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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 |
don quixote | cervantes |
laura | petrarch |
elizabeth (bennet) | pride and prejudice |
alice (in wonderland) | carroll |
martha (no last name, play) | albee |
percy bysshe shelley | ode to the west wind |
satan | paradise lost |
tennessee williams | a streetcar named desire |
miguel de cervantes | don quixote |
lesbian poet laureate of england | duffy |
james joyce | dubliners |
lucy (lurie) | disgrace |
adam | paradise lost |
rosa (burger) | gordimer |
joseph conrad | heart of darkness |
absalom, absalom! | faulkner |
"the second coming" | yeats |
name of the rose | eco |
polish boy (tadzio) | death in venice |
"a story of san francisco" | norris |
anna karenina | tolstoy |
"ode on a grecian urn" | keats |
milton | paradise lost |
rebecca (daughter of isaac of york) | ivanhoe |
tale of genji | murasaki shikibu |
lord byron | don juan |
ramsay (family) | to the lighthouse |
jane austen | emma |
rabbit | updike |
"b. wordsworth" (miguel street) | naipaul |
ernest hemingway | the sun also rises |
tony (buddenbrook) | mann |
"harlem" | hughes |
helen of troy | faustus |
brother jack | invisible man |
"the library of babel" | borges |
nina | the seagull |
canterbury tales | chaucer |
dostoyevsky | crime and punishment |
(tom) robinson | to kill a mockingbird |
ulysses | joyce |
dickinson | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
"dulce et decorum est" | owen |
allen ginsberg | howl |
lord darlington (play) | wilde |
paul (baumer) | all quiet on the western front |
leo tolstoy | war and peace |
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead | stoppard |
grendel | beowulf |
beowulf (irish translation) | heaney |
anton chekhov | the seagull |
"the falcon cannot hear the falconer" | yeats |
"the necklace" | maupassant |
richard (spouse) | mrs dalloway |
"the road not taken" | frost |
"howl" | ginsberg |
orgon | tartuffe |
goethe | sturm und drang |
"do not go gentle into that good night." | thomas |
jean valjean | les miserables |
ben (hitman) | the dumbwaiter |
pangloss | candide |
"mending wall" | frost |
edgar allan poe | the raven |
brave new world | huxley |
miss julie | strindberg |
dante | divine comedy |
"ariel" | plath |
julia (lover) | winston (smith) |
candide | voltaire |
gus (robber friend) | native son |
omar khayyam | rubaiyat |
"rage, rage against the dying of the light" | thomas |
things fall apart | achebe |
"old age should burn and rave" | thomas |
john the savage | brave new world |
carl solomon | howl |
okonkwo | achebe |
ezra pound (translation) | li bai |
oscar wilde | the picture of dorian gray |
turgenev | a sportsman's sketches |
"an occurrence at owl creek bridge" | bierce |
e. m. forster | a passage to india |
"sailing to byzantium" | yeats |
sophocles | antigone |
twenty love poems and a song of despair | neruda |
moby-dick | melville |
to the lighthouse | woolf |
eliza doolittle | shaw |
vladimir nabokov | lolita |
emma | austen |
eugene onegin | pushkin |
o. henry | "conscience in art" |
henry higgins | shaw |
winston smith | o'brien |
"daddy" | plath |
"the garden of forking paths" | borges |
sam (samela) | "master harold"...and the boys |
leaves of grass | whitman |
faust | goethe |
clara (del valle) | allende |
magic mountain | mann |
nick (no last name, play) | albee |
ophelia | hamlet |
john donne | holy sonnets |
carlos fuentes (country) | mexico |
the human comedy (la comedie humaine) | balzac |
william of baskerville | the name of the rose |
gitanjali | tagore |
jerry (no last name, play) | albee |
gustave flaubert | madame bovary |
jean-paul sartre | no exit |
metamorphoses | ovid |
sister carrie | dreiser |
"the weary blues" | langston hughes |
"i wandered lonely as a cloud." | wordsworth |
john steinbeck | of mice and men |
"beauty is truth, truth beauty" | keats |
ruth (play character, wife of teddy) | pinter |
amina | mahfouz |
the labyrinth of solitude | paz |
della | the gift of the magi |
lysistrata | aristophanes |
death in venice | mann |
euripides | medea |
i know why the caged bird sings | angelou |
thomas gray | "elegy written in a country churchyard" |
kurt vonnegut | slaughterhouse-five |
one hundred years of solitude | gabriel garcia marquez |
ambrose bierce (country, bierce as a character) | mexico |
harlem renaissance | langston hughes |
"i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" | howl |
the crucible | miller |
stage manager | our town |
| krogstad | doll |
henry james | the turn of the screw |
| lord tennyson | lady of |
prior walter | angels in america |
younger (family) | a raisin in the sun |
| robin hood | scarlet |
| bishop | robinson |
king creon | antigone |
| much ado about nothing | shakespeare |
"ball of fat" | maupassant |
henry fleming | red badge of courage |
humbert humbert | lolita |
"slouches towards bethlehem to be born." | yeats |
| guy holmes | suicide |
a raisin in the sun (play) | hansberry |
huckleberry finn | twain |
| easter monday | angelou |
horace (famous latin quote) | dulce et decorum est |
| sylvia | bell jar |
blood wedding | federico garcia lorca |
| janice | updike |
| old english | beowulf |
| guildenstern | stoppard |
the maltese falcon | hammett |
| john wheeler | sister carrie |
oskar matzerath | the tin drum |
sherlock holmes (author) | doyle |
| ivanhoe | scott |
"in you everything sank!" | neruda |
| "he sang his didn't he danced his did." | cummings |
| "captain" | whitman |
carl sandburg | "chicago" |
| midsummer night | oberon |
canto general | neruda |
sancho panza | don quixote |
elmire | moliere |
| lennie small | of mice and men |
cairo trilogy | mahfouz |
vera (short story character) | saki |
siddhartha | hesse |
| decameron | boccaccio |
"the garden party" (new zealand) | mansfield |
"a good man is hard to find" | o'connor |
king duncan | macbeth |
| gessler | schiller |
| john keats | beauty |
"good fences make good neighbors" | frost |
| maria | mansfield park |
"nevermore" | the raven |
| nobel prize in literature | china |
ray bradbury | fahrenheit 451 |
| madame bovary | flaubert |
| narrow road to the deep north | matsuo |
| cordelia | lear |
| federal theatre project | anderson |
| will ladislaw | middlemarch |
| estha | india |
oxford | hardy |
| abigail | crucible |
| cummings | death |
| aeschylus | aristophanes |
"still unravish'd bride of quietness" | keats |
| bertha | edward |
| "death" | hephaestus |
"death, be not proud" | donne |
| "we real cool" | brooks |
| edward king | milton |
the sorrows of young werther | goethe |
| gabriel conroy | dead |
| rudyard kipling | jungle book |
| tweedledum | through the looking glass |
| jorge luis borges | argentina |
les miserables | hugo |
| kitty | tolstoy |
one thousand and one nights | arabic |
uncle tom | simon (legree) |
flora | the turn of the screw |
| the handmaid's tale | atwood |
| holy sonnets | donne |
miles | the turn of the screw |
"ars poetica" | horace |
griselda | the decameron |
| e. t. a. hoffmann | hoffmann |
alfred (father) | the tin drum |
| emily dickinson | death |
| "belle of amherst" | dickinson |
| "the white man's burden." | kipling |
| "rip van winkle" | irving |
| daphne | apollo |
| robert putnam | crucible |
| henrik ibsen | doll's |
| virginia woolf | room of one's own |
| antoinette cosway | rhys |
| "gatsby" | fitzgerald |
| oresteia | aeschylus |
| eve | milton |
| black iris | chase |
| conradin | heart of darkness |
| "dubliners" | joyce |
| "the waste land" | eliot |
lockwood | wuthering heights |
| picture of dorian grey | wilde |
| bald soprano | ionesco |
| christopher marlowe | chapman |
| simon | lord of the flies |
| phillip larkin | this be the verse |
| colonel pickering | shaw |
| unbearable lightness of being | kundera |
| gualtieri 's | griselda |
| lydia languish | sheridan |
general arroyo | the old gringo |
| myrtle | great gatsby |
| lucius | golden ass |
