GRE Literature in English Subject Test Literary Criticism Aristotle o Poetics Arnold o “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” o “Sweetness and Light” Auerbach o Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature Bloom o The Anxiety of Influence (Review 1) (Review 2) Booth o The Rhetoric of Fiction (Review 1) (Review 2) Brooks (Cleanth) o Community, Religion, and Literature: Essays Campbell o The Hero with a Thousand Faces Coleridge o Biographia Literaria Culler o Literary Theory, a Very Short Introduction Eagleton o Literary Theory: An Introduction Eliot o “Tradition and the Individual Talent” o “Hamlet and His Problems,” Forster o Aspects of the Novel Frye o The Anatomy of Criticism Harland o Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes James o The Art of Fiction Joseph o Caliban in Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean Fiction Lacan “The Mirror Stage in the Formation of the I” in Ecrits (Summary) Lamb o “Letter to Wordsworth” Leavis Meredith o Essay on Comedy Mill o “What is Poetry?” Orwell o “Politics and the English Language” Pater o The Renaissance Pope o An Essay on Criticism Pound o “A Retrospect,” Ransom o The New Criticism (Biography) (Excerpt) Rivkin o Literary Theory: An Anthology Richards (I. A.) o How to Read a Page o Principals of Literary Criticism Ruskin o “Of the Pathetic Fallacy” Said o Orientalism Saussure o Course in General Linguistics Shlovsky o Theory of Prose Sidney o An Apology for Poetry or The Defense of Poetry (Lecture Notes) (Further Notes) Shelley o A Defense of Poetry Tolstoy o What is Art? (Outline) Widdowsono A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory PN 94 S45 1993 Woolf o A Room of One’s Own Be familiar with these terms: Lancanian Criticism, Marxist Criticism, New Historicism, Feminist Criticism, Black Criticism, Post-Colonial Criticism, Psychological Criticism, Freudian Criticism, Archetype or Myth Criticism, Linguistic Criticism, Formalist Criticism, New Criticism, Structuralism, PostStructuralism, Reader-Response Criticism Great web resource for an overview Poetry Arnold (Biography) o “Dover Beach,” Appolonius of Rhodes (Overview) o The Voyage of Argo (Essay) Auden (Biography) (A collection some of his best known poems, including Friday’s Child) o “As I Walked Out One Evening,” o “Epitaph on a Tyrant,” o “First Things First,” o “Friday’s Child,” o “In Memory of Sigmund Freud,” o “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” o “Lullaby,” o “September 1, 1939,” o “The Fall of Rome,” o “The Shield of Achilles,” o “Musee des Beaux Arts,” o “The Unknown Citizen” Beowulf (Alternative Resource) (Further References) (Old English Lessons) Bishop o “The Moose,” o “Sestina,” o “One Art” Blake (Biography) o Songs of Innocence And Experience, o “The Tyger,” o The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, o Visions of the Daughters of Albion, o “The Lamb,” o “London” Brooks (Biography) “We Real Cool” (Interview about the poem) (NEH Page) Browning, E (Biography) “Aurora Leigh,” (Criticism) (Study Guide) “Sonnets from the Portuguese” Browning, R. o “Caliban upon Setebos” (commentary) o “Rabbi Ben Ezra,” (Commentary) o “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix,” o “Evelyn Hope,” o “The Pied Piper of Hammelin,” o “A Grammarian’s Funeral,” o “A Death in the Desert,” o “The Bishop Orders His Tomb,” o “Fra Lippo Lippi,” o “My Last Duchess,” Burns (Bio) o “A Red Red Rose,” o “Tam O’ Shanter,” o “To a Louse,” o “To a Mouse,” o “Holly Willie’s Prayer” Butler (Bio) (More bio) o “Hudibras” Byron o “She Walks in Beauty,” (analysis) o “When We Two Parted,” (analysis) o “So We’ll Go No More a Roving,” o “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage o “Don Juan” o “Manfred” Caedmon o “Caedmon’s Hymn” Carew o “An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John Donne” Carrol o Alice in Wonderland, o Jabberwocky Chaucer (Resource for Middle English Works) o The Canterbury Tales, o Troylus and Criseyde Coleridge o “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” o “Kubla Khan” Cowper (Bio) (Bio 2) o Olney Hymns, o John Gilpin, o The Task Cullen o “Heritage,” o “From the Dark