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| Clue | Most Frequent Answer |
|---|---|
shakespeare | macbeth |
charles dickens | great expectations |
george (no last name, play) | albee |
jim | gift of the magi |
elizabeth (bennet) | pride and prejudice |
laura | petrarch |
don quixote | cervantes |
tennessee williams | a streetcar named desire |
percy bysshe shelley | ode to the west wind |
alice (in wonderland) | carroll |
satan | paradise lost |
martha (no last name, play) | albee |
james joyce | dubliners |
miguel de cervantes | don quixote |
adam | paradise lost |
lucy (lurie) | disgrace |
rosa (burger) | gordimer |
lesbian poet laureate of england | duffy |
joseph conrad | heart of darkness |
"a story of san francisco" | norris |
"the second coming" | yeats |
absalom, absalom! | faulkner |
name of the rose | eco |
polish boy (tadzio) | death in venice |
"ode on a grecian urn" | keats |
lord byron | don juan |
rebecca (daughter of isaac of york) | ivanhoe |
ramsay (family) | to the lighthouse |
milton | paradise lost |
tale of genji | murasaki shikibu |
anna karenina | tolstoy |
rabbit | updike |
"b. wordsworth" (miguel street) | naipaul |
ernest hemingway | the sun also rises |
jane austen | emma |
dostoyevsky | crime and punishment |
"harlem" | hughes |
ulysses | joyce |
(tom) robinson | to kill a mockingbird |
canterbury tales | chaucer |
helen of troy | faustus |
nina | the seagull |
"the library of babel" | borges |
brother jack | invisible man |
tony (buddenbrook) | mann |
lord darlington (play) | wilde |
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead | stoppard |
anton chekhov | the seagull |
allen ginsberg | howl |
leo tolstoy | war and peace |
paul (baumer) | all quiet on the western front |
grendel | beowulf |
beowulf (irish translation) | heaney |
dickinson | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
"dulce et decorum est" | owen |
"the necklace" | maupassant |
"the road not taken" | frost |
"howl" | ginsberg |
"the falcon cannot hear the falconer" | yeats |
ben (hitman) | the dumbwaiter |
goethe | sturm und drang |
jean valjean | les miserables |
orgon | tartuffe |
richard (spouse) | mrs dalloway |
pangloss | candide |
"mending wall" | frost |
"do not go gentle into that good night." | thomas |
edgar allan poe | the raven |
okonkwo | achebe |
carl solomon | howl |
things fall apart | achebe |
candide | voltaire |
"old age should burn and rave" | thomas |
omar khayyam | rubaiyat |
gus (robber friend) | native son |
brave new world | huxley |
john the savage | brave new world |
"rage, rage against the dying of the light" | thomas |
miss julie | strindberg |
julia (lover) | winston (smith) |
dante | divine comedy |
"ariel" | plath |
ophelia | hamlet |
"daddy" | plath |
emma | austen |
oscar wilde | the picture of dorian gray |
moby-dick | melville |
vladimir nabokov | lolita |
sam (samela) | "master harold"...and the boys |
sophocles | antigone |
o. henry | "conscience in art" |
ezra pound (translation) | li bai |
e. m. forster | a passage to india |
leaves of grass | whitman |
"sailing to byzantium" | yeats |
"the garden of forking paths" | borges |
faust | goethe |
eliza doolittle | shaw |
magic mountain | mann |
twenty love poems and a song of despair | neruda |
nick (no last name, play) | albee |
henry higgins | shaw |
john donne | holy sonnets |
eugene onegin | pushkin |
to the lighthouse | woolf |
winston smith | o'brien |
turgenev | a sportsman's sketches |
"an occurrence at owl creek bridge" | bierce |
clara (del valle) | allende |
kurt vonnegut | slaughterhouse-five |
"the weary blues" | langston hughes |
harlem renaissance | langston hughes |
stage manager | our town |
thomas gray | "elegy written in a country churchyard" |
"beauty is truth, truth beauty" | keats |
sister carrie | dreiser |
the labyrinth of solitude | paz |
metamorphoses | ovid |
the crucible | miller |
ruth (play character, wife of teddy) | pinter |
john steinbeck | of mice and men |
gitanjali | tagore |
i know why the caged bird sings | angelou |
"i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" | howl |
amina | mahfouz |
euripides | medea |
william of baskerville | the name of the rose |
della | the gift of the magi |
death in venice | mann |
lysistrata | aristophanes |
carlos fuentes (country) | mexico |
ambrose bierce (country, bierce as a character) | mexico |
the human comedy (la comedie humaine) | balzac |
jean-paul sartre | no exit |
gustave flaubert | madame bovary |
jerry (no last name, play) | albee |
one hundred years of solitude | gabriel garcia marquez |
"i wandered lonely as a cloud." | wordsworth |
decameron | giovanni boccaccio |
old english | beowulf (notable poem in old english) |
henry fleming | red badge of courage |
| john wheeler | sister carrie |
lennie small | of mice and men |
| lennie small | of mice and men |
oskar matzerath | the tin drum |
younger (family) | a raisin in the sun |
ivanhoe | sir walter scott |
the maltese falcon | hammett |
"slouches towards bethlehem to be born." | yeats |
henry james | the turn of the screw |
king creon | antigone |
"the garden party" (new zealand) | mansfield |
| decameron | boccaccio |
prior walter | angels in america |
sancho panza | don quixote |
elmire | moliere |
blood wedding | federico garcia lorca |
| midsummer night | oberon |
siddhartha | hesse |
"in you everything sank!" | neruda |
much ado about nothing | william shakespeare |
canto general | neruda |
huckleberry finn | twain |
old english | beowulf (notable poem in old english) |
"good fences make good neighbors" | frost |
| guildenstern | stoppard |
| bishop | robinson |
carl sandburg | "chicago" |
vera (short story character) | saki |
"ball of fat" | maupassant |
sherlock holmes (author) | doyle |
king duncan | macbeth |
| janice | updike |
george hurstwood (wheeler) | sister carrie |
| sylvia | bell jar |
| "captain" | whitman |
horace (famous latin quote) | dulce et decorum est |
| lord tennyson | lady of |
much ado about nothing | william shakespeare |
| maria | mansfield park |
"a good man is hard to find" | o'connor |
humbert humbert | lolita |
"nevermore" | the raven |
| much ado about nothing | shakespeare |
a raisin in the sun (play) | hansberry |
cairo trilogy | mahfouz |
lennie small | of mice and men |
"we real cool" | gwendolyn brooks |
| tea cake | hurston |
| henrik ibsen | doll's |
"the legend of sleepy hollow" | washington irving |
"rip van winkle" | washington irving |
holy sonnets | john donne |
"belle of amherst" | emily dickinson |
| estha | india |
griselda | the decameron |
les miserables | hugo |
the sorrows of young werther | goethe |
"in a grove" | ryunosuke akutagawa |
oxford | hardy |
| gabriel conroy | dead |
the handmaid's tale | margaret atwood |
| "dubliners" | joyce |
| lydia languish | sheridan |
| poe | purloined letter |
| bertha | edward |
| kitty | tolstoy |
| "we real cool" | brooks |
gabriel conroy | "the dead" |
| abigail | crucible |
lockwood | wuthering heights |
| "gatsby" | fitzgerald |
ray bradbury | fahrenheit 451 |
| virginia woolf | room of one's own |
| madame bovary | flaubert |
madame bovary | gustave flaubert |
alfred (father) | the tin drum |
uncle tom | simon (legree) |
| "rip van winkle" | irving |
abigail williams | the crucible |
| phillip larkin | this be the verse |
jorge luis borges | argentina (country of origin) |
the picture of dorian gray | oscar wilde |
"the white man's burden" | kipling |
| tweedledum | through the looking glass |
"hell is other people" | sartre |
"rip van winkle" | washington irving |
miles | the turn of the screw |
flora | the turn of the screw |
| chaucer | canterbury tales |
"ars poetica" | horace |
| "death" | hephaestus |
| edward king | milton |
| eve | milton |
| lucius | golden ass |
| the handmaid's tale | atwood |
"still unravish'd bride of quietness" | keats |
| antoinette cosway | rhys |
"what happens to a dream deferred?" | hughes |
| christopher marlowe | chapman |
oresteia trilogy | aeschylus |
lydia languish | the rivals |
"dubliners" | james joyce |
will ladislaw | middlemarch |
the bald soprano | eugene ionesco |
estha | india (country of origin) |
| black iris | chase |
| jorge luis borges | argentina |
general arroyo | the old gringo |
| ravana | sanskrit |
one thousand and one nights | arabic |
| oresteia | aeschylus |
| myrtle | great gatsby |
phillip larkin | "this be the verse" |
krapp's last tape | beckett |
"death, be not proud" | donne |
| gonzolo | artemio |
heathcliff | wuthering heights |
| "everything that rises must converge" | o'connor |
| ted | adichie |
| il canzoniere | petrarch |
| dream of the red chamber | china |
wide sargasso sea | jean rhys |
"the tyger" | blake |
| balzac | zola |
little women | alcott |
| janie | mule |
lu xun | china |
| harry | snows of |
thomas keneally | australia |
"gimpel the fool" | isaac bashevis singer |
| "i was young and easy under apple boughs" | thomas |
giovanni boccaccio | decameron |
"that is no country for old men" | yeats |
richard wright | native son |
cunegonde | candide |
| probably vishnu | turtle |
"to his coy mistress" | andrew marvell |
| richard wright | native |
| childe harold | byron |
| harriet | maupassant |
| bellerophon | iobates |
| finnegans wake | joyce |
naguib mahfouz | egypt (country of origin) |
on the road | kerouac |
| one of murakami | beatles |
| "lady lazarus" | plath |
| "do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?" | our town |
new orleans | confederacy of dunces (city of setting) |
| troy maxson | fences |
| les fleurs | baudelaire |
| superman | shaw |
volpone | jonson |
| ted hughes | plath |
| gustav von aschenbach | mann |
| pygmalion | shaw |
| house of the spirits | allende |
"hog butcher for the world" | chicago |
| robert frost | difference |
| cherry orchard | chekhov |
| to kill a mockingbird | lee |
| don juan | byron |
| edmund | mansfield park |
"the song of hiawatha" | henry wadsworth longfellow |
| colosseum | james |
| heathcliff | wuthering heights |
| hans castorp | mann |
"she walks in beauty" | lord byron |
| sargasso sea | rhys |
| davies | pinter |
| portrait of the artist | joyce |
"to a skylark" | percy bysshe shelley |
| "the paths of glory lead but to the grave" | gray |
hans castorp | the magic mountain |
| night journey | o'neill |
"i, too, sing america." | langston hughes |
| ruth leonard | harry |
| columbus | roth |
| northanger abbey | austen |
naguib mahfouz | egypt (country of origin) |
six characters in search of an author | pirandello |
"rashomon" | akutagawa |
| foucault | eco |
julian (everything that rises must converge) | o'connor |
| hector hyppolite | achilles |
| leon | beatrice |
heathcliff | wuthering heights |
arthur jarvis | cry, the beloved country |
"grace" | dubliners |
"gimpel the fool" | isaac bashevis singer |
the cherry orchard | chekhov |
| new orleans | confederacy of |
| dresden | slaughterhouse-five |
| voltaire | candide |
"childe harold's pilgrimage" | lord byron |
"lady lazarus" | sylvia plath |
| evangeline | longfellow |
| mary agnes | testaments |
richard wright | native son |
| "gimpel the fool." | singer |
northanger abbey | austen |
| post office | tagore |
| ivan | alyosha |
"song of myself" | whitman |
| langston hughes | raisin in the sun |
| interpreter of maladies | lahiri |
| "sonnet: to science." | poe |
"burning bright, in the forest of the night" | "the tyger" |
the old man and the sea | hemingway |
the mysterious island | verne |
rocinante | don quixote |
| buddenbrooks | mann |
| society of the tower | goethe |
| "moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" | rubaiyat |
| "each man kills the thing he loves" | wilde |
| right logic | clouds |
"tintern abbey." | wordsworth |
puck | a midsummer night's dream |
| chinua achebe | things fall apart |
| old gringo | bierce |
war and peace | tolstoy |
| marylou | denver |
| beatrice | much ado about |
"ode to a nightingale" | keats |
| lorca | duende |
| sophie | haiti |
| tin drum | grass |
a handful of dust | waugh |
| jaluka | cairo |
| muriel spark | salinger |
| j. d. salinger | glass |
| t. e. lawrence | lady chatterley's lover |
| nettie | color purple |
| cleopatra | all for love |
the god of small things | arundhati roy |
| imagist | williams |
stella (kowalski) | a streetcar named desire |
| murder of gonzago | stoppard |
| berenger | rhinoceros |
| imaginary invalid | moliere |
| our town | wilder |
| dog years in the danzig trilogy | grass |
mary dalton | native son |
| nathan zuckerman | roth |
| lolita | nabokov |
| bertie wooster | jeeves |
| olga tokarczuk | polish |
| keats | ode |
| captain robert walton | frankenstein |
| styx | achilles |
| bell jar | plath |
| middlemarch | eliot |
mother courage and her children | brecht |
| carver | esquire |
| daisy | ionesco |
irina (sergeyevna prozorova) | chekhov |
| "week of peace" | achebe |
alan paton | cry, the beloved country |
goneril | king lear |
| "the day of the dead" | dubliners |
| "the red wheelbarrow" | williams |
| "quiet night thought" | li |
mrs. norris | mansfield park |
| ludmilla | calvino |
| "vanished into the clouds." | murasaki |
| norman mailer | kennedy |
| gulliver | swift |
| pedro camacho | vargas |
| tereza | kundera |
| blanche | streetcar named desire |
| twenty thousand leagues under the sea | verne |
"a swelling of the ground" | because i could not stop for death |
| maus | spiegelman |
| bernard rieux | plague |
| zoo story | albee |
| guy montag | fahrenheit 451 |
catherine earnshaw | wuthering heights |
| saint sebastian | o'connor |
| stephen dedalus | joyce |
teddy (play character, husband of ruth) | pinter |
| jungle book | kipling |
| washington irving | sleepy hollow |
estragon | waiting for godot |
| "broken-winged bird / that cannot fly" | dream |
| athol fugard | south |
| merope | oedipus |
| hermes | lyre |
| orleanna price | poisonwood bible |
| in search of lost time | proust |
| cousin bette | balzac |
| "elegy written in a country churchyard" | gray |
| billy budd | melville |
fra pandolf | "my last duchess" |
| "a supermarket in california." | ginsberg |
| pequod | moby-dick |
| jesuit leo naphta | mann |
grover's corners | our town |
| portnoy | roth |
| "vie" | buchenwald |
| tyrone slothrop | pynchon |
| crying of lot | pynchon |
| ozymandias | shelley |
lily briscoe | to the lighthouse |
| settembrini | magic mountain |
104th (squad) | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
"a man in black with a meinkampf look." | plath |
| pamela | richardson |
| nathanael | hoffmann |
| jonathan swift | lemuel |
peer gynt (play) | ibsen |
"i felt a funeral, in my brain" | dickinson |
"and death shall have no dominion" | thomas |
| dumb waiter | pinter |
| aston | pinter |
treasure island | stevenson |
| matthew arnold | dover beach |
vladimir (tramp) | waiting for godot |
| italo calvino | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| native son | wright |
| hamlet | polonius |
| aegeus | minotaur |
| other stories | new zealand |
madame forestier | the necklace |
demian | hesse |
| salman rushdie | midnight's children |
| nora helmer | doll's |
| haruki murakami | japan |
| invisible man | paint |
franz (moor) | schiller |
| "fern hill." | thomas |
"diary of a madman" (not russian) | chinese (by lu xun) |
lizzie (poem character) | "goblin market" |
welsh (poet) | thomas |
jia baoyu | dream of the red chamber |
patrick white | australia |
| "the raven." | poe |
| darcy | wickham |
| magid iqbal | smith |
| marcus chalfen | smith |
miss gostrey | the ambassadors |
| "but at my back i always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near." | "to his coy mistress" |
| bobby | lahiri |
| kilgore trout | vonnegut |
| ministry of truth | winston |
| borges | argentina |
| endgame | beckett |
| "deaths for all ages and occasions! deaths by suspension, convulsion, consumption, incision, execution, asphyxiation and malnutrition!" | rosencrantz |
| hero | beatrice |
| "they send to eat in the kitchen / when company comes." | hughes |
| claudio | much ado about |
| temple of the golden pavilion | mishima |
| "the negro speaks of rivers." | hughes |
| orson welles | detective |
| "strike" | fences |
"a b b a, a b b a" | petrarch |
| eleanor | doll's house |
| cavalier | herrick |
| hally | kite |
| william tell | schiller |
the sea of fertility | mishima |
| up bird chronicle | murakami |
| william faulkner | as i lay dying |
| in the popol vuh | maya |
| "little cat feet." | fog |
| molina | puig |
zora neale hurston | their eyes were watching god |
| portrait of a woman | james |
| pearl | scarlet letter |
| "the lamb" | blake |
| "j'accuse." | zola |
| toni morrison | song of solomon |
| hester prynne | scarlet letter |
| basho | deep north |
| regan | lear |
| "unstuck in time." | slaughterhouse-five |
smales | gordimer |
| paradise | fir |
| "i sing the body electric" | leaves of grass |
| "a vast image out of spiritus mundi." | yeats |
| montaigne | cyrano de bergerac |
| sue bridehead | jude the |
| christminster | hardy |
| kiss of the spider woman | argentina |
| robert burns | rose |
| elysian fields | aeneid |
| in cold blood | capote |
| new yorkers | auster |
| holderlin | nietzsche |
| " in " | hopkins |
| mayella ewell | to kill a mockingbird |
| bernard shaw | salvation army |
| ee-zah-nah-mee | amaterasu |
anna akhmatova | russian |
| buck | buck |
roy cohn | angels in america |
| judith | night of |
| eugene o'neill's | rubaiyat |
| the birds | aristophanes |
| though neruda | chile |
| ralph waldo emerson | forster |
| paula vogel | yiddish |
| susanin | amaterasu |
| "the albatross" | baudelaire |
| dead | stoppard |
| "the tower" | yeats |
| tadzio | mann |
| "a far cry from africa" | walcott |
| octavio paz | mexico |
| sir arthur conan doyle | sherlock |
| linda | house |
| zeami | mask |
| arabian nights | galland |
| under milk wood | thomas |
| septimus smith | mrs |
| the sea | murdoch |
| heart of darkness | conrad |
| "a rapture" | cavalier |
| madame odintsova | fathers and sons |
one day in the life of ivan denisovich | solzhenitsyn |
| beloved country | paton |
| bride | lorca |
| pushkin | tsar saltan |
| dasharatha | ramayana |
| remains of the day | butler |
| "what mighty contests rise from trivial things" | rape of the lock |
| kemmerich | all quiet on the western front |
"great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| buenos aires | autobiography of red |
| sun wukong | journey to the west |
| miranda | old gringo |
| perseus | medusa |
| howards end | forster |
| "white teeth" | smith |
| bazarov | turgenev |
| "glazed with rain / water" | red wheelbarrow |
| yeats | the second coming |
| konstantin | seagull |
the red badge of courage | crane |
| "funny they don't see us." | crane |
| desdichado | ivanhoe |
| joe louis | all my sons |
| nicole | testaments |
| derek walcott | odyssey |
| weimar | schiller |
| uncle vanya | chekhov |
| big boy | wright |
| bev shaw | disgrace |
| melanie isaacs | disgrace |
| "the rape of the lock." | pope |
| of mice | steinbeck |
| dracula | stoker |
| madame pace | six characters in search of an author |
| mick | pinter |
| catherine morland | austen |
| plath | mother |
| addie | as i lay dying |
| an american tragedy | dreiser |
| "when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed." | lincoln |
| peeling the onion | grass |
| running man | king |
| richard bachman | king |
| brothers karamazov | akutagawa |
| celia | middlemarch |
| brewer | harry |
| aime cesaire | caliban |
| jhumpa lahiri | india |
| stevens | butler |
| g. sebald | sebald |
| "monsieur madeleine" | coin |
konstantin levin | anna karenina |
| pahome | tolstoy |
| yu tsun | borges |
| "in the penal colony." | kafka |
| "anyone lived in a pretty how town" | cummings |
| "why i live at the p.o." | welty |
| komako | kawabata |
| algeria | camus |
| wuthering heights | heathcliff |
| major barbara | shaw |
| robinson crusoe | defoe |
| "we must love one another or die" | auden |
| meursault | camus |
| martine | dinesen |
| enkidu | bull |
| scotsman | kidnapped |
| "i am." | albee |
| a.e. housman | shropshire lad |
| eden | milton |
| "this is just to say." | williams |
the school for wives | moliere |
| jeeves | wodehouse |
| "drinking alone by moonlight" | li |
| paul laurence dunbar | maya |
| saleem sinai | midnight's children |
| cory | wilson |
| "annabel lee" | poe |
| mowgli | jungle book |
| steppenwolf | hesse |
| george orwell | 1984 |
| umuofia | things fall apart |
| johannesburg | cry, the beloved country |
| stephen kumalo | cry, the beloved country |
| dorothea brooke | middlemarch |
| samuel beckett | waiting for |
| david lurie | disgrace |
| akaky akakievich | overcoat |
| dean moriarty | on the road |
| "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" | albee |
| glengarry glen ross | mamet |
| josef k | kafka |
| esteban | allende |
| "because i could not stop for death." | dickinson |
| temple of the fire baptized | baldwin |
| "for whom the bell tolls?" | hemingway |
| scarlet letter | hawthorne |
| "eye-am" | bellerophon |
| "stay where you are until our backs are turned" | mending wall |
| angels | kushner |
| tess | hardy |
| doctor zhivago | pasternak |
| pallas athena | aegis |
| "hugh selwyn mauberley," | pound |
| bean eaters | brooks |
| marceline | hamlet |
| "the passionate shepherd to his love." | marlowe |
| pablo neruda | socks |
| baron thunder | candide |
| scott | mansfield |
| macondo | one hundred years of solitude |
| abel magwitch | great expectations |
| billy pilgrim | slaughterhouse-five |
| william h. parker | tiger |
| sam shaw | soma |
| "the nose." | gogol |
| sibyl vane | wilde |
| basil hallward | wilde |
| the mousetrap | christie |
| "i'm with you in rockland." | howl |
| "stamp" | i know why the caged bird sings |
| kemal | cairo |
the catcher in the rye | salinger |
| stradlater | holden |
| brotherhood | invisible man |
edward albee | who's afraid of virginia woolf? |
| milly | waugh |
| "half a league" | tennyson |
| harry hickman | iceman cometh |
| bailey | thoreau |
| rama | sugriva |
| yohl | thor |
| monkswell manor | christie |
| death of artemio cruz | fuentes |
| peneus | daphne |
| john dryden | jonson |
| rodolphe | madame bovary |
| charlotte | goethe |
| tessie hutchinson | lottery |
| "the lottery." | jackson |
| kurtz | heart of darkness |
| mixing it up | pirandello |
| "hickey" | iceman cometh |
| joseph grand | plague |
| hughes in a washington | harlem |
| vivisector | australia |
| "seize the day," | horace |
| songs of innocence | blake |
| hurtle duffield | white |
| cujo | king |
| don gamalieli | artemio |
| baron | pope |
| celie | shug |
| nathan the wise | decameron |
| gilberte | charles |
| sei shonagon | pillow book |
| messinger | reading dickens |
| bts | demian |
| "may i for my own self song's truth reckon, / journey's jargon." | old english |
| floyd | maltese |
| alex | clockwork orange |
| tulsi | naipaul |
| clockwork orange | burgess |
| "transcendental" | emerson |
| winslow homer | ars |
| the power | greene |
| "howl?" | ginsberg |
| rua | lahiri |
| inferno | divine comedy |
| brideshead revisited | waugh |
| tate | sheriff |
| "jana gana mana" | india |
| ralph ellison | invisible man |
| jones very | salem |
| antigone | oedipus |
| the awakening | confederacy of |
| ernst theodor amadeus hoffmann | hoffmann |
| "year of the depend adult undergarment," | wallace |
| alfred douglas | importance of being earnest |
| federico garcia lorca | ginsberg |
| hotspur | falstaff |
| paterson | williams |
| du fu | li |
| rumi | persian |
| sal paradise | on the road |
| anchises | aeneid |
| "sylvan historian" | beauty |
| walden two | thoreau |
| no longer at ease | achebe |
| colossus | wolverine |
| frieda | kafka |
| "my soul has grown deep like the rivers." | hughes |
| one of saramago | portugal |
| pyramus | mulberry |
| "runaround," | asimov |
| hesperides | herrick |
| leopold bloom | ulysses |
| master harold | fugard |
| two of the serpent players | apartheid |
| yugen | beat |
| jonathan harker | dracula |
| tofano | decameron |
| yasin | cairo |
| " to the title " | canto |
| "what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" | alice |
| "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou" | rubaiyat |
| "before the wig and the dress coat there were rivers, arterial rivers." | canto general |
| "mademoiselle fifi" | maupassant |
| capulet | romeo and juliet |
| rimbaud | moon |
| isle of guernsey | hugo |
| toilers of the sea | hugo |
| george and hazel | harrison bergeron |
| empire of blefuscu | lilliput |
| mildendo | lilliput |
| hamiltons | steinbeck |
| lara | doctor zhivago |
| fahmy | mahfouz |
| walpurgis night | goethe |
| esther greenwood | plath |
| elective affinities | goethe |
| masnavi | rumi |
| the and crabwalk | grass |
| house on mango street | mexican |
| "give me your hands, if we be friends, and robin shall restore amends." | oberon |
| bloody chamber | fairy tale |
| santa fe | cather |
| franz kafka | penal colony |
| charlotte bronte | jane eyre |
| cassy | simon |
| emmeline | simon |
| dark forest | things fall apart |
| "rough beast" | yeats |
| "my last duchess," | browning |
| groh | ward number 6 |
| covent garden | eliza |
| "the gods have their own laws." | metamorphoses |
| "c d e c d e" | petrarch |
| sanderling island | poisonwood bible |
| birthday party | pinter |
| "frost" | mending wall |
| ars amatoria | ovid |
| "i remember about the rabbits, george." | of mice and men |
| miss watson | douglas |
| jane eyre | reader, i married him |
| doc | cannery row |
| jack gladney | white |
| gravity's rainbow | pynchon |
| agent fred | dick |
| "a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent!" | byron |
| moliere | tartuffe |
| "dry up like a raisin in the sun." | dream |
| norwegian wood | murakami |
| arkady kirsanov | fathers and sons |
their eyes were watching god | hurston |
| hofmann | english |
| english by thomas drant | ars |
| "studies of manners" | human comedy |
| frederic taillefer | human comedy |
| thrushcross grange | wuthering heights |
emily bronte | wuthering heights |
| "two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." | ozymandias |
| "the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced." | yahoo |
| "that's our first principle--no war!" | lysistrata |
| oran | plague |
| basilic | smith |
| "first fig" | candle |
| "his excellency, general washington" | wheatley |
| peyton farquar | bierce |
| captain nemo | nautilus |
| "the overcoat." | gogol |
| georg | kafka |
| my life | australia |
| alchemist | jonson |
| "death of a traveling salesman" | miller |
| phoenix jackson | welty |
| james connolly | crabbe |
| irene | bierce |
maxim gorky | lower depths |
| daily telegraph | war correspondent |
| edmund wilson | simon |
| john seward | abraham |
| francis nurse | crucible |
| pedro tercero | allende |
| wild swans at coole | yeats |
| "what the thunder said," | eliot |
| aunt julia | vargas |
| elizabeth bennet in pride | pride and prejudice |
| orhan pamuk | istanbul |
| catherine | farewell to arms |
| "and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils." | wordsworth |
| "sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on" | fog |
| paul baumer | all quiet on the western front |
| ser cepparello | decameron |
| "lament for the death of a bullfighter." | lorca |
| proteus | verona |
| peter carey | australia |
| "the open boat" | crane |
| "octopussy" | train |
| twilight zone | bierce |
| robert o'neill | anna christie |
| mann | buddenbrooks |
| charles wilcox | forster |
| marner | eliot |
| "longed to travel or to go back to her convent. she wished at the same time to die and to live in paris." | flaubert |
| "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / are sweeter." | ode |
| atlantic monthly | lowell |
| "the spider's thread." | akutagawa |
| rabindranath tagore | india |
| "do i wake or do i sleep?" | keats |
| fredrich | paul |
| laputa | gulliver's travels |
| receiver of memory | giver |
| jonas | giver |
| biff | death of a |
| yeehats | judge |
| "rita" | machado |
| count vronsky | anna |
| iceman cometh | o'neill |
| harper lee | to kill a mockingbird |
| mechanical hound | fahrenheit 451 |
| "anthem for doomed youth" | owen |
| roy | aids |
| key to all mythologies | eliot |
| tomas | unbearable lightness of being |
| aesop | tortoise |
| thetis | achilles |
| "auld lang syne" | burns |
| septimus hodge | stoppard |
| "fallen cold and dead." | o captain! my captain |
| "the luck of roaring camp." | harte |
| clifford | waiting for lefty |
| new journalist | wolfe |
| cao xuequin | dream of the red chamber |
| "better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven." | milton |
| mildred | bradbury |
| amelia | fielding |
| indiana | sand |
| bernardo di | hamlet |
| milan kundera | czech |
| oprah winfrey | morrison |
| "a valediction: forbidding mourning," | donne |
| gertrude | cry, the beloved country |
| kitty hawk answer | wright |
| oliver twist | novel |
| coming of age in samoa | mead |
| lucinda | carey |
| "ignorant armies clash by night." | dover beach |
| aomame | murakami |
| "a sound of thunder." | bradbury |
| my name | pamuk |
crime and punishment | dostoevsky |
| "a better man than i am." | kipling |
| belinda | pope |
| colley cibber | pope |
| an essay on criticism | pope |
| kai | snow queen |
| pozzo | waiting for godot |
| "to an athlete dying young," | housman |
| angelo | tristero |
| cottard | camus |
| sanditon | austen |
| chandara | lahiri |
| dukhiram | lahiri |
| "live off the fatta the lan" | lennie |
| robert brrowning | finnegans wake |
| morkan | finnegans wake |
| gogol | akutagawa |
| gretta | dead |
| "miss wonderly" | maltese |
| miles archer | maltese |
| seymour glass | bananafish |
| republic of gilead | atwood |
| waffen-ss | grass |
| "rikki-tikki-tavi" | "the white man's burden" |
| appin murder | kidnapped |
| salem | crucible |
| dmitri | tolstoy |
| a doll's house | ibsen |
| pioneer | middlemarch |
| darryl van horne | updike |
| mathilde loisel | maupassant |
| sphinx | oedipus |
| one flew over the cuckoo | kesey |
| "is not to reason why, theres is but to do and die," | charge of the light brigade |
| spanish golden age | lope |
| mizoguchi | mishima |
| "chicago." | sandburg |
| danvers carew | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| mordred | candle in the |
| ka | pamuk |
| america is not the heart | bulosan |
"a novel without a hero" | vanity fair |
| "a traveling salesman of wines and spirits," | camus |
| ogilvy | winston |
| lorraine hansberry | raisin in the sun |
| arundhati roy | india |
| jim o'connor | glass menag |
| nathaniel hawthorne | scarlet letter |
| "what is the grass?" | sandburg |
| gordias | south africa |
| estella | no exit |
| "it is the hour of departure" | neruda |
| "the night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance" | twenty love poems |
| palace walk | cairo |
| "do you know the land where the lemon-trees grow?" | goethe |
| "think as you fight" | escamillo |
| "the arena is full of blood." | escamillo |
| lady windermere | wilde |
| lotte | goethe |
| larry | tree |
| george osborne | thackeray |
| glass menagerie | williams |
| "gunga din," | kipling |
| molly | great expectations |
| wole soyinka | death and the king's horseman |
| "this is the saddest story i have ever heard." | good soldier |
| good soldier | ford |
| choh | hurston |
| "we are truly different. and we are truly alone." | paz |
| "digging," | heaney |
| kafka | trial |
| "the horror! the horror!" | heart of darkness |
| marlow | heart of darkness |
| dalloway | woolf |
| gregor samsa | kafka |
| d'urbervilles | hardy |
| "what's it going to be then, eh?" | clockwork orange |
| "what you've come out for then is simply to render him an immense service." | ambassadors |
| "a gown made of the finest wool" | marlowe |
| joseph asagai | raisin in the sun |
| neeth | raisin in the sun |
| david foster wallace | infinite jest |
| "cherub." | alyosha |
| "very well, then, i contradict myself. / i am large, i contain multitudes." | song of myself |
| "among school children." | yeats |
| "if you will be faithful to me, i'll make you a great man." | xury |
| dead zone | king |
| "painted ladies under the gaslamps." | sandberg |
| skyfall | james |
| henry david thoreau | walden |
| valentine michael smith | heinlein |
| titanic | hardy |
| maastricht | d'artagnan |
| confederacy of dunces | confederacy of |
| do not say the last name when giving the answer to the first part | alyosha |
"who threw potato salad at ccny lecturers on dadaism" | howl |
| "thought they were only mad when baltimore gleamed in supernatural ecstasy." | howl |
| vicar of wakefield | goldsmith |
| vasudeva | siddhartha |
| troo | katherina |
| armand aubigny | desiree's baby |
ebenezer dorset | the ransom of red chief |
| terri | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| george tesman | ibsen |
| nick bottom | robin |
pyramus and thisbe | a midsummer night's dream |
"stopping by woods on a snowy evening" | frost |
| st. lucia | walcott |
| "ennui!" | flowers of evil |
| "the minister's black veil" | hawthorne |
| "carnal embrace." | stoppard |
| charon | dead |
| robert graves | claudius |
| emmanuel goldstein | o'brien |
| oceania | 1984 |
big brother | 1984 |
| adriana | syracuse |
| graham greene | spy |
| "to autumn" | keats |
| don caesar | ambitious |
| isaac asimov | science |
| "sredni vashtar" | saki |
| "antichrist" | war and peace |
| "who, if i cried out, would hear me among the angelic hierarchies?" | duino elegies |
| oronte | sonnet |
| andrew marvell | macleish |
| mehring | gordimer |
| death of a naturalist | heaney |
| kan'ami | mask |
| constance | jackson |
| east of eden | steinbeck |
| ash wednesday | eliot |
| dunya | crime and punishment |
hyperion (novel) | friedrich holderlin |
| "always depended on the kindness of strangers" | streetcar named |
| "how do you like your blue eyed boy / mister death?" | cummings |
| jacob marley | ebenezer |
| "buffalo bill" | cummings |
| "come live with me and be my love." | marlowe |
| pierre arronax | verne |
| schwarzgerat | gravity's rainbow |
| harry angstrom | updike |
| oliver mellors | lady chatterley's lover |
the dharma bums | kerouac |
| frodo | bilbo |
| jose saramago | blindness |
| tyrone | long day's journey into night |
| philippics | lottery |
| "the panther" | rilke |
| pilate | song of solomon |
| wilhelm meister | goethe |
| "i have done it again/one year in every ten." | plath |
| icarus | daedalus |
around the world in eighty days | verne |
| sayyid ahmad | mahfouz |
| with fire | polish |
| captain ahab in moby | melville |
| aloysius | brideshead revisited |
| daniel defoe | plague |
| owen meany | baseball |
| white noise | delillo |
| wikipedia | thoreau |
| "a worn path." | welty |
| "one art," | villanelle |
| "the flea." | donne |
xury | defoe |
| "the gift of the magi." | henry |
| "don juan in hell" | shaw |
| the misanthrope | moliere |
| "story" | sailor |
| "no" | eco |
| "superman comes to the supermarket." | kennedy |
| katherina | taming of the |
| kuchuk hanem | orientalism |
| roxane | cyrano |
| jane | bennet |
| ulrich | saki |
| "the open window." | saki |
| daisy buchanan | fitzgerald |
| nyx | erebus |
| "i could not love thee (dear) so much / love'd i not honor more" | lovelace |
| "footnote" | ginsberg |
| clarissa | richardson |
| "april is the cruelest month," | eliot |
| "curfew tolls the knell of parting day." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| shalamar | song of solomon |
| henry hudson | irving |
| "sunday morning" | stevens |
| czechia | kundera |
| william golding | lord of the flies |
| william riggan | lazarillo de tormes |
| albert camus | france |
| elizabeth costello | coetzee |
| house on eccles street | coetzee |
| hindley | heathcliff |
| "patels" | tiger |
| "guantanamera." | cuba |
| stephen crane | open boat |
quo vadis | polish |
| aunt agatha | jeeves |
| dodge | buried child |
| god of vengeance | yiddish |
| arapesh | three musketeers |
ralph (no last name, protagonist) | lord of the flies |
| veronal | romeo and juliet |
| death comes for the archbishop | cather |
| jean marie latour | cather |
| glass bead games | hesse |
| "sit in one of the dives on fifty-second street" | auden |
| "crust and sugar over, / like a syrupy sweet?" | harlem renaissance |
| "die soon." | brooks |
| "jazz june," | brooks |
| anne carson | autobiography of red |
| joy luck club | tan |
| malaprop | sheridan |
| yalta | chekhov |
| laertes | polonius |
| luigi | mario |
| fernando pessoa | portuguese |
| mikhail bulgakov | master and margarita |
| pontius pilate | master and margarita |
| matsuo basho | haiku |
| linton | wuthering heights |
| olunde | soyinka |
| sidi | soyinka |
| curly | lennie |
| modest proposal | swift |
joseph garcin | no exit |
| dark | bradbury |
| dover beach | arnold |
| heinrich heine | german |
| long goodbye | roth |
| top girls | joan |
| georges bizet | carmen |
konstantin treplev | the seagull |
| captain beatty | fahrenheit 451 |
| oedipa maas | pynchon |
| "la belle dame sans merci," | keats |
| "a thing of beauty is a joy forever." | keats |
| harry hope | iceman cometh |
| angel flores | universal history of infamy |
| ruben dario | ocampo |
| ragin | ward number 6 |
| caspar goodwood | james |
| "paper war." | fielding |
| adso of melk | name of the rose |
| isabel archer | james |
| slouching towards bethlehem | didion |
| notes of a native son | baldwin |
| in julia ward howe | atlantic |
| "light the kettle." | dumb waiter |
gwendolyn brooks | we real cool |
| francis a. | lampedusa |
| apollonian | nietzsche |
| "carol" | oleanna |
| senghor | academie |
albertine | in search of lost time |
| duke of cornwall | regan |
| "tonight i can write the saddest lines." | neruda |
| erich remarque | all quiet on the western front |
| tezcatlipoca | quetzalcoatl |
| passage to india | forster |
| harry haller | mozart |
| leonard bast | forster |
mustapha mond | brave new world |
| baldur | loki |
| the stranger | camus |
| kristine linde | doll's |
| cronos | hestia |
| hestia | apollo |
| out of africa | dinesen |
| "god is dead" | nietzsche |
germinal | zola |
| midgard serpent | jormungand |
| lorde | brooks |
| "who are mostly good" | brooks |
"after apple-picking." | frost |
| mill on the floss | eliot |
| mathilde | maupassant |
| dorothy | wordsworth |
| "bent double, like old beggars under sacks," | owen |
| dogberry | much ado about nothing |
| "the old lie." | owen |
| mictlantecuhtli | underworld |
| jose marti | cuba |
| "holy" | ginsberg |
| "strange meeting" | owen |
| esperanza cordero | house on mango street |
| boris pasternak | doctor zhivago |
| "summoner" | venice |
| hymir | jormungand |
| "country" | snow |
| bigger thomas | native |
| boris max | native |
"mistah kurtz--he dead." | heart of darkness |
| "spleen and ideal" | baudelaire |
| ganya | parvati |
| beneatha | raisin in the sun |
| winterset | sacco |
| "the mother" | brooks |
| versos sencillos | marti |
eatonville | their eyes were watching god |
| prospect garden | dream of the red chamber |
| war of the worlds | radio |
isabel allende | the house of the spirits |
| betty | crucible |
| future king | white |
| simon stimson | choir |
blake | "the tyger" |
| candy darling | of mice and men |
| victor frankenstein | william |
| goriot | balzac |
| shirazi | hafez |
| marius | les |
| john proctor | crucible |
| "now you will not swell the rout of lads that wore their honors out." | housman |
| coleman barks | rumi |
| dua lipa | pachinko |
| edna pontellier | awakening |
| stephen | joyce |
| chimamanda adichie | nigeria |
| thomas shadwell | jonson |
| most of wheatley | religious |
| "poems on various subjects," | religious |
| hopscotch | cortazar |
| annie | brooks |
| "to the virgins, to make much of time." | rose |
| hanno | buddenbrooks |
| mccann | pinter |
| cantos | pound |
| an american pastoral | roth |
| knight of the white moon | cervantes |
| sci-fi | mcewan |
| leonora | pirandello |
| "the outcasts of poker flat" | harte |
| "goblin market." | rossetti |
| "theater of the absurd" | beckett |
| "the memory of you emerges from the night around me" | neruda |
| coalhouse walker | ragtime |
| cat's cradle | vonnegut |
| "work." | grass |
| rhinoceros | ionesco |
| smiths | ionesco |
| "grass" | tin drum |
| margaret atwood | handmaid's tale |
| streetcar named desire | williams |
| "paul revere's ride." | longfellow |
| ayodhya | ramayana |
| haidee | don juan |
| "just right." | granta |
king hedley ii | wilson |
| valentine | mephistopheles |
| robert louis stevenson | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
toru okada | murakami |
| denver | beloved |
| son | giver |
| sweet home | beloved |
| negro theatre unit | wilson |
| clare quilty | lolita |
| gabriel lajeunesse | longfellow |
| tristram shandy | sterne |
| toby | sterne |
| llareggub | thomas |
infinite jest | david foster wallace |
| briony tallis | atonement |
| "sapos" | deities |
| thomasina coverly | arcadia |
| belacqua shuah | beckett |
| algonquin round table | parker |
"the sons of la malinche" | paz |
| other ibsen | when we dead awaken |
| "if winter comes, can spring be far behind?" | ode to the west wind |
| fury | faulkner |
bundrens | faulkner |
| henry iv | pirandello |
| yoknapatawpha county | faulkner |
| blind assassin | atwood |
| pip | great expectations |
| "look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" | ozymandias |
| "the war years." | sandburg |
| dulcinea | don quixote |
| "tam o' shanter" | burns |
| jekyll | stevenson |
| tirant lo blanch | don quixote |
| mirgorod | viy |
| anne bradstreet | fire |
| lensky | pushkin |
| "if-," | kipling |
| animal farm | orwell |
miss havisham | great expectations |
les rougon-macquart | zola |
| "the robbers" | schiller |
| ira aldridge | lord chamberlain |
| velutha | roy |
"leda and the swan" | yeats |
| east egg | great gatsby |
| chapter 9 | doubloon |
| ammu | god of small things |
| mademoiselle reisz | chopin |
| janie crawford | their eyes were watching god |
| "desiree's baby," | chopin |
| yul | korean |
| aziz | passage to india |
| cornudet | german |
| exeter book | old english |
disgrace | coetzee |
| o'brien | vietnam |
| nine feet | paint |
| capote | lee |
children of gebelawi | mahfouz |
| karen | andersen |
| dog years | grass |
| al-jawad | mahfouz |
| robert herrick | rose |
| spirit of evil | yiddish |
| millay | candle |
| "ode to joy." | schiller |
| unaccustomed earth | lahiri |
| mustafa sa | othello |
| stranger in a strange land | heinlein |
| seamus heaney | beowulf |
| ministry of utmost happiness | roy |
| j.r.r. tolkien | beowulf |
| larissa | perseus |
| caedmon | bede |
| chris | anna christie |
| main street | lewis |
| manuel puig | argentina |
| ann deever | all my sons |
| angry penguins | australia |
"done because we are too menny" | jude the obscure |
| "blind eyes" | thomas |
| il filostrato | boccaccio |
| thomas hardy | far from the madding |
| wise blood | o'connor |
| "the discourager of hesitancy." | sword |
"prince charming" | the picture of dorian gray |
| importance of being earnest | wilde |
| erlynne | wilde |
| "you who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes" | laura |
| "easter, 1916." | yeats |
| red sammy | o'connor |
| with coleridge | wordsworth |
| "camera eye" | dos passos |
| "an aged man is but a paltry thing" | yeats |
| josef lada | schweik |
| echidna | typhon |
| "carpe diem," | horace |
| maryse conde | tituba |
| mayor of casterbridge | hardy |
| walter scott | frederick |
| "sympathy." | caged bird |
| "miracle" | kingsolver |
| "and did those feet in ancient time / walk upon england's mountains green?" | blake |
| eilif | brecht |
| sentimental education | flaubert |
| cannery row | steinbeck |
| "once upon a midnight dreary" | raven |
brobdingnag | gulliver's travels |
"comedies of menace" | pinter |
| tagore | gitanjali |
| alquist | czech |
| "swann's way" | in search of lost time |
| "by the shores of gitche gumee." | song of hiawatha |
| "a very old man with enormous wings." | garcia marquez |
| natyashastra | kalidasa |
| "mac flecknoe." | dryden |
| nell | unhappiness |
| "what women most desire." | wife of bath |
| roland | charlemagne |
| buendia | garcia marquez |
under the gaslight | sister carrie |
| "pere goriot" | balzac |
spiritual couplets | rumi |
(translated by) edward fitzgerald | rubaiyat |
| lost world | doyle |
| r. b. bennett | big brother |
| lady rowena | ivanhoe |
| far from the madding crowd | hardy |
mayday | gilead |
| kattrin | brecht |
| purgatorio | divine comedy |
| bill tanner | bond |
| lady of the lake | scott |
| kingsley amis | bond |
the gulag archipelago | solzhenitsyn |
| burchell | vicar of wakefield |
| roberto marx | on the road |
| "ode on a distant prospect of eton college." | gray |
| philae | moliere |
| "hell screen" | akutagawa |
| jack kerouac | road |
| ludovico | clockwork orange |
| cathay | li |
| "pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo" | grass |
| wisconsin to chicago | dreiser |
| mary pereira | rushdie |
| trafalmadore | slaughterhouse-five |
| murder on the orient express | christie |
| algernon swinburne | sappho |
| pen translation prize | mann |
| "relax. concentrate. dispel every other thought." | if on a winter's night |
| "the river-merchant's wife." | li |
| doctor pangloss | candide |
| criseyde | chaucer |
| p. lovecraft | lovecraft |
| "cogwheels" | akutagawa |
| ceyx | chaucer |
| tita | esperanza |
| book of the duchess | chaucer |
| diana | knight |
| sir gawain | knight |
| tang dynasty | li |
| matteo boiardo | chile |
| maphia | saramago |
| "what have i got in my pocket?" | bilbo |
| ndotsheni | cry, the beloved country |
| bleak house | dickens |
| "mignon" | goethe |
| "so much depends / upon" | red wheelbarrow |
| stone raft | saramago |
| pindar | herodotus |
| kingdom hearts | mock turtle |
the hundred years' war | agincourt |
| ister | river |
| life of pi | tiger |
| melville | moby-dick |
| piazza tales | benito |
| sugar street | egypt |
| mark hopkins | sonnet |
| "like a dog" | kafka |
| go set a watchman | lee |
| sarajevo | black hand |
| "sound [his] barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" | whitman |
| "pirate" | banana |
| gregor samsa in the metamorphosis | kafka |
| john suckling | cavalier |
| tanya | gorky |
swiss cheese | brecht |
| lucasta | lovelace |
| bernard nightingale | byron |
the birth of tragedy | nietzsche |
| angelica | orlando |
| "sun moon stars rain" | cummings |
| lord orville | burney |
| while in argentina | autobiography of red |
| rosaura | esperanza |
| act 5 | ars |
| one of plautus | soldier |
| "the eagles" | okigbo |
| shu | romance of the three kingdoms |
| thomas pynchon | gravity's rainbow |
| "come buy, come buy." | rossetti |
| "song of great capitulation." | brecht |
| in the old east slavic | bogatyr |
| vseslav of polotsk | bogatyr |
| riddle of the sands | thirty-nine steps |
"turning and turning in the widening gyre" | yeats |
makak | walcott |
| yasunari kawabata | snow |
| prospero | tempest |
| leatherstocking tales | cooper |
| james boswell | johnson |
| reverend edward casaubon | middlemarch |
| katy | disgrace |
| dictionary of the english language | johnson |
| wings | demian |
| michael furey | dead |
| corporal lestrade | walcott |
| jimmy | factorial |
| robert browning | dubliners |
| clara del valle | allende |
| herbie | detroit |
| sabina | unbearable lightness of being |
| batman | scooby |
| alexanderplatz | berlin |
| nikos kazantzakis | greek |
| the custom-house | scarlet letter |
| paul verlaine | rimbaud |
rawdon crawley | vanity fair |
| in jesmyn ward | as i lay dying |
| "was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?" | helen |
| "wicked" | decameron |
| ern malley | australia |
| "clouds" | sleepy hollow |
| arturo | brecht |
| "hurry up please it's time," | waste land |
| tevye the milkman | yiddish |
| saleem | singer |
| "shantih shantih shantih" | waste land |
| consuelo | sand |
| tale of igor | pushkin |
| "illusion" | japanese |
| angellica bianca | behn |
| frou-frou | vronsky |
| "every angel is terrifying." | duino elegies |
| those who leave | italian |
| "why is a raven like a writing desk?" | hatter |
| room with a view | forster |
| country of the pointed firs | maine |
| alvita | jamaica |
| roy hobbs | baseball player |
| von essen | strindberg |
| kamel daoud | meursault |
| kiyoaki | snow |
| esther | bell jar |
| "tell me why / this goblin honor which the world adores / should make men atheists and not women whores" | cavalier |
| "nightfall." | science fiction |
| alison | wife of bath |
| shropshire | housman |
| hawk in the rain | plath |
| birthday letters | plath |
| mario vargas llosa | julia |
| all god | maya |
| children need traveling shoes | maya |
| samuel taylor coleridge | romanticism |
| central london hatchery | brave new |
| "twenty-six men and a girl." | gorky |
| lady chatterley | lawrence |
| rockwell kent | moby-dick |
| "royal" | underground |
| father lorenzo | betrothed |
| "fever" | italy |
| daisy miller | james |
| illustrated man | bradbury |
| castle of crossed destinies | calvino |
| darkness at noon | koestler |
"sun stone" | paz |
"willow of crystal, a poplar of water" | paz |
| age of innocence | wharton |
| conditioning center | brave new |
the persians | aeschylus |
| peter walsh | mrs |
| sally seton at bourton | mrs. dalloway |
| hercule poirot | christie |
| hulot | cousine bette |
| john anderton | minority report |
| primus | czech |
| william henry | hammer |
| karel capek | robot |
| andria | terence |
| ipek | pamuk |
| richard lovelace | cavalier |
| farmer boldwood | gabriel |
| rover | behn |
| matilda | dahl |
| paradiso | divine comedy |
| martian chronicles | bradbury |
| regina | education |
| harriet smithson | emma |
| dorine | loyal |
| in the return of the native | hardy |
| "it's not that way, it's over here" | bald soprano |
| "the caballero's way" | henry |
"the plums that were in the icebox" | william carlos williams |
| "asphodel, that greeny flower." | williams |
| austerlitz | sebald |
| journey to the west | buddha |
| "durer: innsbruck, 1495." | australia |
| golden key | italy |
| tom jones | fielding |
| "shall i compare thee to a summer's day?" | 14 |
| "mother to son." | hughes |
"soul has grown deep" | langston hughes |
| "a game of chess" | eliot |
| "a terrible beauty is born" | yeats |
| "things fall apart, the center cannot hold" | yeats |
| hazel motes | o'connor |
| aston villa | gus |
| giovanni bononcini | tweedledee |
| confessions of a mask | mishima |
| "hidden carvings and inscriptions." | tolkien |
| inklings | tolkien |
| "storm trooper," | norwegian wood |
| trina | paint |
| silas lapham | howells |
| the dunciad and the | pope |
| voss | white |
| vaclav havel | czech |
| "follow the leader" | melville |
| san dominick | melville |
| "city of the big shoulders" | sandburg |
| "tossing their heads in a sprightly dance." | daffodil |
| john byrom | tweedledee |
| the trial | kafka |
| lyle | blues for mister charlie |
| "spiritual victories." | china |
| nurse ratched | mental hospital |
| northrop frye | tyger |
| "thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure" | tagore |
| widow wycherly | heidegger |
| gascoigne | heidegger |
| zadie smith | mouse |
| "fog" | sandburg |
| "who made thee?" | blake |
the grand inquisitor | the brothers karamazov |
"the fall of the house of usher" | poe |
| "rest," | herbert |
leslie hotson | marlowe |
| pelayo | crab |
| flowers of evil | baudelaire |
| "as slow as the tolling of a death knell" | watch |
| "little poems in prose." | lazarus |
| "brazen giant of greek fame." | new colossus |
miss (rebecca) jessel | the turn of the screw |
| bly | the turn of the |
| the master and margarita | bulgakov |
| peter quint | turn of the screw |
| toru | wind-up bird chronicle |
| along with leon damas | senghor |
| mita banerjee | hawthorne |
| athos | three musketeers |
| a and darkness | sword in the stone |
| captain cat | thomas |
| gavroche | hugo |
| alejandra pizarnik | argentina |
| elephant of the bastille | argot |
| "place of many trees." | kilmer |
| "remembrances," | raven |
| abraham cowley | ode |
| "on a grecian urn." | ode |
| "why was i allowed to come this far and see sand and trees" | open boat |
| book iii of the faerie queene | spenser |
| nine novels | ballard |
| archie jones | smith |
| "guilt and innocence" | hitler |
| hairy ape | provincetown players |
| valeria luiselli | brodsky |
| "in memoriam a.h.h." | tennyson |
| idylls of the king | tennyson |
hafez | persian |
| meg | little women |
| rasnolnikov | dostoyevsky |
| thanatos | freud |
| "the murders in the rue morgue." | poe |
| in a sharon olds | body |
"if music be the food of love, play on." | twelfth night |
| lovewit | alchemist |
| "my mother is a fish." | as i lay |
| in luigi pirandello | six characters in search of an author |
the cider house rules | john irving |
homer wells | the cider house rules |
| "scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115" | cooper |
good-bye to all that | graves |
| morgiana | arabic |
| "rural trilogy." | lorca |
| "green, how i want you green." | lorca |
| caryl churchill | joan |
| pnin | nabokov |
| jew of malta | marlowe |
| torvald | doll's |
| vi of this work | aeneid |
| the player | rosencrantz |
| mersault | stranger |
| polybus | oedipus |
| firs | chekhov |
| alexander search | portuguese |
| amaterasu | tsukuyomi |
| atonement | mcewan |
| eva st | sophie's choice |
| "at five in the afternoon." | lorca |
| "stunning blow upon the back of the neck" | bierce |
| "the lake isle of innisfree." | yeats |
| "some mute inglorious milton" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| dancer | easter, 1916 |
| shimamura | kawabata |
| brecht | distancing |
| anne frank | russian |
| "anna livia plurabelle" | beckett |
| anna livia | finnegans wake |
| john dowell | good soldier |
| rilke | first |
| eco | baudolino |
| lazarus | crime and punishment |
| mason city | willie |
| anubis | answer |
| laius | jocasta |
| thomas dixon | lucky |
"batter my heart, three person'd god" | donne |
| "pamper'd swells with one blood made of two." | donne |
| madame loisel | maupassant |
| both raju | narayan |
| "the gift outright" | frost |
| gentleman with the thistledown hair | clarke |
| jonathan strange | clarke |
| norrell | clarke |
| "walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across america." | rockland |
| "horses' heads/ were pointed toward eternity." | dickinson |
| tale of a tub | swift |
| hussein mosque | palace |
americanah | adichie |
savage detectives | bolano |
| "civil disobedience." | thoreau |
| gustave dore | windmill |
| tsitsi dangarembga | zimbabwe |
| "dear and loving husband." | bradstreet |
| "pale kings and princes too." | keats |
| julien sorel | stendhal |
the charterhouse of parma | stendhal |
| tales of soldiers | bierce |
| "pied beauty." | hopkins |
| don segundo sombra | gaucho |
| tenth muse lately sprung up in america | bradstreet |
| havana harbor | spy |
| aleksandr pushkin | russian |
| ned land | nautilus |
| jules verne | nautilus |
| "all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" | beauty |
| romantic british | keats |
| north of boston | frost |
thomas wentworth higginson | emily dickinson |
| mabel loomis todd | letters |
| bologna to rome | stendhal |
| "kindly stopped for me." | because i could not stop for death |
"birches" | frost |
| "held but just ourselves and immortality." | because i could not stop for death |
| pinter | birthday party |
| glenarvon | lamb |
| day of the locust | west |
| "ode to aphrodite." | sappho |
| catullus | sappho |
| apuleius | golden ass |
"to althea, from prison" | richard lovelace |
| "puddle-wonderful." | cummings |
| romance of the three kingdoms | china |
| elka | singer |
| charlotte perkins gilman | the yellow wallpaper |
| pablo ibbieta | sartre |
| jack tanner | shaw |
| adolphus cusins | shaw |
| andrew undershaft | shaw |
| salvation army | shaw |
| easter uprising | yeats |
| saul bellow | chicago |
| moomins | hitler |
| carlos daneri | borges |
| lenore | raven |
| johann wolfgang | schiller |
| brer rabbit | johnson |
| ugo foscolo | napoleon |
emily webb | our town |
| monterey | steinbeck |
| "childe roland to the dark tower came." | browning |
| maggie | crane |
| newgate prison | defoe |
| "the bride comes to yellow sky" | crane |
| "nothing gold can stay" | frost |
| "mighty and dreadful" | donne |
| alcyoneus | giants |
| "angelheaded hipsters" | ginsberg |
| "red thoughts and his teeth were white." | saki |
| english patient | ondaatje |
| big sea | hughes |
| weena | time |
| "star-cross'd lovers." | romeo and juliet |
death with interruptions | saramago |
| cincinnati | beloved |
| "how cunningly" | tell-tale heart |
| "mute, inglorious." | milton |
"in vacant or pensive mood," | wordsworth |
| columbia university | boas |
| darwish | hebrew |
| shi nai | water margin |
| takehiro | tajomaru |
| brian de bois-gilbert | knight |
| travels | swift |
| myrna minkoff | confederacy of |
| "i bathed in the euphrates when dawns were young." | hughes |
| "nature" | emerson |
| all quiet on the western front | remarque |
| paul d | beloved |
| hunchback of notre dame | esmeralda |
| paquette | esmeralda |
| quasimodo | esmeralda |
| "boule de suif" | maupassant |
| john montague | hill house |
| "better after death" | how do i love thee |
| lewis carroll | through the looking glass |
"someones married their everyones" | cummings |
| "within the mind of god" | our town |
| fair haven | utopia |
| one chinese | creation |
the thinkery | the clouds |
| "you are sane" | dickinson |
| "bigguns" | samneric |
| "[one event] in june, corn be heavy soon." | jackson |
| "benjamin" | animal farm |
| "stasis in darkness/then the substanceless blue." | plath |
| prince dakkar | verne |
| apprenticeship | goethe |
| father zosima | alyosha |
| guitar | song of solomon |
| duino elegies | rilke |
| dowson | long day's journey into night |
| thornton wilder | our town |
| carlson | of mice and men |
| william collins | pride and prejudice |
| fire in the steppe | polish |
| sword | polish |
| "the golden shovel." | brooks |
august strindberg (country) | sweden |
| "merrie england," | lucky |
| "hope is a thing with feathers" | dickinson |
| "i heard a fly buzz when i died," | dickinson |
| marquis | carter |
| p. g. wodehouse | jeeves |
| amy kelly | beloved |
| v-2 | pynchon |
| fatima | radio |
trueba | the house of the spirits |
| gordon | plath |
| shelley levene | mamet |
| "the litanies of satan." | flower |
| "karawane" | dada |
| "wave" | stephen |
| percival | lord of the flies |
| rossetti | carols |
| go tell it on the mountain | baldwin |
| dubois | misanthrope |
| alceste | sonnet |
| mules and men | hurston |
| okeechobee | hurston |
| eva luna | allende |
| slaughterhouse-five | vonnegut |
| "do i contradict myself?" | song of myself |
| wilfred owen | dulce et decorum est |
| angelo mancuso | ignatius |
| "bad taste" | ignatius |
| bathsheba everdene | far from the madding |
| d'artagnan first | three musketeers |
| porthos | three musketeers |
| falstaff | shakespeare |
| martin fierro | argentina |
| benedick | beatrice |
| roger chillingworth | scarlet letter |
| beat generation | ginsburg |
equus | horse |
| james weldon johnson | autobiography |
| orangedrink lemondrink man | india |
| nikolai chernyshevsky | dostoyevsky |
| "art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, and dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell." | death |
| polly | magician's nephew |
| enchanted hunters | lolita |
| "nymphets" | lolita |
| baby suggs | beloved |
| "to whom i was like to give offense" | walls |
| "i hate and i love." | elegy |
| "babette's feast," | dinesen |
| "one beauty." | hair |
| jake blount | heart is a lonely |
| "true daughter of old time" | poe |
| transcendent kingdom | mouse |
| "to a mouse." | burns |
| "i'm truly sorry man's dominion / has broken nature's social union" | burns |
| jenny lind | andersen |
| minnehaha | longfellow |
| "newsreel" | dos passos |
| lieutenant jimmy cross | vietnam |
| haunting of hill house | jackson |
| before antony | ambitious |
| henry louis gates | douglass |
| gerard de nerval | eliot |
| "september 1st, 1939" | auden |
| echo | satyr |
| neva river | pushkin |
| nicholas snub | berganza |
| sacramental melodrama | genet |
| urashima taro | aging |
| dreyfus | zola |
| "what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" | tyger |
| adelaide fouque | zola |
| prince korasoff | red and |
| "if ever two were one, then surely we. / if ever man were loved by wife, then thee." | loving husband |
| "things fall apart." | yeats |
| lyrical ballads | wordsworth |
| "a shape with lion body and the head of a man," | second coming |
| "too soon made glad" | browning |
| valentin | puig |
becky sharp | vanity fair |
| confessions | augustine |
| samuel | color purple |
| professor pieixoto | handmaid's tale |
| gigi | colette |
| vivien | sappho |
| isabella bird | churchill |
| true history of the kelly gang | carey |
"i rise with my red hair / and i eat men like air," | plath |
| wife of bath | chaucer |
| troilus | chaucer |
| brett ashley | the sun also |
| marjorie | hair |
| "the conquest and colonialism" | labyrinth of solitude |
| "besides the white / chickens." | red wheelbarrow |
| solzhenitsyn | gulag |
| aphra behn | dryden |
| armand | chopin |
| "oh dear! oh dear! i shall be too late!" | white |
| "jabberwocky." | carroll |
| orlando | woolf |
| dark tower | king |
| "the night dances" | ariel |
| call of the wild | london |
| "the story of an hour" | chopin |
| six gallery | howl |
| "the house of nucingen." | eugene |
| marmee | little women |
| madame hortense | zorba the greek |
| pilgrim | general prologue |
| martins | ionesco |
| johanna | sweeney |
| fitzcarraldo editions | nobel |
| joseph knecht | glass bead game |
| "sexy," | lahiri |
malone dies | beckett |
| symposium | gilead |
| child | six characters in search of an author |
| exemplary novels | cervantes |
| anne of green gables | avonlea |
| "hot water shop" | the good |
| alan breck stewart | kidnapped |
| "fond" | kiss |
| katrina van tassel | irving |
| headless horseman | irving |
| lay dying | faulkner |
| chin | woman warrior |
| cedric | ivanhoe |
| harold pinter | doctor |
| stable | china |
| sally hayes | salinger |
| "a perfect day for bananafish," | salinger |
| hanuman | ramayana |
| mansfield | bliss |
| study in scarlet | doyle |
| "new," | comedy |
| offred | handmaid's tale |
| grace ogot | kenya |
| dylar | white noise |
| horacio quiroga | uruguay |
| "guy" | giants |
| seth | winesburg |
| george willard | anderson |
| tom dacre | chimney |
| abel | antrobus |
| uncle peck | vogel |
| "know that, in a former time, love! sweet love! was thought a crime." | lost |
| marco polo | africa |
| cathy | read |
| "the plan," | eco |
| laura sheridan | mansfield |
| "does it explode?" | dream |
| bildad | pequod |
| "decolonizing the mind." | ngugi |
| lancelot | divine |
| petruchio | taming of the shrew |
| xanthias | frogs |
| london to adelaide | galsworthy |
| vidiadhar surajprasad naipaul | naipaul |
| raymonda | stranger |
| charles ryder | waugh |
| lewis theobald | pope |
| caroline lee hentz | uncle tom's cabin |
| simon legree | uncle tom's cabin |
vedas | sanskrit |
| "to build a fire," | london |
| real thing | stoppard |
| pittsburgh cycle | wilson |
| piano lesson | wilson |
| an angel at my table | mansfield |
| cavafy | greek |
| biafran war | half of a yellow sun |
| winesburg | anderson |
| amy tan | joy luck club |
| " for 10 points, name this poet who wrote " | eliot |
| "the heights of macchu picchu" | canto general |
| sarah orne jewett | maine |
| sammy | a&p |
| raphael hythloday | vespucci |
| anselmo | for whom the bell |
| "speak through my words and my blood" | machu picchu |
| battle of roncevaux pass | charlemagne |
| cosmicomics | calvino |
| middle english | sir gawain and the green knight |
| tatiana | eugene |
| henry wadsworth longfellow | divine |
| hedda gabler | ibsen |
| aunt ester | pittsburgh |
| casaubon | eco |
| gerda | buddenbrooks |
| "go" | rose |
| orlick | great expectations |
| three musketeers | dumas |
john oakhurst | harte |
| marjane satrapi | persepolis |
| rosewater | firemen |
| j. p. morgan's | firemen |
| "voodoo." | welles |
| terence | self-tormentor |
| strophe | pindar |
| william dobbin | vanity fair |
| charles arrowby | murdoch |
| salim | naipaul |
| walter pater | marius |
| joe keller | all my sons |
| all my sons | miller |
| frank stockton | sword |
| stella-rondo | welty |
| after albert | goethe |
| inn | stevenson |
| an enrique gonzalez martinez | modernism |
| "sensemaya." | hughes |
| havre | german |
| truman capote | lee |
| "sick" | rose |
| "red, red" | rose |
| anatomy of criticism | comedy |
| erika kohut | austria |
| angel esmeralda | hugo |
| grimm | tailor |
| "i love you" | soseki |
| olivia | twelfth night |
| malvolio | twelfth night |
| "marks of weakness, marks of woe" | blake |
| edmond dantes | hero |
| frances | rooney |
| "five summers, with the length / of five long winters" | wordsworth |
"before the law" | the trial |
| amaranta | buendia |
| manderley | rhododendron |
| "forethought" | chicken |
| holly golightly | breakfast at tiffany's |
| areopagitica | milton |
| "when i consider how my light is spent" | milton |
| todd | waugh |
| friedrich nicolai | werther |
| melissa | egypt |
| "must cultivate our gardens." | candide |
| steven spielberg | schindler |
| narayana | english |
| ben gardner | grendel |
| "the skin of our teeth" | wilder |
| chebutykin | three sisters |
| three sisters | chekhov |
| "battle royal." | invisible man |
cleante | tartuffe |
| starkfield | ethan frome |
| "i shall be as dirty as i please: and i like to be dirty, and i will be dirty." | wuthering heights |
| "strove to resuscitate the dead art/of poetry" | pound |
| tiurin | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| morelli | cortazar |
| edgar | fairy tale |
| "blow-up." | cortazar |
| markus zusak | book thief |
| "sly animals" | rilke |
| macflecknoe | dryden |
| parasha | bronze horseman |
| "truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true." | dream of the red chamber |
| kate | dead |
| goldberg | pinter |
| my antonia | cather |
| ishtar | bull |
| "parthenope" | siren |
| "to be or not to be" | get thee to a |
| poisonwood bible | kingsolver |
| reverend samuel parris | crucible |
| "the black plague" | decameron |
| tres marias | allende |
| "the battle hymn of the republic," | atlantic |
| rime of the ancient mariner | coleridge |
| "nothing will come of nothing." | lear |
| coleman silk | roth |
| "the quest for relevance" | africa |
| "the hollow men" | eliot |
| coast of utopia | stoppard |
| jack worthing | wilde |
| yonville | madame bovary |
| swift | a modest |
| han kang | south korea |
| vegetarian | south korea |
| scrooge | fezziwig |
the house of bernarda alba | federico garcia lorca |
| urania | keats |
| juno | caliban |
| "commodore" | oiler |
| "smith" | john |
| mnemosyne | keats |
| white album | murder |
| bianca | tutor |
| times of michael | coetzee |
| life & k | coetzee |
| "had we but world enough and time." | "to his coy mistress" |
| willy loman | death of a salesman |
| "mere oblivions, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." | jaques |
| human stain | roth |
| classics | roth |
| bessie | native |
| sandra cisneros | mexican |
| "you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman." | much ado about nothing |
| metamorphosis | kafka |
| charles darnay | tale of two cities |
| khayyam | jug of wine |
| vittoria | aunt |
| "three blind mice" | christie |
| "the end and the beginning." | grass |
| turk | johnson |
| thomas mann | italy |
| mario | italy |
| literary club | johnson |
| umberto eco | name of the rose |
| gilbert osmond | portrait of a |
| "latter-day scarlett o'hara" | gone with the wind |
| peter matthiessen | everest |
| "white sickness" | saramago |
| isaac | things fall apart |
| behn | letter |
| imoinda | behn |
| "homeric" | hymn |
| "beside the white chickens" | wheelbarrow |
| "black as cain, may be refined, and join th' angelic train." | wheatley |
| w.b. yeats | easter rising |
| "only connect." | forster |
| drang | sorrows of |
| elie wiesel | night |
guest (character) | strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde |
| four great novels | china |
| "a love story," | didion |
| "endymion," | keats |
| trigorin | checkhov |
| ursula | garcia |
| novalis | german |
| george sand | flaubert |
| panfilo, filostrato | decameron |
| lakunlerefuses | soyinka |
| nelly dean | wuthering heights |
snow country | kawabata |
| "the dancing girl of izu" | kawabata |
| charles tansley | to the lighthouse |
| kahnk | things fall apart |
| theophile gautier | art for art's sake |
| dragon king | journey to the west |
| weston | emma |
| oregon state penitentiary | mailer |
| song | mailer |
elegant effendi | istanbul |
| magic theater | hesse |
| ecgtheow | beowulf |
| earl of gloucester | king |
| friends of the abc | javert |
| silappatikaram | tamil |
| clavdia chauchat | mann |
| harriet winslow | old gringo |
| phaedrus | aesop |
| "the sisters," | dublin |
| gesta danorum | snorri |
| raskolnikov in crime | dostoevsky |
| "sink through the sea ... shall rise again" | thomas |
| "though lovers be lost love shall not." | thomas |
| "a temporary matter" | lahiri |
| gunpowder | irving |
| brom bones | irving |
| "embalmed" | anubis |
| mcteague | paint |
| colonus | antigone |
| gabriela mistral | chile |
| in book | life of pi |
| lord of the rings | tolkien |
| "they asked 'do you love her to death?' i said 'speak of her over my grave and watch how she bringsme back to life.'" | darwish |
| "oh shame upon the earth! apollo, apollo!" | cassandra |
| "for gawd's sake git the water!" | gunga din |
| "the angel of the battlefield." | geneva |
| "hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind." | autumn |
| "these pretzels are making me thirsty." | kramer |
"he prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast." | "the rime of the ancient mariner" |
| "o shades of night--o moody, tearful night!" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "o harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| loved one | waugh |
| mistress overdone | vienna |
| "delicate ship" | icarus |
| ken kesey | mental hospital |
| "prenez garde a tchou-tchin-tchou" | stepdaughter |
| lords of xibalba | ball game |
emma tennant | henry james |
| the 's bastard | jane eyre |
| "avenged in part for lifelong hidings she has had to bear." | hayden |
| "willingly would make rubbish of the earth." | reader |
| "sitting careless" | autumn |
| clara wieland | spontaneous combustion |
| elizabeth barrett browning | if thou must love me |
| meyer wolfsheim | great gatsby |
| james chettam | middlemarch |
| "doctor's wife," | blindness |
| mo yan | china |
| chief bromden | mental hospital |
| randle patrick mcmurphy | mental hospital |
| arnold friend | car |
| "marry me." | gabriel |
| "passport made." | st. crispin's day |
| "the violence of beast on beast is read as natural law, but upright man seeks his divinity by inflicting pain." | far cry from africa |
| "he which hath no stomach to this fight" | st. crispin's day |
| "glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens" | williams |
| "thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" | stevens |
| "going to nassau." | enormous radio |
| walter williams | parker |
| parcae | fate |
| "looking down into the swift water twenty feet below" | peyton |
| " out of the " | flowers of evil |
| "fluid puddings," | james |
| "you have only to ask, i will do anything" | cry, the beloved country |
| "laws of inevitability" | war and peace |
