MAT Literary Figures and Characters
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1547-1616 | 1st modern european novel Don Quixote |
| Jane Austen 1775-1817 | novels of manners and middle class English society Sense and Sensibility Pride and Prejudice |
| Lord George Gordon Byron 1788-1824 | Romantic movement; Byronic hero Don Juan classic poetry |
| Mary Shelley 1797-1851 | Romantic novelist sister to Percy Shelley Frankenstein The Last Man |
| Emily Bronte 1818-1848 | Victorian novelist Wuthering Heights |
| Charlotte Bronte 1816-1855 | Victorian novelist Jane Eyre |
| Joseph Conrad 1857-1924 | Ukrainian English post-colonial novelist Lord Jim Heart of Darkness |
| V S Naipaul 1932- | Trinidad English post-colonial novelist Enigma of Arrival House for Mr. Biswas |
| Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 | English novelist, dramatist and social critic The Importance of Being Earnest Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Charles Dickens 1812-1870 | English novelist Great Expectations Oliver Twist |
| D H Lawrence 1885-1930 | English novelist Lady Chatterley's Lover The Rainbow |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864 | American transcendentalist The Scarlet Letter House of the Seven Gables Rappaccini's Daughter |
| Herman Melville 1819-1891 | American transcendentalist Moby Dick Billy Bud |
| Aleksandr Isayevitch Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008 | Russian novelist and social critic The Gulag Archipelago |
| Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977 | Russian novelist Lolita Invitation to a Beheading |
| Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828-1910 | Russian novelist War and Peace Anna Karenina |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821-1881 | Russian novelist Crime and Punishment Notes from the Underground |
| George Eliot (Mary Ann or Marian Evans) 1819-1880 | English author Middlemarch Daniel Deronda Mill on the Floss |
| Gustave Flaubert 1821-1880 | French novelist Madame Bovary |
| Franz Kafka 1883-1924 | Existentialist novelist The Metamorphosis The Castle |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 | American novelist abolitionist movement Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1835-1910 | American novelist, essayist and satrist Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn |
| William Faulkner 1897-1962 | American author (southern) The Sound and the Fury Absalom! Absalom! |
| Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 | lean prose masculine themes and characters A Farewell to Arms The Old Man and the Sea |
| James Joyce 1882-1941 | Irish novelist Modernist Ulysses Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man |
| Sinclair Lewis 1885-1951 | American novelist and social critic Elmer Gantry Babbitt |
| Henry Miller 1891-1980 | American novelist The Tropic of Cancer The Tropic of Capricorn |
| Upton Sinclair 1878-1968 | American novelist and social critic "muckraker" The Jungle |
| Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 | American modernist author 3 Lives |
| Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 | Modernist novelist and feminist A Room of One's Own To the Lighthouse |
| Alice Walker 1944- | American novelist The Color Purple Possessing the Secrets of Joy |
| John Steinbeck 1902-1968 | American novelist life of the American worker Grapes of Wrath Cannery Row |
| J D Salinger 1919-2010 | American writer (reclusive) Catcher in the Rye Franny and Zooey |
| Thomas Pynchon 1937- | American novelist (reclusive) Gravity's Rainbow Vineland The Crying of Lot 49 |
| Toni Morrison 1931- | American novelist Beloved The Bluest Eye Song of Solomon |
| Harper Lee 1926- | American writer To Kill A Mockingbird |
| Zora Neale Hurston 1901-1960 | American novelist and folklorist Their Eyes Were Watching God Tell My Horse |
| Nadine Gordimer 1923- | South African novelist A Sport of Nature |
| William Burroughs | Naked Lunch |
| Diane Di Prima | Memiors of a Beatnik |
| John Updike | The Witches of Eastwick |
| Joseph Heller | Catch-22 |
| Washington Irving | The History of New York |
| Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| Anton Chekhov | The Three Sisters |
| Victor Hugo | Les Miserables |
| James Baldwin 1924-1987 | American poet and novelist The Fire Next Time |
| Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 | American poet and novelist Ariel The Bell Jar |
| Jack Kerouac 1922-1969 | American Beat poet and novelist Dharma Bums On the Road |
| Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) 43-18 BCE | Erotic verse Metamorphoses Love's Remedy |
| Sappho c. 612 BCE | Greek poetry Verse fragments |
| Virgil (Publius Vegiluis Maro) 70-19 BCE | Pastoral poem civic virtue The Aeneid |
| Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 | Modern European literature "terza rima"-rhyme in threes The Inferno Divine Comedy Purgatorio Paridiso |
| Francesco Petrarch 1304-1374 | love poetry humanism The Canzoniere |
| John Milton 1608-1674 | Puritan poet allegorical religious epics Paradise Lost Paradise Regained |
| Jean Racine 1639-1699 | Lyric poetry based on Greek and Roman literature Andromaque Bernice and Phaedre |
| Alexander Pope 1688-1744 | British Classicist/Satirist The Rape of the Lock The Dunciad |