Tower” Cummings o “In Just-,” o “Buffalo Bill,” o “The Cambridge Ladies,” o “My father mover through dooms of love” Dante o Divine Comedy –Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso Dickenson “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and others Donne - Notes o “The Sun Rising,” o “The Flea,” o “Holy Sonnet 14,” o “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” o “Death not be Proud,” o “Batter My Heart,” o “On Going to Bed” Dryden o Absalom and Achitophel, o Mac Flecknoe, o All For Love, o “Ode to Mrs. Anne Killigrew” (Notes) Eliot o “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” o The Waste Land, o “The Hollow Men,” o “Ash Wednesday,” o “The Four Quartets,” Frost o “Design,” o “After Apple Picking,” o “Mending Wall,” o “Home Burial,” o “The Road Not Taken” Ginsburg o “Howl” Goldsmith o The Deserted Village Gray o “Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard,” o “Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes” Hardy o Wessex Poems o “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?,” o “Hap,” o “Neutral Tones” Herbert o “The Alter,” o “Easter Wings,” o “The Pulley” Herrick o “Upon Julia’s Breasts,” o “Upon Julia’s Clothes,” o “The Night Piece, to Julia,” o “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” Homer o Iliad o Odyssey Hopkins o “As Kingfishers Catch Fire,” o “Carrion Comfort,” o “God’s Grandeur,” o “Peace,” o “Pied Beauty,” o “Spring,” o “Spring and Fall,” o “The Windhover” o “Thou Indeed Just Lord, if I Contend” Housman o “The Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now,” o “To an Athlete Dying Young,” o “When I Was One-and-Twenty,” o “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff” Hughes (Bio and poem collection) “Harlem,” o “Theme for English B.” Johnson “The Vanity of Human Wishes” Johnson, J.W. (Bio and poem collection) Jonson o “To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare” o “To the Reader,” o “Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue,” o “On My First Son,” o “Perfection in Small Things” Keats o Endymion, o “The Eve of St. Agnes,” o Isabella, o “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” o “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” o “Ode on Melancholy,” o “Ode to a Nightingale,” o “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” Langland o “Piers Plowman” Longfellow o “The Song of Hiawatha” Lowell o “For the Union Dead,” o “Mr. Edwards and the Spider,” o “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket” Macaulay o “Ivry,” o “The Armada,” o “Horatius” MacLeish o “Ars Poetica” Marlowe o “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” Marvell o “To His Coy Mistress” Meredith o Lucifer in Starlight Milton o Paradise Lost, (notes) o Paradise Regained, o Lycidas, o Areopagitica, o Samson Agonistes o Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness Owen o “Dulche et Decorum est” Plath o “Daddy,” o “Lady Lazarus” Poe o “Annabel Lee,” o “The Raven,” Pope o The Rape of the Lock, o The Dunciad Pound o “In a Station of the Metro,” o “Hugh Selwyn Mauberly,” o “Canto I,” o “The River-Merchant’s Wife: a Letter.” Raleigh o “The Author’s Epitaph, Made by Himself,” o “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” o “Sir Walter Raleigh to His Son” Ransom o “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter,” o “Janet Waking,” o “Piazza Piece” Roethke o “Root Cellar,” o “My Papa’s Waltz” Rossetti o “The Blessed Damozel” Sandburg o “Chicago,” o “Fog” o “The Seafarer” Shakespeare Sonnets o 18, o 29, o 30, o 55, o 73, o 116, o 130 Shelley o “Ozymandias,” o “Ode to the West Wind,” o “To a Skylark,” o “The Masque of Anarchy,” o “Queen Mab,” o “Alastor,” o “The Revolt of Islam,” o “Adonais,” o “The Triumph of Life,” o “Monte Blanc,” Sidney o Astrophel and Stella, o The Arcadia o Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Skelton http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/skelbib.htm o “An Elegy on the Death of Henry Percy , Fourth Earl of Northumberland,” o “Upon a Dead Man’s Head,” o “Womanhood…” Spenser o The Faerie Queen, o Epithalamion, o Sonnets #30, o Sonnets #68, o Shepheardes Calendar Stevens