar * King Lear
,*
Macbeth
,*
The Merchant of Venice, Othello,* Pericles, Romeo and Juliet,*
“Sonnet 18,” “Sonnet 55,” “Sonnet 75,” “Sonnet 116,” “Sonnet 130,”
The Tempest,* Twelfth Night,
*
The Winter's Tale

Shaw, George Bernard.
Arms and the Man, A Dramatic Realist to His Critics, Major Barbara, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Pygmalion, Saint Joan

Shelley, Mary.
Frankenstein
*

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Adonais,” “Mont Blanc,” “Ode to the West Wind,” “Ozymandias,”
Prometheus Unbound,
“To a Skylark,” “To Wordsworth”

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.
The Rivals, The School for Scandal

Sidney, Sir Philip.
Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poesie

Simpson, Louis. “Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain”

Sinclair, Upton.
The Jungle

Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
Gimpel the Fool

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
*

“Sir Patrick Spens”

Skelton, John. “Colin Clout”

Smith, Captain John.
Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia

Smith, Stevie. “Mother, among the Dustbins”

Smollett, Tobias.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker

Sophocles.
Antigone,* Oedipus the King
*

Spenser, Edmund.
Amoretti,
“Epitha-lamion,” “The Faerie Queene,”
Shepheardes Calendar

Stafford, Jean.
Bad Characters

Steele, Sir Richard.
The Conscious Lovers

Stein, Gertrude.
Composition and Exposition, Three Lives

Steinbeck, John.
The Grapes of Wrath
*

Sterne, Laurence.
Tristram Shandy

Stevens, Wallace. “Anecdote of the Jar,” “The Snow Man”

Stevenson, Robert Louis.
Kidnapped
,
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stoppard, Tom.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
*

Strindberg, August.
Miss Julie

Stuart, Jesse.
The Thread that Runs So True

Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of. “The Soote Season”

Swift, Jonathan.
The Battle of the Books,
“Cadenus and Vanessa,” “A Description of a City Shower,”
Gulliver's Travels,* A Modest Proposal,
“Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D., Occasioned by Reading a Maxim in Rochefoucauld”

Synge, John M.
The Playboy of the Western World, The Shadow of the Glen

Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron. “Break, Break, Break,”
In Memoriam A.H.H.,
“King Arthur's Order of Chivalry,” “The Lady of Shalott,” “The Lotos-Eaters,” “Mariana,” Songs from
The Princess
, “To E. FitzGerald,” “Ulysses”

Terence.
Andria

Thackeray, William Makepeace.
Vanity Fair

Theocritus.
Idylls

Thomas, Dylan. “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” “Fern Hill”