GRE Lit Review

"Father of Tragedy"; 525-456 BC; The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides), maybe Prometheus Bound

1928- ; I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Romantic period; 1775-1817; Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion

One of the founders of realism in Europe; 1799-1850; plays collectively called La Comedie humaine, prose 'magnus opus' almost 100 novels

1914-1972; often considered one of founders of Confessional poetry; The Dream Songs

?1612-1672; first notable American poet in colonies; influenced Puritans

1820-1849; novels: Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; realistic, sharp, ironic style

1816-1855; during Romantic period; Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Professor

1818-1848, during Romantic period; Wuthering Heights

1812-1889; one of foremost Victorian poets; mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologue; Porphyria's Lover, My Last Duchess

1759-1796, one of Romantic poets; Scottish poet and a lyricist; Auld Lang Syne, Scots Wha Hae, A Red, Red Rose, A Man's A Man for A' That, To a Louse, To a Mouse, The Battle of Sherramuir, Tam o'Shanter, Ae Fond Kiss

1613-1690; author of Hudibras - long satirical poem on Puritanism

1835-1902; Victorian; Utopian satire 'Erewhon', The Way of All Flesh - attacks Victorian self-hypocrisy, traces four generations of Pontifex family, Calvinistic approach represented as harsh

(1788-1824); leading Romantic; brief poems include "She Walks in Beauty," When We Two Parted," "So, we'll go no more a roving," in addition to the narrative poems "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," and "Don Juan."

(1913-1960); resists labels, but associated with absurdism, existentialism; wrote the Rebel, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger, The Plague