o “Sunday Morning,” o “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” o “Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird,” o “Anecdote of the Jar,” o “The Snow Man” o “Of Mere Being” Surrey o “When Raging Love,” o “So Cruel Prison” Swinburne o Poems and Ballads Tennyson o “Ulysses,” o “In Memoriam A.H.H.,” o “In the Valley of Cauteretz,” o “Break, Break, Break,” o “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” o “Tears, Idle Tears,” o “Crossing the Bar,” o “Idylls of the King,” o “Tithonus” o “The Lady of Shalott,” o “The Lotus-Eaters,” o “Mariana” Thomas o “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” o “Fern Hill” Virgil o Aenid, o Bucolics Warren o “Blow West Wind” Wheatley o “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” o “To the University of Cambridge in New England” Whitman o “Song of Myself,” o Leaves of Grass, o “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” o “O Captain, My Captain” o “Pioneers! O, Pioneers!,” o “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” o “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” Wilde o The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Williams, W. C. o “The Red Wheelbarrow,” o “The Young Housewife,” (Commentary) o “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower,” (excerpt) o “This is Just to Say” Wordsworth o “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways,” o “Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known,” o “Three Years She Grew,” o “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal,” o “I Traveled Among Unknown Men” o “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” o Lyrical Ballads Wyatt o “They Flee from Me,” o “Whoso List to Hunt,” o “If Thou Wilt Mighty Be” (scroll down) Yeats o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o “The Second Coming,” “The Isle of Statues,” “The Wanderings of Oisin,” “Crazy Jane and the Bishop,” “The Dolls,” “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” “Leda and the Swan,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” “When You Are Old,” “The Wild Swans at Coole,” “Among School Children,” “The Circus Animals Desertion,” “Lapis Lazuli,” “Adam’s Curse,” “Dialog of Self and Soul” Be familiar with poetic terms. List One List Two List Three Fiction Achebe o Things Fall Apart (Lecture Notes) Alcott o Little Women Amis o Lucky Jim Atwood o The Handmaid’s Tale Austen o Sense and Sensibility, o Pride and Prejudice, o Mansfield Park, o Emma, o Northanger Abbey, o Persuasion Baldwin o Go Tell it On the Mountain, o Notes of a Native Son Barth o Lost in the Funhouse Bellow o Seize the Day, o Henderson the Rain King, o The Adventures of Augie March, o Humboldt’s Gift Boccaccio o Decameron Borges o Labyrinths Bronte o Jane Eyre Bronte o Wuthering Heights Bunyan o The Pilgrim’s Progress Butler o The Way of All Flesh, o Erewhon Byatt o Possession Calvino o If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Camus o The Stranger, o The Plague, o The Fall Carlyle o Sartor Resartus Cather o My Antonia o O Pioneers! Cervantes o Don Quixote Chopin o The Awakening, o “The Story of an Hour” Conrad o Heart of Darkness, o Lord Jim, o The Secret Agent o “The Secret Sharer “ Cooper o The Last of the Mohicans, o Deerslayer Cortazar o Hopscotch Crane o Red Badge of Courage, o “The Open Boat,” o Maggie Defoe o Robinson Crusoe, o Moll Flanders, o A Journey Through the Whole Island of Great Britain Delillo o White Noise Dickens o Oliver Twist, o Great Expectations, o Tale of Two Cities, o Bleak House, o David Copperfield, o Hard Times Dos Pasos o Manhattan Transfer, o U.S.A. Trilogy Dostoyevsky o Crime and Punishment, o Notes from the Underground, o Brothers Karamazov Drieser o Sister Carrie Eliot o Silas Marner, o Middlemarch, o Adam Bede Ellison o Invisible Man Faulkner o The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, o Absalom, Absalom!, o Go Down Moses, o “The Bear,” o “A Rose for Emily,” o Light in August Fielding o Tom Jones, o Joseph Andrews Fitzgerald o The Great Gatsby, o Tender is the Night, o “Babylon Revisited” Flaubert o Madam Bovary Forster o A Room with a View, o Howard’s End, o Passage to