krapp's last tape | beckett |
| "in a grove" | akutagawa |
"hell is other people" | sartre |
| ravana | sanskrit |
"what happens to a dream deferred?" | hughes |
"the legend of sleepy hollow" | washington irving |
| derek freeman | mead |
| chaucer | canterbury tales |
| poe | purloined letter |
| holocaust | schindler's ark |
| tea cake | hurston |
| cherry orchard | chekhov |
| "to his coy mistress." | marvell |
| yukio mishima | temple of the golden pavilion |
arthur jarvis | cry, the beloved country |
| gabriel garcia marquez | one hundred years of solitude |
| dresden | slaughterhouse-five |
| agamemnon | aegisthus |
| gonzolo | artemio |
"rashomon" | akutagawa |
| don juan | byron |
"she walks in beauty" | lord byron |
| northanger abbey | austen |
"to a skylark" | percy bysshe shelley |
| troy maxson | fences |
| heathcliff | wuthering heights |
| davies | pinter |
| probably vishnu | turtle |
"grace" | dubliners |
| ruth leonard | harry |
on the road | kerouac |
| edmund | mansfield park |
"the tyger" | blake |
| "the emperor of ice-cream." | stevens |
| "fair lined slippers for the cold" | marlowe |
| new orleans | confederacy of |
| robert frost | difference |
| cain | grendel |
| tituba | crucible |
| portrait of the artist | joyce |
| bellerophon | iobates |
| harry | snows of |
| "do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?" | our town |
| childe harold | byron |
thomas keneally | australia |
| nikolai gogol | nose |
| alyosha | the brothers |
| evangeline | longfellow |
"i, too, sing america." | langston hughes |
| balzac | zola |
| columbus | roth |
| "i was young and easy under apple boughs" | thomas |
| sigmund freud | jung |
| post office | tagore |
| vanity fair | thackeray |
| voltaire | candide |
| gustav von aschenbach | mann |
| "everything that rises must converge" | o'connor |
| dream of the red chamber | china |
volpone | jonson |
| il canzoniere | petrarch |
lu xun | china |
| "sonnet: to science." | poe |
| langston hughes | raisin in the sun |
| hector hyppolite | achilles |
| kamala | hesse |
| night journey | o'neill |
six characters in search of an author | pirandello |
| ivan | alyosha |
| interpreter of maladies | lahiri |
| hans castorp | mann |
| one of murakami | beatles |
| "gimpel the fool." | singer |
"hog butcher for the world" | chicago |
george hurstwood | dreiser |
| ted | adichie |
little women | alcott |
| julian | o'connor |
| mary agnes | testaments |
| "the paths of glory lead but to the grave" | gray |
| richard wright | native |
| "slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men," | donne |
| colosseum | james |
| house of the spirits | allende |
| pygmalion | shaw |
| superman | shaw |
giovanni boccaccio | decameron |
| song of hiawatha | longfellow |
| sargasso sea | rhys |
| jude the obscure | hardy |
| ted hughes | plath |
| to kill a mockingbird | lee |
| foucault | eco |
| les fleurs | baudelaire |
| "lady lazarus" | plath |
| naguib mahfouz | egypt |
"song of myself" | whitman |
| janie | mule |
| leon | beatrice |
| harriet | maupassant |
| "that is no country for old men" | yeats |
| finnegans wake | joyce |
cunegonde | candide |
| blanche | streetcar named desire |
lily briscoe | to the lighthouse |
| tereza | kundera |
| styx | achilles |
| "quiet night thought" | li |
| jesuit leo naphta | mann |
| "a supermarket in california." | ginsberg |
| bernard rieux | plague |
"ode to a nightingale" | keats |
| lorca | duende |
| salman rushdie | midnight's children |
miss gostrey | the ambassadors |
alan paton | cry, the beloved country |
| carver | esquire |
| ministry of truth | winston |
| "vie" | buchenwald |
| cousin bette | balzac |
catherine earnshaw | wuthering heights |
| tin drum | grass |
rocinante | don quixote |
| stephen dedalus | joyce |
| norman mailer | kennedy |
| native son | wright |
| muriel spark | salinger |
peer gynt (play) | ibsen |
patrick white | australia |
demian | hesse |
"a man in black with a meinkampf look." | plath |
"and death shall have no dominion" | thomas |
| sophie | haiti |
| hero | beatrice |
| orleanna price | poisonwood bible |
| settembrini | magic mountain |
| pequod | moby-dick |
| hally | kite |
| daisy | ionesco |
| zoo story | albee |
mary dalton | native son |
| lolita | nabokov |
| "the red wheelbarrow" | williams |
fra pandolf | "my last duchess" |
| bertie wooster | jeeves |
| aegeus | minotaur |
| tyrone slothrop | pynchon |
104th (squad) | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| j. d. salinger | glass |
jia baoyu | dream of the red chamber |
| cavalier | herrick |
| society of the tower | goethe |
| orson welles | detective |
| "week of peace" | achebe |
| "each man kills the thing he loves" | wilde |
| cleopatra | all for love |
estragon | waiting for godot |
| murder of gonzago | stoppard |
| "moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" | rubaiyat |
| "deaths for all ages and occasions! deaths by suspension, convulsion, consumption, incision, execution, asphyxiation and malnutrition!" | rosencrantz |
| hamlet | polonius |
the god of small things | arundhati roy |
| beatrice | much ado about |
| berenger | rhinoceros |
| athol fugard | south |
| crying of lot | pynchon |
| guy montag | fahrenheit 451 |
| temple of the golden pavilion | mishima |
| maus | spiegelman |
| "fern hill." | thomas |
mother courage and her children | brecht |
| bell jar | plath |
| "broken-winged bird / that cannot fly" | dream |
| "the negro speaks of rivers." | hughes |
| "vanished into the clouds." | murasaki |
| matthew arnold | dover beach |
| kilgore trout | vonnegut |
| keats | ode |
irina (sergeyevna prozorova) | chekhov |
| olga tokarczuk | polish |
| our town | wilder |
| dog years in the danzig trilogy | grass |
war and peace | tolstoy |
| nathan zuckerman | roth |
| italo calvino | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| merope | oedipus |
| gulliver | swift |
| pedro camacho | vargas |
| hermes | lyre |
the mysterious island | verne |
| other stories | new zealand |
| jonathan swift | lemuel |
| ozymandias | shelley |
| pamela | richardson |
| buddenbrooks | mann |
| ludmilla | calvino |
| "strike" | fences |
puck | a midsummer night's dream |
| invisible man | paint |
| "the day of the dead" | dubliners |
| "the raven." | poe |
| darcy | wickham |
| marylou | denver |
| dumb waiter | pinter |
| nathanael | hoffmann |
| william tell | schiller |
| "but at my back i always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near." | "to his coy mistress" |
| captain robert walton | frankenstein |
| twenty thousand leagues under the sea | verne |
teddy (play character, husband of ruth) | pinter |
| right logic | clouds |
a handful of dust | waugh |
mrs. norris | mansfield park |
| jungle book | kipling |
stella (kowalski) | a streetcar named desire |
| nettie | color purple |
"burning bright, in the forest of the night" | "the tyger" |
| aston | pinter |
"tintern abbey." | wordsworth |
| imagist | williams |
lizzie (poem character) | "goblin market" |
the sea of fertility | mishima |
| "elegy written in a country churchyard" | gray |
franz (moor) | schiller |
treasure island | stevenson |
| billy budd | melville |
| bobby | lahiri |
"a b b a, a b b a" | petrarch |
| endgame | beckett |
| magid iqbal | smith |
"diary of a madman" (not russian) | chinese (by lu xun) |
| up bird chronicle | murakami |
| portnoy | roth |
| "they send to eat in the kitchen / when company comes." | hughes |
| saint sebastian | o'connor |
| old gringo | bierce |
the old man and the sea | hemingway |
welsh (poet) | thomas |
| borges | argentina |
| eleanor | doll's house |
| washington irving | sleepy hollow |
| imaginary invalid | moliere |
| claudio | much ado about |
| marcus chalfen | smith |
| haruki murakami | japan |
| middlemarch | eliot |
vladimir (tramp) | waiting for godot |
"a swelling of the ground" | because i could not stop for death |
| jaluka | cairo |