| "muddied people" | styx |
| "enchanted magician" | lazarus |
| "heart-broken jester" | lazarus |
| "there should be no more than half a dozen people on the roof at any time." | cider house rules |
| "you can't fly kites on rainy days" | south |
| fugard | island |
| "suffering is one very long moment . . . we cannot divide it into seasons." | de profundis |
| "talent is nothing but faith in yourself, in your own powers." | actor |
| pater jakobus | castalia |
| sidney herbert | holy sonnets |
| "chivalry" | romance |
| tang sanzang | buddha |
| "there should be stars for great wars" | cisneros |
| "one last poem for richard." | cisneros |
| "ethnic" | ventriloquism |
| charles condomine | ghost |
| noel coward | ghost |
| charles marlow | heart of darkness |
| "clerk's tale" | decameron |
| "not to be born at all is best . . . for envy, sedition, strife, carnage, and war make up the tale of life." | oedipus at colonus |
| "turning point" | bleak house |
| baroness orczy | guillotined |
| ted streshinsky in the saturday evening post | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "a modest proposal." | irish |
| "the great moderation." | hippolytus |
| "fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic." | chandler |
| big sleep | philip |
| an experiment in criticism | reader |
| "response" | reader |
| "birds of prey" | marvell |
| "sweet sensations" | conversation |
| "ennobling thoughts," | conversation |
| "the slut you are so bent on becoming." | kincaid |
| "process of alienation." | kikuyu |
| abashvili | azdak |
| "work'us" | oliver twist |
| noah claypole | oliver twist |
| nanny | mule |
| flash gordon | mysterious flame of queen loana |
| khepri | ra |
| k. chesterton | chesterton |
| "the tortoise and the hare." | aesop |
| "the tomb in palestine / is not the porch of spirits lingering." | sunday morning |
| "command me to follow him." | we must love one another or die |
| olenin | cossacks |
| "that vast moth-eaten musical brocade / created to pretend we never die." | larkin |
| casa alvisi | venice |
| italian hours | venice |
| caucasian chalk circle | brecht |
| "tristi fummo." | styx |
| love in the time of cholera | garcia marquez |
| "plunged holding his treasure?" | suicide |
| kumiko | murakami |
| "loose, baggy monsters" | james |
| "and you'll be marching with the band / in step, responding to command" | brecht |
| aethiopia | greek |
| dog in the manger | aesop |
| "beware the ides of march." | julius |
| "would adore my gifts instead of me." | herbert |
| king albert | suicide |
| "not finding yourself at the age of 34 is a disgrace!" | death of a |
| "to understand thoroughly and intuitively" | grok |
| sexual suspect | world according |
| world according to garp | irving |
| sair | sonnet |
| lukashka | cossacks |
| genaro jr | radionovela |
| karl huysmans | nana |
| "as she undoubtedly will be." | nana |
| joris | nana |
| "hope had grown grey hairs" | wreck of the deutschland |
| ee-un | sonnet |
| "brightening" | mask |
| on the shadow side | hulme |
| kerewin | hulme |
| "rocks and seas" | conversation |
| "the combs of a smother of sand" | wreck of the deutschland |
| "the art of dying well." | lady lazarus |
| marabar caves | passage to india |
| englishwoman adela quested | passage to india |
| maryanka | cossacks |
| and the world kept silent | night |
| hwalbindang | korean |
| "dame peace" | parliament of fowls |
| "dame patience" | parliament of fowls |
| keri hulme | new zealand |
| "lumps in the throat" | frost |
| "toward expression . . . to fulfillment." | frost |
| "twinned novels" | hulme |
| captain vhd vhd | cosmicomics |
| "oh, what a tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive" | scott |
| "ancient pond" | haiku |
| "epigram" | russian |
| osip mandelstam | stalin |
| nicholas rubashov | stalin |
| vincent | cry, the beloved country |
| "turn everything off. start new." | veldt |
| "go on living the life of the spirit" | lampedusa |
| torquato tasso | tancredi |
| "extricating young gussie." | jeeves |
| j. g. ballard's | ballard |
| friedrich holderlin | hymn |
| abebooks | jerome |
| kaddish | ginsberg |
| libation bearers | aegisthus |
| "nothing like a haircut could make me love you any less. but if you'll open that, you may know what i felt when i came in." | gift of the |
| "no more to say, and nothing to weep for but the beings in the dream." | kaddish |
| everything is illuminated | foer |
| extremely loud | 2001 |
| incredibly close | 2001 |
| foer | 2001 |
| national prize in literature | spanish civil |
| don fabrizio | lampedusa |
| spenserian | sonnet |
| "epic prose poem about the life of frederick the great" | death in venice |
| karl adolph gjellerup | denmark |
| henrik pontoppidan | denmark |
| in george bernard shaw | juan |
| man and superman | juan |
| "pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling" | dover beach |
| "begin, and cease, and then again begin." | dover beach |
| af-roh | hephaestus |
| adolphe | red and |
| eugene ionesco | absurd |
| rider haggard | haggard |
| "your fortune, i am now sorry to inform you, is almost nothing." | vicar of |
| she stoops to conquer | goldsmith |
| tipton grange | middlemarch |
| "old slewfoot" | yearling |
| sasuke | tanizaki |
| cypresses believe in god | spanish civil |
| "there is no end to my sickness, no term. one disaster comes to vie with another." | trojan |
| hek-yoo-bah | trojan |
| women in love | lawrence |
| ettinsmoor | narnia |
| "why you got the white mens driving and the colored lifting?" | fences |
| fire chief | bald soprano |
| "ploffskin, pluffskin, pelican jee!" | lear |
| "the pelican's chorus." | lear |
| abbe faria | dumas |
| count of monte cristo | dumas |
| frederick winterbourne | italy |
| "suspended by a handkerchief, and nearly at its last gasp." | dogs |
| skulker | dogs |
| "whether i pound or am being pounded, / all the same there will be moaning!" | peer gynt |
| chatsworth | pemberley |
| duke of angouleme | julien |
| "the original of" | pemberley |
| dukes of devonshire | pemberley |
| meletus | serpent |
| la folle | bayou |
| "beyond" | bayou |
| bayou folk | chopin |
| severo del valle | house of the |
| "those who lawfully may, and those who may not, write such histories as this" | tom |
| "i will enjoy thee now, my celia," | carew |
| "we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." | prospero |
| stephen vincent benet | webster |
| thomas kyd | pamuk |
| rostam | shahnameh |
| sohrab | pamuk |
| "chicken george" | roots |
| autobiography of malcolm | haley |
| book nine | tom |
| "so long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say." | room of |
| "is the warm smell of bread before you bake it" | house on |
| g. h | native |
| steve | show boat |
| "you might as well advise me to give up my fortune as my argument." | vicar of |
| "freely, as men strive for right" | how do i love thee |
| "torturing faces with the vacancy of wide sunflowers" | end of the party |
| "lunar race" | behn |
| on the natural history of destruction | sebald |
| emperor of the moon | behn |
| baliardo | behn |
| james wood | auster |
| "shallow graves" | auster |
| "you are my peace, my solace, my salvation; on you depends my bliss or desolation." | tartuffe |
| el-meer | tartuffe |
| inger | growth of the soil |
| knut hamsun | norway |
| "the father of five sons, and in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons." | i sing the body electric |
| "tra-la" | macneice |
| "the taxis." | macneice |
| "common farmer" | i sing the body electric |
| joseph stangerson | study in |
| colonel delmare | sand |
| raymon de ramiere | sand |
| eilert lovborg | hedda |
| "i hate and love. why i do so, perhaps you ask. i know not, but i feel it, and i am in torment." | lesbia |
| gregson | study in |
| blore | and then there |
| "butterflies, off banks of noon" | bird |
| "and the beatles' first lp" | lady chatterley's lover |
| "spanish sombrero" | smith |
| juvenal | mother-in-law |
| fulbert | idol |
| "keep the water white." | lonely londoners |
| eugene marchbanks | shaw |
| flannery o'connor's | grandmother |
| good soldier svejk | czech |
| "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county." | twain |
| gilbert kaplan | minority report |
| miss kenton | butler |
| "most loving and affectionate manner" | queequeg |
| "le mot juste," | flaubert |
| "stop calling me a crypto-nazi, or i'll sock you in the face" | debating |
| susan choi | education |
| "sexual intercourse began" | lady chatterley's lover |
| bluebeard | world war ii |
| wash williams | winesburg |
| "respectability" | winesburg |
| kate swift | winesburg |
| "autumn already!" | season in hell |
| geb | nut |
| chay | ivanhoe |
| "the smile at the foot of the ladder" | miller |
| duke of buckingham | la rochelle |
| british angry young men | 50 |
| "the right word," | flaubert |
| "the martyr of style." | flaubert |
| late bourgeois world | gordimer |
| world of strangers | gordimer |
| "drinks the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of utica." | rockland |
| "red hounds" | death |
| "on parables," | kafka |
| "if you only followed the parables," | kafka |
| "rid yourself of all your daily cares." | kafka |
| "in-laws" | race |
| "out-laws" | race |
| grey wall | swastika |
| "a low, dishonest decade." | september 1, 1939 |
| judge irwin | willie |
| "the waking" | world war ii |
| "the sandman," | hoffmann |
| spallanzani | hoffmann |
| in jean cocteau | answer |
| infernal machine | answer |
| clare hollingworth | war correspondent |
| in the postscript | name of the rose |
| "must muddle the reader's ideas, not regiment them," | name of the rose |
| "leap plashless as they swim" | bird |
| monsieur crevel | cousine bette |
| count steinbock | human comedy |
| johannes kreisler | hoffmann |
| william bradshaw | mrs |
| cal stephanides | metamorphoses |
| if on a winter | calvino |
| anneli taube | kiss of the spider woman |
| bagutta prize | manzoni |
| nicolas azcarate | cuba |
| "tobacco reading" | cuba |
| gibson | ballard |
| father paneloux | france |
| gonzalo arango | nada |
| fernando gonzales ochoa | nada |
| la violencia | nada |
| "lying in their blood," | rowlandson |
| mormons | angels in america |
| "twenty-six malignant gates," | tan |
| jing-mei | tan |
| all the king | warren |
| ejcs | hrothgar |
| "the convergence of the twain," | hardy |
| natalia ginzburg | manzoni |
| david lodge | campus |
| "not for myself alone / but for all of us, who stood there with me / in the intense cold and in july's heat / under that red and blinded wall" | akhmatova |
| "clearly doesn't" | death |
| english novel | ford |
| captain edward ashburnham | good soldier |
| serafina correa | rose |
| celeste albaret | proust |
| "hell-hounds." | rowlandson |
| enheduanna | poetry |
| audre | fourth |
| "living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy" | letters to a young poet |
| danish west indies | rhys |
| andrew lang | shoemaker |
| pink fairy book | shoemaker |
| beautiful star | mishima |
| changing places | campus |
| "love's the boy stood on the burning deck / trying to recite `the boy stood on the burning deck.'" | casabianca |
| "naked and beautiful, reaching for the light." | hospital |
| cavalcanti | dante |
| robert morison | 1918 |
| "refutation" | sand |
| jose quadrado | sand |
| "the most immoral of writers" | sand |
| "the most obscene of women." | sand |
| miss barrie | metamorphoses |
| d.j. west | kiss of the spider woman |
| duke of squamuglia | tristero |
| niccolo | tristero |
| pearl girls | testaments |
| "did god in portioning wine and bread / give man his thought or his mere body?" | michael |
| "they say such different things at school." | michael |
| "the lady of shalott." | tennyson |
| "wild" | old |
| "sages standing in god's holy fire" | old |
| william butler yeats | yeats |
| wampanoag | rowlandson |
| maria antonia garces | algiers |
| "captive's tale" | algiers |
| "ex ovo omnia" | metamorphoses |
| "everything comes out of an egg" | metamorphoses |
| "immanent will that stirs and urges everything" | hardy |
| "sinister mate" | hardy |
| rainer maria rilke | duino elegies |
| new south wales | oscar and |
| "with blue - uncertain stumbling buzz - between the light - and me." | fly |
| "mass of stupid filth." | leaves of grass |
| "are not torn down, rings and all." | scrooge |
| "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." | lady windermere's fan |
| in watermelon sugar | brautigan |
| fabrizio del dongo | stendhal |
| james gregory | italy |
| razor | maugham |
| on earth we | vietnam |
| briefly gorgeous | vietnam |
| trevor | vietnam |
| zygmunt krasinski | romantic |
| "trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." | self-reliance |
| "gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed." | god's grandeur |
| jonathan franzen | new yorker |
| "it rains in my heart." | verlaine |
| "birds of the night" | verlaine |
| "especially heinous" | machado |
| detectives benson | machado |
| special victims unit | machado |
| "might not be a normal female." | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "flame out, like shining from shook foil" | god's grandeur |
| purple land | gaucho |
| ernest dowson | gone with the wind |
| cat on a hot tin roof | williams |
| pietro bembo | italian |
| "prudence" | hippolytus |
| troezen | hippolytus |
| winter in majorca | sand |
| "nellie j. banks" | testaments |
| "but i have promises to keep, / and miles to go before i sleep" | frost |
| "my life is the gardener of my body" | hebrew |
| "in exile at sarzana." | cavalcanti |
| castorp | clavdia |
| "unrelenting forces" | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "newly awakening sexual appetite," | i know why the caged bird sings |
| futuremouse | smith |
| "shall never see a poem lovely as" | trees |
| "my long two-pointed ladder's sticking through" | trees |
| "dull" | donne |
| le voreux | germinal |
| montsou | germinal |
| maheu | germinal |
| call to arms | china |
| in william gass | hitler |
| earthly paradise in elijah | ariosto |
| astolfo | ariosto |
| village voice | off-broadway |
| obie awards | off-broadway |
| "ecstasy of fumbling" | owen |
| joshua | smith |
| aloysius bertrand | prose |
| ndiaye | france |
| "when all wells are drawn dry, / i'll drink a tear out of thine eye." | hair |
| tobias | sweeney |
| frances vane | peregrine |
| connie | lady chatterley's lover |
| "cheeks will be stained with red blood" | moon |
| "falconress" | mother |
| "gay falcon treading her wrist." | mother |
| undivine comedy | romantic |
| rene descartes | i have no mouth, and i must scream |
| "the memoirs of a lady of quality." | peregrine |
| obabakoak | basque |
| babette | lottery |
| "individuals and things" | basque |
| "interior landscape," | basque |
| marie ndiaye | france |
| "all the blond ones." | rumi |
| "lingered ... till human voices wake us, and we drown." | mermaid |
| "combing the white hair of the waves blown back" | mermaid |
| "but where are the snows of yesteryear?" | villon |
| "perfect loveliness" | dunbar |
| "garish lights, and mincing little fops / and cabarets and songs" | dunbar |
| "the lord of those dead who are dressed in red. / the man who is masked in a faceless face" | dario |
| "blond" | rumi |
| "the purloined letter" | poe |
| edward carpenter | regeneration |
| intermediate sex at craiglockhart hospital | regeneration |
| pat barker | sassoon |
| "for whom all winds are quiet as the sun, / all waters as the shore" | baudelaire |
| tapanhumas | andrade |
| hallucinated city | andrade |
| "bright-hearted companions" | rumi |
| madame l'espanaye | poe |
| "gather [these things'] buds while ye may" | rose |
| auguste dupin | purloined letter |
| christy mahon | playboy of the western world |
| "science and pseudo-science" | poe |
| carroll d. laverty | poe |
| cixin liu | invasion of earth |
| "to die for one's country" | horace |
| castle of otranto | gothic |
| "vile and inhuman story" | playboy of the western world |
| "a drift of females standing in their shifts." | playboy of the western world |
| homage to qwert yuiop | burgess |
| enderby | burgess |
| richard flanagan | narrow road to the deep north |
| dorrigo evans | narrow road to the deep north |
| pow in the pacific | narrow road to the deep north |
| philip k. dick's | invasion of earth |
| "point of departure" | universal history of infamy |
| "magical realism in spanish-american fiction." | universal history of infamy |
| flores | borges |
| "great blobs of purple and red emotion" | eatonville |
| "looked better picked than growing." | manderley |
| "panterheaded ancestors." | mask |
| george whitefield | man and superman |
| seven star precious sword | cao |
| dong zhuo | cao |
| peach garden oath | romance of the three kingdoms |
| wei | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "their hits aren't clustering" | v-2 |
| tulla pokriefke | danzig trilogy |
| dante gabriel | rubaiyat |
| "june" | chinese |
| manuel cabrera | senor |
| nine stories | esme |
| william hazlitt | king lear |
| "so thoroughly hateful that we do not even like to repeat their names." | king lear |
| georgia o'keeffe | didion |
| rosie probert | under milk wood |
| "alternate lives" | glass bead game |
| h.g. wells's | invasion of earth |
| fanny price | mansfield park |
| "many-tower'd camelot." | lady of |
| life on the mississippi | scott |
| "sham grandeurs" | scott |
| "sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society." | scott |
| water margin | golden lotus |
| "when the world screamed," | challenger |
| "the ugly duckling." | andersen |
| england in world war | graves |
| robin goodfellow | midsummer night's |
| aladdin | arabic |
| stephen breyer | fourth |
| natty bumppo | cooper |
| "the snows of kilimanjaro" | hemingway |
| "powhitetrash" | i know why |
| "white-trash" | i know why |
| steropes | cyclops |
| arges | cyclops |
| "gray-brown" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| stesichorus | autobiography of red |
| shruff end | the sea, the |
| russian at wellesley college | nabokov |
| groom | lorca |
| "for bonny sweet robin is all my joy" | ophelia |
| "men of death" | mask |
| ishmael | whale |
| vindications | book |
| silas flannery | calvino |
| yiddish policemen | chabon |
| ruyi jingu bang | sun wukong |
| "take pity on my long misery!" | baudelaire |
| brahn | cyclops |
| minta doyle | party |
| "what are you laughing about? you are laughing at yourselves!" | government inspector |
| "literary brownface" | ventriloquism |
| "my heart under your foot, sister of a stone" | bee |
| sibylline leaves | gloss |
| "the curse is finally expiated." | gloss |
| nocturnes | senghor |
| "they call us cotton heads" | mask |
| otoko | beauty and sadness |
| garden journal | hill |
| mia | camoes |
| sholem asch | yiddish |
| edward upward | isherwood |
| "clad in the beauty of a thousand stars" | helen |
| "make me immortal with a kiss." | helen |
| doctor faustus | helen |
| shino | thousand cranes |
| yun ling | mist |
| "throwing-up" | ferris wheel |
| "dormitive principle" | imaginary invalid |
| "we bend over them ... taking their breath / soft on our faces, wiping their domed brows." | whitman |
| ashkenazi jews | yiddish |
| "great soft jelly thing" | i have no mouth, and i must scream |
| "does it make any difference / what names we call these lips by, if they keep / on yielding, and the kissing never stops?" | tsvetaeva |
| theodore dreiser | howells |
| "enoch and the gorilla" | wise blood |
| ukonvasara | thor |
| robbie turner at dunkirk | atonement |
| beardsley | rape of the lock |
| "this verse" | rape of the lock |
| prayer for owen meany | irving |
| fumiko | thousand cranes |
| "sermon" | eugene |
| satine | lower depths |
| lower depths | gorky |
| arvid falk | strindberg |
| "please, sir, i want some more." | oliver twist |
| duke of illyria | twelfth night |
| fire next time | baldwin |
| hortense briggs | american |
| lady fujitsuno | tale of genji |
| emperor kiritsubo | tale of |
| lady aoi | tale of |
| bill | kidnap |
| "something there is that doesn't love" | wall |
| "all europe contributed to the making of kurtz." | heart of darkness |
| "i cover all." | grass |
| "heartbreak hotel" | handmaid's tale |
| grusha | caucasian chalk |
| dunnet landing | maine |
| "it never troubles the wolf how many sheep there be" | virgil |
| "log" | virgil |
| bertolt brecht | joan |
| bwah gil-bair | ivanhoe |
| "domestic education." | adams |
| "life," | johnson |
| "madison is banquo, jefferson's macduff, and birnam wood is congress on its way to dunsinane [dun-sin-ayn]." | macbeth |
| zahd | thousand and |
| "-kahmpf] look." | daddy |
| "well-known city engineer shot dead. assailants thought to be natives." | arthur |
| mina murray | dracula |
| goh-gan | "goodbye |
| mine | daddy |
| 52nd street | september 1, 1939 |
| "covers me like a kind of bark" | italian |
| jean morris | heart of darkness |
| tawfiq al-hakim | egypt |
| uss | ariadne |
| klahn | portrait of the artist |
| donald farfrae | mayor of |
| michael henchard | mayor of |
| run to rabbit at rest | updike |
| sublet | bayou |
| polynices | antigone |
| "waltzing matilda" | australia |
| great expectations | australia |
| "that mighty mighty tribe of johnsons." | street |
| adunis | ovid |
| "modern tragedy" | doll |
| "barbaric act of violence" | doll |
| "everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type easter egg." | updike |
| ann goldstein | ferrante |
| neapolitan novels | ferrante |
| lutie | street |
| big foot | dead |
| "our sauron, our arawn, our darkseid" | trujillo |
| "so dreadful that not even a sci-fi writer could have made him up." | trujillo |
| yunior | trujillo |
| hester | roger |
| "remembered" | updike |
| gary snyder | dharma bums |
| ray smith | dharma bums |
| "gentleman from" | bayou |
| "most perfect...for the mathematical destruction of a mortal." | infernal machine |
| mortmere | isherwood |
| fenway park | updike |
| sibyl | picture of dorian |
| "i stand no wiser than before." | heinrich |
| typee | melville |
| reizei | tale of genji |
| ray-zay | tale of genji |
| fantine | javert |
| joom | scarlet letter |
| "here" | scarlet letter |
| ferdinand de grammont | human comedy |
| westminster review | eliot |
| chingachgook | bumppo |
| matthew biggs | insomnia |
| black moon | insomnia |
| alexandrine meter | prose |
| slawomir mrozek | police |
| "swah-vo-meer m'ro-zhek" | police |
| fernand lotte | human comedy |
| "with usura" | pound |
| "the art of losing isn't hard to master" | bishop |
| hugh macdiarmid | drunk |
| sententiae | syria |
| krook | spontaneous combustion |
| hurry harry | bumppo |
| bharati university | tagore |
| aid acid test | wolfe |
| tender buttons | stein |
| "who's the dunce now?" | pope |
| malvern hills | piers plowman |
| "why do you laugh? is it because you hate the sound of laughing?" | as i lay dying |
| in karel hynek macha | lake |
| "cannot rub the strangeness from my sight / i got from looking through a pane of glass." | apple pick |
| "fake" | genji |
| "a rolling stone gathers no moss" | syria |
| "clever, disappointed man," | thomas's father |
| elizabeth bishop | villanelle |
| kabbalah | foucault's pendulum |
| jarmila | lake |
| vilem | lake |
| democratic convention in los angeles | esquire |
| electric kool | wolfe |
| cape technical university | communication |
| wally | cider house rules |
| "now come, fire!" | hymn |
| "my net is spread, my net is spread." | lion and the jewel |
| "someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the model t on the american nation." | cannery row |
| vonda mcintyre | atwood |
| talking squids in outer space | atwood |
| "parting is such sweet sorrow" | coward |
| "big blonde" | parker |
| francesco del cossa | smith |
| "thyestes" | seneca |
| "the mystery of marie roget," | poe |
| xue baochai | stone |
| tess gallagher | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| beginners | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| liked best | film |
| "why do you beckon me with your hand?" | poem without a hero |
| carl | raisin in the sun |
| dorimant | fopling |
| "fam'd for thy valour, for thy virtues more." | washington |
| brigid hughes | paris review |
| masthead | paris review |
| communists to oedipus | unbearable lightness of being |
| "for one moment of peace / i would give the peace of the tomb." | poem without a hero |
| "waiting for the barbarians" | greek |
| estupina | fortunata and jacinta |
| ahab | doubloon |
| widow wadman | toby |
| "palinurus," | crabbe |
| argalia | angelica |
| ferraguto | angelica |
| loveit | fopling |
| "glimpse of a dream smouldering in a cave" | okigbo |
| wat tyler | vidal |
| "renascence." | millay |
| new york review books | bovary |
| engelbert humperdinck | hansel and |
| h.d | rose |
| "the invisible worm that flies in the night in the howling storm," | rose |
| antistrophe | pindar |
| unquiet grave | crabbe |
| "time to gather your arse up off the floor" | banana |
| stream of love | angelica |
| "a wine chronometer," | melville |
| "the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living good drinking, and good talk." | melville |
| jean amery | bovary |
| "zhahn ah-may-ree's" | bovary |
| "country doctor." | bovary |
| "piece of the moon" | saleem |
| black death | decameron |
| "there is a thorn - it looks so old." | don juan |
| "she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the nile." | malaprop |
| audrey luna | fourth |
| thomas bernhard | austria |
| seafarer | old english |
| "little girl." | the yellow wallpaper |
| jeanie | goblin market |
| "descend on us." | okigbo |
| branden jacobs | everyman |
| "an hour to suffer, a lifetime to live," | land |
| "american realism" | chicago |
| pillow book | japanese |
| horowitz at the mozarteum | loser |
| "suicide calculated well in advance." | loser |
| cyrano | spain |
| elizabeth montagu | romeo and |
| "one of us." | knausgard |
| my struggle | knausgard |
| bertie stanhope | trollope |
| low church | trollope |
| slope | trollope |
| bellied whale | good soldier svejk |
| "mapface" | saleem |
| joseph addison | thackeray |
| henry esmond | thackeray |
| "gentleman-callers" | tom |
| "the monsters and the critics," | beowulf |
| into the night life | coney island |
| the brothers | latin |
| christian de neuvillette | bergerac |
| "turns his necessity to glorious gain; / in face of these doth exercise a power / which is our human nature's highest dower." | happy warrior |
| wong jiazhi | chang |
| yee | chang |
| "yet dearly i love you, and would be lov'd fain, but am betroth'd unto your enemy." | batter my heart, three person'd god |
| "what do i remember / that was shaped / as this thing is shaped?" | asphodel, that greeny flower |
| "the sword." | ficciones |
| "the mythos of spring." | comedy |
| charles bronson | venice |
| caryl phillips | rhys |
| view of the empire at sunset | rhys |
| nick carraway | fitzgerald |
| "alex, the great alexander." | nash |
| christian diestl | shaw |
| deest | shaw |
| young lions | shaw |
| sabine hills | marius |
| after alexas | all for love |
| roman general ventidius | all for love |
| mother wolff | hauptmann |
| winnie | waugh |
| new york drama critics | children's hour |
| aisha | mahfouz |
| "walpurgisnacht" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "get the guests" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| more pricks than kicks | beckett |
| nyai ontosoro | indonesia |
| palace of desire | cairo |
| tarzan | egypt |
| murat sabanovic | andric |
| "rubble literature" | boll |
| wulkow | hauptmann |
| dreissiger | howells |
| "imbedded in jelly," | chicken |
| "pies, fruits" | chicken |
| "the necks of four bottles." | chicken |
| "how many dawns, chill from his rippling rest, the seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him?" | bridge |
| alvaro enrigue | quevedo |
| "ta-ra-ra-boom-di-ay" | three sisters |
| "if only we knew." | three sisters |
| minke | indonesia |
| germaine | color purple |
| model kit | hopscotch |
| beaver coat | hauptmann |
| elsie venner | boston |
| "song," | rose |
| edmund waller | rose |
| herman mellema | indonesia |
| "cut into joints" | chicken |
| norad | france |
| "proem" | bridge |
| "a bedlamite speeds to thy parapets, tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning," | bridge |
| "in all my dreams before my helpless sight, he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning." | dulce et decorum est |
| "it's just so interesting. the colors and all." | world war iii |
| "thinking about the beaches" | symphony in gray major |
| "vague, distant, misty country." | symphony in gray major |
| charlie drouet | carrie |
| von grimelhausen | simplicius simplicissimus |
| teddy lloyd | school |
| miss jean brodie | school |
| temple of venus | parliament of fowls |
| edward covey | douglass |
| "break" | frederick |
| sudden death | quevedo |
| vollmer | world war iii |
| max beerbohm | oxford |
| zuleika dobson | oxford |
| history boys | bennett |
| calhoun | insomnia |
| "first traces in the world, of life and time / and love, and mortal hope, and vanishing." | ash |
| "droogs" | burgess |
| egeon | solinus |
| comedy of errors | dromio |
| victor marchetti | our lady of the flowers |
| mantuan | shepheardes |
| shepheardes calender | spenser |
| "corrected" | soseki |
| "golden age" | spain |
| bronze horseman | pushkin |
| "the fat boy with the happy laugh" | sammy |
| "a veteran!" | sammy |
| almayer | conrad |
| torrens | conrad |
| stoppard | rosencrantz |
| "genius" | dryden |
| "then - the officer," | marquise of o |
| acquired toilet disease | vogel |
| baltimore waltz | vogel |
| "i had read in books that art is not easy, but no one warned that the mind repeats in its ignorance the vision of others" | malley |
| country girls | o'brien |
| "the man who considers...what good or evil he has done, and what judgement his soul will receive after its passing" | bede |
| archilochus | hedgehog |
| matthew prichard | mousetrap |
| samuel ratchett | murder on the orient express |
| blackwill | elizabeth i |
| shakbag | elizabeth i |
| friedrich maximilian klinger | sturm und drang |
| the cure | machiavelli |
| sebastian flyte | brideshead revisited |
| tony kushner | angels in america |
| "you sockdologizing old man-trap" | lincoln |
| "tubingen, january" | holderlin |
| "riot club" | stoppard |
| kate brady | o'brien |
| baba brennan | o'brien |
| uncle arhat | red sorghum |
| "the moon is beautiful." | soseki |
| sneaze | soseki |
| soseki | kafka on the shore |
| bend in the river | naipaul |
| elias | naipaul |
| "smoking his pipe" | symphony in gray major |
| "death song." | bede |
| "reformarse es vivir" | rodo |
| "to reform oneself is to live." | rodo |
| simuvac | white noise |
| "the child who became a giant" | dry white season |
| "travels through the whole word without a pass." | dry white season |
| "pallaksch" | holderlin |
| "sometimes meant yes, sometimes no." | holderlin |
| laura wade | stoppard |
| "you were right, old hoss; you were right," | to build a fire |
| "old-timer" | to build a fire |
| sulphur creek | to build a fire |
| mel mcginnis | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| raymond carver | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| baroka | lion and the jewel |
| "beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror," | duino elegies |
| jorge | laugh |
| "mole-main" | "shooting an elephant" |
| "stand on street corners and jeer at europeans" | "shooting an elephant" |
| moulmein | "shooting an elephant" |
| "faces along the bar cling to their average day." | september 1, 1939 |
| "ariel." | rodo |
| "i flatter myself that my present overtures of good will are highly commendable." | collins |
| "have you found any places where god would have felt at home?" | william of baskerville |
| "we are living in a place abandoned by god." | william of baskerville |
| "the kettle, you fool!" | dumb waiter |
| "the bible is an antique volume" | dickinson |
| ness | agamemnon |
| king jesus | william |
| booth | salvation army |
| "as if he were dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality." | capote |
| hotel costa verde in mexico | night of |
| fahrenkopf | night of |
| "flawlessly set in gold so fair" | pearl |
| aline | buddenbrooks |
| biff carter | winesburg |
| lunch room | winesburg |
| halvard solness | architect |
| "i've lost a whole day over" | six |
| mathilde von zahnd | physicist |
| world was silent while we died | half of a yellow sun |
| "the male who invites" | izanagi |
| surt | fir |
| ee-jee-un | syracuse |
| master builder | ibsen |
| robert faehmel | billiard |
| "pure and holy, which embraces all the charms of all the graces" | frog |
| lavinia | turnus |
| lady bertilak | girdle |
| gilead | handmaid |
| "my sweet dear, i send cheer, all the best!" | marot |
| "to a sick damsel," | marot |
| "the freedman's story" | atlantic |
| "rule britannia." | wheat |
| prascovia osipovna | nose |
| pohv | nose |
| "empty net, at the advent of autumn" | heights of macchu |
| tom taylor | lincoln |
| incident at vichy | miller |
| ochola | gurnah |
| katusha | tolstoy |
| lorenzo savoini | miller |
| jason strugnell | cope |
| making cocoa for kingsley amis | cope |
| viola | twelfth night |
| "counter-attack" | sassoon |
| "crocodile tongues" | james |
| spiker | james |
| antarctica with mr | angels in america |
| "odd bits of old rhyming slang" | nadsat |
| branom | nadsat |
| proh | bellerophon |
| "to thine own self be true," | polonius |
| "mr. fly-off-the-handle" | alex |
| "shrill, demented choirs" | anthem for doomed |
| in the devil | holocaust |
| hannah stern | holocaust |
| dawn | dunbar |
| "carey" | dr jekyll |
| "kindly leave me alone." | alceste |
| "stuttering rifles' rapid rattle" | anthem for doomed |
| history of western massachusetts | bars fight |
| lagoon | new zealand |
| erlend | undset |
| hannah jarvis | arcadia |
| mr hyde | stevenson |
| "bad fencer, but a sound thinker" | don juan |
| "meditation xvii" | for whom the bell |
| "temper tantrum kid" | alex |
| ugwu | half of a yellow sun |
| kainene | half of a yellow sun |
| "you will love again the stranger who was your self" | walcott |
| "love after love." | walcott |
| "on influence," | carver |
| fairhurst | bleak house |
| "music has charms to soothe a savage breast." | mourning bride |
| "wine" | baudelaire |
| "old pond, frog leaps in, water's sound." | haiku |
| josiah gilbert holland | bars fight |
| florinda | behn |
| hellena | behn |
| "everything that has dark sounds." | lorca |
| "all good things must come to an end." | troilus and criseyde |
| "women as verbal artists." | enheduanna |
| "marks of wanton hunger" | chicago |
| medbourne | heidegger |
| killigrew | heidegger |
| cleanth brooks | british museum |
| eleanor robson | enheduanna |
| marta weigle | enheduanna |
| "i was stamped out like a plymouth fender into this world" | row |
| "story ends with me still" | row |
| "we will try to be good neighbors. and that's all we got to say about that." | raisin in the sun |
| riding sleipnir | baldur |
| hermod | baldur |
| skadi | feet |
| hippolyte | emma |
| harold bloom | paz |
| pearl blossom | wang |
| "cabaret" | eatonville |
| "god never made a finer woman" | misfi |
| kawai sora | matsuo |
| "like rotted meat" | dream deferred |
| northern bride | uncle tom's |
| klopstock | sorrows of |
| werther | linden |
| anna pavlovna | napoleon |
| "gas-coin" | heidegger |
| "to quaff at morning, noon, and night" | heidegger |
| thibault | dumas |
| "what two letters of the alphabet...express perfection?" | emma |
| the vixen | rosenberg |
| "the loser." | mann |
| nelson rodrigues | kiss |
| arandir | kiss |
| queen dharini | ring |
| vidushaka | ring |
| aegis | medusa |
| "words had forked no lightning." | do not go gentle into |
| norman culpepper washington | diamond |
| scottish play | macbeth |
| "world state," | john |
| jyoti | mukherjee |
| montoni | mysteries of udolpho |
| two fair cousins | scholar |
| ezuelo | things fall apart |
| tez | quetzalcoatl |
| "more sweetly than our rhyme" | grecian urn |
| heatholoaf | hrothgar |
| wylfings | hrothgar |
| fusun | istanbul |
| "mutilated" | beneatha |
| christmas carol | dickens |
| saxo grammaticus | snorri |
| "decalage," | senghor |
| "jetlag," | senghor |
| "gloss" | king |
| toulon | javert |
| inspector javert | miserables |
| shield sheafson | hrothgar |
| shay | hrothgar |
| "the mightiest of magicians" | hiawatha |
| "black pitch-water" | hiawatha |
| "seven ages of man" | as you like it |
| twelfth night | age |
| lowery field | yossarian |
| "how clumsy this winged voyager! how weak/comic, and ugly!" | fleurs du mal |
| veen | glengarry glen ross |
| ivan dmitritch gromov | ward number 6 |
| "copied out of a loose paper" | burning |
| magnus derrick | octopus |
| annixter | octopus |
| "to him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms" | thanatopsis |
| "little formless fears" | brutus |
| "the lorelei" | german |
| jabez wilson | red-headed |
| "the myth of sisyphus?" | camus |
| professor woland | master and margarita |
| gretchen | goethe |
| seashell game | basho |
| liverpool | wuthering heights |
| "this is the forest primeval [pry-mee-vull]." | evangeline |
| "could not stop for" | death |
| elesin | soyinka |
| marcel proust | in search of lost time |
| agnimitra | ring |
| charite | apuleius |
| rinaldi | jerusalem delivered |
| "among these barren crags" | ulysses |
| "suffer'd greatly, both with those/ that loved me, and alone" | ulysses |
| francine prose | rosenberg |
| shingo | kawabata |
| frederic henry | farewell to arms |
| miss van campen | farewell to arms |
| as you like it | jaques |
| angel clare | hardy |
| alec | hardy |
| kingdom of this world | magic |
| emperor jones | o'neill |
| epic of wheat | octopus |
| damis | tartuffe |
| rachel | maupassant |
| "split land" | yoknapatawpha |
| "beware of him, he bites." | david |
| david copperfield | dickens |
"rude mechanicals" | a midsummer night's dream |
| tool | house for mr. biswas |
| "think like and act as a man." | julie |
| "guantanamera [gwahn-tahn-ah-mair-ah]" | marti |
| charles dodgson | carroll |
| "a lamp on earth" | canto general |
| madame pernelle | tartuffe |
| argan | moliere |
| "old yellow pair" | brooks |
| heart of a dog | bulgakov |
| phantom | misty of chincoteague |
| "i could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." | reginald |
| then | siren |
| "leucosia" | siren |
| hippolyta | penthesilea |
| "intimately lives with rain" | tree |
| "petals on a wet, black bough." | pound |
| "in a station of the metro." | pound |
| "if you can't think on your feet, you ought to keep your mouth shut." | glengarry glen ross |
| "drink me" | alice |
| demetrius | midsummer night's |
| while at the salem house academy | david |
| thiz | midsummer night's |
"the darkest evening of the year." | stopping by woods on a snowy evening |
| meet | persephone |
| "swallowed" | twenty love poems and a song of despair |
| "stink like rotten meat / or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet" | dream deferred |
| henry sweet | higgins |
french pete | the luck of roaring camp |
| maupassant | pierrot |
the mysteries of udolpho (genre) | gothic |
| ida's bar | cannery |
| illiac | hal 9000 |
| amherst | dickinson |
| bohemian | marriage |
| antoinettte cosway | bertha |
| "the mariners heard the warning bell; and then they knew the perilous rock." | inchcape |
| savannah | prince of tides |
| conservationist | gordimer |
| urbana | hal 9000 |
| bill driscoll | ransom of red |
kanaka joe | the luck of roaring camp |
| hms bellipotent | billy |
| jo march | alcott |
| "did not give of bird or bush, like nothing else in tennessee" | anecdote of the jar |
| another wallace stevens | 13 |
| hennessey | naked and the |
| electra | sartre |
| lord of the flies | oe |
| nip the buds | oe |
| shoot the kids | oe |
| personal matter | oe |
| "bronze atrocity" | hell is other people |
| "there's no need for red-hot pokers." | hell is other people |
| barbedienne | hell is other people |
| charrington | 1984 |
| "dissolving margins." | naples |
| lila | naples |
| "the daring spirit" | covey |
| "a vigorous and sudden snatch" | covey |
| "tell me it was for the hunger / & nothing less." | vuong |
| vercelli | old english |
| "mumu." | sportsman's sketches |
| mount sebastian college | things they |
| "brute beauty and valour and act." | windhover |
| "with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy." | confederacy of |
| alice oswald | iliad |
| "holding darkness within." | hill house |
| bal-yoh-nee | rappaccini's daughter |
| tuttle | roaring camp |
| plumfield | jo |
| "the poison tree" | blake |
| songs of experience | blake |
| trystero | pynchon |
| frederick griffith | playboy of the western world |
| "prolonged cries of agony" | octopus |
"golgotha" | sassoon |
| "one day anyone died i guess." | cummings |
| nadine gordimer | south |
| aborigine | serpent |
| in the sailor who fell from grace with the sea | cat |
| gunter grass | drum |
| negritude | senghor |
| professor baglioni | rappaccini's daughter |
| sigismunda | greek |
| "depraved" | holmes |
| daqiqi | shahnameh |
| ferdowsi | shahnameh |
| "wrong" | holmes |
| "an ode to himself" | jonson |
| jonson | shepherd |
| johnny | lord of the flies |
| "lie" | journey to the center |
| "traveling box" | brobdingnag |
| penrod | dog |
| rebeca | one hundred years of solitude |
| "our god" | rossetti |
| "heaven cannot hold him / nor earth sustain." | rossetti |
| elle | diving bell and the butterfly |
| persiles | greek |
| roon | brother |
| herbert pocket | philip |
| song of solomon | morrison |
| sula | morrison |
| sagramore | hank |
| "a tale of two gardens" | paz |
| framton nuttel | saki |
| gahl | banquo |
| "glory be to god for dappled things." | hopkins |
| unamuno | cervantes |
| "moloch whose mind is pure machinery." | howl |
| road back | all quiet on the western front |
| tjaden | all quiet on the western front |
| satis | philip |
| vahl | mephistopheles |
| kah-mel dah-ood | stranger |
| "pallid bust of pallas," | raven |
| "defused threat." | saladin |
| "to propitiate the gods." | hell screen |
| evidence for the resurrection of jesus christ | butler |
| "sprung rhythm,' as seen in " | hopkins |
| wreck of the deutschland | hopkins |
| terasina vidavarri | algren |
| wormwood trilogy | science |
| jackson square | stella |
| in medieval empires | saladin |
| culture of competition | saladin |
| samuel england | saladin |
| "if you lock them together in a room with no food for a week." | maus |
| art spiegelman | graphic |
| walk by anita rau badami | india |
| brooklyn dodgers | rickey |
| professor welch | lucky |
| poet laureate of illinois | brooks |
| "sing sin," | brooks |
| lake como | julie |
| countee cullen | harlem renaissance |
| henryk sienkiewicz | polish |
| "on the pulse of morning" | angelou |
| hitler studies at the | white |
| "set" | prime of miss |
| your show of shows | simon |
| laughter on the 23rd floor | simon |
| "ust-izhma" | ivan |
| "the horla" | maupassant |
| anagnostis | zorba the greek |
| kondomanolious | zorba the greek |
| "sell him to the south" | jim |
| "the dong with the luminous nose." | lear |
| duro ladipo | death and the king's horseman |
| "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." | byron |
| "art, truth and politics." | pinter |
| " for 10 points each: name this poetry collection which contains a poem that describes how " | leaves of grass |
| virtue rewarded | richardson |
| "whale rider." | maori |
| mark mcgurl | writing |
| augustus carmichael | to the |
| miss lonelyhearts | west |
| program era | writing |
| mfa | writing |
| nina simonovich | puppet |
| efimova | puppet |
| oba waja | death and the king's horseman |
| "great gromboolian plain" | lear |
| doctor leete | looking backward |
| "with up so floating many bells down" | anyone lived in a pretty how town |
| summer sun celebration | twilight |
| "stone walls do not a prison make, / nor iron bars a cage" | prison |
| harry wotton | picture of dorian |
| ine | no exit |
| season in hell | rimbaud |
| "no hungry generations tread thee down." | ode to a nightingale |
| tail of the blue bird | maeterlinck |
| last letters of jacopo ortis | napoleon |
| tade thompson | science |
| "the interlopers" | saki |
| "romance at short notice was her specialty." | saki |
| "mud-luscious" | in just |
| bronte | wuthering |
| man with black eye patch | blindness |
| men in the sun | palestin |
| "resistance literature." | palestin |
| nunavit | historical notes |
| bolom | walcott |
| le horla | maupassant |
| was a country | achebe |
| rasheed | thousand |
| prime minister in up against it | orton |
| moushumi | namesake |
| akira kurosawa | akutagawa |
| suitable boy | india |
| kenneth rexroth | ginsburg |
| palamon | knight |
| "the house-top." | melville |
| sunday express | hall |
| "i would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than" | hall |
| "letter concerning the prison of human life" | agincourt |
| christine de pizan | agincourt |
| time machine | wells |
| "why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart?" | sonnet--to science |
"is there balm in gilead?" | "the raven" |
| claude robichaux | confederacy of |
| "that minx." | confederacy of |
ignatius j. reilly | a confederacy of dunces |
| max fleischer | superman |
| "there's a little intricate hussy for you!" | malaprop |
| sir anthony | malaprop |
| senex amator | plautus |
| lysidamus | plautus |
| casina | plautus |
| "the age of time," | fuentes |
| christopher unborn | fuentes |
| valley of ashes | myrtle |
| "the fugitive." | proust |
| pied piper | misty of chincoteague |
| dee-oh-nay | boccaccio |
| action comics | superman |
| "chaka." | negritude |
| "style is character." | didion |
| untold story | ali |
| ruth benedict | mead |
| "the sabbath rang slowly / in the pebbles of the holy streams" | fern hill |
| "where ignorance is bliss / 'tis folly to be wise" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "flash upon that inward eye / which is the bliss of solitude." | i wandered lonely as a cloud |
| houyhnhnms | lemuel |
brother juniper | the bridge of san luis rey |
| eugene de rastignac | balzac |
| naomi | ginsburg |
| "coma baby" | 80s |
| tad allagash | 80s |
| "that's how i ought to have written" | in search of lost time |
| "supernatural horror in literature." | horla |
| another didion | california |
| shaka zulu | negritude |
| "all the englishes i grew up with" | tan |
| charles stewart | key |
| zocalo plaza | porter |
| "why i write about mexico." | porter |
| "the town is taken by its rats" | melville |
| new york draft riots | melville |
| "little patch of yellow wall" | in search of lost time |
| view of delft | in search of lost time |
| bergotte | in search of lost time |
| thomas traherne | metaphysical |
| "whene'er to drink you are inclin'd... remember tam o'shanter's mare." | burns |
| "every woman adores a fascist" | plath |
| confessional | plath |
| marib | radio |
| buck mulligan | ulysses |
| ten-tronckh's | pangloss |
| pope of the fools | hunchback of notre-dame |
| absalom pro deo | cry, the beloved |
| "egiga goramen." | ball |
| "the sea is calm tonight / the tide is full, the moon lies fair." | dover beach |
| "likes a boggy acre / a floor too cool for corn." | dickinson |
| panic room | snow |
| "foster-child of silence and slow time." | ode to a grecian |
| air chrysalis | murakami |
| "memorial" | iliad |
| "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds," | candide |
| reverend larynx | nightmare abbey |
| listless | nightmare abbey |
| "irretrievable!" | child |
| hulda | independent people |
| people of the valleys | independent people |
| maata mahupuku | mansfield |
| "the cold splintering, breaking" | those winter sundays |
| "blago bung" | ball |
| "sesemi," | buddenbrooks |
| "accompanying my boy lover frightened by a fox." | basho |
| hamm | unhappiness |
| jonathan safran foer | extremely loud and incredibly close |
| pulitzer prize for drama for the hot wing king | hall |
| me to play | endgame |
| waiting for godot | beckett |
| ferdinando flosky | nightmare abbey |
| archer | maltese |
| pearl s. buck | buck |
| "the man who would be king," | "the white man's burden" |
| "heil hitler" | amon goeth |
| lucy westenra | castle |
| manfred | castle |
| last amazon of dahomey in london | girl, woman, other |
| amma | girl, woman, other |
| our strangers | davis |
| updike | witches of |
| wang lung | the good |
| house of hwang | the good |
| "what is to be done?" | lenin |
| holden caulfield | salinger |
| thackeray | barry |
| sam spade | maltese |
| another cortazar | idol |
| renee vivien | sappho |
| belle epoque paris | sappho |
| prajapati | brahma |
| alina reyes | cortazar |
| tim walker | enron |
| prince myshkin | dostoyevsky |
| aunt lydia | handmaid's tale |
| "a strong buy." | enron |
| "white smoke" | ceremony |
| rocky | ceremony |
| "and indrajit," | bengali |
| sakiel-norn | assassin |
| sergey zalygin | novy mir |
| "redundant. retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable" | lakunle |
| hugo pludek | czech |
| isak dinesen | out of africa |
| abbe carlos herrera | human comedy |
| vautrin | human comedy |
| daniel eisenberg | grossman |
| "textually ignorant" | grossman |
| "those other two equal'd with me in fate, so were i equal'd with them in renown." | milton |
| maeonides | milton |
| helene weigel | courage |
| western hills | diaries |
| the republic | plato |
| the homecoming | pinter |
| molloy | beckett |
| jo | hair |
| alexandre dumas | three musketeers |
| clarence thomas | oleanna |
| montgomery | island of doctor moreau |
| parker tyler | vidal |
| "our age's central thinker" | vidal |
| ayane | heart of darkness |
| shaaban robert | tanzania |
| an epic in the war for freedom | tanzania |
| paul kruger | hauptmann |
| dark lady | love's |
| battle of waterloo | vanity |
| "the grecian urn to muse on uncle jim." | cullen |
| guinness world record for longest theatrical run | mousetrap |
| dialogues of the gods | lucian |
| "the winning cause pleased the gods, but the losing cause pleased cato." | pharsalia |
| coramantien | behn |
| mournable body | second person |
| myth of the movies | vidal |
| magic | vidal |
| hungry joe | catch-22 |
| captain flume | catch-22 |
| chief white halfoat | catch-22 |
| madeline | poe |
| "two roads diverged in a yellow wood." | frost |
| like clover | moses |
| "young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes." | laurence |
| friar laurence | romeo and |
| johnny cade | outsiders |
| rang shim bombo | yeti |
| nyalmo | yeti |
| "she'll be stiff with you at first, i expect. she's an unusual character, but you mustn't let her worry you." | rebecca |
| professor pierre aronnax | nemo |
| jadis | magician's nephew |
| "all this happened, more or less." | slaughterhouse-five |
| "listen: billy pilgrim has come unstuck in time." | slaughterhouse-five |
| "doom of the gods" | ragnarok |
| "do the worst you can, my troubles'll be over soon; but, if ye don't repent, yours won't never end!" | uncle tom's |
| "fair is foul, and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air." | macbeth |
| horace smith | ozymandias |
| gabriel oak | far from the madding |
| french quarter | confederacy of |
| "a creature, like himself, full of mettle and mischief" | brom |
| connie reid | lady |
| "the wall" | sartre |
| ramon | sartre |
| "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." | walden |
| "has died; they kept hitting him, everyone, even though he does nothing to them." | stone |
| elene | cross |
| cyriacus | cross |
| dolores haze | nabokov |
| "theme for english b," | hughes |
| laura trevelyan | white |
| "are you nobody too?" | dickinson |
| sound of music | god of small things |
| mikhail bakhtin | rabelais |
| "could not see to see." | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
| "i am a traveler from an antique land." | ozymandias |
| maya angelou | autobiography |
| kohler | hitler |
| "the pool players. seven at the golden shovel." | we real |
| "you will hear these same persons talking as though lord darlington did something unusual in receiving hospitality from the nazis on the several trips he made to germany during those years." | remains of |
| vinayaka | ganesh |
| ashtavinayaka | ganesh |
| "north pole" | equiano |
| "self-reliance." | emerson |
| bartleby the scrivener | melville |
| hesse | glass bead game |
| captain alexander smollett | treasure island |
| "a monster vile, whom god and man does hate." | faerie queene |
| errour | faerie queene |
| "after all, tomorrow is another day." | gone with the wind |
| luttrell | wide sargasso sea |
| jim hawkins | treasure island |
| svayambhu | brahma |
| "moirai" | fate |
| friar john | mantua |
| robert coover | hansel and |
| "the gingerbread house" | hansel and |
| "their color is a diabolic die." | on being brought |
| color purple | walker |
| resident world controller for western europe | brave new world |
| david livesey | treasure island |
| squire john trelawney | treasure island |
| "the armies of those i love engirth me." | sing |
| "half-sick of shadows," | lady of |
lord warburton | the portrait of a lady |
| hce | finnegans wake |
| calcutta ashoke | lahiri |
| paradox on the comedian | diderot |
| anthology of the new black | senghor |
| malagasy poetry | senghor |
| great seal of england | prince and the |
| "he's not the finest character that ever lived. but he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. so attention must be paid." | death of a |
| "brahms, for all his grumbling and grizzling, had never guessed what it felt like to be suspected of stealing an umbrella." | howards end |
| "the whole world shares your tears / some for two nights or one / and some for all their years" | seth |
| "man thinking" | emerson |
| "i celebrate myself and sing myself." | song of myself |
| mistress hobbins | scarlet letter |
| "the house of asterion" | borges |
| church of the new revelation | stranger in a strange |
| john clayton ii | tarzan |
| earl of greystoke | tarzan |
| "show interest in her goodness--for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand." | good person |
| "i can resist everything except temptation." | lady windermere's |
| "there was no door that he would not heave off its hinges, or break it by running at it with his head." | miller |
| dennis hasset | church |
| miriam chadwick | church |
| "we need a definition of greatness, and i suppose that would be somebody who...somebody who benefited all mankind." | "master harold"...and |
| "john laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. john is practical in the extreme." | yellow wallpaper |
| "when first the world from chaos rose, tell me, how did love begin?" | dream of the red |
| "a world of made is not a world of born." | pity this busy |
| "bore her away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre [seh-pul-kur] in this kingdom by the sea." | annabel lee |
| "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." | malvolio |
| "i confess! i confess what i did! i'm guilty! i killed you! sir i confess! i killed you!" | amadeus |
| "the don't-knows have lived with that lie so long they just can't see it." | heart is a lonely |
| byblos | metamorphoses |
| jolly seventeen | main street |
| "i stand mesmerized, wondering how you sing / your notes hold the world spellbound." | yeats |
edgar linton | wuthering heights |
| cox | hadleyburg |
| sybil carpenter | bananafish |
| daniel mallory ortberg | rochester |
| best american | story |
| jerry in central park | albee |
| stanley kowalski | streetcar named |
| pecola | bluest eye |
| carol kennicott | main street |
| gopher prairie | main street |
| zorba the greek | kazantzakis |
| arndt | eugene onegin |
| heorot | grendal |
| felix hoenikker | cat |
| "betwixt the flames and waves," | marvell |
| "story." | marvell |
| marguerite | ionesco |
| "in my craft or sullen art" | thomas |
| deaths and entrances | thomas |
| "the day you won your town the race." | housman |
| dumas | housman |
| "unfortunate lover" | marvell |
| "the magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with" | lorca |
| "all you who sleep tonight." | seth |
| hound of the baskervilles | eco |
| oliver twiss | dickens |
| "i keep in mind that magic moment" | pushkin |
| anna kern | pushkin |
| "staircase wit" | diderot |
| judge clement | humor |
| knowell | humor |
| pardoner | chaucer |
| mike campbell | the sun also |
| roberta alden | dreiser |
| clyde griffiths | dreiser |
cancer ward | solzhenitsyn |
| kostoglotov | solzhenitsyn |
| decay of the angel | mishima |
| honda | mishima |
| "and you, garcia lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?" | ginsberg |
| "so sweet / and so cold." | "this is just to say" |
| tzesar | solzhenitsyn |
| de profundis | opium |
| brainworm | humor |
| joseito fernandez | marti |
| "pants" | commedia |
| "to you, clerk, literary man, sedentary person, man of fortune, idler, the same advice. up!... out in the morning!" | whitman |
| extinctathon | atwood |
| oryx | atwood |
| crake | atwood |
| catskills | irving |
| schiller | sturm und drang |
| "bragging and laughing that under his wrist, is the pulse." | chicago |
| "the kingdom of orangia" | master builder |
| hilda wangel | master builder |
| camacho | radio |
| saint anna | jerusalem delivered |
| dewey dell | faulkner |
| chicken with plums | satrapi |
| m. l. west | prometheus bound |
| euphorion | prometheus bound |
| "walks at midnight" | lincoln |
| "stormy mane of a pony" | funes |
| journal of the plague year | defoe |
| moll flanders | defoe |
| pedro romero | the sun also |
| "porphyria's lover," | browning |
| algic researches | song of hiawatha |
| "an expression of calm" | all quiet on the western front |
| colonel sun | bond |
| "what shall i do with this absurdity" | yeats |
| "what pipes and timbrels? what wild ecstasy?" | ode on a grecian urn |
| "ode on melancholy" | keats |
| girl of the streets | crane |
| potter | crane |
| pete | crane |
| "they eat green salad and drink human blood." | herzog |
| prester john | baudolino |
| book thief | kite runner |
| amanda | saki |
| stendhal | red and the black |
| in search of our mothers | walker |
| conquistador | canto |
| "ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night." | howl |
| ellen olenska | wharton |
| "a circle drawn on a blackboard." | funes |
| "our sewage disposal system." | gulag archipelago |
| mamoudou kouyate | griot |
| balla fasseke | griot |
| "ah, how you will enchant the angels!" | dinesen |
| "evil, superstition, and tyranny," | fearful symmetry |
| armande bejart | school for wives |
| marcus | mcteague |
| memory for forgetfulness | palestine |
| "identity card." | darwish |
| adamastor | portuguese |
| "save" | fuentes |
| hugo ball | dada |
| gollum | bilbo |
| "my america! my new-found-land" | donne |
| "before, behind, between, above, below." | donne |
| "flight" | chopin |
| blefuscu | lilliput |
| "poet of" | palestine |
| churning of the ocean | hindu |
| tomis | ovid |
| peter o'toole | modest proposal |
| carmichael | cry, the beloved |
| miss ivors | dead |
| driving miss daisy | georgia |
| jane johnston | song of hiawatha |
| scratchy wilson | crane |
| ann whitefield | shaw |
| raoul duke | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| goce smilevski | concentration camp |
| smilevski | concentration camp |
| "no more than a machine." | flaubert |
| "glad the end had come." | all quiet on the western front |
| "wagahai" | i am a cat |
| li'l | driving |
| adventures of augie march | chicago |
| tove jansson | hitler |
| "severe hysteria" | epilepsy |
| eldridge cleaver | bigger |
| "no trace... of the martin luther king-type self-effacing love for his oppressors." | bigger |
| robert de boron | grail |
| corbenic | grail |
| jamie | long day's journey into night |
| "the yellow wallpaper" | husband |
| duke of norfolk | prince and the |
| karl lindner | raisin in the |
| "what do you think you are going to gain by moving into a neighborhood where you just aren't wanted?" | raisin in the |
| nautilus | verne |
| gorgo | medusa |
| john ray jr | nabokov |
| rice | awakening |
| lucina | napoleon |
| "the ballad of reading gaol" | wilde |
| la traviata | hans |
| jodie foster | snow |
| valmiki | ramayana |
| amerika | kafka |
| "if i be waspish, best beware my sting" | taming of the |
| "had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars, two valuable horses, and a prominent citizen" | outcasts of |
| "the town of oran, which is merely a large french port on the algerian coast" | plague |
| "were all westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life" | great gatsby |
| captain peleg | ahab |
| "at five o'clock that morning reveille [reh-vuh-lee] was sounded, as usual, by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up near the staff quarters." | one day in the life of |
| "beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze." | daffodi |
| nikolaj | pimento |
| "the kentucky derby is decadent and depraved." | horse |
| "big house on the street," | allende |
| atlas shrugged | rand |
| chums of chance | pynchon |
| "baby igor." | pynchon |
| karl rossmann | kafka |
| leni | kafka |
| adela | lorca |
| irie jones | white teeth |
| "all cats die. socrates is dead. therefore socrates is a cat." | rhinoceros |
| luna moth | amazing |
| "a creature of the night, of the other world, of mystic regions where evil worked by means of spells and curses instead of bullets, torpedoes, or shells." | amazing |
| "fair witness" | stranger in a strange |
| "grok" | stranger in a strange |
| "i had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me." | much ado about |
| we have always lived in the castle | jackson |
| jan bronski | grass |
| "civil peace." | achebe |
| joan didion | murder |
| eclogues | virgil |
| namesake | lahiri |
| diary of a young girl | frank |
| sarah palin | bering strait |
| "for god his sake let's get out of this. the place stinks." | candle in the |
| finch hatton | out of africa |
| denys | out of africa |
| "magic theatre -- entrance not for everybody" | steppenwolf |
| maria truczinski | tin drum |
| "stupidity, delusion, selfishness and lust torment our bodies and possess our minds." | flowers of evil |
| judge banner | natural |
| maat | ra |
| agnes wickfield | david |
| phileas fogg | verne |
| mah-aht | ra |
| "i want you to start immediately for america." | extricating young |
| "i have great trouble, and some comfort, to acquaint you with." | pamela |
| medical man | time machine |
| provincial mayor | time machine |
| filby | time machine |
| tragedians | stoppard |
| "my little horse must think it queer / to stop without a farmhouse near" | frost |
| ted brown | lysistrata |
| "grandmother was a warlock" | porlock |
| "had a cat named flo," | porlock |
| mission house in sophiatown | cry, the beloved |
| "life is ever lord of death, and love can never lose its own!" | snow-bound |
| algernon moncrieff | wilde |
| max brod | kafka |
| dylan thomas | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "dream argument." | hughes |
| "adnexa," | elegy |
| allen's | catherine |
| "drive your plow over the bones of the dead" | blake |
| knights of the round table | lancelot |
| "descent" | avatar |
| "a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church" | wise blood |
| "first came the chasm, and then broad-breasted earth." | theogony |
| "what made me take this trip to africa?" | henderson the rain |
| "he has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face." | minister's black |
| by the waters of babylon | benet |
| "american muse," | benet |
| an ideal husband | wilde |
| road to revolution | lenin |
| gullveig | vanir |
| "and with a stronger faith embrace a sword, a horse, a shield." | to lucasta, going to |
| "but these are all lies. men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." | rosalind |
| faunus | pan |
| arafa | children of gebelawi |
| "all afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury." | phedre |
| "his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come." | all quiet on |
| "i mean, you're a blank, a cipher, a zero." | who's afraid of |
| mario puzo | balzac |
| "behind every great fortune there is a crime," | balzac |
| talkative man | narayan |
| jose arcadia | garcia |
| colonel aureliano of the buendia | garcia |
| "savage" | brave new world |
| "predators" | season |
| battle of red cliffs | romance of the three kingdoms |
| waverley | scott |
"be just" | kafka |
| michel | immoralist |
| "destroyers" | season |
| ayi kwei armah | season |
| anoa | season |
| "you can't do it here, it's not the place!" | america |
| wellesley college | nabokov |
| juan rulfo | mexico |
| "fair folk." | piers plowman |
mein kampf | hitler |
| "world-soul" | seagull |
| ralph touchett | james |
| angela carter | fairy tale |
| tom thumb | fairy tale |
| in king lear | fairy tale |
| man in the high castle | dick |
| rick deckard | dick |
| do androids dream of electric sheep | dick |
| plot against america | roth |
| "swede" | roth |
| "fantasy that she's a meaningful member of a family." | hosseini |
| "for it is in london that our scene lies." | it was a dark and stormy night |
absalom and achitophel | dryden |
| wood of tenjin | love |
| madame alvarez | colette |
| alicia | colette |
| gaston | colette |
| "in his mouth / gazing at the clouds." | grass |
| rosenfeld | rooney |
| "chaste and lovely form" | laura |
| "laid in the church of the franciscans, on the evening of the day she died." | laura |
| a wedding-guest | albatross |
| giovanelli | james |
| "pipe dreams." | iceman cometh |
yann martel | the life of pi |
| madame merle | james |
| toyota | harry |
| "molten phosphorus" | copenhagen |
| "windows looking in upon fiery reality" | tattoo |
richard madden | borges |
| "hoard, and sleep, and feed, and not know me." | ulysses |
| "the fate of unrequited love." | garcia marquez |
| "after every war / someone has to clean up" | grass |
| "weasels that stole" | chicken |
| "defended herself" | chicken |
| "dedication for a plot of ground." | chicken |
| "savage race" | ulysses |
| coppet | napoleon |
| "drama of struggle" | dead |
| ola rotimi | dead |
| sizwe banzi | dead |
| "repulsive, alarming yellow flowers," | master |
| beatriz viterbo | borges |
| "tlon, uqbar, orbis tertius" | borges |
| germaine de stael | napoleon |
| "at any gathering i am there, mingling in the laughing and grieving." | reed |
| "wide robe" | lack |
"a wonder with a gun - a perfect wonder" | the bride comes to yellow sky |
| weary gentlemen | yellow sky |
| "come back in tears, o memory, hope, love of finished years" | rossetti |
| isle is full of noises | caliban |
| "little, sleek, cowering, timorous beast." | mouse |
| ramses the great | ozymandias |
| la times | capote |
| "clay" | dublin |
| la paz | hawthorne |
| dunbar | sing |
| "you, the reader" | baudelaire |
| harriet beecher stowe | uncle tom's cabin |
| lin daiyu | dream of the red chamber |
| "two-bit" | outsiders |
| lucinda rosenfeld | rooney |
| "heroines of self-hate," | rooney |
| herbert stencil | pynchon |
| "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times." | tale of two cities |
| amin maalouf | rubaiyat |
| gabriel utterson | jekyll becoming |
| "sour grapes." | aesop |
| black americans | senghor |
| cassandra | austen |
| "theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life" | lenin |
| letters on tactics | lenin |
| down syndrome | violent bear it away |
| quintus ennius | dactylic hexameter |
| "i am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. perhaps not surprisingly, i am also a man of two minds." | nguyen |
| "the german censors" | heine |
| correspondence with a child | alcott |
| sugriva | ramayana |
| "when shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?" | macbeth |
"the deserted village" | goldsmith |
| fay mckelva | optimist's |
| marie tovesky | o pioneers |
| emil bergson | o pioneers |
| "i like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." | o pioneers |
| sir epicure mammon | alchemist |
| "conversation" | stein |
| andrew butler | bildungsroman |
| qfwfq | calvino |
| simon armitage | sir gawain and the green knight |
| hith | utopia |
| "what does it all mean?" | to the |
| "will you take me home?" | arthur |
| annals of the cakchiquels | maya |
| "grim demon haunting the marches" | beowulf |
| axolotls | cortazar |
| julien pitt | angels in america |
| "telluric currents" | eco |
| scout | atticus |
| solveig | ibsen |
| pearl poet | sir gawain and the green knight |
| tibet | holmes |
| "it is demonstrable that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for all being created for an end, all is necessarily for the best end." | candide |
| june rebellion | les |
| keith mathews | outsiders |
| "the veldt" | bradbury |
| something wicked this way comes | bradbury |
| "i loved her, and sometimes she loved me too" | saddest |
| "pull down thy vanity, it is not man-made courage, or made order, or made grace. pull down thy vanity, i say pull down." | cantos |
| rangoon | around the world in |
| "he is deformed, crooked, old and sere, ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; stigmatical in making, worse in mind." | comedy of |
| dulness | pope |
| "what happened, you see, was i got in a couple of hassles at the work farm, to tell the pure truth, and the court ruled that i'm a psychopath." | one flew over |
| "this is america--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves." | main street |
| "this is the dead land. this is cactus land." | hollow men |
| roebuck ramsden | man and superman |
| octavius robinson | man and superman |
| okamoto | life of pi |
"miss brill" | mansfield |
| queequeg | white |
| marty | harry |
| tothero | harry |
| "and yet those who picture the world as unlimited forget that the number of possible books is not." | library of babel |
| "why did i ever know you? why were you so beautiful? is it my fault?" | madame bovary |
komarovsky | doctor zhivago |
| kornakov | doctor zhivago |
| "children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison." | midnight's children |
| rawff | doctor zhivago |
| edmond rostand | cyrano |
| "terence, this is stupid stuff" | shropshire lad |
| bliss | coward |
| cook | cheshire cat |
| mary lyon | mice |
| in france | romantic |
| pair | herrick |
| the works both human and divine | herrick |
| percy shelly | ode to the west wind |
| "one could do worse than be a swinger of birches," | frost |
| "queenie" | updike |
| "ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay." | deserted village |
| "some cynical frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated." | vanity fair |
| gospel according to jesus christ | saramago |
| edna | caged bird |
| menelaus | helen |
| conversations with friends | irish |
| the 's nest | mental hospital |
| "stunning blow" | bierce |
| snowball | pig |
| bret harte | california |
| reaching for the moon | bishop |
| marcello solara | my brilliant friend |
| stefano | my brilliant friend |
| "to my lord fairfax" | marvell |
| "why should of all things man unrul'd / such unproportioned dwellings build?" | marvell |
| madwoman in the attic | jane eyre |
| grain of wheat | ngugi |
| beth | alcott |
| edwidge danticat | decameron |
| janacek | 1q84 |
| snout | midsummer night's |
| hedwig niemann | nora |
| mahlke | cairo |
| maurice | holden |
| "there's no question of heroism" | bernard |
| "a matter of common decency." | bernard |
| harry sinclair | lanny |
| chiba | life of pi |
| "lycidas" | milton |
| dunciad | pope |
| snug | midsummer night's |
| "oh, this is a sin against myself." | nora |
| baseball guide | holly |
| rusty trawler | holly |
| diana barry | anne |