| William Blake 1757-1827 | Poet/Visual artist Neoclassical convention Songs of the Innocence Songs of Experience |
| William Wordsworth 1770-1850 | English romantic poet nature poetry The Prelude Lyrical Ballads Poems Chiefly of Early and Late Years |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 | Romantic poet Metaphor and Metrical form brother to Mary Shelley Adonais |
| John Keats 1795-1821 | Romantic poet Hyperion On a Grecian Urn |
| Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867 | French symbolist poet Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) |
| Robert Browning 1812-1889 | English poet married to Elizabeth Barrett Browning Bells and Pomegranates |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861 | English poet married to Robert Browning Aurora Leigh Sonnets from the Portuguese |
| Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 | American poet Because I Could Not Stop For Death |
| Christina 1830-1894 | English poet Goblin Market |
| Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849 | American transcendentalist Fall of the House of Usher The Tell-Tale Heart The Raven The Purloined Letter |
| Walt Whitman 1819-1892 | American poet Leaves of Grass Song of Myself |
| e.e. cummings 1894-1962 | Non-traditional forms of poetry Tulips and Chimneys |
| Robert Frost 1874-1963 | American poet The Road Not Taken Birches |
| Ezra Pound 1885-1972 | American poet The Cantos |
| Adrienne Rich 1929- | American Poet Aunt Jennifer's Tigers |
| Langston Hughes 1902-1967 | Harlem Renaissance poet Collected Works |
| Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997 | American Beat poet Howl |
| Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1979 | American poet Collected Works |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-Reliance |
| William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 | Irish poet/dramatist The Wind Among the Reeds The Winding Stairs Sailing To Byzantium |
| T. S. Eliot 1564-1965 | Christian poet/theorist/playwright/critic The Waste Land |
| William Shakespeare 1564-1616 | English poet/dramatist Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar King Lear Twelfth Night Much Ado About Nothing Macbeth Richard III Sonnets |
| Joseph Addison 1672-1719 | Poet/Critic/Playwright The Tattler The Spectator Cato |
| Aeschylus 525-456 BCE | originator of Greek drama 2nd speaking character Eumenides Oresteia Prometheus Chophori Agamemmon |
| Aristophanes 450-385 BCE | father of Greek comedy Lysistrata The Clouds The Birds |
| Sophocles 496-406 BCE | dramatist 3rd speaking character Oedipus Rex Oedipus Tyrannus Antigone Electra |
| Christopher Marlow 1564-1593 | author of the first historical drama and English tragedy Edward the Second The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus |
| Ben Jonson 1573-1637 | English playwright Every Man in His Humor |
| Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) 1622-1673 | French playwright introduced everyday speech to theatre Dom Juan Tartuffe The Misanthrope |
| George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950 | Irish born/British author/playwright Arms and the Man Saint Joan |
| Eugene O'Neill 1888-1953 | American dramatist Anna Christie The Hairy Ape |
| Henrik Ibsen 1828-1906 | Norwegian playwright Expressionist movement A Doll's House Ghosts |
| Arthur Miller 1915-2005 | American playwright Death of a Salesman The Crucible |
| Samuel Beckett 1906-1989 | Irish born/French playwright/novelist Waiting for Godot Happy Days |
| Tennessee Williams 1911-1983 | American playwright A Streetcar Named Desire The Glass Menagerie |
| Sir Tom Stoppard 1937 | Czech born/British playwright Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
| Thornton Wilder | Our Town |
| Euripides 485-405 BCE | technique of "deus ex machina" The Trojan Women Helen The Bacchae Medea |
| Homer c. 9th century BCE | 1st works of Western literature Odyssey Iliad |
| Giovanni Boccaccio 1313-1375 | introduced the use of vernacular The Decameron |
| Geoffrey Chaucer 1340-1400 | brought literature to the middle class The Canterbury Tales Troilus Criseyde |
| Nicolo Machiavelli 1469-1527 | "Machiavellian" The Prince La Madrigola |
| Francois Rabelais 1494-1553 | Satiric narrative Gargantua Pantagruel |
| Francis Bacon 1561-1626 | philosophical writings Essays The New Atlantis |
| Edmund Spenser 1552-1599 | Allegory The Faerie Queen Amoretti |
| John Dryden 1631-1700 | heroic couplet Alexander's Feast Heroic Stanzas |
| Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) 1694-1778 | French/English critical theory Candide Zadig |
| Jonathan Swift 1667-1745 | Direct style, critical wit Gulliver's Travels Tale of a Tub |
| Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 | Scientist, Educator, Abolitionist, Philosopher, Economist, Political Theorist and Statesman Poor Richard's Almanac Observations on the Increase of Mankind Numerous essays and state papers |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 | Romantic critic Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christable Kubla Khan Lyrical Ballads |
| Henry David Thoreau 1818-1848 | American transcendentalist/social theorist Walden Civil Disobedience |
| Salman Rushdie 1947- | death sentence (fatwa) placed on him by Ayatollah Khomeni The Satanic Verses Shame |
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