| in search of lost time | proust |
madame forestier | the necklace |
grover's corners | our town |
| nora helmer | doll's |
goneril | king lear |
"i felt a funeral, in my brain" | dickinson |
| t. e. lawrence | lady chatterley's lover |
| chinua achebe | things fall apart |
| sam shaw | soma |
| "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" | albee |
| celia | middlemarch |
| johannesburg | cry, the beloved country |
| peeling the onion | grass |
| ee-zah-nah-mee | amaterasu |
| umuofia | things fall apart |
| sun wukong | journey to the west |
| pearl | scarlet letter |
konstantin levin | anna karenina |
| bernard shaw | salvation army |
| eden | milton |
| tess | hardy |
| "a far cry from africa" | walcott |
| an american tragedy | dreiser |
| david lurie | disgrace |
the school for wives | moliere |
| tadzio | mann |
| paradise | fir |
| ralph waldo emerson | forster |
| samuel beckett | waiting for |
| septimus smith | mrs |
| "stamp" | i know why the caged bird sings |
| jeeves | wodehouse |
one day in the life of ivan denisovich | solzhenitsyn |
| the mousetrap | christie |
| "a rapture" | cavalier |
| running man | king |
| stevens | butler |
| under milk wood | thomas |
| "j'accuse." | zola |
| bazarov | turgenev |
| sibyl vane | wilde |
| dean moriarty | on the road |
| kemal | cairo |
| dasharatha | ramayana |
| joseph grand | plague |
| "for whom the bell tolls?" | hemingway |
| molina | puig |
| regan | lear |
| scarlet letter | hawthorne |
| "i'm with you in rockland." | howl |
| hester prynne | scarlet letter |
| "why i live at the p.o." | welty |
| eugene o'neill's | rubaiyat |
| pablo neruda | socks |
| madame pace | six characters in search of an author |
| "anyone lived in a pretty how town" | cummings |
| dorothea brooke | middlemarch |
| "the passionate shepherd to his love." | marlowe |
| of mice | steinbeck |
| perseus | medusa |
| esteban | allende |
| pallas athena | aegis |
| toni morrison | song of solomon |
| bev shaw | disgrace |
| melanie isaacs | disgrace |
| catherine morland | austen |
| "hickey" | iceman cometh |
| scott | mansfield |
| john dryden | jonson |
| peneus | daphne |
| major barbara | shaw |
| g. sebald | sebald |
| susanin | amaterasu |
| "the albatross" | baudelaire |
| doctor zhivago | pasternak |
| "i sing the body electric" | leaves of grass |
| harry hickman | iceman cometh |
smales | gordimer |
| bride | lorca |
| "white teeth" | smith |
| kiss of the spider woman | argentina |
| william faulkner | as i lay dying |
| yu tsun | borges |
| milly | waugh |
| "the nose." | gogol |
| martine | dinesen |
| kurtz | heart of darkness |
| basho | deep north |
| addie | as i lay dying |
| pahome | tolstoy |
| "the lottery." | jackson |
| judith | night of |
| weimar | schiller |
| meursault | camus |
| arabian nights | galland |
| "the lamb" | blake |
| "stay where you are until our backs are turned" | mending wall |
| "funny they don't see us." | crane |
| buenos aires | autobiography of red |
| william h. parker | tiger |
| mixing it up | pirandello |
| montaigne | cyrano de bergerac |
| howards end | forster |
| tessie hutchinson | lottery |
| uncle vanya | chekhov |
| "i am." | albee |
roy cohn | angels in america |
| monkswell manor | christie |
| death of artemio cruz | fuentes |
| rama | sugriva |
| yohl | thor |
| mayella ewell | to kill a mockingbird |
| rodolphe | madame bovary |
| "unstuck in time." | slaughterhouse-five |
| "eye-am" | bellerophon |
| kemmerich | all quiet on the western front |
| "this is just to say." | williams |
| madame odintsova | fathers and sons |
| a.e. housman | shropshire lad |
| "the rape of the lock." | pope |
| sue bridehead | jude the |
anna akhmatova | russian |
| derek walcott | odyssey |
| robinson crusoe | defoe |
| "drinking alone by moonlight" | li |
| billy pilgrim | slaughterhouse-five |
the catcher in the rye | salinger |
edward albee | who's afraid of virginia woolf? |
| jhumpa lahiri | india |
| mowgli | jungle book |
the red badge of courage | crane |
| scotsman | kidnapped |
| "glazed with rain / water" | red wheelbarrow |
| steppenwolf | hesse |
| bean eaters | brooks |
| christminster | hardy |
| marceline | hamlet |
| "annabel lee" | poe |
| heart of darkness | conrad |
| josef k | kafka |
| big boy | wright |
| portrait of a woman | james |
| linda | house |
| holderlin | nietzsche |
| octavio paz | mexico |
| elysian fields | aeneid |
| angels | kushner |
| "half a league" | tennyson |
| mick | pinter |
| desdichado | ivanhoe |
| "a vast image out of spiritus mundi." | yeats |
| though neruda | chile |
| temple of the fire baptized | baldwin |
| hughes in a washington | harlem |
| algeria | camus |
| stephen kumalo | cry, the beloved country |
zora neale hurston | their eyes were watching god |
| wuthering heights | heathcliff |
| stradlater | holden |
| " in " | hopkins |
| paula vogel | yiddish |
| robert burns | rose |
| "what mighty contests rise from trivial things" | rape of the lock |
| "monsieur madeleine" | coin |
| dead | stoppard |
| vivisector | australia |
| miranda | old gringo |
| abel magwitch | great expectations |
| enkidu | bull |
| remains of the day | butler |
| paul laurence dunbar | maya |
| pushkin | tsar saltan |
| george orwell | 1984 |
| komako | kawabata |
| akaky akakievich | overcoat |
| macondo | one hundred years of solitude |
| konstantin | seagull |
| "the tower" | yeats |
| basil hallward | wilde |
| "in the penal colony." | kafka |
| sir arthur conan doyle | sherlock |
| joe louis | all my sons |
| beloved country | paton |
| saleem sinai | midnight's children |
| in cold blood | capote |
| "hugh selwyn mauberley," | pound |
| baron thunder | candide |
"great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| new yorkers | auster |
| buck | buck |
| "when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed." | lincoln |
| glengarry glen ross | mamet |
| charlotte | goethe |
| plath | mother |
| brotherhood | invisible man |
| the sea | murdoch |
| in the popol vuh | maya |
| richard bachman | king |
| "little cat feet." | fog |
| yeats | the second coming |
| aime cesaire | caliban |
| cory | wilson |
| brewer | harry |
| the birds | aristophanes |
| brothers karamazov | akutagawa |
| bailey | thoreau |
| nicole | testaments |
| dracula | stoker |
| zeami | mask |
| "we must love one another or die" | auden |
| "because i could not stop for death." | dickinson |
| marner | eliot |
| rabindranath tagore | india |
| chandara | lahiri |
| joseph asagai | raisin in the sun |
| tomas | unbearable lightness of being |
maxim gorky | lower depths |
| doc | cannery row |
| no longer at ease | achebe |
| alchemist | jonson |
| colossus | wolverine |
| rumi | persian |
| charlotte bronte | jane eyre |
| "the night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance" | twenty love poems |
| lorraine hansberry | raisin in the sun |
| appin murder | kidnapped |
| gravity's rainbow | pynchon |
| the power | greene |
| iceman cometh | o'neill |
| floyd | maltese |
| miss watson | douglas |
| "auld lang syne" | burns |
| brideshead revisited | waugh |
| "rough beast" | yeats |
| sanderling island | poisonwood bible |
| "transcendental" | emerson |
| tulsi | naipaul |
| winslow homer | ars |
| george osborne | thackeray |
| "anthem for doomed youth" | owen |
| indiana | sand |
| "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou" | rubaiyat |
| "ignorant armies clash by night." | dover beach |
| nathaniel hawthorne | scarlet letter |
| confederacy of dunces | confederacy of |
| "mademoiselle fifi" | maupassant |
| "fallen cold and dead." | o captain! my captain |
| "what is the grass?" | sandburg |
| roy | aids |
| walpurgis night | goethe |
| alex | clockwork orange |
| one flew over the cuckoo | kesey |
| esther greenwood | plath |
| oran | plague |
| nathan the wise | decameron |
| norwegian wood | murakami |
| glass menagerie | williams |
| "to an athlete dying young," | housman |