India Gilman o “The Yellow Wallpaper” Gogol o “The Overcoat,” o “The Nose” Goldsmith o The Vicar of Wakefield, o She Stoops to Conquer Hardy o Return of the Native, o Tess of the d’Ubervilles, o Far from the Maddening Crowd, o Jude the Obscure, o The Mayor of Casterbridge Hawthorne o The Scarlet Letter, o The Blithedale Romance, o The House of Seven Gables o “The Minister’s Black Veil,” o “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” o “Young Goodman Brown,” o “Rappancinni’s Daughter,” o “The Birthmark” Heller o Catch 22 Hemingway o The Sun Also Rises, o Old Man and the Sea, o Farewell to Arms, o For Whom the Bell Tolls, o A Moveable Feast, o In Our Time, o “Hills Like White Elephants,” o “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” o “The Killers,” o “A Clean Well Lighted Place” Hesse o Siddartha Howells o The Rise of Silas Lapham Hurston o Their Eyes Were Watching God Huxley o Brave New World Irving o “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” o “Rip Van Winkle” o The Sketch Book James o Portrait of a Lady, o Daisy Miller, o The American, o Wings of a Dove, o The Ambassadors o “The Real Thing,” o The Turn of the Screw, o The Beast in the Jungle, o The Golden Bowl Johnson o Rasselas Jonson o The Alchemist o Volpone Joyce o Ulysses, o A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, o Dubliners o “The Dead”, o Finnegans Wake Kafka o The Trial, o Metamorphosis, o “A Hunger Artist” Kerouac o On the Road Kipling o Kim Lawrence o Sons and Lovers, o The Trespasser, o The Rainbow, o Women in Love, o “The Rocking Horse Winner” Lewis o The Monk London o “To Build a Fire” Lyly o Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit Malory o Le Mort D’Arthur Mansfield o “The Garden Party,” o “Bliss” Marlowe o Dr. Faustus Marquez o One Hundred Years of Solitude Melville o Moby-Dick o Billy Budd, o “Bartleby the Scrivener” o “Benito Cereno” Meredith o The Egoist Morison o Song of Solomon o Beloved Nabkov o Lolita Naipaul o The Mystic Masseur, o A House for Mr. Biswas O’Conner, Fl. o “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” o “Revelation,” o “Everything that Rises Must Converge,” o “The Life You Save May be Your Own,” o “Good Country People” O’Conner, FR. o “Guests of the Nation” Orwell o 1984, o Animal Farm Peacock o Nightmare Abbey Plath o The Bell Jar Poe o “The Murders on the Rue Morgue,” o “The Purloined Letter,” o “Tell Tale Heart,” o “Fall of the House of Usher” Proust o Swann’s Way o Sodom and Gomorrah, o Remembrance of Things Past Pynchon o The Crying of Lot 49, o Gravity’s Rainbow Radcliff o The Mysteries of Udolpho Richardson o Pamela, o Clarissa Salinger o The Catcher in the Rye Sartre o Nausea Scott o Ivanhoe Shelly o Frankenstein Sinclair o The Jungle Singer o “Gimpel the Fool” Stein o Three Lives, o The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Steinbeck o Of Mice and Men, o The Grapes of Wrath, o East of Eden Sterne o The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman Stevenson o Kidnapped, o Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Stowe o Uncle Tom’s Cabin Swift o Gulliver’s Travels, o “A Modest Proposal” Stoker o Dracula Thackeray o Vanity Fair Thurber o “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Tolstoy o Anna Karenina, o The Death of Ivan Ilych, o War and Peace Toomer o Cane Twain o The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, o The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, o A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, o The Mysterious Stranger, o Innocence Abroad, o The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson Voltaire o Candide Vonnegut o Slaughterhouse-Five Walker o The Color Purple o “Everyday Use” Walpole o The Castle of Otranto Warren o All the Kings Men Welty o Delta Wedding, o “Why I Live at the P0” Wharton o House of Mirth, o Ethan Frome, o The Age of Innocence Wilde o The Critic as Artist, o The Picture of Dorian Gray Woolf o Mrs. Dalloway, o To the Lighthouse Wright o Native Son, o Black Boy Prose Terminology to be familiar with: Source One Source Two Source Three Drama Aeschylus o The Libation Bearers o Oresteia, o Prometheus Bound o Seven Against