| thamyris | milton |
| "a samoyed-lithuanian dialect of guarani" | library of babel |
| "inflections from classical arabic." | library of babel |
| in keeley | barbarian |
| "bored by rhetoric and public speaking." | barbarian |
| sherrard | barbarian |
| science fiction world | chinese |
| governor carter ross | antigone |
| hans christian andersen | emperor |
| casey cep | baseball player |
| acrasia | 1984 |
| singin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "non-fiction novel" | lee |
| behemoth | master and mar |
| david mccullough | veldt |
| robert lebrun | awakening |
| lady nijo | party |
| dull gret | party |
| joe gargery | great expectations |
| "of la mancha." | don quixote |
| roger dean | denver |
| rudy giuliani | manzoni |
| peter w. barlow | barlow |
| anna funder | brecht |
| macedo soares | bishop |
| cluaneesha | virtue rewarded |
| faniaca | virtue rewarded |
| "autumn is desolation in the plot / of a thousand acres." | confederate |
| su shi | song |
| dandan | song |
| lota de | bishop |
| "that some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision, i may burst into jubilant praise" | angel |
| gettin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| historian mark lawrence schrad | jungle |
| movement song | lorde |
| the 's campaign | wolves |
| george henry lewes | spontaneous combustion |
| last witnesses | alexievich |
| pied beauty | dapple |
| "giving currency to a vulgar error," | spontaneous combustion |
| turn of the screw | james |
khaled hosseini (book) | the kite runner |
| roth ira | zuckerman |
| "density" | v-2 |
| lucy honeychurch | forster |
| scandinavian experimental theater | strindberg |
| merry like christmas | i know why the caged bird sings |
| swingin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| orvil red feather | orange |
| margaret | wilde |
| "should not mean, but" | be |
| thirty years war | brecht |
| "epic theater." | brecht |
| professor challenger | doyle |
| grose | the turn of the |
| dapple | don quixote |
| "behold the time of the assassins" | drunk |
| "morning" | drunk |
| "!mayombe--bombe--mayombe!" | cuba |
| astronautilia | czech |
| volcacius sedigitus | comedy |
| "if anyone should feel differently, they would feel nothing." | comedy |
| "knowing owl." | swan |
| "set his mind to evil" | byron |
| "there's a double meaning in that." | much ado about nothing |
| "eat me" | alice |
| wilbur wright roll | edison |
| "permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls." | lamb |
| fludd | mantel |
| "picaros, madmen, naifs, and clowns" | unreliable narrator |
| rap on race | mead |
| roylott | snake |
| "at the bat." | baseball |
| angwin | mantel |
| frances gage | ain't i a woman |
| rick | klara and the sun |
| in the book of the city of ladies | griselda |
| lady rectitude | griselda |
| "a stray ghost-walker with a ghostly gun." | brown |
| kerkylas of andros | sappho |
| "idiots" | heine |
| "the drunken boat" | rimbaud |
| achille | walcott |
| omeros | walcott |
| after john andre | american revolution |
| erskine childers | spy |
| harriet bird | baseball player |
| bernard malamud | baseball |
| "do not remember me / as disaster / nor as the keeper of secrets" | lorde |
| "little penis from man island." | sappho |
| suda | sappho |
| david balfour | kidnapped |
| billy bones | stevenson |
| james more | stevenson |
| "ruffling the tawny pelt" | far cry from africa |
| li bai | tang |
| elton | emma |
| knightley | emma |
| norman foster | stranger in a strange |
| "twilight" | trixie |
| kat | all quiet on the western front |
| coleridge on lyrical ballads | wordsworth |
| kantorek | all quiet on the western front |
| sir walter raleigh | shepherd |
| bob ewell | sheriff |
| "stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone." | auden |
| "funeral blues" | auden |
| don alonso | quixote |
| pisthetaerus | cloud |
| strepsiades | clouds |
| sinbad the sailor | scheherazade |
| book of laughter | kundera |
| babo | benito |
| angels and demons | novel |
| "put on the kettle" | dumb waiter |
| "gossamer thread" | whitman |
| on the geneology of morals | nietzsche |
| salamano | camus |
| zurich | unbearable lightness of being |
| "fiery serpent" | hiawatha |
| "unreal city." | waste land |
| "wants to die." | sexton |
| tiresias | serpent |
| "a noiseless patient spider." | whitman |
| sumerian inanna | enkidu |
| ezra chater | byron |
| book of the dead | osiris |
| cosette | les |
| "purifiers" | borges |
| "will arise and go now." | lake isle of innisfree |
"some cromwell guiltless of his own country's blood" | "elegy written in a country churchyard" |
| "on being brought from africa to america." | wheatley |
| thornfield hall | jane eyre |
| "dinner is a casual affair." | brooks |
| "if the sun and moon should doubt, they'd immediately go out." | auguries of innocence |
| "assorted characters of death and blight" | design |
| bringing up baby | albee |
| sketchbook of geofrrey crayon | legend of sleepy hollow |
| the , gent | legend of sleepy hollow |
| joad | steinbeck |
| "lurk late" | brooks |
| golden gate | john brown |
| "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains" | odes |
| toreador song | carmen |
nagg and nell | endgame |
| "well-to-do planter" | occurrence at owl creek bridge |
| "yes, you squashed cabbage-leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult to the english language!" | eliza |
| cassim | ali |
| ali baba | one thousand and one nights |
| mark kelly | giffords |
| lindsay lohan | parent trap |
| robert hunter | alger |
| mina | abraham |
| wye | wordsworth |
| "i sing of olaf glad and big" | cummings |
| "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" | wordsworth |
| "five years have past!" | wordsworth |
| howie newsome | grover's corners |
| manco capac | inca |
| "you eat your victuals fast enough." | shropshire lad |
| bernard | house |
| elena ferrante | little women |
| my brilliant friend | little women |
| "stick" | frog |
| "man who looked / with such a wistful eye / upon that little tent of blue / which prisoners call the sky." | wilde |
| amadis of gaul | quixote |
| argentina with jenna | freedom |
| "communal people" | hawk |
| "hypocrite reader." | fleurs du mal |
| clorinda | tancredi |
| esquire | kennedy |
| "instead of a preface" | russian |
maria dahvana headley | beowulf (retelling) |
| "bro!" | old english |
| "frost on the ground." | li |
| golden ass | novel |
| ensign beverley | rivals |
| "artifices," | ficciones |
| "three visions of judas" | ficciones |
| "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," | keats |
| "where are the songs of spring?" | keats |
| "the tale of the fuller's wife." | golden ass |
| warren | frost |
| silas | frost |
| "like the ingredients of a witches' broth." | design |
| in an adichie | sun |
| muhbab ali | kim |
| pandaemonium | paradise lost |
| darling daintyfoot | our lady of the flowers |
| jenny gabriel | witches of eastwick |
| "burns at both ends" | candle |
| "will not last the night" | candle |
| "that taste of opiate wine! lure of the dark valley!" | akhmatova |
| tom hanks | brown |
| "limpin' lump o' brick-dust." | din |
| "i caught this morning morning's minion," | windhover |
| boolie werthan | driving |
| worldly wiseman | christian |
| archbishop ruggieri | ugolino |
| "secret code" | car |
| midnight's children | rushdie |
| vanir | mim |
| rist | centaur |
| ebenezer prout | david |
| through the looking | borges |
| gourd vine | hurston |
| "the new small talk." | shaw |
| ana | statue |
| satis house | great expectations |
| doremus jessup | it can't happen here |
| vermont vigilance | it can't happen here |
| "out, out-" | frost |
| st. louis | maya |
| edouard manet | nana |
| "swans" | capote |
| lawrence ferlinghetti | howl |
| "wild god of the world," | hawk |
| "to hear her tender-taken breath, and so live ever - or else swoon to death." | bright star |
| athena college | coleman |
| "the revolutionist's handbook and pocket companion." | man and superman |
| rosie | narayan |
| in a paul bowles | joseph |
| "vincent cradeau." | joseph |
| "be chaste, except you ravish me." | donne |
| karl moor | schiller |
| "in medias res." | ars |
| jara cimrman | curie |
| forrest gump | curie |
| cimrman | curie |
| "sticky as bluebeard's." | heaney |
| "crystal palace" | dostoyevsky |
| "thunder words" | finnegans wake |
| "i believe that humans should be plants." | south korea |
| yunioshi | breakfast at tiffany's |
| tococul | breakfast at tiffany's |
| grandmother | o'connor |
| letter to the reader | stages on life's way |
| brother silent | stages on life's way |
| "in that holocaust of hell" | dunbar |
| kochan | mishima |
| "let all who prate of beauty hold their peace." | millay |
| "luxury, peace, and pleasure" | baudelaire |
| "invitation to the voyage." | baudelaire |
| "clean favored" | richard cory |
| "imperially slim." | richard cory |
| jacques lantier | zola |
| "human beast" | zola |
| "sit and sew." | dunbar |
| "had somewhere to get to and calmly sailed on." | icarus |
| "musee des beaux arts," | auden |
| "moves in darkness" | mending wall |
| "thirty years now i have labored / to dredge the silt from your throat. / i am none the wiser." | plath |
| "more light! more light!" | hecht |
| "hold fast" | dream |
| "o my chevalier!" | windhover |
| "gash gold-vermilion." | windhover |
| "please don't smoke in bed, or use candles," | cider house rules |
| slim | dog |
| "teach us ... what sweet thoughts are thine: / i have never heard." | to a skylark |
| "ode to the west wind." | shelley |
| traveller | in the penal colony |
| haiti a french | welles |
| first mate | conrad |
| leggatt | conrad |
| "to a waterfowl." | bryant |
| "gerontion" | eliot |
| kill devil hills | wright |
| "third world woman" | india |
| under western eyes | india |
| mama yaya | tituba |
| dangerous liaisons | smallpox |
| "i spend my wedding day running from the oldest boy. his mama died in his arms and he don't want to hear nothing bout no new one" | god |
| mick jenkins | we real cool |
| "between the lines" | eating people |
| thechinese | eating people |
| "thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no, / nor honeysuckle." | millay |
| bonus note | machine |
| "we shall rest." | uncle vanya |
| bonus petrovich | the overcoat |
| "thanatopsis" | bryant |
| "an unhappy love affair." | stages on life's way |
| "was apparent everywhere," | temple |
| "could notactually set eyes on" | temple |
| bonus in shinto | fox |
| bonus buzz | lake isle of innisfree |
| bonus yoruba | death and the king's horseman |
| "the river is never so high that the eyes of the fish are covered," | death and the king's horseman |
| bonus let | karst |
| william hale | murder |
| louise bennett | english |
| samuel selvon | lonely londoners |
| kamau brathwaite | english |
| "nation language," | english |
| "purely, as they turn from praise." | how do i love thee |
| "how do i love thee? let me count the ways." | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "listen to the reed and the tale it tells" | persian |
| nizami | persian |
| maurice bendix | greene |
| prince hal | falstaff |
| darlington hall | remains of the day |
| american senator lewis | remains of the day |
| virgin | moby-dick |
| benn | remains of the day |
| in wodehouse | butler |
| if this | 40 |
| pemberley | fitzwilliam |
| shams of tabriz | rumi |
| shere khan | jungle book |
| ryanosuke akutagawa | japan |
| new york trilogy | auster |
| auster | roth |
| oroonoko | slave |
| "there will come soft rains," | bradbury |
| archibald macleish | be |
| supposedly fun thing | wallace |
| save me the waltz | flapper |
| "amateur" | remains of the day |
| alice munro | canada |
| grushnitsky | hero |
| vince | buried child |
| r. p. blackmur | stevens |
| "poem without" | hero |
| anacreon | poetry |
| fathers and sons | turgenev |
| "exterminate all the brutes!" | heart of darkness |
| waverly jong | tan |
| "the very end of the world" | heart of darkness |
| jean santeuil | proust |
| "as is painting, so is poetry" | horace |
| gellhorn | spanish civil |
| vladek | spiegelman |
| zhen | water margin |
| it can | lewis |
| happen here | lewis |
| buzz windrip | lewis |
| edmund spenser | willie |
| movement | gunn |
| "man hands on misery to man," | this be the verse |
| "get out as early as you can, / and don't have any kids yourself." | this be the verse |
| taming of the shrew | christopher |
| "the village blacksmith" | chestnut tree |
| felix hobain | walcott |
| "in the bleak midwinter." | goblin market |
| " for 10 points each: when " | thrush |
| captain shotover | shaw |
| "weaker" | shaw |
| bellipotent | john |
| "misery" | blacksmith |
| felix unger | odd couple |
| oscar madison | odd couple |
| ngugi wa thiong'o | kenya |
| poprishchin | diary of a madman |
| bristol | cabot |
| betrayed by rita hayworth | puig |
| thomas stockmann | enemy of the people |
| "where am i going to?" | car |
| "after such knowledge, what forgiveness?" | eliot |
| logan killicks | their eyes were watching god |
| almustafa | prophet |
| adham, gabal | children |
| agatha christie | train |
| kate croy | italy |
| "coastal shelf." | larkin |
| "woman hollering creek" | llorona |
| cisneros | llorona |
| pancho villa | mexico |
| hilaire belloc | chesterton |
| koran | william |
| my lovely | philip |
| "slow-chapped power" | marvell |
| cider house rules homer wells | abortion |
| wilbur larch | abortion |
| "oh, whistle, and i'll come to you, my lad," | ghost |
| "mother of exiles" | new colossus |
| vulture peak | buddha |
| "fur fla bis fle" | ghost |
| hamza | muhammad |
| merton densher | italy |
| edward lear | limerick |
| "a passion in the desert." | balzac |
| ricardo reis | pessoa |
| tanizaki | kabuki |
| love suicides of amijima | chikamatsu |
| "dramatizing herself." | flapper |
| "mother goose" | cat |
| never do again | wallace |
| zenith | wallace |
| tobias smollett | sterne |
| "hobby-horse" | sterne |
| sentimental journey | sterne |
| the flies | orestes |
| duchess of malfi | webster |
| "the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe." | olenska |
| in the leopard | tancredi |
| "wild african savage" | paul d |
| roanoke | paul d |
| "the parliament of fowls." | chaucer |
| "rolls the executions on his tongue like berries" | stalin |
| jerusalem delivered | tancredi |
| "boum" | passage to india |
| ronny heaslop | passage to india |
| "deserts of vast eternity" | marvell |
"time's winged chariot" | to his coy mistress |
| lampito | lysistrata |
| chinatown | tristero |
| "acquainted with the night." | frost |
| calling out to yeti | stalin |
| bill sikes | nancy |
| helen schlegel | howards |
| shlay | howards |
| last of the mohicans | cooper |
| "sympathy" | dunbar |
| ice-9 | cat's cradle |
| "the horse on the mountain." | lorca |
| ignacio sanchez mejias | lorca |
| leonardo felix | lorca |
| ali baba in the one thousand | arabic |
| i. name | constance |
| cormac mccarthy | no country for old |
| "flowering judas" | porter |
| "a tattered coat upon a stick." | old |
| fray | feather |
| freyja | feather |
| "the little match girl" | andersen |
william carlos williams | "the red wheelbarrow" |
| filomena | ring |
| jem-mah-tah | dioneo |
| martin amis | time's arrow |
| journey through trees | united kingdom |
| wildwood: a | united kingdom |
| eastern iranian | persian |
| roger deakin | united kingdom |
| castalia | glass bead game |
| john paul jones | cooper |
| raphael de valentin's | human comedy |
| kazuo ishiguro | butler |
| soapy | loiter |
| mountain interval | frost |
"the secret sharer" | conrad |
| "ow" | tale of genji |
| "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," | biography |
| mother shipton | outcasts of poker |
| "the cisco [sis-koh] kid" | kidnap |
"the cop and the anthem" | o. henry |
| "beautiful uncut hair of graves" | grass |
| war with the newts | capek |
| marquesas | typee |
| "the lass of aughrim" | dubliners |
| raina petkoff | bulgaria |
| cedric of rotherwood | ivanhoe |
| "we wear the mask" | dunbar |
| neil klugman | "goodbye |
brenda patimkin | roth |
| "goodbye, columbus" | roth |
| "you do not do" | daddy |
| tethys | oceanus |
| "hermaphroditism" | sterne |
| "life and opinions." | sterne |
| "a white heron" | maine |
| farraday | butler |
| "with a roar" | snow |
| "the train came out of the long tunnel" | snow |
| azdak | caucasian chalk |
| "since feeling is first" | death |
| tatyana | eugene |
| when the mad hatter | queen of hearts |
| desdemona | othello |
| iago | othello |
| clara bowden | smith |
| swing time | smith |
| in white teeth | islam |
| bacchae | euripides |
| "caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon." | windhover |
| ocampo | argentina |
| "expendable" | cortazar |
| "axolotl." | cortazar |
| larry darrell | maugham |
| machado de assis | brazil |
| brief wondrous life of oscar wao | diaz |
| trout fishing in america | brautigan |
| johann blumenbach | race |
| jose burgos | name of the rose |
| "honest abe" | bonfire of the vanities |
| sherman mccoy | bonfire of the vanities |
| chapter 15 | bonfire of the vanities |
| philip carey | maugham |
| of human bondage | maugham |
| andre gide | france |
| orpheus and eurydice | france |
| "palm-of-the-hand stories" | kawabata |
| leaf storm | macondo |
| chernobyl | journalist |
| nicolas guillen | hughes |
| renzo | manzoni |
| nights at the circus | carter |
| weiss | bonfire of the vanities |
| tale of love | israel |
| amos oz | israel |
| korova milk bar | burgess |
| evgeny | bronze horseman |
| hermann | queen of spades |
| in zola | train |
| muriel and afrekete | lorde |
| "an iron house, without windows or doors" | lu |
| fleur jaeggy | de quincey |
| possible lives | de quincey |
| de quincey | ode to a nightingale |
| wilder | yonkers |
| "printed at naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529." | castle of otranto |
| pythian | ode |
| "moor of venice?" | othello |
| adolphe le bon | poe |
| "sweet and fitting," | ode |
| "come again... / tho' it were ten thousand mile." | rose |
| john millington synge | playboy of the western world |
| playboy of the western world | ireland |
| karl ove knausgard | hitler |
| "nevsky prospekt," | petersburg |
| brodsky | petersburg |
| susan glaspell | provincetown players |
| "the dream of the rood." | old english |
| "the child's cry / melts in the wall." | mother |
| "no man is an island." | donne |
| betty smith | trees |
| "guttering, choking, drowning," | owen |
| "we can remember it for you wholesale" | invasion of earth |
| sholem aleichem | yiddish |
isaac bashevis singer | yiddish |
| "action." | falling |
| mel | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| vasily vasilych | hamlet |
| "teach yourself italian." | lahiri |
| norris changes trains | isherwood |
| tayeb salih | arabic |
| "proposing to say, not merely come near it" | cooper |
| "use the right word, not its second cousin." | cooper |
| jean anouilh | antigone |
| pacific street saloon | time of your life |
| andre brink | season |
| harry fatt | waiting for lefty |
| "the snow queen," | mirror |
| "a very small, brief book of thoughts, maximes," | big man |
| "black milk of daybreak" | holocaust |
| "the colomber." | buzzati |
| tartar steppe | buzzati |
| jimmie johnson | crane |
| winfried georg sebald | sebald |
| max sebald | sebald |
| junot diaz | brief wondrous life of oscar wao |
| "the encyclopedia of the dead." | kis |
| wainwright prize | diary |
| "the half-life of love is forever." | yunior |
| caine mutiny | wouk |
| "hanging here on the gallows" | poland |
| effia | gyasi |
| quimbo | simon |
| clair | simon |
| miss marple | lady of shalott |
| emmanuel egudu | elizabeth |
| john maxwell coetzee | coetzee |
| connell | rooney |
| at swim | dublin |
| daphne du maurier | rebecca |
| alexievich | monologue |
| "black woman" | senghor |
| ethiopiques | senghor |
| caliban | tempest |
| government inspector | gogol |
| "ten thousand tiny bubbles bursting on his skin" | maori |
| "strikes it rich" | yiddish |
| "nana" | zola |
| "since i cannot prove a lover... i am determined to prove a villain" | richard iii |
| grassdale manor | wildfell |
| ataguitania | calvino |
| ned kelly | carey |
| her friends | fornes |
| fefu | fornes |
| ancient mariner | dice |
| thousand cranes | tea |
| shamela | fielding |
| kitchen god | tan |
| anne bronte | epistolary |
| "lonely old grubber" | ginsberg |
| enemy of the people | two minutes hate |
| bone people | maori |
| deems taylor | millay |
| the king's henchman | millay |
| in shahnameh | persian |
| charles bovary | flaubert |
| "the people." | sandburg |
| "old egg," | wodehouse |
| "dear old crumpet." | wodehouse |
| valvert | duel |
| pierre corneille | spain |
| "first expression of american thought as a unity" | chicago world's fair |
| "clever" | latin |
| barsetshire | trollope |
| knausgard | father |
| svejk | dog |
| "da" | sanskrit |
| mabel waring | woolf |
| "the new dress." | woolf |
| "novels of the rose" | d'annunzio |
| mercury theatre | welles |
| "deep solitude." | twenty love poems |
| tucson | color purple |
| "homage" | bradstreet |
| harjo | harjo |
| la maga | hopscotch |
| all for love | dry |
| life-studies | lowell |
| "there shall be no more cakes and ale?" | twelfth night |
| sir topas | twelfth night |
| "languid lemon tree." | spain |
| barchester towers | trollope |
| "should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" | auld lang syne |
| on beauty | howards end |
| schlegel | howards end |
| john raffles | eliot |
| nicholas bulstrode | eliot |
| "that you are losing." | greek |
| "to be or not to be, that is the question." | machine |
| waindell college by dr | pnin |
| "bent / above a sinking fire." | leda |
| byron in italy | david |
| shen tsien | good person |
| "and treat those two imposters just the same." | triumph |
| gordon lish | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| what we talk about when we talk about love | carver |
| ephesus | petronius |
| "an excuse for putting on weight" | david |
| church fathers | david |
| "proper souls." | david |
| colombian nobel laureate | garcia marquez |
| "a kind of solution." | greek |
| "modern sequel" | greek |
| constantine cavafy | greek |
| "master" | basho |
| "the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses." | cummings |
| "elegy for alto." | okigbo |
| "the beloved" | pale fire |
| "i was the shadow of the waxwing slain" | pale fire |
| "sing about the pleasant summer which has just begun." | kalidas |
| durvasa | kalidas |
| "sapphic love" | david |
| good person of szechwan | china |
| aunt alexandra | atticus |
| ragtime | houdini |
| bluest eye | morrison |
| in the jungle | comrade |
| alfieri | view from the |
| baasie | the burgher's |
| phedre | racine |
| le cid | corneille |
| aunt polly | paint |
| yusef | diamond |
| englishmen | diamond |
| moonstone | diamond |
| tobias wolff | vietnam |
| sambo | simon |
| sri lanka in running in the family | ondaatje |
godfrey ablewhite | the moonstone |
"lake poets" | romanticism |
| "it is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings" | li |
| "jewel stairs' grievance." | li |
| "a cup of wine, under the flowering trees." | li |
| chronicles of narnia | lewis |
| river of the arrow | kim |
| kizuki | norwegian wood |
jack burden | all the king's men |
| ferber | parker |
| major scobie | diamond |
| trojan women | cassandra |
| squire thornhill | vicar of |
| in pharaoh | vietnam |
| walter savage landor | oxford |
| "dover beach." | arnold |
| "the third and final continent" | lahiri |
| thomas love peacock | abbey |
| "hills like white elephants." | abortion |
| catholic flyte | brideshead |
| "there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go" | cummings |
| luis de | portuguese |
| flask | white |
| "destroyer and preserver" | ode to the west wind |
| melchizedek analogizes | decameron |
| odette de crecy | charles |
| gore vidal | los angeles |
| myra breckinridge | los angeles |
| crab | two gentlemen of |
| hotson | shakespeare's sonnets |
| chronicle of a death foretold | garcia marquez |
| gustav freytag | falling |
| "arrangement in black and white" | parker |
| "mr. w. h." | shakespeare's sonnets |
| jeff | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "merry pranksters," | wolfe |
| pharos | cavafy |
| thomas russell sullivan | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| poole | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| derek hartfield | murakami |
| alfred birnbaum | murakami |
| jay rubin | murakami |
| natasha | rostov |
| ralph fiennes | english patient |
| "revolt," | flowers of evil |
| "write down!" | darwish |
| prix goncourt | france |
| althea | prison |
| "we cannot make [this thing] / stand still, yet we will make him run." | sun |
| zosia | pan tadeusz |
| book of salt | stein |
| nervous conditions | zimbabwe |
| frantz fanon | wretched of the earth |
| district commissioner | nigeria |
| penguin books | lady chatterley's lover |
| adventures of peregrine pickle | smollett |
| lincoln in the bardo | saunders |
| "escape from spiderhead." | tenth of december |
| "the castle," | bald soprano |
| mio romagna | sacco |
| macunaima | andrade |
| vikentios kornaros | greek |
| royal court theatre | island |
| millicent boyd | golf |
| mitchell holmes | golf |
| oldest member | golf |
| "song of the reed flute." | rumi |
| "i know why he beats his wing! / i know why the caged bird sings" | dunbar |
| karl bushy | sturm und drang |
| "ave atque vale," | baudelaire |
| "that government is best which governs least." | thoreau |
| thomas bertram | mansfield park |
| antigua | mansfield park |
| armida | jerusalem delivered |
| spanish tragedy | pamuk |
| "foundations" | asimov |
| thomas carew | cavalier |
| "delirium" | season in hell |
| poemes | verlaine |
| lovborg | hedda |
| helen alving | ghosts |
| jim smiley | webster |
| edinburgh review | romanticism |
| "the nutcracker and the mouse king" | hoffmann |
| coppelius | hoffmann |
| "notes" | dostoyevsky |
| regents park | mrs |
| "desert" | nemo |
| "dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah," | flowers of evil |
| and then there were none | miller |
| garces | don quixote |
| algiers | don quixote |
| tomas rodaja | lawyer |
| andrei | war and peace |
| theodore roethke's | world war ii |
| marquis of saluzzo | decameron |
| "if swans can rain / white rape from heaven, then what is a girl to do?" | erdrich |
| "errors" | bradstreet |
| "if ever two were one, then surely we" | bradstreet |
| "verses upon the burning of our house" | bradstreet |
| "the land was ours before we were the land's." | frost |
| "four monarchies," | bradstreet |
| "giant wings prevent him from walking." | flowers of evil |
| messenger | giver |
| "american bandstand" | ignatius |
| george washington cable | confederacy of |
| clotho | pelops |
| german industrialist | schindler's ark |
| "outback." | australia |
| mary's frankenstein | shelley |
| arabella donn | jude the |
| little father time | jude the |
| hand of ethelberta | hardy |
| group of noble dames | hardy |
| denys finch | out of africa |
| "a gypsy's child" | habanera |
| "for carl solomon," | howl |
| billy bibbitt | asylum |
| "hold back the edges of your gowns, ladies, we are going through hell." | williams |
| "paterson." | williams |
| persuasion | austen |
| ohio impromptu | beckett |
| unnameable | beckett |
| "gogo light--bough not break--gogo dead." | waiting for |
| philip terry | on the road |
| old creole days | confederacy of |
| "when i heard the learn'd astronomer," | whitman |
| glass key | hammett |
| lillian hellman | hammett |
| thin man | hammett |
| in the thin man | nick and nora |
| arthur donnithorne | adam |
| "what peaches and what penumbras" | ginsberg |
| mikael blomkvist in the american | craig |
| girl with the dragon tattoo | craig |
| jake lonergan in cowboys | craig |
| the and as & aliens | craig |
| ashima calcutta | lahiri |
| crooks | lennie |
| national steinbeck center | salinas |
| earwicker | finnegans wake |
| alp | finnegans wake |
| "apropos of the wet snow." | dostoyevsky |
| "spiteful" | dostoyevsky |
| the landlady | dostoyevsky |
| ludvik jahn | kundera |
"optimism is the opium of the people" | kundera |
| stavrogin in the posessed | dostoevsky |
| "the stillness round my form was like the stillness in the air" | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
| tale heart | poe |
| "the pit and the pendulum" | poe |
| what is to be done | dostoyevsky |
| sam seaborn on the west wing | lowe |
| indiana state auditor chris traeger on parks | lowe |
| the stand | lowe |
| recreation | lowe |
| stu redman in the stand | sinise |
| lieutenant dan in forrest gump | sinise |
| detective mac taylor | sinise |
| csi | sinise |
| lord henry wotton | wilde |
| "the happy prince" | wilde |
| communist president | czech |
| catronia | kidnapped |
| rankeillor | kidnapped |
| wilhelm gustloff | grass |
| great mahlke in cat | grass |
| tom canty | prince and the pauper |
| pauper | twain |
| cacambo | candide |
| cathy ames | east of |
| desiree | chopin |
| room of one | woolf |
| a 's own | woolf |
| "auguries of innocence," | robin |
| bright star | keats |
| stamp paid | beloved |
| hetty sorrell | adam |
| "continuous as the stars that shine / and twinkle on the milky way." | i wandered lonely as a cloud |
| "time held me green and dying, though i sang in my chains like the sea." | fern hill |
| too late the phalarope | paton |
| noah webster | dictionary |
| "male" | dictionary |
| bridge of san luis rey | wilder |
| "strange to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes," | ginsburg |
| benh zeitlin | beasts of the southern wild |
| wallis | beasts of the southern wild |
| best actress | driving miss daisy |
| morgan freeman | driving miss daisy |
| hoke colburn | driving miss daisy |
| marco | view from the |
| fable for critics | lowell |
| suma | murasaki |
| hayslope | adam |
| claudia chauchat | magic mountain |
| tomas transtromer | buck |
| minister jack eccles | harry |
| carpentered hen | updike |
| in the beauty of the lilies | updike |
| lexa, jane | witches of |
| sukie | witches of |
| gutman | maltese |
| red harvest | hammett |
| "phony." | holden |
| seymour | glass |
| "will v-day be me-day too?" | hughes |
| "where did they get/them two fine cars?" | harlem |
| father jerome | castle |
| "what happens to" | dream |
| o-lan | the good |
| december in stockholm | buck |
| miss pinkerton | vanity |
| academy for young ladies | vanity |
| airstrip one | winston |
| "2 + 2 = 5." | winston |
| eastasia | 1984 |
| pencey prep | holden |
| "o, reason not the need." | lear |
| "more sinn'd against than sinning" | lear |
| adam mickiewicz | pushkin |
| "my hope and treasure lies above" | fire |
| thady quirk | castle |
| "night funeral" | harlem |
| carmen maria machado | husband |
| weir mitchell | husband |
| cato the elder | farm |
| smerdyakov | karamazov |
| "trilogy" | polish |
| "single man in possession of a good fortune" | darcy |
| wickham | darcy |
| bingley | darcy |
| "sound poems." | dada |
| sometimes a great notion | kesey |
| caverns | kesey |
| lives of animals | coetzee |
| ricky roma | mamet |
| quantum of solace | craig |
| "dog of tears" | portuguese |
| king of ward | portuguese |
"but all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty" | sappho |
| "he seems to me equal to the gods." | sappho |
| "deathless" | sappho |
| heinrich von ofterdingen | flower |
| el escorial | fuentes |
| mademoiselle | nabokov |
| gao xingjian | mountain |
| "have helen in their hearts" | williams |
| "two gentlemen of" | verona |
| jorge de montemayor's | verona |
| "the stars went out and so did the moon" | hughes |
| "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "the poetess." | sappho |
| chicana | mexican |
"my kingdom for a horse!" | richard iii |
| dinah nuthead | adam |
| perry smith | murder |
| "tender is the night." | keats |
| merricat | jackson |
| zillah | wuthering heights |
| "it isn't fair, it isn't right" | jackson |
| christmas past | ghost |
| david mamet | united states |
| elizabeth gaskell | ghost |
| "love laws" | god of small things |
| "gray-beard loon" | ancient mariner |
| "rime" | ancient mariner |
| new life | sonnet |
| conseil | verne |
| speak, memory | nabokov |
| drones club | jeeves |
| "scud" | nabokov |
| "hamlet." | doctor zhivago |
| yuri | doctor zhivago |
| cloud messenger | sanskrit |
| "nightingale." | emperor |
| joseph of arimathea | grail |
| fisher king | grail |
| "you must change your life" | rilke |
| breakfast at tiffany | capote |
| nancy | good soldier |
| ash'ari | possession |
| "dear bosie" | wilde |
| "miniver cheevy" | robinson |
| milkman | song of solomon |
| marshall mcluhan | finnegans wake |
| remembrance of earth | china |
| eloise | salinger |
| susan barton | friday |
| serena joy | handmaid's tale |
| last temptation | jesus |
| "the public and its problems" | james |
| "i say now these are the soul." | sing |
| ivan yakovlevich | nose |
| "someone had blundered" | charge of the light brigade |
| "that which we call a rose / by any other name would smell as sweet." | balcony |
| "funes, the memorious." | borges |
| hugh hayden | poet laureate |
| "cabin of clay and wattles." | lake isle of innisfree |
| arrowsmith | lewis |
| heart of midlothian | scott |
| sean connery | dr. no |
| bond girl | dr. no |
| honey ryder | dr. no |
| craig | dr. no |
"on silent haunches" | "fog" |
| sandberg | fog |
| "benito cereno is a work by this novelist who first hit it big with the novel typee. his other works include billy budd and " | melville |
| nick andros | lowe |
| magister ludi | glass bead game |
| le chiffre | james |
| blofeld | james |
| ts'ui pen | garden of forking paths |
| laszlo de almasy | greek |
| michael sheen | six characters in search of an author |
| edith wharton | age of innocence |
| may welland | age of innocence |
| newland archer | age of innocence |
| de ropp | saki |
| valenod | red and the black |
| mathilde de la mole | red and the black |
| lewis hyde | stevenson |
| sir alan gardiner | mantel |
| william john bankes | daube |
| vivian bearing | donne |
| from the earth to the moon | french |
| extraordinary voyages | french |
"one calm summer night" | robinson |
| "persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." | tom |
| ann more | donne |
| four quartets | eliot |
| "ode to psyche" | keats |
| house of the seven gables | hawthorne |
| three tall women | albee |
| javert | drown |
| adrian leverkuhn | mann |
| cholly | bluest eye |
| death of ivan illyich | tolstoy |
| "rappaccini's daughter," | hawthorne |
| sora | roxas |
| axel | roxas |
| "gentleman from sole to crown" | robinson |
| "sunflower sutra." | ginsberg |
| darconville | theroux |
| crucifer | theroux |
| "living? our servants will do that for us." | axel |
| sergeant trotter | mousetrap |
| "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." | archilochus |
| heart of the matter | greene |
| arden of faversham | elizabeth i |
| paulina salas | death |
| "what we talk about when we talk about" | frank |
| john florio | montaigne |
| blood meridian | mccarthy |
| clelie | scudery |
| ask to embla | ash |
| carpentier | magical realism |
| "father, how can i love you or any of my brothers more?" | lost |
| ramon gris | wall |
| "reducing classes" | everything that rises must converge |
| godhighs | everything that rises must converge |
| nathan johnson | frederick |
| columbian orator | frederick |
| "narrative." | frederick |
| "lioness on a cheese grater." | lysistrata |
| new critics | new critic |
| "tradition and the individual talent" | new critic |
| korova | burgess |
| simplicissimus | brecht |
| "power of making words express what he feels," | leavis |
| "grand style" | leavis |
| outback | australia |
| celimene | alceste |
| "barbara frietchie" | whitter |
| "snow-bound" | whitter |
| "beardless children" | pearl |
| green knight | gawain |
| doris kilman | clarissa dalloway |
| mrs dalloway | woolf |
| luciana [loo--nah | syracuse |
| tiff | comedy of |
| "demon of experiment" | six |
| theodore | castle |
| mary mccarthy | hellman |
| dashiell hammett | hellman |
ministry of education | "the necklace" |
| "vulcanist" | faust |
| howard roark | architect |
| skully's landing | capote |
| other voices | dill |
| other rooms | dill |
| "dillingham" | gift of the |
| madame sofronie | gift of the |
| lawrence shannon | night of |
| night of the iguana | williams |
| laura wingfield | williams |
| "the sea and the mirror" | tempest |
| little foxes | hellman |
| maxwell anderson | vanzetti |
| simon pilkings | soyinka |
| "three white leopards" | eliot |
| rutulian | turnus |
| man without qualities | austria |
| viet thanh nguyen | vietnam |
| "bob southey! you're a poet, poet laureate, / and representative of all the race." | don juan |
| robbie turner | atonement |
| "the paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids." | melville |
| secretum meum | laura |
| longfellow | cambridge |
| hetton | handful of dust |
| amadeus | shaffe |
| juanito | fortunata and jacinta |
| fortunata | madrid |
| "no bigger than an agate stone" | fairies |
| cobweb | fairies |
| mercutio | fairies |
| peter pan | sword |
| george etheredge | fopling |
| "why should a dog or horse or rat have life, but not you?" | never |
| gay talese | esquire |
| pot of gold | plautus |
| post-brexit | autumn |
| work in progress | duffy |
| hazel morse | big blonde |
| herakles | autobiography of red |
| in autobiography of red | dickinson |
| "ratiocination" | auguste |
| daniel gluck | smith |
| "early though the laurel grows / it withers quicker than the rose." | shropshire lad |
| clee hill | shropshire lad |
| lamartine | childe harold's pilgrimage |
"poem without a hero" | akhmatova |
| lope de vega | fuenteovejuna |
| proust in german | kiss |
| quevedo | spain |
| lazarillo de tormes | spain |
| "hamlet and his problems" | new critic |
| sacred wood | new critic |
| old women | lysistrata |
| tronckh | candide |
| "i raise my sword-pen" | burgess |
| cesaro | viola |
| ansley | roman fever |
| amelia sedley | thackeray |
| year of living dangerously | koch |
| father balbi | casanova |
| fiammetta | decameron |
| "so much depends," | red wheelbarrow |
| djerba | abydos |
| pater | beauty |
| "memory play." | tom |
| lady castlewood | thackeray |
| marquis of steyne | thackeray |
| "inevitable overthrow in time" | beowulf |
| "so!" | beowulf |
| hwaet | beowulf |
| trimalchio | petronius |
| satyricon | petronius |
| emilia | decameron |
| peabody | as i lay dying |
| "the story of" | stone |
| casanova in bolzano | marai |
| abednego | daniel |
| margaret peel | lucky |
| arcite | knight |
| scarlett | mitchell |
| neptune by claus of innsbruck | my last duchess |
| "grow old along with me! / the best is yet to be" | rabbi ben ezra |
| connecticut yankee in king arthur | twain |
| george wilson | jay gatsby |
| tabitha | baseball |
| sportsman's sketches | turgenev |
| ottava rima | sailing to byzantium |
| john nefastis | crying of lot 49 |
| charlotte lucas | pride and prejudice |
| isabella thorpe | northanger abbey |
| john cheever | prison |
| joseph campbell | hero |
| roman marcus vinicius | polish |
| sweet thursday | cannery row |
| "transparent eye-ball." | emerson |
| soma | brave new world |
| horus | osiris |
| semele | dionysus |
| "just sag, like a heavy load" | dream deferred |
| "the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war" | stowe |
| macduff | macbeth |
| bleh | lemuel |
| pheoby watson | hurston |
| "now is the time to drink" | horace |
| maecenas | horace |
| rochester | jane eyre |
| "listen my children and you shall hear / the midnight ride of paul revere" | longfellow |
| louise | chopin |
| immoralist | gide |
| "charioted by bacchus and his pards." | bird |
| "half in love with easeful death." | bird |
| "not born for death" | bird |
| billiards at half | boll |
| faehmel | boll |
| chinese literature | journey to the west |
| kandata | akutagawa |
| "brief" | we real cool |
| journeyman years | wilhelm meister |
| pale king | wallace |
| baltasar | saramago |
| meshach | daniel |
| sketchbook of geoffrey crayon | irving |
| "gather ye rosebuds while ye may" | herrick |
| "to lucasta going to the warres." | lovelace |
| "lame balloonman" | in just |
| side of paradise | fitzgerald |
| edward rochester | bertha |
| wu song | water margin |
| "pisan" | cantos |
| for anatole | mallarme |
| "tithonus poem" | sappho |
| elicio | cervantes |
| "rape." | brooks |
william styron | sophie's choice |
| bel | daniel |
| blimunda | saramago |
| mccarthyism in the crucible | miller |
| giles corey | press |
| "all the world's a stage." | seven ages of |
| bradstreet | age |
"mother-rival" | eliza doolittle |
| wimpole street | eliza |
| freddy eynsford | eliza |
| varieties of religious experience | john |
| "perfect" | child |
| "secret" | milady |
| "life-force" | don juan |
| museum of innocence | istanbul |
| huzun | istanbul |
| zhahn val-zhahn | miserables |
| eugene | duel |
| eliza | uncle tom's |
| cabin | stowe |
| priapus | hestia |
| thiazi | feet |
| "for madmen only" | steppenwolf |
| sighet | night |
| many philip roth | jew |
| vahn | statue |
| "dr. heidegger's experiment" | hawthorne |
| "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" | misfi |
| michael robartes | easter rising |
| "yeux glauques" | pound |
| ariel dorfman | chile |
| giant peach | wonka |
| rodolphe boulanger | emma |
| queen of spades | pushkin |
| vladimir lensky | duel |
| louise mallard | chopin |
| hal 9000 | 2001 |
| "desperate men" | ransom of red |
| tybalt | nurse |
| "years" | dickinson |
| "safe in their alabaster chambers" | dickinson |
| "sings the tune without the words" | dickinson |
| columbine | pierrot |
| jack merridew | samneric |
| catherine barkley | farewell to arms |
| wilkins micawber | uriah |
| "childe harold's pilgrimage" | byron |
| mary warren | crucible |
| menander | comedy |
| the frogs and the clouds | comedy |
| roger mexico | pynchon |
| "the darkling thrush." | hardy |
| coatlicue | feather |
| christine | cook |
| "they that begin by burning books will end by burning people." | german |
| clybourne park improvement association | karl |
| s. behrman | octopus |
| richard wilbur | tartuffe |
| panulphe | tartuffe |
| sign in sidney | hansberry |
| rosalind | as you like it |
| "an image of africa" | conrad |
| deianeira | river |
| "huddled/camouflage" | dover |
| lucie manette | tale of two cities |
| odale's choice | brathwaite |
| "none of them knew the color of the sky." | the open boat |
| nagra | dover |
| swaminatha iyer | tamil |
| u. v | tamil |
| "the cliffs of england stand" | dover beach |
| aegean | dover beach |
| cleon for demos | aristophanes |
| "brekekekex koax koax." | aristophanes |
| ottone | frank |
| anthony hecht | dover beach |
| cuttlefish bones | montale |
| uss housatonic | hunley |
| "dying / is an art, like everything else. / i do it exceptionally well," | lazarus |
| boo radley | to kill a mockingbird |
| "the chimney sweeper" | blake |
| dioscuri | pollux |
| new heloise | bovary |
| george caldwell | updike |
| "is rich" | updike |
| hobbit | bilbo |
| "drink to me only with thine eyes." | to |
| sting | bilbo |
| mount doom | bilbo |
| ras the exhorter | invisible man |
| king theseus | oedipus |
| dally | switchblade |
| colored man | georgia |
madame ranevskaya | the cherry orchard |
| faber | fahrenheit 451 |
| "el aleph" | borges |
| "death-pale figures" | keats |
| how much land does a man need | tolstoy |
| kreutzer sonata | tolstoy |
| "if they give you ruled paper, write the other way." | jimenez |
| in platero | jimenez |
| amijima | love |
| chikamatsu | puppet |
| real inspector hound | stoppard |
| death on the nile | shaffer |
| kenzaburo oe | personal matter |
| richard huelsenbeck | dada |
| "bad moral character" | dickens |
| charley | steinbeck |
| lying life of adults | ferrante |
| pride and prejudice | austen |
| ennius | scipio |
| judgement day | violent bear it away |
| pigsy | journey to the west |
| "the courier's tragedy," | pynchon |
| genghis cohen | pynchon |
| benny profane | pynchon |
| daljit nagra | dover |
| sandy | journey to the west |
| sydney carton | tale of two cities |
| barsad | tale of two cities |
| "not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the british guards" | dickens |
| esteban trueba | house of the spirits |
| "time is tied to the wrist" | mars |
| " lists " | dapple |
| " wrote " | hopkins |
| theophilus msimangu's | cry, the beloved country |
| ruby turpin | revelation |
| klara | never let me go |
| "of the spangled mind." | ode to aphrodite |
| catriona | stevenson |
| "classics." | heaney |
| if not | sappho |
| on being brought | wheat |
| africa to america | wheat |
| mary lamb | shakespeare |
| jocasta | oedipus |
| "why, phoebus, moves thy car so slow?" | wheat |
| hasanaginica | goethe |
| "ain't i a woman?" | truth |
| anne rutledge | lincoln |
| aegisthus in an aeschylus | clytaemnestra |
| identified with the bennu | phoenix |
| arthur dimmesdale | scarlet letter |
| eugenides | waste land |
| james baldwin | mead |
| "death by drowning," | kafka |
| baker street | sherlock |
| reichenbach falls with moriarty | sherlock |
| "i think we are in rat's alley / where the dead men lost their bones." | waste land |
| bill oliver | death of a salesman |
| "adieu, the flow'ry plain" | wheat |
| ismene | oedipus |
| dead souls | gogol |
| tarrou | bernard |
| "upon appleton house." | marvell |
| "sepulchre there by the sea." | poe |
| pumblechook | great expectations |
| jose arcadio buendia | one hundred years of solitude |
| "red room" | strindberg |
| "ode to the confederate dead" | lowell |
| "the fall of house voticky" | capek |
| "i cultivate a white rose" | cuba |
| lao she | cat |
alice b. toklas | stein |
| latin to an oxford | wimsey |
| "interesting narrative" | equiano |
| gaudy night | wimsey |
| s. wu | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "jangling journalist" | wolfe |
| "oxymorons and serpentae carminael! ... schlock!" | wolfe |
| greek war of independence | byron |
| sonny | welty |
| shirley | welty |
| roman elegies | goethe |
| brief history of seven killings | jamaica |
| intima theater | proscenium |
| strindberg | proscenium |
| "rain is when the earth is television" | mars |
| craig raine | mars |
| in the signifying monkey | equiano |
| "placetne, magistra?" | wimsey |
| delamarche | kafka |
| karl | kafka |
| against the day | pynchon |
| pierce inverarity | pynchon |
| pugnax | pynchon |
| metzger | pynchon |
"chickamauga" | bierce |
| made knight | candle in the |
| "o villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this." | dogberry |
| gummidge | david |
| spenlow and jorkins | david |
| adventures of three englishmen | verne |
| three russians in south africa | verne |
| autobiography of an ex | georgia |
| "there's a stake through your black heart," | plath |
| ottilie and the captain | goethe |
| little em | david |
| james steerforth | david |
| mr peggotty | david |
| mrs crupp | david |
| tommy traddles at salem house | david |
| mr murdstone | david |
| uriah heap | david |
if beale street could talk | baldwin |
| pollux | leda |
| good man is hard to find | o'connor |
| finny | separate |
| starship troopers | heinlein |
| captain nemo in twenty thousand leagues under the sea | verne |
| "looks as if she were alive" | browning |
| duke of ferrera | browning |
| elizabeth barret | browning |
| harvey stone at the cafe select | the sun also |
| frances clyne | the sun also |
| bill gorton | the sun also |
| john mcclane | die hard |
| hunter s. thompson | horse |
| said | salammbo |
| an irish airman foresees his death | yeats |
| second coming | yeats |
| bethlehem | yeats |
| "only the wind's home," | waste land |
| handbook | shaw |
| herr huld | kafka |
| toulouse valmorain | allende |
| la senora | allende |
| zulema halabi | allende |
| island beneath the sea | allende |
| elizabeth drury | world |
| cheshire cat in alice | carroll |
| just to say | williams |
| " in his poem " | williams |
| in part | goethe |
| eduard | goethe |
| mason & dixon | pynchon |
| "peter keating, star student of stanton, president of the student body, captain of the track team, member of the most important fraternity, voted the most popular man on the campus." | fountainhead |
| fountainhead | rand |
| tete | allende |
| "i'm through." | plath |
| eugenie grandet | balzac |
| rachael rosen | dick |
| seymore levov | roth |
| "intended" | heart of darkness |
| "history is about to crack wide open. millennium approaches." | rosenberg |
| "beastly, beastly book." | brave new world |
| world controller | brave new world |
| bokanovsky process | brave new world |
| podsnap | brave new world |
| luis alejandro velasco for the el espectador | garcia |
| "the story of a shipwrecked sailor." | garcia |
| no one writes to the colonel | garcia |
| general in his labyrinth | garcia |
| wolf hall | mantel |
| amazing adventures of kavalier | chabon |
| pozdnyshev | tolstoy |
| "the conscience of the nation" | boll |
| goodreads | pnin |
| imipolex g | pynchon |
| v-2 rockets | pynchon |
| essays of elia | lamb |
| honey | albee |
| "born again" | nietzsche |
| "blond beast" | nietzsche |
| thus spoke zarathustra | nietzsche |
| south side boys | native |
| yale series of younger poets | auden |
| "ithaka." | cavafy |
| pan tadeusz | poland |
| mantel | interloper |
| alden pyle | quiet |
| "i shall not rest quiet at montparnasse" | benet |
| "bury my heart at wounded knee" | benet |
| "american names." | benet |
| "john brown's body" | benet |
| jabez stone | benet |
| "the devil and daniel webster?" | benet |
| ou-dis-sun | benet |
| samson carrasco | don quixote |
| lady cheveley | wilde |
| sir robert chiltern | wilde |
| cecily cardew | wilde |
| place of the gods | benet |
| ubtreas | benet |
| my name is red | pamuk |
| "strong and diverse," | benet |
| nellie | heart of darkness |
| leon dupuis | madame bovary |
| the lion d'or | madame bovary |
| jan erlone | native |
| "the curse of minerva." | byron |
| "don juan." | byron |
| elgin | byron |
| grasshopper lies heavy | dick |
| "of our world as it might have been" | dick |
| scanner darkly | dick |
| cradle will rock | welles |
dom casmurro | brazil |
posthumous memoirs of bras cubas (country) | brazil |
| ashing | benet |
| "alterest all things with thy peering eyes." | poe |
| "to see a world in a grain of sand / and a heaven in a wild flower / hold infinity in the palm of your hand / and eternity in an hour." | blake |
| "did he who made the lamb make thee?" | blake |
| crispin | stevens |
| "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" | hughes |
| "the enormous radio" | swimmer |
| "disillusionment of ten o'clock." | stevens |
| "how terrible and brief was my desire of you!" | song of despair |
| "in you the wars and the flights accumulated." | song of despair |
| "love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds." | shakespeare |
| in sonnet | time |
| in saki | wolf |
| akela | wolf |
| captain vere | billy budd |
| pinzada | interpreter of maladies |
| ralph steadman | thompson |
| scanlan | thompson |
| freyr | muspelheim |
| "among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye" | bird |
| "the thin men of haddam." | bird |
| "triple goddesses," | moon |
| lycia | iobates |
| elli | age |
| "tonight i can" | write |
| doors of perception | huxley |
| d'arthur | galahad |
| "tower of babylon." | chiang |
| "the story of your life," | chiang |
| isaac cline | larson |
| cather | my |
| "madness... madness!" | bridge |
| clipton | bridge |
| tell my horse | hurston |
| "eat the cones" | frost |
| judge mckelva | welty |
| laurel hand | welty |
| galatea | quixote |
| kovrin | black monk |
| patty berglund | freedom |
| robinson jeffers | hawk |
| madeleine forestier | maupassant |
| bel ami | maupassant |
| "be a man, my son," | kipling |
| carol ann duffy | cope |
| "the ransom of red chief" | henry |
| poaceae | grass |
| joe crowell | grover's corners |
| late in miss julie | kills |
| theses | luther |
| dolorous stroke | fisher king |
| tom stoppard | rosencrantz |
| "samiel" | devil |
| troezen to athens | theseus |
| sergeant troy | gabriel |
| splendid phoenix | dream of the red chamber |
| baoyu | monk |
| "impulse was converted into momentary figures." | billiard |
| family values | cope |
| hareton | read |
| maud gonne | yeats |
| race to the top | education |
| "conception of the primal horde," | darwin |
| catholic mass | nicene |
| national league rookie of the year | rickey |
| no child left behind act | education |
| stages on life | either/or |
| gar-san | no exit |
| in john | dirt |
| "great chieftain of the puddin' race!" | burns |
| "to a haggis." | burns |
| thisman | poe |
| barnstable | cape cod |
| "what mad nijinsky wrote / about diaghilev." | auden |
| hillalum | chiang |
| harry domin | robots |
| "crawled under a lorry." | gus |
| bonus british | peter |
| lord of aratta | tower of babel |
| enmerkar | tower of babel |
| etemenanki | tower of babel |
| parul sehgal | woolf |
| "the case against" | woolf |
| roderick | poe |
"life for me ain't been no crystal stair" | langston hughes |
| "dream variations" | hughes |
| "night coming tenderly, black like me." | hughes |
| "key." | simon |
| "homer nods" | horace |
| "drowned phoenician sailor" | eliot |
| le morte | galahad |
| in sylvia plath | nazi |
| "froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer" | soldier |
| "a psalm of life." | longfellow |
| "white night-gowns," | stevens |
| diedrich knickerbocker | irving |
| "the metamorphosis." | kafka |
| "peppered with thorn pricks" | blackberry |
| "all i could see from where i stood / was three long mountains and a wood." | renascence |
| j.m. synge | playboy of the western world |
| that hecht | dover beach |
| "darkling plain" | dover beach |
| laura miller | mueller report |
| "game of thrones with footnotes." | mueller report |
| spring snow | mishima |
| "what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / slouches towards bethlehem to be born?" | yeats |
| fair labor standards act | minimum |
| warren buffett | interest |
| "my wealth has come from a combination of living in america, some lucky genes, and" | interest |
| "green sea" | owen |
| "the deceitful marriage," | berganza |
| "the conversation of the dogs" | cervantes |
| full surrogacy now | ferrante |
| tonkunstler society | salieri |
| oswald the lucky rabbit | mickey |
| pellinore | questing beast |
| "i sang in my chains like the sea" | thomas |
| "wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight" | thomas |
| "blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay." | thomas |
| madness of king george | bennett |
| machiavel | marlowe |
| "would rather be / a pagan suckled in a creed outworn." | wordsworth |
| "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" | cummings |
| set at christmastime | doll's |
on famous women | boccaccio |
| troy to italy | aeneid |
| robert juet | hudson |
| gerald duval | all quiet on the western front |
| corporal himmelstoss | all quiet on the western front |
| "nymph's reply" | marlowe |
| anjana | ramayana |
| kaikeyi | ramayana |
| victoria land | ross |
| marie byrd land | ross |
| large colour prints | tyger |
| twelve labors | eurystheus |
| tiryns | eurystheus |
| kroeber, sapir | boas |
| king of thebes | oedipus |
| "can you not trust me as a physician?" | the yellow wallpaper |
| dupin | purloined letter |
| marry warren | crucible |
| loman | miller |
| " for 10 points each, name this collection which attempts to provide a history of latin america, consisting of 231 poems across 15 sections, including " | canto |
| " for 10 points each, canto general is a work by this nobel prize-winning poet who wrote " | neruda |
| poema | chile |
| midland city pontiac | vonnegut |
| dwayne hoover in breakfast of champions | vonnegut |
| "can the devil speak true?" | macbeth |
| little america | ross |
| kalabis | havel |
| eponine | les |
| "the judgment" | kafka |
| "sunstone" | paz |
| deus ex machina | tartuffe |
| argas | tartuffe |
| evgenii | bronze horseman |
| igraine | arthur |
| marie cordona | camus |
| "piece of string" | maupassant |
| "hopped along the imperial highway." | frog |
| "eternal recurrence." | nietzsche |
| "i want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees," | neruda |
| "every day you play" | neruda |
| sin | satan |
| spainard | benito |
| "we are no other than a moving row/of magic shadow-shapes that come and go." | rubaiyat |
| "the wine of life keeps oozing drop my drop,/the leaves of life keep falling one by one." | rubaiyat |
| english by edward fitzgerald | rubaiyat |
| four iambic | rubaiyat |
| "season word" | haiku |
| in christina rosetti | frog |
| "pah-chay" | six characters in search of an author |
| rules of the game | six characters in search of an author |
| baron hulot | human comedy |
| rastignac in the human comedy | balzac |
| resources of quinola | balzac |
| marcel proust in in search of lost time | french |
| voltaire in candide | french |
| "paradise lost." | milton |
| questing beast | once and future king |
| the devil | irving |
| aloeus | ephialtes |
| "ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of gold fishes" | gray |
| pablo honey | magic theater |
| dust bowl | steinbeck |
| oklahoma to california in the grapes of wrath | steinbeck |
| van helsing | dracula |
| "dying." | dracula |
| jim casy | steinbeck |
| porfiry petrovich | crime and punishment |
| svidrigailov | crime and punishment |
| elizabeth rousset | boule de suif |
primrose (family) | the vicar of wakefield |
| "out, out damned spot!" | macbeth |
james incandenza | infinite jest |
| periodic table | levi |
| thirteen ways of looking | blackbird |
| "breath of autumn's being." | west wind |
| niketas choniates | baudolino |
| scales of justice | anubis |
zenocrate | marlowe |
| "helen being chosen found life flat and dull, and later had much trouble from a fool." | prayer for my daughter |
| "death as nostalgia, rather than as the fruition or end of life, is death as origin" | labyrinth of solitude |
| nostalgia for death by xavier villaurrutia | labyrinth of solitude |
| "locked up in coffins of block." | chimney sweep |
| mnevis bull | ra |
| family life | vas deferens |
| "a lovely light!" | candle |
| "blitzball." | phineas |
| thane of cawdor | macbeth |
| weird sisters | macbeth |
| santa claus | nicholas |
| captain hoseason | david |
| diana moon glampers | harrison bergeron |
| "harrison bergeron" | vonnegut |
| tramecksan | lilliput |
| samecksan | lilliput |
| quasimodo in the hunchback of notre dame | hugo |
| nidhogg | serpent |
| nagas | serpent |
| miss ethel lange | south |
| morrie | south |
| koorma | turtle |
| "lyric." | lyre |
| malory at the isis | archer |
| ray gillette | archer |
| cyril figgis | archer |
| woodhouse | archer |
| birds in cloudcuckooland | aristophanes |
| aurora by georges clemenceau | zola |
| acrisius of argos | danae |
| scheherazade | one thousand and one nights |
| "unbound." | prometheus |
| fermina | love in the time of cholera |
| arnold lobel | frog |
| lobel | frog |
| course in general linguistics | saussure |
| hermes to apollo | lyre |
| henry green | hudson |
| leander | chapman |
| "mock their useful toil." | ambition |
| newark colleges of rutgers university | goodbye |
| radcliffe college | goodbye |
| rabbi binder | conversion of the |
| ozzie freedman | conversion of the |
| when koroviev | knee |
| solitary | wordsworth |
| "beauty is twice beauty, and what is good is doubly good." | socks |
| "mid-term break," | heaney |
| "between my finger and thumb, the squat pen rests. i'll dig with it." | heaney |
| takashi | oe |
| bird | oe |
| "crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn," | browning |
| tom wingo | prince of tides |
the silent cry | oe |
| chad newsome | ambassadors |
| matt bonner | mule |
| modern languages department | communication |
| lurie | communication |
| leading man | egg |
| benedict cumberbatch | stoppard |
| night sky with exit wounds | vuong |
| quiet american | greene |
| "dapple-dawn-drawn falcon." | windhover |
"the windhover" | hopkins |
| gerard manley hopkins | praise |
| "with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life" | how do i love thee |
| "after blenheim" | southey |
| "dire offense" | rape of the lock |
| "for fools rush in..." | where |
| round table | lancelot |
| jim on the mississippi river | huckleberry |
| "lay-air-tees" | polonius |
| "i was the more deceived" | get thee to a |
| great temple of osiris | abydos |
| diss | siren |
| book of days | fasti |
| on the roman calendar | fasti |
| "lord, what fools..." | these |
| daniel deronda | eliot |
| street in bronzeville | brooks |
| king arthur in the sword in the stone | merlin |
| hero and | chapman |
| according to greek | pandora |
| lobster quadrille | mock turtle |
| gryphon | mock turtle |
| queen of air | sword in the stone |
| "milk with knives in it" | clockwork orange |
| "moloko [muh-loh-koh] with knives in it" | clockwork orange |
| alex, pete, georgie | clockwork orange |
| blooms of dublin | joyce |
| lewis lambert strether | ambassadors |
| rohv | knee |
| woland | knee |
| "flecknoe" | marvell |
| "a fine and private place" | grave |
| "but none, i think, do there embrace." | grave |
| "the time you won your town the race, we chaired you through the market-place." | "to an athlete |
| "why so pale and wan, fond lover?" | suckling |
| kennebunkport | tarkington |
| remedios | fold |
"narrow fellow in the grass" | dickinson |
| "debauchee of dew" | dickinson |
| "beyond the genius of the sea." | stevens |
"the idea of order at key west" | stevens |
| natchez | welty |
| "the contest of cithaeron and helicon." | corinna |
| tanagra | corinna |
| corinna | corinna |
| "a girl i knew," | salinger |
| "the most exquisite pairs of ears i have ever seen." | salinger |
| gina apostol | rizal |
| "let it be for nought." | if thou must love me |
| mimi c. magsalin | rizal |
| estrella | rizal |
| craiglockhart hospital | sassoon |
| "dreamers." | sassoon |
| sassoon | sassoon |
| lawrence rainey | waste land |
| hard times | thurber |
| pontifex | butler |
| apostol | rizal |
| richard adams | watership down |
| hazel | watership down |
| "the secret life of walter mitty." | thurber |
| "schartz-metterklume method." | saki |
| caroline lamb | byron |
| revolution according to raymundo mata | rizal |
| ukemochi | food |
| kay-moh-chee | food |
| kill | penthesilea |
| letters to a prime minister | martel |
| good morning | rhys |
| things they carried | o'brien |
| "the word 'death' is not pronounced in new york, in paris, in london, because it burns the lips. the mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death." | labyrinth of |
| luna silvestre | paz |
| galta in india | monkey |
| mahfouz | children of gebelawi |
| "in a kingdom by the sea" | annabel lee |
| "nine and fifty" | yeats |
| "scatter, wheeling in great broken rings, upon their clamoring wings." | yeats |
| george chapman | iliad |
| true story | lucian |
| tish | if beale street could talk |
| fonny | if beale street could talk |
| "can therefore choose between the endings," | hardy |
| story of a new name | naples |
| patrick leigh fermor | istanbul |
| time of gifts | istanbul |
| hook of holland | istanbul |
| poirot | istanbul |
| claude frollo | esmeralda |
| djali | esmeralda |
| "the most delicious poem about someone dying" | yeats |
| "silence invaded the suburbs" | yeats |
| "an afternoon of nurses and rumors." | yeats |
| "about suffering they were never wrong." | auden |
john grimes | go tell it on the mountain |
| "is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature." | morgenthau |
| purple hibiscus | adichie |
| party of the poor | famished road |
| azaro | famished road |
| "gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." | cavafy |
| wellington | united kingdom |
| drama pulitzer | nguyen |
| maitresse erzulie to kiki | on beauty |
| carlene | on beauty |
| sutter | wilson |
| "the diary of p." | handmaid |
| chancery | bleak house |
| "great white wings/drag beside them like oars" | baudelaire |
| du mal | baudelaire |
| stanley webber | pinter |
| "video killed the radio star." | ballard |
| brian sterling | ballard |
| clotel | jefferson |
| according to trevor horn | ballard |
| "ultrasonic music" | ballard |
| lavransdatter | kristin |
| undset | kristin |
| bangor | handmaid |
| the king's horseman | soyinka |
| the musee des arts et metiers | foucault's pendulum |
| "and the stoicism of seneca." | shakespeare |
| kurt von obersdorf | fran |
| elmer gantry | lewis |
| babbitt | lewis |
| william wycherley | restoration |
| giuseppe ungaretti | montale |
| cat and mouse | grass |
| elsa morante | italian |
| "krik?" | haiti |
| "krak!" | haiti |
| houellebecq | trump |
| godfrey cass | raveloe |
| nakata | kafka on the shore |
| luis de gongora | spain |
| robert gottlieb | confederacy of dunces |
| house for mr | naipaul |
| biswas | naipaul |
| while in the rusty spoon | yoyodyne |
| kurt mondaugen | yoyodyne |
| pharillon | cavafy |
| "symphony in gray major" | dario |
| lori parks | topdog/underdog |
| pamuk | museum of innocence |
| "patmos," | holderlin |
| hetton abbey | waugh |
| "perestroika," | 1980 |
| europa | 1980 |
| "simulacra" | barn |
| "generique" | murakami |
| hae-mi | murakami |
| "elements and an angelic sprite," | holy sonnets |
| "young goodman brown." | hawthorne |
| valladolid | berganza |
| book of fantasy | rizal |
| "principles" | morgenthau |
inez serrano | no exit |
| estelle rigault | no exit |
| vinteuil | in search of lost time |
| kobo abe | stick |
| man who turned | stick |
| "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." | ulysses |
| "daffodils" | i wandered lonely as |
| ani | yam |
| percy bysshe | ozymandias |
| instead of paris | yonville |
| gromov | ward number 6 |
| "ward number six" | chekhov |
| "and that has made all the..." | difference |
| ruth may | poisonwood bible |
| "the poetry cloud." | liu |
| atticus finch | sheriff |
| confounded husband | moliere |
| lyrics of lowly life | dunbar |
| "buck did not read the newspapers." | call of the |
| santa clara valley | judge |
| daodu | soyinka |
| gathering blue | giver |
| number the stars | hammersberg |
| in the giver | release |
| "then there's a pair of us!" | nobody |
| "going on a journey" | goethe |
| ossian | goethe |
| dance of the forests | soyinka |
| "curious incident of the dog in the night-time." | sherlock holmes |
| methuselah | poe |
| led zeppelin | liverpool |
| mersey sound | liverpool |
| gilukhepa | plutarch |
| in death | mask |
| "essay on phrygian religious customs" | immoralist |
| la luna | old gringo |
| "indiana general" | old gringo |
| battlefield earth | hubbard |
| zverkov | turgenev |
| "i am arturo bandini!" | bukowski |
| john fante | bukowski |
| "dear loyalty, that could have served and followed him and loved him as a dog loves!" | white heron |
| shadow songs | senghor |
| angers fragment | snorri |
| isle of skye | to the lighthouse |
| recognition of shakuntala | sanskrit |
| roger casement in matadi | conrad |
| inheritance of loss | desai |
| "invents" | hamlet |
| "exploits what has been invented" | hamlet |
| "hamlet of the shchigrovsky district" | sportsman's sketches |
| widows | kushner |
| "lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree / in the cool of the day," | ash wednesday |
| madeline gleason | san francisco |
| jack spicer | san francisco |
| new american poetry | san francisco |
| robert creeley | san francisco |
| sound of the mountain | kawabata |
| isolation | erikson |
| pribislav hippe | magic mountain |
| moon is a harsh mistress | heinlein |
| "spice" | dune |
| "representative man" | emerson |
| phi beta kappa society | emerson |
| "whoso must be a man, must be a nonconformist" | emerson |
| governor bellingham | scarlet letter |
| "demon-child." | scarlet letter |
reverend (arthur) dimmsdale | the scarlet letter |
| puritan boston | scarlet letter |
| captain underpants | pilkey |
| eric | finnegans wake |
| caroline b. dow | millay |
| vassar | millay |
| "on the front porch at frank martin's drying-out facility" | carver |
| fitzcarraldo | tokarczuk |
| x-23 | wolverine |
| magneto | wolverine |
| the x-men | wolverine |
| "the seagull." | checkhov |
| grischa | checkhov |
| university of massachusetts | achebe |
| "novel which ... depersonalizes a portion of the human race" | achebe |
| "racism in conrad's heart of darkness." | achebe |
| hugoliade | ionesco |
| berenger pines | ionesco |
| dark avengers | wolverine |
| laura kinney | wolverine |
| "fastball special." | wolverine |
| "merely funny" | not bloody likely |
| woman in the nineteenth century | fuller |
| the dial | second coming |
| "macdonagh and macbride, and connolly and pearse" | yeats |
| hulga | o'connor |
| misfit | o'connor |
| "the gold-bug" | poe |
| "the masque of the red death" | poe |
| "something there is that doesn't love a wall." | frost |
| "the death of the hired man" | frost |
| "that has made all the difference" | frost |
| manley pointer | o'connor |
| "good country people" | o'connor |
| welcome to the monkey house | vonnegut |
| titus andronicus | philomel |
| shui ta | good person |
| "like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies." | she walks in beauty |
| ivor | dentist |
| "then while we live, in love let's so persevere, / that when we live no more, we may live ever." | loving husband |
| orgoglio | faerie queene |
| gone with the wind | mitchell |
| "general william booth enters into heaven." | lindsay |
| "are you washed in the blood of the lamb?" | lindsay |
| hermann broder | singer |
| love story | singer |
| magician of lublin | singer |
| koo-lohm | siren |
| john singer | heart is a lonely |
| member of the wedding | mccullers |
| mccullers | ballad of the |
| cyrano de bergerac | rostand |
| "the former age." | chaucer |
| hundred years together | solzhenitsyn |
| exit the king | ionesco |
| "a man may, in effect, make a whore of his own wife" | defoe |
| "conjugal lewdness." | defoe |
| epping forest | defoe |
| vachel lindsay | lincoln |
| mead | boas |
| "an experiment in literary investigation," | gulag archipelago |
| hikari | oe |
| "what immortal hand or eye / could frame thy [this two-word phrase]?" | fearful symmetry |
| fearful symmetry | frye |
| arnolphe | school for wives |
| vera gangart | solzhenitsyn |
| kitty pride | wolverine |
| rusanov | solzhenitsyn |
| lester kane in chicago | dreiser |
| jennie gerhardt | dreiser |
| frank copperwood | dreiser |
| sondra finchley | dreiser |
| "paddle in the cold," | yeats |
| "all's changed" | yeats |
| abbey theater | yeats |
| "those that i fight i do not hate/those that i guard i do not love," | yeats |
| " for 10 points, name this irish poet of " | yeats |
| montoya hotel | the sun also |
| "i am an american, [this city] born." | chicago |
| "the canary." | mansfield |
| saddler | defoe |
| work squad | solzhenitsyn |
| in the fatal attractions | wolverine |
| daken | wolverine |
| pole in spanish | coetzee |
| "to resist the hegemony of the english language." | coetzee |
| string of pearls | sweeney |
| nu | ionesco |
| princess helene | natasha |
| pechorin | lermontov |
| my father | autobiography |
| frank chin | autobiography |
| "literary descendant of the confession" | autobiography |
| cecily | faulkner |
| anse | faulkner |
| christopher columbus | irving |
| "lak of steadfastness" | chaucer |
| port ticonderoga | atwood |
| tudor arghezi | ionesco |
| mircea eliade | ionesco |
| queens marie | ionesco |
| george farr | faulkner |
| donald mahon | faulkner |