| daily telegraph | war correspondent |
| du fu | li |
| "thought they were only mad when baltimore gleamed in supernatural ecstasy." | howl |
| "what's it going to be then, eh?" | clockwork orange |
"who threw potato salad at ccny lecturers on dadaism" | howl |
| choh | hurston |
| "c d e c d e" | petrarch |
| pyramus | mulberry |
| "painted ladies under the gaslamps." | sandberg |
| dead zone | king |
| sei shonagon | pillow book |
| "the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced." | yahoo |
| "we are truly different. and we are truly alone." | paz |
| messinger | reading dickens |
| cassy | simon |
| "rikki-tikki-tavi" | "the white man's burden" |
| my name | pamuk |
| salem | crucible |
| good soldier | ford |
| "this is the saddest story i have ever heard." | good soldier |
| "sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on" | fog |
| oliver twist | novel |
| danvers carew | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| twilight zone | bierce |
| dukhiram | lahiri |
| "give me your hands, if we be friends, and robin shall restore amends." | oberon |
| skyfall | james |
| neeth | raisin in the sun |
| do not say the last name when giving the answer to the first part | alyosha |
| "dry up like a raisin in the sun." | dream |
"a novel without a hero" | vanity fair |
| mann | buddenbrooks |
| "digging," | heaney |
| "longed to travel or to go back to her convent. she wished at the same time to die and to live in paris." | flaubert |
crime and punishment | dostoevsky |
| jack gladney | white |
| sanditon | austen |
| "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / are sweeter." | ode |
| "is not to reason why, theres is but to do and die," | charge of the light brigade |
| "miss wonderly" | maltese |
| edmund wilson | simon |
| groh | ward number 6 |
| "the overcoat." | gogol |
| "a traveling salesman of wines and spirits," | camus |
| birthday party | pinter |
| "that's our first principle--no war!" | lysistrata |
| "a sound of thunder." | bradbury |
| "before the wig and the dress coat there were rivers, arterial rivers." | canto general |
| "it is the hour of departure" | neruda |
| catherine | farewell to arms |
| ogilvy | winston |
| "the gods have their own laws." | metamorphoses |
| maastricht | d'artagnan |
| "two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." | ozymandias |
| "live off the fatta the lan" | lennie |
| jonas | giver |
| inferno | divine comedy |
| morkan | finnegans wake |
emily bronte | wuthering heights |
| hurtle duffield | white |
| don gamalieli | artemio |
| sphinx | oedipus |
| james connolly | crabbe |
| tate | sheriff |
| miles archer | maltese |
| fahmy | mahfouz |
| the and crabwalk | grass |
| pozzo | waiting for godot |
| irene | bierce |
| "what the thunder said," | eliot |
| key to all mythologies | eliot |
| "lament for the death of a bullfighter." | lorca |
| robert brrowning | finnegans wake |
| "my last duchess," | browning |
| masnavi | rumi |
| "if you will be faithful to me, i'll make you a great man." | xury |
| receiver of memory | giver |
| hofmann | english |
| yeehats | judge |
| "what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" | alice |
| rimbaud | moon |
| house on mango street | mexican |
| "very well, then, i contradict myself. / i am large, i contain multitudes." | song of myself |
| wild swans at coole | yeats |
| "runaround," | asimov |
| two of the serpent players | apartheid |
| one of saramago | portugal |
| cottard | camus |
| hesperides | herrick |
| master harold | fugard |
| republic of gilead | atwood |
| waffen-ss | grass |
| fredrich | paul |
| agent fred | dick |
| emmeline | simon |
| lucinda | carey |
| "frost" | mending wall |
| biff | death of a |
| cujo | king |
| elizabeth bennet in pride | pride and prejudice |
| septimus hodge | stoppard |
| "year of the depend adult undergarment," | wallace |
| thrushcross grange | wuthering heights |
| aunt julia | vargas |
| arkady kirsanov | fathers and sons |
| lara | doctor zhivago |
| "what you've come out for then is simply to render him an immense service." | ambassadors |
| my life | australia |
| elective affinities | goethe |
| ars amatoria | ovid |
| "octopussy" | train |
| america is not the heart | bulosan |
| atlantic monthly | lowell |
| "cherub." | alyosha |
| "the arena is full of blood." | escamillo |
| kafka | trial |
| "and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils." | wordsworth |
| laputa | gulliver's travels |
| dark forest | things fall apart |
| proteus | verona |
| "a gown made of the finest wool" | marlowe |
| gretta | dead |
| "may i for my own self song's truth reckon, / journey's jargon." | old english |
| "think as you fight" | escamillo |
| milan kundera | czech |
| oprah winfrey | morrison |
| "first fig" | candle |
| wole soyinka | death and the king's horseman |
| charles wilcox | forster |
| "death of a traveling salesman" | miller |
| phoenix jackson | welty |
| "a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent!" | byron |
| "i remember about the rabbits, george." | of mice and men |
| coming of age in samoa | mead |
| david foster wallace | infinite jest |
| mildendo | lilliput |
| jim o'connor | glass menag |
| d'urbervilles | hardy |
| seymour glass | bananafish |
| jones very | salem |
| henry david thoreau | walden |
| baron | pope |
| covent garden | eliza |
| bts | demian |
| "do you know the land where the lemon-trees grow?" | goethe |
| paul baumer | all quiet on the western front |
| capulet | romeo and juliet |
| lady windermere | wilde |
| "chicago." | sandburg |
| "gunga din," | kipling |
| rua | lahiri |
| kitty hawk answer | wright |
| "the horror! the horror!" | heart of darkness |
| "howl?" | ginsberg |
| "my soul has grown deep like the rivers." | hughes |
| isle of guernsey | hugo |
| toilers of the sea | hugo |
| "sylvan historian" | beauty |
| george and hazel | harrison bergeron |
| dalloway | woolf |
| harper lee | to kill a mockingbird |
| "a better man than i am." | kipling |
| kai | snow queen |
| the awakening | confederacy of |
| "seize the day," | horace |
| gregor samsa | kafka |
| gogol | akutagawa |
| yugen | beat |
| orhan pamuk | istanbul |
| hamiltons | steinbeck |
| titanic | hardy |
| ser cepparello | decameron |
| aomame | murakami |
| "better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven." | milton |
| gertrude | cry, the beloved country |
| spanish golden age | lope |
| "the spider's thread." | akutagawa |
| marlow | heart of darkness |
| "do i wake or do i sleep?" | keats |
| gilberte | charles |
| john seward | abraham |
| an essay on criticism | pope |
| antigone | oedipus |
| arundhati roy | india |
| mordred | candle in the |
| "his excellency, general washington" | wheatley |
| colley cibber | pope |
| belinda | pope |
| jane eyre | reader, i married him |
| celie | shug |
| basilic | smith |
| molly | great expectations |
| pedro tercero | allende |
their eyes were watching god | hurston |
| peyton farquar | bierce |
| darryl van horne | updike |
| ka | pamuk |
| count vronsky | anna |
| hotspur | falstaff |
| gordias | south africa |
| alfred douglas | importance of being earnest |
| amelia | fielding |
| mathilde loisel | maupassant |
| anchises | aeneid |
| sal paradise | on the road |
| "jana gana mana" | india |
| valentine michael smith | heinlein |
| larry | tree |
| robert o'neill | anna christie |
| captain nemo | nautilus |
| "rita" | machado |
| angelo | tristero |
| federico garcia lorca | ginsberg |
| georg | kafka |
| mechanical hound | fahrenheit 451 |
| ralph ellison | invisible man |
| estella | no exit |
| mildred | bradbury |
| moliere | tartuffe |
| lotte | goethe |
| tofano | decameron |
| clifford | waiting for lefty |
| "among school children." | yeats |
| francis nurse | crucible |
| empire of blefuscu | lilliput |
| aesop | tortoise |
| songs of innocence | blake |
| new journalist | wolfe |
