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MAT- Literary Figures
Literature figures and their works
36
Literature
Graduate
07/13/2011

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Term

Aeschylus

(Greek)

Definition
Prometheus Bound
Term

Aesop

(Greek)

Definition

 Greek writer

wrote Fables

Term

Aligheri, Dante

(Italian)

Definition
Divine Comedy
Term

Anderson, Sherwood

(American)

Definition
Winesburg, Ohio
Term

Jane Austen

(English)

Definition

Pride and Prejudice

Emma

Sense and Sensibility

Term

Balzac, Honore de

(French)

Definition
La Comedie Humaine
Term

Samuel Beckett

(Irish-born French novelist)

Definition

Malloy

Waiting for Godot

Term

Saul Bellow

(American)

Definition

Won nobel prize in 1976

Herzog

Humboldt's Gift

Term

William Blake

(British)

Definition
Songs of Innocence and Experience
Term

Charlotte Bronte

(English)

Definition

Jane Eyre

Shirley

 

Wrote under pen name Currel Bell

Term

Emily Bronte

(English)

Definition

Wuthering Heights

 

Wrote under pen name Ellis Bell

Term

John Bunyan

(English)

Definition
The Pilgrim's Progress
Term

Lord George Byron

(Romantic poet)

Definition

Don Juan

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Term

Albert Camus

(French)

Definition

The Plague

The Stranger

Term

Lewis Carroll

(British)

Definition

Through the Looking Glass

Alice and Wonderland

Term

Miguel de Cervantes

(Spanish)

Definition
Don Quixote
Term

Geoffrey Chaucer

(English)

Definition
The Canterbury Tales
Term

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

(Russian)

Definition

The seagull

The Cherry Orchard

Term

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(English)

Definition

The rime of the Ancient Mariner

Lyrical Ballads

Term

Joseph Conrad

(Polish born British writer)

Definition

Heart of Darkness

Under Western Eyes

 

Term

Stephen Crane

(American)

Definition
Red Badge of Courage
Term

Emily Dickinson

(American)

Definition
19th centry poet
Term

John Donne

(English)

Definition

The Flea

Death be not Proud

 

Term

Fyodor Dostoevsky

(Russian)

Definition

Crime and Punishment

The idiot

Term

Theodore Dreiser

(American)

Definition

Sister Carrie 

An American Tragedy

Term

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

(English)

Definition

Middlemarch 

Adam Bede

Term

T.S. Elliot

(American)

Definition

The Waste Land

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Term

Ralph Waldo Emerson

(American)

Definition

"Nature"

 

The mentor of Thoreau

Term

Euipedes

(Greek)

Definition
Ancient Greek dramatist along with Sophocles and Aeschylus
Term

William Faulkner

(American)

Definition

The Sound and the Fury

Absolom!Absolom!

As I Lay Dying

Term

F. Scott Fitzgerald

(20th century stars, the Jazz age)

American

Definition
The Great Gatsby
Term

Gustae Flaubert

(French)

Definition

coined the term:  le mot juste (the perfect word)

Madame Bovary

Term
Robert Frost
Definition

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Mending Wall

Term

Allen Ginsberg

(American)

Definition
Howl
Term

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(German)

Definition
Faust
Term

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

(French)

Definition
The Innocent Wife
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