| margaret powers | faulkner |
| charlestown | faulkner |
| tabrizi | rumi |
| game warden | sinatra |
| "tales of passion." | ted |
| robert cohn | the sun also |
| jake barnes | the sun also |
| georgette | the sun also |
| crick institute | atwood |
| big city | 80s |
| bret easton ellis | 80s |
| "a little phrase" | in search of lost time |
| "thy firmness makes my circle just," | metaphysical |
| joseph kell | burgess |
| "fair youth." | four |
| "n plus seven" | oulipo |
| donne | canonization |
| life of great american cities | corner |
| civilizing process | levi-strauss |
| sherry | laureate |
| the mountaintop | hall |
| "letter from birmingham jail." | king |
| hall's | king |
| "drowsy syncopated tune" | hughes |
| "domestic fool." | all's well that ends well |
| lavache | all's well that ends well |
| streep | thatcher |
| ian buruma | naipaul |
| "confessional biography." | naipaul |
| where jacques | touchstone |
| fa'alupega | oral |
| "edge." | child |
| "into the red eye, the cauldron of morning." | ariel |
| "burning city." | vietnam |
| smersh | bond |
| "she" | bond |
| vesper lynd | bond |
| fa'agogo | oral |
| like touchstone | all's well that ends well |
| "also a chimney sweep." | carver |
| secretaire | letter |
| oliver goldsmith | she stoops to conquer |
| "forget-me-nots of the angels." | longfellow |
| "listen my children and you shall hear" | longfellow |
| "knew no haste." | because i could not stop for death |
| jerry siegel | superman |
| joe shuster | superman |
| christopher reeve | superman |
| krypton | superman |
| richard brinsley sheridan | ireland |
| sean o'casey | ireland |
| "father of american anthropology." | boas |
the ponder heart | welty |
| bright lights | 80s |
| welty | welty |
strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde | stevenson |
| pizan | rose |
| "a simple heart." | flaubert |
| frederic moreau | flaubert |
| madame arnoux | flaubert |
| hassan to amir | thousand |
a thousand splendid suns (country) | afghanistan |
the kite runner (country) | afghanistan |
| clarel | melville |
| astrov | doctor |
| "the green door." | green |
| well of loneliness | hall |
| donald | tracy |
| "could sit and ponder all day" | welty |
| rehana | desertion |
marilla cuthbert | anne of green gables |
| "the blessed damozel" | rossetti |
| joy hopewell | o'connor |
| holy church of christ without christ | o'connor |
| ymca | o'connor |
| senator jakob | kafka |
| red center | handmaid's tale |
"the lawyer of glass" | cervantes |
| antwerp | astraea |
| lost illusions | lucien |
| "meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf" | sea rose |
| "you are caught in the drift." | sea rose |
| cope | larkin |
| "complicated man." | homer |
| "risorgimento black and gold casket" | lowell |
| "napoleon's at the invalides." | lowell |
| "making the audience bow their heads as if they had been hit by a blast of wind." | courage |
| "all-purpose poem for state occasions" | cope |
124 bluestone road | beloved |
| antoine roquentin | sartre |
| "sweetish sickness" | sartre |
| third empire | sartre |
| grossman | love in the time of cholera |
| vercelli codex | cross |
| tibullus | elegy |
| ponyboy curtis | outsiders |
| "arms, and the man i sing." | virgil |
| "go home and write / a page tonight" | hughes |
| "sailing home from rapallo" | lowell |
| zamora linmark | hawai'i |
| edgar ramirez | hawai'i |
| florante sanchez | hawai'i |
| brave orchid | hawai'i |
| novy mir | solzhenitsyn |
| those winter sundays | wheatley |
| "today we all know very well that a may be often b as well as a" | garden party |
| "even f may become o, q, y, and perhaps also r." | garden party |
| "speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold. for 10 points each: name this poem that asks, " | those winter sundays |
| horacio oliveira | cortazar |
| the devil's elixirs | uncanny |
| "horror of distance" | odour |
| david herbert lawrence | lawrence |
| tayo | ceremony |
| martin pearce | desertion |
| rolling the r's | hawai'i |
| sonya | dostoyevsky |
| bacchus | portuguese |
| ben richards | king |
| six inch | lemuel |
| "the man that corrupted hadleyburg" | twain |
| "careers." | stranger |
| "christian, i'm not a." | davis |
| essays one | davis |
| gerard de villefort | count of monte cristo |
| noh | zeami |
| matsukaze | zeami |
| pharsalia | petrarch |
| "you." | second person |
| "accept" | sunrise |
| little girl | six characters in search of an author |
| mangan | dublin |
| "plank in reason" | brain |
| "mother died today." | meursault |
| harun | meursault |
| "son" | borges |
| "nobody." | dickinson |
| sinbad | sailor |
| totem | darwin |
| guy de maupassant | german |
| squire allworthy | fielding |
| "victoria's requiem." | russian |
| "the deluge at norderney" | dinesen |
| little prince | saint-exupery |
| "red in tooth and claw" | tennyson |
| "rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" | stein |
| trujillo | julia |
| radio panamericana by pedro camacho | julia |
| "riverrun past" | adam |
| dick hickock | capote |
| "wandering steps and slow" | adam |
| "solitary way" | adam |
| "elderly maimed tablet." | dream of the red chamber |
| sherman alexie | reservation |
| seven seas | omeros |
| phoebus | ovid |
| "the emperor's new clothes" | andersen |
| "anthem" | rand |
| wayne booth | author |
| "song of the war carts." | tang |
| "paralysis" | dublin |
chichikov | dead souls |
| the sword and the distaff | uncle tom's cabin |
| francis bellamy | looking backward |
| jenkins | revolution |
| "a civilization of" | george |
| jenny cameron | fielding |
| "out of the ash" | lady lazarus" |
| raynell | wilson |
| "an art" | lady lazarus" |
| john polidori | frankenstein |
| "send forth the best ye breed." | kipling |
| lheureux | emma |
| air india flight | mukherjee |
| alfred jarry | apartheid |
| russell-saunders | tenth of december |
| daniel o'connell | nautilus |
| "someone else was dreaming" | borges |
| overland monthly | california |
| hooper | brideshead revisited |
| sequel to drum | o captain! my captain |
| artificial paradises | fleurs du mal |
| "the prize we sought is won." | o captain! my captain |
| history house | roy |
| "no joy in mudville" | baseball player |
| "like the cat has nine times to die" | lady lazarus" |
| don gonzalo | don juan |
| chocolate factory | dahl |
| "next tomorrow" | macbeth |
| jacques georges | age |
| merlin | don quixote |
| cottingley fairies | doyle |
| "the speckled band." | doyle |
| spokane | reservation |
| "the jolly corner," | james |
| betrayal | pinter |
| yevgeny | bronze horseman |
| "little people" | murakami |
| richard zenith | portuguese |
| fremont | kite |
| witches | dahl |
| erik lonnrot | borges |
| "attic shape" | beauty |
| antonio | shylock |
| will marry when | ngugi |
| finn | grendel |
| tsimtsum | pi |
| geats | grendel |
| "wild men" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| diotallevi | eco |
| "a dimpled spider, fat and white, holding up a moth" | frost |
| jessica | shylock |
| "burning bright." | blake |
| "petersburg tale" | bronze horseman |
| juan preciado | mexico |
| camelot | sir gawain and the green knight |
| twins | awakening |
| evelyn waugh | brideshead revisited |
| burns | kiss |
| "an old man in a dry month" | eliot |
| moses jackson | stoppard |
| invention of love | stoppard |
| "deferred?" | dream |
| "effect" | distancing |
| east river | brooklyn |
| "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." | be |
| ermes marana | calvino |
| tirso de molina | don juan |
| the chairs and the | ionesco |
| mugo | ngugi |
| "300 years" | omeros |
| "save the children" | china |
| "eat people." | china |
| "malt does more than milton can / to justify god's ways to man." | shropshire lad |
| "the distance of the moon." | calvino |
| other world | cyrano |
| algernon | ernest |
| mickey mouse | iwerks |
| "the final problem," | doyle |
| saint valentine | parliament of fowls |
| "believe me, i loved you all." | brooks |
| "mithridates, he died old" | shropshire lad |
| principe | rubaiyat |
| henry carr | stoppard |
| "tim'rous beastie" | burns |
| "going down impassive rivers" | rimbaud |
| "to a louse" | burns |
| "the fish is red." | bishop |
| "you are alone." | monologue |
| professor uzzi | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| president miguel | the house of the spirits |
| grapes | neruda |
| "yes, call me by my pet-name!" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "there on the sad height," | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "who am i? and " | nobody |
| louisa may alcott | little women |
| "where the mind is without fear." | tagore |
| liesel meminger | book thief |
| nws | united kingdom |
| profiles in courage | kennedy |
| "sweet thing" | williams |
| "verses" | eliot |
| "this is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper." | eliot |
| rosamond | middlemarch |
| "sonnet 31" | larkin |
| kerma | turtle |
| dubose | to kill a mockingbird |
| "how can we know the dancer from the dance?" | yeats |
| harrow | penal colony |
| libra | kennedy |
| "red shoes." | andersen |
| "pretend i'm chaste," | spanish |
| polyneices | antigone |
| regency | clarke |
| a. s. byatt's | fairy tale |
| abbey of theleme | rabelais |
| haemon | antigone |
| don delillo | kennedy |
| ryunosoke akutagawa | rashomon |
| maureen corrigan | great gatsby |
| pantagruel | rabelais |
| "romance" | aesop |
| "beowulf: the monsters and the critics." | tolkien |
| "the cask of amontillado." | seal |
| "the boy who cried wolf" | aesop |
| "this hour, this night, my feelings go hard." | li |
| zeno of elea | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| banana trilogy | neruda |
| publius | syria |
| naoko | norwegian wood |
| tsezar | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
aleksandr solzhenitsyn | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| radius | robot |
| golden shovel | brooks |
| galahad | grail |
| yeshua ha | master and mar |
| "a season in hell." | rimbaud |
| st. elizabeth's | pound |
| blithe spirit | coward |
| astrid lindgren | sweden |
| geoffrey crayon | irving |
| fedallah | pequod |
| ifemelu | adichie |
| "from house to house" | larkin |
| una | knight |
| marguerite de navarre | decameron |
| half of a yellow sun | adichie |
| "sad steps" | larkin |
| "the danger of a single story" | adichie |
| ubu roi | apartheid |
| "the english tongue i love" | walcott |
| "montage" | dream |
| "don't have any kids yourself" | larkin |
| "school of resentment" | author |
| "eats men like air." | lady lazarus" |
| "how can i turn from africa and live?" | walcott |
| roland barthes | author |
| "with eyes of cold silver" | lorca |
| "can you describe this?" | russian |
| the the abject | death in venice |
| christopher knowles | separate |
| doc daneeka | catch-22 |
| william gilmore simms | uncle tom's cabin |
| "romance sonambulo." | lorca |
| the generation of '27 | lorca |
| "the lady with the dog" | chekhov |
| clutter | lee |
| "where knowledge is free" | tagore |
| samuel m. johnson's | dictionary |
| nadsat | russian |
| "abortions will not let you forget." | brooks |
| "left school," | brooks |
| devil's dictionary | bierce |
| robert southey | fairy tale |
| "the philosophy of composition," | raven |
| "rare and radiant maiden" | raven |
| "fester[s] like a sore." | dream |
| "let my country awake." | tagore |
| henry fielding | fairy tale |
| emil post | cain |
| laurie anderson | jo |
| willa cather | my |
| jim burden | my |
| "poisoning" | alice |
| helen oyeyemi | fairy tale |
| maxine hong kingston | chinese |
| j.p | carver |
| fountain of youth | heidegger |
| golan trevize | asimov |
| rossum | robot |
| harper | wolfe |
| madame arcati | coward |
| vampyre | frankenstein |
| "friends" | emma |
| "twas mercy brought me from my pagan land." | wheatley |
| ganelon | charlemagne |
| "being read to by a boy." | eliot |
| godfrey reggio | silas |
| tor house | california |
| uhuru | ngugi |
| sandra gilbert | julia |
| "durable" | thomas |
"the diamond as big as the ritz" | fitzgerald |
| "the summer they electrocuted the rosenbergs" | bell jar |
| georgiana burne | rubaiyat |
| tales of the jazz age | fitzgerald |
| herero | yoyodyne |
| bartlett | johnson |
| city lights bookstore | california |
| "upward to heaven he flings" | caged bird |
| septimus bons | forster |
| song offerings | bengali |
| "complacencies of the peignoirs, and late coffee and oranges" | stevens |
| "stands on the grave of dreams" | caged bird |
| cynthia | bar |
| steller | sebald |
| "one-shot," | atticus |
| jonathan | achebe |
| "water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink" | albatross |
| "walks through the valley of the shadow of death." | charge of the light brigade |
| "the months and days are the travelers of eternity" | matsuo |
| stephen albert | borges |
| kiran desai | pamuk |
| "the center was not holding" | didion |
maxim de winter | daphne du maurier |
| jean rhys | jane eyre |
| "the lord is my shepherd, i shall not want." | psalms |
| elfriede jelinek | doll's house |
| "angel of death." | huck |
| "if i love you, beware!" | habanera |
| gargantua | rabelais |
| oslo | norway |
| "the innocent" | california |
| john le carre's | berlin |
| "call the roller of big cigars." | stevens |
| "a trivial comedy for serious people," | importance of being earnest |
| "everybody's protest novel." | native |
| "a youth to fortune and to fame unknown." | elegy written in a country |
| lionel | gordimer |
| "paradise [to be] regained." | thoreau |
| "a refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in london" | thomas |
| christina rossetti | goblin market |
| baron in the trees | calvino |
| emil sinclair | hesse |
| kapasi | lahiri |
| "egg-rasher" | achebe |
| our ancestors | calvino |
| abulafia | eco |
| "nothing puzzles god" | achebe |
| james frazer | fasti |
| burger's | gordimer |
| george shearing | road |
vardaman (bundren) | as i lay dying |
darl (bundren) | as i lay dying |
| "proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side." | wheatley |
| canopus | lessing |
| alfred doblin | berlin |
| "party on the right" | saramago |
| anoosh | persepolis |
| "hoary-headed swain" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| beli | trujillo |
| jem finch in to kill a mockingbird | atticus |
the grasmere journals | (dorothy) wordsworth |
| normal people | irish |
| ichabod crane | irving |
| "like the quarry-slave at night, scourged to his dungeon" | bryant |
| "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" | eliot |
| coral | red |
| "blaze like meteors and be gay" | thomas |
| john webster | eliot |
| "a fable for tomorrow." | carson |
| "the wasteland." | eliot |
| "a hunger artist," | kafka |
| "grave men, near death" | thomas |
| silent spring | carson |
| "the truth about native crime," | cry, the beloved country |
| "the game" | irish |
| ben ezra | stoppard |
| "soldiers' dreams" | matsuo |
| "fluttering and dancing in the breeze." | wordsworth |
| ddt | carson |
| "school" | matsuo |
| perry index | aesop |
| august wilson | pittsburgh |
| song dynasty | water margin |
| "jesus saviour pilot me / over life's tempestuous sea." | hayden |
| "thousand injuries of fortunato." | seal |
| "the daughters of the late colonel" | mansfield |
| abominable snowman | yeti |
| "scenes of parisian life," | human comedy |
| arthur shelby | george |
| an untamed state | adichie |
| inspector bertozzo | fo |
| amazon antiope | theseus |
| bad feminist | adichie |
| "confessions of a bad feminist" | adichie |
| tibetan buddhism | bon |
| "ideas worth spreading." | ted |
| the and 's mirth | chapman |
| white book | han |
| every man in his humor with every man out of his humor | jonson |
| "in july as in january / for the sincere friend / who gives me his hand frankly." | i cultivate a white rose |
| "eastward i go only by force; but westward i go free" | thoreau |
| the and satantango | hungarian |
| journey to the center of the earth | verne |
| fatelessness | hungarian |
| "not as a god, but as a god might be." | stevens |
| sodapop | outsiders |
| melancholy of resistance | hungarian |
| philip sidney | larkin |
| "hands off the mask!" | fo |
| "plain as a wardrobe" | larkin |
| the 1911 revolution | ah q |
| "last night i dreamed i went to manderley again." | rebecca |
| when rebecca | danvers |
| "the black cat" | seal |
| "i work all day, and get half-drunk at night." | larkin |
| "they tell me you are wicked and i believe them." | chicago |
| dakkar in the mysterious island | nemo |
| "between the end of the chatterley ban / and the beatles' first lp." | larkin |
| villa villekulla | pippi |
| abraham lincoln in twenty thousand leagues under the seas | farragut |
| "i'm leaving them there." | boot |
| "supple and turbulent, a ring of men" | stevens |
| "april rain song." | hughes |
| "poor relation" | mansfield park |
| mary crawford | fanny |
| thar | jaipur |
| mary maloney | dahl |
| great glass elevator | dahl |
| david lloyd george | skunk hour |
| "91 revere street." | lowell |
| "a penny for your thoughts, schopenhauer" | lowell |
| grandpa joe | dahl |
| elias lonnrot | kalevala |
| "down on lennox avenue," | hughes |
| "sort of gaming" | thoreau |
| "not respecting universal reason." | lisbon |
| beardsley school for girls | lolita |
| "yew-uhl" | to kill a mockingbird |
| jacques the anabaptist | lisbon |
| "when i wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, i lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which i had built myself." | walden |
| don issachar | lisbon |
| in the damask drum | mask |
| "all voting" | thoreau |
| "where you imitate the shade of my mother." | rockland |
| "where you're madder than i am" | rockland |
| after a batavian | lisbon |
| great birnam | dunsinane |
| evenings at medan | franco-prussian |
| sandstone | jaipur |
| amber fort | jaipur |
| hawa mahal | jaipur |
| "two friends." | franco-prussian |
| "hang on to the innocence and turbulence and capacity for wonder" | journalism |
| "at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning" | wise |
| "yes, for the love of god!" | seal |
| rightist movement | communist |
| holy sonnet ten | donne |
| anoosh in persepolis | satrapi |
| "the diary of miss sophie," | communist |
| "wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him." | kurtz |
| jair | orthrus |
| "here at the furthest verge of earth." | prometheus bound |
| according to hesiod | nemean |
| john adolphus etzler | thoreau |
| orthrus | nemean |
| "i shall not die of a cough." | seal |
| merry's museum | little women |
| a. m. barnard | little women |
| chaim soutine | dahl |
| "man from the south." | dahl |
| "picasso without paint" | sinatra |
| george hsu | queen mother |
| "married at fourteen" | li bai |
| "and the wolf." | peter |
| amores | ovid |
| "schoolteacher" | beloved |
| "it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors," | picture of dorian gray |
| "tread softly because you tread on my dreams." | yeats |
| miss bodwin | beloved |
| a metrical foot | ovid |
| "there was nothing either above or below" | kurtz |
| young men of the new age | oe |
| "i did not write it. god wrote it. i merely did his dictation." | beecher |
| "ketman" | captive mind |
| "had kicked himself loose of the earth." | kurtz |
| cerinthus | sulpicia |
| "it would have been too dark--too dark altogether" | kurtz |
| linda hammerick | truong |
| hoederer | sartre |
| "indo-chinese" | truong |
| "from every angle of the universe" | aleph |
| "on a day i already remember," | stone |
intimate apparel | nottage |
| "on a thursday, as today is, in autumn." | stone |
| "the intended." | kurtz |
| oberlin college | beloved |
| "heaven-candle," | old english |
| "bigger thomas... is afraid, terribly afraid. but afraid of what? of himself." | fanon |
| "last survivor" | old english |
| "let the rain kiss you" | hughes |
| cesar vallejo | bolano |
| monsieur pain | bolano |
| "ghost-custodian" | old english |
| jaggers | great expectations |
| "designed to shock the whites out of their apathy" | bigger |
| "the galoshes of fortune." | andersen |
| rouse up | oe |
| ge'ez | kebra nagast |
| "all art is quite useless." | picture of dorian gray |
| "modern" | old english |
| make mine music | peter |
| trilce | surrealism |
| sterling holloway | peter |
| natalya sats | peter |
| communist hugo | sartre |
dirty hands | sartre |
| "symphonic fairy tale," | peter |
| young pioneer | peter |
| dinesen | gothic |
| compeyson | great expectations |
| "whale-road," | old english |
| "thin gin" | brooks |
| cynewulf | cross |
| "disdainful smile." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| five metrical feet | elegy |
| katalin street | hungarian |
| the heart | georgia |
| "thou still unravished bride of quietness, thou foster-child of silence and slow time." | grecian urn |
| len rix | hungarian |
| father ximenez | popol vuh |
| "on first looking into chapman's homer" | cortes |
| "stared at the pacific" | cortes |
| "bronzed, lank man" | lincoln |
| dennis tedlock | popol vuh |
| six early stories | mann |
| braing | rainbow |
| old ones | necronomicon |
| black book | pamuk |
| "the dunwich horror." | necronomicon |
| wilbur whateley | necronomicon |
| "mr. strugnell" | larkin |
| "watcher of the skies" | chapman |
| an humorous day | chapman |
| brangwen | rainbow |
| blind beggar of alexandria | chapman |
| michaelis | lady |
| "what will survive of us is love." | larkin |
| "our almost-instinct" | larkin |
| elizabeth hobbs keckley | lincoln |
| "believe me, i knew you, though faintly" | brooks |
| natsume soseki | i am a cat |
alfred uhry | driving miss daisy |
| mady | herzog |
| valentine gersbach | herzog |
| "slave of history" | captive mind |
| "moralist" | captive mind |
| "black stone on a white stone" | bolano |
| "moonlight before his bed" | li bai |
| tatwine | cross |
| "dreaded" | necronomicon |
| jeremiah de saint-amour | love in the time of cholera |
| "mad poet" | necronomicon |
| many romantic | byron |
| "mr. bleaney" | larkin |
| "for a beaker full of the warm south" | keats |
| manly health | whitman |
| in persepolis | god |
| satrapi's persepolis | comic |
| "i appear iridescent; my form is shining now" | cross |
| lonely hunter | georgia |
| poesy | odes |
| czeslaw milosz | captive mind |
| "what do i know?" | emerson |
| "if i am the devil's child, i will live then from the devil." | emerson |
| "may be from below," | emerson |
| "roofs of the world." | song of myself |
| "i've stayed in the front yard all my life." | brooks |
| herland | perkins |
| without a summer | darkness |
| tsotsi | fugard |
| tsoht | fugard |
| meade | ring |
| fill | food |
| "is all that we see or seem." | dream within |
| "it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea." | annabel lee |
| "pity this busy monster, manunkind" | cummings |
| "it's a wonder i haven't abandoned all my ideals." | dutch |
| "if i poisoned the beginnings of your breaths, / believe that even in my deliberateness i was not deliberate." | brooks |
| "the miller's tale" | tub |
| absolon | miller |
| reek | salome |
| one of wilde | salome |
| pale fire | nabokov |
| "british artillery park on the ancre" | borges |
| "in a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?" | borges |
| daiyu | flowe |
| avram brankovich | dictionary |
| yusuf masudi | dictionary |
| heart is a lonely hunter | mccullers |
| new york cafe | heart is a lonely |
| "delicious" | cold |
| barsoom | burroughs |
| tom driscoll | pudd'nhead wilson |
| in catch | chuck |
| "was the common property of the human race" | paine |
| abraham van brunt | brom |
| "a temporary insanity curable by marriage," | dictionary |
| "midnight's all a glimmer" | yeats |
| "devil's" | dictionary |
| now it can be told | breakfast of |
| merriam-webster | dictionary |
| "portrait of the artist as a young dog." | thomas |
| "bread and wine" | holderlin |
| his romantic | holderlin |
| "radicalize their consciousness to challenge patriarchy." | harjo |
| "barbaric yawp" | song of myself |
| "a girl gets sick of a rose" | brooks |
| "poet of the soul." | song of myself |
| "the poet of the body" | song of myself |
| redcrosse knight | duessa |
| "a false sorceress" | duessa |
| "unscrew the locks from the doors! / unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" | song of myself |
| "seas of bright juice suffuse heaven" | song of myself |
| "thou art more lovely and more..." | temperate |
| "common sense." | paine |
| "nine bean rows" | yeats |
| "the sword of washington would have been wielded in vain." | paine |
| "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." | emerson |
| "we / left school. we / lurk late. we / strike straight. we / sing sin. we / thin gin. we / jazz june. we / die soon." | we real |
| "peace comes dropping slow" | yeats |
| broadside press | brooks |
| "i stop somewhere waiting for you" | song of myself |
| "always wears her hair in the same style." | ionesco |
| huchette theater | ionesco |
| "the slaughterer" | singer |
| crown of feathers | singer |
| national book award | singer |
| oreads | satyr |
| "forest" | ionesco |
| "creeping through the black / cutting through the jungle with a golden track." | lindsay |
| "mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you" | lindsay |
| "the eagle that is forgotten." | lindsay |
| tahng sahn-zahng | sun wukong |
| helmet of awe | fafnir |
| "to live in mankind is far more than to live in a name" | lindsay |
| the slave and the | singer |
| "sonnets on pink silk handkerchiefs." | milan |
| "drill" | malthus |
| rietze the candle | singer |
| "and yet, god has not said a word!" | browning |
| "the rain set in early tonight" | browning |
| "tore the elm-tops down for spite" | browning |
| "sullen wind" | browning |
| "strive to do, and agonize to do, and fail in doing" | browning |
| "parting at morning" | browning |
| "meeting at night" | browning |
| burgos | laugh |
| bobby watsons | ionesco |
| "hansel and gretel" | grimm |
| kawl | crime and |
| "or does it" | explode |
| satan in goray | singer |
| helium | john |
| dejah thoris | john |
| city of the beasts | allende |
| in the barsoom | john |
| edward tudor | prince and the |
| "appalling" | howards end |
| "flowery tale" | keats |
| "i am sorry then you have so lost a father that you must lose a husband" | burgundy |
| nih-kawff | crime and |
| v | thin man |
| nora charles | thin man |
| casper gutman | falcon |
| in crime | police |
| joel cairo | falcon |
| yasha mazur | singer |
| which of the fates | clotho |
| nikodim fomich | police |
| "the man with bandaged hands." | david |
| sih-mee-ahn-shen | four |
| simianshen | four |
| spite of himself | doctor |
| ilya petrovich | police |
| petit gervais | coin |
| formula 86 | dahl |
| coulibri | wide sargasso sea |
| an artist of the floating world | ishiguro |
| "i had a dream, which was not all a dream." | darkness |
| shabbatai zevi | singer |
| bucket | dahl |
| koo-lee-bree | wide sargasso sea |
| cousin lymon | ballad of the |
| "did you leave because of my attic wife." | rochester |
| shoba | interpreter of maladies |
| shukumar | interpreter of maladies |
| "boots of lead... lift a box / and creak across my soul" | brain |
| "all good things are wild and free" | thoreau |
| "ledaean body bent above a sinking fire" | yeats |
| gruzhnitsky | lermontov |
| death of the poet | lermontov |
| "when i have fears that i may cease to be," | keats |
| "the author to her book" | brain |
| in war | natasha |
| bokonon | cat |
| mount mccabe | bokonon |
| "thumbing my nose at you know who" | bokonon |
| chambers | pudd'nhead wilson |
| nickelas nicklebery | dickens |
| martin guzzlewit | dickens |
| edward lloyd | dickens |
| "mourners to and fro" | brain |
| "shadows with the magic hand of chance." | keats |
| seven moral tales | translation |
| "a drum / kept beating" | brain |
| prince prospero | poe |
| pierre bayle | lisbon |
| "what is, is right." | lisbon |
| wiglaf | old english |
| "do not fear, do not turn pale" | sailor |
| lord of punt | sailor |
| middle kingdom egyptian | sailor |
| "feeble" | brain |
| miles franklin | australia |
| greatest unread novelist | australia |
| " after several publishers rejected a pseudonymously submitted chapter from this author's the eye of the storm. for 10 points each: patrick white is often hailed as the " | australia |
| eye of the storm | white |
| both your houses | pennsylvania |
| mount purgatory | divine comedy |
| plumfield academy | little women |
| "reposes" | wordsworth |
| geraldine brooks | little women |
| "you and i can make mistakes--but not the party." | darkness at noon |
| german by daphne hardy | darkness at noon |
| "the marvelous real." | hoffmann |
"under this dark sycamore," | tintern abbey |
| irena | when we dead awaken |
| adele varens | rochester |
| "angel-headed" | hipster |
| assault by harry mulisch | dutch |
| ybon | naipaul |
| greta gerwig | little women |
| am malala | autobiography |
| earth changed places | autobiography |
| when heaven | autobiography |
| "a poet could not but be gay, / in such a jocund company." | wordsworth |
| le ly hayslip | autobiography |
| "dark satanic mills." | jerusalem |
| "a host of golden daffodils." | wordsworth |
| "twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle." | second coming |
| "you're not allowed to have arrows." | jerusalem |
| "bring me my bow of burning gold; bring me my arrows of desire" | jerusalem |
| "i just think it's a little weird you don't mind when a flea bites both of us but you won't have sex with me." | donne |
| arnold rubek | when we dead awaken |
| "came down and settled over me" | millay |
| "name" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "yogeybogeybox" | joyce |
| "received ideas." | dictionary |
| la scienza nuova | finnegans wake |
| county sligo | yeats |
| humphrey chimpden earwicker | finnegans wake |
| francisco de quevedo | gongora |
| s. e. hinton | rumble fish |
| belmonte | bullfighter |
| "lament for the death of" | bullfighter |
| "high english social values." | shaw |
| encyclopedie with jean | diderot |
| rusty-james | rumble fish |
| "made all the difference." | frost |
| "rahm-owe's" | diderot |
| eloise wengler | salinger |
| "annihilate[s] all that's made" | garden |
| "industrious bee / computes its time as well as we." | garden |
| in a marvell | garden |
| "devour" | time |
| "sausage" | joyce |
| man group | booker |
| both oscar | booker |
| sydney to bellingen | church |
| petey the cat | dog man |
| adventures of ook | pilkey |
| "cynics," | dictionary |
| something happened | heller |
| "anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy." | catch-22 |
| "hit or miss the moon." | frost |
| amenaa | sailor |
| "plods his weary way" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "wider than the sky." | brain |
| "spelt by [the] unletter'd muse." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| michael caine | thomas |
| dwayne hoover | breakfast of |
| interstellar | thomas |
| "everlasting fields of clover" | moses |
| "the woods decay.." | tennyson |
| "after many a summer dies a swan." | tennyson |
| "tis better to have loved and lost // than to never have loved at all." | tennyson |
| sugarcandy mountain | moses |
| muriel the white goat | animal farm |
| "in the palm of your hand" | millay |
| lata mehra | seth |
| baudolino | picaresque |
| nobel laureate elfriede jelinek | rhine |
| "so, ye three ghosts, adieu!" | odes |
| annie ernaux | nobel |
| "faultless painter" | browning |
| "you ever ate a chicken that was two days old?" | o'connor |
| "familiar human subjects." | goethe |
| "the american scholar" | emerson |
| "climb from a fried fish shop down by the mint" | shaw |
| "not pygmalion likely!" | not bloody likely |
| love, ambition | odes |
| "three long mountains and a wood" | infinity |
| milorad pavic | dictionary |
| "the khazars." | dictionary |
| "has gone to be a soldier in the army of the lord." | john brown |
| western flyer | steinbeck |
| sea of cortez | steinbeck |
| "ready to carve a flock of geese" | dead |
| "the battle of the ants." | walden |
| uncle willie | maya |
| giovanna | aunt |
| english review | ford |
| peralta | die hard |
| "on random sheets of waste paper" | hoffmann |
| kriesler | hoffmann |
| "to whom it may concern" | maya |
| " cites her sister cassandra burning their letters as a reason for a lack of biographical insight. for 10 points each: menand closes by highlighting the little provisions the austens had after the death of jane's father george, who had this profession. an austen character with this profession desires to " | priest |
| frank lentricchia | close |
| aldo leopold | sand county almanac |
jimenez | donkey |
| " in a 2023 harper's essay about going on a goop cruise. for 10 points each: name this author whose own harper's essay on the cruise industry was originally published as " | wallace |
| saddest story | world war i |
| royall tyler | contrast |
| colonel manly | contrast |
| maria van rough | contrast |
| dimple | contrast |
| comedy in the contrast | sheridan |
| "malapropisms" | sheridan |
| "[this city] delivered." | jerusalem |
| holy city | jerusalem |
| "a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community." | sand county almanac |
| black dobbe | singer |
| in my father | singer |
| whodunnit | shaffer |
| miss inamura | crane |
| "screwed" | dead |
| freddy malins | dead |
| daily express | dead |
| "land ethic" | sand county almanac |
| lying life of adults to english | italian |
| atta troll | midsummer night's dream |
| heine | midsummer night's dream |
| "jealous nature" | karenina |
| "destroy the love she shares with count vronsky - and head for the train tracks." | karenina |
| "a case for reparations." | atlantic |
| elizabeth peabody | buddhism |
| english for the dial | buddhism |
| shipping out | wallace |
| tod hackett | los angeles |
| in nguyen | drug |
| "it has not arrived" | dickens |
| avignon on good friday in an italian | laura |
| "whoso list to hunt, i know where is an hind." | wyatt |
| "was a damaged person who deserved nothing." | rooney |
| beautiful world | rooney |
| where are you | rooney |
| japhy rider | buddhism |
| " but is better known as " | wallace |
| goop cruise | mccarthy |
| " in a 2023 harper's essay about going on a goop cruise. for 10 points each: this author reflected on wallace's suicide and robinson crusoe in the 2011 essay " | franzen |
| farther away | franzen |
| crossroads | franzen |
| clack the rattlebug | gaiman |
| american gods | gaiman |
| "music of the spheres." | scipio |
| golyadkin | doppelganger |
| "oh tee-tay, too-tay, tah-tee, ti-bee tahn-tah, tee-rahn-eh, too-list-ee" | alliteration |
| mason tarwater | violent bear it away |
| "chekov and zulu" | rushdie |
| "the remedy." | drug |
| "melange" | drug |
| "the fairest of maidens" | heine |
| "golden comb." | heine |
| in a heine | doppelganger |
| "o tite tute, tati tibi tanta tyranne tulisti" | alliteration |
| allie cone | satanic verses |
| everest vilas | satanic verses |
| everest | satanic verses |
| farishta | satanic verses |
| john vanbrugh | shakespeare |
| horner | shakespeare |
| mercy otis warren | american revolution |
| macon dead iii | fly |
| "has overgrown causes and effects" | grass |
| "what is [this substance]?" | grass |
| "lot's wife." | szymborska |
| lucy potts | hurston |
| szymborska | poland |
| "house of god." | leopard |
| in jon krakauer | everest |
| "lift every voice and sing." | johnson |
| "muck," | hurston |
| battle of waterloo in the charterhouse of parma | stendhal |
| de stael's | stendhal |
| "unripe peach" | banana |
| change of world | auden |
| "carrying...a book of myths in which our names do not appear." | auden |
| "lying in a hammock" | rich |
| margarita in a mikhail bulgakov | master |
| "wait-and-get" | photo |
| into thin air | everest |
| "prince of tyre" | pericles |
| "mouldy tale" | jonson |
| tartuffe by moliere | don juan |
| all saints | don juan |
| "the vampire who said he was you / and drank my blood for a year," | plath |
| yaa gyasi | homegoing |
| "the terror of their neighbors, before the white men came" | achebe |
| "number three." | plath |
| rotimi | photo |
| "you could give back [this thing] to [this thing]." | donkey |
| "old time is still a-flying." | donkey |
| sonezaki by chikamatsu monzaemon | love |
| "the spinoza of market street" | singer |
| leah napolin | singer |
| man who loved love by iharu seikaku | floating world |
michael frayn | copenhagen |
| margrethe bohr | copenhagen |
| wopsle | pip |
| niels | copenhagen |
| claudine in school | colette |
| lea | colette |
| colette | paris |
| mathilde de morny | paris |
| anita loos | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| lorelei lee | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| "diamonds are a girl's best friend." | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| "but why?" | copenhagen |
| trabb | pip |
| "say it!" | no ideas but in things |
| "how dull it is to pause / to make an end." | ulysses |
| "most blameless" | ulysses |
| "the sceptre and the isle." | ulysses |
"crossing the bar" | tennyson |
"the bet" | chekhov |
| "the shape of the letters on my father's [tombstone] gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man." | pip |
| "[this object] of the sea," | donkey |
| tenorio | don juan |
| star trek | rushdie |
| "beam me up" | rushdie |
| "by the pricking of my thumbs" | something wicked this way comes |
| "bread and circuses" | juvenal |
| "who watches the watchmen?" | juvenal |
| yentl | singer |
| frampol | singer |
gayev | the cherry orchard |
| "you are pithy and historical as the roman forum." | colossus |
| emma lazarus | colossus |
| straw raincoat | matsuo |
| cheh | maya |
| second witch | something wicked |
"kisses are a better fate than wisdom" | cummings |
| "and death i think is no parenthesis." | since feeling is firs |
| my year of rest | 9/11 |
annie proulx | the shipping news |
| sunshine | shipping news |
| volsung and hljod | sigmund |
| helen carey | of human bondage |
| sally athelny | of human bondage |
| "are gone to praise god and his priest and king who make up a heaven of our misery" | chimney |
| experience showing the two contrary states of the human soul | songs of innocence |
| "wart" | arthur |
| when joel chandler harris | remus |
| cranly | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "sort of mournful cosmic last resort." | dover beach |
| "naked shingles of the world," | dover beach |
| "hath neither joy, nor love, nor light." | dover beach |
| "the new [this figure]." | colossus |
| the trial and the castle | kafka |
| paul sheldon in misery | king |
| jack torrance in the shining | king |
| "herr god, herr lucifer." | lazarus |
unoka | things fall apart |
| "on turning her up in her nest with the plough, november, 1785" | mouse |
"schemes of mice and men" | burns |
| "crouch" | lioness |
| "men," | chorus |
| "old women." | chorus |
| white clown | fahrenheit 451 |
| record of a travel | matsuo |
| "we've started two atomic wars since 1990," | fahrenheit 451 |
| "run" | updike |
| "royal anthology" | matsuo |
| "when you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold" | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| emma clery | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| clongowes college | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| shire | bilbo |
| "spring is the mischief in me" | frost |
| "i could say " | frost |
| sword in the stone | arthur |
| "earth's the right place for love" | frost |
| "from what i've tasted of desire" | frost |
| "knowing how way leads onto way," | frost |
| alexandra bergson | carl |
| "mere scutcheon." | falstaff |
| lissoy | deserted village |
| "to make much of time" | virgin |
| mount salus | optimist's |
| " to him, / but it's not elves exactly, and i'd rather / he said it for himself." | frost |
| "hay-uh-rot" | beowulf |
matthew maule | the house of the seven gables |
| "god will give him blood to drink." | house of the seven |
| amy lowell | imagist |
| "we are not a school of painters." | imagist |
| t. e. hulme | imagist |
| antiope | amazon |
| "summer grass" | matsuo |
| rhode island in the witches of eastwick | updike |
jim nightshade | bradbury |
| guy montag in fahrenheit | bradbury |
| cooger | bradbury |
| jerry cruncher | tale of two cities |
| miss pross | tale of two cities |
| "one next himself in power, and next in crime." | beelzebub |
| "all that remains" | matsuo |
"a&p" | updike |
| will halloway | bradbury |
| adam malkovich in the galactic federation | samus |
| pikachu in the subspace emissary | samus |
| tallon iv | samus |
| parasite queen | samus |
| power suits | samus |
| violent bear it away | o'connor |
| "what little [that character's creator] didn't say." | julia |
| reform club in london | around the world in |
| "thou." | jug of wine |
| "a moment's monument" | pre-raphaelite |
| house of life | pre-raphaelite |
| island with fugard | kani |
| "the wazir and the sage duban" | genies |
| "the fisherman and the genie" | one thousand and one nights |
| dahish | city of brass |
| "have made this crying sound" | reed |
| gas heart | tzara |
| thomas schell | 9/11 |
| san francisco renaissance | california |
| pig bodine | pynchon |
| whole sick crew | pynchon |
| randolph driblette | pynchon |
| "will we walk all night through solitary streets?" | california |
| "notes of a dirty old man." | california |
| charles bukowski | california |
| carton | tale of two cities |
| morph ball | samus |
| chozo on zebes | samus |
| space pirates | samus |
| zero suit | samus |
| ridley | samus |
| metroid | samus |
| "shine, perishing republic." | california |
| "in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire" | california |
| charge beam | samus |
| "so various, so beautiful, so new" | dover |
| "beach" | dover |
| algernon montcrieff | importance of being earnest |
| "moon's / spotlight, banking on the miracle of sun" | lawrence |
| "heretical" | importance of being earnest |
| five great epics | three |
| town in an amos tutuola | three |
| "turbid ebb and flow / of human misery," | dover beach |
| "it's best to cut conversation short, say good-bye, and leave." | reed |
| earl miner | matsuo |
| "the sea is calm tonight." | dover beach |
| detering | all quiet |
| "sixth sense" | all quiet |
| lewis milestone | all quiet |
| "will be superfluous even to ourselves." | all quiet |
| "go oft awry" | best-laid |
| marie arouet | voltaire |
| "we are here as on a darkling plain," | dover beach |
| myrrhine | lack |
| kinesias | lack |
| antigone in ghana | brathwaite |
| "sycorax video style" | brathwaite |
| born to slow horses | brathwaite |
| "duck-shaped woman" | as i lay dying |
| arrivants | brathwaite |
| cristoph martin wieland | dario |
| "my name is not nobody!... learn, you bloody tyrants, that men can still think." | odyssey |
| first lady eva peron | argentina |
| "it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it." | as i lay dying |
| "love shall be our token, / love be yours and love be mine." | carols |
| francis villon | ballad |
| "ay-may sez-ehr's" | caliban |
| une tempete | caliban |
| blind billy blue | odyssey |
| in walcott | odyssey |
| bani adam for a nowruz | translation |
| life of jesse james | my |
| christmas yet to come | ebenezer |
| "the canterville ghost" | wilde |
| virginia otis | wilde |
| savile | wilde |
| camara laye | adichie |
| civilians | bierce |
| life of napoleon | stendhal |
| fault in our stars | green |
| "strange white flowers" | time machine |
| "yes and his heart was going like mad and yes i said yes i will yes." | marion |
| "o death, my captain, it is time! let us raise the anchor!" | flowers of evil |
| paris spleen | baudelaire |
| in the book of the heavenly cow | hathor |
| roseanna | sweden |
| gaht | kenya |
| culver creek preparatory high school | green |
| to be young | hansberry |
| gifted and black | hansberry |
| "we shall never be younger." | christopher |
| "a terribly strange bed" | collins |
| walter hartright | woman in white |
| anne catherick | woman in white |
| "have a thing in the ground" | house |
| "archipelago" | gulag |
| wick cutter | my |
| "two beautiful elm trees" | house |
| keating | fountainhead |
| "air of the dream" | house |
| "handed in his checks on the 7th december, 1850" | outcasts of |
| poker flat | four |
| story of a crime | sweden |
| shimerda | my |
| anton cuzak | my |
| professor abraham van helsing | stoker |
| qasim | children of gebelawi |
| mahj | persian |
| stanislaus in all quiet on the western front | kat |
| lady ashton | bride of |
| master of ravenswood | bride of |
| "what passing-bells for these who die as [blank]?" | cattle |
| nick and honey | who's afraid of |
| "pippi longstocking" | sweden |
| "everyone had always said that john would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father." | go tell it on the |
| silver age | russian |
| in nordic | urd |
| asa hawks | wise blood |
| sabbath lily | wise blood |
| "the twelve," | russian |
| leonora ashburnham | good soldier |
| "i'm not capitulating." | rhinoceros |
| george this | albee |
| stieg larsson | sweden |
| lisbeth salander in the girl with the dragon tattoo | sweden |
| "kicked the hornet's nest." | sweden |
| "wasp." | sweden |
| maman | samedi |
| man with two left feet | wodehouse |
| obinze | adichie |
| "we should all be feminists" | adichie |
| lucilius | seneca |
| "yes, there's a problem with gender... and we must fix it," | adichie |
| "played in the snow" | adichie |
| lady pole | clarke |
| aunt florence | letter |
| till | memnon |
| antilochus | memnon |
| kali yuga | kalki |
| ee-poh-leet | phedre |
| "raceteenth," | adichie |
| rosa diaz | pimento |
| jimmy figgis | pimento |
| "kawazu," | heian |
| "frog," | heian |
| "a harmless drudge," | dictionary |
| "sentiments... are repressed entirely" | salammbo |
| "existential hero" | kennedy |
| "feel right around there and see how soft it is." | curley |
| "the forgetting" | concentration camp |
| "return of words," | heloise |
| "i was probably the only person... that [this man] had not made a pass at" | kennedy |
| nora ephron | kennedy |
| "wilderness were paradise enow" | rubaiyat |
| mayotte capecia | fanon |
| am a martinican woman | fanon |
| "the negro and language." | fanon |
| matho | salammbo |
| "two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication" | seal |
| overlords | clarke |
| "the sentinel," | clarke |
| ted sorensen | kennedy |
| andre braugher | brooklyn nine-nine |
| captain raymond holt | brooklyn nine-nine |
| andy samberg | brooklyn nine-nine |
| detective jake peralta | brooklyn nine-nine |
| jason mantzoukas | pimento |
| detective peralta | die hard |
| "hit" | kennedy |
| hans gruber | die hard |
| "greasepaint" | heloise |
| "literary coffeehouses" | austria |
| nicholas branch | kennedy |
| doctor gonzo | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| "we were somewhere around barstow... when the drugs began to take hold." | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| pimento | brooklyn nine-nine |
| "i thought it would" | cheshire cat |
| nakatomi plaza | die hard |
| " for ten points each: name this poem, which describes breaking someone's leg while dancing in a parody by kenneth koch. this poem describes items " | this is just to say |
| " for ten points each: koch described spraying hollycocks with lye in a parody of this author's poem " | williams |
| "the strength and the pain / of being young." | larkin |
| "far-reaching singleness" | larkin |
| " for ten points each: in " | plum |
| " the narrator apologizes for eating these fruits, which were " | plum |
| gloria weston | robbie |
| "my kingdom for" | horse |
| "the day is ours, the bloody dog is dead." | richmond |
| friday to christianity | robinson |
| bright room called day | kushner |
| cash | as i lay dying |
| "hardness and the brightness and the plain" | larkin |
| willy loman in an arthur miller | house |
| grapes of wrath | steinbeck |
| laura fairlie | woman in white |
| austrian emperor albert | william tell |
wallenstein trilogy | schiller |
| "who is the potter, pray, and who the pot?" | rubaiyat |
| "tamam shud" | rubaiyat |
| "one thing at least is certain, light has weight," | rubaiyat |
| "everybody has won." | dodo |
| in the hobbit | warg |
| edge of the wild | warg |
| "saw eternity the other night, like a great ring of pure and endless light." | world |
| jeff peters | conscience in |
| andy tucker | conscience in |
| "may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm" | robot |
| "must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law." | robot |
| "to his mistress going to bed." | donne |
| "frailty and the decay" | world |
| "anatomy" | world |
| in a henry vaughan | world |
| "would you like to have a bag of candy and a nice ride?" | ransom of red |
| edward bulwer | pen |
| "is mightier than the sword." | pen |
| "the lesbians." | fleurs du mal |
| "limbo" | fleurs du mal |
| "adamantine chains" | petrarch |
| porlock | coleridge |
| "i am hungry to be interrupted" | smith |
| ben-ren-zhay | rhinoceros |
| "queer, sultry summer" | rosenberg |
| cara | julia |
| sofia | julia |
| rufino | julia |
| "the scriptwriter?" | julia |
| how the garcia girls lost their accents | julia |
| "what a trash / to annihilate each decade" | plath |
| "blue flannel suit." | plath |
| "thoughts about the person from porlock." | smith |
| "i'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" | pere goriot |
| puzo | pere goriot |
| since nabokov | pnin |
| "heartfelt story of a hapless antihero" | pnin |
| richelieu | pen |
| "no stone left unturned," | euripides |
| bulwer-lytton | euripides |
| heraclidae | euripides |
| chika unigwe | adichie |
| balram | narayan |
| our man in havana | tiger |
| la cousine bette | balzac |
| ethel rosenberg | angels in america |
| countess of pembroke | sidney |
| dorus | sidney |
min jin lee | pachinko |
sunja | pachinko |
| wen jiabao in an aravind adiga | narayan |
| "a basket with ten different fruit jellies in ten little jars." | signs and symbols |
| "going to" | america |
| "eternal union" | dostoyevsky |
| "find pleasure in the spilling of blood" | dostoyevsky |
| america with grushenka | dmitri |
| "disgusting" | banana |
| "silvergrass." | banana |
| "thatched hut lacks all color" | du |
| assassination of margaret thatcher | mantel |
| nanmu | du |
| rich white gentleman | johnson |
| lady truth | petrarch |
| "stone guest." | don juan |
| "a farewell to tobacco" | lamb |
| jose zorrilla | don juan |
| "that's a fine death!" | napoleon |
| "insignificant creature." | napoleon |
| "horses neighing and snorting" | du |
| "voice like a selected weapon / or a measured injection." | plath |
| "beautiful word" | interloper |
| "idiotic" | interloper |
| "scipio's dream." | petrarch |
| "realist with wings." | atwood |
| "of migration to the north." | season |
| on illustrious men | petrarch |
| karamazov | dmitri |
| "an aging couple... at a loss about what to do about their institutionalized son." | signs and symbols |
| "the function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle." | yeats |
| "coronation oration" | petrarch |
| "the host of the beast" | boll |
| past nine | boll |
| st. anthony's abbey | boll |
| "linguistic and moral destruction." | grass |
| "penitential psalms" | petrarch |
| stories of vladimir nabokov | signs and symbols |
| victoria noorthoorn | yeats |
| "womanless man" | wilson |
| yale repertory theatre | wilson |
| lloyd richards | wilson |
| science museum of minnesota | wilson |
| keek | shield of heracles |
| cycnus | shield of heracles |
| king dahfu | henderson the rain |
| victorine | vautrin |
| bellow | ravelstein |
| jankyn | wife of bath |
| "in the pale glimmer" | fleurs du mal |
| farragut | nautilus |
| layla | persian |
| majnun | persian |
| house for mr biswas | naipaul |
| "when love with unconfined..." | wings |
| henderson the rain king | bellow |
| gene | separate |
| "today i have much to do: i must kill off memory." | russian |
| "black night / white snow" | russian |
| jill boardman | water |
| "night, street, lamp, drugstore" | russian |
| "loved chivalry, truth and honor, freedom and courtesy" | knight |
| according to vergil | aristaeus |
| "no one now sees fairies any more" | wife of bath |
| "go down swinging." | wilson |
| north london in a zadie smith | wife of bath |
| accidie | petrarch |
| "shorthand and french." | grete |
| "do not know the secret of the poet's heart." | shaw |
| hattie | hurston |
| "what, but the mystery which it obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crepe so awful?" | minister's black |
| nunkie | hurston |
| negro leagues | wilson |
| "fairy power," | wife of bath |
| briony tallis in atonement | robinson crusoe |
| "hitch-hiking" | key west |
| "she sang beyond the genius of the sea" | key west |
| hettie cohen | baraka |
| "posthumous memoir" | brazil |
| collected works | fleurs du mal |
| "condemned." | fleurs du mal |
| "for of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'it might have been!" | maud |
| duke frederick | as you like it |
| cora to the valentine | underground |
| nickel boys | whitehead |
| the , the intuitionist | whitehead |
| john valentine | indiana |
| gabriel syme | thursday |
| "lethe" | fleurs du mal |
| eugene vidocq | vautrin |
| "cheat-death" | vautrin |
| whittier | maud |
| bridge of the requiter | chinvat |
| pell | ladon |
| peloponnese | ladon |
| "kubla khan." | coleridge |
| "archangel of hatred" | nautilus |
| lewis page mercier | nautilus |
| "the circular ruins," | borges |
| "o time thy pyramids" | borges |
| harry perowne | robinson crusoe |
| general fink | svejk |
| von finkenstein | svejk |
| jaroslav hasek | czech |
| after hasek | brecht |
| fall of the city of mahagonny | brecht |
| "dreams of scaffolds" | fleurs du mal |
| ruby dee | hansberry |
| "stately pleasure-dome" | porlock |
| "my twin, my brother" | fleurs du mal |
| golden house | rushdie |
| joseph anton | rushdie |
| "[the title animals] and death" | sartre |
| "no stir in the air, no stir in the sea, the ship was still as she could be." | inchcape |
| "the inchcape rock" | southey |
| prince of tides | conroy |
| great santini | conroy |
| "football in the first year of man'en" | oe |
| tipping the velvet | picaresque |
| "dies alone" | meursault |
| piet wetjoen | boer |
| "tone" | boer |
| "alienation effect" | brecht |
| "silent scream" | brecht |
| "studied to be a pastor of souls" | brecht |
| "lay the guilt on women" | mexico |
| "a thais / in her you court, but a lucretia / when you've possessed her" | mexico |
| "envoy." | meursault |
| captain segura | spy |
| "it's eating my head" | maupassant |
| "belhomme's beast" | maupassant |
| toby esterhase | spy |
| code of the woosters | reginald |
blandings castle | wodehouse |
| the flies and nausea | sartre |
| 400-acre | gordimer |
| "tabula rasa." | locke |
| "a little stillness dancer," | heaney |
| big jim evans | heaney |
| "it was a hard blow" | heaney |
| "lamplighter" | spy |
| raymond sintes | camus |
| "the growing stone" | camus |
| "honoured sir." | locke |
| letter concerning toleration | locke |
| "the blackbird of glanmore" | heaney |
| traps of faith | mexico |
| "first dream" | mexico |
| much of gravity | world war ii |
| "you foolish men" | mexico |
| "in the crowding darkness, not a word did they say" | brooks |
| pat conroy | wolfe |
| look homeward | wolfe |
| asheville | wolfe |
| khor | sportsman's sketches |
| "three hundred" | tang |
| "complete" | tang |
| "four paragons" | tang |
| "i was a child and she was a child" | annabel lee |
| virginia clemm | annabel lee |
| "a wind blew out of a cloud" | annabel lee |
| "shut her up in a sepulchre." | annabel lee |
| "love that was more than love" | annabel lee |
| "pyramidal, funereal, earth-born" | mexico |
| kalinych | sportsman's sketches |
| "diary" | superfluous |
| "determines / to immortalize itself in ruin." | mexico |
| tim o'brien's | vietnam |
| "on earth we're briefly gorgeous" | drown |
| "between my arms." | drown |
| "handsomest... man in the world" | drown |
| "undaunted spirit" | mexico |
| japan to canada | life of pi |
| doych | hopkins |
| ernest thayer | baseball player |
| doc knobb | baseball player |
| school for scandal | sheridan |
| "forest and steppe." | sportsman's sketches |
| "illiterate him quite from your memory" | sheridan |
| "she shall have a hump on each shoulder ... [and] skin like a mummy." | sheridan |
| sor juana | mexico |
| mercedes | baseball player |
| second company | all quiet on the western front |
| himmelstoss | all quiet on the western front |
| mirah lapidoth | eliot |
| "baby nicole." | gilead |
| "love rectangle" | eliot |
| hetty sorrel | eliot |
| "savage as wild beasts," | odyssey |
| sahr | saramago |
| recluse | wordsworth |
| "the country of the blind" | wells |
| griffin | wells |
| "the old marrieds" | brooks |
| petrovich 150 rubles | overcoat |
| in treatise on demonstration of problems in algebra | khayyam |
| "astronomer-poet of persia" | khayyam |
| person of consequence | overcoat |
| "trifling" | overcoat |
| blee | saramago |
| "cogito ergo sum." | descartes |
| geometry | descartes |
| "would not go to war" | things fall apart |
| "perhaps your men can help us." | things fall apart |
| copper knight | lancelot |
| joyous guard | lancelot |
| dolorous guard | lancelot |
| "i could be a good woman if i had five thousand a year." | becky |
| "iron youth" | all quiet on the western front |
| guenevere | lancelot |
| "mortal coil" | be |
| "the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns." | be |
| "finale of seem." | be |
| "beauty is its own excuse for" | be |
| "the rhodora" | be |
| o'trigger | sheridan |
| ardua hall holograph | gilead |
| meleagant | lancelot |
| colonies | gilead |
| ada | gilead |
| "jezebel's." | gilead |
| reardan | reservation |
| tonto fistfight in heaven | reservation |
| lone ranger | reservation |
| absolutely true diary | reservation |
| "was round upon the ground" | anecdote of the jar |
| "when i was one-and-twenty" | 22 |
| psmith | john |
| love medicine | reservation |
| louise erdrich | reservation |
| "blues." | reservation |
| "came in from the cold," | spy |
| george smiley | spy |
| james wormold | spy |
| eumaeus | odyssey |
| "elementary, my dear." | john |
| nemean odes | pindar |
| celebrations of hestia | donkey |
| "pry" | donkey |
| don dubrow | nickel |
| brau | nickel |
| "strictness, strictness, and always strictness!" | overcoat |
| malakas | philippines |
| maganda | philippines |
| "for you, a thousand times over!" | kite |
| greek kronia | saturnalia |
| "rather exaggerated" | overcoat |
| william makepeace thackeray | becky |
| "anecdote of the jar" | stevens |
| anopopei | naked and the |
| the naked and the dead | mailer |
| saifo | kite |
| "runner" | kite |
| hod | balder |
| "i taste a liquor never brewed." | dickinson |
| roger | lord of the flies |
| "sex and temperament in three primitive societies." | mead |
| "decrepit age that has been tied to me / as to a dog's tail." | yeats |
| "fifteen apparitions have i seen; the worst a coat upon a coat-hanger." | yeats |
| "petrified man" | welty |
| independence day | welty |
| pike | welty |
| "how many flowers have fallen" | tang |
| hermetic order of the golden dawn | yeats |
| "picker-up of learning's crumbs" | browning |
| alistair crowley | yeats |
| pythian odes | corinna |
| "two words," | allende |
| carol shields | canada |
| stone diaries | canada |
| box man | sebald |
| petrie | welty |
| "ballade upon a wedding." | suckling |
| vera knoop | rilke |
| "there rose a tree. o pure transcendence!" | rilke |
| "let the rose blossom each year" | sonnet |
| "eyes like ripening fruit." | archaic torso of apollo |
| "frosty wind made moan" | in the bleak midwinter |
| "earth stood hard as iron" | in the bleak midwinter |
| british christmas | in the bleak midwinter |
| "fastened to a dying animal." | yeats |
| "crowd of spectators." | camus |
| remedios the beauty | fold |
| "howls of execration" | camus |
| fernanda | fold |
| "karshish, the arab physician" | browning |
| "hoary cripple." | browning |
| "benign indifference of the universe" | camus |
| "inebriate of air" | dickinson |
| magnificent ambersons | tarkington |
| sissy | tree grows in brooklyn |
| katie | tree grows in brooklyn |
| penguin classics | rashomon |
| "a world in decay," | rashomon |
| "one of the few people who could see faults" | emma |
| "zek" | ivan |
| life of pi by the canadian | india |
| other canadian | mistry |
| "complacencies of the peignoir." | stevens |
| marathi | mistry |
| "instapoet." | kaur |
| walther von | linden |
| vogelweide | linden |
| "the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth" | mead |
| frank boas | mead |
| democrat cornudet | maupassant |
| "three dull things" | emma |
| such a long journey | mistry |
| "grandeur" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "about as sensitive as a ... toilet seat." | salinger |
| "hapworth 16, 1924." | salinger |
| sandy stranger | nun |
| spark | nun |
| rene gallimard | butterfly |
| song liling | butterfly |
| royal welch fusiliers | world war i |
| aunt sissy by francie | tree grows in brooklyn |
| "promenade of discoveries" | gide |
| notes on chopin | gide |
| we real cool | brooks |
| "a street in bronzeville'', is based on her childhood in segregated chicago and she wrote of a group of pool players who " | brooks |
| "plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood" | brooks |
| "i am not deceived, i do not think it is still summer / because sun stays and birds continue to sing." | brooks |
| sam craig | our town |
| sissy rommely | tree grows in brooklyn |
| soviet art | pasternak |
| vuong | drown |
| ashburnham house | nowell |
| story of europe | octopus |
| shelgrim | octopus |
| in frank norris | train |
| southwestern trust | train |
| "the symbol of a vast power, huge, terrible." | train |
| "snob" | thackeray |
| "sons of ben," | suckling |
| tommaso debenedetti | kundera |
| "prayer to the virgin" | petrarch |
| giovanni's room | baldwin |
| w.c. handy | if beale street could talk |
| "waste no compassion on these separate dead!" | walcott |
| "worm, colonel of carrion" | walcott |
| "orchard fruits" | rossetti |
| "beauteous" | isle |
| "confirmed" | kundera |
| "sun's ray / was darkened." | petrarch |
| "lovely eyes" | petrarch |
| "much turning." | complicated |
| "of '98." | generation |
| "places with no carpet on the floor" | hughes |
| "where there ain't no light." | hughes |
| "will be at the table/when company comes" | hughes |
| "be ashamed that i, too, am, america." | hughes |
| "tell me about a" | complicated |
| "winged seraphs of heaven" | annabel lee |
| "i must be my own mamma." | thackeray |
| punch | thackeray |
| the sundial | hill house |
| silence of the girls | iliad |
| "whole works" | iliad |
| "captured" | petrarch |
| cyclops | odyssey |
| room 101 | 1984 |
| in mist | cervantes |
| "sirocco." | death in venice |
| "stranger-god." | death in venice |
| tigre | walcott |
| "disappeared in the dead of winter" | yeats |
| "scratches its innocent behind on a tree" | auden |
| moustique | walcott |
| encolpius | satyricon |
| belgravia | hopkins |
| zal | simurg |
| farid ud | simurg |
| "the chambered nautilus" | holmes |
| "the autocrat of the breakfast table" | holmes |
| "mere thinker." | emerson |
| "aye tear her tattered ensign down" | ship |
| "old ironsides." | ship |
| "sad" | shepherd |
| din attar | simurg |
| germinie lacerteux | goncourt |
| "same caliber" | tom |
| little eva | tom |
| akim | tom |
| "full of noises, / sounds and sweet airs." | isle |
| claudio gatti | ferrante |
| "thousand twangling instruments," | isle |
| "he would be king on it." | isle |
| "of '27." | generation |
| fermor | odes |
| "slave breaker" | covey |
| aulds | covey |
| incidents in the life of a slave girl | harriet |
| "i will arise and go now, and go to innisfree..." | yeats |
| "i will write it out in a verse, --macdonagh and macbride, connolly and pearse" | yeats |
| court of miracles | esmeralda |
| "phoebus." | esmeralda |
| "rumble and roll" | tang |
| pickup | gordimer |
| strait | gide |
| gate | gide |
| "problem plays." | troilus and criseyde |
| "nun's priest's tale" | chaucer |
| "it's us" | old gringo |
| bernard chabalier | gordimer |
| flight to arras | saint-exupery |
| "his true penelope was flaubert" | pound |
| johnny goodboy tyler | hubbard |
| irs in operation snow white | hubbard |
| wadi el natrun | saint-exupery |
| psychlos | hubbard |
| ojiugo | things fall apart |
| "yermolay and the miller's wife" | turgenev |
| "has been through it" | saint-exupery |
| arkadiy | turgenev |
| ambrose bierce in the mexican revolution | old gringo |
| "when he woke up, the dinosaur was still there" | flash |
| augusto monterroso | flash |
| "duende" | lope de vega |
| "complaint book," | calvino |
| "modern poets" | liverpool |
| "modern classics" | liverpool |
| paperbacks | liverpool |
| adrian henri | penguin |
| the king's horseman, amusa | mask |
| speculum meditantis | gower |
| vox clamantis | gower |
| "dream vision" | gower |
| on isis | plutarch |
| life of alexander | plutarch |
| "an epitome of bierce's strange doomed and constricted life" | patriotic gore |
| "theory and play." | duende |
| district officer pilkings | mask |
| revelation motor company | fran |
| "the story of my dovecot." | babel |
| sylvy | white heron |
| "boston marriage" | jewett |
| annie adams fields | jewett |
| "handsome, clever, and rich" | austen |
| corsican brothers | dumas |
| pierre picaud | count of monte cristo |
| isaac laquedem | wandering jew |
| "stormy, husky, brawling" | chicago |
| yande codou | senghor |
| adboulaye sadji | damas |
| jeanne nardal | damas |
| "three fathers" | damas |
| paulette | damas |
| pigments | damas |
| "old broken-down pier" | road |
| "why the host of 'jeopardy!' matters" | abdul-jabbar |
| "holy goof." | road |
| "never lost a battle" | chicago |
| "big shoulders" | chicago |
| "alive and coarse and strong and cunning." | chicago |
| "dreams and hopes for the future" | saint-exupery |
| old bull lee | road |
| bill buford | bukowski |
| "godfather" | bukowski |
| "dirty realism." | bukowski |
| "i owe everything to that meeting." | babel |
| detective nicky belane | los angeles |
| ferdinand celine in a bukowski | los angeles |
| tyrannosaurus rex | bradbury |
| "a nobleman and his sister." | letter |
| earl of rochester | disappointment |
| "the hell of impotence" | disappointment |
| cloris | disappointment |
| "you spoiled the song," | gorky |
| henry chinaski | bukowski |
| "furu ike ya." | cutting |
| masaoka shiki | tanka |
| "strange blight" | carson |
| dorothy freeman | carson |
| tiina nunnally | undset |
| the wreath and the wife | undset |
| "the machine stops" | forster |
| "hurled from a considerable height" | forster |
| trisolaris | liu |
| harriet jacobs | wilson |
| aunt ester in gem of the ocean | wilson |
| william wells brown | jefferson |
| aunts at rachel | handmaid |
| leah centers | handmaid |
| "the band sounded louder and gayer" | new zealand |
| janet frame | mansfield |
| scott in mansfield | horse |
| lucy terry | bars fight |
| nella larsen | passing |
| snow white by oyeyemi | boy, snow, bird |
| frank novak | boy, snow, bird |
| at the whitman | boy, snow, bird |
| "fantastic" | fox |
| bean in a roald dahl | fox |
| oyeyemi | fox |
| national book award for the sea around us | carson |
| "ya," | cutting |
| "lowlife and high tech" | ballard |
| neuromancer | ballard |
| "cybernetic culture" | cyberpunk |
| sheridan le fanu | cyberpunk |
| lord ruthven | cyberpunk |
| sally hemings | jefferson |
| notes on the state of virginia | jefferson |
| "white granular powder" | carson |
| james graham ballard | ballard |
| part way back | sexton |
| like sharon olds | confessional |
| grazia deledda | italian |
| "acquired more essential history from plutarch than most men could from" | shakespeare |
| william empson | shakespeare |
| "let us offer our pinch of dust all to this god" | shakespeare |
| carmilla | cyberpunk |
| bev | clybourne park |
| frame | horse |
| bev and russ | lindner |
| "follow the brush." | zuihitsu |
| an account of my hut | zuihitsu |
| "awful" | row |
| "the island called god." | row |
| reeds in the wind | italian |
| dodsworth | lewis |
| "smiling, lifeless man" | road |
russ (stoller) | clybourne park |
| master of hestviken | undset |
| dan brown | da vinci code |
| robert langdon | da vinci code |
| pendulum | da vinci code |
| emperor mata kharibu | dance of the forests |
| lady tortoise | dance of the forests |
| nigeria in death | soyinka |
| "homelessness." | forster |
| "i have gone out, a possessed witch" | sexton |
| "first known author in world literature." | enheduanna |
| weigle | enheduanna |
| decad | hymn |
| cuneiform | sumerian |
| vincent starrett | holmes |
| colonel ardenti | foucault's pendulum |
| belbo | foucault's pendulum |
| an awful rowing toward god | sexton |
| for nigeria | mask |
| "second part," | don quixote |
| elstir | in search of lost time |
| "partial magic" | don quixote |
| "battle police." | farewell to arms |
| "hope is both the earliest and most indispensible virtue inherent in the state of being alive" | erikson |
| stagnationand intimacy | erikson |
| "identity crisis." | erikson |
| m.r | james |
| anna waterhouse | abdul-jabbar |
| grand lord | hell |
| "there be no sadness of farewell,/ when i embark;" | crossing the bar |
| "boundless deep." | crossing the bar |
| spencer brydon | james |
| "the giant rat of sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared," | doyle |
| harry houdini | doyle |
| marie celeste | doyle |
| dulcinea del toboso | don quixote |
| "peter quint--you devil!" | james |
| "projective verse" | black mountain |
master of go | kawabata |
| hall heorot | grendel |
| kimiko | kawabata |
| shusai | kawabata |
| "iron horse" | things fall apart |
| "effeminate," | things fall apart |
| reverend smith | things fall apart |
| "third sally." | don quixote |
| "monstrous hell-bride" | grendel |
| chartist movement | disraeli |
| "who? who?" | disraeli |
| second reform act | disraeli |
| sybil | disraeli |
| "time passes" | to the lighthouse |
| "had an accident. so may you all" | grendel |
| "the pomegranate" | kawabata |
| pauline | mario |
| de almeida | haiku |
| massolit | master and margarita |
| bezdomny | master and margarita |
| ezeudu | things fall apart |
| "the pacification of the primitive tribes," | things fall apart |
| irene adler | sherlock holmes |
| "a scandal in bohemia" | sherlock holmes |
| metal gear solid | mario |
| cide hamete benengeli | don quixote |
| mike tyson | mario |
| lou albano | mario |
| "lifts her leafy arms" | pray |
| "i remember you dead" | pinter |
| "perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph" | things fall apart |
gus (hitman) | the dumbwaiter |
| spooner | pinter |
| "christ follows dionysus" | pound |
| twin snakes | mario |
| "e-r-o-s" | cupid |
| soolt | tristan |
| denoalan | tristan |
| iseult | tristan |
| "little round hole in the red-earth wall" | things fall apart |
| latunsky | margarita |
| "fifth dimension." | margarita |
| apartment no | margarita |
| brazil by guilherme | haiku |
| madam tofana | margarita |
| kongi's | soyinka |
| "abandon" | margarita |
| katya bagnelli in nice | gordimer |
| wolfram von eschenbach | grail |
| cappy | mario |
| "what happened to" | gordimer |
| "what the book is about" | gordimer |
| eshuoro | soyinka |
| gitanjali by rabindranath tagore | bengali |
| congo river | conrad |
| alphonse keyaerts | heart of darkness |
| keyarts | heart of darkness |
| political justice | godwin |
| carnal prayer mat | scholar |
| wu jingzi | scholar |
