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