Thebes Aristophanes o Lysistrata, (Movie The Girls deals with this play;) o Clouds Baraka o The Dutchman Becket (Becket’s Plays available to watch on Becket on Flim) o Waiting for Godot, Part I Part II o Endgame Brecht o Mother Courage, o The Threepenny Opera Chekov o The Cherry Orchard, o The Darling Congreve o The Way of the World, o The Mourning Bride o Love for Love Eliot o Murder in the Cathedral Etherege o The Man of Mode, o The Comical Revenge Euripides o The Trojan Women, o The Bacchae, o Medea, o Iphigenia at Aulis (Available on Netflix as Instant and on DVD) Everyman Goethe o Faust, o The Sorrows of Young Werther Goldsmith o She Stoops to Conquer Ibson o A Doll’s House, o Hedda Gabler, o The Master Builder o The Wild Duck Ionesco o o The Lesson, Rhinoceros Kyd o The Spanish Tragedy MacLeish o J.B. Marlowe o Tamburlaine, Miller o The Crucible, o Death of a Salesman Milton o Comus or A Mask, Presented at Ludlow Castle Moliere o The School for Wives, o Tartuffe Mon’zaemon o The Love Suicides of Amijima Pinter o The Caretaker, o The Homecoming O’Neill o Long Day’s Journey into Night o Mourning Becomes Electra, o Desire Under the Elms, o The Hairy Ape, o The Ice-man Cometh Plautus o The Menaechmus Twins Sartre o No Exit, o The Flies Second Shepherd’s Play Shakespeare o Romeo and Juliet, o Hamlet, o Macbeth o Othello, o Taming of the Shrew, o The Tempest, o The Merchant of Venice, o The Winter’s Tale, o Cymbeline, o Pericles, o Richard II, o Richard III, o Henry IV, o Henry V, o King Lear, o Antony and Cleopatra, o As You Like It, o Comedy of Errors, o Julius Caesar, o Twelfth Night Shaw o Arms and the Man, o A Dramatic Realist to His Critics, o Major Barbara, o Pygmalion Shelley o “Prometheus Unbound” o Cenci Sheridan o The School for Scandal, o The Rivals Sophocles o Antigone, o Oedipus the King Stoppard o Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Strindberg o Miss Julie Synge o The Playboy of the Western World Webster o The White Devil, o The Duchess of Malfi Wilde o The Importance of Being Earnest, Williams o Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, o The Glass Menagerie, o A Streetcar Named Desire Wycherley o The Country Wife Dramatic Terminology to be Familiar With: Site 1 Site 2 Non-Fiction Adams o The Education of Henry Adams Angelou o I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Study Guide) Aristotle o Rhetoric, o Nichomachean Ethics Arnold o Culture and Anarchy Behn o Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave The Bible (esp. Genesis, Exodus, Samuel, Kings, Job, Daniel, Jonah, Gospel) Boswell o The Life of Johnson Burke o Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies Burton o Anatomy of Melancholy Byrd o The History of the Dividing Line Camus o “The Myth of Sisyphus” Declaration of Independence De Quincy o “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater” Douglass o The Narrative Life of Fredrick Douglass Edwards o Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Emerson o Essays I, II, o Nature, o Self-Reliance, o “The American Scholar,” o “The Poet,” o “The Divinity School Address,” Foxe o The Acts and Monuments o Deaths of Latimer and Ridley Franklin o Autobiography Fuller o Woman in the Nineteenth Century Herodotus o The Persian Wars Hobbes o Leviathan Jewel o An Apology in Defense of the Church of England Jewett o “A White Heron” Johnson o The Lives of the English Poets, o The Rambler Levi o Survival in Auschwitz Locke o An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Machiavelli o The Prince Mill o Autobiography, o On Liberty, o The Subjection of Women Milton o Areopagitica More o Utopia Newman o Apologia Pro Vita Sua, o The Idea of a University Orwell o “Shooting an Elephant” Plato o Republic Paine o Common Sense, o The Crisis no. 1, o The Age of Reason Pope o “An Essay on Man” Rousseau o Confessions, o The Social Contract Ruskin o The Stones of Venice Thucydides o History of the Peloponnesian War Thoreau o Civil Disobedience, o Walden, o Walking Tyndale o The Obedience of a Christen Man Whitman o Democratic Vistas Wiesel o Night Wollstonecraft o A Vindication of the Rights of Women Xenophon o Memorobilia o Anabasis