Module 9: Major Authors and Works
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Activity 2: Key Authors and Works
This is just a sampling of some major authors of each historical/stylistic period covered in previous modules. You should be familiar with these authors and their works. As you explore the website resources, note other important authors mentioned.
- Classical authors with their works:
Aeschylus Prometheus Bound Euripides Medea Homer Odyssey Virgil The Aeneid Ovid Metamorphoses Horace The Odes Sappho Hymn to Aphrodite Aristophanes Lysistrata Sophocles Antigone
- Medieval authors with their works:
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Unknown Beowulf Anna Comnena Alexiad William Langland Piers Plowman Sir Thomas Mallory Le Morte d’Arthur Margery Kempe The Book of Margery Kempe John Gower Vox Clemantis Juan Ruiz The Book of Good Love
- Renaissance authors with their works:
Lady Mary Wroth The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania Sir Phillip Sydney Astrophel and Stella John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Michael Drayton Since There’s no Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part Ben Johnson To Celia Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene John Milton Paradise Lost William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
- 17th and 18th century authors with their works:
John Gay The Beggar’s Opera Anne Bradstreet The Author to Her Book Jonathon Swift Gulliver’s Travels Thomas Gray An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Robert Herrick To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Henry Fielding Tom Jones Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock John Dryden Mack Flecknoe William Congreve The Way of the World
- 19th century authors with their works:
Herman Melville Moby Dick Mary Shelley Frankenstein Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Charles Dickens Great Expectations John Keats To Autumn George Eliot Middlemarch Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death Kate Chopin The Awakening Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
- 20th century authors with their works:
Ezra Pound The Cantos Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway Alice Walker The Color Purple J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye James Joyce Ulysses William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury e.e. Cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town T.S.Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool Anne Sexton Cinderella Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar William Butler Yeats The Second Coming Langston Hughes Theme for English B John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath Arthur Miller The Crucible F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms Robert Frost Fire and Ice Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five Toni Morrison Beloved Norman Mailer The Executioner’s Song Terrance McNally Angels In America
Create a visual schematic of these authors and their works using concept maps, notes, or flash cards. Enter your author’s name, key terms, major works, concepts and vocabulary in your notebook or computer file.
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