| du shaoqing | scholar |
denise levertov (movement) | black mountain |
| "the management of grief." | mukherjee |
| artist of disappearance | desai |
| "the prince of aquitaine, his tower in ruins" | desdichado |
| literary souvenirs | art for art's sake |
| mildred douglas | hairy ape |
| "drink! don't think!" | ship |
ann radcliffe (work) | the mysteries of udolpho |
| aubert | mysteries of udolpho |
| "scholar-beauty" | dream of the red chamber |
| mycroft holmes | abdul-jabbar |
| great epics | tamil |
| sangam | tamil |
| kannagi | tamil |
| tolkappiyam | grammar |
| panini's ashtadhyayi | grammar |
| "lilith" | magic mountain |
| "the howl of the loser, the lament of the hell-serf." | grendel |
| prithvi | sita |
| naphta | magic mountain |
| "old soldier watching from his tent." | baudelaire |
| "the gold watch" | los angeles |
| roger avary | los angeles |
| alan steinberg | abdul-jabbar |
| anita | desai |
| the and the home and the world | bengali |
| raghuvamsa | sita |
| hans castorp by thomas mann | magic mountain |
| "horatian ode." | cromwell |
| "some village-hampden," | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "monody on queen caroline." | west |
| "i fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, and weep the more because i weep in vain." | west |
| gray's elegy | west |
charles olson (movement) | black mountain |
| "our court" | lear's daughters |
| "because i do not hope to turn again" | ash wednesday |
| like the monk | gothic |
| terence mcnally | kiss |
| valentin arregui | kiss |
| "a gay fantasia on national themes" | kushner |
| dorfman | kushner |
| carlier | heart of darkness |
| hrothgar | grendel |
| shieldings | grendel |
| "fathered" | san francisco |
| guido cavalcanti | ash wednesday |
| adventures of caleb williams | godwin |
| eugene sue | wandering jew |
| ahasuerus in jan potocki | wandering jew |
| manuscript found in saragossa | wandering jew |
| rennepont | wandering jew |
| "vague des passions" | romantic |
| rene de chateaubriand's | romantic |
| chimeras in nerval | desdichado |
| "could not cease in the inglorious arts of peace," | cromwell |
| broken nest | bengali |
| brick lane | bengali |
| "hamlets" | turgenev |
| wind, sand | saint-exupery |
| "i came here to forgive, but all i can do is take pleasure in your misery." | rosenberg |
| e.l. doctorow's | rosenberg |
| story of a marriage | greer |
| hippie boy | stick |
| "panegyrick" | cromwell |
| les filles | desdichado |
| "sing, o muse, of the rage of achilles." | homer |
| bollingen prize | fitzgerald |
| antoine galland | scheherazade |
| "ebony horse" | scheherazade |
| "tell whoso hath sorrow / grief never shall last" | scheherazade |
| "heteronyms." | portuguese |
| alex thomas | assassin |
| ygnirod | assassin |
| "the fire sermon." | waste land |
| richard griffen | chase |
| aleksandr tvardovsky | novy mir |
| book of disquiet | portuguese |
| "the -eenth of marchember" | donne |
| "the triple fool" | donne |
| " is by robert hayden, who also wrote a poem framed as a letter by this poet. this poet wrote " | wheatley |
| an address to the atheist | wheatley |
| " and described " | wheatley |
| zycron | assassin |
| "rest your sleeping head, my love, / human on my faithless arm." | auden |
| "bitch" | bond |
| "nights of insult let you pass / watched by every human love" | auden |
| "the bitch is dead." | bond |
| goldeneye estate | bond |
| "cuckoo land?" | cloud |
| "the living daylights" | bond |
| le chiffre in casino royale | bond |
| "the planet of inexperience" | kundera |
| alfred wendt | young adult |
| goodman fielder wattie award | young adult |
| leaves of the banyan tree | young adult |
| jake heke | young adult |
| once were warriors | young adult |
| shawshank redemption | king |
| kingsley amis in colonel sun | bond |
| "sunk in sleep." | donne |
| "goddesses for the lazy" | cloud |
| celestina | fuentes |
| "war on kitsch" | kundera |
| "the uncanny" | sandman |
| "lost letters" | kundera |
| art of the novel | kundera |
| "odour of chrysanthemums" | lawrence |
| blackmore | lawrence |
| lucy prebble | enron |
| " describes how " | tempest |
| amal | bengali |
| mareech sambad | mukherjee |
| shaila bhave | mukherjee |
| leslie marmon silko | ceremony |
| laguna pueblo | ceremony |
| "sixty-three words." | kundera |
| "inexperience" | kundera |
| "offering." | sunrise |
| serious money | churchill |
| " referencing ariel's line " | tempest |
| "ruth, rachel, esther, and bathsheba" | lakunle |
| "fox." | lakunle |
| "very scary" | calvin |
| "let's go exploring!" | calvin |
| "prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone" | auden |
| "good spirits" | helsing |
| "little blue men" | pearl |
| terra nostra | fuentes |
| "soul wail." | helsing |
| "speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold. for 10 points each: " | wheatley |
| pope joan | churchill |
| "sink" | kitchen |
| marlene | kitchen |
| "radiantly beautiful" | helsing |
| gilbert durand | idol |
| "chac mool" | fuentes |
| house of boxes | pearl |
| cranford | elizabeth |
| "the world is what it is" | naipaul |
| nazruddin | naipaul |
| doris lessing | bend in the river |
| nebula awards | bend in the river |
| "i shall but love thee better after death." | elizabeth |
| in nightmare abbey | childe harold's pilgrimage |
| scythrop in nightmare abbey | shelley |
| mickey goldmill | rocky |
| emmy hennings | voltaire |
| ball | voltaire |
| else lasker | blue |
| tofa sauni | oral |
| "children afraid of the night." | auden |
| am legend | matheson |
| "coiled" | child |
| "white serpent" | child |
| peacock | shelley |
| nazneen | brick lane |
| "strip of blue between the boards" | dinesen |
| miss malin | dinesen |
| "much trouble," | cloud |
| hoodoo love | nottage |
| cherry lane theatre | nottage |
| toulou | nottage |
| candylady | nottage |
| gaskell | elizabeth |
| "a hundred and fifty different ways" | touchstone |
| david hawkes | dream of the red chamber |
| "-ology," | dream of the red chamber |
| countess of roussillon | all's well that ends well |
| "nothing is funnier than" | unhappiness |
| oskar schell | extremely loud and incredibly close |
| in foer | holocaust |
| "maimed," | dream of the red chamber |
| escape to life | erika |
| "looking up at the stars" | auden |
| "sing for the whole world." | independent people |
| sylvester stallone | rocky |
| "i am pagliacci." | rorshach |
| "smartest man in the morgue" | rorshach |
| "dog carcass in alley... tire tread on burst stomach." | rorshach |
| new frontiersman | rorshach |
| "do it! do it!" | rorshach |
| "of eros and of dust" | auden |
| watchmen | rorshach |
| gettler | bond |
| leslie knope | bridge to terabithia |
| onion | decameron |
| "creep-o" | rocky |
| tony gazzo | rocky |
| "gonna fly now" | rocky |
| "yo, adrian!" | rocky |
| alan moore | rorshach |
| "if equal affection cannot be, / let the more loving one be me." | auden |
| miss toobad | nightmare abbey |
| scythrop | nightmare abbey |
| marionetta | nightmare abbey |
| jon the bailiff | independent people |
| nonni | independent people |
| summerhouses | independent people |
| halldor laxness | iceland |
| "white christmas" | vietnam |
| rod serling | bet |
| "nightmare at 20,000 feet" | matheson |
| "death ship," | matheson |
| chanu | brick lane |
| lady gregory | yeats |
| castle rackrent | countess cathleen |
| malay annals | epic |
| "talent and destiny are apt to feud" | vietnam |
| laxness | saga |
| "like lightning dart into the nation's heart," | scottsboro |
| "raised no cry. i wonder why." | scottsboro |
| "worth its song." | scottsboro |
ningguo house | dream of the red chamber |
| zhiyanzhai | dream of the red chamber |
rongguo house | dream of the red chamber |
| manly pointer | o'connor |
| "must enter again... the synagogue of the ear of corn" | thomas |
| fa mu lan | hawai'i |
| "the curious case of benjamin button" | fitzgerald |
| georg bendemann | kafka |
| joseph k. the trial | kafka |
| hildegarde moncrief | fitzgerald |
| golden helmet of mambrino | cervantes |
| sampson carrasco | cervantes |
| margaret hale | elizabeth |
| late mattia pascal | pirandello |
| therese fowler's | fitzgerald |
| gurnah | desertion |
| in hanif kureishi | jungle book |
| buddha of suburbia | jungle book |
| "man-cub" | jungle book |
| sarah waters | picaresque |
| no country for old men by cormac mccarthy | texas |
| teen sensations | blume |
| bernardo soares in the book of disquiet | heteronym |
| "still can push the vision splendid to a birth." | keats |
| "versions" | cheng |
| "from the gold bar of heaven." | the blessed |
| "after the first death, there is no other." | thomas |
| elizabeth siddal | rossetti |
| "a tear more rare than pearl" | hair |
| bernardine evaristo | girl, woman, other |
| national theatre | girl, woman, other |
| "at spring-time" | keats |
| story of the stone | jade |
| "that there were flowers also in hell." | imagism |
| madrigal | imagism |
| "cyriack, this three years day," | milton |
| "god doth not need either man's work or his own gifts." | milton |
| "they also serve who only stand and wait." | patience |
| "cleanness" | patience |
| romney in florence | elizabeth |
| rastignac | lucien |
| doctor hinkfuss | pirandello |
| "parable play" | brecht |
| ignatius dullfeet | brecht |
| "amazons." | elizabeth |
| captain brown | elizabeth |
| "stunted" | sea rose |
| "flung on the sand." | sea rose |
| "drip such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf." | sea rose |
| signor brunoni | elizabeth |
| margarete steffin | brecht |
| tonight we improvise | pirandello |
| addio | pirandello |
| princess of france | love's |
salve deus rex judaeorum | emilia lanier |
| singaporean ling jishi | diaries |
| yunje | diaries |
| ding ling | communist |
| valeria | lolita |
| aubrey burl | love's |
| "the jealous extremaduran" | cervantes |
| elieshi lema | swahili |
| "mwendo" | swahili |
| narratives of empire | vidal |
| bob ford | city and the pillar |
| maria verlaine | city and the pillar |
| in the city | los angeles |
| "black wires" | dark lady |
| journey to parnassus | cervantes |
| shatov | dostoyevsky |
| nastassya | dostoyevsky |
| aglaya | dostoyevsky |
| smyerdakov | dostoyevsky |
| "is indignant that scotland has so few trees." | johnson |
| mary richards | hadleyburg |
| "hadleyburg" | stranger |
| "number 44" | stranger |
| "cease, gentle muse!" | wheatley |
| lord munodi | lemuel |
| big endians | lemuel |
| vivien in the pure | colette |
| alms of alcippe | yourcenar |
| renee vivien prize | yourcenar |
| grace frick | yourcenar |
| "index entry" | davis |
| "one does not always marry when insane," | bierce |
| susan gubar | jane eyre |
| "let the boys bring flowers in last month's newspapers" | stevens |
| ann yamanaka | woman warrior |
| filipino hawaiians | woman warrior |
| julie otsuka | woman warrior |
| when the emperor was divine | woman warrior |
| blu | woman warrior |
| badal sarkar | bengali |
| "on which she embroidered fantails once." | stevens |
| kirilov | dostoyevsky |
| manichaeism to the christianity | augustine |
| city of god | augustine |
| reconsiderations | augustine |
| monica | augustine |
| patty sing | o'connor |
| "who" | lemuel |
| nyms | lemuel |
| "a plantation and two hundred slaves." | o'connor |
| measure of the soul | augustine |
| heliodorus | ethiopia |
| "shines" | sweden |
| "just like you" | sweden |
| swedish royal dramatic theater | anna christie |
| laura in il canzoniere | petrarch |
| "muse! bow propitious while my pen relates" | wheatley |
| augustan | vates |
| "redux," | astraea |
| varieties of disturbance | davis |
| "s.m.a." | wheatley |
| how to get filthy rich in rising asia | hamid |
| exit west | hamid |
| another of pessoa | campos |
| "to feel everything in every way" | campos |
| "tobacco shop." | campos |
| achebe | haiti |
| abdulrazak gurnah | tanzania |
| "happy age" | astraea |
| dominique bauby | diving bell and the butterfly |
| bauby | count of monte cristo |
| noirtier | count of monte cristo |
| if in alexandre dumas | dantes |
| the chateau d''s | dantes |
| "make a poet black, and bid him sing" | cullen |
| "yet do i marvel." | cullen |
| witness for the prosecution | christie |
| dialogues of the courtesans | comedy |
| in christie | hastings |
| black coffee | hastings |
| sir claud amory | hastings |
| "in bright array they seek the work of war." | wheatley |
| "grief" | pine |
| reluctant fundamentalist | hamid |
| shehan karunatilaka | almeida |
| "seven moons" | almeida |
| spider | christie |
| aunt pedigree | she stoops to conquer |
| "crimson lacquer," | rashomon |
| aunt dahlia | wooster |
| "aunt agatha takes the count." | wooster |
| in aunts aren | watson |
| sign of four | watson |
| guignol | commedia dell'arte |
| arlecchino | commedia dell'arte |
| love marriage | ali |
| "to every middlesex village and farm." | longfellow |
| "hardly a man is now alive who remembers." | longfellow |
| "vain hope and vain sadness," | petrarch |
| "roof was scarcely visible, the cornice but a mound," | because i could not stop for death |
| "passed the school, where children strove at recess, in the ring" | because i could not stop for death |
| "if my stay / was vain, let my vanishing, at least, be virtuous." | petrarch |
| "life is too much like a pathless wood" | frost |
| "die in peaceful harbor," | petrarch |
| "the world's delight is a brief dream." | petrarch |
| jack twist | visually impaired |
| "brokeback mountain." | visually impaired |
| "the decapitated chicken," | uruguay |
| letters written to | richardson |
| joe gillayley | maori |
| whale rider | new zealand |
| witi ihimaera | new zealand |
| university of auckland | new zealand |
| camden | deathbed |
| tales from shakespeare | lamb |
| interior | maeterlinck |
| melisande | maeterlinck |
| wilbur schramm in iowa | writing |
| iowa writers | smiley |
| national book critics choice award | smiley |
| thousand acres | smiley |
| the ' workshop | smiley |
| katherine mansfield | garden party |
| "whirl of sugarboom prices." | camera eye |
| big money | camera eye |
| farming of bones | haiti |
| non-u.s | haiti |
| frederick r. waterford | historical notes |
| commander in the handmaid | atwood |
| historical notes | gilead |
| "the hardest, the most complicated part was only just beginning." | chekhov |
| george reeves | superman |
| quincy morris | helsing |
| visitation zones | strugatsky |
| roadside picnic | strugatsky |
| yevgeny zamyatin | brave new world |
| one state in we | brave new world |
| poligraf poligrafovich | bulgakov |
| ti-jean | walcott |
| in ti | aeschylus |
| "grey-haired" | chekhov |
| lois lane | superman |
| "man of steel." | superman |
| "no longer felt [itself] guided by haulers." | rimbaud |
| "lovely stars" | longfellow |
| "was indifferent to all crews" | rimbaud |
| lopakhin by madame ranevskaya | chekhov |
| jack absolute | pine-apple |
| "the lower race," | chekhov |
| "augustblistering sun" | camera eye |
| halicarnassus | herodotus |
| salamis | herodotus |
| bud collyer | superman |
| open veins of latin america | uruguay |
| eduardo galeano | uruguay |
| miles gloriosus | plautus |
| messenio | menaechmi |
| "yours truly" | camera eye |
| "custom is king of all." | herodotus |
| "thou mastering me god! giver of breath and bread," | hopkins |
| pancho rodriguez | smash |
| good samaritan | parable |
| parable of the ring | decameron |
| "patient griselda." | decameron |
| lady murasaki shikibu | genji |
| "all animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it" | butler |
| blanca | allende |
| cowboys ennis | visually impaired |
| jean de satigny | allende |
| "tropical" | philippines |
| nick joaquin | philippines |
| "seven tales" | philippines |
| huberto naranjo | allende |
| fiver | watership down |
| "vowels." | rimbaud |
| "sort of thrilled" | smash |
| way of all flesh | bildungsroman |
| odd couple | simon |
| anne ferris | hotel |
| elyot | hotel |
| "there lives the dearest freshness deep down things," | hopkins |
| " for 10 points, name this jesuit poet of " | hopkins |
| grandeurthe windhover | hopkins |
| red barber | thurber |
| erwin martin | thurber |
| amalia | schiller |
| "dread[s] being awakened from the happiest dream" | emma |
| "the catbird seat" | thurber |
| "i'm lonely--i'll make me a world" | johnson |
| "the creation," | johnson |
| "o black and unknown bards" | go down, moses |
| "at the creation, ever heard a theme / nobler than [this spiritual]?" | go down, moses |
| "be embraced, millions!" | schiller |
| "daughter of elysium." | schiller |
| ulgine barrows | thurber |
| nnedi okorafor | science |
| binti | science |
| nii parkes | ghana |
| homegoing by yaa gyasi | ghana |
| anna wulf | lessing |
| "a black, e white, i red, u green, o blue" | rimbaud |
| lady carlotta | saki |
| "accursed poets." | rimbaud |
| algren | boxer |
| "green freedom of the cockatoo upon a rug." | stevens |
| "casual flock of pigeons" | stevens |
| "the bear." | go down, moses |
| black national anthem | sing |
| "black velvety jacket of brilliant flies" | rimbaud |
| "the lice searchers." | rimbaud |
| "forehead itching red torments" | rimbaud |
| best american short stories | visually impaired |
| "death is the mother of beauty," | stevens |
| "runcible spoon" | lear |
| "the owl and the pussycat." | lear |
| "frumious bandersnatch" | carroll |
| "callooh! callay!" | chortle |
| amusa | market |
| iyaloja | market |
| "aunts of all kinds are damned bad things" | she stoops to conquer |
| sci-fi series | lessing |
| "the unnamed." | betrothed |
| walk on the wild side | algren |
| frankie machine in nelson algren | drug |
| man with the golden arm | drug |
| chicago to paterson | boxer |
| rubin carter | boxer |
| "hurricane" | boxer |
| "lift every voice and [perform this action] / till earth and heaven ring" | sing |
| fra cristoforo | betrothed |
| dove linkhorn | algren |
| lindo jong | fortune cookie |
| mei hsu | fortune cookie |
| "bad instruction." | fortune cookie |
| "i am not that young any more" | didion |
| "goodbye to all that" | didion |
| "insider baseball" | presidential campaign |
| "the weasel, twelve monkeys and the shrub." | presidential campaign |
| dinaw mengestu | ethiopia |
| "excuse me." | aeschylus |
| "anacreon in heaven" | key |
| hms tonnant | key |
| wrought urn | canonization |
| "for god's sake hold your tongue, and let me love." | canonization |
| kamante | dinesen |
| "mother tongue." | tan |
| baptist church in san francisco | tan |
| saltwater cowboys | penning |
| "on the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep." | key |
| "van-tuy's" | in search of lost time |
| "conceits" | metaphysical |
| raymond queneau | oulipo |
| "benediction upon the audience." | kalidasa |
| "erotic" | eight |
| "terrible" | eight |
| "model plays" | eight |
| "i have no children by which i can ... get a single penny." | modest proposal |
| georges perec | oulipo |
| "will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." | modest proposal |
| beautiful things that heaven bears | ethiopia |
| "to the queen of sheba." | elegies |
| "a smiling woman" | lady lazarus" |
| droogs | burgess |
| enderby quartet | four |
| "what shall i give my children? who are poor" | brooks |
| maud brown | brooks |
| "been assured by a very knowing american" | modest proposal |
| seven gothic tales | dinesen |
| origin of table manners | levi-strauss |
| tristes tropiques | levi-strauss |
| peek | levi-strauss |
| "a modest defense of publick stews," | mandeville |
| "slow and steady" | tortoise |
| " for 10 points each: name this novel whose protagonist, in the final chapter, becomes a " | awakening |
| " for 10 points each: the awakening is a novel by this author of the short story " | chopin |
| chincoteague bay | assateague |
| armitage | laureate |
| florence pugh | little women |
| "wandering over withered fields." | death |
| "look at the dew on the leaves and grass" | death |
| fujiwara no teishi | death |
| "falling is the essence of a flower." | mishima |
| yasmin ghorami | ali |
| joe sangster | ali |
| grand isle | gulf |
| "caucasian" | race |
| "ethiopian." | race |
| "society." | corner |
| kasparson | dinesen |
| william f. whyte | corner |
| "move to the right!" | thatcher |
| savage mind | levi-strauss |
| mythologiques | levi-strauss |
| stark industries | munitions |
| rainbow six | clancy |
| marguerite henry | misty of chincoteague |
| maureen beebe | misty of chincoteague |
| eastern shore | misty of chincoteague |
| misty of chincoteague | penning |
| timothee chalamet | little women |
| senator burrows | munitions |
| in marvel comics | munitions |
| splinter cell | clancy |
| jimmy porter | look back in anger |
| necklace | maupassant |
| "terrible change for the worse." | helsing |
| "like sticky pearls." | lady lazarus" |
| "they had to call and call" | lady lazarus" |
| jay mcinerey | 80s |
| understanding fiction | warren |
| "mexican book" | mccarthy |
| bennington college | tartt |
| candace bushnell | mccarthy |
| sex and the city | mccarthy |
| "as a seashell" | lady lazarus" |
| "the pure gold baby/that melts to a shriek" | lady lazarus" |
| valmorain | allende |
| sasha | orlando |
| "donelson." | melville |
| "barrabas came to us by sea" | allende |
| groves of academe | mccarthy |
| jean de meun | rose |
| "letter to the god of" | love |
| "courtly" | love |
| "bloofer lady" | helsing |
| after dr jekyll | danvers |
| member of parliament | danvers |
| two soviet | strugatsky |
| "stalkers" | strugatsky |
| what the butler saw | orton |
| "sorry he could not travel both" | frost |
| "unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster." | raven |
| "each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." | raven |
| "the very" | pine-apple |
| "of politeness." | pine-apple |
| "we happy few, we band of brothers" | agincourt |
| "md, d.ph., d.lit., etc., etc." | helsing |
| "the story of the girl who stood up for education," | malala |
| "get away from earth awhile." | frost |
| "coming home" | tom |
| "papers want to know what shirts he wears" | tom |
| "sitting in a tin can" | tom |
| "tell my wife i love her very much- she knows!" | tom |
| "space oddity." | tom |
| jermaine | tom |
| mystery garage | tracy |
| "there are no rules." | calvin |
| "the portent" | brown |
| spaceman spiff | calvin |
| bill watterson | calvin |
| flight of the conchords | tom |
| tim tebow | tom |
| "junkie, strung out in heavens high, hitting an all time low." | tom |
| "ashes to ashes" | tom |
| "bright as a nazi lampshade" | lady lazarus" |
| "does exceptionally well." | lady lazarus" |
| tracer bullet | calvin |
| "hanging from the beam, / slowly swaying." | brown |
| john marr | sailor |
| von dideritz | chekhov |
| " for 10 points each: chekhov also mined his medical experience for this story, in which conversations with ivan gromov eventually lead the doctor andrey ragin into a downward mental spiral. lenin claimed that reading this story " | ward no. 6 |
| "the wide net" | green |
| performances of god of vengeance on broadway | obscenity |
| ubu | poland |
| "if i get hungry, / i eat the flesh of my usurper. / beware... beware... of my hunger, / and of my anger." | palestin |
| peter schilling | tom |
| great frost | orlando |
| jenna maroney | tracy |
| "with her red hair" | lady lazarus" |
| grizz | tracy |
| "ready to kill" | sandburg |
| "yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again." | sandburg |
| "the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth," | sandburg |
| "to the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng" | key |
| "when the warrior returns" | key |
| "language of love." | hebrew |
| hendrick hudson | irving |
| "i had often cowled in the slumbrous heavy air" | australia |
| salmagundi | irving |
| "fabius." | dickinson |
| regulations respecting the british colonies on the continent of america considered | dickinson |
| olive branch petition | dickinson |
| pennsylvania farmer | dickinson |
| saadat hasan manto | indian independence |
| tengo kawana | 1q84 |
| the widow | indian independence |
| rotpeter | kafka |
| "i'se been a-climbin' on, and reachin' ladders, and turning corners" | hughes |
| "dr[ies] up, like a raisin in the sun?" | hughes |
| james kirke paulding | irving |
| sensei | suicide |
| sonezaki | suicide |
| "was not an important failure." | icarus |
| shiva of the knees | indian independence |
| "in flanders fields." | soldier |
| "ride a watersmooth-silver stallion" | cummings |
| "pigeons|just|like|that." | cummings |
| "fire and ice." | frost |
| "home burial" | north of boston |
| in a christmas | henry |
| "i shall never get you put together entirely" | plath |
| "the colossus." | plath |
| seth handaside | irving |
| "penman of the american revolution." | dickinson |
| carlisle | dickinson |
| "dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul" | longfellow |
| "bulletin debate," | australia |
| "mezzo cammin" | longfellow |
| "up the country" | australia |
| "purple with green rings," | stevens |
| "sad lexicon," | baseball |
| "like air." | lady lazarus |
| "i have been happy - and i love the theme" | poe |
| "temple in which living pillars / sometimes give voice to confused words," | correspondences |
| "man passes there through forests of symbols." | correspondences |
| "listens close to your sweet speaking / and lovely laughing" | greek |
| winter by canadian | greek |
| nine lyric poets | greek |
| "victory odes" | greek |
| "a message from the emperor." | kafka |
| "fauna of the night," | freud |
| "saddest of all possible words." | baseball |
| jack keefe | baseball |
| you know me al | baseball |
| "the band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light" | baseball |
| john stanhope | dickinson |
| "put away / my labor and my leisure too / for his civility." | dickinson |
| "since then - 'tis centuries - and yet" | dickinson |
| "tapping at my chamber door" | poe |
| thousand-yard | kafka |
| "needs ourlove." | freud |
| "important jew" | freud |
| "merely told the unhappy present to recite the past like a poetry lesson." | freud |
| inthepoem | freud |
| "a world of happiness" | helen |
| "tintinnabulation" | helen |
| "so musically wells." | helen |
| blifil | fielding |
| "blank" | verse |
| "sprung" | hopkins |
| "five franciscan nuns," | boat |
| "the loss of the titanic." | boat |
| titorelli | kafka |
| willem | kafka |
| "gives / immortal youth to mortal maids." | verse |
| "this be" | verse |
| "that fearful sound of 'fire' and 'fire'," | verse |
| "upon the burning of [her] house." | verse |
| "come buy our orchard fruits / come buy, come buy." | frost |
| evander in the aeneid | cacus |
| snufkin | troll |
| much of the fenian | oisin |
| "[i]n you everything sank!" | twenty love poems and a song of despair |
| "it so happens i am sick of being a man." | walk |
| "dare you see a soul at the white heat?" | dickinson |
| "stop[s], wounded by the wandering scent." | neruda |
| edward estlin cummings | cummings |
| "shall not sleep, though poppies grow." | soldier |
| "euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant" | huxley |
| marsh chapel experiment | leary |
| panchala | draupadi |
| snork maiden in tove jansson | troll |
| gandalf in the hobbit | troll |
| "patent" | troll |
| mountain king | troll |
| sarras | galahad |
| oliver effingham | cooper |
| cold spring harbor laboratory | watson |
| at the cavendish laboratory at cambridge | watson |
| lachesis | eris |
| church lees | scarlet |
| england to north america | cabot |
| when cabot | venice |
| veblen | pecuniary |
| arabella hunt | fielding |
| hugi | thjalfi |
| journal of a tour to the hebrides | boswell |
| agastya | mountain |
| "retire" | robot |
| chilote | imbunche |
| upton inn | fielding |
| "skrymir" | utgard-loki |
| at utgard | age |
| bonnie prince charlie | fielding |
| "triple-faced." | moon |
| uqbar | borges |
| kokoro by natsume soseki | suicide |
| "incident" | suicide |
| "o, well for the fisherman's boy" | tennyson |
| "the sailor lad" | tennyson |
| "the tender grace of a day that is dead / will never come back to me." | tennyson |
| "choric song" | tennyson |
| "there is sweet music here that softer falls / than petals from blown roses on the grass." | tennyson |
| "descriptive tale" | cooper |
| "i will drink / life to the lees," | tennyson |
| "the lotos eaters" | tennyson |
| aleksandr vershinin | three sisters |
| "not god but a swastika" | nazi |
| "a dust whom england bore, shaped, made aware" | soldier |
| "there's some corner of a foreign field / that is forever england." | soldier |
| rupert brooke | soldier |
| "lovesick major" | three sisters |
| "i mete and dole / unequal laws unto a savage race," | tennyson |
| "terra firma," | leto |
| titan coeus | phoebe |
| titaness | phoebe |
| arthur to avalon | morgan |
| tintagel | morgan |
| hirudotherapy | leech |
| in nonnus | sinew |
| otsego hall | cooper |
| "the aleph." | borges |
| chamberlen | obstetrics |
| heptapod | chiang |
| dame brusen | galahad |
| slop in tristram shandy | obstetrics |
| logris | galahad |
| "ulysses." | tennyson |
| "deutches requiem." | borges |
| bioy casares | borges |
| "catalogue of catalogues." | borges |
| rural hours | cooper |
| hero-worship | carlyle |
| "cor meum" | ecce |
| "sextus molestus," | ecce |
| "why i am a fatality" | ecce |
| "real or fancied indifference of some man or woman i love." | song of mysel |
| "i loafe and invite my soul, / i lean and loafe at my ease." | song of mysel |
| "on moonlit heath and lonesome bank." | housman |
| "the cow, the old cow, she is dead," | housman |
| "ballad" | landlord |
| shrewsbury | housman |
| "let us sleep now," | owen |
| "dead smile" | owen |
| "i sought a theme, and sought for it in vain," | yeats |
| "in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." | yeats |
| "an aged man is but a paltry thing / a tattered coat upon a stick," | yeats |
| "jolly swagman" | australia |
| "it is a fatal mistake ever to offer resistance to people who are stronger than ourselves." | maupassant |
| "the world as the world's not." | housman |
| "principal conclusions" | mueller report |
| "camped by a billabong." | australia |
| under ariel roth | seventh-day adventist |
| geoscience research institute at loma linda university | seventh-day adventist |
| kiyaoki | mishima |
| "pile the bodies high," | sandburg |
| "how one becomes what one is." | ecce |
| "romani" | ecce |
| "philosopher of clothing" | carlyle |
| cornelii | ecce |
| m. bechade | leech |
| ricarimpex | leech |
| dhanvantari | leech |
| ozobranchus | leech |
| morning star | mulberry |
| in on heroes | carlyle |
| sartor resartus | carlyle |
| "behold," | ecce |
| peter in central park | albee |
| "holy writ." | borges |
| "the book of sand" | borges |
| crimson hexagon | borges |
| "the labyrinth." | borges |
| dragon palace | aging |
| oisin | aging |
| "after that hunky wayne guy." | harley |
| "liberty, cherished liberty, fight thou on the side of thy defenders." | maupassant |
| victor zsasz | harley |
| black mask | harley |
| "emancipation." | harley |
| margot robbie | harley |
| bud | harley |
| lou | harley |
| john wheelwright | baseball |
| "mighty" | baseball |
| after cassandra cain | harley |
| "thruster holding me tight" | song of mysel |
| "i witness and wait," | song of mysel |
| james hargreaves | spinning jenny |
| president of liberia | johnson |
| pool of blood | akutagawa |
| "no vulgar assassin" | bierce |
| "from which gentlemen are not excluded." | bierce |
| "the horseman in the sky" | bierce |
| joker | harley |
| winding stair | yeats |
| "all humanity is now involved in a great controversy between christ and satan regarding the character of god." | seventh-day adventist |
| joel harrison knox | other voices, other rooms |
| "waited till his billy boiled," | australia |
| raise the wage act | 15 |
| "up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred" | australia |
| thomas gerald clancy | australia |
| when charlemagne | carloman |
| increase and cotton | mather |
| "the fury and the mire of human veins" | yeats |
| "saboteur," | plath |
| "kamikaze man," | plath |
| "babushka" | plath |
| "what a thrill." | plath |
| "green valley" | auden |
| "a thousand screams the heavens smote; / and every scream tore through my throat." | renascence |
| "literary offenses" | cooper |
| " flower with a " | sunflower sutra |
| "bush ballads" | australia |
| " and closes with a " | sunflower sutra |
| tincan | sunflower sutra |
| frisco | sunflower sutra |
| " was written by this poet. in another poem, he describes a " | ginsberg |
| breakfast of champions | vonnegut |
| humbaba in the cedar forest | gilgamesh |
| edwin arlington robinson | richard cory |
| "the entertainment," | infinite jest |
| " it opens " | sunflower sutra |
| "you ain't gonna be able to say a word / if i land my fist on you." | landlord |
| "judge gives negro 90 days in county jail." | landlord |
| "come as a master from deutschland." | death |
| "why swell'st thou then?" | death |
| "better than thy stroke." | death |
| "fugue" | death |
| hard hours | hecht |
| "where the beggars raffle the banknotes" | auden |
| blake.saw | howl |
| "the clocks had ceased their chiming, / and the deep river ran on" | auden |
| "walking down bristol street." | auden |
| "put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves" | auden |
| "working week and [his] sunday rest." | auden |
| "cut off the telephone" | auden |
| "as i walked out one evening" | auden |
| " which he refers to as " | ginsberg |
| " for 10 points each: moloch appears in this ginsberg poem, in which the narrator " | howl |
| "jill goes down on her back." | auden |
| "so there stood matthew arnold and this girl." | hecht |
judge marmaduke temple | cooper |
| judd woldin | raisin in the sun |
| "in fairly good translation," | sophocles |
| "heard [the eternal note of sadness] on the aegean." | sophocles |
| gullinbursti | boar |
| fauchelevent | les miserables |
| blysspluss | atwood |
| pegeen mike | playboy of the western world |
| "magnetic curses" | sandburg |
| "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation" | sandburg |
| "put his head to the window." | blake |
| "naturalist," | zola |
| macquart | zola |
| "a report to an academy." | kafka |
| fundamental beliefs | seventh-day adventist |
| "cindy, oh cindy" | raisin in the sun |
"shovel them under" | sandburg |
| abner doubleday | cooper |
| battista | calvino |
| shao hao | mulberry |
| "there is so much graciousness in cunning" | nietzsche |
| "every profound spirit needs a mask." | nietzsche |
| elisabeth forster | nietzsche |
| "say yes to life." | nietzsche |
| "suppose truth is a woman, what then?" | nietzsche |
| "ccny lecturers on dadaism" | potato salad |
| dionysian in the birth of tragedy | nietzsche |
| amor fati | nietzsche |
| year of the flood | atwood |
| moira at jezebel | atwood |
| scrabble with the commander | atwood |
| offred in the handmaid | atwood |
| "drowned" | concentration camp |
| "where is god now?" | concentration camp |
| we were in auschwitz | concentration camp |
| "revaluation of all values," | nietzsche |
| joe bonham | trumbo |
| haired fairy | italy |
| catchfools by the fox | italy |
| "i knew it wouldn't be much of a poem / but i love the title." | cope |
| "chartism." | carlyle |
julius excluded from heaven | erasmus |
| "apprenticeship," | wilhelm |
| duddy kravitz | richler |
| avoid boring people | watson |
| jerry dingleman | richler |
| tijuana | richler |
| "the true blue protestant poet" | shadwell |
| "the last great prophet of tautology" | shadwell |
| george jean nathan | american mercury |
| "the adventure of silver blaze." | haddon |
| book of jude | enoch |
| great flood | enoch |
| "boy wonder" | richler |
| "hold their manhoods cheap." | st. crispin's day |
| the st. crispin's | shakespeare |
| marcus in death valley | dentist |
| "dreamer" | dostoyevsky |
| "clubman" | periphetes |
| laura marris | plague |
| fanny robin | child |
| book iv of virgil | bee |
| prince heinrich hotel | billiard |
| italian jewish | levi |
| viracocha at ollantaytambo | inca |
| gateway of the sun in tiwanaku | staff |
| cook islands | staff |
| pinocchio | italy |
| carlo collodi | italy |
| "a tip-toe" | st. crispin's day |
| talking cricket | italy |
| moshe the beadle | night |
| josue | fuentes |
| "the only moving thing / was the eye of" | stevens |
| "the only emperor is" | stevens |
| mike nichols | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| sandy williams | hughes |
| not without laughter | hughes |
| "abmaphid." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| lenox avenue | hughes |
oleanna | mamet |
| irene westcott | enormous radio |
| "we must carry on as though we did [know the difference between truth or illusion]" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| neddy merrill | swimmer |
| neddy | swimmer |
| "the swimmer," | new yorker |
| eustace tilley | new yorker |
| liza | dostoyevsky |
| "the comedian as the letter c." | stevens |
| jesse b. semple | hughes |
| "he didn't even have time to kick off his seaboots" | pincher |
| pincher martin | lord of the flies |
| "in the bardo." | lincoln |
| sisyphos | thanatos |
| "samiel," | bullet |
| "natural depravity." | claggart |
| antoine macquart | spontaneous combustion |
| "the tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere." | fenimore cooper's literary offenses |
| beyond the forest | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| the death and | jacobs |
"the hunger had more power than even sorrow over me. (ugolino)" | inferno |
jack stapleton | the hound of the baskervilles |
| "lives in the shadow of passaic falls." | williams |
| "no ideas but in things," | williams |
| "stood dumb / when your betraying sisters, / cauled in tar, / wept by the railings." | heaney |
| "the city in the sea" | poe |
| "what a dump!" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "jerusalem / in england's green and pleasant land." | blake |
| dark age ahead | jacobs |
| black bess | highwayman |
| jean shepherd | libertine |
| "'gadzooks!' quoth i, 'but here's a saucy bawd!'" | libertine |
| "i must kill a man!" | maupassant |
| "the ballad of reading gaol (redding jail)." | wilde |
| "spiritual dislocation" | success |
| "the catastrophe of success" | streetcar named desire |
| your best life now | osteen |
| "city of the dead." | cairo |
alfred uhry (trilogy) | atlanta |
| last night of ballyhoo | atlanta |
| uhry | atlanta |
| an akhmatova | heroes |
in a mikhail lermontov | heroes |
| toph | eggers |
| "repaired" | doll's house |
| in suzan | brother |
| "distinctive design that constitutes individual identity." | inscape |
| "you're a better man than i am, gunga din!" | kipling |
| barrack | kipling |
| "betrothed unto your enemy," | donne |
| pillars of society | doll's house |
| daisy armstrong | orient express |
| ratchett | orient express |
| painter of signs | english |
"baghdad-on-the-subway" | o. henry |
| hareton earnshaw | read |
| georges duroy | maupassant |
| "smiling preacher." | osteen |
| lakewood | osteen |
| huxtable | architecture |
| "fall into degradation" | doll's house |
| "cultivated." | sativa |
| oryza | sativa |
| medicago | sativa |
| james dillingham young | henry |
| "our helper... amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing." | mighty fortress |
| bonkowski | pamuk |
| "corpo" | it can't happen here |
| "headscarf girls." | pamuk |
| complete works of william shakespeare | football |
| "wonderland quartet" | oates |
| oates | henry |
| "white nights," | dostoyevsky |
| in august wilson | brother |
| "fantastic baroque machine," | devil |
| telipinu | bee |
| uncle billy | outcasts of poker flat |
| in a harte | chinese |
| "plain language from truthful james," | chinese |
bill nye (ah sin) | harte |
| mokattam hills | cairo |
| "garbage city" | cairo |
| "nick shadow," | devil |
| gabe | brother |
| reading | nottage |
| according to coase | club |
| "they're hanging [the title character] in the mornin'." | danny deever |
"rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing." | the windhover |
| "dapple-dawn-drawn" | alliteration |
| "oligarchy" | iron heel |
| avis everhard | iron heel |
| hoja | pamuk |
| celestial city | christian |
| pursuit of love | mitford |
| love in a cold climate | mitford |
| american way of death | mitford |
| walter younger | raisin in the sun |
| "as two stiff compasses are two" | donne |
| "big boy doing a man's work" | frost |
| "is all pine" | frost |
| suitable boy in english | seth |
| while lovelace | prison |
| "bland motions" | bird |
| "a small part of the pantomime" | bird |
| "close bosom-friend of the maturing sun." | autumn |
| "fine clothes" | hughes |
| "a dollar and a half." | hughes |
| "hard times," | hughes |
| "they'll see how beautiful i am." | hughes |
| "down on lenox avenue." | hughes |
the education of a christian prince | erasmus |
| "but tell me, who are they, these wanderers?" | elegy |
| "decorated" | bradbury |
| eckels | bradbury |
| along with seascape | albee |
| "i am, george" | albee |
| gp | albee |
| duke orsino | twelfth night |
| "moxon's master" | robot |
| "carried through many nations and over many seas, i arrive" | elegy |
| norse cosmology | yggdrasil |
| waters | fielding |
| besides the women of trachis | sophocles |
| oechalia | sophocles |
| theban plays | sophocles |
| "a man and a woman and" | bird |
| "are one," | bird |
| "foundling" | fielding |
| "downward to darkness." | bird |
| persian wars in thehistories | herodotus |
| gelonus | herodotus |
| pheidippides | herodotus |
| "the fox and the grapes" | aesop |
| "hail and farewell" | elegy |
| "couplet" | elegy |
| duino castle | elegy |
| "test the reality of misty fields" | bird |
| "here are presented the results of the enquiry." | herodotus |
| "dr. tony" | bourdain |
| yo gabba gabba | bourdain |
| guy fieri | bourdain |
| parts unknown | bourdain |
| no reservations | bourdain |
| atropos | eris |
| elpenor | circe |
| canens | circe |
| shockand shroud in thomas pynchon | robot |
| imahmana | viracocha |
| tocapo | viracocha |
| coricancha | inti |
| pachamama | inti |
| himavant | mountain |
| meru | mountain |
| "shows," | uncle tom's cabin |
| avrion mitchison | watson |
| charon the golden bough | cumaean sibyl |
| okefenokee | swamp |
| "en vain pour eviter" | carmen |
| micaela | carmen |
| in lewis carroll | carpenter |
| walrus | carpenter |
| "misunderstanding" | importance of being earnest |
| lady bracknell | importance of being earnest |
| gwendolen fairfax | importance of being earnest |
| hungry ghosts for dc comics | bourdain |
| "walks, and will not rest" | lincoln |
| "might rouse [this man] in you all!" | lincoln |
| drum-taps | lincoln |
| sudd in south sudan | swamp |
| history of the dividing line | swamp |
| great dismal | swamp |
| pantanal | swamp |
| bone in the throat | bourdain |
| get jiro | bourdain |
| kitchen | bourdain |
| pier with chains | prison |
| imaginary prisons | prison |
| bertha mason in the caribbean | rhys |
| shraddhadeva manu | fish |
| "summer's blood" | heaney |
| fair in chicago | larson |
| isaac's storm | larson |
| "the whipping," | hayden |
| lopa de vega's | aesop |
| tracy smith | poet laureate |
| "consultant in poetry to the library of congress." | poet laureate |
| "epistolary psychogram" | wheatley |
| destiny and desire | fuentes |
| domingo sarmiento | dictator novel |
| augusto roa bastos | dictator novel |
| facundo | dictator novel |
| "hypocrite, my likeness, my brother" | reader |
| "those winter sundays." | hayden |
| nastenka | dostoyevsky |
| p. v. glob's | heaney |
| "a four-foot box, a foot for every year." | heaney |
| "fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / within his bending sickle's compass come." | time |
| "verse shall stand, / praising thy worth, despite" | time |
| "cruel hand." | time |
jack potter | crane |
| "we sat and wept" | babylon |
| "blackberry-picking" | heaney |
| "a different drama is underway." | hamlet |
| "let's take off this little frock" | stepdaughter |
| "i understand." | stepdaughter |
| enrico iv | pirandello |
| hero twins to xibalba | ball game |
| "a letter from [this author]." | wheatley |
| "specialty" | romance at short notice |
| "big jim evans saying it was a hard blow" | heaney |
| "take this cup from me." | hamlet |
| joyboy | cemeteries |
| "first chapters" | you |
| plaszow | amon goeth |
| "what work is" | detroit |
| "belle isle, 1949." | detroit |
| ron jones at a palo alto | third wave |
"a sadder and a wiser man" | the rime of the ancient mariner |
| adulateur | warren |
| "canvas of our pitiable desires" | reader |
| partridge | fielding |
"fear and loathing" (city) | las vegas |
| "he is the very pine-apple of politeness" | malaprop |
| "my affluence over my niece is very small." | malaprop |
| blues for mister charlie | baldwin |
| in the loved one | cemeteries |
| babrius | aesop |
| boreas | aesop |
| "out here in jutland / in the old man-killing parishes / i will feel lost, / unhappy and at home" | heaney |
| "not brave enough." | reader |
| "the king of poets" | season in hell |
| "silken, sad, uncertain rustling" | raven |
| "some visitor... only this and nothing more." | raven |
| "the night's plutonian shore." | raven |
| simone simonini | graveyard |
| "melancholy mark'd...for her own" | graveyard |
| injun joe | graveyard |
| happier hunting ground | cemeteries |
| "forefathers of the hamlet sleep?" | graveyard |
"song of the bleeding throat" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "sequel to" | drum-taps |
| "the wound-dresser." | drum-taps |
| michael richards | kramer |
| "show about nothing." | kramer |
| george costanza | seinfeld |
| bog people | heaney |
| mystery of edwin drood | raven |
| paths of glory | graveyard |
| "adrift in the void" | death and the king's horseman |
| simonpilkings | soyinka |
| "far and wee." | cummings |
| "here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud" | cummings |
| "a pool of moon bright" | li |
| "bowing my head, i think of home." | li |
| "quiet nightthought" | li |
| alisonbechdel | fun home |
| wonderboy | baseball |
| "how can i turn from [this place] and live?" | africa |
| constantinconstantius | kierkegaard |
| "discover thesecond face hidden behind the one you see" | kierkegaard |
| "caballero de la triste figura" | sancho |
| twobenedictine | sancho |
| bonus have | nadsat |
| dim andbillyboy | nadsat |
| georgie | nadsat |
| "how choose/between [this place] and the englishtongue i love?" | africa |
| "a soft inland murmur." | river |
| russian at waindell college | nabokov |
| charleskinbote | nabokov |
| pale firewho | nabokov |
| frenchprofessor | nabokov |
| "bee-loud glade," | lake isle of innisfree |
| "defunct" | cummings |
| "i carry your heart with me" | cummings |
| "don't panic!" | hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy |
| sea of storiesafterwriting | india |
| messengerand baal | india |
| satanicverses | india |
| kahani | india |
| gibreel | india |
| orandfear | kierkegaard |
| thisthinker | kierkegaard |
| johannes de silentio | kierkegaard |
| butt the hoopoe | india |
| "lusty bachelor," | wife of bath |
| "meek." | wife of bath |
| "when chapman billies leave the street," | burns |
| "wee,sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie." | burns |
| "my love is like a red red rose." | burns |
| "to amouse" | burns |
| thisauthor | burns |
| "i am large, i contain multitudes" | song of myself |
| orgonhides | moliere |
| sonia | uncle vanya |
| serebrakov | uncle vanya |
| three sistersandthe cherry orchard | chekhov |
| playa | chekhov |
| archaic greek | kouroi |
| "acreation of the devil." | bell |
| adam trask | east of eden |
| marriesin | east of eden |
| "waffles" | uncle vanya |
| roomandgo tell it on the mountain | baldwin |
| sword of honorand | waugh |
| "aye, naked! and the wind, god's icy wind, will blow!" | john |
| "you love me yet!" | john |
| haleasks | john |
| cheever | john |
| kitsune | inari |
| in shinto | white |
| hisgeorgics | vergilius |
| "there's a remedy for everything exceptdeath" | sancho |
| rachel lynde | anne of green gables |
| missstacy | anne of green gables |
| "the fairy queen." | anne of green gables |
| "bosom friend" | anne of green gables |
| "carrots." | anne of green gables |
| avonlea on prince edward island | anne of green gables |
| lucy maud montgomery | anne of green gables |
| "a lump of vanity" | john |
| "they'll come for wool and go back shorn" | sancho |
| meggie cleary | outback |
| thorn birds | outback |
| "s.c." | outback |
| ralph de bricassart | outback |
| travelsacross | outback |
| cassimafter | scheherazade |
| no smoking | o'connor |
| "greenleaf" | o'connor |
| intintern abbey | river |
| themisfit | o'connor |
| bonus genentech | insulin |
| eli lilly | insulin |
| inthe libationbearers | clytemnestra |
| apollo stars | hubbard |
| lafayette ronald hubbard | hubbard |
| teri | hubbard |
| "i've lost a whole day over these people!" | six characters in search of an author |
| ablackwoman | o'connor |
| "what the hammer? what the chain, in what furnace was thy brain?" | blake |
| "what [she has] suffered and why [she is] calling out." | deities |
| "equal to [these beings]." | deities |
| "invocation" | deities |
| "time, not corydon, hath conquer'd" | arnold |
| "sweet city" | arnold |
| "dreaming spires." | arnold |
| svoss | outback |
| britishschoolboys | lord of the flies |
| etgar keret | israel |
| modernhebrew | israel |
| noor hindi | flowers |
| "children throwing rocks at israeli tanks / seconds before becoming [these things]" | flowers |
| "one day, i'll write about [these things] like we own them." | flowers |
| year of magical thinking | didion |
| percival wemys madison | lord of the flies |
| "you knew, didn't you? i'm part of you," | lord of the flies |
| identity card | darwish |
| gospelaccordingto jesus christ | saramago |
| lasttemptation of christ | kazantzakis |
| "how many dawns, chill from his rippling rest" | brooklyn |
| "powhatan's daughter." | brooklyn |
| aunt sissy | brooklyn |
| "flood-tidebelow me!" | brooklyn |
| reuven | brooklyn |
| danny | brooklyn |
| six characters | rules of the game |
| maginot line | bluest eye |
| aunt jimmy | bluest eye |
| soaphead church | bluest eye |
| pecola breedlove | bluest eye |
| dick | bluest eye |
| botany of desire | pollan |
| "men, forgive him, for he knows not what he has done." | jesus |
| "heart with pleasure fills / and dances with" | daffodil |
| blue nights | didion |
| pirandello | rules of the game |
| silia | rules of the game |
| "opensesame." | scheherazade |
| peer gyntsuite | morning mood |
| "darkly painted on the crimson sky." | bryant |
| williamshakespeare | england |
| "but still i face westward with a dreary moan." | li |
| "we will drown away the woes of ten thousand generations." | li |
| killsan | meursault |
| "bring in the wine" | li |
| "friendshipandpleasure" | li |
| bridge | brooklyn |
| "continuity of parks." | cortazar |
| andrea in cortazar | paris |
| "letter to a young lady in" | paris |
| "cries of hate" | meursault |
| "dazzling red glare" | meursault |
| arab in albert camus | meursault |
| "singing wildly" | li |
| baseball hall of fame | cooper |
| natty bumppo in the last of the mohicans | cooper |
| "my temple, my mural, my sky." | swift |
| william bowery | swift |
| "i think i've seen this film before and i didn't like the ending." | swift |
| "go pick out a white dress" | swift |
| "monster on the hill... slowly lurching toward your favorite city" | swift |
| "it's me, hi, i'm the problem it's me." | swift |
| "there are millions of suns left," | song of myself |
| tortured poets | swift |
| jamie lloyd | descriptions of |
| "two and forty hours." | descriptions of |
| "a plague on both your houses." | descriptions of |
| "wherefore art thou" | descriptions of |
| "fair verona" | descriptions of |
| dante's purgatorio | descriptions of |
| "the lone survivors of the shipwreck" | swift |
| "you're not dylan thomas, i'm not patti smith" | swift |
| "as i was going down impassive rivers / i no longer felt myself guided byhaulers." | drunken boat |
| wolf cub village | eating people |
| "exchange [these people] and eat them." | child |
| huey lewis | american psycho |
| "i count religion but a childish toy." | marlowe |
| persian emperorthat | marlowe |
| inanother | marlowe |
| anna scherer | war and peace |
| "hipster." | mailer |
| "philosophical chapters." | war and peace |
| pendulumandthe name of the rose | eco |
| kyot | eco |
| tom dillion tiktok | infinite jest |
| "doctorates in political economy from harvard" | infinite jest |
| "a vape shop up the street." | infinite jest |
| "notes and errata" | infinite jest |
| post-fourier | infinite jest |
| "theantichrist" | war and peace |
| "collective unconscious." | jung |
| "one for all and all for one." | three musketeers |
| enoch emery | o'connor |
| sehgal | woolf |
| "dragged diana from her car" | poe |
| "the haunted palace," | poe |
| "the tell-tale heart." | poe |
| "beautiful spark of the gods." | schiller |
| "if you're anything like me." | swift |
| "with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." | love |
| "thy neighbor as thyself." | love |
| "do i dare disturb the universe?" | eliot |
| "measured out my life with coffee spoons" | eliot |
| "show you fear in a handful of dust" | eliot |
| "what's wrong with someone laughing as they tell the truth?" | horace |
| "there is a middle ground in things." | horace |
| licinius | horace |
| schweizer, roller | schiller |
| grimaud | three musketeers |
| american birth control league | higgins |
| the panic of 1907 | interstate commerce |
| elulu | ur |
| balulu | ur |
| when martin luther king | birmingham |
| "the negro is your brother" | birmingham |
| "does the set of all those sets that do not contain themselves [pause] contain itself?" | paradox |
| "take the wings of morning, pierce the barcan wilderness." | bryant |
| trauma plot | bird |
| "halcyon days" | bird |
| tereus and philomela | bird |
| tridentine mass | christie |
| max mallowan | christie |
| tony marston | christie |
| kenneth branagh | christie |
| shema | love |
| holy spirit in acts | tower of babel |
| jamie hood | bird |
| "who wouldnot live long." | auden |
| "an affirming flame." | auden |
| "ironic pointsof light" | auden |
| "my fatherland or my headscarf," | snow |
| "winter solstice?" | snow |
| necip | snow |
| akawabata | snow |
| alp arslan | anatolia |
| "the city and the dogs" | vargas llosa |
| "the ballad of the harp weaver." | millay |
| "awful weight" | renascence |
| "honor your superior!" | machine |
| "dies like a dog" | trial |
| "the long train of ages glides away." | bryant |
| benjamin bunny | peter |
| flopsy | peter |
| mopsy | peter |
| "harp with a woman'shead" | millay |
| "the procreant urge of the world." | song of myself |
| "twenty-eight young men" | song of myself |
| "twenty-eight years of womanlylife." | song of myself |
| "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." | song of myself |
| "do i contradictmyself" | song of myself |
| "blind skyscrapers" | auden |
| age of anxietyand | auden |
| "the shieldofachilles" | auden |
| "she looked over his shoulder" | auden |
| ostnorsk | bokmal |
| "there is nowhere finer than" | nevsky prospekt |
| piskarev | nevsky prospekt |
| castorand | swans |
| handfulof dustwrotebrideshead revisited | waugh |
| inbrideshead revisited | painter |
| into | painter |
| thelighthouse | painter |
| "new norwegian" | bokmal |
| yohr | human |
| japanese ministry of transport | richard parker |
| thirsty | richard parker |
| "no more time's dark events, charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky" | whitman |
| "hush'd be the camps." | whitman |
| "exult o shores, and ring o bells!" | whitman |
| "kill all yuppies" | american psycho |
| "this is notan exit." | american psycho |
| "bingen on the rhine" | the open boat |
| patrick bateman | american psycho |
| norn skuld | valkyrie |
| "shield maidens" | valkyrie |
| gunnr | valkyrie |
| "the white seal" | jungle book |
| "horny feet" | emperor of ice-cream |
| "hell," | naraka |
| theabidharma-kosadescribes | naraka |
| harold carnes | american psycho |
| sunay zaim | snow |
| miss jelkes | williams |
| maggieand brickfeud with big daddy | williams |
| "famous clairvoyante" | sosostris |
| "the burial of the dead," | waste land |
| "this is the way the world ends / not with a bang but with awhimper" | eliot |
| stephanie courtney | flo |
| geico | flo |
| baloo | jungle book |
| charles morel | in search of lost time |
| "inverts," | in search of lost time |
| vinteuil sonata | in search of lost time |
| "for a long time, i went to bed early" | in search of lost time |
| vaugoubert | in search of lost time |
| balbec | in search of lost time |
| "musical prodigy" | williams |
| "no-neck monsters" | williams |
| bagheera | jungle book |
| "puts out moresexual vibes than" | flo |
| "[this event] will not be televised." | revolution |
| sestigers | afrikaans |
| katherine cornell in a rudolf breiser | browning |
| flush at the casa guidi | browning |
| blixen | kenya |
| buchi emecheta | married |
| aku-nna | married |
| invention of morel | argentina |
| "did he smile his work to see?" | blake |
| william le queux | invasion |
| when william came | invasion |
| ingrid jonker | afrikaans |
| "the child is not dead" | afrikaans |
| breyten breytenbach | afrikaans |
| true confessions of an albino terrorist | afrikaans |
| tweede asem | afrikaans |
| dertigers | afrikaans |
| reinhold niebuhr | realism |
| madame irma | balcony |
| eye view | yi |
| yi sang prize | booker |
| bora chung | booker |
"with feminine vengeance" | a raisin in the sun |
| castalian order | hesse |
| "young authors" | chicago |
| ying chan | mishima |
| "great wings beating still above the staggering girl" | yeats |
| isao | mishima |
| "dialectic of inward deepening" | stages on life's way |
| kenneth waltz | realism |
| it is | grimke |
| testimony of a thousand witnesses | grimke |
| lord redesdale | mitford |
| oswald mosley | mitford |
| chestney | o'connor |
| shigekuni honda | mishima |
| detlev spinell | piano |
| oahu in hawaii | pearl harbor |
| "bleeding drops of red." | whitman |
| "extrovert." | jung |
| "in vino veritas," | stages on life's way |
| "introvert," | jung |
| "aesthetic" | either/or |
| "hilarius bookbinder" | kierkegaard |
| "riverrun, past eve and adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay." | finnegans wake |
| "deeds, not words" | denmark |
| amleth in the gesta | denmark |
| muktika upanishad | 108 |
| julia quinn | bridgerton |
| jean page | bridgerton |
| rhimes | bridgerton |
| spike jonze | adaptation |
| orchid thief | adaptation |
| "victor eremita." | kierkegaard |
| "three [of these things] for muster mark," | quark |
| "hero's journey," | monomyth |
| "the ultimate boon." | monomyth |
| "for what did knees have to receive me? for what were the breasts that i sucked?" | job |
| "bind up your loins like a man." | job |
| in eugene peterson | job |
| "i'll never do that again, i promise!" | job |
| gil scott | revolution |
| walter klemmer in an elfriede jelinek | piano |
| "powerful western fallen star." | whitman |
| "i believe in one god." | nicene |
| nicene creed in english | visible and |
| "i believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things..." | visible and |
| fritjof capra | physic |
| "shut up and calculate!" | physic |
| gopis of vrindavan | 108 |
| celestial master zhang | 108 |
| marshal hong | 108 |
| "elephant in the room" | revolution |
| green fisherman | italy |
| prince lemon | italy |
| rocinante in don quixote | cervantes |
| companion | mickey |
| sir tomato | italy |
| "a lump of food that my children chewed without stopping" | ferrante |
| days of abandonment | ferrante |
| story of the lost child | ferrante |
| "dark side of the human soul." | balcony |
| milos forman | salieri |
| peter shaffer | horse |
| yvain | knights of the round table |
| longer ending | erasmus |
| greek new testament | erasmus |
| textus receptus | erasmus |
| "this is what you cannot understand." | rumi |
| "interpreting" | rumi |
| willy harris | raisin in the sun |
| lesley gore | harley |
| you don | harley |
| own me in belle reve penitentiary | harley |
| renee montoya | harley |
| ace chemicals | harley |
| "drawing-down of blinds" | owen |
| "no mockeries... no prayers nor bells." | owen |
| "what passing-bells for those who die as cattle?" | owen |
| paris metro | dumas |
| "think of sweet and chocolate" | brooks |
| "tan man." | brooks |
| "never giggled or planned or cried" | brooks |
| "who have lived their day" | brooks |
| "balloon syndrome." | hedgehog |
| "jammed up against the blades" | hedgehog |
| "the mower." | hedgehog |
| "know one important thing" | hedgehog |
| "field of miracles" | italy |
| charles ryder in brideshead revisited | oxford |
| grammar school | history boys |
| "i'm a jew. i'm small. i'm a homosexual. and i live in sheffield." | history boys |
| cutlers | history boys |
| janan | new life |
| "thirty pairs of yapping hounds." | questing beast |
| cursed bunny | booker |
| "all of you might be tricked as" | mandrake |
| kaws | mickey |
| callimaco | mandrake |
| "of poppy and cold mandrake juice" | jew of malta |
| "grins and lies...hides our cheeks and shades our eyes." | dunbar |
| "but oh, the clay is vile, beneath our feet, and long the mile." | sing |
| "quit" | sing |
| innana | aphrodite |
| the theater of cruelty | genet |
| carol rosen | balcony |
| "wise young woman" | mandrake |
"one for whom bread food is not enough" | a raisin in the sun |
| william of malmesbury | arthur |
| "coming of age in the usa." | alvarez |
| in the time of the butterflies | alvarez |
| bryansk forest | ilya |
| svyatogor | ilya |
| el culebron | snake |
| in richard johnson | merlin |
| alice dunbar nelson | cage |
| hart's | questing beast |
| "that's what it says in all the novels that men write." | raisin in the sun |
| through king pellam | joseph |
| british christianity | joseph |
| "man at war with the hostile world." | monsters and the critics |
| "hostile" | dragon |
| "must ever call" | dragon |
| "with a profound appeal" | dragon |
| malindy | sing |
| vortigern | merlin |
| "white legs disappearing into the green" | auden |
| "brueghel's icarus" | auden |
| "thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." | eliot |
| "pressing lidless eyes" | eliot |
| "will lead my steps aright." | bryant |
| "the stars threw down their spears" | blake |
| "orisons" | owen |
| "wailing shells" | owen |
| susan orlean in adaptation | streep |
| "die as cattle" | owen |
| "not worldly." | mrs. dalloway |
| "artificial wilderness," | auden |
| "sky like lead," | auden |
| "marble, well-governed cities." | auden |
| sensibilityandprideandprejudice | austen |
| "and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise." | if |
| "ram of pride" | owen |
| "holy glimmers of goodbyes." | owen |
| "nice seeing your honest, chubby face" | burns |
| "i am prepared to die" | rivonia |
| fair pay act | mcdaniel |
| "listen to the river." | hesse |
| oceanographic institution | woods hole |
| "i will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!" | george iii |
| willis | george iii |
| "hatter" | mad |
| larry kramer | auden |
| "the single artificer of the world" | stevens |
| "beauty of inflections" | stevens |
| "beauty of innuendoes" | stevens |
| "imagine golden birds." | stevens |
| "among twenty snowy mountains" | stevens |
| "never get across" | tree |
| "toward heaven still." | tree |
| world war ii in a markus zusak | book |
| "ayckbourn" | alan |
| birds of america | audubon |
| saint frideswide | chest |
| lane company | chest |
| captain flint | chest |
| legrand | chest |
| prairie madness | norwegian |
| giants in the earth | norwegian |
| "the father of the green revolution." | norwegian |
| "abram," | owen |
| "eternal note of sadness" | arnold |
| "thyrsis" | arnold |
| celexa | serotonin |
| research in the southern | ross |
| i. keynes | liquid |
| "don't tread on me." | gadsden |
| seven books on the structure of the human body | vesalius |
| like nicolaus copernicus | padua |
| lots of goto | basic |
| "half the seed of europe" | owen |
| "the parable of the old man and the young" | owen |
| "drunk with fatigue" | owen |
| "blood-shod," | owen |
| "revolutionary act" | midnight's children |
| "of the knees" | midnight's children |
| sundarban | midnight's children |
| "along that pathless coast" | bryant |
| "from dawn to dark" | audubon |
| "heroine whom no one but [the author] will like" | emma |
| jane fairfax | knightley |
| "novelsof manners" | austen |
| "spaghetti code" | basic |
| anjum | roy |
| " for 10 points each: name these animals, one of which represented winfield scott's plan to " | snake |
| elizabeth-jane | wife selling |
| barry mcstay | bats |
| vespertilio | bats |
| capek | capek |
| "comforters" | job |
| edward l. greenstein | job |
| charles grosvenor osgood | spenser |
| "yclept" | spenser |
psychology of the unconscious | jung |
| act of creation | koestler |
| sage | koestler |
| chris packham | panda |
| thais by menander | corinth |
| "goatskin water-bag" | kipling |
| "the bliss of what?" | daffodil |
| "crusoe in england." | daffodil |
| "out-did the sparkling waves in glee" | daffodil |
| "jocund company," | daffodil |
| "ten thousand" | daffodil |
| "dream of baboons and periwinkles." | stevens |
| "sad breeze through the olive trees" | lorca |
| "recessional" | kipling |
| in the devil wears prada | streep |
| "loved a thunderbird instead" | plath |
| drop city | alaska |
| "archetype," | jung |
| " for 10 points each: henry wadsworth longfellow started his poem about this person with the line " | revere |
| brian epstein | liverpool |
| judith martin | manners |
| "hand-switching" | manners |
| segou | park |
| grassmann's law | sanskrit |
| "evolutionary cul-de-sacs" | panda |
| wes mckinney | panda |
| world wrestling federation | panda |
| the flamingo's smile | panda |
| pulitzer for tales of the south pacific | michener |
| ned rise | park |
| niger river | park |
| cincinnati bengals | brown |
| "wichita vortex sutra," | ginsberg |
| "who killed the pork chops?" | ginsberg |
| "poking among the meats" | ginsberg |
| kilmarnock volume | burns |
| "suppers" | burns |
| "judging functions," | jung |
| "perceiving functions," | jung |
| times square on new years | burns |
| "i will not see it!" | lorca |
| razmann | schiller |
| thenarrator | poe |
| absurd person singular | alan |
| when the loam | butler |
| admirable crichton | butler |
| "dignity" | butler |
| stevens in kazuo ishiguro | butler |
| j. m. barrie's | butler |
| "vulture-like" | poe |
| "time" | borges |
| carlos danieri | borges |
| the sharper's cards | borges |
| "what makes you look so white?" | kipling |
| judge of the nations | kipling |
| "spare us yet, lest we forget--lest we forget!" | kipling |
| rockland | ginsberg |
| "listen closely" | dream |
| "lonesome man in kansas." | ginsberg |
| "happy beat." | dream |
| "a barren field frozen with snow" | dream |
| "like rotten meat" | dream |
| "all things are watching her and she cannot see them" | lorca |
| "absent soul," | lorca |
| "sung me moon-struck." | plath |
| "the stars go waltzing out in blue and red" | plath |
| "(i think i made you up inside my head.)" | plath |
| "barely daring to breathe or achoo" | plath |
| "feet beating out" | dream |
| an appeal in favor | child |
| class of americans called africans | child |
| "the quadrooms" | child |
| "over the river and through the woods." | child |
| giving up the ghost | mantel |
| "from the castle walls, but from counting houses." | mantel |
| " titled " | leaves of grass |
| " for 10 points each: this american poet wrote the collection leaves of grass, which also includes " | whitman |
| room ballads | kipling |
| " and includes a description of the " | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| forbidden city the | grand canal |
| "bottled spider." | richard iii |
| clarence in the tower of london | richard iii |
| "determined to prove a villain" | richard iii |
| donnegan | mouse |
| spoon river anthology | lincoln |
| "great star" | lincoln |
| " for 10 points each: this other whitman poem begins " | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| girl with a watering can | renoir |
| "phony" | holden |
| "the sailor uncle" | lamb |
| "the changeling" | lamb |
| "cousin bridget" | lamb |
| "girl with dark glasses" | blindness |
| timon of athens | shakespeare |
| "false samaritan" | blindness |
| millat | mouse |
| hilary mantel | wolf hall |
| mrs lovett | sweeney |
| "demon barber of fleet street" | sweeney |
| michael verancius | wedding |
| rhetoric of fiction | unreliable narrator |
| "picaro" | lazarillo de tormes |
| "naif" | holden |
| "i have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?" | ain't i a woman |
| "socially distanced" | blindness |
| "anybody interested in grabbing a couple of burgers and hittin' the cemetery?" | royal tenenbaums |
| xquic | hero twins |
| lusiads | portugal |
| mistress higgins | scarlet letter |
| black man | scarlet letter |
| "nothing more wonderful than the murder of a mouse in an air pump." | heidegger |
| mad hatter in wonderland | alice |
| in through the looking glass | walrus |
| "western sky in the night." | lincoln |
| jerry thompson | citizen kane |
| "a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it." | citizen kane |
| jim leland | citizen kane |
| organ | tartuffe |
| elise and cleante | miser |
| harpagon | miser |
| ratatosk | eagle |
| hun hanahpu | hero twins |
| "the vorpal blade went snicker-snack." | jabberwock |
| "the ship is anchor'd safe" | lincoln |
| "they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning." | lincoln |
| " for 10 points each: name this collection which includes " | leaves of grass |
| " and a poem that celebrates a " | leaves of grass |
| flowers for algernon | mouse |
"forbear!" | "dr. heidegger's experiment" |
| "of the progress of the soul." | donne |
| "cruel and sudden" | donne |
| "now i'm gonna go hunt down that shark, or whatever it is... and hopefully kill it. i don't know how yet. maybe dynamite." | life aquatic |
| "....seen your painted women and the gas lamps luring the farm boys." | sandburg |
| rutabaga stories | sandburg |
| "prairie years" | sandburg |
| first sinojapanese war | shimonoseki |
| hannibal hamlin | madison |
| "he never did a thing so very bad / he don't know why he isn't quite as good / as anyone. he won't be made ashamed / to please his brother, worthless though he is." | death of the hired man |
| "he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across / and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, 'good fences make good neighbors.'" | mending wall |
| "people of israel, listen to all the laws that i am giving you today." | deuteronomy |
| "i saved latin. what did you ever do?" | rushmore |
| "kill my style/and you break pavlowa's legs/and you blind ty cobb's batting eye." | sandburg |
| coolsville | scooby |
| "to die is to rest" | philippines |
| carlos bulosan | great depression |
| "philippine temptation" | twain |
| roughing it | twain |
| "the squat pen rests" | beowulf |
| "hasped and hooped and hirpling," | heaney |
| carmicael | cry, the beloved country |
| ode for the birthday of queen anne | handel |
| "sub-creator" | tolkien |
| guppy | spontaneous combustion |
| jobling | spontaneous combustion |
| esther summerson | bleak house |
| sister outsider | lorde |
| "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." | lorde |
| "biomythography" | zami |
| "a carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers." | zami |
| dubula | cry, the beloved country |
| " for 10 points each: hopkins' phrase " | stress |