| palace walk | cairo |
| mizoguchi | mishima |
| santa fe | cather |
| thetis | achilles |
| cao xuequin | dream of the red chamber |
| "a valediction: forbidding mourning," | donne |
| bloody chamber | fairy tale |
| "the luck of roaring camp." | harte |
| frieda | kafka |
| dmitri | tolstoy |
| "studies of manners" | human comedy |
| bernardo di | hamlet |
| walden two | thoreau |
| yasin | cairo |
| jonathan harker | dracula |
| franz kafka | penal colony |
| english by thomas drant | ars |
| frederic taillefer | human comedy |
| paterson | williams |
| ernst theodor amadeus hoffmann | hoffmann |
| a doll's house | ibsen |
| "the open boat" | crane |
| leopold bloom | ulysses |
| pioneer | middlemarch |
| peter carey | australia |
| " to the title " | canto |
| clockwork orange | burgess |
| matteo boiardo | chile |
| chimamanda adichie | nigeria |
| "god is dead" | nietzsche |
| "the open window." | saki |
| most of wheatley | religious |
| burchell | vicar of wakefield |
| dorothy | wordsworth |
| nell | unhappiness |
| jekyll | stevenson |
| "paper war." | fielding |
| cantos | pound |
| dulcinea | don quixote |
| cathay | li |
| erich remarque | all quiet on the western front |
"done because we are too menny" | jude the obscure |
| "come live with me and be my love." | marlowe |
| armand aubigny | desiree's baby |
| "pere goriot" | balzac |
| anne bradstreet | fire |
| algonquin round table | parker |
| angel flores | universal history of infamy |
| ayodhya | ramayana |
| "what women most desire." | wife of bath |
| "sapos" | deities |
| emmanuel goldstein | o'brien |
| mikhail bulgakov | master and margarita |
| hestia | apollo |
| veronal | romeo and juliet |
| anne carson | autobiography of red |
| mirgorod | viy |
| the stranger | camus |
| joy luck club | tan |
| charon | dead |
| "mignon" | goethe |
| manuel puig | argentina |
the dharma bums | kerouac |
| aloysius | brideshead revisited |
| thomasina coverly | arcadia |
| stranger in a strange land | heinlein |
ralph (no last name, protagonist) | lord of the flies |
| nick bottom | robin |
| mark hopkins | sonnet |
| mayor of casterbridge | hardy |
| "how do you like your blue eyed boy / mister death?" | cummings |
| god of vengeance | yiddish |
| clarissa | richardson |
| mehring | gordimer |
| john proctor | crucible |
| pontius pilate | master and margarita |
| "buffalo bill" | cummings |
| sir gawain | knight |
| mary pereira | rushdie |
| luigi | mario |
| "one art," | villanelle |
| bill tanner | bond |
| dark | bradbury |
| pilate | song of solomon |
| oliver mellors | lady chatterley's lover |
| caedmon | bede |
| exeter book | old english |
| dogberry | much ado about nothing |
| kingdom hearts | mock turtle |
| hindley | heathcliff |
| baldur | loki |
| "pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo" | grass |
| caspar goodwood | james |
| vicar of wakefield | goldsmith |
| "cogwheels" | akutagawa |
| "light the kettle." | dumb waiter |
| streetcar named desire | williams |
| "the panther" | rilke |
| algernon swinburne | sappho |
| piazza tales | benito |
| duke of cornwall | regan |
"stopping by woods on a snowy evening" | frost |
| "always depended on the kindness of strangers" | streetcar named |
| ulrich | saki |
| simon stimson | choir |
miss havisham | great expectations |
| oceania | 1984 |
| william golding | lord of the flies |
| "sredni vashtar" | saki |
| henry hudson | irving |
| josef lada | schweik |
| melville | moby-dick |
| kattrin | brecht |
| nine feet | paint |
| "die soon." | brooks |
| erlynne | wilde |
| jose marti | cuba |
| haidee | don juan |
| natyashastra | kalidasa |
| notes of a native son | baldwin |
| main street | lewis |
| "sunday morning" | stevens |
| negro theatre unit | wilson |
| shalamar | song of solomon |
| ragin | ward number 6 |
| winterset | sacco |
| coalhouse walker | ragtime |
| ndotsheni | cry, the beloved country |
| mccann | pinter |
| millay | candle |
| lensky | pushkin |
| janie crawford | their eyes were watching god |
joseph garcin | no exit |
| curly | lennie |
| "theater of the absurd" | beckett |
| pip | great expectations |
| mathilde | maupassant |
| kan'ami | mask |
| adso of melk | name of the rose |
| "the robbers" | schiller |
"comedies of menace" | pinter |
| thomas hardy | far from the madding |
| dover beach | arnold |
| betty | crucible |
| maryse conde | tituba |
| harry angstrom | updike |
| top girls | joan |
| frodo | bilbo |
| "camera eye" | dos passos |
| "superman comes to the supermarket." | kennedy |
| echidna | typhon |
| alquist | czech |
| "ode to joy." | schiller |
| r. b. bennett | big brother |
| william riggan | lazarillo de tormes |
| prospect garden | dream of the red chamber |
| jean marie latour | cather |
| "patels" | tiger |
| arapesh | three musketeers |
| far from the madding crowd | hardy |
"the sons of la malinche" | paz |
| "curfew tolls the knell of parting day." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| versos sencillos | marti |
| harry haller | mozart |
| "carpe diem," | horace |
| kristine linde | doll's |
| murder on the orient express | christie |
| "no" | eco |
| jose saramago | blindness |
ebenezer dorset | the ransom of red chief |
| chapter 9 | doubloon |
| stephen crane | open boat |
| "a worn path." | welty |
| "the gift of the magi." | henry |
| out of africa | dinesen |
les rougon-macquart | zola |
| malaprop | sheridan |
| east of eden | steinbeck |
| trafalmadore | slaughterhouse-five |
| "swann's way" | in search of lost time |
| daisy buchanan | fitzgerald |
"mistah kurtz--he dead." | heart of darkness |
| "a very old man with enormous wings." | garcia marquez |
| "once upon a midnight dreary" | raven |
| "work." | grass |
| "story" | sailor |
| "miracle" | kingsolver |
toru okada | murakami |
| cornudet | german |
| owen meany | baseball |
| "the outcasts of poker flat" | harte |
| isaac asimov | science |
| oronte | sonnet |
| mictlantecuhtli | underworld |
| white noise | delillo |
| robert louis stevenson | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| mustafa sa | othello |
| "ode on a distant prospect of eton college." | gray |
| wise blood | o'connor |
| cronos | hestia |
| the misanthrope | moliere |
| marius | les |
| schwarzgerat | gravity's rainbow |
| tezcatlipoca | quetzalcoatl |
| shirazi | hafez |
| tang dynasty | li |
| "relax. concentrate. dispel every other thought." | if on a winter's night |
| philae | moliere |
| adriana | syracuse |
| coleman barks | rumi |
| roberto marx | on the road |
| "the memory of you emerges from the night around me" | neruda |
| "easter, 1916." | yeats |
| "and did those feet in ancient time / walk upon england's mountains green?" | blake |
brobdingnag | gulliver's travels |
| "antichrist" | war and peace |
| ruben dario | ocampo |
| capote | lee |
| "carnal embrace." | stoppard |
| "paul revere's ride." | longfellow |
| candy darling | of mice and men |
| "by the shores of gitche gumee." | song of hiawatha |
"leda and the swan" | yeats |
| "blind eyes" | thomas |
| tirant lo blanch | don quixote |
| red sammy | o'connor |
| "look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" | ozymandias |
| don caesar | ambitious |
| "poems on various subjects," | religious |
| ministry of utmost happiness | roy |
| philippics | lottery |
| gabriel lajeunesse | longfellow |
| wikipedia | thoreau |
disgrace | coetzee |
| briony tallis | atonement |
| "the minister's black veil" | hawthorne |
| tagore | gitanjali |
"prince charming" | the picture of dorian gray |
| modest proposal | swift |
(translated by) edward fitzgerald | rubaiyat |
| llareggub | thomas |
| tita | esperanza |
| aziz | passage to india |
| "tonight i can write the saddest lines." | neruda |
| apollonian | nietzsche |
| ira aldridge | lord chamberlain |
spiritual couplets | rumi |
| isabel archer | james |
| pierre arronax | verne |
pyramus and thisbe | a midsummer night's dream |
