Praxis 5039 Authors and Works, Content
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Victorian English writer; Sonnets from the Portuguese, Aurora Leigh; 1806-1861
Joseph Conrad
Victorian English writer; The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Sharer; 1857-1924
Thomas Jefferson
American Colonial Period; The Declaration of Independence
Robert Frost
American Modernist poet; The Road Not Taken, Fire and Ice
Arthur Miller
American Modernist; Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
Ralph Ellison
American Modernist; Harlem Renaissance; The Invisible Man
Zora Neale Hurston
American Modernist; Harlem Renaissance; Their Eyes Were Watching God, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
James Fenimore Cooper
American Transcendental Period; Last of the Mohicans
Louisa May Alcott
American Transcendental Period; Little Women, Transcendental Wild Oats
Herman Melville
American Transcendental Period; Moby Dick; Bartleby, the Scrivener
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Transcendental Period; Nature, The American Scholar, Self-Reliance
Emily Dickinson
American Transcendental Period; free verse poet; Wild Nights--Wild Nights!, I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--
Edith Wharton
American Victorian; Souls Belated, Age of Innocence; The House of Mirth
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist; The Yellow Wallpaper
Maya Angelou
American poet; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Christina Rossetti
Victorian English writer; Goblin Market; 1830-1894
Oscar Wilde
Victorian English writer; Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest; 1854-1900
Robert Browning
Victorian English writer; Porphyria's Lover, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, My Last Duchess; 1812-1899
Lewis Carroll
Victorian English writer; The Jabberwocky, The Walrus and the Carpenter, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; 1832-1898
George Eliot
Victorian English writer; The Mill on the Floss; 1819-1880
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Victorian English writer; Ulysses, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Kraken; 1809-1892
Emily Bronte
Victorian English writer; Wuthering Heights; 1818-1848
Benjamin Franklin
American Colonial Period; Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, The Ephemera, The Way to Wealth
William Carlos Williams
American Modernist poet; This is Just to Say, The Widow's Lament in Springtime, The Red Wheelbarrow
Ezra Pound
American Modernist poet; To Whistler, American; The River; Villanelle: The Psychological Hour
William Faulkner
American Modernist/ Naturalist; As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, A Rose for Emily
Ernest Hemingway
American Modernist/ Naturalist; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea
Saul Bellow
American Modernist/Naturalist; The Adventures of Augie March
Tennessee Williams
American Modernist/Realist playwright; A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Minagerie
John Steinbeck
American Modernist/Realist; The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
Langston Hughes
American Modernist; Harlem Renaissance; jazz poet; Mother to Son, Democracy, Mulatto, Song for a Dark Girl
Willa Cather
American Modernist; My Antonia, The Song of a Lark, O Pioneers!
Gertrude Stein
American Modernist; The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Three Lives
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Modernist; The Great Gatsby
Eudora Welty
American Modernist; The Optimist's Daughter, Petrified Man
Stephen Crane
American Naturalist; An Episode of War, The Red Badge of Courage
Kate Chopin
American Naturalist; The Awakening, The Storm; The Story of an Hour
Toni Morrison
American Postmodernist; Beloved, Sula, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon
Ray Bradbury
American Postmodernist; Farenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles
James Baldwin
American Postmodernist; Go Tell it on the Mountain
Flannery O'Connor
American Postmodernist; Good Country People, A Good Man is Hard to Find
Sylvia Plath
American Postmodernist; The Bell Jar
Kurt Vonnegut
American Postmodernist; The Cat's Cradle, Slaughter House Five
Alice Walker
American Postmodernist; The Color Purple
Eugene O'Neill
American Realist playwright; Long Days Journey Into Night
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
American Realist; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jack London
American Realist; Call of the Wild
Henry James
American Realist; The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of a Dove
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Transcendental Period; A Psalm of Life, Excelsior, The Slave's Dream