| " exemplifies his " | stress |
| falconsprung | stress |
| scrappy | scooby |
| shaggy | scooby |
| "proot" | stevenson |
| travels with a donkey | stevenson |
| uncle ebenezer | stevenson |
| amber | scooby |
| long john silver | stevenson |
| modestine | stevenson |
| lithebe | cry, the beloved country |
| "stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought." | fahrenheit 451 |
| harlem globetrotters | scooby |
| "zoinks!" | scooby |
| "jinkies!" | scooby |
| great dane | scooby |
| jim hawkin | stevenson |
| good lord bird | mcbride |
| henry shackleford | mcbride |
| "little onion" | mcbride |
| "the corner" | capote |
| hoseason | stevenson |
| heaneywulf in a london | heaney |
| irina dumitrescu | heaney |
| officer dewey | capote |
| josie | klara and the sun |
| "a christmas memory." | capote |
| ambroise phillips | ode to aphrodite |
answered prayers | capote |
| "white evil." | blindness |
| "] (the poem is " | wheat |
| ") [10e] this author wrote " | wheat |
| "beneath the myrtle shade." | maecenas |
| zadok the priest | handel |
| headley | heaney |
| sook | capote |
| kathy | never let me go |
| hailsham | never let me go |
| never let me go | ishiguro |
| el llano en llamas | rulfo |
| ciudad seva | puerto rico |
| yo boing | puerto rico |
| earth grocery store | mcbride |
| "soul is marching on." | brown |
| saint-cyr | racine |
| athalie | racine |
| de maintenon | three musketeers |
| martinique | three musketeers |
| "af" | klara and the sun |
| cootings machine | klara and the sun |
| "menippean" | satire |
| sulpicia | satire |
| "diamonds and toads" | perrault |
| "the last days of john brown." | thoreau |
| "song offering." | gitanjali |
| "ianthe," | byron |
| caucasus mountains | south ossetia |
| abkhazia | south ossetia |
| akutagawa prize | japan |
| snake woman | quetzalcoatl |
| death god | quetzalcoatl |
| democracy and education | dewey |
| "bedrock bar, the end of the line cafe...the last harbor." | iceman cometh |
| bocaccio | decameron |
| accelerating inflation rate of unemployment | friedman |
| permanent income hypothesis | friedman |
| georgi abalishi | brecht |
| good person of schezuan | brecht |
| polly peachum | brecht |
| ironshirts | brecht |
| "the just judges" | camus |
| art as experience | dewey |
| saint vaivaswata | vishnu |
| churning of the milky ocean | vishnu |
| "the bow and the lyre." | paz |
| north american plate | aleutian |
| " for 10 points each: stein is credited with coining this term for the generation that came of age during world war i. writers considered to be part of this " | lost |
| chanticleer | the canterbury tales |
| chekov | gun |
| kara sea to the kazakh steppes | ural |
| noble prize in medicine | pavlov |
| "you furnish your parts towards eternity." | crossing brooklyn ferry |
colonel killigrew | "dr. heidegger's experiment" |
| "venerable friends" | heidegger |
| "be my mirror, my sword and shield" | viva la vida |
| "i used to rule the world." | viva la vida |
| happy days | beckett |
| godot | beckett |
| "reflex from a distance." | pavlov |
| "floodtide below me!" | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| hidden face of eve | egypt |
| "a slow process of annihilation" | egypt |
| "on turning her up in her nest, with the plough." | burns |
| "oh, would some power give us the gift / to see ourselves as others see us!" | burns |
| robert sempill | burns |
| "halloween." | burns |
| "what fearful pranks ensue" | burns |
| jim conklin | red badge of courage |
| "judge-penitent" | camus |
| burning boy | red badge of courage |
| "potato-faced" | snows of kilimanjaro |
| barabas | marlowe |
| "the world is too much with us." | wordsworth |
| "she dwelt among the untrodden ways," | wordsworth |
| lucy poems | wordsworth |
| "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" | cummings |
| "let thy mouth / be heir to those who are now exanimate. / gather the north flowers to complete the south." | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "you can now eat and shoot... that's all you want to do." | red badge of courage |
| baptiste clamence | camus |
| "where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way" | tagore |
| maitre holbroque | maupassant |
| "let me not forget." | tagore |
| "fire" | sherlock |
| "let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours" | tagore |
"drunk with the joy of singing i forget myself and call thee friend" | tagore |
| "why i write such good books" | nietzsche |
| woman at point zero | egypt |
| ubermensch | nietzsche |
| "the same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world." | tagore |
| "i like for you to be still." | neruda |
| "it is the hour of departure. oh abandoned one!" | neruda |
| paul auster | red badge of courage |
| lillian ross | red badge of courage |
| john huston | red badge of courage |
| firdaus | egypt |
| ahmad abd | egypt |
| ecce homo | nietzsche |
manilov | dead souls |
| temperament in three primitive societies | mead |
| manus in growing up in new guinea | mead |
khlobuyev | dead souls |
| king of bohemia | sherlock |
| abe slaney | sherlock |
| sussex downs | sherlock |
| captain kopeikin | dead souls |
| pavel kirsanov | fathers and sons |
| "the adventure of the empty house" | sherlock |
| "before us the future looms dark, and that we can scarcely..." | dead souls |
| "poshlost" | dead souls |
| "suicide in the trenches." | sassoon |
| "merry war" | beatrice |
| "down under" | australia |
| keneally | schindler |
| "my self-possession gutters" | portrait of a lady |
| inspector lestrade | sherlock |
| joe mott | iceman cometh |
| larry slade | iceman cometh |
| countess cathleen | yeats |
| "the ceremony of innocence is drowned." | yeats |
| aleel | yeats |
| "no trespassing" | citizen kane |
| news on the march | citizen kane |
| "now is the winter of our discontent / made glorious summer by the son of york." | richard iii |
| manus in new lives for old | mead |
| "bound with garlands of her own" | keats |
| "supperless to bed ... must retire." | keats |
| eve of st | keats |
| "tease us out of thought," | keats |
| mose porter | iceman cometh |
| "old foolosopher," | iceman cometh |
| cannon street hotel by the smyrna | waste land |
| cumean sibyl | waste land |
| "dull rhymes" | keats |
| the and the memorandum | havel |
| antananarivo | madagascar |
| "dappled things" | hopkins |
| cleanser of the altars | pig |
| ralph in lord of the flies | pig |
| jones in animal farm | pig |
| spirit of reason | inferno |
| "the lady of shallot" | tennyson |
| "thou hast committed fornication: but that was in another country" | portrait of a lady |
mary garth | middlemarch |
| judge brack | hedda |
| ejlert lovberg | hedda |
| "no one shall sleep" | nessun dorma |
| lucy sacheverell | lovelace |
| tom in the glass menagerie | amanda |
| borthrop trumbull | middlemarch |
| margaret garner | morrison |
| killing joke | moore |
| ned rosier | portrait of a lady |
| pansy | portrait of a lady |
| tyger | symmetry |
| "the jungle is dark, but full of diamonds," | death of a salesman |
| bill singleman | death of a salesman |
| vincy | middlemarch |
| "would prefer not to," | melville |
| edward causabon | middlemarch |
| tertius lydgate | middlemarch |
| "i knew a simple soldier boy / who grinned at life in empty joy" | sassoon |
| "the father of science fiction" | welles |
| after job | boil |
| egyptians in the book of exodus | boil |
| before elihu | eliphaz |
| job | eliphaz |
| neal cassady | dean |
| beat | on the road |
| japhy ryder in the dharma bums | kerouac |
| "what passing bells for doomed youth? / only the monstrous anger of the guns" | owen |
| "the great lawsuit" | fuller |
| essays and poems | fuller |
| judge thatcher | huck |
| "starry" | billy budd |
| "in the darbies" | billy budd |
| "the oozy weeds about me twist." | billy budd |
| "the ribs and terrors in the whale" | melville |
| "keeping time, time, time, / in a sort of runic rhyme." | poe |
| windhoveri | hopkins |
| iron cross | grass |
| pilenz | grass |
| danzig | grass |
| "hope springs eternal in the human breast" | pope |
| "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind," | pope |
| wemmick | great expectations |
| "round and round the place, with a clasp-knife" | huck |
| "dirty picture" | slaughterhouse-five |
| "world of merriment their melody foretells" | poe |
| "into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country [this word]." | awake |
| vinteuil with odette | proust |
| "some of these days" | nausea |
| moderato cantabile | duras |
| the lover | duras |
| worn satchel | matsuo |
| "the viy" | ivan |
| "quarrel" | ivan |
| "part or particle of god." | transcendental |
| "with the beatles" | akutagawa |
| the 's window | hansberry |
| for colored girls | public theater |
| topdog/underdog | public theater |
| shuidiao getou | song |
| "riverside city" | moon |
| widow douglas | huck |
| in the plague | beach |
| diary of a superfluous man | ivan |
| pauline pfeiffer hemingway | key west |
| squire booby | fielding |
| joseph andrews | fielding |
| "yield their names to the element" | confederate |
| bardolph at the boar | falstaff |
| colonel shaw | lowell |
| "for the union dead." | lowell |
| "skunk hour" | lowell |
| roland weary | slaughterhouse-five |
| "i am [this sort of] man." | sincere |
| motivos de son | hughes |
battle of shrewsbury (henry iv) | falstaff |
| garland, polokov | czech |
| ikem | anthills of the savannah |
| anthills of the savannah | achebe |
| " for 10 points each: name this play, whose second act features a couple getting cold feet on their wedding day. a man acting as a minister in this play says, " | our town |
| the matchmaker | wilder |
| "plunge and expire." | leaves |
| eliot rosewater | slaughterhouse-five |
| "poo-tee-weet?" | slaughterhouse-five |
| "so it goes" | slaughterhouse-five |
| j. b. leishman's | duino elegies |
| soares | robinson |
| "where are the days of tobias" | angel |
| stephen spender | duino elegies |
| gines de pasamonter | don quixote |
| "three loved houses" | key west |
| amaranta ursula | one hundred years of solitude |
| "with big nails, to keep off the devil." | huck |
| "the aged p," | great expectations |
| thomas melvill | leaves |
| head tavern | falstaff |
| "what's to become of me?" | shaw |
| nepommuck | shaw |
| "some realms i owned, two rivers, a continent" | bishop |
| louise crane | key west |
| mambrino | don quixote |
| when pi | banana |
| eloisa to abelard | pope |
| "what dire offence from am'rous causes springs" | pope |
| lord petre | pope |
| "beauty which the appearance of utility bestows" | smith |
| "derive nothing from" | smith |
| "except the pleasure of seeing it." | smith |
| "not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion." | smith |
| al-masalla | heliopolis |
| dmitri ivanovich nekhlyudov | tolstoy |
| nek-hul-yoo-dawff | tolstoy |
| the boys | syracuse |
| dobbin | piano |
| mount judge | pennsylvania |
| raymond chandler | philip |
| "perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries" | library of babel |
| dante riordan | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| vanita | wee willie winkie |
| fay | texas |
| "i do; i will." | falstaff |
| quoyle | shipping news |
| eurymedon | iapetus |
| "corinna's going a maying" | herrick |
| lord chancellor | more |
| when izanami | yomi |
| grim | geirrod |
| "banish all the world," | falstaff |
| myantonia | cather |
"invisible hand" | smith |
| "sisters of the sacred well" | milton |
| "pilot of the galilean lake." | milton |
| "malt does more than" | milton |
| "look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth" | milton |
| "justify the ways of god to man" | milton |
| "attercop, attercop, won't you stop, stop your spinning and look for me?" | bilbo |
| mawl | geirrod |
| james gibbons huneker | slam |
| "reverberated across the roof of the world." | slam |
| golden day | invisible man |
| "aj srishti shukher ullashe" | nazrul |
| "the song of destruction" | nazrul |
| purpose of american politics | morgenthau |
| franz kafka prize | murakami |
| tamaki | softball |
| charles parnell | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| lulamae barnes | holly |
| kuh-poh-tee | breakfast at tiffany |
| arkenstone | bilbo |
| "we will not anticipate the past" | sheridan |
| "indited to dinner." | nell |
| "back-us" | dionysus |
| geb and nut | shu |
| ennead | heliopolis |
| "big boy leaves home" | uncle tom's children |
moocow | a portrait of the artist as a young man |
| davin | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| bud korpenning | manhattan transfer |
| congo jake | manhattan transfer |
| poseidon impregnated medusa | chrysaor |
| "the middle way is safest" | phaethon |
| "cold as any stone." | falstaff |
| rinehart | invisible man |
| "i can receive nothing from a stranger." | nora |
| monkey | matsuo |
| "banana tree," | matsuo |
| jane gallagher | holden |
| d.b | holden |
| pensey | holden |
| matthew cuthbert | anne |
| in the color purple | shug |
| temple of my familiar | walker |
| "you and i would have to be so changed" | nora |
| "upward and upward" | falstaff |
| "what dread hand? and what dread feet?" | tyger |
| "arch." | proscenium |
| "when the stars threw down their spears / and water'd heaven with their tears." | tyger |
| falck | maeterlinck |
| klamm | castle |
| land of green plums | muller |
| hunger angel | muller |
| theofraste | wife of bath |
| "far finer language than spanish." | borges |
| wife of willesden | jamaica |
| josey wales | jamaica |
| "the singer" | jamaica |
| "lessons in living." | not speak |
| momma | not speak |
| "when i want." | marriage |
| ngugi wa mirii | marriage |
| "marriage a la mode" | mansfield |
| in zadie smith | jamaica |
| dreams from my father | president |
| pilgrimage to john hobhouse | byron |
| kidnapped | stevenson |
| pew | stevenson |
| troy flavin | welty |
| delta wedding | welty |
| harriet vane | wimsey |
| whose body | wimsey |
| with august falck | proscenium |
| la mere | figaro |
| "the other tartuffe." | figaro |
| "just because you are a great nobleman, you think you are a great genius" | figaro |
| coupable | figaro |
| "wagnerian" | swan |
| "spring to her feet and stretch her young body" | grete |
| "alyson from bath into alvita from willesden" | chauce |
| "colloquial flow" | chauce |
| murder must advertise | wimsey |
| republic of wine | china |
| "usher ii" | mars |
| ylla | mars |
| classic slave narratives | douglass |
| equiano | douglass |
| tamara | invisible cities |
| belarusian nobel | alexievich |
| unwomanly face | alexievich |
| jenny erpenbeck | english |
| "the oral history of a nuclear disaster." | chernobyl |
| romelio ureta | death |
| "a man is destined sometimes to have his head cut off." | china |
| chronics | mental hospital |
| acutes | mental hospital |
| " after stating, " | dapple |
| yr with deborah blau | mental hospital |
| falconthe windhover | hopkins |
| voices of utopia | alexievich |
| international booker | english |
| kurt tucholsky | castle |
| hobhouse | don juan |
| "a mere-copy book." | lamb |
| jurgis rudkus by upton sinclair | jungle |
| nazi germany in dragon | lanny |
| walter gilkyson | oil |
| bunny ross | oil |
| true story of ah | china |
| bertha flowers | not speak |
| "thund'ring noise" | burn |
| johan van heemskerk | arcadia |
| russian golden age | hero of our time |
| "superfluous man" | hero of our time |
| ilya muromets | bogatyr |
| volkh | bogatyr |
| " was written by this southern gothic author of stories like " | o'connor |
| "go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog" | revelation |
| "loyal subjects," | cap |
"a terrible mistake" | the tyger |
| edward malone | doyle |
| caprona in the land that time forgot | haggard |
| edgar rice burroughs | haggard |
| jane porter | haggard |
| big oakland powwow | orange |
| geoffrey keynes | tyger |
| reservation blues | alexie |
| "alejandro nebuchadnezzar." | president |
| time indian | alexie |
| sentinel | biswas |
| shama at the hanuman house with the tulsi | biswas |
| "deserving destitutes" | biswas |
| red queen in through the looking | alice |
| "the bloody chamber." | carter |
| "the company of wolves." | carter |
| "the lady, or [this animal]?" | tiger |
| junior in the absolutely true diary of a part | alexie |
| thebaid | statius |
| photos by ara guler | prague |
| "and the city." | prague |
| "of things past." | prague |
| l'argent and l'assommoir | rougon |
| germinal in the rougon | zola |
| "my pretty rose tree." | tyger |
| u-33 | haggard |
| rickshaw boy | cat |
| "say goodbye to her, to" | antony |
| in octavia butler | time travel |
| kindred | time travel |
| lauren | time travel |
| "unlimited but periodic" | library of babel |
| "spherical fruits" | library of babel |
| roscius | lord chamberlain |
| oroonoko in a thomas southerne | behn |
| kala | haggard |
| "knowledge by acquaintance" | russell |
| "knowledge by description." | russell |
| "principal enemy of moral progress in the world." | russell |
| "sense" | russell |
| "reference" | russell |
| am not | russell |
| "it is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist" | wilde |
| "if it's hoarfrost on the ground" | li |
| in carter | world war i |
| fairchilds | welty |
| dabney | welty |
| "the wind, tens of thousands of miles long" | li |
| war trash | li |
| duke of alba | goethe |
| euphorion with helen | goethe |
| egmont | goethe |
| "glorious rays and light" | swan |
| "steps are already quite white with dew" | li |
| "the lady of the house of love," | world war i |
| wandering stars | orange |
| tony loneman | orange |
| george barris | college |
| "small electric" | moon |
| "you have to be always drunk." | spleen |
| femi osofisan | antigone |
| odewale in ola rotimi | oedipus |
| ed roth | college |
| ojuola | oedipus |
| sylvain bemba | black |
| "escape" | biswas |
| "paddle his own canoe." | biswas |
| "lower[s] his head and think[s] of home." | li |
| "what [this author] doesn't know about modern architecture." | wolfe |
| right stuff | wolfe |
| "kandy kolored" | college |
| "tangerine flake" | college |
| gods are not to blame | oedipus |
| "i keep a close watch on this heart of mine." | cash |
| merchant of venice | shylock |
| "[stretching] in vain to reach the prize," | gray |
| "not all that glisters [is] gold." | gray |
| "if you prick us, do we not bleed?" | shylock |
| "withered leaves to quicken a new birth." | west wind |
| "solitary the thrush, the hermit withdrawn to himself," | lincoln |
| "rise up, for you the flag is flung, for you the bugle trills," | lincoln |
| "finest writing since shakespeare" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "what powerful but unrecorded race/ once dwelt in that annihilated place." | ozymandias |
| "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed." | ozymandias |
| "the lone and level sands stretch far away," | ozymandias |
| hate week | 84 |
| big brother in a george orwell | 84 |
| komatsu | 84 |
| "if you poison us, do we not die?" | shylock |
| harvey cheyne | kipling |
| "coward holding a baby-killer in his manly arms," | no exit |
| edna ferber | chicago |
| so big | chicago |
| "govern in a thing so small." | design |
| in kafka on the shore | cat |
| "bustopher jones" | cat |
| "macavity" | cat |
| "old possum's book of practical" | cat |
| "on a hot tin roof." | cat |
| june carter | cash |
| bengalsky | cat |
| "should be palpable and mute," | poem |
| "i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow." | villanelle |
| pro football hall of fame | ohio |
| "everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down" | cash |
| "i wasted my time when i would try, try, try." | cash |
| "rollin' 'round the bend," | cash |
| joaquin phoenix | cash |
| goma | cat |
| miles standish | god |
| "a distant - stately lover." | god |
| thunder-ten-tronckh | cunegonde |
| "much have i travell'd in the realms of gold" | on first looking into chapman's homer |
| "stout cortez, when with eagle eyes / he stared at the pacific." | on first looking into chapman's homer |
| way of the world | congreve |
| "heaven has no rage like love turned to hatred, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" | congreve |
| rokovoko | queequeg |
| daniel dravot | kipling |
| raymond rambert | plague |
| "cutie marks" | my little pony |
| ursa major | trixie |
| alicorn amulet | trixie |
| "little we see in nature that is ours." | world is too much with us |
| ajax the greater | achilles |
| gianni schicchi | o mio |
| lauretta | o mio |
| pudd'nhead wilson | twain |
| peachy carnahan | kipling |
| captains courageous | kipling |
| knock | marlowe |
tamburlaine the great | marlowe |
mycetes | marlowe |
| tina | lahiri |
| "name this poem from the collection michael robartes and the dancer about the poet's newborn anne. its speaker hopes that she may " | prayer for my daughter |
| "a prayer for my daughter" | sailing to byzantium |
| "deal[ing] with lesser boy - to prove ability." | god |
| "this blessed house." | lahiri |
| "only goodness." | lahiri |
| "dick, joe, ned and jack" | chimney sweep |
| camps | plague |
| "this sleep of mine" | woodchuck |
| "long sleep, or just some human sleep." | woodchuck |
| "if fame belonged to me, i could not escape her," | letters |
| "but, will you be my preceptor, mr. higginson?" | letters |
| "was told that it was disgraceful." | whitman |
| "sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal it knows not what it is." | sailing to byzantium |
judge honda | mishima |
| kiyoagi matsugae | mishima |
| father dosen | mishima |
| kashiwagi | mishima |
| "by the tumtum tree" | carroll |
| "galumphing back" | carroll |
"the hunting of the snark" | carroll |
| ragged dick | alger |
| laban | shylock |
| "the dismantling of lemuel pitkin," | west |
| cool million | west |
| "brimming pools of ecstasy." | eye |
| "the moonlight glistens in front of my bed / as if there is frost on the ground" | li bai |
lopakhin | the cherry orchard |
dimitri gurov | "the lady with the dog" |
| les propheties | nostradamus |
| "agony in eight fits," | carroll |
| mark the match boy | alger |
| lady narborough | picture of dorian gray |
| "sweating with blood" | picture of dorian gray |
| "little yellow book" | picture of dorian gray |
| lord saxmundham | shaw |
| sergius saranoff | shaw |
| bodger | shaw |
mathilde aubain | flaubert |
| felicite | flaubert |
"it is difficult / to get the news from poems" | william carlos williams |
| dambreuse | flaubert |
| rudolphe | flaubert |
| sleeping woman | norwegian wood |
| arabella wilmot | vicar of wakefield |
| history of little goody | goldsmith |
| "are nothing like the sun" | eye |
| "how swift how secretly / the shadow of the night comes on." | macleish |
| "for three years" | pound |
rosanette | flaubert |
| tassel with brom bones | irving |
| ben okri | nigeria |
| sani abacha | nigeria |
| chrissie watkins | jaws |
| mayor larry vaughan | jaws |
| coast guard | jaws |
| kate hardcastle | maid |
| "stoops" | maid |
| "what i tell you three times is true," | carroll |
| christine linde | doll |
| enfield tennis academy | infinite jest |
hal (incandenza) | infinite jest |
| broom of the system | wallace |
| "art of this," | poem |
| "prince of cats," | romeo and juliet |
queen mab | romeo and juliet |
benvolio | romeo and juliet |
| "nearly all young criminals have had lying mothers," | doll |
boojum | carroll |
| "uffish thought" | carroll |
| baratheon | game of thrones |
| chao gai | water margin |
sun quan | romance of the three kingdoms |
| " for 10 points each: this american modernist poet of " | stevens |
| disillusionment of ten | stevens |
| " he also wrote " | stevens |
| justice of the ten pound court | irving |
| " and whose eye is " | blackbird |
| uss indianapolis | jaws |
| captain quint | jaws |
| orca | jaws |
| devon prep | phineas |
| gene forrester | separate peace |
| brinker hadley | separate peace |
| "a song of ice and fire" | game of thrones |
"poor yorick!" | hamlet |
| " for 10 points each: stevens described this animal that " | blackbird |
| "the courtship of miles standish," | longfellow |
| gitche gumee | longfellow |
priscilla (poetry) | longfellow |
| "ethical birth control" | welcome to the monkey house |
| paul proteus | vonnegut |
| ilium | vonnegut |
| charles nordhoff | bounty |
| james hall | bounty |
| rinuccio | o mio |
| captain queeg | wouk |
| "my father's suitcase," | pamuk |
| p450scc | cholesterol |
| thorsten fehr | plasticity |
| guelphs | shelley |
| valperga | shelley |
| daybreak | gay science |
| billy the poet | welcome to the monkey house |
| roger byam | bounty |
| "two roads diverged in a wood, and i, / i took the one less traveled by, / and that has made all the difference." | frost |
| "a stone's throw from the equator, with a bottomless historical chasm separating the two" | arabic |
| "in october 1914" | arabic |
| port said | arabic |
| "crooked rose" | thomas |
| "lover's tomb." | thomas |
| "what maidens loth?" | keats |
| "what mad pursuit?" | keats |
| john alden | longfellow |
| "less traveled by." | frost |
| pacification of the primitive tribes of the lower niger | things fall apart |
| nwoye | things fall apart |
| obierka | things fall apart |
| "a vivid figure of the union of opposites." | thomas |
| "life is real! life is earnest!" | longfellow |
| "the jewish cemetery at newport," | longfellow |
tales of a wayside inn | longfellow |
| "grassy and wanted wear" | frost |
| fanny brawne | to autumn |
| why people believe weird things | skeptic |
| michael shermer | skeptic |
| christopher tietjens | ford |
| lafargue | native |
| georgetown | freedom |
| winds of war | wouk |
| the and war and remembrance | wouk |
| "nothinghead," | welcome to the monkey house |
| faunia farley | coleman |
| lady oisille | marguerite |
| parlemente | marguerite |
| bigger thomas by richard wright | native |
| "i'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than" | hawk |
| "something that was all his own" | native |
| "what i killed for, i am" | native |
| "have done with childish days- the lightly proffered laurel, the easy, ungrudged praise." | kipling |
| "spooks" | coleman |
| ethical suicide parlor | welcome to the monkey house |
| fortune of love | quixote |
| felixmarte de hyrcania | quixote |
| maureen freely | pamuk |
| "faithful hound" | antisthenes |
| shirley jackson | lottery |
| "varney," | vampire |
| bram stoker | vampire |
| nights of plague | pamuk |
| "somebody blew up america," | september 11 |
| amiri baraka | september 11 |
| "4000 israeli workers" | september 11 |
| joey | september 11 |
| sophie caco | breath, eyes, memory |
| breath, eyes, memory | haiti |
| port-au-prince | haiti |
| prince amerigo | james |
| hawk tower | california |
| dick turpin | highwayman |
| "contrary states" | songs of innocence and |
| "infant joy" | songs of innocence and |
| "infant sorrow," | songs of innocence and |
| "piping down the valleys wild / piping songs of pleasant glee / on a cloud i saw a child." | songs of innocence and |
| "der sandmann." | the tales of hoffman |
| "a tree that may in summer wear / a nest of robins in her hair" | kilmer |
| reuven malter | potok |
| daniel sauters | potok |
| "he is all pine and i am apple orchard," | mending wall |
| war years | lincoln |
| vampire hunter in a seth grahame | lincoln |
| "somewhere in the clouds above" | yeats |
| "...airman forsees his death" | yeats |
| "essay on the principle of population" | malthus |
| trilogy of the rat | murakami |
| "two chinamen, behind them a third, / are carved in [the title stone]." | lapis lazuli |
| "genuflection." | warsaw |
| the chosen | potok |
| sneerwell | school for scandal |
| "there is more to admire in humans than there is to scorn." | plague |
| "paris of the west," | san |
| "gods are able" | sonnets to orpheus |
"tell how a man, though, could possibly thread the lyre's narrow modes?" | sonnets to orpheus |
| rosalie murray | agnes grey |
| twilight sparkle | my little pony |
| "bronies." | my little pony |
| "liked to hear of how japan was conquering china." | native |
| "the indian burying ground" | freneau |
"the wild honey suckle" | freneau |
| be still | finlandia |
| my soul | finlandia |
| "admits the possibility of his being subhuman" | native |
| puff | sheridan |
| charles surface | school for scandal |
| henry george | rent |
| "poet of the american revolution" | freneau |
| imm by star | cholesterol |
| miskatonic university in arkham | lovecraft |
| strange wine | ellison |
| jean genet | our lady of the flowers |
| divine | our lady of the flowers |
| thomas mallory | morte d'arthur |
| ambassador to mexico | lindbergh |
| wave of the future | lindbergh |
| black obelisk | remarque |
| polk county | hurston |
| hurston | boas |
| at balder | dwarf |
| "an unconscious determinant" | native |
| david lean | bridge |
| "see with blinding sight." | thomas |
| bridge on the river kwai | world war ii |
| "great old ones" | lovecraft |
| alexandra spofford | witches of eastwick |
| three comrades | remarque |
| station at the horizon | remarque |
| great depression in the adventures of augie march | bellow |
| asher lev | potok |
| from russia with love | fleming |
| loved me | fleming |
| casino royale | bond |
| amis | bond |
| "campensis." | isis |
| maurice bendrix in the end of the affair | greene |
| alden pyle in the quiet american | greene |
| mathilde moisel | necklace |
| jane smart | witches of eastwick |
| sukie rougemont | witches of eastwick |
| witches of eastwick | updike |
| jack favell | rebecca |
| captain hook | peter |
| gerald du maurier | peter |
| fredric wertham | native |
| kimbro | paint |
| yucatan peninsula | maya |
| julia roberts | mirror |
| napoleon, grimm | mirror |
| half-pint | mirror |
| "solved the problem of sex rather well." | south africa |
| discreet escorts | south africa |
| in skepticism | in medias res |
| district 12 | hunger games |
| madame marie | ambassadors |
| in candide | el |
| glubbdubdrib | gulliver's |
| drapier | swift |
| happy death | camus |
| "all god's chillun got wings" | o'neill |
| "anna christie" | o'neill |
| bella in the twilight | stewart |
| chadwick newsome | ambassadors |
| man who had all the luck | miller |
| howard wagner in death of a salesman | miller |
| newcomes | thackeray |
| professor willard | grover's corners |
| "when at the races with a lady, brush dust off her gown. if there is no dust, brush it nonetheless." | ars amatoria |
| "great shift" | saussure |
| "dog man" | south africa |
| "what good is it, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?" | james |
| bierce | devil's dictionary |
| red hare | china |
| "what is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?" | soliloquies |
| "how all occasions do inform against me." | soliloquies |
| lewis strether | ambassadors |
| de vionnet | ambassadors |
| "roman fever" | daisy miller |
| "a melody sweetly play'd in tune." | rose |
| elemental odes | neruda |
| "ghost caught in individualism's blind alley" | china |
| "our luxury." | wild nights |
| "i have so many enemies" | psalms |
| "give thanks to the lord, for he is good." | psalms |
| "give crowns and pounds and guineas / but not your heart away." | when i was one-and-twenty |
| "the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape" | soliloquies |
| "what a rogue and peasant slave am i!" | soliloquies |
| "unweeded garden," | soliloquies |
| "o that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!" | soliloquies |
| lily collins | mirror |
| "did my heart love ,,til now? forswear it, sight! / for i ne" | romeo and juliet |
| " despite his previous love for rosaline. in this play, one character kills his wife" | romeo and juliet |
| count paris | romeo and juliet |
| jason clarke | zero dark thirty |
| james gandolfini | zero dark thirty |
| leon panetta | zero dark thirty |
| jessica chastain | zero dark thirty |
| kathryn bigelow | zero dark thirty |
| "conscience does make cowards of us all" | soliloquies |
| scaly city | south africa |
| t.h. white | once and future king |
| freddy hill | pygmalion |
| "vanished" | clouds |
| tom walker | irving |
| wouter van twiller | irving |
| margaret saville | frankenstein |
| de laceys | frankenstein |
| "with thee," | wild nights |
| people of the cave | arabic |
| il commendatore | don giovanni |
| bracebridge hall | irving |
| sitka | roth |
| cousin pons | human comedy |
| locksley | ivanhoe |
| night!s | romeo and juliet |
| "this is my letter to the world," | dickinson |
| "might i but moor / to-night with thee," | wild nights |
| seven sleepers | arabic |
| "i'm going to hide behind language" | spanish |
| middle-earth | tolkien |
| silmarillion | tolkien |
| "peor and baalim forsake their temples dim" | milton |
| "and sullen molloch" | milton |
| "on the morning of christ's nativity." | milton |
| licensing order | milton |
| "look homeward, angel" | milton |
| steve deever | miller |
| numenor | tolkien |
| "on fairy-stories" | tolkien |
| "a secondary world which your mind can enter." | tolkien |
| "nee voh's" | great gatsby |
| nghi vo | great gatsby |
| sonnets of death | spanish |
| "that frozen niche [where] men have put you" | spanish |
"the earth will be a soft cradle" | mistral |
| defoe | moll flanders |
| "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men / gang aft agley." | burns |
| whitby | dracula |
| daniel keyes | mouse |
| professor nemur | mouse |
| "future" | mouse |
| plastic box company | mouse |
| ensure in yaa gyasi | mouse |
| "dried and frozen carcass of a leopard" | snows of kilimanjaro |
| extracting the stone of madness | spanish |
| "julian," | snows of kilimanjaro |
| uriah heep | andersen |
| "as a novelist." | andersen |
| "elegiac duodecimal scale" | andersen |
| midori | norwegian wood |
| reiko | norwegian wood |
| rubber soul | norwegian wood |
| toru watanabe | norwegian wood |
| "wide as all the world." | snows of kilimanjaro |
| meso | aztec |
| jared lee loughner | giffords |
| skittles | trayvon |
| utoya | breivik |
| cedar mountains | humbaba |
| dartmoor with sir henry | hound of the |
| murder of roger ackroyd | christie |
| cloudcuckooland | birds |
| "you want me white." | spanish |
| zac efron | lorax |
| danny devito | lorax |
| "speaks for the trees" | lorax |
| green eggs | seuss |
| cat in the hat | seuss |
| andrew falk | miller |
| david beeves | miller |
| jim bayliss | miller |
| land of nod | enoch |
| "wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man." | antigone |
| "power that crosses the white sea," | antigone |
| rise of colored empires | great gatsby |
| michael pekarofski | great gatsby |
| "one of the first graphic novel moments" | great gatsby |
| "exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference." | irving |
| "history" | irving |
| prince of dullness | pope |
| astrid | south africa |
| "open sesame." | ali |
"dread empire" | pope |
| "father of tragedy" | aeschylus |
| "great anarch" | pope |
| "drink and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim." | ode to a |
| edmund curll | pope |
| age of enlightenment | voltaire |
| la henriade | voltaire |
| "little squirrel" | doll's house |
| "universal darkness buries all." | pope |
| president snow | hunger games |
| peeta melark | hunger games |
| katniss everdeen | hunger games |
| foxface | hunger games |
| lady | hunger games |
| jose ybarra | breakfast at tiffany's |
"the blizzard" | pushkin |
| burmin | pushkin |
| "sweet-ass." | xkcd |
| mookherjee | kim |
| "toomai of the elephants" | jungle book |
| "keep [his] head when all about" | kipling |
| "losing theirs" | kipling |
| raymond de chelles | wharton |
| elmer moffatt | wharton |
| undine spragg in the custom of the country | wharton |
| mattie silver | wharton |
| tomsky | pushkin |
| "for the rest," | to his coy mistress |
| "the grave's a fine and private place." | to his coy mistress |
| siberia by sonya | crime and punishment |
| mikolka | crime and punishment |
| marmeladov | crime and punishment |
| luzhin | crime and punishment |
| promise | south africa |
| "pondered weak and weary," | raven |
| seneca crane | hunger games |
| ginnungagap | ymir |
| penistone crags | wuthering heights |
| "truth as subjectivity" | kierkegaard |
| sickness unto death | kierkegaard |
| "always coming on / the always rising of the night." | to his coy mistress |
"to adore each breast" | "to his coy mistress" |
| delly cartwright | hunger games |
| gale hawthorne | hunger games |
| sobek | horus |
| "best is yet to be" | browning |
| "hoary cripple, with malicious eye" | browning |
| "lied in every word." | browning |
| "you need not clap your torches to my face," | browning |
"fra lippo lippi" | robert browning |
men and women | robert browning |
| the french war | greene |
| "fulcrum of violence" | hughes |
| ushant | wharton |
| arms and the man | shaw |
| father pirard | red and the black |
| julian sorel | red and the black |
| besancon | red and the black |
| croisenois | red and the black |
| madame de renal | red and the black |
| fenrir with angrboda | loki |
| buttercup | hunger games |
bluntschli | shaw |
| "firefly." | norwegian wood |
| england by van helsing in a bram stoker | vampire |
the grass harp | truman capote |
| "vegetable love" | to his coy mistress |
| "grow vaster than empires" | to his coy mistress |
| "of mans first disobedience, and the fruit of" | paradise lost |
| forbidden tree | paradise lost |
| il penseroso | milton |
| "down through the narrows of the river kiang" | li bai |
| duke of tintagel | wharton |
| nan st | wharton |
| "hangs still;" | hughes |
| "drie[s] up / like a raisin in the sun" | hughes |
| langston | hughes |
| "purple smoke rising from the mountains" | li bai |
| "milky way falling from the ninth heaven" | li bai |
| "waterfall of lushan mountain" | li bai |
| "two small people, without dislike or suspicion" | li bai |
| philistine dalila | samson agonistes |
| "oh my brothers" | clockwork orange |
| "your humble narrator." | clockwork orange |
| "lovely ludwig van" | clockwork orange |
| abe froman | ferris bueller's day off |
| "twist and shout" | ferris bueller's day off |
| matthew broderick | ferris bueller's day off |
| principal ed rooney | ferris bueller's day off |
| clint | how i met your mother |
| salinas valley | steinbeck |
| "there's a certain slant of light" | dickinson |
| "not all the vats upon the rhine/ yield such an alcohol" | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| "shall but drink the more." | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| "get thee back into the tempest and night's plutonian shore!" | raven |
| "quaint and curious volumes" | raven |
| "surcease" | raven |
| broomhilda | django unchained |
| "two weeks" | how i met your mother |
| "imperial affliction / sent us of the air" | dickinson |
| black hat guy | xkcd |
| what if | xkcd |
| waiting for the barbarians the magistrate | coetzee |
| miranda tate | dark knight rises |
| christopher nolan | dark knight rises |
| bane | dark knight rises |
| catwoman | dark knight rises |
| "mousy" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| henry clerval | frankenstein |
| "the quality of mercy is not strain'd / it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven." | shylock |
| ferrari | ferris bueller's day off |
| sloane | ferris bueller's day off |
| pearl louie brandt | chinese |
| tiger mother | chinese |
| waverly | chinese |
| franz moor | schiller |
| "storm and drive." | sturm und drang |
| weimar classicism | sturm und drang |
| biology department | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| kate beckett | detective |
| richard castle | detective |
| "the devil can cite scripture for his purpose." | shylock |
| "cannot contain their urine" | shylock |
| rose-of-sharon | steinbeck |
| trasks | steinbeck |
| "zoophagous maniac." | dracula |
| when lucy | dracula |
| "second greatest love story" | how i met your mother |
| "solid men of boston" | paint |
| lizaveta | crime and punishment |
| "fort-da" | freud |
| "irma's injection." | freud |
| beyond the pleasure principle | freud |
"wish fulfillment" | freud |
| "timshel." | steinbeck |
| "non-poisonous" | paint |
| lucius brockway | paint |
| price is right | how i met your mother |
| robin sherbatsky | how i met your mother |
| ted mosby | how i met your mother |
| neil patrick harris | how i met your mother |
| barney stinson | how i met your mother |
| elementary and sherlock | detective |
| collegehumor | django unchained |
| "we're not going to go there." | django unchained |
| "just one more thing." | detective |
| miss lara | django unchained |
| calvin candide | django unchained |
| christoph waltz | django unchained |
| jaimie foxx | django unchained |
| randall munroe | xkcd |
| natalie teeger | detective |
| sharona fleming | detective |
| tony shalhoub | detective |
| usa network | detective |
| "say good bye to miss lara" | django unchained |
| tiberinus | janus |
| juturna | turnus |
| "bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths" | o captain! my captain |
| "his own idiosyncratic voice" | o captain! my captain |
| "portrait plays" | ibsen |
| heinrich boll | billiard |
| "brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" | aristophanes |
| lothar | clara |
| "if one were to suddenly / take me to its heart, i would vanish into its / stronger existence" | duino elegies |
| call of the wild in the yukon | london |
| "pink elephants," | john barleycorn |
| helen vendler | o captain! my captain |
| belinda in an alexander pope | lock |
| "glittering" | lock |
| macomb | dill |
| "will soon be engaged," | collins |
"shooting an elephant" | orwell |
| though reverend shannon | episcopal |
| paul scofield | lear |
| "every word [this author] writes is a lie" | hellman |
| hauchecome | maupassant |
| "queen mother of the western skies," | joy luck club |
| "american translation." | joy luck club |
| mei woo | joy luck club |
| popo | joy luck club |
| mah-jongg | joy luck club |
| "paste." | maupassant |
| "malicious," | six |
| "two folds of crepe" | veil |
| tom foster | winesburg |
| " after converting to anglicanism, this author wrote " | eliot |
| " he used the sanskrit words shantih, shantih, shantih to close a poem that begins " | eliot |
| "restock to the earth." | maupassant |
| "useless beauty" | maupassant |
| ma kilman | omeros |
| "puckish," | six |
| "the people all exulting" | o captain! my captain |
| "if i can stop one heart from breaking, i shall not live in vain." | dickinson |
"hit a world at every plunge" | funeral ("i felt a funeral, in my brain") |
| "sadly familiar reductionist tendency." | soyinka |
| "not hate progress, only its nature / which makes all roofs and faces look the same" | soyinka |
| true church | eliot |
| "can never fail / for it is based upon a rock," | eliot |
| "broad-backed hippopotamus" | eliot |
| orwell | coolie |
| "eager faces turning" | o captain! my captain |
| marguerite mason | duino elegies |
| "secret thesis" | duino elegies |
| "most painful event" | duino elegies |
| "the greatest." | duino elegies |
| "first notes of song" | duino elegies |
| "barren numbness." | duino elegies |
| "read the poet gaspara stampa sufficiently yet?" | duino elegies |
| "rests on his belly in the mud." | eliot |
| "mounted to the lunar sphere" | lock |
| alessandro tassoni | lock |
| "all the trophies of his former loves" | lock |
| t | night of |
| wilderness | rubaiyat |
| lady utterword | shaw |
"the congo" | vachel lindsay |
| george 's | salvation army |
| j.b | macleish |
| "musee de beaux-arts [myoo-zay day boh-zart] arts" | auden |
| "on the deck" | o captain! my captain |
| "sick-or-axe" | tempest |
| stanley webber in the birthday party | pinter |
| "solely to avoid looking a fool" | "shooting an elephant" |
| regina hubbard | hellman |
| helen white | winesburg |
| curtis hartman | kate |
| "what all schoolchildren learn / those to whom evil is done / do evil in return" | september 1, 1939 |
| "like an empty net" | chile |
| evelyn | bar |
| "the hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse" | chile |
| "a tawdry cheapness" | pound |
| pentimento | hellman |
| "corambis." | polonius |
| "costly thy habit as thy purse can buy" | polonius |
| "the apparel oft proclaims the man." | polonius |
| peter brook | lear |
| "my blessing season in thee." | polonius |
| "oh, i am slain," | polonius |
| "brevity is the soul of wit." | polonius |
| "children...that old lie" | owen |
| cliffs of dover | peach |
| el pweeg | prison |
| touchett | james |
| marshals of france | alceste |
| "borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry" | polonius |
| "in the midst of it all" | easter rising |
| "hearts with one purpose alone" | easter rising |
| "drunken, vainglorious lout" | easter rising |
| "her nights in argument" | easter rising |
| "voice grew shrill." | easter rising |
| "changed, changed utterly" | easter rising |
| "shall reign throughout our days," | pound |
| "the sage heraclitus" | pound |
| "between the streets and the air" | chile |
| abab | pound |
| "historical, satirical, philosophical, ... or straight" | dahl |
| "botched civilization" | pound |
| "old bitch gone in the teeth." | pound |
| "for three years, / was out of sync with his time." | pound |
| "noble son is mad." | polonius |
| "bud" | chile |
| "stud" | chile |
| "all things are are a-flowing." | pound |
| three tabloids | gilbert |
rosencrantz and guildenstern | stoppard |
| cadbury | dahl |
| "once so beautiful" | albatross |
| major kovalev | nose |
| "rock drill" | pound |
| "thrones" | pound |
| "faces in the crowd." | pound |
| gardencourt | james |
| "crack your cheeks" | lear |
| station eleven | lear |
| polyeidos | athena |
| yomi | izanagi |
| "nimble little maidservant" | six |
| "the wren goes to't" | lear |
| don abbondio | six |
| "the stepchild," | six |
| "when in disgrace with fortune" | sonnet |
| "o thou my lovely boy" | sonnet |
| florence with mrs | james |
| olive chancellor | james |
| "ever the stars above look down / on thy stars below in" | frederick |
| when rabbit | marty tothero |
| ras the destroyer | invisible man |
| "an extravagance of laughter," | ellison |
| going to the territory | ellison |
| tragic episode | gilbert |
| "up the the ladder of the earth...through the awful tangles of lost forests" | heights of macchu |
| "my friend" | heights of macchu |
| "the liberators" | canto general |
| "the earth's name is juan" | canto general |
| katharine peabody loring | james |
| "concerned with a rather strictly defined, clinical version of truth" | pisces |
| slothrop | pisces |
| kagu-tsuchi | fir |
| "man delights not me; no, nor woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so." | what a piece of work is |
| bliss hickman | adam |
| maud bailey | possession |
| james blackadder | possession |
| "bush poets" | australia |
| "radical chic" | wolfe |
| "stalking the billion-footed beast" | wolfe |
| lyca | lost |
| "found" | songs of innocence and |
| "the little black boy" | songs of innocence and |
| "threnodic essence" | soyinka |
| learned to drive | vogel |
| ernie | wright |
| pierre teilhard | everything that rises must converge |
| omega point | everything that rises must converge |
| "cushion with the stuffing out" | everything that rises must converge |
| "sings of freedom" | bird |
| "its blood is red on the cruel bars." | bird |
| chestny | everything that rises must converge |
| "at 2 or 3 or 4 a.m." | wolfe |
| rescue in malaysia | conrad |
| jolyon | galsworthy |
| galsworthy | stevenson |
| "tulips" | ariel |
| christabel lamotte | possession |
| cropper | possession |
| "mr. sludge, 'the medium'" | browning |
| george murchison | beneatha |
| roland michell | possession |
| artamene | scudery |
| de scudery | moliere |
| ridiculous precieuses | moliere |
| vogel | indecent |
| maria ruskin | wolfe |
| mortimer cropper | ash |
| great ventriloquist | ash |
| fairy melusine | ash |
| "master of the universe" | wolfe |
| hans jakob christoffel | simplicius simplicissimus |
| "alienation effects in chinese theatre" | brecht |
| "every thinking activity implies mirrors" | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| jean de la fontaine | aesop |
| frank raymond leavis | leavis |
| paul pennyfeather | oxford |
| bollinger club | oxford |
| "the lady, or the tiger?" | stockton |
| james mcauley | malley |
| "the misfit." | sammy |
| "three girls in nothing but bathing suits" | a&p |
| "stomach kind of fell as i felt how hard the world was going to be." | a&p |
| "the north wind and the sun," | aesop |
| loiseau | chicken |
| lyra belacqua | pullman |
| his dark materials | pullman |
| pramoedya ananta toer | indonesia |
| johnny corkscrew | sword |
| "still throbs in the old, old scars" | bird |
| "magical root" | frederick |
| sandy jenkins | frederick |
| "a pain" | bird |
| anna murray | frederick |
| "floats downstream till the current ends" | bird |
"it bites my eyes like a mad dog" | lysistrata |
| "a light and diplomatic" | bird |
| egeon of syracuse | solinus |
| john crowe ransom | leavis |
| r. leavis | leavis |
| "make miniature valhalla of my heart" | bird |
| "prosperous in proper sense" | bird |
| "without fear of wind or vertigo" | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "an enemy of all religion," | frederick |
| "horrible hypocrisy" | frederick |
| duke of ephesus | solinus |
| "the words on the page" | leavis |
| "the mongoose," | naipaul |
| "once he liked humans; / how long ago this was!" | naipaul |
| "the classics can console. but not enough." | naipaul |
| "k-mart realists" | wolfe |
| auguste villiers | axel |
| "light, hope, and life." | axel |
| woodcraft | uncle tom's cabin |
| his odes | horace |
| an outcast of the islands | conrad |
| "the shawl." | ozick |
| in ozick | concentration camp |
| "dictation," | concentration camp |
| great railway bazaar | theroux |
| john hersey | new yorker |
| george shelby | uncle tom's cabin |
| warning for fair women | elizabeth i |
| mary arden | shakespeare |
| "war is sweet to them who know it not." | pindar |
| thales | faust |
| "mind's bible" | keats |
| "a vale of soul-making." | keats |
| john gibson lockhart | keats |
| "it is better to be a starving apothecary than a starving poet" | keats |
| "will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us." | keats |
| "the man of achievement" | keats |
| thomas chatterton | keats |
| "usually in lonely rustic septic tank rural settings" | wolfe |
| "moments of great tension." | william of baskerville |
| gallery of prospero | rodo |
| history of a troubled life | uruguay |
| rodo | uruguay |
| "neptunist" | faust |
| "swaying mass" | o captain! my captain |
| "the eternal feminine draws us on." | faust |
| reverend bacon | wolfe |
| fordyce | collins |
| m'choakumchild | school |
| flashman | school |
| "we have bastardized ... to please our corrupt taste" | montaigne |
| mirror for the romantic | dream of the red chamber |
| king charles ix | montaigne |
| "but hold! they do not wear trousers" | montaigne |
| "of liars" | montaigne |
| "munich mannequins." | ariel |
| as you like it in the forest of arden | shakespeare |
| judge holden | blood meridian |
| "the kid" | blood meridian |
| heinrich von kleist | marquise of o |
| kleist | romantic |
| tom brown | school |
| de l'isle-adam | axel |
| sara de maupers | axel |
| professional foul | stoppard |
| "war is god." | holden |
| four prentices of london | heywood |
| woman killed with kindness | heywood |
| " and which opens " | eliot |
| " another of his speakers is asked a question by the smyrna merchant " | eliot |
| "and the maiden," | death |
| "an authentic ghost story." | uncle tom's cabin |
| in mel | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| chang weiyuan | dream of the red chamber |
| bitzer | school |
| "what we talk about when we talk about anne frank" | new yorker |
| "of ancient customs" | montaigne |
| "of cannibals," | montaigne |
| "attempts." | montaigne |
| "the man who lived underground," | wright |
| detective britten | wright |
| eight men | wright |
| kitchen shack with the communist jan erlone | wright |
| drexel | wright |
| nathan englander | frank |
| lee goodwin | yoknapatawpha |
| nair | river |
| potamoi | river |
| "laugh[ed] at the archer." | albatross |
| "oh-fee-on" | creation |
| eurynome | creation |
| hermia | lysander |
| "shall be the hero of [his] own life" | david |
| "the great automatic grammatizator." | dahl |
| antiphanes | comedy |
| knemon | comedy |
| "hoots and jeers" | albatross |
| "exiled" | albatross |
| "sferics" | pynchon |
| "mondaugen's story." | pynchon |
| "so funny and ugly." | albatross |
| the secret postal service | pynchon |
| "boz" | dickens |
| volodin | the first circle |
| vuh-loh-din | the first circle |
| "tote" | boule de suif |
| "mile" | compson |
| "slimy things...upon the shiny sea" | albatross |
| farwell to arms | hemingway |
| joe dimaggio in the old man | hemingway |
| battle of caporetto | switzerland |
| "a palace and a prison on each hand." | venice |
| black bottom | wilson |
| "the gunman kill and go free to kill again" | chicago |
| "sank like lead" | albatross |
| borachio | much ado about nothing |
| "pleasure in the pathless woods" | childe harold's |
| "rapture on the lonely shore" | childe harold's |
| "prince of cloud and sky" | albatross |
| bridge of sighs | venice |
| ma rainey | wilson |
| alejo carpentier | magic |
| mohan | house for mr. biswas |
| in a free state | egypt |
| geeb | egypt |
| "gentlemen" | hardy |
| potato face blind man | rootabaga |
| mikt | underworld |
| koot | underworld |
| "retort courteous," | jaques |
| tlee | feather |
| angela davis | douglass |
| "chapter 25" | douglass |
| calpurnia | cook |
| "utter loneliness" | douglass |
| "will the despotism of the earthly never cease?" | german |
| hymns to the night | german |
| almansor | german |
| kwaht | feather |
| "quip modest," | jaques |
| "reply churlish" | jaques |
| "full of strange oaths," | jaques |
| "bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth." | jaques |
| duke senior | jaques |
| "lean and slipper'd pantaloon" | jaques |
| "all the world" | jaques |
| "pythagoras, thucydides, / herodotus, and homer ... burnt brightlier towards their setting-day." | hardy |
| galbis | cuba |
| "the land's features" | hardy |
| "corpse outleant." | hardy |
| "happy good-night air" | hardy |
| "some blessed hope, whereof he knew" | hardy |
| "lectures on liberation." | douglass |
| "how did you find the quarrel on the seventh cause?" | jaques |
| "a simple man am i" | marti |
| enrique flores | cuba |
| "tangled bine-stems scored the sky / like strings of broken lyres." | hardy |
| madame valmonde | desiree |
| bin-yee | desiree |
| "whose mind is pure machinery" | moloch |
| "sphinx of cement and aluminum" | moloch |
| "bashed open skulls" | moloch |
| "foretopman" | billy |
| kree | tutor |
| hortensio | tutor |
| fetyukov | ivan |
| "daisy bell" | hal 9000 |
| "the tentmaker" | rubaiyat |
| "laus veneris." | rubaiyat |
| dora flood | cannery |
| kirkes in new york | jo |
| john brooke | meg |
| demi | meg |
| josy | meg |
| frank poole | hal 9000 |
| goodman grey | minister's |
| joseph moody | minister's |
| "all that remained for me of catholicism was its smell" | drum |
| jan | drum |
| "break this heavy chain / that does freeze my bones around!" | blake |
| "darkness dread & drear." | blake |
| "sunned" | blake |
| kuut | south africa |
| "shocking" | chopin |
| sailor who fell | mishima |
| grace with the sea | mishima |
| "nansen kills a kitten" | mishima |
| prince gremin | eugene |
| "naturally, a manuscript." | name of the rose |
| "stubbornly, scrupulously silent" | name of the rose |
| lennie in of mice | steinbeck |
| whitley stokes | rubaiyat |
| chant of jimmie blacksmith | australia |
| "the poets light but lamps," | dickinson |
| "much madness is divinest sense," | dickinson |
| scottish highlands in the journal of a tour to the hebrides | johnson |
| "it is better to live rich, than to die rich" | johnson |
| "perches in the soul." | dickinson |
| lois leveen | nurse |
| "unclubbable" | johnson |
| celine varens | edward |
| north fork river | roaring camp |
| "assent" | dickinson |
| "demur," | dickinson |
| "you're straightaway dangerous - / and handled with a chain." | dickinson |
| "crescent above" | dickinson |
| "ate up brains and imagination" | moloch |
| castle of wolfenbach | catherine |
| baptist alyoshka | ivan |
| yosh | ivan |
| samneric | lord of the flies |
| thomas luck | roaring camp |
| "melancholy air and intellectual abstraction" | hamlet |
| oakhurst | hamlet |
| "imitation is suicide . . ." | emerson |
| "to be great is to be misunderstood." | emerson |
| "maggie and milly and molly and may" | cummings |
| "are apt to forget to remember." | anyone lived in a pretty |
| "glad and big" | olaf |
| "worlds scoop their arcs - and firmaments - row - diadems drop." | dickinson |
| "more brave than me, more blonde than you." | olaf |
| "my dear fellow" | jo |
| "there's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all are perjur'd / all foresworn, all naught, all dissemblers." | nurse |
| "woeful" | nurse |
| "lamentable" | nurse |
| "opinion" | comedy |
| "proof" | comedy |
| "middle" | comedy |
| pyrgopolynices in roman | comedy |
| "statistics lie" | olaf |
| monica in munich | forster |
| malabar caves | forster |
| wych elm tree | forster |
| "but who can talk of give and take" | easter rising |
| "sixteen men were shot?" | easter rising |
| "baffling hermeticism" | paz |
| "bleeding," | paz |
| "humiliated christ" | paz |
| charles shields | go set a watchman |
| "calm course of a star," | paz |
| "poplar of water" | paz |
| disjunctions | paz |
| family idiot | emma |
| azar nafisi | irani |
| other flammable objects | irani |
| "walk? not bloody likely!" | shaw |
| yord | feet |
| "the sons of" | paz |
| "an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato" | ebenezer |
| bob cratchit | tim |
| "god bless us every one." | tim |
| "the god of my youth, the object, all my life long, of love and veneration" | mozart |
| "nine worthies." | charlemagne |
| "weaver of raveloe" | silas |
| enishte | istanbul |
| olstead | bar |
| homais | emma |
| mead hall | hrothgar |
| duke of gloucester | edgar |
| "poly-deck-tees" | perseus |
| meek | dead |
| mictlan, quetzalcoatl | blood |
| "when old age shall this generation waste" | grecian urn |
| "more polished than the ivory of dieppe" | emma |
| reading lolita in tehran | irani |
| after valjean | drown |
| alexander portnoy | roth |
| nathan zuckerman in the human stain | roth |
| gpt | dahl |
| operation shylock | jew |
| footnote to history | samoa |
| man and | shaw |
| henry sugar | dahl |
| sophie zawitowska | holocaust |
| "the stables are the real centre of the household" | shaw |
| goddess | wheatley |
| "on the death of george whitefield" | elegy |
| phillis | elegy |
the good earth | pearl s. buck |
| "shot down over libya." | dahl |
| everything that rises must | o'connor |
| spielvogel | alex |
| "if excess of love / bewildered them till they died?" | easter rising |
| going solo | dahl |
| mephistopheles, faust | goethe |
| dolokhov | mason |
| osip bazdeyev | mason |
| adele morales | mailer |
| "nonfiction novel" | mailer |
| gaylen | mailer |
| fitz-norman | forrest |
| green town | something wicked |
| "the tenderness of patient minds" | anthem for doomed |
| phineas fletcher | uncle tom's |
| tawv | holocaust |
| pratchett | dahl |
| wiesel | buchenwald |
| "colored queen who wears a kimono and plucks his eyebrows" | god |
| "a woman who cries with determination behind her closed door" | god |
| "liver cancer" | aids |
| cohn | ethel |
| william halloway | something wicked |
| tortilla flat | california |
| "it's no sin to sin in confidence" | tartuffe |
| "representative american man." | douglass |
| "moment of unkindness." | tartuffe |
| james mccune smith | douglass |
| "each age" | dickinson |
| "lens / disseminating their circumference." | dickinson |
| fooz | egypt |
| girl of mataski | john |
| jaques | as you like it |
| jay-kez | as you like it |
| william dean howells | silas |
| "a stage where every man must play a part" | merchant of |
| "rags to riches" | silas |
| "thoroughgoing racist" | conrad |
| jean prouvaire | javert |
| enjolras | javert |
| lantern yard | silas |
| "careless indictment" | go set a watchman |
| tonja carter | go set a watchman |
| "happy as hell" | go set a watchman |
| "a voice of gladness, and a smile, and eloquence of beauty" | thanatopsis |
| "thanatopsis club" | lewis |
| english socialist party | big brother |
| encyclopedia britannica | red-headed |
| vincent spaulding | red-headed |
| james greenleaf whittier | douglass |
| suburban bank | sherlock |
| "mattress-grave," | german |
| brustein | hansberry |
| "gone, gone, sold and gone" | douglass |
| "cigar-girl" | marie |
| monsieur le blanc | marie |
| rue pavee | seine |
| pullman porter | brutus |
| jabez | red-headed |
| "there would still have been milton and the universal alphabet." | eliza |
| joyeuse | charlemagne |
| imitation of christ | john |
| "minuscule." | charlemagne |
| "art, science, and religion" | john |
| helmholtz watson | john |
| "pilgrimage." | charlemagne |
| jack abbott | mailer |
| tom corey | silas |
| last party | mailer |
| lord sudley | milady |
| hugo the strong | charlemagne |
| templemar | milady |
| anne de breuil | milady |
| fleur-de-lis | milady |
| "there are no flies or mosquitoes to sting you," | john |
| "rid of them centuries ago" | john |
| in the belly of the beast | mailer |
| milton rogers | silas |
| back bay | silas |
| west wind | nokomis |
| wenonah | nokomis |
| charles thomas wooldridge | ballad of |
| "creeping like a snail unwillingly to school." | seven ages of |
| "the world no longer let me love. my hope and treasure lie above." | burning |
| "son of phlegm, grandchild to water" | age |
| isaac luria | pi |
| yossarian | catch-22 |
| major major major major | milton |
| "spleen and ideal." | fleurs du mal |
| "delicate monster" | reader |
| "my likeness! my brother!" | reader |
| institute for union with nothingness | house of the spirits |
| red lantern | house of the spirits |
| transito soto | house of the spirits |
| "barabbas came to us by sea," | house of the spirits |
| "she will rise again" | saramago |
| susan henchard | elizabeth-jane |
| renaud | charlemagne |
| newark public library | "goodbye |
| matter of france | charlemagne |
| twelve peers | charlemagne |
| emir of babylon | charlemagne |
| "aryan [" | daddy |
| playground | basketball |
| mood | indonesia |
| plin | manticore |
| teucer | ajax |
| teth | oceanus |
| titanomachy | oceanus |
| four sons of aymon | charlemagne |
| leader of the home rule league | parnell |
| all too human | sterne |
| "squirrel-soul" | sterne |
| "the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven" | alexie |
| tom kernan | dubliners |
| zinc cliffs | calvino |
| raina | bulgaria |
| "at daybreak" | calvino |
| james fitz | lady of the lake |
| "hail to the chief" | lady of the lake |
| "the seven voyages of sinbad the sailor" | thousand and |
| "ali baba and the forty thieves" | thousand and |
| henchard | mayor of |
| "-yun] eye" | daddy |
| "one gray toe / big as a frisco seal." | daddy |
| "with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other" | hatter |
| "matter was uniformly scattered in space." | calvino |
| "just take his head off outside." | queen of hearts |
| mad hatter in alice | carroll |
| pygmalion and arms | shaw |
| in arms | bulgaria |
| "aladdin's wonderful lamp" | thousand and |
| runaway horses | snow |
| dante tours | divine |
| juan dahlmann | south |
| "die-dough" | virgil |
| anatole france | penguin island |
| marbodius | penguin island |
| "abandon all hope, ye who enter here." | divine |
| pierpont mauler | joan |
| byzantine emperor hugo | charlemagne |
| in jewett | maine |
| "midway upon the journey of our life / i found myself within a forest dark" | divine |
| "is no parenthesis." | death |
| kansas city to new york | american |
| "trainor, the druggist" | spoon river anthology |
| onnie jay holy | wise blood |
| anse bundren | as i lay |
| lay dying in mississippi | faulkner |
| "that things cannot be otherwise than as they are" | pangloss |
| "the freest writer." | sterne |
| eliza draper | sterne |
| slop | sterne |
| "personal knowledge." | biography |
| satoko | snow |
| "necessary explanation" | idiot |
| "enormous, implacable, and dumb" | idiot |
| "a completely beautiful human being" | idiot |
| "delete the adjectives and...have the facts" | atticus |
| ippolit | idiot |
| rogozhin | idiot |
| in human | sterne |
| torcello | pinter |
| weymouth | butler |
| "you never really understand a person...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." | atticus |
| "beneath the falls." | snow |
| "[flows] down inside" | snow |
| nastasya filippovna | idiot |
| joan gilling | asylum |
| granny bb | calvino |
| mcmurphy | asylum |
| "mending" | wall |
| "the mother of all axes" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "monstrous apparition." | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "i heard he was lying helpless, and so i came up--took my chance." | russia |
| "aghlich mayster," | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "i think he died for me." | dubliners |
| rugby school | biography |
| in a carl sandburg | grass |
| "i am large. i contain" | multitudes |
| stumpy | thomas |
| "streak of bad luck" | outcasts of poker |
| five civil war | nemo |
| piney woods | outcasts of poker |
| "mobilis in mobili" | nemo |
| "smoke-heap of cinders and ash" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| piers plowman | passus |
| langland | pearl |
| de haarlemse toneelschuur | waiting for godot |
| "women don't have prostates." | waiting for godot |
| "the net," | waiting for godot |
| "frank sinatra has a cold." | esquire |
| james lingk | ricky |
| lingk | ricky |
| "bland, intellectual joke" | who's |
| aaronow | patel |
| julie charles | lake |
| autobiography of alice | stein |
| roberto saviano | naples |
| the rambler | biography |
| "bog in the history department" | who's |
| "some bookworm." | who's |
| "here we go round the mulberry bush" | who's |
| "shiva handed him a million dollars." | patel |
| ruedi | calvino |
| happars | typee |
| tommo | whale |
| alvaro | rose |
| bartell d'arcy's | dubliners |
| "no title" | li |
| three hundred poems | li |
| "at sixteen you departed, you went ... by the river of swirling eddies" | li |
| "nice" | pinter |
| "bai" | li |
| "po" | li |
| matzerath | three |
| wymark | asylum |
| ladies' day | asylum |
| randle p | asylum |
| father purdon | dubliners |
| "spiritual accountant." | dubliners |
| "three men" | li |
| "montale's black lucifer" | unbearable lightness of being |
| hyde park gates news | woolf |
| hansbach | journey to the center |
| center of the earth | verne |
| journey | verne |
| "of fred" | handmaid's tale |
| "what is" | grass |
| uzzi-tuzii | calvino |
| tay-nard-yayz | cosette |
| japhy ryder | dharma bums |
| desolation angels | dharma bums |
| desolation peak | dharma bums |
| "the hearth and" | salamander |
| "she should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word." | to-morrow, and |
| rick telander | basketball |
| brooklyn in heaven | basketball |
| marius pontmercy | cosette |
| thenardiers | cosette |
| rose tattoo | williams |
| "i, too, dislike it." | poetry |
| edward malone to south america | challenger |
| "lost generation." | stein |
| angel face | senor |
| colonel sonriente | senor |
| sohn-ree-en-tay | senor |
| el senor presidente | asturias |
| guatemalan nobel | asturias |
| boon hogganbeck | reivers |
| "get thee to a nunnery" | ophelia |
| tahn | midsummer night's |
| tih | midsummer night's |
| "the course of true love never did run smooth" | lysander |
| kaht | decameron |
| nee bohk--choh | decameron |
| gemmata | dioneo |
| four saints in three acts | stein |
| marcos jimenez in the autumn of the patriarch | garcia |
| "perhaps gracious, perhaps mocking" | hesse |
| pulitzer prize for fiction for the amazing adventures of kavalier | chabon |
| pish | immortal |
| "[this body part] and ideal" | spleen |
| ahn-wee | spleen |
| "pleasantly surprise his boss" | butler |
| "herr ribbentrop." | butler |
| clytemnestra in aeschylus | electra |
| "sacred emily" | stein |
| "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" | elegy written in a country |
| tees | our man in |
| our man | greene |
| alden pyle in vietnam | quiet american |
| polonius | ophelia |
| "from her fair and unpolluted flesh." | violet |
| "i know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows" | oberon |
| "the steadfast tin soldier" | andersen |
| "god of death." | electra |
| "play for voices" | under milk wood |
| absalom kumalo | paton |
| cry, the | paton |
| long walk to freedom | mandela |
| paton | mandela |
| rachel brown | inherit the wind |
| "when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter" | dream of the red chamber |
| olympia press | golden lotus |
| gottfried lessing | ring |
| "little tragedies" | mozart |
| "every gentleman in the south a major or colonel" | scott |
| "great measure responsible" | scott |
| asya | istanbul |
| land of mist | doyle |
| john watson in doyle | sherlock |
| armanoush | istanbul |
| "it's between the two of us now!" | balzac |
| learned what | pittsburgh |
| aubrey beardsley | rape of the lock |
| "billet-doux" | rape of the lock |
| "you are a great artist." | rape of the lock |
| "consecrate[d] to fame" | rape of the lock |
| virgil thomson | stein |
| corner in westminster | owen |
| white goddess | frazer |
| golden bough | frazer |
| scott's waverley | cooper |
| helen macdonald | united kingdom |
| dorothy wordsworth | united kingdom |
| abraxas | hesse |
| goshawk | peregrine |
| the once and | peregrine |
| gnostic | hesse |
| "i love you more than words can wield the matter." | king lear |
| the pilot | cooper |
| "when this you see remember me" | stein |
| "floating tom" | deerslayer |
| hutter | deerslayer |
| nick adams | hemingway |
| "the one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience" | atticus |
| "debt we pay to human guile" | dunbar |
| edgar branch | grangerford |
| robert hirst | grangerford |
| "ode to stephen dowling bots" | grangerford |
| before lsd | hesse |
| "brotherly-love" | grangerford |
| "colonel" | grangerford |
| harney | grangerford |
| leonard in the boer war | butler |
| "you are not my hero." | cat's cradle |
| earl mccabe | cat's cradle |
| "you know who." | cat's cradle |
| "hundred martyrs to democracy," | cat's cradle |
| "half past two" | grangerford |
| alec scudder | maurice |
| vaska | lower depths |
| kostilyoff | lower depths |
| uncle reed | red room |
| "tonight i can write [these compositions]" | saddest lines |
| "we read no more that day," | divine |
| "laughed his joy" | anyone |
| "cried his grief" | anyone |
| "accomplish[ing] nothing and arriv[ing] in air." | deerslayer |
| "shoot straight" | brooks |
| "no monument stands." | russian |
| artful dodger | handkerchief |
| charley bates | handkerchief |
| "all he wished, a friend." | elegy written in a country |
| "all he had, a tear" | elegy written in a country |
| clive durham | maurice |
peter ackroyd | biography |
| "forges decrees" | russian |
| "ghazal of dark death" | lorca |
| "room iridescent with agony" | lorca |
| "when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway" | atticus |
| "real courage" | atticus |
| gypsy ballads | lorca |
| "the tale of the three apples" | arabic |
| "song of the thousand voices." | hesse |
| "like oars" | albatross |
| papa monzano | cat's cradle |
| mary hartley fitch | the sea, the |
| lucky jim | amis |
| london fields | amis |