| glass bead games | hesse |
king hedley ii | wilson |
| stephen | joyce |
infinite jest | david foster wallace |
| captain ahab in moby | melville |
| troo | katherina |
| importance of being earnest | wilde |
children of gebelawi | mahfouz |
| "the river-merchant's wife." | li |
| unaccustomed earth | lahiri |
blake | "the tyger" |
the hundred years' war | agincourt |
| o'brien | vietnam |
| death comes for the archbishop | cather |
| sci-fi | mcewan |
| czechia | kundera |
| beneatha | raisin in the sun |
| "i could not love thee (dear) so much / love'd i not honor more" | lovelace |
| "the flea." | donne |
| francis a. | lampedusa |
| angry penguins | australia |
| cannery row | steinbeck |
| buendia | garcia marquez |
| "grass" | tin drum |
| east egg | great gatsby |
| annie | brooks |
| "goblin market." | rossetti |
| albert camus | france |
| karen | andersen |
| rhinoceros | ionesco |
| al-jawad | mahfouz |
| jacob marley | ebenezer |
| bleak house | dickens |
| wisconsin to chicago | dreiser |
| victor frankenstein | william |
| valentine | mephistopheles |
| "if winter comes, can spring be far behind?" | ode to the west wind |
| dunya | crime and punishment |
| "now you will not swell the rout of lads that wore their honors out." | housman |
| "to autumn" | keats |
| robert herrick | rose |
| "ennui!" | flowers of evil |
| "the discourager of hesitancy." | sword |
| belacqua shuah | beckett |
konstantin treplev | the seagull |
| "a thing of beauty is a joy forever." | keats |
| velutha | roy |
| georges bizet | carmen |
| "the mother" | brooks |
| "strange meeting" | owen |
| mademoiselle reisz | chopin |
| bigger thomas | native |
| leonard bast | forster |
| diana | knight |
| "guantanamera." | cuba |
| heinrich heine | german |
| "i have done it again/one year in every ten." | plath |
| criseyde | chaucer |
| andrew marvell | macleish |
| "carol" | oleanna |
| laertes | polonius |
| yoknapatawpha county | faulkner |
| boris pasternak | doctor zhivago |
| smiths | ionesco |
| esperanza cordero | house on mango street |
| nyx | erebus |
"after apple-picking." | frost |
| wilhelm meister | goethe |
| "country" | snow |
| hymir | jormungand |
| passage to india | forster |
| roxane | cyrano |
| p. lovecraft | lovecraft |
| margaret atwood | handmaid's tale |
| "if-," | kipling |
| st. lucia | walcott |
| "just right." | granta |
| jane | bennet |
| death of a naturalist | heaney |
| graham greene | spy |
| "to the virgins, to make much of time." | rose |
| boris max | native |
| ganya | parvati |
| terri | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| life of pi | tiger |
mayday | gilead |
| "the old lie." | owen |
| "holy" | ginsberg |
| lorde | brooks |
| jack kerouac | road |
| ammu | god of small things |
| captain beatty | fahrenheit 451 |
| "spleen and ideal" | baudelaire |
| goriot | balzac |
albertine | in search of lost time |
| matsuo basho | haiku |
| aunt agatha | jeeves |
| tyrone | long day's journey into night |
| "la belle dame sans merci," | keats |
| constance | jackson |
| roland | charlemagne |
| oedipa maas | pynchon |
isabel allende | the house of the spirits |
| chris | anna christie |
| dog years | grass |
| "desiree's baby," | chopin |
under the gaslight | sister carrie |
| "hell screen" | akutagawa |
| blind assassin | atwood |
| "bent double, like old beggars under sacks," | owen |
| war of the worlds | radio |
eatonville | their eyes were watching god |
| other ibsen | when we dead awaken |
| edna pontellier | awakening |
| j.r.r. tolkien | beowulf |
| "who, if i cried out, would hear me among the angelic hierarchies?" | duino elegies |
| ceyx | chaucer |
| ludovico | clockwork orange |
| daniel defoe | plague |
| kuchuk hanem | orientalism |
| dodge | buried child |
| ash wednesday | eliot |
| "summoner" | venice |
| leonora | pirandello |
| with coleridge | wordsworth |
| in julia ward howe | atlantic |
| "don juan in hell" | shaw |
| book of the duchess | chaucer |
| lady of the lake | scott |
bundrens | faulkner |
| harry hope | iceman cometh |
| doctor pangloss | candide |
| clare quilty | lolita |
| sweet home | beloved |
gwendolyn brooks | we real cool |
| an american pastoral | roth |
| fury | faulkner |
| vasudeva | siddhartha |
| walter scott | frederick |
| "sympathy." | caged bird |
| "you who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes" | laura |
| ister | river |
| yul | korean |
mustapha mond | brave new world |
the gulag archipelago | solzhenitsyn |
xury | defoe |
| hopscotch | cortazar |
| hanno | buddenbrooks |
| seamus heaney | beowulf |
| knight of the white moon | cervantes |
| "footnote" | ginsberg |
| katherina | taming of the |
| animal farm | orwell |
| slouching towards bethlehem | didion |
| cat's cradle | vonnegut |
| "april is the cruelest month," | eliot |
| larissa | perseus |
| dua lipa | pachinko |
| il filostrato | boccaccio |
| denver | beloved |
| sentimental education | flaubert |
| spirit of evil | yiddish |
| george tesman | ibsen |
| thomas shadwell | jonson |
| "an aged man is but a paltry thing" | yeats |
| sugar street | egypt |
| robert graves | claudius |
around the world in eighty days | verne |
| "sit in one of the dives on fifty-second street" | auden |
| pen translation prize | mann |
| long goodbye | roth |
| eilif | brecht |
| purgatorio | divine comedy |
| "crust and sugar over, / like a syrupy sweet?" | harlem renaissance |
| "tam o' shanter" | burns |
| toby | sterne |
| lady rowena | ivanhoe |
| fernando pessoa | portuguese |
| yalta | chekhov |
| pindar | herodotus |
| kingsley amis | bond |
| "so much depends / upon" | red wheelbarrow |
| mill on the floss | eliot |
| "mac flecknoe." | dryden |
| with fire | polish |
| senghor | academie |
| maphia | saramago |
germinal | zola |
| henry iv | pirandello |
| future king | white |
| sidi | soyinka |
| olunde | soyinka |
| linton | wuthering heights |
| elizabeth costello | coetzee |
| "what have i got in my pocket?" | bilbo |
quo vadis | polish |
| tristram shandy | sterne |
| lost world | doyle |
| stone raft | saramago |
| son | giver |
| midgard serpent | jormungand |
hyperion (novel) | friedrich holderlin |
| "the war years." | sandburg |
| ann deever | all my sons |
| "jazz june," | brooks |
big brother | 1984 |
| house on eccles street | coetzee |
| sayyid ahmad | mahfouz |
| "who are mostly good" | brooks |
| icarus | daedalus |
| "within the mind of god" | our town |
| cedric | ivanhoe |
| "the plan," | eco |
| novalis | german |
equus | horse |
| aunt ester | pittsburgh |
| w.b. yeats | easter rising |
| pinter | birthday party |
| "marks of weakness, marks of woe" | blake |
| oregon state penitentiary | mailer |
| "it's not that way, it's over here" | bald soprano |
| "i bathed in the euphrates when dawns were young." | hughes |
| call of the wild | london |
| mersault | stranger |
| "only connect." | forster |
| amy tan | joy luck club |
| william henry | hammer |
| "mute, inglorious." | milton |
| catullus | sappho |
| "the lake isle of innisfree." | yeats |
| six gallery | howl |
| "the black plague" | decameron |
| mason city | willie |
the house of bernarda alba | federico garcia lorca |
| okeechobee | hurston |
| bildad | pequod |
| caroline lee hentz | uncle tom's cabin |
| "sly animals" | rilke |
| myrna minkoff | confederacy of |
| gustave dore | windmill |
| reverend samuel parris | crucible |
| peter quint | turn of the screw |
"willow of crystal, a poplar of water" | paz |
| shelley levene | mamet |
| torvald | doll's |
| matilda | dahl |
| "nothing gold can stay" | frost |
john oakhurst | harte |
| vseslav of polotsk | bogatyr |
| truman capote | lee |
| raphael hythloday | vespucci |
| laura sheridan | mansfield |
| sabina | unbearable lightness of being |
| roy hobbs | baseball player |
| tales of soldiers | bierce |
| apuleius | golden ass |
| alcyoneus | giants |
| tiurin | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| havre | german |