Washington Irving
American Transcendental Period; Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Edgar Allan Poe
American Transcendental Period; The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Transcendental Period; The Scarlett Letter, Young Goodman Brown, The Celestial Railroad
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American Transcendental Period; Uncle Tom's Cabin
Henry David Thoreau
American Transcendental Period; Walden (or Life in the Woods), Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking
Walt Whitman
American Transcendental Period; free verse poet; Leaves of Grass
Samuel Beckett
English Postmodernist; Waiting for Godot
Robert Burns
English Romantic poet; Auld Lang Syne; A Red, Red Rose; 1759-1796
William Wordsworth
English Romantic poet; Lyrical Ballads, Lucy Gray, The Solitary Reaper, A slumber did my spirit steal; 1770-1850
John Keats
English Romantic poet; Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; 1795-1821
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Romantic poet; Ode to the West Wind, To a Sky-Lark, Ozymandias; 1792-1822
Lord Byron (George Gordon)
English Romantic poet; She Walks in Beauty, Don Juan; 1788-1824
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English Romantic poet; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Frost at Midnight; 1772-1834
William Blake
English Romantic poet; To Spring, To Autumn, Songs of Innocence and Experience; 1757-1827
Mary Shelley
English Romantic writer; (or The Modern Promethius); 1797-1851
Mary Wollstonecraft
English feminist/Romantic Period; A Vindication of the Rights of Women; 1759-1797
T.S. Eliot
English/American Modernist; jazz poet; The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock, Journey of the Magi, The Waste Land; 1988-1965
Albert Camus
Existentialist/Absurdist; The Stranger, The Plague
Charlotte Bronte
Victorian English writer; Jane Eyre; 1816-1855
James Boswell
Age of Johnson English writer; The Life of Samuel Johnson; 1740-1795
Samuel Johnson
Age of Johnson English writer; The Vanity of Human Wishes, A Short Song of Congratulations; 1709-1784
Thomas Paine
American Colonial Period; Common Sense, The Age of Reason
Alexander Pope
Augustan Age English writer; An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, Ode on Solitude; 1688-1744
Jonathan Swift
Augustan Age English writer; Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal; 1667-1745
George Herbert
Carolinean poet; The Altar, Redemption, Affliction; 1593-1633
John Milton
Carolinian then Commonwealth/Puritan Interregnum poet; Paradise Lost, On Shakespeare; 1608-1674
Maxine Hong Kingston
Chinese Feminist/Multiculturalist; The Woman Warrior
Sir Thomas Browne
Commonwealth/Puritan Interregnum poet; Hydriotaphia, Religio Medici; 1605-1682
Sandra Cisneros
Contemporary Chicana Lit; The House on Mango Street
Edmund Spencer
Early Tudor poet; The Faerie Queene; 1552-1599
Christopher Marlowe
Elizabethan writer; Hero and Leander, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love; 1564-1593
William Shakespeare
Elizabethan writer; The Tempest, Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet; 1564-1616
George Orwell
English Modernist; 1984, Animal Farm
Dylan Thomas
English Modernist; Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
E.M. Forester
English Modernist; Room With a View, A Passage to India; 1879-1970
William Butler Yeats
English Modernist; The Second Coming, Lapis Lazuli; 1865-1939
Virginia Woolf
English Modernist; To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves; 1882-1941
James Joyce
English Modernist; Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners; 1882-1941
Dante Alighieri
High or Late Medieval Period; Inferno, Divine Comedy
Seamus Heaney
Irish Modernist poet; The Forge, Punishment
John Donne
Jacobean poet; The Indifferent, The Good-Morrow, A Valediction: Of Weeping; 1572-1631
Ben Jonson
Jacobean writer; To John Donne, Volponne (or The Fox), To My Book; 1572-1637
Geoffrey Chaucer
Medieval writer; The Canterbury Tales; 1343-1400
Chinua Achebe
Postmodern; Things Fall Apart; 1930-2013
John Locke
Restoration Period English writer; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding; 1632-1704
John Dryden
Restoration Period English writer; Epigram on Milton; First Poet Laureate in England in 1688; 1631-1700
John Bunyan
Restoration Period English writer; The Pilgram's Progress; 1628-1688
Jane Austen
Romantic English writer; Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer; Don Quixote
Thomas Hardy
Victorian English writer and realist; Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure; 1848-1928
Charles Dickens
Victorian English writer; A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist; 1812-1870