| "western orb sailing the heaven." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "sleep the sleep of the apples." | lorca |
| "in the bitter sea" | lorca |
| llewelyn moss | no country for old |
| anton chigurh | no country for old |
| timothy leary | hesse |
| books of bokonon | cat's cradle |
| felix bokonon | cat's cradle |
| "midst of stars," | rape of the lock |
| "c----," | rape of the lock |
| john caryll | rape of the lock |
| "let spades be trumps" | rape of the lock |
| "two-edged" | rape of the lock |
| "little engine" | rape of the lock |
| miss dubose | atticus |
| albert schweitzer | cat's cradle |
| ned mccaslin to memphis | reivers |
| miss corrie | reivers |
| jeremy | alchemist |
| act i of 's othello | venice |
| no name in the street | baldwin |
| "very bad novel" | uncle tom's |
| "many thousands gone" | bigger |
| mosquito inlet light | open |
| "mock-heroic" | rape of the lock |
| "respectful whistle." | catch-22 |
| "before the curtain," | thackeray |
| "absolute simplicity" | catch-22 |
| "with a hostile world" | beowulf |
| "black gold" | journey to the west |
| "fate will unwind as it must," | beowulf |
| nowell codex | beowulf |
| nautilus in twenty thousand leagues under the sea | nemo |
| william langland | piers plowman |
| professor aronnax on the abraham lincoln | nemo |
| "tried to leave" | tom |
| c. s. forester's | nelson |
| hornblower | nelson |
| volcano lover | sontag |
against interpretation | sontag |
| "get up and give history a kick up the backside and get it going again," | harold |
| "building blocks" | beowulf |
| sund | beowulf |
| tender | dick |
| "line-up for yesterday" | nash |
| "r is for ruth, to tell you the truth, there's just no more to be said, just r is for ruth." | nash |
| "dandy, but liquor is quicker." | candy |
| "i think that i shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree." | kilmer |
| "mistress." | chekhov |
| "man-o'war jack" | prospector |
| "hard, gemlike" | flame |
| english humorists of the eighteenth century | thackeray |
| in urn burial | flame |
| "life is a pure" | flame |
| "and we live by an invisible sun within us." | flame |
| "the girls in their summer dresses." | shaw |
| "more faithful than he intended to be." | tom |
| "emissary from the world of reality" | tom |
| "drowning man is said to cling to a straw." | prospector |
| "dick steele" | thackeray |
| "is success in life." | flame |
| "if [this character] had not read all those novels...[this character]'s fate might have been different" | emma |
| "sprightly words" | decameron |
| lisabetta | decameron |
| ciappelletto | decameron |
| filocolo | decameron |
| thomas de quincey | opium |
| "pains" | opium |
| elaine castillo | bulosan |
| "flood timber" | beowulf |
| "pleasures" | opium |
| lu ling | tan |
| oxford street | opium |
| vi to viii of don juan | malaprop |
| marquis of londonderry | malaprop |
| "the monkey," | singer |
| "beautiful riverbank" | blanche |
| "beautiful dream" | blanche |
| freedom from want | bulosan |
| "mariner who first unfurl'd an eastern banner over the western world" | hartford |
| under the net | murdoch |
| sovereignty of good | murdoch |
| max morden | banville |
| iris murdoch | ireland |
| john banville | ireland |
| "he / whom every man in arms should wish to be." | happy warrior |
| "the character of the happy warrior" | nelson |
| "precious jade." | stone |
| salvage the bones | as i lay dying |
| esch batiste | as i lay dying |
| "answered the hardest question right." | as i lay dying |
| reverend whitfield | as i lay dying |
| macgowan | as i lay dying |
| perpetual orgy | emma |
| "highest excellence o'er power" | laura |
| "could not speak english" | malaprop |
| baligant | charlemagne |
| calonice | lysistrata |
| "safety first," | school |
| "goodness, truth, and beauty, come first." | school |
| rose stanley | school |
| "quadruped graminivorous," | school |
| sissy jupe | school |
| "no ... we have nothing to ask him." | candide |
| lotaria | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| like fitzgerald | dick |
| snoopy | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of god" | burgess |
| kenneth toomey in earthly powers | burgess |
| "milk-plus," | burgess |
| "lawful wife" | chekhov |
| lester mead | banana |
strong wind | banana (trilogy) |
| miguel asturias | banana |
| carlo campanati | burgess |
| ananta toor | indonesia |
| willie mink | nun |
| "unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend, and of the curveship lend a myth to god." | bridge |
| neo-gothic bridge | brooklyn |
| "faux-sicilian cyclops" | quevedo |
| "farts sing like sirens." | quevedo |
| el buscon | spain |
| regent's | jekyll becoming |
| "sex strike" | lysistrata |
| "swart growth of hair" | jekyll becoming |
| "by choice... made themselves immune" | insensibility |
| "whatever shares the eternal reciprocity of tears." | insensibility |
| "happy are men who yet before they are killed can let their veins run cold." | insensibility |
| "human moments" | world war iii |
| colorado command | world war iii |
| "human moments in world war iii" | delillo |
| "horror of the spirit" | jekyll becoming |
| hastie lanyon | jekyll becoming |
| "pour new seas in mine eyes... and burn me o lord, with a fiery zeal / of thee and thy house, which doth in eating heal." | i am a little world made cunningly |
| "take their case." | soyinka |
| the prince de ligne | casanova |
| the histoire de ma vie | casanova |
| embers | marai |
| "wits" | barlow |
| "vision of" | hartford |
| "like a buttercup / upon its branching stem." | asphodel, that greeny flower |
| "dweller in truth." | egypt |
| "little cuss" | prospector |
| melanie klein | ring |
| athenian new comedy | menander |
| dyskolos | menander |
| matter and memory | bergson |
| love in a fallen city | chang |
| quiet city | shaw |
| "hangs over every american typewriter." | fitzgerald |
| klondike gold rush | prospector |
| "common people" | egypt |
| lawrence durrell | egypt |
| ilish | egypt |
al-sayyid | mahfouz |
| "leaning from the steep slope." | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| delphin slade | roman fever |
| lilly sabina | antrobus |
| "our town." | wilder |
| baby kochamma | roy |
| "women never forgive failures." | konstantin |
| kongi's harvest | soyinka |
| earth of mankind | indonesia |
| buru quartet | indonesia |
| max havelaar | indonesia |
| jill bryant | koch |
| aumsa | soyinka |
| billy kwan | koch |
| cookie | koch |
| prozorov | three sisters |
| "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" | congreve |
| millamant in the way of the world | congreve |
| mirabell | congreve |
| alexei ivanovich in a dostoyevsky | gambling |
| hermann in a pushkin | gambling |
| etheredge | gambling |
| philocomasium | soldier |
| labrax | rope |
| "cold-wetness" | seafarer |
| "i am the master of my fate; i am the captain of my soul." | invictus |
| "pro rege nostro," | henley |
"invictus" | henley |
| "under the bludgeonings of chance / my head is" | bloody, but unbowed |
| "failed to love a tree in each person" | machu picchu |
| "the only secret people keep / is immortality." | dickinson |
| ancash | dickinson |
| "after homer and before" | stein |
| "emerging from the jungle." | machu picchu |
"the grand march" | the unbearable lightness of being |
| "es muss sein!" | unbearable lightness of being |
| tereza by milan kundera | unbearable lightness of being |
| "freckles" | fairies |
| "pensioners" | fairies |
| "bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs," | fairies |
| "tithe-pig's tail," | fairies |
| "team of little atomi." | fairies |
| man of mode | fopling |
| "what have poets, in any case, to do with sin?" | poem without a hero |
| "rise up in birth with me." | machu picchu |
| "hateful things" | pillow book |
| "things of beauty." | pillow book |
| "ovid's fragile medusa" | unbearable lightness of being |
| six memos for the new millennium | unbearable lightness of being |
| "einmal ist keinmal." | unbearable lightness of being |
| "sidereal eagle, misty vine." | machu picchu |
| "i have lit my treasured candles, / one by one, to hallow this night" | poem without a hero |
| "fifty years to-night / that god saved the queen." | shropshire lad |
| "i cheer a dead man's sweetheart, / never ask me whose" | shropshire lad |
| "is my team ploughing?" | shropshire lad |
| "townsman of a stiller town," | shropshire lad |
| 27 rue de fleurus | stein |
| "smart lad" | shropshire lad |
| "betimes away" | shropshire lad |
| "the hard stool," | waiting for godot |
| "a difficult interval for a poet." | stein |
| "think!" | waiting for godot |
| "personal god quaquaquaqua." | waiting for godot |
"five pennies is a nickel" | welty |
| "what are those blue remembered hills, / what spires, what farms are those?" | shropshire lad |
| "the land of lost content." | shropshire lad |
| "beacon burns" | shropshire lad |
| graziella | naples |
| gomorrah | naples |
| "the scapegoat's agony" | waiting for godot |
| "i know that i shall meet my fate" | death |
| menaechmi | plautus |
| pyrgopolynices | soldier |
| "snow falling faintly" | dublin |
| my country | duffy |
| father flynn | dublin |
| peter kien | canetti |
| "i am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor!" | nemo |
| the b. toklas | stein |
| strand | holmes |
| meiringen | holmes |
| "sinister design" | auguste |
| "too cunning to be profound." | auguste |
| "the napoleon of crime." | holmes |
| illusory land of the great void | stone |
| "doggerel verse" | stone |
| rigleys | chrysanthemum |
| malabar | rocking-horse winner |
| constant reader | parker |
| the village | crabbe |
| "the fall of rome." | auden |
| giton | petronius |
| "paradise of bachelors" | massachusetts |
| tartarus of maids | massachusetts |
| "the town-ho's story" | harper's |
| "a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again" | harper's |
| "hothouse on the roof" | banana |
| mab | fairies |
| "golden hair" | laura |
| "away from all that is base" | laura |
| "sestet," | laura |
| "elegance." | petronius |
| "arbiter" | petronius |
| tigellinus | petronius |
| quartilla | petronius |
| john betjeman | wyatt |
| achtung | tyrone |
| "amen." | seafarer |
| "erect" | riddle |
| "hairy" | riddle |
| robert musil | austria |
| ian mcewan | atonement |
| "ladies of sorrow" | opium |
| briony | atonement |
| lola | atonement |
| in enemies of promise | crabbe |
| siege of namur | toby |
| "lillibullero," | toby |
| "argumentum fistulatorium." | toby |
| varts | gravity's rainbow |
"00000" | gravity's rainbow |
| "innamorato." | orlando |
"furioso" | orlando |
| "humanism" | ariosto |
| confession of a white widowed male | humbert |
| "participatory novels," | plimpton |
| paper lion | plimpton |
| detroit lions | plimpton |
| "i knew him... a fellow of infinite jest." | alas, poor yorick |
| benito perez galdos | fortunata and jacinta |
| "wives" | fortunata and jacinta |
| "say mwah" | emma |
| jake | madrid |
| "diary of a country mouse" | wyatt |
| sadiku | baroka |
| "bed and company" | fairies |
| "c'est moi" | emma |
| titania in william shakespeare | fairies |
| julian barnes | emma |
| peaseblossom | fairies |
| mustardseed | fairies |
| "heights" | machu picchu |
| in perez galdos | blind |
| "a crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine" | washington |
| "celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light." | washington |
| "simony," | dublin |
| "gnomon," | dublin |
| death valley | mcteague |
| sheppey | maugham |
| exit ghost | roth |
| george plimpton | roth |
| paris review | plimpton |
| ursus | bull |
| anna barbauld | priestley |
| "the mouse's petition" | priestley |
| "pensive prisoner's prayer" | priestley |
| birling | priestley |
| "animal" | lion and the jewel |
| nigerian nobel | soyinka |
| "a veritable peace-maker" | dublin |
| lorin stein | paris review |
| death in the afternoon | bull |
| "object there was none. passion there was none" | tell-tale heart |
| "enveloped in cotton." | tell-tale heart |
| "vulture eye." | tell-tale heart |
| amir | kite runner |
| girls of slender means | scotland |
| "two households, both alike in dignity" | verona |
| uncle doaker | wilson |
| silvia | verona |
| bernard gui | name of the rose |
| "i'm the man who sailed those early seas" | hughes |
| "who said the free? ... surely not me?" | hughes |
| "an unjust law is no law at all." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "white moderate" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "compelled to carry the gospel of freedom" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "fellow clergymen." | letter from birmingham jail |
| seven books of the diana | verona |
| "shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend." | verona |
| "beyond sandy hook," | hughes |
| "who shall say i am not / the happy genius of my household?" | williams |
| "danse russe" | williams |
| "forgive me" | williams |
| "great map" | saramago |
| "p-h," | saramago |
| portuguese nobel laureate | saramago |
| jack vance | earth |
| "a normal life among normal people." | mountain |
| "a cricket which has made a single chirp." | tell-tale heart |
| "old times" | mississippi |
| "soul" | mountain |
| "please shut off the telephone" | williams |
| "reply" | williams |
| "i come, my sweet, to sing to you" | williams |
| berenice charles | wilson |
| "wind in the chimney," | tell-tale heart |
| "a mouse crossing the floor," | tell-tale heart |
| shingo ogata in a kawabata | mountain |
| gardens | walker |
| "the beast?" | beauty |
| michael ondaatje | greek |
| "she walks in [this word]." | beauty |
| st. lucian | greek |
| penelopiad | greek |
| property man | six characters in search of an author |
| johnny carson | walker |
| "we lay our scene" | verona |
"everyday use" | walker |
| possessing the secret of joy | walker |
| shug avery | walker |
| celie in the color purple | walker |
| dee | walker |
| "drop into thyself, and be a fool" | pope |
| "the proper study of mankind is man." | pope |
"epistle to dr. arbuthnot" | pope |
| "can't appreciate these quilts" | walker |
| "sleepwalking ballad." | lorca |
| "wait" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "rings in the ear" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "piercing familiarity." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "legal" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "willing to face hungry lions." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "two honest confessions" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "a negative peace which is the absence of tension." | letter from birmingham jail |
| tashi | walker |
| "i want to trade my horse for her house, my saddle for her mirror, my knife for her blanket" | lorca |
| "up above the water" | lorca |
| "icicle of moon." | lorca |
| "flesh," | lorca |
| "branches." | lorca |
| "body laid out" | lorca |
| "the spilled blood" | lorca |
| wangero | walker |
| foundation's edge | earth |
| henry stamper | kesey |
| "half-men," | russian |
| theoclymenus | helen |
| eurotas | helen |
| beatriz | coetzee |
| "kissambushed" | dada |
| body sweats | dada |
| "jolifanto bambla" | dada |
| "green and wooden" | williams |
| lygia | polish |
| "whipper-snappers of boys" | dead |
| black gaiety | dead |
| "west briton" | dead |
| trappist | dead |
| "wolves" | kesey |
| "never give an inch!" | kesey |
| calicut | portuguese |
| petronius | polish |
| "leaping and creeping" | lilliput |
| "perhaps...my writings will not be given to the lethe's waters," | ovid |
| "we are going to have fun" | island |
| "littluns" | island |
| "suns" | flower |
| "lured" | flower |
| "coaxed" | flower |
| "sin," | flower |
| "i'm the reason why it's no go" | island |
| "of evil" | flower |
| "one whistles, another meows, a third snivels." | russian |
| "anti-art" | dada |
| elsa von freytag-loringhoven | dada |
| "twisty things" | island |
| "creature that bulged" | island |
| "a great ape...sitting asleep with its head between its knees" | island |
| "expanding like a balloon" | island |
| "avarice" | flower |
| "many-colored throne" | sappho |
| "be my ally" | sappho |
| "darkness" | stoppard |
| "live with" | fuentes |
| mexico in the old gringo | fuentes |
| "whose wings are dull realities." | tell-tale heart |
| wit | donne |
| "laughing cockroaches" | russian |
| "baby" | mamet |
| "mazirian the magician." | earth |
| janov pelorat | earth |
| "stillness" | earth |
| fifth season | earth |
| "spacer" | earth |
| elijah bailey | earth |
| daneel olivaw | earth |
| professor otto lidenbrock | earth |
| in a franz grillparzer | sappho |
| "talking about it" | mamet |
| "speaking about it as an idea" | mamet |
| carol in oleanna | mamet |
| gorgias | helen |
| mitch | mamet |
| "moon river." | tlon |
| "weaves wiles" | sappho |
| "it is an equal error...to blame the praiseworthy and to praise the blameworthy" | helen |
| "many-colored mind" | sappho |
| longinus | sappho |
| domenico scarlatti | portuguese |
| tom joad | grapes of wrath |
| "the men sat still - thinking - figuring" | grapes of wrath |
| blindness by jose saramago | portuguese |
| "all is to be dared" | sappho |
| "the smell of rot fills the country" | grapes of wrath |
| "ode to jealousy" | sappho |
| "there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. there's just stuff people do" | grapes of wrath |
| phaon | sappho |
| "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." | spring |
| "hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads, and freight handler to the nation." | chicago |
rootabaga stories | sandburg |
| "is at hand." | the second coming |
| "sever." | kiss |
| "prophetic book" | blake |
becky thatcher | tom sawyer |
| four zoas | blake |
| "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" | pope |
| "swell'st." | donne |
| izaak walton | donne |
| "a minor bird," | frost |
| "so much depends upon the red wheelbarrow." | williams |
| "not to blame for his key" | frost |
| "where are the songs of" | spring |
| "i shan't be gone long - you come too." | frost |
"into the valley of death / rode the six hundred" | the charge of the light brigade |
| "poppy or charms can make us sleep as well" | donne |
| "heavy judger of men." | moloch |
| biography of cancer | doctor |
| "tradition, touching all he sees / beguiles and reassures" | robinson |
| "she fears him, and will always ask / what fated her to choose him." | robinson |
| "in the middle of the road / like roland's ghost winding a silent horn" | robinson |
| "eros turannos" | robinson |
| "mr. flood's party" | robinson |
| "the days of old" | robinson |
| "locksley hall," | spring |
| lydia bennet | wickham |
| "the sunny pavement of greenwich village." | kaddis |
| william halsted | doctor |
| sidney farber | doctor |
| man who mistook his wife for a hat | doctor |
| oliver sacks | doctor |
| siddhartha mukherjee | doctor |
| emperor of all maladies | doctor |
| "born too late." | robinson |
| "delight in disorder." | herrick |
| "julia poems" | herrick |
| "when art / is too precise in every part." | herrick |
| "careless shoe-string" | herrick |
| "put a bullet through his head" | robinson |
| "a wild civility" | herrick |
| "richard cory." | robinson |
| "liquefaction" | herrick |
| "i'm going out to fetch the little calf" | frost |
| bear | shoot |
| chronicle of a blood merchant | china |
| hugo award | china |
| body problem | china |
| yu hua | china |
| elia kazan | streetcar named desire |
| leslie jamison | doctor |
| empathy exams | doctor |
| "i have been slipping downhill long enough" | shoot |
| rushdie | midnight's children |
| ethel lange in blood knot | apartheid |
| "old age should burn and rage at close of day." | thomas |
| roethke | villanelle |
| "terrence, this is stupid stuff," | housman |
| xion | roxas |
| ismael | moby-dick |
| lord morena | apartheid |
| "a splash quite unnoticed" | williams |
| bulter mansion | song of solomon |
| "all-fray zhah-ree's" | apartheid |
| "this same flower that smiles today / tomorrow will be dying" | herrick |
| serebryakov | shoot |
| prince albert tobacco | babbitt |
| "the zip city - zeal, zest and zowie" | babbitt |
| chum frink | babbitt |
| seneca doane | babbitt |
| milkman dead iii | song of solomon |
| ernst stavro blofeld | bond |
| on her majesty | bond |
| good person of szechuan | brecht |
| "each time you happen to me all over again" | age of innocence |
| "the shaughraun." | age of innocence |
| christine nilsson | age of innocence |
| sillerton jackson | age of innocence |
| lawrence lefferts | age of innocence |
| "whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen" | moloch |
| jeff atman | venice |
| "tobermory." | saki |
| "pack of pariah dogs" | saki |
| houdan | saki |
| nuttel | saki |
| two fathoms | mississippi |
| john fuegi | brecht |
| "life and lies" | brecht |
| geoff dyer | venice |
| "to err is human; to forgive, divine." | pope |
| anna lundberg | six characters in search of an author |
| "proverbs of hell." | blake |
| "atelier" | six characters in search of an author |
| "i've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset" | hughes |
montage of a dream deferred | langston hughes |
| "if you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it." | alchemist |
| paulo coelho | alchemist |
| "every man his own" | bond |
| "roar aloud, 'subscribe, subscribe'" | pope |
| "ten times worse when they repent." | pope |
| "who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" | pope |
| "soft soul of america" | blake |
| mingotts | age of innocence |
| "narrative structures" | bond |
| "mates in eight moves." | bond |
| "in new york." | bond |
| "fools" | pope |
| pond of blood | akutagawa |
| mountain of needles | akutagawa |
| "ascend to heaven" | akutagawa |
| good citizen | babbitt |
| sinclair lewis | babbitt |
| monarch | babbitt |
| prout | babbitt |
| myra | babbitt |
| "distancing effect" | brecht |
| "states and empires" | french |
| marriage of heaven | blake |
| summer of love | kilmer |
"poems are made by fools like me, but only god can make a tree." | kilmer |
| "a poem should not mean / but be" | macleish |
| "in the ghoul-haunted woodland of weir." | ulalume |
| "ah, sunflower!" | ginsberg |
| "and did those feet in ancient time." | blake |
| "comical history" | french |
| "put thousands together less bad, but the cage less gay," | red and the black |
| "chronicle of the nineteenth century." | red and the black |
| abbe pirard | red and the black |
| vergy | red and the black |
| "life on" | mississippi |
| "well worth reading about." | mississippi |
| dick allbright | mississippi |
| "dashing and not very respectable," | saki |
| mt. stromboli | french |
| "old potter's tale" | akutagawa |
| jane taylor | apartheid |
| margaret edson | donne |
| "this is my play's last scene" | donne |
| "since she whom i loved hath paid her last debt," | donne |
| baltimore gun club | french |
| albion | blake |
| journey to the center of the earth by jules verne | french |
| micromegas | french |
| "clashed swords with [him] twenty strokes" | akutagawa |
| columella | farm |
| perses | farm |
| "in the garden room" | ghost |
| all the year round | ghost |
| "what men or gods are these?" | keats |
| "monstrous vermin." | samsa |
| gregor | samsa |
| larry mccaslin | god of small things |
| "blows a small fortune" | yiddish |
| rhodes scholar chacko | god of small things |
| variations on the death of trotsky | united states |
| "skin...white as leprosy" | ancient mariner |
| "decadent rubbish." | seagull |
| "glittering eye." | ancient mariner |
| "have faith and wait" | penal colony |
| "sonny boy" | jeeves |
| "the psychology of the individual," | jeeves |
| "it is best to be prepared" | god of small things |
| "i'd lost my way on the moor!" | wuthering heights |
| "he oxygen, she hydrogen, / their son, a devastating fire." | spoon river anthology |
| margaret fuller | spoon river anthology |
| "i would have been as great as george eliot" | spoon river anthology |
| john slack | spoon river anthology |
| "babbles of the fish-frys of long ago... of what abe lincoln said / one time at springfield." | spoon river anthology |
| "where are the clown, the boozer, the fighter... where is old fiddler jones?" | spoon river anthology |
| "the hill." | spoon river anthology |
| geoponici | farm |
| "below there!" | ghost |
| "the signal-man." | ghost |
| fezziwig | ghost |
| "may god strike you dead, you two-faced scorpion! you thorn in my flesh!" | lorca |
| pepe el romano | lorca |
| angustias | lorca |
| "you would not believe, would you, / that i came from good welsh stock?" | spoon river anthology |
| "leads." | united states |
| edgar lee masters | spoon river anthology |
| "ineluctable modality of the visible" | ulysses |
| "shout in the street" | ulysses |
| "stately, plump" | ulysses |
| "from the stairwell bearing a bowl of lather," | ulysses |
| we do not part | south korea |
| "a pair" | south korea |
| human acts | south korea |
| "with sin / in the secret house of shame." | wilde |
| gussie fink | jeeves |
| "who looked / so wistfully at the day." | wilde |
| "young sinner" | wilde |
| "for the colour of his hair." | wilde |
| "heavy knotted rope." | penal colony |
| "the coward does it with a kiss, / the brave man with a sword" | wilde |
| "the moor, i know his trumpet" | long day's journey into night |
| "antithesis of the thames." | africa |
| "an image of" | africa |
| "c.3.3." | wilde |
| "feudal spirit," | jeeves |
| dussel | frank |
| the van daans | frank |
| "stony eye-balls" | ancient mariner |
| "suspension of disbelief" | ancient mariner |
| "bright-eyed" | ancient mariner |
| biographia literaria | ancient mariner |
| "life-blood seemed to sip" | ancient mariner |
| "put me on to edenville. aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one." | ulysses |
| "cremated, just as i would like to be" | frank |
| ghost writer | frank |
| miep gies | frank |
| "secret annex." | frank |
| cady's life | frank |
| e. i. lonoff | frank |
| mouschi | frank |
| silberberg | frank |
| "night-mare" | ancient mariner |
| "presumptive fathers" | grass |
| "pleasure past and anguish past, is it death or is it life?" | goblin market |
| "likes looking at the walls" | mexican |
| "linoleum roses on the floor." | mexican |
| "i'll shake the sky / like a hundred violins" | mexican |
| "you must keep writing." | mexican |
| "tame a wild tongue" | mexican |
| "sad red" | mexican |
| "vinegar-faced" | wuthering heights |
| "shall i live in hope?" | richard iii |
| "all men i hope live so." | richard iii |
| "all the world to nothing! ha!" | richard iii |
| "i'll have her, but i will not keep her long." | richard iii |
| "capers nimbly...to the lascivious pleasing of a lute," | richard iii |
| "rudely stamp'd" | richard iii |
| "not shaped for sportive tricks." | richard iii |
| "was ever woman in this humour won?" | richard iii |
| "says goodbye sometimes." | mexican |
| "upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots." | goblin market |
| "there is no friend like a sister" | goblin market |
| despite laura | goblin market |
| "what is that tree?" | seagull |
| olga knipper | seagull |
| "telemachus." | ulysses |
| "yes i said yes i will yes." | ulysses |
| deasy | ulysses |
| call of the toad | grass |
| "good woman" | kawabata |
"good girl" (instead of "good woman") | snow country |
| gloria anzaldua | mexican |
| borderlands | mexican |
| "dwindled and grew grey, then fell with the first snow" | goblin market |
| "cemetery of reconciliation." | grass |
| "scuttling" | grass |
| paul pokriefke | grass |
| "hobbling down the glen," | goblin market |
| "knot it" | murder |
| in emma cline | murder |
| elise pachen | murder |
| "wi'-gi-e" | murder |
| "melody gloucester pegasus" | jackson |
| "would you like a cup of tea?" | jackson |
| uncle julian | jackson |
| merricat blackwood | jackson |
| boris trigorin | seagull |
| "pack of crazy fools" | jackson |
| "all of you" | achebe |
| oskar matzerath in the tin drum | grass |
| "the sons of adam are limbs of each other" | farsi |
| "crying sound" | farsi |
| "awake!" | farsi |
| jabez branderham | wuthering heights |
| "thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess" | wuthering heights |
| old man warner | jackson |
| dorn | seagull |
| sorin | seagull |
| "little fish" | room of one's own |
| "astronomy, relativity, geography" | room of one's own |
| "the great art of making money," | room of one's own |
| "chloe liked olivia." | room of one's own |
| "watch-tower of a town which an earthquake shatters down" | goblin market |
| david grann | murder |
| spring of my life | haiku |
| helter skelter | murder |
| manson family | murder |
| peters | murder |
| evie | murder |
| "celestial" | keats |
| party of marxist unification | for whom the be |
| "under the ridge." | for whom the be |
| "dewdrop world." | haiku |
| "spring is passing" | haiku |
| japanese nobel | kawabata |
| "tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt me," | darcy |
| "sighs on which i fed my heart" | sonnet |
| two minutes hate | nineteen eighty-four |
| la vita nuova | sonnet |
| vittoria da colonna | sonnet |
| giacomo da lentini | sonnet |
| a. s. kline's | sonnet |
| "dostioffski," | on the road |
| joe wilson | verne |
| sex league | nineteen eighty-four |
| "practical in the extreme" | husband |
| "an intense horror of superstition." | husband |
| "creep over" | husband |
| junior anti | nineteen eighty-four |
| "rest cure" | husband |
| "flamboyant pattern." | husband |
| s | husband |
| "the most fantastic parking-lot attendant in the world." | on the road |
| "that dark center where procreation flared." | rilke |
| "paces in cramped circles" | rilke |
| "a thousand bars" | rilke |
| "thing poems," | rilke |
| enormous room | cummings |
| thought police | nineteen eighty-four |
| "dark london" | west |
| "40 meters and a pipe." | west |
| "how much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow." | darcy |
| nadia | west |
| saeed | west |
| "-orooni" | on the road |
| slim gaillard | on the road |
| remi boncoeur | on the road |
| mexico city by dean moriarty | on the road |
| sergeant lituma | radio |
| panamericana in mario vargas llosa | radio |
| marin county | west |
| "i like mysteries but i rather dislike muddles," | passage to india |
| "no, not yet." | passage to india |
| cyril fielding | passage to india |
| "our symbols." | palestine |
| "as chiron was to achilles, i am to cupid" | ovid |
| remedia amoris | ovid |
| "poem and an error" | ovid |
| "i give you my sweat and my blood," | fences |
| "muses of pieria" | farm |
| "i took all...my dreams...and i buried them inside you," | fences |
| "you say i take and don't give!" | fences |
| "hear it ring!" | fences |
| "anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes" | nineteen eighty-four |
| "seventeen months." | russian |
| "no foreign sky protected me, / no stranger's wing shielded my face" | russian |
| "three classics" | yiddish |
| "peace be upon you" | yiddish |
| "blast a hole into forever." | fences |
| "under the spreading chestnut tree." | nineteen eighty-four |
| five ages of man | farm |
| mykonos | west |
| constance garnett | karamazov |
| "everything is lawful." | karamazov |
| "i sold you and you sold me," | nineteen eighty-four |
| "heart's abhorrence" | spain |
| "the smell of coffee" | palestine |
| "cocoons" | passage to india |
| "you killed me...and i forgot, like you, to die" | palestine |
| "ancient walls" | palestine |
| "beware, beware of my hunger" | palestine |
| mahmoud darwish | palestine |
| tuqan | palestine |
| "a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up up up" | nineteen eighty-four |
| "good old dog" | fences |
| "death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner." | fences |
| "tell st. peter to open the gates" | fences |
| "longing inspired by the law of gravity." | palestine |
| karkov | for whom the be |
| original of laura | nabokov |
| charlotte haze | nabokov |
| reza | marjane |
| "to live life to the end is not a childish task." | doctor zhivago |
| "little rabbit" | for whom the be |
| forest brotherhood | doctor zhivago |
| nikolai | doctor zhivago |
| "brilliance" | rilke |
| liberius | doctor zhivago |
| "two gin-scented tears." | nineteen eighty-four |
| "exquisite pattern." | emperor |
| "but he hasn't got anything on!" | emperor |
| "new clothes" | emperor |
| "slow-stepped verse," | sanskrit |
| martins with the fire chief | ionesco |
| "freedom has a price" | marjane |
| evgraf | doctor zhivago |
| dick kennedy | verne |
| samuel ferguson | verne |
| james strand | verne |
| edwin muir | penal colony |
| "snare / strangled into a scream" | wilde |
| peter neumeyer | penal colony |
| "ridiculus sum" | bovary |
| "discovering home" | africa |
| nottle | jeeves |
| "taboo subjects" | africa |
| "ordinary domestic scenes." | africa |
| "rudimentary souls" | africa |
| "farewell to english." | africa |
| "mentally negligible" | jeeves |
| right ho | jeeves |
| carry on | jeeves |
| pilar | for whom the be |
| "broad brushstrokes" | africa |
| "fly." | song of solomon |
| "sharp pang of appetite" | mantel |
| "reminds him that it is time for a second breakfast." | mantel |
| beyond black | mantel |
| prize for fiction | mantel |
| "so now get up," | mantel |
| new poems | rilke |
| "we cannot know his legendary head" | rilke |
| uncle anoosh | marjane |
| "archaic torso of apollo" | rilke |
| "trumpets for the sky itself to hear" | song of solomon |
| "and she was loved!" | song of solomon |
| "sugarman" | song of solomon |
| "your day has come" | song of solomon |
| "would have the rabbit out of hiding" | frost |
| in stephen mitchell | rilke |
| "ritual dance around a circle / in which a mighty will stands paralyzed." | rilke |
| "but here there are no cows" | frost |
| graz | marjane |
| flegetanis | grail |
| perceval | grail |
| "lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." | eliot |
| "silly novels by lady novelists." | eliot |
| gwendolen harleth | eliot |
| "don't you remember?" | emperor |
| "long live the emperor" | ionesco |
| mercy hospital | song of solomon |
| "we are such stuff as manure is made on, so let's drink up and forget it," | long day's journey into night |
| old gaspard | long day's journey into night |
| "the mad scene. enter ophelia!" | long day's journey into night |
| kyot the provencal | grail |
| vulgate cycle | grail |
| "royal blood." | grail |
| "angelfood" | ionesco |
| "like the months of the year" | ionesco |
| "bag of gold" | song of solomon |
| "beautiful colors" | emperor |
| "surely tomorrow." | godot |
| "revisit[ed] the banks of the wye during a tour." | tintern |
| "astronomer-poet" | rubaiyat |
| comala | mexico |
| year of the death | ricardo reis |
| julian west | looking backward |
| tomas arroyo | mexico |
| pedro paramo | mexico |
| kind of alaska | doctor |
| "whistles far and wee," | in just |
| "eddieandbill" | in just |
| "bettyandisabel." | in just |
| "in just-." | cummings |
| cai jing | water margin |
| victor sings | awakening |
| last tycoon | fitzgerald |
| nick carraway in the great gatsby | fitzgerald |
| "outcasts always mourn" | ballad of reading |
| "hail to thee, blithe spirit!" | bird |
| tadzio in death in venice | mann |
| group portrait with lady | boll |
| while at grand isle | awakening |
| "allez vous-en!" | awakening |
| "si tu savais." | awakening |
| "disagreeable little woman" | awakening |
| "our sincerest laughter with some pain is drought" | bird |
| princess celestia | twilight |
| "zampa." | awakening |
| robert frost medal | we real cool |
| "keen tremor" | awakening |
| lowland | lahiri |
| much of lahiri | india |
| vikram seth | india |
| levy pants company | confederacy of |
| neon bible | toole |
| "rose embower'd in its own green leaves." | bird |
| "the black sluggard." | knight |
| "lady of beauty" | sappho |
| "deathless child of zeus" | sappho |
| lesbos | sappho |
| "mimes, in the form of god on high... / hither and thither fly" | poe |
| "blood red thing" | poe |
| "writhes" | poe |
| "mimic rout." | poe |
| rosemary hoyt | dick |
| "leopoldine," | cantos |
| "chill corpse" | bronze horseman |
| "an apparition of these faces in the crowd; / petals on a wet, black bough." | in a station at the metro |
| "frail cottage" | bronze horseman |
| arab in the stranger | camus |
| "my skin was once supple and smooth, but now it is withered by age; my hair had been lustrous and black, but now it is faded and gray." | sappho |
| "break a window to the west." | bronze horseman |
| "brothers poem" | sappho |
| "create a sensation" | poe |
| tommy barban | dick |
| impromptu | awakening |
| "on my first sonne" | jonson |
| "i've given you all and now i'm nothing." | ginsburg |
| "what sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls?" | ginsburg |
| sha wujing | journey to the west |
| zhu bajie | journey to the west |
| "the only person worth playing for." | awakening |
| "isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?" | akutagawa |
| song jiang | water margin |
| gao qiu | water margin |
| janice avery | bridge to terabithia |
| may belle | bridge to terabithia |
| "god'll damn you to hell when you die" | bridge to terabithia |
| katherine paterson | bridge to terabithia |
| twinkies | bridge to terabithia |
| easter mass | bridge to terabithia |
| lin chong | water margin |
| quvenzhane wallis | hushpuppy |
| "the bathtub" | hushpuppy |
| "living phantom." | murasaki |
| hushpuppy | beasts of the southern wild |
| "wild little plant" | murasaki |
| edward seidensticker | murasaki |
| liza dalby | murasaki |
| w. k. wimsatt | author |
| fujitsobo | murasaki |
| shining by stephen king | author |
| wilfrid sellars | pragmatism |
| essays in radical empiricism | pragmatism |
| morlocks | time |
| eloi | time |
| griffin in the invisible man | wells |
| edward prendick | island of doctor moreau |
| biglow papers | lowell |
| "was young and easy under the apple boughs / about the lilting house and happy as the grass was green." | fern hill |
| "canvas-covered wagon" | chopin |
| coton mais | chopin |
| "lying in the shadow of the big stone pillar" | chopin |
| "trahmp la-more" | balzac |
| at madame vauquer | balzac |
| "vough-care" | balzac |
| "vough-trahn" | balzac |
| "yoo-zhan day rahs-tin-yahc" | balzac |
| delilah for a polish | balzac |
| "polemic" | dictionary |
| wwi in a german | paul |
| "nothing new in the west." | all quiet on the western front |
| "suck'd me first and, now sucks thee." | flea |
| cicada | murasaki |
| rolls-royce | myrtle |
| "shining prince" | murasaki |
| baron montes | balzac |
| princess ateh | dictionary |
| new french review | gide |
| "unobstructed world." | rilke |
| "let us go then, you and i/when the evening is spread out against the sky/like a patient etherized upon a table." | eliot |
| jacques lacan | poe |
| "luh-cawn" | poe |
| "even and odd." | poe |
| "gruff' voice. minister d hides the titular letter in a card rack and returns it for 50,000 francs in a story by this author. in another story by this author, camille l'espanaye [" | poe |
| "] is found stuffed in a chimney after being murdered by an orangutan. c. auguste dupin [" | poe |
| "wild beast's fur" | rilke |
| "the key is in the sunlight at the window." | ginsburg |
| "queer shoulder to the wheel" | ginsburg |
| "never known the weariness, the fever, and the fret" | bird |
| "set traps for freedom" | rilke |
| "alien corn" | bird |
| "faces of beasts" | rilke |
| "poet hidden in the light of thought" | bird |
| "half the gladness that thy brain must know." | bird |
| "] features in many stories by, for 10 points, what author of " | poe |
| fireside | lowell |
| "a study of provincial life." | middlemarch |
| " for 10 points each: name this poem that contrasts the hedonism of the title character working in the kitchen with the death of a poor woman. " | emperor of ice cream |
| " and the speaker states, " | emperor of ice cream |
| "on indolence," | ode |
| "pallid bust of pallas just above [the speaker's] chamber door." | raven |
| east coker | eliot |
the dry salvages | t.s. eliot |
| the sea-wolf | london |
| macondo in one hundred years of solitude | garcia marquez |
| john fowles | magical realism |
| "cramped circles." | rilke |
| pearl-feather | song of hiawatha |
| "ritual dance" | rilke |
| brently mallard | chopin |
| valmonde | chopin |
| zandrine | chopin |
| "plunges into the heart and is gone" | rilke |
| little gidding | eliot |
| when klipspringer | funeral |
| "sir gawain and the green knight," | kiss |
| magwitch | philip |
| daoud | brother |
| stephen daedalus | joyce |
| "holiday" | soma |
| "with mournful tread" | o captain! my captain |
| "lovely and soothing" | when lilacs last in |
| rip | wolf |
| "ancient as the world and older than the flow of blood in human veins" | hughes |
| george selby | simon |
| according to the hymiskvidha | tyr |
| earth by the river styx | hades |
| "an abyss where vice is triumphant" | misanthrope |
| "one may enjoy the freedom of being an honest man" | misanthrope |
| "universal alphabet" | higgins |
| flay | banquo |
| su tong | red |
| beasts and super-beasts | saki |
| "currents of the universal being" | emerson |
| "part and parcel with god" | emerson |
| "whips" | godot |
| "conformity" | emerson |
| niels klim | latin |
| helen waddell | latin |
| "wandering scholars" | latin |
| owl eyes | funeral |
| "all the advantages of christianity and alcohol, and none of the defects." | soma |
| savage reservation | brave new world |
| "tied...down" | godot |
| point counterpoint | huxley |
| crome yellow | huxley |
| deirdre bair | godot |
| frij | midas |
| henry gatz | funeral |
| "monstrous and empty," | latin |
| "turkish pavilion." | julie |
| salvatore | name of the rose |
| leucothoe | horace |
| africae | name of the rose |
| carmina | horace |
| "acrostic" | emerson |
| "alexandrian stanza" | emerson |
| "forward, backward, or across." | emerson |
| fleance | banquo |
| "with smiles / and with soft deceitful wiles," | blake |
| "and what shoulder, and what art, / could twist the sinews of thy heart? " | blake |
| "earth's answer" | blake |
| "who could frame thy fearful symmetry?" | blake |
| "for whom do you bind your golden hair" | horace |
| "faithless" | horace |
| "heed the false calculations of chaldean" | horace |
| "envious age has been flying," | horace |
| "envy is ignorance" | emerson |
| banquo | macbeth |
| silvestra | italy |
| birnam wood | malcolm |
| "crazy again tonight! absolutely crazy!" | julie |
| "-sih-dus]." | milton |
| glum | brobdingnag |
| glumdalclitch | brobdingnag |
| "lady of the pearls." | italy |
| holy sinner | italy |
| lohl | paz |
| "post data" | paz |
| sappleton | saki |
| missie may | hurston |
| otis slemmons | hurston |
| "the shadow of the empire state building" | hurston |
| "spy glass." | hurston |
| "the gilded six bits" | hurston |
| yahoo in the land of the houyhnhnms | lemuel |
| greek passion | kazantzakis |
| freedom or death and the | kazantzakis |
| ben jonson | dryden |
| scrivener | melville |
| "engaged" | becky |
| "torture one poor word ten thousand ways." | dryden |
| margaret schlegel | howards |
| camilla | to the |
| wilfrid | saki |
| newnham college | room of one's own |
| girton college | room of one's own |
| "the disinherited one" | knight |
| wamba | knight |
| "some peaceful province" | dryden |
| hara in gone with the wind | mitchell |
| "in pious times, ere priest-craft did begin." | dryden |
| "force its own reception" | dryden |
| macalister | to the |
| erastro in la galatea | cervantes |
| "proud young city" | bronze horseman |
| pictures | williams |
| "thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" | ode to a nightingale |
| "was it a vision, or a waking dream?" | ode to a nightingale |
| li po | pound |
| "china," | cantos |
| "a book that one thumbs / listlessly till slumber comes." | harlem renaissance |
| "iron railing" | bronze horseman |
| "bessie, bop, bach." | harlem renaissance |
| "heritage" | harlem renaissance |
| "granite carapace" | bronze horseman |
| "we are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan" | brooks |
| "kitchenette building." | brooks |
| "wispy... 'kilroy-is-here' announcements;" | brooks |
| "six feet." | how much land does a man need |
| thea kronborg | cather |
| "like a pipe for a christmas present, or records" | harlem renaissance |
| henry tilney | northanger abbey |
| bobby thomson | baseball |
| "shot heard 'round the world," | baseball |
| grace poole | bertha |
| ministry of transport | pi |
| "the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth." | pi |
a minor apocalypse (language) | polish |
| kris kelvin | polish |
| "painted on the wall." | my last duchess |
| sloper | james |
| washington square | james |
| benediktbeuern abbey | latin |
| thomas of celano | latin |
| "day of wrath." | latin |
| archpoet | latin |
| mrs quabarl | saki |
| rape of the sabine women | saki |
| christian lygia | polish |
| joe trace | jazz |
| alice manfred | jazz |
| second vatican council | john xxiii |
| pacem in terris | john xxiii |
| hank morgan | connecticut yankee in |
| "marble pair of guardian lions" | bronze horseman |
| st. olaf's | jay gatsby |
| "to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow" | didion |
| mister george knightly | emma |
| in fathers | rand |
| we the living | rand |
| barbara grizzuti harrison | didion |
| "neurasthenic cher" | didion |
| "poised against the sunset, / crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog / and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye--." | sunflower sutra |
| kat, muller, kropp | all quiet on the western front |
| mack | cannery row |
| pondicherry | pi |
| mister fitzwilliam darcy | pride and prejudice |
| "only disconnect." | didion |
| esme | stoppard |
| great derangement | india |
| chinese pidgin english in sea of poppies | india |
| "elvis puff." | india |
| sophie mol | india |
| amitav ghosh | india |
| "in search of an author." | six characters |
| "i've lost a whole day over [this group]!" | six characters |
| "innumerable centers of culture." | author |
| "happy and careless" | six characters |
| "only pleasure" | six characters |
| along with francois rabelais | dostoyevsky |
| "strike straight." | brooks |
| "cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes." | brooks |
| ultimus | robot |
| busman | robot |
| "kah-rel cha-pek" | robot |
| "vile" | six characters |
| "a newly fried pancake." | nose |
| kovalyov | nose |
| river arno | forster |
| "in my barren land you are the final rose" | neruda |
"ah you who are silent!" | neruda |
| "there were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle." | neruda |
| "white hills, white thighs" | neruda |
| "body of a woman," | neruda |
| rock 'n' roll and travesties | stoppard |
| jimmy aaron | autobiography |
| jane pittman | autobiography |
| "the horror and the glory." | autobiography |
| "of an ex-colored man." | autobiography |
| black boy | autobiography |
| william inge | balcony |
| bus stop | balcony |
| "alienated windy corner, perhaps forever," | forster |
| rahel | india |
| aarne-thompson | fairy tale |
| "mastered all the arts of cowardice" | medea |
| "even greeks look down on other greeks, too clever to see the good in them." | medea |
| "to go home singing." | medea |
| boy, snow, bird | fairy tale |
| "the tragedy is not that things are broken. the tragedy is that things are not mended again." | cry, the beloved country |
| "my name, dear saint, is... is hateful to myself" | balcony |
| possession | fairy tale |
| "cramp." | robot |
| "story of the three bears." | fairy tale |
| coulibi | jane eyre |
| married him | jane eyre |
| "oh-bay-ah" | jane eyre |
| "aunt cora's patchwork" | jane eyre |
| ngong hills | out of africa |
| kenya by danish | out of africa |
| emmanuelson | out of africa |
| "jack and the beanstalk." | fairy tale |
| "do you think that the soul first shows itself by a gnashing of teeth?" | robot |
| "is not private, but not final." | dulce et decorum est |
| "hanging face" | dulce et decorum est |
| "misty panes and thick green light." | dulce et decorum est |
| dedicated to jessie pope | dulce et decorum est |
| "curse through sludge." | dulce et decorum est |
| book three of horace | dulce et decorum est |
| "gas! gas! quick, boys!" | dulce et decorum est |
| "for life, as it were." | james |
| "destroy it and man is destroyed" | cry, the beloved country |
| "lovely road that runs" | cry, the beloved country |
| tixo | cry, the beloved country |
| "for the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts" | wilde |
| "funny little dwarf" | wilde |
| "the birthday of the infanta," | wilde |
| "superb three-mast" | maupassant |
| "english rubaiyat" | pound |
| "the unborn child that's inheritor of our fear." | cry, the beloved country |
| madame de thoux | uncle tom's cabin |
| "this great war" | uncle tom's cabin |
| "a pluralistic universe" | james |
| "the will to believe," | james |
| "what belongs to the day." | sing |
| "too" | sing |
| "the darker brother" | sing |
| "the universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion" | sing |
| adela quested in the marabar | forster |
| "experiments with the action of magnetism had occupied public attention," | nose |
| "never to stoop." | duchess |
| "my ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongue's utterance." | balcony |
| "camest thou hither" | balcony |
| "the orchard walls are high and hard to climb" | balcony |
| "just this / or that in you disgusts me," | duchess |
| "o romeo, romeo! wherefore art thou romeo?" | balcony |
| elma | balcony |
| "the body electric?" | sing |
| speranza | friday |
| benamuckee | friday |
| foe | friday |
| poll | friday |
| broken stars | china |
| frontiers of science | china |
| "a dill pickle." | mansfield |
| "buzz when [she] died." | flies |
| cat's eye and oryx and crake | atwood |
| max gottlieb | lewis |
| booper | salinger |
| "zeze the x" | house on mango street |
| michel tournier | friday |
| "nenny," | house on mango street |
| art of love | ovid |
| keeler to loomis | house on mango street |
| sons of jacob | gilead |
| stephano | caliban |
| "a heart...too soon made glad." | duchess |
| "gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name," | duchess |
| "spot of joy" | duchess |
| "taming a sea-horse" | duchess |
| claus of innsbruck | duchess |
| plastic people of the universe | stoppard |
| "what the hell are you talking about?" | stoppard |
| avrahm yarmolinsky | stoppard |
| "what belongs to him or her and to none else" | sing |
| "the hollow round of my skull" | eliot |
| w. s. merwin | neruda |
| "nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die" | salinger |
| jimmy jimmerino | salinger |
| "miss spiritual tramp of 1948" | salinger |
| "both incline / their drowsy faces...on either side of [this poet's] enormous grave" | eliot |
| "rented back room" | brooks |
| terrance hayes | brooks |
| "for thine is the kingdom" | eliot |
| frank osbaldistone | rob roy |
| scottish highlands | rob roy |
| glasgow cathedral | rob roy |
| diana vernon | rob roy |
| thefoundationseries | asimov |
| "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." | second coming |
| three lawsof robotics | asimov |
| "biography" | doctor |
| "my last." | duchess |
| leora | lewis |
| galactic empire | asimov |
| "meditation upon death." | thanatopsis |
| "aedh wishes for the cloths of heaven" | yeats |
| jeanie deans | scott |
| hari seldon | asimov |
| ebling mis | asimov |
| "whose love is innocent." | beauty |
| "all that's best of dark and bright" | beauty |
| emil grubbe | doctor |
| "when it comes the landscape listens, / shadows hold their breaths." | there's a certain slant of light |
| skeetah | mississippi |
| curley | of mice and |
| travels with charley | steinbeck |
| lay dying by william faulkner | mississippi |
| huntsman eric | snow |
| addie bundren | mississippi |
| jacob's room | woolf |
| hatton | out of africa |
| blake poem | tyger |
| bois sauvage | mississippi |
| "redbreast in a cage / puts all heaven in a rage." | robin |
| "with blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz / between the light and me / and then the windows failed, and then / i could not see." | dickinson |
| "intent" | author |
| merci | keats |
| western canon | author |
| prince genji | murasaki |
| salvage the bones by jesmyn ward | mississippi |
| "the glass coffin." | fairy tale |
| woman warrior | chinese |
| "ghosts." | chinese |
| "his happy good-night air/some blessed hope, whereof he knew/and i was unaware." | darkling thrush |
| "if at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it," | seagull |
| "all is void, void, void" | seagull |
| "in silent night when rest i took," | fire |
| "the happiest of mortals, for he is above everything he possesses." | candide |
| "oppresses like the weight of cathedral tunes," | there's a certain slant of light |
| "to encourage the others." | candide |
| "always wears mourning... to match my life." | seagull |
| lieutenant mamiya | murakami |
| malta kano | murakami |
| "the thieving magpie." | murakami |
| janacek's sinfonietta | murakami |
| "in the opposite house / as lately as today" | death |
| "winter afternoons," | there's a certain slant of light |
| admiral byng | candide |
| "sophocles long ago / heard it on the aegean," | dover beach |
| "near me on the grass lies glanvil's book." | scholar-gipsy |
| a man's a man a' that | burns |
| "the best laid schemes of" | to a mouse |
| "and men / go often awry." | to a mouse |
| ascent to heaven | mahabharata |
| hidimbi | mahabharata |
| bhishma | mahabharata |
| harlem shadows | mckay |
| "stasis in darkness" | plath |
"the arrow / the dew that flies." | plath |
| "so it feels like hell" | plath |
| "art, like everything else." | plath |
| simon winchester in the meaning of everything | dictionary |
| "child of hope and fear." | dictionary |
| father gassalasca jape | dictionary |
| sandwich islands | dictionary |
| "dead hands, dead stringencies." | plath |
| camus | plague |
| chris hemsworth | snow |
| "lincoln." | lindsay |
| "thanks to the human heart by which we live" | ode: intimations of immortality |
| "a time when meadow, grove, and stream" | ode: intimations of immortality |
| "apparell'd in celestial light." | ode: intimations of immortality |
| "implied" | author |
| "bones are picked clean" | and death shall have no dominion |
| "raise up thy thoughts above the sky / that dunghill mists away may fly." | fire |
| esmerelda | hunchback of notre-dame |
| shadow and act | ellison |
| but your land is beautiful | paton |
| msimangu | stephen |
| paquette in candide | pangloss |
| "mourn'd--and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "would i might rouse the lincoln in you all!" | lindsay |
| "i have done it again." | plath |
| "you cannot fold a flood-- / ... because the winds would find it out-- / and tell your cedar floor." | fire |
| seagull | chekhov |
| "clumsy" | glass menag |
| "you're one times one! you're blue roses!" | glass menag |
| "blow out your candles" | glass menag |
| amanda wingfield | glass menag |
| "how can you ask a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?" | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "the limper." | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| schubal | kafka |
| grunlich | mann |
| maria edgeworth | castle |
| professor kuckuck | mann |
| "in a green bay." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "sang the sun in flight." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| jewish max vanderburg | book thief |
| hans huberman | book thief |
| standover man | book thief |
| "haunted by humans." | book thief |
| "constantly passing bars" | rilke |
| confessions of felix krull | mann |
| "cuckoo" | japanese |
| "but slowly, slowly!," | japanese |
| "cutting word." | japanese |
| "wild to do something for father" | hair |
| eau claire | hair |
| sydney pollack | out of africa |
| "squatters" | out of africa |
| "notes from an immigrant's handbook," | out of africa |
| "kentucky straight bourbon" | glass menag |
| "moth machine" | out of africa |
| "cream gilded cabin." | pound |
| "thin like brook water" | pound |
| "still-born" | pound |
| "before i knocked." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "irritating cleverness" | do not go gentle into that good night |
| the zek shukhov | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| god with alyosha the baptist in gang | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| shadows on the grass | out of africa |
| "rumble thy bellyful" | lear |
| "blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" | lear |
| jose norberto allende | cortazar |
| "never, never, never, never, never" | lear |
| la belle dame | keats |
| condy | castle |
| otranto | castle |
| "explode his inward air" | hades |
| "no world" | rilke |
| "single" | pushkin |
| "great stage of fools." | lear |
| "shall break into a hundred thousand flaws" | lear |
| "adieu, adieu, all's vanity" | fire |
| "here stood that trunk, and there that chest." | fire |
| "child rowland to the dark tower came, / his word was still 'fie, foh, and fum.'" | fairy tale |
| sir murtaugh | castle |
| sir patrick | castle |
| "lost his bottle of oil." | hades |
| "a legendary head / with eyes like ripening fruit." | rilke |
| wingfield | menagerie |
| "old-fashioned what-not" | menagerie |
| "ugly - babbling old - witch!" | menagerie |
| "hired assassin" | menagerie |
| auerbach | mephistopheles |
| "would always wish evil, and always works the good." | mephistopheles |
| klaus mann | mephistopheles |
| "cataracts and hurricanoes" | lear |
| issa | japanese |
| shiki | japanese |
| "talk-stories" | chinese |
| "scar literature" | chinese |
| red azalea | chinese |
| willa | penal colony |
| old commandant | penal colony |
| "man's life's as cheap as beast's" | lear |
| serpent club | cortazar |
| hendrik hofgen | mephistopheles |
| "less lovely" | party |
| charles brockden brown | ventriloquism |
| carwin | ventriloquism |
| wieland | ventriloquism |
| "affected by sort of a cold shadow of the white man's curiosity" | hawthorne |
| jennifer glaser | jew |
| "bee sequence" | plath |
| "sylvia, sylvia / where did you go / after you wrote me / from devonshire / about raising potatoes / and keeping bees?" | sexton |
| mulk raj anand | bloomsbury |
| hastings | richard iii |
| clarence | richard iii |
| elizabeth on an arctic | frankenstein |
| patriotic gore | simon |
| "harsh humanity" | simon |
| "native new england." | simon |
| "such depravity" | simon |
| "devilish" | simon |
| "sylvia's death." | sexton |
| master of ceremonies | mask |
| "prayer to masks" | senghor |
| "sexless" | du maurier |
| "ageless," | du maurier |
| bourton | party |
| "what passes for cookery in england is an abomination" | woolf |
| "a triumph." | daube |
| " for 10 points each: name this concept which a critic calls a " | menace |
| masuji ono | booker |
| " for 10 points each: this other pinter play was inspired by his own affair with bbc presenter joan bakewell. this nine scene " | betrayal |
| "a solitary human voice." | chernobyl |
| "why we love" | chernobyl |
| khlestakov | government inspector |
| "one thing" | decameron |
| claire zachanassian | visit |
| felix de lacey | frankenstein |
| "something has died. isn't there now." | booker |
| lunatic view | menace |
| sarita | fornes |
| "fairies' midwife" | mab |
| "earnestly entreateth the hermit to shrieve him" | gloss |
| "to teach, by his own example, love and reverence to all things." | gloss |
| "little atomies" | mab |
| ota | thousand cranes |
| "whip of cricket's bone" | mab |
| oki toshio | beauty and sadness |
| "the approach to al'mutasim." | book |
| oki | beauty and sadness |
| memoirs of a woman of pleasure | hill |
| john hill | fielding |
| "starts and wakes... swears a prayer or two and sleeps again." | mab |
| cruelty special to our species | korean |
| east coast magazine | ferris wheel |
| "regional eroto-political contrast" | ferris wheel |
| "king of the zipper" | ferris wheel |
| keiko | beauty and sadness |
| wycliffe bible | book |
| combed thunderclap | book |
| axaxaxas mlo | book |
| "novel" | romance |
| "reflecting gems" | richard iii |
| letters by captain walton | frankenstein |
| buckingham | richard iii |
| "carnivalesque" | rabelais |
| mercutio in romeo | mab |
| "the dark girl of long alley." | calvino |
the path to the nest of spiders | calvino |
| enlace | calvino |
| "folk laughter." | rabelais |
| "the best place to hide a leaf is in a forest" | book |
| "on the outskirts of bikanir." | book |
| cesaire | tempest |
| "billingsgates" | rabelais |
| communist red wolf | calvino |
| "the curse is come upon me" | lady of shalott |
| "bold sir lancelot." | lady of shalott |
| adrienne | chopin |
| sotherton | mansfield park |
| "body and soul free" | chopin |
| louchebem | argot |
| "the intestine of the leviathan." | paris sewer |
| "will never know... his mother." | chopin |
| sound of music by the orangedrink lemondrink man | roy |
| "year without a summer." | frankenstein |
| villa diodati | frankenstein |
| heather badcock | lady of shalott |
| "reaping early" | lady of shalott |
| "god sobs in my arms" | tonight |
| agha shahid ali | tonight |
| turkishwoman safie | frankenstein |
| "stride is wilderness of freedom" | coetzee |
| "disappeared among the reeds and willows" | chopin |
| suffering wife | lenz |
| gotz von berlichingen | lenz |
| lenz | lenz |
| eye in the door | regeneration |
| ghost road | regeneration |
| siegfried sassoon | owen |
| "the end of imagination." | roy |
| sam staples | thoreau |
| "four gray walls, and four gray towers, / overlook a space of flowers" | lady of shalott |
| "all voting a sort of gaming" | thoreau |
| "peaceable revolution" | thoreau |
| "their tax-bills." | thoreau |
| "spent in jail," | thoreau |
| "final act of betrayal by a ruling class that has failed its people" | roy |
| "missing one thing: god!" | dario |
| "helmet and the helmet-feather" | lady of shalott |
| "burn'd like one burning flame together." | lady of shalott |
| ellen sewell | thoreau |
| "glaring" | rhododendron |
| "crimson faces," | rhododendron |
| "stood fifty feet high" | rhododendron |
| "great stuffer of bags" | eatonville |
| "thrown against a sharp white background" | hurston |
| "how it feels to be colored me." | hurston |
| "i am thrown. i am against. i sharp. i color." | parker |
| "to roosevelt." | dario |
| "the thought-fox" | coetzee |
| dario cuerda in leopoldina | ocampo |
| sur | ocampo |
| victoria ocampo | argentina |
| "last night i dreamed i went to [this place] again." | manderley |
| frith | manderley |
| jeanette winterson | frankenstein |
| "great empire crumbled and fell apart." | chernobyl |
| william boot | journalist |
| "you open me like a flower," | ocampo |
| marcel schwob | argot |
| georges guieysse | argot |
| "well-knit plots" | detective |
| belano | detective |
| sonora | detective |
| "greasy black cap" | master |
| like the master | bulgakov |
| white guard | bulgakov |
| happy valley | rhododendron |
| griboedov | massolit |
| "i feel most colored when i am thrown against a sharp white background." | parker |
| "resume." | parker |
| "sad trash." | frankenstein |
| cornelius agrippa | frankenstein |
| in rooney | emma |
| "the uncivil teacher of court etiquette kotsuke no suke" | universal history of infamy |
| "the widow ching - pirate." | universal history of infamy |
| universal history of infamy | borges |
| mikhail berlioz | massolit |
| johnny the priest | anna christie |
| "deep, sluggish" | bayou |
| "had not often been disfigured by frowns" | bayou |
| ama ata aidoo | ghost |
| eulalie | ghost |
| the dilemma of one | ghost |
| solomon wilberforce | season |
| ghana in an akosua busia | season |
| native companion at the illinois state fair | wallace |
| "the voice." | infernal machine |
| alaska in the yiddish policemen | chabon |
| summerland | chabon |
| "the end, just like a harp's sigh, comes light" | night |
| "longing for death." | night |
| "buying a fishing rod for my grandfather." | gao |
| guandi | temple |
| homegoing | gyasi |
| dry white | season |
| "people ride a hundred miles to see." | abigail |
| "indians smashed" | abigail |
| "dear parents' head on a pillow" | abigail |
| "echoes down the corridor," | abigail |
| mercy lewis | abigail |
| "poppet" | abigail |
| "cursed with the brand of slavery." | desiree's baby |
| luck | california |
| "tarts" | o'neill |
| "sentimental and ... trite, reassuringly platitudinous." | fiedler |
| death in the american novel | fiedler |
| "come back to the raft ag'in, huck honey!" | fiedler |
| "failed cattle thief" | trujillo |
| "arise to birth with me, my brother." | neruda |
| st bernard | pynchon |
| kitty duval | time of your life |
| nick's | time of your life |
| deerslayer | cooper |
| richard marriot | fish |
| "not too bold," | knight |
| house of busyrane | knight |
| "somewhere behind turkenfeld," | sebald |
| "nothing ever ends, adrian" | watchmen |
| walter kovacs | watchmen |
| "the end is nigh" | watchmen |
| colt .44 | bierce |
| devil's row | crane |
| kis | joyce |
| word book | bierce |
| uss scorpion | australia |
| tobias oates | australia |
| nevil shute | australia |
| "jumbuck" | australia |
| "tucker bag" | australia |
| "swagman," | australia |
| tomb for boris davidovich | kis |
| "bluebeard," | bloody chamber |
| charles perrault | fairy tales |
| dill | lee |
| monroeville | lee |
| "state domain" | big man |
| "tell me who to kill," | naipaul |
| ". for 10 points each: aeschylus claims that the persians was " | frogs |
| michael hamburger | holocaust |
| "town" | fish |
| holcomb | lee |
| giovanni drogo | buzzati |
| the reverend | lee |
| "i'll fergive her!" | street |
| house of pride | knight |
| dara mcanulty | diary |
| young naturalist | diary |
| lamorna ash | fish |
| "death fugue." | holocaust |
| "sandy-haired woman" | two minutes hate |
| "opening and shutting like that of a landed fish." | two minutes hate |
| "a noise that set one's teeth on edge" | two minutes hate |
| "b-b! ... b-b!" | two minutes hate |
| "long thin nose" | two minutes hate |
| "small goatee" | two minutes hate |
| fiction department | two minutes hate |
| red peter | ape |
| "deputy governor" | abigail |
| oracle of the golden bottle | rabelais |
| boiberik | yiddish |
| i. l. peretz | yiddish |
| "do what thou wilt." | rabelais |
| go set | lee |
| furious hours | lee |
| "call me [this character] of the shchigrovsky district." | hamlet |
| tsvetaeva | hamlet |
| panurge | rabelais |
| "ticket to the fair." | wallace |
| "consider the lobster" | wallace |
| maine lobster festival | wallace |
| "i have done what you wanted to do, walt whitman, / allen ginsberg" | body |
| "exceptional heroic" | body |
| "vivat, vivat, vivat, vivat." | imaginary invalid |
| phyllis | marriage |
| valere | marriage |
| in satan says | body |
| bei dao | mist |
| "from air to air, as through an empty net" | neruda |
| lady lowborough | wildfell |
| tenant of wildfell hall | epistolary |
| jack halford | epistolary |
| "lonely old courage-teacher" | whitman |
| "the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe." | whitman |
| "the angel of the central committee" | neruda |
| tan twan eng | mist |
| meyer landsman | chabon |
| heroides | behn |
| "sense of failure that is the source of almost all my anxiety" | italian |
| willie maxwell | lee |
| anita raja | ferrante |
| french communist | isherwood |
| anushka | master and mar |
| franz biberkopf | berlin |
| "life is not a walk across a field" | doctor zhivago |
| "creature" | heart of darkness |
| "bundles of acute angles" | heart of darkness |
| "as a snake would a bird." | heart of darkness |
| season of migration to the north | arabic |
| "arab and african." | othello |
| eed | othello |
| oenone to paris | behn |
| "shovelboard" | abigail |
| isherwood | berlin |
| adaptive manipulator | computer |
| aggressive menace | computer |
| discovery one in arthur clarke | computer |
| in ellison | ape |
| christopher smart | pope |
| hilliad | pope |
| sophia parnok | tsvetaeva |
| "give you many / combs and rings" | tsvetaeva |
| cam island | chabon |
| "bony scandalmonger" | hamlet |
| "blend of chalk and rot." | hamlet |
| in an ivan turgenev | hamlet |
| leonard marnham | mcewan |
| robby | mcewan |
| ted williams to hamlet | updike |
| "hub fans bid kid adieu." | updike |
| joe dimaggio | old man and the sea |
| ethan feld | chabon |
| the girlfriend | tsvetaeva |
| "don't look now" | du maurier |
| el trato | algiers |
| "topography" | algiers |
| los banos de | algiers |
| antonio de sosa | algiers |
| leni lamiasson | kiss of the spider woman |
| tobis | kiss of the spider woman |
| oscar fenichel | mother |
| "old roses" | roy |
| "a screaming comes across the sky." | v-2 |
| virgin suicides | eugenides |
| middlesex | eugenides |
| girl meets boy | ali smith |
| sateen dura luxe | world war ii |
| rabo karabekian | world war ii |
| edgar derby | world war ii |
| "monte verita" | du maurier |
| "sophisticated fun" | tristero |
| bilskirnir | 540 |
| peyton thomas | alcott |
| crevel | cousine bette |
| cimbria | country |
| invisible cities | calvino |
| john matteson | alcott |
| ferrars | roger |
| "came down the walk." | bird |
| imogen | ali smith |
| ricote | don quixote |
| "figurative incarceration" | lawyer |
| nat hocken | du maurier |
| "of glass." | lawyer |
| felicia hemans | casabianca |
| "casabianca" | bishop |
| elisabeth demand | ali smith |
| anthea | ali smith |
| "in a gentlemanly manner" | alcott |
| "pale horse, pale rider." | 1918 |
| "i have met them at close of day." | easter, 1916 |
| "the double vision of michael robartes" | yeats |
| becka | testaments |
| june kashpaw | erdrich |
| "what's america, but the legend of rock 'n' roll?" | elvis |
| that erdrich | elvis |
| heid | elvis |
| "last cigarettes" | zeno |
| "everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!" | bishop |
| "gentleman of shalott" | tennyson |
| "half is enough" | tennyson |
| "plunged in the battery-smoke" | tennyson |
| "double vision" | michael |
| "the phases of the moon" | michael |
| owen aherne | michael |
| district officer robson | ngugi |
| "victory filled up / the little rented boat" | bishop |
| trieste | zeno |
| italo svevo | calvino |
| her real glory | kiss of the spider woman |
| "near-total historical amnesia" | sontag |
| "illness as metaphor." | sontag |
| "notes on camp." | sontag |
| "a lady asks me," | cavalcanti |
| "donna me prega." | cavalcanti |
| katherine anne porter | 1918 |
| kihika in the mau mau rebellion | ngugi |
| vera claythorne | nursery rhyme |
| il milione | travel |
| anthony sattin | nile |
| anis zani | nile |
| adrift on | nile |
| samara | nile |
| came like swallows | 1918 |
| dolce stil novo | cavalcanti |
| st. jude | corrections |
| "mr. difficult" | gaddis |
| the recognitions | gaddis |
| precrime division | minority report |
| "the minority report" | dick |
| bob childan | san francisco |
| "hide-run" | goat |
| "bad blood" | season in hell |
| " of the king. for 10 points each- this rotund knight is summoned from the boar's head tavern to fight at shrewsbury, where he describes honor as " | falstaff |
| "you prob'ly must have heard of" | bell jar |
| "return." | hero |
| "initiation," | hero |
| clodia metelli | lesbia |
| lesbia | catullus |
| combray | proust |
| isis, nut | set |
| nut | shu |
| lenny shepherd | bell jar |
| haired woman | pamuk |
| in tom jones | partridge |
| allworthy | partridge |
| "to saxham" | carew |
| "to my friend g. n. from wrest" | carew |
| like robert herrick | cavalier |
| thirty best short stories of the year | bell jar |
| "an elegy upon the death of the dean of paul's" | donne |
| le dernier amour | flaubert |
| ebisu | hiruko |