| morelli | cortazar |
| prince korasoff | red and |
thomas wentworth higginson | emily dickinson |
| jake blount | heart is a lonely |
| william dobbin | vanity fair |
| "the hollow men" | eliot |
| "mighty and dreadful" | donne |
| "oh dear! oh dear! i shall be too late!" | white |
| samuel taylor coleridge | romanticism |
| amaranta | buendia |
| "blow-up." | cortazar |
| lancelot | divine |
| coast of utopia | stoppard |
| aphra behn | dryden |
| armand | chopin |
"to althea, from prison" | richard lovelace |
| kamel daoud | meursault |
| edmond dantes | hero |
"before the law" | the trial |
"in vacant or pensive mood," | wordsworth |
| thomas mann | italy |
| umberto eco | name of the rose |
| brian de bois-gilbert | knight |
| marjane satrapi | persepolis |
| romance of the three kingdoms | china |
| amaterasu | tsukuyomi |
| tenth muse lately sprung up in america | bradstreet |
| anne frank | russian |
| daisy miller | james |
| fitzcarraldo editions | nobel |
| hawk in the rain | plath |
| "five summers, with the length / of five long winters" | wordsworth |
| parasha | bronze horseman |
savage detectives | bolano |
| frances | rooney |
| "decolonizing the mind." | ngugi |
| in jesmyn ward | as i lay dying |
| glenarvon | lamb |
| travels | swift |
| both raju | narayan |
| idylls of the king | tennyson |
| one chinese | creation |
| cosmicomics | calvino |
| ugo foscolo | napoleon |
| "the sisters," | dublin |
| ern malley | australia |
| polybus | oedipus |
| khayyam | jug of wine |
the grand inquisitor | the brothers karamazov |
| "must cultivate our gardens." | candide |
| literary club | johnson |
| bly | the turn of the |
| "the house of nucingen." | eugene |
| thornton wilder | our town |
vedas | sanskrit |
| rime of the ancient mariner | coleridge |
| solzhenitsyn | gulag |
| dubois | misanthrope |
| simon legree | uncle tom's cabin |
| eva st | sophie's choice |
| "stunning blow upon the back of the neck" | bierce |
| "dear and loving husband." | bradstreet |
| fair haven | utopia |
august strindberg (country) | sweden |
| narayana | english |
| mules and men | hurston |
| "in memoriam a.h.h." | tennyson |
| johann wolfgang | schiller |
| tatiana | eugene |
| scrooge | fezziwig |
| "to build a fire," | london |
| phaedrus | aesop |
| "the heights of macchu picchu" | canto general |
| bernard nightingale | byron |
| "fond" | kiss |
| lyle | blues for mister charlie |
| "sick" | rose |
| go set a watchman | lee |
| ipek | pamuk |
| paul verlaine | rimbaud |
| chin | woman warrior |
| fatima | radio |
| edgar | fairy tale |
| "new," | comedy |
| henry wadsworth longfellow | divine |
| "white sickness" | saramago |
| fire in the steppe | polish |
| grimm | tailor |
| "nothing will come of nothing." | lear |
| j. p. morgan's | firemen |
| gilbert osmond | portrait of a |
| ben gardner | grendel |
| melissa | egypt |
| "truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true." | dream of the red chamber |
| willy loman | death of a salesman |
| moomins | hitler |
the charterhouse of parma | stendhal |
| sally seton at bourton | mrs. dalloway |
| "bigguns" | samneric |
| john suckling | cavalier |
| alceste | sonnet |
| vi of this work | aeneid |
| casaubon | eco |
| darkness at noon | koestler |
| "speak through my words and my blood" | machu picchu |
| peter walsh | mrs |
| saul bellow | chicago |
| macflecknoe | dryden |
| sword | polish |
| "does it explode?" | dream |
| bianca | tutor |
| george sand | flaubert |
| clara del valle | allende |
| "the golden shovel." | brooks |
| "latter-day scarlett o'hara" | gone with the wind |
| darwish | hebrew |
| english patient | ondaatje |
| "civil disobedience." | thoreau |
"someones married their everyones" | cummings |
| "the battle hymn of the republic," | atlantic |
| "black as cain, may be refined, and join th' angelic train." | wheatley |
| four great novels | china |
| "the conquest and colonialism" | labyrinth of solitude |
| "angelheaded hipsters" | ginsberg |
| "besides the white / chickens." | red wheelbarrow |
| father lorenzo | betrothed |
| middle english | sir gawain and the green knight |
| friends of the abc | javert |
| battle of roncevaux pass | charlemagne |
| duino elegies | rilke |
| guitar | song of solomon |
| "you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman." | much ado about nothing |
| markus zusak | book thief |
miss (rebecca) jessel | the turn of the screw |
"sun stone" | paz |
| johanna | sweeney |
| firs | chekhov |
| big sea | hughes |
| " for 10 points, name this poet who wrote " | eliot |
| "a love story," | didion |
| turk | johnson |
| lucasta | lovelace |
| steven spielberg | schindler |
| the player | rosencrantz |
| hedda gabler | ibsen |
| p. g. wodehouse | jeeves |
| marco polo | africa |
| morgiana | arabic |
| "i'm truly sorry man's dominion / has broken nature's social union" | burns |
| "i hate and i love." | elegy |
| jonathan strange | clarke |
| swift | a modest |
| han kang | south korea |
| marjorie | hair |
| room with a view | forster |
| "the quest for relevance" | africa |
| vittoria | aunt |
| xanthias | frogs |
| norrell | clarke |
| those who leave | italian |
| angelo mancuso | ignatius |
the thinkery | the clouds |
| transcendent kingdom | mouse |
| henry louis gates | douglass |
| cincinnati | beloved |
| vegetarian | south korea |
| "the gift outright" | frost |
| "nightfall." | science fiction |
| takehiro | tajomaru |
| holly golightly | breakfast at tiffany's |
| marquis | carter |
| farmer boldwood | gabriel |
| zadie smith | mouse |
| paradiso | divine comedy |
| "green, how i want you green." | lorca |
| "bad taste" | ignatius |
| anne of green gables | avonlea |
| voss | white |
| urania | keats |
| "art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, and dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell." | death |
| "thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure" | tagore |
| vaclav havel | czech |
| "on a grecian urn." | ode |
| gascoigne | heidegger |
| widow wycherly | heidegger |
| "benjamin" | animal farm |
| shu | romance of the three kingdoms |
| study in scarlet | doyle |
| "a perfect day for bananafish," | salinger |
| polly | magician's nephew |
| martian chronicles | bradbury |
malone dies | beckett |
| trina | paint |
| "to a mouse." | burns |
| manderley | rhododendron |
| kiyoaki | snow |
| "storm trooper," | norwegian wood |
| "nature" | emerson |
| benedick | beatrice |
| dictionary of the english language | johnson |
| in the return of the native | hardy |
| peter matthiessen | everest |
| father zosima | alyosha |
| athos | three musketeers |
| vivien | sappho |
| all god | maya |
| robert browning | dubliners |
| anselmo | for whom the bell |
| alison | wife of bath |
| bologna to rome | stendhal |
| madame hortense | zorba the greek |
| yasunari kawabata | snow |
makak | walcott |
| alan breck stewart | kidnapped |
rawdon crawley | vanity fair |
| "song of great capitulation." | brecht |
| porthos | three musketeers |
| "mere oblivions, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." | jaques |
| isabella bird | churchill |
| "the story of an hour" | chopin |
| charlotte perkins gilman | the yellow wallpaper |
| riddle of the sands | thirty-nine steps |
"turning and turning in the widening gyre" | yeats |
| "horses' heads/ were pointed toward eternity." | dickinson |
becky sharp | vanity fair |
| thomas dixon | lucky |
| jules verne | nautilus |
| "fever" | italy |
| amy kelly | beloved |
| bathsheba everdene | far from the madding |
| michael furey | dead |
| dowson | long day's journey into night |
| tres marias | allende |
| mario vargas llosa | julia |
| "pale kings and princes too." | keats |
| prospero | tempest |
| "remembrances," | raven |
| "the end and the beginning." | grass |
| wilfred owen | dulce et decorum est |
| lewis carroll | through the looking glass |