| awashima | hiruko |
| "women and fiction" | room of |
| "a room of one's own" | stephen |
| seer | prospero |
| billy bathgate | doctorow |
| in roots | kunta |
| modern husband | fielding |
| carew | donne |
| drosselmeier | hoffmann |
| "i know why [what animal] sings?" | caged bird |
| "sky and branches" | mrs |
| madame lebrun | caged bird |
| "proportion" | mrs |
| "conversion." | mrs |
| transcendental wild oats | alcott |
| abraham liscov | hoffmann |
| pyramid of quetzalcoatl | tula |
| "pretty eyes, pretty eyes!" | hoffmann |
| "sore must be the storm / that could abash" | bird |
| "a bird came down the walk" | dickinson |
| "seen [this thing] - go round - / they might as wise have lodged a bird." | brain |
| "to and fro" | brain |
| "a plank in reason, broke." | brain |
| northumberland | shrewsbury |
| hal at shrewsbury | hotspur |
| "ah, ah!" | hoffmann |
| toltec empire | tula |
| tropic of capricorn | miller |
| tropic of cancer | miller |
| subterraneans | kerouac |
| "the book of the grotesque" | carpenter |
| judge hathorne | webster |
| "atonement with the father." | hero |
| new hampshirite jabez stone | webster |
| "there never was a body that [gave] the undertaker a tip" | o'connor |
| francis jeffrey | romanticism |
| "whining and hypochondriacal" | romanticism |
| "abyss" | hero |
| neff | set |
| marie stahlbaum | hoffmann |
| princess pirlipat | hoffmann |
| kater murr | hoffmann |
| "open his soul beyond terror" | hero |
| miesmies | hoffmann |
| killall | webster |
| the generation of '98 | unamuno |
| niebla | unamuno |
| willie lincoln | saunders |
| "gold upon [her] head" | goblin |
| "victory lap" | tenth of december |
| "would not open lip from lip" | goblin |
| eber | tenth of december |
| in saunders | james |
| "ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain." | bradstreet |
| "on stupid pills." | james |
| "stood, / like a lily in a flood" | goblin |
| "lilacs," | chopin |
| both gods of the lightning | sacco |
| "all right we are two nations" | dos passos |
| anthropophagic manifesto | andrade |
| "seizing" | beauty |
| "letter to the icamiabas" | lusiads |
| verbalucetm | james |
| "lady jane." | lady chatterley's lover |
| "ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically." | lady chatterley's lover |
| "we must not look at" | goblin |
| bolton | lady chatterley's lover |
| in sartre | spanish civil |
| commodore hawser trunnion | peregrine |
| fleet debtors prison | peregrine |
| "mossy glen" | goblin |
| txillardegi | unamuno |
| peter smollett | orwell |
| jonathan cape | orwell |
| "preston the wise" | windmill |
| comedie | single sentence |
| clapeau | chef |
| arana | basque |
| "nivolas" | unamuno |
| abel sanchez | unamuno |
| adventures of roderick random | smollett |
| lost guard | pynchon |
| english for spiritual | couplet |
| "i mean, i can fly / like a bird in the sky" | giovanni |
| "ego tripping." | giovanni |
| virginia tech | giovanni |
| "nikki-rosa." | giovanni |
| alfred prufrock | mermaid |
| "singing, each to each," | mermaid |
| "civilwarland in bad decline," | saunders |
| "mermaids singing, each to each" | eliot |
| "sad bad glad mad brother's name" | villon |
| "prince of all ballad-makers." | villon |
| "the ballade of the ladies of bygone days." | villon |
| "drowned lilies dancing" | gautier |
| alice ruth moore | dunbar |
| "free bird" | angelou |
| "dares to claim the sky." | angelou |
| "i do not think that they will sing to me." | mermaid |
| my man | wodehouse |
| inimitable | wodehouse |
| " millicent boyd reads plagiarized marcus aurelius quotes at mitchell holmes in a failed attempt to keep him calm while engaging in this activity. for 10 points each: the oldest member narrates wodehouse's story " | milne |
| rodney has a relapse | milne |
| "dwells with [this concept] that must die." | beauty |
| first crusade by torquato tasso | jerusalem delivered |
| erotokritos | jerusalem delivered |
| fifteen-syllable | jerusalem delivered |
| "listen to the song of" | rumi |
| work team | island |
| hodoshe | island |
| laszlo jamf | pynchon |
| clicking of cuthbert | golf |
| "restaurants with oyster shells." | sawdust |
| "preludes" | sawdust |
| "faint stale smells of beer" | sawdust |
| "trampled" | sawdust |
| prufrock | sawdust |
| willie ballroom | fugard |
| "i promise to stand still" | tell |
| "now am i free to be poetical?" | frost |
| "such heaps of broken glass... you'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen." | frost |
| "unstoried, artless, unenhanced, / such as she was, such as she would become" | frost |
| justice wargrave | nursery rhyme |
| "god has pity on kindergarten children." | hebrew |
| yehuda amichai | darwish |
| "challenge to me, because we write about the same place." | darwish |
| benno von archimboldi | mexico |
| "through forests of symbols" | flowers of evil |
| "perfumes, colors, and sounds" | flowers of evil |
| "deep and dark unity." | flowers of evil |
| "so for your arrogance / and your ruthlessness / i am swept back / where dead lichens drip / dead cinders upon moss of ash." | asphodel |
| three strong women | france |
| aegidius tschudi | tell |
| fanta | france |
| khady | france |
| baron of attinghausen | tell |
| john berryman | bradstreet |
| devil on the cross | ngugi |
| "organization for modern theft and robbery" | ngugi |
| 52-stanza | bradstreet |
| "solitary traveler" | mrs |
| "before the great wars" | psalms |
| fruitlands | alcott |
| "too far from town to learn baseball" | frost |
| "hypocrite reader! my double! my brother!" | flowers of evil |
| "proportioned, spiritless poems" | bradstreet |
| "away in brutish london, for a hollow crown" | bradstreet |
| "simon will listen while you read a song." | bradstreet |
| amy march in little women | alcott |
| "all may judge" | bradstreet |
| "andromache, i think of you!" | flowers of evil |
| "christmas won't be christmas without any presents," | alcott |
| "mopping and mowing" | goblin |
| "whose woods these are i think i know." | frost |
| babamukuru | nervous conditions |
| nhamo | nervous conditions |
| "morning and evening" | goblin |
| noviolet bulawayo | zimbabwe |
| "cat's face" | goblin |
| "three bards" | romantic |
| "ceiling" | nigeria |
| "rat's pace" | goblin |
| alain mabanckou | single sentence |
| "primitive tribes" | nigeria |
| zoe | nigeria |
| raceteenth | nigeria |
| "man passes" | flowers of evil |
| blood knot | fugard |
| briareus | windmill |
| "who become lost" | mexico |
| visceral realists | mexico |
| "pacification" | nigeria |
| broken glass | single sentence |
| lucy ellmann | single sentence |
| wives of geniuses | stein |
| have sat with | stein |
| binh | stein |
| "spicy nest" | hair |
| "our very sorrows weep, / that joys so ripe, so little keep." | hair |
| maurice bavaud | tell |
| amichai | psalms |
| gikuyu | ngugi |
| "o lithuania, my homeland!" | pan tadeusz |
| tadeusz | judge |
| soplica | judge |
| francis ford coppola | film |
| apocalypse now | film |
| monique truong | stein |
| karanja | ngugi |
| "summer evening by the window with" | psalms |
| "shake your head and scatter" | sun |
| glenn gould | austria |
| trotta | roth |
| "just above my chamber door" | pallas |
| "pallid" | raven |
| "the glory that was greece, / and the grandeur that was rome." | helen |
| paradise vendors | confederacy of dunces |
| john kennedy toole | confederacy of dunces |
| reilly | confederacy of dunces |
| jack maggs | australia |
| toole | new orleans |
| colin clout | shepheardes |
| spenser | sidney |
| astrophel | sidney |
| araucaniad | spain |
| whitaker | welty |
| de la barca | spain |
| "yellow dress" | color purple |
| last gentleman | new orleans |
| "the celestial omnibus" | forster |
| "dominant point of reference" | italian |
| barton park | sense and sensibility |
| "good god! what is the meaning of this?" | sense and sensibility |
| "a foil to europe" | image of africa |
| ti noel | haiti |
| the corrections | oprah |
| bridge on the drina | turk |
| papa-daddy's | welty |
| "don't speak." | mo |
| jed martin | houellebecq |
| ayad akhtar | trump |
| homeland elegies | trump |
| "possibility" | island |
| shirley-t.'s | welty |
| avalon coldmoon | soseki |
| "my master." | soseki |
| red sorghum | mo |
| concept of the political | schmitt |
| willoughby | sense and sensibility |
| steele | sense and sensibility |
| clayton chiclitz | yoyodyne |
| stanley koteks | yoyodyne |
| boeing | yoyodyne |
| yoyodyne | pynchon |
| marianne dashwood | sense and sensibility |
| "struck and banded which way please them" | tennis ball |
| dunstan | raveloe |
| raveloe | eliot |
| "the sea like a vast silvered mirror reflects the sky like a sheet of zinc." | symphony in gray major |
| edward ferrars | sense and sensibility |
| "to roosevelt" | dario |
azul (collection) | dario |
| "a man without land is nobody." | montreal |
| de selby | third policeman |
| stone pits | raveloe |
| "to gun-stones" | tennis ball |
| bosola | tennis ball |
| china grove | welty |
| this indo-trinidadian | naipaul |
| elinor | sense and sensibility |
| magrath sisters | 1980 |
| beth henley | 1980 |
| crimes of the heart | 1980 |
miguel street | naipaul |
| dan kois | 1980 |
| venetian epigrams | goethe |
| "exile song" | brazil |
| "my land has palm trees where the thrush sings." | brazil |
| "a glimpse of yellow lemons" | montale |
| "the golden trumpets of radiance" | montale |
| "thunder their songs" | montale |
| big man | naipaul |
| isaac butler | 1980 |
| his humour | jonson |
| "sly fox" | jonson |
| arkham house | lovecraft |
| "the only real horror in most of these fictions is the horror of bad taste and bad art." | lovecraft |
| howard phillips lovecraft | lovecraft |
| daniel jose older | lovecraft |
| cthulhu | lovecraft |
| "stranger, bear word to the spartans we..." | boll |
| hermetic tradition | montale |
| elisabeth hauptmann | brecht |
| "play with music" | brecht |
| serapion | all for love |
| curtain of green | welty |
| palmyra | dry |
| wild gallant | jonson |
| every man | jonson |
| thayers | boston |
| sunken bell | fairies |
| god bless you | firemen |
| model-t | firemen |
| poetic justice | harjo |
| chasuble | ernest |
| horatio oliveira | hopscotch |
| "the importance of being" | ernest |
| talita | hopscotch |
| latin american boom | vargas |
| " ends by praising " | heart |
| "sister's choice" | color purple |
| " for 10 points each: name this country that byron called a " | greece |
| " for 10 points each: in the third canto of this satirical byron epic, the title character and his lover haidee listen to a hymn lamenting turkey's rule over the " | don juan |
| isles of greece | don juan |
| " for 10 points each: byron addressed a ten-year old " | heart |
| maid of athens | heart |
| " in a poem that urges to " | heart |
| " this thing. byron's poem " | heart |
| time of the hero | vargas |
| mayor of zalamea | spain |
| pedro calderon | spain |
| the children's hour | hellman |
| red channels | blacklist |
| "unrepentant" | blacklist |
| screenwriters ring lardner | blacklist |
| hellman | blacklist |
| wetstein | werther |
| "two-fifths genius, three-fifths sheer fudge" | lowell |
| "bergin and water." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| andric | turk |
| tea obreht | tiger |
| "will never / pass into nothingness." | beauty |
| "the fragrance of the lemon trees" | montale |
| benjamin bailey | beauty |
| with salvatore quasimodo | montale |
| cecil vyse | forster |
| "younger men... and children... women... birds." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "a thing of [this concept] is a joy forever." | beauty |
| "anesthesia" | holmes |
| "boston brahmin." | holmes |
| "the deacon's masterpiece." | holmes |
| moritz jaeger | hauptmann |
| in hauptmann | fairies |
| "lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind." | rose |
| "one who wastes her time and me." | rose |
| "conceptism." | spain |
| "how to write about pakistan." | granta |
| poet louise gluck | nobel |
| granta | nobel |
| "elite" | boston |
| "brahmins." | boston |
| "hysterical pregnancy" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "m, o, a, i." | twelfth night |
| "shalt remain" | beauty |
| "cultured" | spain |
| "how to write about africa" | granta |
| "common attic." | cavafy |
| "think of the hands / how they rest without weight." | duino elegies |
| mikis theodorakis | greek |
| "i woke with this marble head in my hands" | greek |
| mythistorema | greek |
| "our own heart exceeds us" | duino elegies |
| "six principles of political realism" | morgenthau |
| politics among nations | morgenthau |
| mathers | third policeman |
| olanna | half of a yellow sun |
| "serpent's tooth" | lear's daughters |
| madame koto | famished road |
| "tis his own blame... and must needs taste his folly," | lear's daughters |
| "more like a tavern or a brothel," | lear's daughters |
| "meaning of so tiny a being as the [...] sea lace." | carson |
| like yiannis ritsos | cavafy |
| belsey | on beauty |
| in the physicists | solomon |
| bride of messina | schiller |
| armgart | schiller |
| ton beau | marot |
| "ballad of the ladies of times past" | villon |
| "dean of american letters" | howells |
| thomas bailey aldrich | chestnutt |
| "the goophered grapevine," | chestnutt |
| wandering jew | hawthorne |
| simoun | rizal |
| owen warland | hawthorne |
| kingdom of god is within you | tolstoy |
| red hook | view from the bridge |
| eddie | view from the bridge |
| "the emotion / that almost dismays us, / when a joyful thing falls." | duino elegies |
| ambeth ocampo | rizal |
| crisostomo ibarra | rizal |
| makamisa | rizal |
| "the virtuoso's collection," | hawthorne |
| "the a.b. memoirs," | handmaid |
| "under his eye." | handmaid |
| "nolite te bastardes carborundorum" | handmaid |
| "affirms something." | cathedral |
| "author's note" | cry, the beloved country |
| allan woodcourt | summerson |
| "the flawed bell" | baudelaire |
| "schoolboy" | wilson |
| kipps | united kingdom |
| boggis | fox |
| bunce | fox |
| william congreve | mourning bride |
| "heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd." | mourning bride |
| bureau of fisheries | carson |
| country wife | restoration |
| "comedies" | restoration |
| "where i'm calling from" | carver |
| boy willietries | wilson |
| carisbrooke | cry, the beloved country |
"how can i face such slaughter and be cool?" | a far cry from africa |
| "wrestles with" | gorilla |
| arthur jarvis by absalom | cry, the beloved country |
| "principle of universal discovery." | physicist |
| friedrich durrenmatt | switzerland |
| father huismans | naipaul |
| dugal mcadoo | chestnutt |
| "was begun in trondheim and finished in san francisco" | cry, the beloved country |
| conjure woman | chestnutt |
| howells | chestnutt |
| christian monty kipps | on beauty |
| "a lovely road that runs from ixopo into the hills." | cry, the beloved country |
| seven guitars | wilson |
| floyd barton | wilson |
| "penal and correctional institutions." | cry, the beloved country |
| sidley park | stoppard |
| "plantation tradition" | chestnutt |
| jarrow | bede |
| "lupi ad anglos," | sermon |
| "sinners in the hands of an angry god." | sermon |
| mandrake | machiavelli |
| "oral history" | 1980 |
| world only spins forward | 1980 |
| council room of the continental principalities | 1980 |
| "millennium approaches" | 1980 |
| don manuel | schiller |
| christopher isherwood | berlin |
| rex mottram | waugh |
| lachlan mackinnon | cope |
| "waste land limericks" | cope |
| holy thursday | chrysostom |
| liturgy of saint basil | chrysostom |
| against the jews | chrysostom |
| paschal | chrysostom |
| babe | 1980 |
| pluck | third policeman |
| our american cousin | lincoln |
| colonel brandon | sense and sensibility |
| eliza williams | sense and sensibility |
| vashti | forster |
| tubingen | holderlin |
| finn mac cool | o'brien |
| mad king sweeney | o'brien |
| italian hermeticism | montale |
| in flann | joyce |
| dalkey archive | joyce |
| edna o'brien | joyce |
| "is it about a bicycle?" | third policeman |
| flann o'brien | third policeman |
| "public transportation." | meursault |
| lord marchmain | waugh |
| unlike ungaretti | montale |
| pooka mcphillimey | o'brien |
| spy who came | berlin |
| "drive my car," | beatles |
| hard day | beatles |
| yellow submarine | beatles |
| a 's night | beatles |
| roller | schiller |
| schweizer | schiller |
| amalia von edelreich | schiller |
| memory of departure | gurnah |
| alec leamas | berlin |
| "betray'd to endless night," | holy sonnets |
| "a little world made cunningly." | holy sonnets |
| "break, blow, burn, and make me new." | holy sonnets |
| "no hopeful verse" | hawthorne |
| "the artist of the beautiful" | hawthorne |
| "the grieving for linos" | duino elegies |
| on the use of the chorus in tragedy | schiller |
"like adamant draw mine iron heart." | holy sonnets |
| "god sees the truth, but waits." | tolstoy |
| melanie bruwer | dry white season |
| gordon ngubene | dry white season |
| ben du toit | dry white season |
| sally bowles | berlin |
| "every photograph reinforces the aura" | barn |
| "most photographed" | barn |
| "postmodern novelist." | delillo |
| yusuke kafuku | murakami |
| dark horse comics | escapist |
| amazing midget radio comics | escapist |
| empire comics | escapist |
| john buchan | thirty-nine steps |
| richard hannay | thirty-nine steps |
| mongane wally serote | dry white season |
| "for don m - banned" | dry white season |
| captain stolz | dry white season |
| "delusion notes." | nietzsche |
| "to my husband," | cope |
| "i will not give up berlin!" | george |
| stanford creative writing program | one flew over the cuckoo's nest |
| juan carlos etchepare in heartbreak tango | puig |
| colonel aponte | die |
| santiago nasar | die |
| melquiades | die |
| franz kromer | demian |
| "drums in [a soldier's] ear," | mab |
| celie addresses | color purple |
| "breaches, ambuscadoes, spanish blades" | mab |
| "philosophical poem" | mab |
| accidental death of an anarchist | police |
| mrozek | absurd |
| sergeant pluck | ireland |
| third policeman | ireland |
| the st. cloud's orphanage | cider house rules |
| hester eastman | scarlet letter |
| "plaits the manes of horses." | mab |
| elizabeth temple | bumppo |
| the prairie and the | cooper |
| "brute neighbors" | walden |
| hagen | pnin |
| wickfield | uriah |
| smoke and steel | chicago |
| lost children archive | mexico |
| "understanding which has made a stranger a brother" | tagore |
| "humiliate the host" | george |
| "in thy hands, my lord." | endless |
| ellery channing | walden |
| "the broken wall, the burning roof and tower / and agamemnon dead" | leda |
| "a sudden blow." | leda |
| arab shakespeare trilogy | machine |
| frenchman alec therien | walden |
| martha in edward albee | george |
| "can fill the unforgiving minute / with sixty seconds' worth of distance run [will] be a man, my son!" | if |
| harald hjarne | endless |
| makhotin | vronsky |
| gladiator | vronsky |
| "pined away." | goblin market |
| "salamander." | paz |
| "the flowing river never stops, and yet the water never stays the same." | japanese |
| minister of the left | japanese |
| "shining." | japanese |
| western biological | cannery row |
| ladies of grace adieu | mab |
| critic laura miller | mcewan |
| machines like me | mcewan |
| sophie von kuhn | hymn |
| westernized lakunle | lion and the jewel |
| ilujinle | lion and the jewel |
| the lion and the jewel | photographer |
| puig | argentina |
| "madrid, 1937" | paz |
| alias grace | atwood |
| father amador | die |
| susanna clarke | mab |
| captain fox | mab |
| "the god abandons antony" | greek |
| alexis zorba | greek |
| venetia moore | mab |
| "be drunk!" | spleen |
| "cup" | dice |
| mihailov | vronsky |
| "embarrassing things" | japanese |
| "pleasant things." | japanese |
| ten-square-foot | japanese |
| "crowd of hungarians" | chicago |
| "keg of beer and an accordion" | chicago |
| "the terrible burden of destiny" | chicago |
| "as a young man laughs," | chicago |
| "brutal" | chicago |
| maniac in dario fo | police |
| "shot to rags" | bierce |
| pale of settlement | fiddler on the roof |
| "if i were a rich man" | fiddler on the roof |
| wouk | fiddler on the roof |
| mila | poland |
| archimago | knight |
| tamakazura | fireflies |
| "facino cane" | human comedy |
| heiner muller | ishiguro |
| "the presentation of credible experiences and happenings in literature." | realism |
| "copying a copy of the real." | barthes |
| laura esquivel | recipe |
| in like water for chocolate | esperanza |
| nenny in the house on mango street | esperanza |
| efforts of affection | moore |
| "imaginary gardens with real toads in them" | moore |
| "well done, cutty-sark!" | drunk |
| "the unknown masterpiece." | human comedy |
| "like a foggy mist" | faustus |
| castle of indolence | sleepy hollow |
| "stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley" | sleepy hollow |
| "old indian chief" | sleepy hollow |
| "powwows" | sleepy hollow |
| tappan zee | sleepy hollow |
| "hessian trooper" | sleepy hollow |
| "nameless battle during the revolutionary war" | sleepy hollow |
| "american everygirl who happens to be jewish." | wouk |
| "what krishna meant... when he admonished arjuna / on the field of battle" | eliot |
| "strong brown god." | eliot |
| william benton | bierce |
| "the cheater's guide to love," | yunior |
| how you lose her | yunior |
| oscar hijuelos | pulitzer |
| "gay castles" | sleepy hollow |
| "forever flushing round a summer sky," | sleepy hollow |
| tarry town | sleepy hollow |
| fairie queene | knight |
| "redcrosse" | knight |
| feuerbach | eliot |
| "exquisite music" | greek |
| "invisible procession" | greek |
| "say goodbye" | greek |
| bower of bliss | knight |
| "are coming today" | greek |
| "the ladder sways as the boughs bend." | apple pick |
| "perverted moral judgment" | eliot |
| "evangelical teaching: dr. cumming," | eliot |
| countess czerlaski | eliot |
| reverend amos barton | eliot |
| life of jesus | eliot |
| essence of christianity | eliot |
scenes of clerical life | george eliot |
| "economy" | walden |
| "unscrupulosity of statement" | eliot |
| "to left and right" | birches |
| "some boy's been swinging them." | birches |
| prince hotaru | fireflies |
| songs of mihyar | syria |
| moral letters to lucilius | seneca |
| hercules furens | seneca |
| "pan-mediterranean muses," | ovid |
| nate silver | howards end |
| "dominated by a 'literary'... element conducive to the act of contemplation." | closet |
| duessa | knight |
| radigund | knight |
| "b-text" | faustus |
| "the reward of sin is death," | faustus |
| mephistophilis | faustus |
| rebecca taichman | yiddish |
| lucas hnath | doll |
| wild duck | ibsen |
| catherine burroughs | closet |
| matthew lopez | howards end |
| "out flew the web and floated wide" | mirror |
| "isthmian," | pindar |
| "human heart." | lady or the tiger |
| "deputation of five strangers" | lady or the tiger |
| "cushioned parapet" | lady or the tiger |
| "semi-barbaric" | lady or the tiger |
| "anguished deliberation." | lady or the tiger |
| "as a weapon i may be of some use. but as a man, i'm a wreck," | vronsky |
| "sun moon stars." | rain |
| shankuntala | kalidas |
| "produces vibrations." | ernest |
| septimus harding | warden |
| hiram's hospital | warden |
| the barsetshire series | warden |
| trollope | thackeray |
| "and sons." | father |
| "has a music of its own" | ernest |
| kitty shcherbatsky | vronsky |
| "in town and jack in the country" | ernest |
| "bunburyist" | ernest |
| devil in the white city | chicago world's fair |
| fair in jimmy corrigan | graphic novel |
| "nemean" | pindar |
| stephanie burt | callimachus |
| library of alexandria | callimachus |
| aetia | callimachus |
| coulibri plantation | rhys |
| pinakes | callimachus |
| "you seem to be displaying signs of triviality." | ernest |
| "swaggering soldier." | latin |
| sauron | ring |
| "sitting alone and remembering." | old gringo |
| cesarea tinajero in mexico in the savage detectives | bolano |
| ulises | bolano |
| "her salt tears fell from her, and softened the stones" | tree |
| tumblr | callimachus |
| triumph of death | d'annunzio |
| republic of fiume | d'annunzio |
| d'annunzio | francesca |
| giovanni malatesta | francesca |
| herta muller | bread |
| e. l. doctorow's ragtime | firemen |
| "burying lamps" | twenty love poems |
| "tangling shadows" | twenty love poems |
| l'abri | desiree's |
| "a spider, trying to hide" | twenty love poems |
| "crosses of fire" | twenty love poems |
| "the atlas of your body." | twenty love poems |
| sea garden | rose |
| "mister" | color purple |
| georgia to god | color purple |
| cecily and gwendolen | ernest |
| corinne | color purple |
| dusters | tin drum |
| campensis | isis |
| poligraf poligrafovich in a mikhail bulgakov | dog |
| praise singer | death and the king's horseman |
| "junkman's obbligato" | coney island |
| "i am waiting." | coney island |
| "mexico city blues." | keroua |
| "i'm with you" | rockland |
| "eater of left-overs." | death and the king's horseman |
| maubert isabeau | bread |
| walk together | wilson |
| lafayette theater | harlem |
| "clash of cultures." | death and the king's horseman |
| "beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs" | bierce |
| "modern fiction" | shakespeare |
| english by constance garnett | shakespeare |
| torrents of spring | shakespeare |
| chris ware | graphic novel |
| art speigelman | graphic novel |
| "on the air" | welles |
| let him die | okigbo |
| biafra | okigbo |
| biafran war in half of a yellow sun | adichie |
| kozeltsof | sevastopol |
| preference | sevastopol |
| jay cee for ladies | esther |
| eagle in sherwood anderson | willard |
| buddy | willard |
| eliot weinberger | paz |
| "scourge of penance" | everyman |
| good deeds | morality |
| "faces of women and children" | chicago |
| "tool maker," | chicago |
| "stacker of wheat," | chicago |
| cornhuskers | chicago |
| "not fear the devil himself," | land |
| "how much land does a man need?" | tolstoy |
| adirondacks | willard |
| garry essendine in present laughter | coward |
| sweet sorrow | coward |
| coward | blithe spirit |
| "ozymandias." | shelley |
| lapland | snow queen |
| okigbo | adichie |
| okeoma | adichie |
| reverend arthur villars | burney |
| "that never dreams" | paz |
| elmer rice | expressionism |
| adding machine | expressionism |
| sophie treadwell | expressionism |
| machinal | expressionism |
| second shepherds | jesus |
| passion play | jesus |
| the ' play | jesus |
| path of thunder | okigbo |
| evelina | burney |
| "all that i really love / is the rain that flattens on the bay, / and the eel-grass in the cove." | millay |
| "newly sprung in june" | rose |
| "with a woman's head" | candle |
| "all of animated nature" | candle |
| "diversely framed." | candle |
| "go, lovely" | rose |
| oresteia of aeschylus | mourning becomes electra |
| "cinnamon shops," | judaism |
| "happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" | tolstoy |
| "must have uncommended died" | rose |
| hippolyte tautain | club |
| "in deserts, where no men abide," | rose |
| "this is the royal bed." | rose |
| nineteen ways of looking at wang wei | paz |
| "i am a man, i consider nothing human alien to me" | self-tormentor |
| menedamus | self-tormentor |
| "at the hotel de bourgogne between de bergerac and a boeotian" | duel |
| bruno schulz | judaism |
| "sketches" | sevastopol |
| "daughter of fire, spirit of fire." | paz |
| "saltmother" | paz |
| jakob gradus | pale fire |
| charles kinbote | pale fire |
john shade | pale fire |
| "the more we reflect upon," | lady or the tiger |
| "harder it is to answer," | lady or the tiger |
| "confrontation is largely metaphysical" | death and the king's horseman |
| "purple patches" | horace |
| "weighty openings" | horace |
| "beds of" | rose |
| "bed of crimson joy." | rose |
| "while ye may." | rose |
| "a word once sent abroad can never return." | horace |
| "red sox beat yanks 5-4 on chapman's homer" | pale fire |
| queen yaruga | pale fire |
| sir pelham grenville wodehouse | wodehouse |
| "devious mazes of passion" | lady or the tiger |
| "i want a hero: an uncommon want." | don juan |
| "shines out with its honor unstained." | horace |
| lucius calpurnius piso | horace |
| "the real thing." | brideshead revisited |
| "it is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland," | horace |
| bandusian | horace |
| black tulip | dumas |
| auguste maquet | dumas |
razumikhin | crime and punishment |
| "logically inevitable" | robinson |
| an alan sillitoe | race |
| loneliness of the long distance runner | 50 |
| essex borstal | bakeries |
| postscript to the name of the rose | jorge |
| "library plus blind man can only equal" | jorge |
| "noble fountain" | horace |
| "lame-footed punishment rarely forgets the wicked man" | horace |
| "d'artagnan romances" | dumas |
| "pleading child" | tan |
| "two kinds." | tan |
| "half by expectation, half by inattention" | tan |
| mary rowlandson | captivity |
| magnalia christi americana | mather |
| cotton | mather |
| shem | finnegans wake |
| shaun | finnegans wake |
| "the butcher cumberland" | don juan |
| "dante... bruno. vico... joyce." | beckett |
| "social leper" | brideshead revisited |
| cornelius van baerle's | dumas |
| mordaunt | dumas |
| felton | dumas |
| "very fiery particle" | don juan |
| "let itself be snuffed out by an article." | don juan |
| "for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction." | don juan |
| alfred peron | beckett |
| plowed under | paper |
| triple-a | paper |
| santo domingo | time of the hero |
| world war ii japan in an artist of the floating world | ishiguro |
| "black little god" | queequeg |
| "the boss," | willie |
| "how south african censorship works." | gordimer |
| "there is no such thing as the state" | september 1, 1939 |
| martha gellhorn | war correspondent |
| "all the clocks in the city" | as i walked out one evening |
| "you cannot conquer time." | as i walked out one evening |
| bouvard et pecuchet | flaubert |
| lost in the stars with kurt weill | anderson |
| leila in saint petersburg | don juan |
| vernon | don juan |
| haydee | don juan |
| "old leather-face," | willie |
| "till china and africa meet," | as i walked out one evening |
| margaret bourke | war correspondent |
| "women in lifeboats" | war correspondent |
| ss strathallan | war correspondent |
| poum | spanish civil |
| "man of magnitude." | harold |
| "magnitude," | harold |
| "the most visible point of his island," | robinson |
| yojo | queequeg |
| starbuck | white |
| eve sedgwick | john |
| epistemology of the closet | john |
| "different in his essential nature than the normal men around him." | john |
| "scalar" | harold |
| "kick'd and knock'd" | goblin market |
| "maul'd and mock'd." | goblin market |
| "they're called social reformers." | harold |
| antichrist by an anabaptist | candide |
| "don't ye love sperm?" | moby-dick |
| "that is no country for," | old |
| pierre de ronsard | old |
| "deathbed" | leaves of grass |
| "i greet you at the beginning of a great career" | emerson |
| ghost of christmas past | fezziwig |
| cecil graham in act iii | cynic |
| waindell | campus |
| red brick university | lucky jim |
| malaciah | willie |
| urquhart mcvarish | canada |
| rebel angels | canada |
| laurel | shropshire lad |
| her the sovereignty | rowlandson |
| goodness of god | rowlandson |
| "withers quicker than the rose" | shropshire lad |
| silver age of russian | pasternak |
| my sister | pasternak |
| simon darcourt | canada |
| franz xaver kappus | letters to a young poet |
| letters to a young poet | rilke |
| letters to a young painter | rilke |
| "the god with the lyre" | rilke |
| sonnets to orpheus | rilke |
| balthus | rilke |
| slavery society in rochester | fourth |
| "a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." | fourth |
| dolphin hotel | murakami |
| "the elves and the shoemaker" | grimm |
| household tales | grimm |
| "calcutec." | murakami |
| 465th | fly |
| "seraphs swing their snowy hats - / and saints - to windows run." | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| atsumori | heike |
| hokku | renga |
| "hearts have not" | old |
| "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." | cynic |
| "a horse leaping over a high fence." | open boat |
| "open-ey'd conspiracy his time doth take" | ariel |
| "like reeds," | ariel |
| "hell is empty, and all the devils are here!" | ariel |
| "where the bee sucks, there suck i." | ariel |
| fugitive | proust |
| ted jordan | tan |
| suyuan woo | tan |
| buried child | shepard |
| "misty halo." | heart of darkness |
| "flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil" | heart of darkness |
| anthony blanche | brideshead revisited |
| "suppression of savage customs" | heart of darkness |
| time regained | proust |
| the prisoner | proust |
| sadie burke | willie |
| huey long | willie |
| "lies within the shell of a cracked nut," | heart of darkness |
| curse of the starving class | shepard |
| sound of waves | mishima |
| timofey pavlovich pnin | campus |
| "fubbed." | stevens |
| "the plot against the giant" | stevens |
| "heavenly labials in a world of gutturals." | stevens |
| nikolai punin | akhmatova |
| lev gumilyov | akhmatova |
| kurtz in the congo by joseph conrad | heart of darkness |
| pechorin in a mikhail lermontov | hero |
| "there'll be time enough for sleep" | shropshire lad |
| "sapiential books" | wisdom |
| nature of a crime | ford |
| romance, the , and the inheritors | ford |
| ford madox ford | good soldier |
| "fished from obscurity," | stevens |
| "princox" | stevens |
| "does it stink like rotten meat?" | dream |
| "the wood's in trouble" | shropshire lad |
| "rule them all." | tolkien |
| "loafe and invite" | soul |
| "it's no go the yogi-man, it's no go blavatsky / all we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi." | macneice |
| macneice | auden |
| black speech | tolkien |
| black mathilde | head |
| "large, handsome, stone building" | pemberley |
| "natural beauty." | pemberley |
| proud flesh | willie |
| "the road goes ever on" | tolkien |
| republic of pemberley | austen |
| love's whirlwind | coward |
| "how the whale got his throat," | just-so |
| effie | just-so |
| "how the tiger got his stripes." | jungle book |
| another of the just so stories | hedgehog |
| "one big thing." | hedgehog |
| lambton | pemberley |
| orve knausgaard | hitler |
| "the end of the party" | greene |
| wormsley common gang | greene |
| sarah miles in world war ii | greene |
| "invisible gentlemen" | japan |
| "my pleasant things in ashes lie." | bradstreet |
| letters from | auden |
| "the stars are dead. the animals will not look" | spanish civil war |
| haladdin | tolkien |
| "i explain a few things," | spanish civil war |
| lensmand geissler | growth of the soil |
| isak | growth of the soil |
| growth of the soil | norway |
| christiania | norway |
| "strong foundation of proud babel" | bradstreet |
| "dear mother, fairest queen." | bradstreet |
| john woodbridge | bradstreet |
| "come and see the blood in the streets" | spanish civil war |
| "whole mines of gold" | bradstreet |
| "roughly 37" | wallace |
| lost highway | wallace |
| "wonderfully and oddly hollow" | wallace |
| "e unibus pluram." | wallace |
| "like a syrupy sweet" | dream |
| the 's skin | stalin |
| "orbs of liquid grey" | italy |
| in sebald | 40 |
| "hours." | italy |
| "crust[s] and sugar[s] over" | dream |
| "i, too" | dream |
| wings of the dove | italy |
| "with a ring at the end of his nose." | lear |
| stories, botany and alphabets | lear |
| "keeper" | dream |
| "there once was a man from decatur . . ." | limerick |
| "immortal soul" | italy |
| primo levi | 40 |
| empyrean | divine comedy |
| hay fever | coward |
| "always" | coward |
| exit one | ghosts |
| kunta kinte | slave |
| jackie croyton | coward |
| surinam | slave |
| coliseum | italy |
| sara teasdale | bradbury |
| "all the riches the east doth hold" | bradstreet |
| featherstone | bradbury |
| tilita | bradbury |
| deutscher | bradbury |
| "i recognize an ancient flame" | divine comedy |
| "raphel mai amecche zabi almi" | divine comedy |
| "i have lived too long in foreign parts" | italy |
| "that fool weakling keith," | bradbury |
| " for 10 points each: hardy's " | world war i |
| channel firing | world war i |
| " is about the opening of this war, which was protested by poets like siegfried sassoon and wilfred owen in poems such as " | world war i |
| decorum est | world war i |
| theydulce | world war i |
| sostrata | mother-in-law |
| philumena | mother-in-law |
| hecyra | terence |
| "a warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations." | hitler |
| "black hat trimmed with gold daisies" | mansfield |
| spinner of years | hardy |
| immanent will | hardy |
| " which made a ship sink in " | hardy |
| "thought she heard someone crying" | mansfield |
| " one of these birds sings " | thrush |
| " in a hardy poem that opens " | thrush |
| janie crawford by zora neale hurston | their eyes w |
| "what can i give him, poor as i am?" | goblin market |
| daggoo | white |
| "talos." | willie |
| dolph pillsbury | willie |
| fighting terms | gunn |
| "gams." | white |
| "vague, nameless horror" | white |
| "strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood." | white |
| "in the position of a kind of jeremiah" | debating |
| sense of movement | gunn |
| "imparting some special virtue of its own, as in ... japonicas" | white |
| malala yousafzai | education |
| the self-tormentor | terence |
| "under the spreading" | chestnut tree |
| "extravagant." | mansfield |
| no pain cafe | walcott |
| jacques roumain | vo |
| "the man with night sweats." | gunn |
| "the american dream is at the expense of the american negro" | debating |
| "kirghiz eyes," | clawdia |
| "build that shed out in the garden" | pinter |
| "don't let them tell you what to do!" | pinter |
| "the story of a girl who stood up for [this activity] and was shot by the taliban." | education |
| "the dynamo and the virgin," | adams |
| hunger of memory | rodriguez |
| moses aloetta | lonely londoners |
| "legendarium." | tolkien |
| hesione hushabye | shaw |
| "music of creation." | tolkien |
| book of lost tales | tolkien |
| kirill eskov | tolkien |
| "i thought once how theocritus had sung" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| seven beauties | persian |
| comparison of the two languages | persian |
| poet in new york | lorca |
| "a man with guts" | bradbury |
| lonely londoners | english |
| "a fantasia in the russian manner on english themes." | shaw |
| "mule talk" | their eyes w |
| reverend james morrell | shaw |
| heartbreak house | shaw |
| sears roebuck | their eyes w |
| "icy waters" | horace |
| "monty." | pinter |
| "pauses" | pinter |
| joachim ziemssen | hans |
| too loud a solitude | czech |
| "rather sound judgment with great simplicity of mind," | candide |
| "big black valise that looked like the head of a hippopotamus" | grandmother |
| edgar atkins teagarden | grandmother |
| famous barbecue | grandmother |
| "whether he is or not, i still have nothing to eat." | candide |
| james whitcomb riley | english |
| brathwaite | dante |
| de vulgari eloquentia | dante |
| otto katz | czech |
| chemical essays | roderick |
| "sentience of all vegetable things" | roderick |
| "existing monuments" | eliot |
| "saw the skull beneath the skin." | eliot |
| "hwaet!" | beowulf |
| "listen!" | beowulf |
| "where now the horse and the rider?" | tolkien |
| edoras | tolkien |
| "melic" | poetry |
| dieter | hitler |
| "the airborne toxic event." | white noise |
| the-college | white noise |
| pierre menard | borges |
| nils runeberg | borges |
| cape cod to greenwich village | provincetown players |
| george cram cook | provincetown players |
| herbert quain | borges |
| "storm in the sky in the evening" | russian |
| c | poe |
| aurora leigh | elizabeth |
| "to the depth and breadth and height / my soul can reach" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "monument more lasting than bronze." | ode |
| "unreal city under the brown fog of a winter dawn." | eliot |
| "victory" | ode |
| county mayo | ireland |
| synge | ireland |
| eureka | poe |
| jack clitheroe | plough and the stars |
| irish citizen army | plough and the stars |
| "the chair she sat in, like a burnished throne" | eliot |
"same [one of these objects] that smiles today / to-morrow will be dying." | rose |
| chrysogenee | rose |
| ludovico technique | clockwork orange |
| unlimited dream company | ballard |
| "throb of heart divine" | poe |
| bessie burgess | plough and the stars |
| "sublunary lovers' love" | donne |
| "cannot admit absence." | donne |
| "in blood of innocence" | donne |
| "any man's death diminishes [him]" | donne |
| "people don't do such things!" | ibsen |
| "the one cock in the basket" | ibsen |
| "of heaven." | trees |
| joyce kilmer | trees |
| square theatre | iceman cometh |
| "i go among your body as among the world" | stone |
| "whiter...than snow" | othello |
| "smooth as monumental alabaster" | othello |
| "the green eyed monster" | othello |
| "corridors of a dissolving autumn." | stone |
| "pillars of magic" | stone |
| "each is another and no other: / crossing and vanishing." | stone |
| keisha | nw |
| "at every jolt, the blood / come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs." | owen |
| don parritt | iceman cometh |
| "draws the world" | borges |
| elwan | assassination |
| randa | assassination |
| torquilstone castle | ivanhoe |
| waverly novels | scott |
| brother lawrence | spain |
| part of speech | brodsky |
| aravind adiga | assassination |
| "knew to my veins and glands as a child." | petersburg |
| clive linley | amsterdam |
| sylvia plath to frieda hughes | mother |
| "the most wonderful thing of all?" | ibsen |
| "into nine levels" | dickey |
| "buckdancer's choice." | dickey |
| deliverance | dickey |
| anwar in a mahfouz | assassination |
| "elegy to john donne." | brodsky |
| "come and kiss me. / never mind my bruises, / hug me, kiss me, suck my juices." | rossetti |
| yashmeen harlot | against the day |
| "black smoke" | invasion of earth |
| quail | invasion of earth |
| "bastard of [this city]." | istanbul |
| "grossly mistaken" | praise of folly |
| "hodge-podge medley of speech" | praise of folly |
| "inimitable combs" | praise of folly |
| chantilly | poe |
| "out, vile jelly" | blind |
| "what must be said" | israel |
| "i don't want to be a tree, i want to be its meaning." | istanbul |
| sergeant x | esme |
| "for esme - with love and squalor" | bananafish |
| slow learner | pynchon |
| "faithless harlot" | against the day |
| charles anthony bruno | train |
| "industry" | praise of folly |
| henry drummond | inherit the wind |
| golden dancer | inherit the wind |
| bertram cates | inherit the wind |
"jenny" | dante gabriel rossetti |
| "sea-winds blown from east and west" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "breath of my chant" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "perfume." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "call" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| william michael | rossetti |
| "fragrant pines" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "cedars" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "nature's dumb creatures." | praise of folly |
| "long-robed philosophers," | praise of folly |
| "artisans," | praise of folly |
| self-love | praise of folly |
| "lazy laughing languid" | rossetti |
| "fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea." | rossetti |
| "bashful and tender" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| bella kurnitz in a neil simon | yonkers |
| stool pigeon | pittsburgh |
| "we meet at the final crossroads" | ibsen |
| camoes | lusiads |
| camoes prize | saramago |
| blindness | saramago |
| "the black unicorn" | lorde |
| new spelling of my name | lorde |
| guy haines | train |
| nemean, isthmian | ode |
| button molder | ibsen |
| "he is the god of love" | ibsen |
| "kindness and mercy" | invasion of earth |
| "sophons" | invasion of earth |
| "wallbreakers" | invasion of earth |
| vernon halliday | amsterdam |
| grishkin | eliot |
| simonides | ode |
| humaine | train |
| this haibun travelogue | narrow road to the deep north |
| saigyo | narrow road to the deep north |
| "mizu no oto" | frog |
| "sound of water" | frog |
| "the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence." | kafka |
| sara coleridge | ode to a nightingale |
| "a little fable" | kafka |
| gem of the ocean | pittsburgh |
| "a feline smell," | eliot |
| la bete | train |
| la lison | train |
| in a patricia highsmith | train |
| zami | lorde |
| canewell | pittsburgh |
| "the true story of ah q." | lu |
| "kong yiji" | china |
| radio golf | pittsburgh |
| count of st | queen of spades |
| gina | stendhal |
| "social x-rays," | bonfire of the vanities |
| aubrey buffing | bonfire of the vanities |
| filippo chirazzi | bonfire of the vanities |
| "the stammerer." | claudius |
| "great white defendant" | bonfire of the vanities |
| peter fallow | bonfire of the vanities |
| "poor uncle" | claudius |
| awol in rome | john |
| "olympian mixture" | claudius |
| "old king log" | claudius |
| charles smithson | fowles |
| sarah woodruff | fowles |
| french lieutenant | fowles |
| "too many... mopey suburbanites." | new yorker |
| james thurber | new yorker |
| "lemon tarts" | bonfire of the vanities |
| "play the fool" | claudius |
| "river that goes curving, / advances and retreats." | stone |
| "silence dogood" | franklin |
| jack duluoz | big sur |
| clelia | stendhal |
| "lover by lover" | yeats |
| "paddle in the cold / companionable streams" | yeats |
| "have not grown old" | yeats |
| "the nineteenth autumn has come upon me / since i first made my count." | yeats |
| janiculum | stendhal |
| "a fairy's child" | keats |
| harold ross | new yorker |
| "i, [this man]." | claudius |
| "the god" | claudius |
| "crystallization" | stendhal |
| on love | stendhal |
| farnese tower | stendhal |
| count mosca | stendhal |
| "fragrant zone" | keats |
| "his soul upon the growing gloom." | darkling thrush |
| "some vengeful god" | hap |
| "know that thy sorrow is thy ecstasy!" | hap |
| alaska by michael chabon | yiddish |
| explosion in a cathedral | carpentier |
with kurt weill wrote the threepenny opera | brecht |
| viktor shklovsky | distancing |
| "defamiliarization" | distancing |
| moktir | france |
| "rat." | murakami |
| the ladies' anti | fourth |
| covey | douglass |
| project | works progress administration |
| ghost of don andrea | spanish tragedy |
| hieronimo | spanish tragedy |
| balthazar | spanish tragedy |
| sargon of akkad | poetry |
| lucia in the betrothed | manzoni |
| biskra | france |
| "you only need to change your direction" | kafka |
| "a mere child" | kawabata |
| "the whole world is growing smaller every day" | kafka |
| old capital | kawabata |
| "how love fled... and hid his face amid a crowd of stars" | old |
| "purblind doomsters had as readily strown blisses... as pain." | hap |
| nadaismo | colombia |
| "every spirit upon earth seemed fervourless as i" | darkling thrush |
| "full fathom five thy father lies" | ariel |
| prospero in the tempest | ariel |
| black virgin | france |
| mohammed ben | france |
| michel houellebecq | france |
| in the betrothed | plague |
| lucia in the lazzaretto of milan | plague |
| prince andrei bolkonsky | napoleon |
| manzoni | napoleon |
| isaac singer | yiddish |
| the vicomte de valmont | dangerous liaisons |
| arthur symons | city in the sea |
| "the viol, the violet, and the vine" | city in the sea |
| bembo | italian |
| jardins publiques | mansfield |
| first series of essays | self-reliance |
| "the masterpiece of nature." | friend |
| "desire to preserve tradition" | streetcar named desire |
| cleveland wrecking company | brautigan |
| "mendacity" | big daddy |
| suddenly last summer | lobotomy |
| infinite city | san francisco |
| "generations have trod, have trod, have trod," | god's grandeur |
| "nature is never spent." | god's grandeur |
| "god's grandeur" | hopkins |
| "a small, good thing," | car |
| "of course all life is a process of breaking down" | fitzgerald |
| "attraction to what is going to destroy tradition" | streetcar named desire |
| korn | john |
| cathcart | john |
| "en-dim-ee-in" | keats |
| "encumbered sleeper" | owen |
| "profound dull tunnel" | owen |
| "i am the enemy you killed my friend." | owen |
| ariosto | orlando |
| in orlando furioso | ruggiero |
| pierre choderlos | dangerous liaisons |
| "the bad light is near and nothing is real." | stone |
| in an alejandra pizarnik | stone |
| magid | islam |
| leah, felix | nw |
| venable | lobotomy |
| catharine | lobotomy |
| "flung roses, roses riotously with the throng." | gone with the wind |
| cynara | gone with the wind |
| bradamante | ruggiero |
| la bonne chanson | verlaine |
| saturnine poems | verlaine |
| "into the furious lashing of the tides" | drunken boat |
| "yelping redskins." | drunken boat |
| margaret canby | keller |
| brautigan | big sur |
| kerouac | big sur |
| "the cook's tale," | chaucer |
| the crack-up | fitzgerald |
| new weird | machado |
quincas borba (author) | joaquim maria machado de assis |
posthumous memoirs of bras cubas (author) | joaquim maria machado de assis |
| jorge amado | brazil |
| "resignedly beneath the sky / the melancholy waters lie." | city in the sea |
| "guy de maupassant." | babel |
| benya krik | babel |
| odessa tales | babel |
| cambyuskan | squire |
| "only once" | aarfy |
| ricardo guiraldes | gaucho |
| payadas | gaucho |
| knights templar | eco |
| "how to travel with a salmon." | eco |
| "family size" | eco |
| marxist naphta | hans |
| berghof | hans |
| "audio-animatronics" | eco |
| "the frost king." | keller |
| miracle worker | keller |
| "midnight mass of the dying year" | longfellow |
| "the death of the old year." | longfellow |
| sparknotes of moby | dylan's nobel |
| "songs are unlike literature." | dylan's nobel |
| "a fantasy world more real than reality." | eco |
| pirates of the caribbean | eco |
| "blast of misogynist rage and public humiliation" | diaz |
| frost fairies | keller |
| sir percy blakeney | guillotined |
| madame defarge | pross |
| "on self-respect" | slouching towards bethlehem |
| noboru wataya | murakami |
| wind/pinball | murakami |
| "lacking a common memory" | borges |
| richard mansfield | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| "ragnarok." | borges |
| "by the turkey who lives on the hill," | runcible |
| 50-pound | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| right you are | pirandello |
| if you think you are | pirandello |
| ponza | pirandello |
| "between my finger and my thumb" | irish |
| philip gabriel | murakami |
| "milk in a bottle / corked sloppily with paper" | irish |
| boris the manskinner by lieutenant mamiya | murakami |
| cavendish palace | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| " satan is called " | hermes |
| ingram frizer | marlowe |
| deptford | marlowe |
| "death and the compass" | borges |
| william hatcliffe | shakespeare's sonnets |
| "the rival poet." | shakespeare's sonnets |
| "john wayne: a love song." | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "the sect of the phoenix." | borges |
| "all quiet on" | western front |
| " for 10 points each: name this poetry collection. its author was prosecuted for violating decency laws, and had to remove its poems " | flowers of evil |
| metamorphoses of the vampire | flowers of evil |
| " for 10 points each: in a poem from les fleurs du mal called " | hermes |
| alchemy of sorrow | hermes |
| homer barron | emily |
| "a rose for" | emily |
| ernst junger | western front |
| storm of steel | western front |
| "striking through the thought of his dear ones" | watch |
| in julius caesar | friends |
| "lend me your ears" | friends |
| dan-ay-ee | polydectes |
| smay | july's people |
| stone guest | juan |
| "the pulley" | herbert |
| "the altar" | herbert |
| "easter wings." | herbert |
| bald hills | war and peace |
| "which way does your beard point tonight?" | whitman |
| "contains multitudes." | whitman |
| murray jay siskind | white noise |
| melanie wilkes | pitty |
| charles hamilton in gone with the wind | pitty |
| "a sillier old lady i never met in all my life." | pitty |
| rose in fences | pittsburgh |
| fences in the pittsburgh cycle | wilson |
| "to teach you how to be a wife." | boccaccio |
| nikolenka | rostov |
| new york editions | james |
| alexander herzen | stoppard |
| stephen to johannesburg | theophilus |
| sarah jane hamilton | pitty |
| no one | pirandello |
| selina | screenplay |
| dirk | screenplay |
| "i like guys to hurt me" | irish |
| filippo argenti | styx |
| "such a shout is useless" | phlegyas |
| "now you are caught, foul soul" | phlegyas |
| allen mandelbaum | phlegyas |
| princess marya | war and peace |
| love suicides at sonezaki | chikamatsu |
| "as if he were anxious to attach himself to [the title character's] windpipe without delay." | oliver twist |
| "the sourest-natured dog that lives" | two gentlemen of |
| city of dis | styx |
| "nightmare" | abbey |
| "come on and kiss me." | taming of the shrew |
| toobad | abbey |
| flosky | abbey |
| "chronicle his own impressions" | wilde |
| "the critic as artist." | wilde |
| "just to let the air in" | abortion |
| "fie fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow" | taming of the shrew |
| to the reader | hermes |
| the de laclos | dangerous liaisons |
| marquise of merteuil | smallpox |
| justine | sade |
| when mark david chapman | beatles |
| "bedazzled with the sun" | taming of the shrew |
| "the best dream that ever i had in my life" | taming of the shrew |
| "manunkind" | cummings |
| "busy monster." | cummings |
| freemason pierre choderlos | dangerous liaisons |
| "bed" | in the penal colony |
| masago | akutagawa |
| jitney | wilson |
| "the secret agent," | greenwich observatory |
| adolf verloc | greenwich observatory |
| "blithe spirit." | to a skylark |
| "the necessity of atheism." | oxford |
| "gone without corsets & eyes" | ginsberg |
| vile bodies | waugh |
| "the decay of lying." | wilde |
| vivian | wilde |
| function of criticism at the present time | arnold |
| "see the object as in itself it really is." | arnold |
| "more obedient" | taming of the shrew |
| "the perfect critic," | eliot |
| "wive it wealthily in padua" | taming of the shrew |
| "the sacred and profane memories of charles ryder." | brideshead |
| "any existence" | wilde |
| "mad jacobin" | oxford |
| in the shadow of young girls in flower | proust |
| "the hapless soldiers sigh" | blake |
| "skilled in circumvention of the law." | bierce |
| "the eyes of the panther." | bierce |
| oedipus at colonus | sophocles |
| anil | ondaatje |
| gloomy | hero |
| "noone stooped to kiss his face" | cummings |
| "with a thousand faces." | hero |
| "isn't life..." | mansfield |
| "in a funk." | suicide |
| "the most exquisite moment of her whole life." | mrs. dalloway |
| artifices | borges |
| "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses" | parker |
| cimarron | screenplay |
| " form of this god makes the speaker " | hermes |
| " examples of these people often have a hamartia, or fatal flaw, that leads to their downfall. morally gray characters are called the " | hero |
| "thrust home!" | cyrano |
| "he was not a marrying man." | emily |
| "through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument." | emily |
| colonel sartoris | emily |
| "devoured alive by a rat," | irish |
| william wood | irish |
| "quitting... animosities" | irish |
| lindalino | irish |
| "[his] foe outstretched" | blake |
| "when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, / the single secret will still be man." | cummings |
| "pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence." | cummings |
| in the skin of a lion | canada |
| dance of the happy shades | canada |
| ondaatje | canada |
| "immortal hand or eye." | blake |
| "drive" | ode to the west wind |
| "dead thoughts over the universe." | ode to the west wind |
| terza rima | ode to the west wind |
| the drapier's letters | irish |
| farquhar | drink |
| nawv | brave new |
| bokanovsky | brave new |
| "genge" | pirandello |
| lady frola | pirandello |
| gustav von | death in venice |
| union army | little women |
| laurence | piano |
| "that's the way that go!" | gabriel |
| u.s.a | dos passos |
| jose robles | hemingway |
| "steep woods and lofty cliffs" | wordsworth |
| "in english my name means hope. in spanish it means too many letters." | house on |
| "a city of fountains large and small, of parks where music once rang out from the bandstands" | geneva |
| palermo | geneva |
| "dear, dear sister" | wordsworth |
| "the blue hotel" | swede |
| in fences | trumpet |
| "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," | romanticism |
| "market" | goblin |
| "apples and quinces, lemons and oranges." | goblin |
| "at last on the cloudy river of the sky" | li |
| river wye | wordsworth |
| "semi-morons" | epsilon |
| aslan | narnia |
| "impress / thoughts of more deep seclusion." | wordsworth |
| "declaring that any civilian caught interfering with the railroad, its bridges, tunnels or trains will be summarily hanged" | occurrence at |
| trumpkin | lucy |
| name the muse of history | clio |
| clio | adonis |
| "the four ages of poetry" | romanticism |
| say roh | hemingway |
| though dos passos | moveable |
| "pilot fish" | moveable |
| "miss stein instructs" | moveable |
| "the valiant" | lucy |
| "caught fire" | bald soprano |
| clym yeobright | diamond |
| egdon heath | diamond |
| eustacia vye | diamond |
| day magazine in new york | bell jar |
| "head-scarf girls." | pamuk |
| butterfly, stork | pamuk |
| olive | pamuk |
| willie stark | warren |
| kadife | pamuk |
| "like a frenchman" | webster |
| simon girty | webster |
| severo | house of the |
| "gradual initiation into a new unknown life" | raskolnikov |
| "gradual regeneration" | raskolnikov |
| "new story" | raskolnikov |
| alyona ivanova | raskolnikov |
| shekure | pamuk |
| secret river | kinnan |
| yearling | kinnan |
| little house on the prairie | ingalls |
| saratoga trunk | ferber |
| royal family | ferber |
| ice palace | parker |
| here lies | parker |
| "so gay ever glancing ever changing" | wordsworth |
| "a duck-sized horse." | caged bird |
| esperanca in the heart of the matter | diamond |
| iphigenia in tauris | euripides |
| aulis | euripides |
| in stendahl | como |
| jody baxter | yearling |
| "rihaku" | li |
| doctor mackenzie | bald soprano |
| "the stone," | bald soprano |
| "gave me eyes, gave me ears; / and humble cares, and delicate fears." | wordsworth |
| jurgis | comrade |
| happy loman | death of a |
| eddie carbone | view from the |
| "car-bone" | view from the |
| brooklyn | view from the |
| judge lynch | california |
| bug war | starship troopers |
| nellie on the thames | heart of darkness |
| "man speaking to men." | romanticism |
| ramchunder | vanity fair |
| stah | cloud |
| hugh conway | shangri-la |
| james hilton | shangri-la |
| packingtown | jungle |
| "apart-aid" | the burgher's |
| "the story of a childhood," | persepolis |
| andromaque | racine |
| kurtz in africa | heart of darkness |
| trickster of seville | juan |
| utterson | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| lanyon | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| godber | mansfield |
| "a phenomenon... well known to naturalists" | ode to the west wind |
| "the sea-blooms and the oozy woods... tremble and despoil themselves." | ode to the west wind |
| "dome of a vast sepulchre" | ode to the west wind |
| "black rain, and fire, and hail will burst." | ode to the west wind |
| shlee | comrade |
| "sent to the devil somewhat 'ere his time" | byron |
| "plain" | darkling |
| tonia perez | cisco kid |
| "ash-heels" | california |
| tar baby | morrison |
| modern breakthrough | denmark |
| karen blixen | dinesen |
| el toboso | dulcinea |
| "the trumpet of a prophecy." | ode to the west wind |
| rachel verinder | diamond |
| "are forever" | diamond |
| sally rooney | irish |
| "man-hating half-woman" | miss julie |
| "weak and degenerate brain." | miss julie |
| meme | buendia |
| "lowliest gatekeeper." | trial |
| michael herr | vietnam |
| jean racine | corneille |
| "strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes, while i walk on the sunny pavement of greenwich village." | kaddish |
| loveless | moloch |
| "assigned only to you. i'm going now to close it" | trial |
| "free radicals" | munro |
| bett | munro |
| allan quatermain | diamond |
| "i am taking this only so that you do not think you have failed to do anything." | trial |
| "unacknowledged legislators of the world." | romanticism |
| aldonza lorenzo | dulcinea |
| kim wilde | persepolis |
| "i wander through each chartered street." | london |
| robert heinlein | starship troopers |
| "ding-dong-dong" | paint |
| "a key that wouldn't unlock anything" | paint |
| sunday school | paint |
| dore bible | paint |
| "ole missis" | paint |
| things they carried by tim | vietnam |
| "play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do" | paint |
| "injecting blood into the veins of society." | persepolis |
| norman bowker | vietnam |
| silver star | vietnam |
| paul berlin | vietnam |
| going after cacciato | vietnam |
| rat kiley | vietnam |
| curt lemon | vietnam |
| ted lavender | vietnam |
| ben rogers | paint |
| tanabata | milky way |
| "chase his mate." | parliament of fowls |
| "fact." | cosmicomics |
| quentin durward | scott |
| alfred noyes | highwayman |
| robert conquest | stalin |
| "number one," | stalin |
| soselo | stalin |
| sea witch | andersen |
| falconieri | tancredi |
| matsushima | deep north |
| sado island | milky way |
| "god si love," | passage to india |
| "why can't we be friends?" | passage to india |
| "in their hundred voices, 'no, not yet.'" | passage to india |
| "into that blackness" | pequod |
| "red hell" | pequod |
| "material counterpart" | pequod |
| ten thousand lives | ko |
| "chweh yung-mee" | me too |
| "monster" | me too |
| ko un | me too |
| catherine robbe | me too |
| "robe gree-yay" | me too |
| alain | me too |
| small place | kincaid |
| manyoshu | milky way |
| university of leeds | ngugi |
| ogre of endless tears | ngugi |
| once paul | beloved |
| "flakes of rust" | beloved |
| "[fall] away." | beloved |
| heo gyun | korean |
| story of hong gildong | korean |
| "silver river." | milky way |
| "landlord's daughter" | highwayman |
| jamaica kincaid | lucy |
| kincaid | letter |
| in night | moshe |
| jews of sighet | moshe |
| eliezer | moshe |
| "fears in solitude" | conversation |
| conversation poems | coleridge |
| "the lovely shapes and sounds intelligible" | frost |
| muslim dr | passage to india |
| "double, double, toil and trouble" | weird sisters |
| "panacea" | browne |
| fragment on mummies | browne |
| hydriotaphia | browne |
| "your followers have swallowed you like mummia, and being sick ... vomit you up" | webster |
| white devil | webster |
| "a boy brought the white sheet." | lorca |
| in the great gatsby | ash |
| "mummy, maw and gulf." | weird sisters |
| "conform the order of their lives" | bryant |
| "groves," | bryant |
| running brook | gold |
| kurt | waugh |
| julia flyte | waugh |
| "vendors of grain-eggs-pulse-and-vegetables" | lysistrata |
| "garlic-tavern-keepers of bakeries" | lysistrata |
| cinesias | lysistrata |
| "by contraries" | west-running brook |
| "thank god!" | waugh |
| "eternal language" | frost |
| "at midnight." | frost |
| ilmorog | ngugi |
| simon gillayley | hulme |
| c.k. stead | new zealand |
| "every city light" | frost |
| munira | ngugi |
| myrrhine, calonice | lysistrata |
| diary of an old man | kabuki |
| "barren field" | dream |
| some prefer nettles | chikamatsu |
| kabir | tagore |
| homage to catalonia | orwell |
| dialogue with death | koestler |
| gnasher | dogs |
| "he has not sinned at all" | peer gynt |
| hitchhiker | adams |
| "the ice palace." | flapper |
| "the offshore pirate," | flapper |
| ardita | flapper |
| flappers | bernice |
| "a portrait of shunkin." | tanizaki |
| "the beauty of the dark" | tanizaki |
| "flow to a sea of silence." | tagore |
| wheelchair assassins | wallace |
| "ruler of the minds of all people" | tagore |
| "mince, and slices of quince" | runcible |
| pussycat | runcible |
| alcee arobin | awakening |
| consuelo in minou | sand |
| minou | sand |
| adventures with my pets | dumas |
| mysouff | dumas |
| "the happy life home." | veldt |
| amy waldman | 2001 |
| nonsense songs | lear |
| peer | button-moulder |
| "good morning, daddy! ain't you heard?" | dream |
| mensagem | pessoa |
| "vivian darkbloom" | nabokov |
| "that great scroll" | diderot |
| jacques the fatalist | diderot |
| white king | through the looking glass |
| cooger and dark's | something wicked this way comes |
| "king without a kingdom" | orestes |
| "philebus." | orestes |
| brinkley court | jeeves |
| petals of blood | ngugi |
| "it's more real to me here than if i went up." | olenska |
| strega prize | italian |
| paolo giordano | italian |
| solitude of prime numbers | italian |
| "into a single current" | tagore |
| "and other extremes." | paz |
| in the shadow of no towers | spiegelman |
| "a report on a journey" | shanghai |
| kingston to oxford | jerome |
| montmorency | jerome |
| guide to the galaxy | adams |
| dirk gently | adams |
| "holistic detective agency." | adams |
| "that which bites you is in your own clothing." | ngugi |
| "you sit there smiling." | tagore |
| "smelfungus," | sterne |
| parson yorick | sterne |
| "how to answer" | tagore |
| "god is within us." | tagore |
| scyros | orestes |
| pylades | orestes |
| kihika | ngugi |
| sections | paz |
| "semi-moonman" | stalin |
| "turn back think again" | stalin |
| warigia | ngugi |
| "breaker of nations" | stalin |
| "gate of our being" | paz |
| "awaken me" | paz |
| "daybreak is the face of the sun" | paz |
| "life and death are reconciled" | paz |
| "lady of midnight." | paz |
| knight in the panther | stalin |
| chandler | philip |
| in the long goodbye | mexico |
| "when it comes to slaughter / you will do your work on water" | kipling |
| "brother square-toes" | kipling |
| gilbert keith chesterton | chesterton |
| father brown | chesterton |
| borgias in a sherlock holmes | detective |
| auberon quinn | detective |
| "valley" | ash |
| weimar germany with adrian leverkuhn | doktor faustus |
| "i married him" | reader |
| stanley fish | milton |
| surprised by sin | paradise lost |
| "the simple art of murder," | chandler |
| "the average detective story is no worse than the average novel." | chandler |
| "five o'clock." | spain |
| "annihilates all that's made to a green thought, in a green shade" | marvell |
| "ignacio's blood in the ring." | spain |
| qassem | children |
| sandy bar | california |
| mysterious flame of queen loana | eco |
| "history has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues" | eliot |
| "mad elephant" | rushdie |
| amerigo vespucci | rushdie |
| "america two dollars and twentyseven cents." | ginsberg |
| "annus mirabilis." | dryden |
| "nine nines." | buddha |
| milly theale in the wings of the dove | venice |
| riva degli schiavoni | james |
| beppo | detective |
| "the aztec love of war" | mexican |
| "the mariachi trumpets of the blood" | mexican |
| "you bring out [this ethnicity] in me." | mexican |
| "human war" | ginsberg |
| h. b | emily |
| juliana bordereau in the aspern papers | venice |
| "a world without collisions." | hally |
| robert zwelinzima | sizwe bansi is dead |
| "sighs," | de quincey |
| "sex is fun -- or hell" | bananafish |
| canterville chase | ghost |
| "the turn of the screw." | ghost |
| otis | ghost |
| "two-faced year, mother of change and fate." | lazarus |
| thomas fairfax | marvell |
| "huddled masses" | breathe free |
| "forsake" | good deeds |
| golden cicada | buddha |
| monkey king | buddha |
| levi matvei | devil |
| ivan karamazov | devil |
| professor woland in mikhail bulgakov | devil |
| a quadrillion kilometers | devil |
| "memory and desire." | bananafish |
| "the definition of love" | marvell |
| "languishing" | marvell |
| "thigh with a horn in it" | spain |
| "the garden" | marvell |
| "bible of infidels" | william |
| "a book containing different wisdom than ours." | william |
| confessions of an english opium eater | de quincey |
| queen honeybee | shug |
| plinio designori | castalia |
| st. cloud's | cider house rules |
| orphanage | cider house rules |
| in john irving | abortion |
| "eclipse himself" | cyrano |
| "a perfect day for" | bananafish |
| everyman | good deeds |
| hildegard von bingen's | morality |
| "damned fool -- he ruined the song!" | actor |
| day of the turbins | stalin |
| ocean view orchards | cider house rules |
| "certain flight." | bryant |
| "whither... dost thou pursue thy solitary way?" | bryant |
| "the innumerable caravan, who moves to that mysterious realm" | bryant |
| twist | bumble |
| corney | bumble |
| peleg | pequod |
| "fat prince" | azdak |
| natella | azdak |
| rifaa | children |
| "nine jewels" | persian |
| amir khusrow | persian |
| "american wood." | pequod |
| "whistling dick's christmas stockings" | prison |
| "twist ending," | prison |
| barnet in london | oliver twist |
| "parish boy's progress." | oliver twist |
| sowerberry | oliver twist |
| li xingdao | caucasian chalk circle |
| felix | ash |
| "the dove and the leopard fought" | lorca |
| russian messenger | cossacks |
| and quiet flows the don | cossacks |
| cossack ivan mazepa | pushkin |
| prisoner of the caucasus | byron |
| "whole being is sheer negative impulse, a tangle of contradictions," | paz |
| georges hugon | nana |
| "guides through the boundless sky" | bryant |
| "inscape" | wreck of the deutschland |
| "curtal" | sonnet |
| don federico | rat |
| "what angel is hidden in your cheek?" | lorca |
| "god's first temples." | bryant |
| "a forest hymn" | bryant |
| "where the rocking billows rise and sink / on the chafed ocean side." | bryant |
| "from zone to zone," | bryant |
| "exiles by the falk laws." | wreck of the deutschland |
| "the people's messenger" | enemy of the people |
| morten kiil | enemy of the people |
| "four legs good, two legs bad." | pig |
| old major | pig |
| "begotten by despair, upon impossibility," | marvell |
| "the conjunction of the mind, and opposition of the stars." | marvell |
| "beasts of england" | pig |
| "hieronymo's mad againe" | eliot |
| unwin | bumble |
| "london bridge is falling down." | eliot |
| "too busy feeling grief," | their eyes were watching god |
| "the son of evening sun." | their eyes were watching god |
| "thousand sister calyxes arching" | their eyes were watching god |
| "black into white" | pig |
| gold rush | california |
| bsharri | gibran |
| roaring camp | california |
| "datta. dayadhvam. damyata" | eliot |
| vilkins | bumble |
| badroulbadour | heaven |
| "trash" | we must love one another or die |
| "ashamed to have written." | we must love one another or die |
| "hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police . . ." | we must love one another or die |
| "looked over" | shield of achilles |
| "gold coin from quito" | pequod |
| "metaphysical" | detective |
| "the strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." | enemy of the people |
| gasparo | webster |
| "our gustatory pleasure." | lobster |
| "to believe we can live without taking life is delusional" | kingsolver |
| animal, vegetable | kingsolver |
| price | kingsolver |
| kilanga | kingsolver |
| "stockmen in denver suits" | beat |
| "like the thought of" | heaven |
| leafy | their eyes were watching god |
| "monomaniac soul." | pequod |
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