| corporal lestrade | walcott |
| "babette's feast," | dinesen |
| d'artagnan first | three musketeers |
| ned land | nautilus |
| "star-cross'd lovers." | romeo and juliet |
| "to whom i was like to give offense" | walls |
| children need traveling shoes | maya |
| consuelo | sand |
| "wave" | stephen |
| james boswell | johnson |
| "every angel is terrifying." | duino elegies |
| "the murders in the rue morgue." | poe |
| "karawane" | dada |
| alexander search | portuguese |
| sandra cisneros | mexican |
| monterey | steinbeck |
| shropshire | housman |
| "ode to aphrodite." | sappho |
| cathy | read |
| "why was i allowed to come this far and see sand and trees" | open boat |
"i rise with my red hair / and i eat men like air," | plath |
| mabel loomis todd | letters |
| song | mailer |
emily webb | our town |
| silas lapham | howells |
| "rural trilogy." | lorca |
| harold pinter | doctor |
| gigi | colette |
| in the old east slavic | bogatyr |
| havana harbor | spy |
| day of the locust | west |
| echo | satyr |
| "the night dances" | ariel |
| san dominick | melville |
| nurse ratched | mental hospital |
| von essen | strindberg |
| "commodore" | oiler |
| tom jones | fielding |
hafez | persian |
| "wicked" | decameron |
| hanuman | ramayana |
| sarajevo | black hand |
| william collins | pride and prejudice |
| karel capek | robot |
| "red thoughts and his teeth were white." | saki |
| aleksandr pushkin | russian |
| "some mute inglorious milton" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| petruchio | taming of the shrew |
| regina | education |
| "merrie england," | lucky |
| journey to the west | buddha |
| meg | little women |
| primus | czech |
| alvita | jamaica |
elegant effendi | istanbul |
| true history of the kelly gang | carey |
| birthday letters | plath |
| weena | time |
| "at five in the afternoon." | lorca |
| gerard de nerval | eliot |
death with interruptions | saramago |
| gentleman with the thistledown hair | clarke |
| stable | china |
| "jabberwocky." | carroll |
| "puddle-wonderful." | cummings |
| juno | caliban |
| orangedrink lemondrink man | india |
| falstaff | shakespeare |
| mansfield | bliss |
americanah | adichie |
| julien sorel | stendhal |
| sally hayes | salinger |
| katy | disgrace |
| "sensemaya." | hughes |
| "follow the leader" | melville |
| mnemosyne | keats |
| "how cunningly" | tell-tale heart |
| "shall i compare thee to a summer's day?" | 14 |
| "you are sane" | dickinson |
| northrop frye | tyger |
| the master and margarita | bulgakov |
| "[one event] in june, corn be heavy soon." | jackson |
swiss cheese | brecht |
| marmee | little women |
| joseph knecht | glass bead game |
| jenny lind | andersen |
| "the litanies of satan." | flower |
| nikolai chernyshevsky | dostoyevsky |
| martin fierro | argentina |
| "sexy," | lahiri |
| the dunciad and the | pope |
| an enrique gonzalez martinez | modernism |
| lieutenant jimmy cross | vietnam |
| tale of igor | pushkin |
| shimamura | kawabata |
| paul d | beloved |
| "if ever two were one, then surely we. / if ever man were loved by wife, then thee." | loving husband |
| all quiet on the western front | remarque |
| carlson | of mice and men |
| abraham cowley | ode |
| shi nai | water margin |
| "spiritual victories." | china |
| book iii of the faerie queene | spenser |
| tale of a tub | swift |
| james weldon johnson | autobiography |
| metamorphosis | kafka |
| "tell me why / this goblin honor which the world adores / should make men atheists and not women whores" | cavalier |
| "hot water shop" | the good |
| orlando | woolf |
| "hidden carvings and inscriptions." | tolkien |
| inklings | tolkien |
| "durer: innsbruck, 1495." | australia |
| slaughterhouse-five | vonnegut |
| "one beauty." | hair |
| golden key | italy |
| "three blind mice" | christie |
| white album | murder |
| "do i contradict myself?" | song of myself |
| beat generation | ginsburg |
| silappatikaram | tamil |
| "boule de suif" | maupassant |
| "asphodel, that greeny flower." | williams |
| "strove to resuscitate the dead art/of poetry" | pound |
| all my sons | miller |
| erika kohut | austria |
| london to adelaide | galsworthy |
| vidiadhar surajprasad naipaul | naipaul |
| yonville | madame bovary |
| symposium | gilead |
| illustrated man | bradbury |
| the custom-house | scarlet letter |
| easter uprising | yeats |
| "the bride comes to yellow sky" | crane |
| rasnolnikov | dostoyevsky |
| uncle peck | vogel |
| todd | waugh |
| age of innocence | wharton |
| human stain | roth |
| tom dacre | chimney |
| "know that, in a former time, love! sweet love! was thought a crime." | lost |
| raymonda | stranger |
| "a terrible beauty is born" | yeats |
| act 5 | ars |
| tanya | gorky |
| hazel motes | o'connor |
| gordon | plath |
"the fall of the house of usher" | poe |
| go tell it on the mountain | baldwin |
| pittsburgh cycle | wilson |
| real thing | stoppard |
| brett ashley | the sun also |
| poisonwood bible | kingsolver |
| "twenty-six men and a girl." | gorky |
the birth of tragedy | nietzsche |
| maggie | crane |
| pablo ibbieta | sartre |
| john anderton | minority report |
| elka | singer |
| "guilt and innocence" | hitler |
| hairy ape | provincetown players |
| abel | antrobus |
| hunchback of notre dame | esmeralda |
| hercule poirot | christie |
| rossetti | carols |
| rilke | first |
| quasimodo | esmeralda |
| v-2 | pynchon |
| "i heard a fly buzz when i died," | dickinson |
| "pamper'd swells with one blood made of two." | donne |
| "the caballero's way" | henry |
| "illusion" | japanese |
| lenore | raven |
| dark tower | king |
| harriet smithson | emma |
| "better after death" | how do i love thee |
| cavafy | greek |
| "i love you" | soseki |
| tevye the milkman | yiddish |
| confessions of a mask | mishima |
| horacio quiroga | uruguay |
| charles darnay | tale of two cities |
| "i shall be as dirty as i please: and i like to be dirty, and i will be dirty." | wuthering heights |
| confessions | augustine |
| jack tanner | shaw |
| clavdia chauchat | mann |
| "city of the big shoulders" | sandburg |
"the plums that were in the icebox" | william carlos williams |
| samuel | color purple |
| weston | emma |
| esther | bell jar |
the persians | aeschylus |
| baby suggs | beloved |
| "royal" | underground |
| lyrical ballads | wordsworth |
| "a game of chess" | eliot |
| arturo | brecht |
| tsitsi dangarembga | zimbabwe |
| piano lesson | wilson |
| gerda | buddenbrooks |
| offred | handmaid's tale |
| hussein mosque | palace |
| joe keller | all my sons |
| "the dancing girl of izu" | kawabata |
| friedrich nicolai | werther |
| pelayo | crab |
| magic theater | hesse |
| goldberg | pinter |
| a and darkness | sword in the stone |
| george willard | anderson |
| reverend edward casaubon | middlemarch |
| "my mother is a fish." | as i lay |
| charles tansley | to the lighthouse |
| sacramental melodrama | genet |
| lakunlerefuses | soyinka |
| neva river | pushkin |
| charles arrowby | murdoch |
| "forethought" | chicken |
snow country | kawabata |
| "shantih shantih shantih" | waste land |
| urashima taro | aging |
| trigorin | checkhov |
| an angel at my table | mansfield |
| dorine | loyal |
| anatomy of criticism | comedy |
| chebutykin | three sisters |
| "go" | rose |
| "had we but world enough and time." | "to his coy mistress" |
| columbia university | boas |
| "homeric" | hymn |
| richard lovelace | cavalier |
| gesta danorum | snorri |
| walter pater | marius |
cleante | tartuffe |
| lady chatterley | lawrence |
| "red, red" | rose |
| stella-rondo | welty |
| bessie | native |
| "hurry up please it's time," | waste land |
| olivia | twelfth night |
| valeria luiselli | brodsky |
| john byrom | tweedledee |
| frou-frou | vronsky |
| angelica | orlando |
| frank stockton | sword |
| "clouds" | sleepy hollow |
| life & k | coetzee |
| herbie | detroit |
| while in argentina | autobiography of red |
| gregor samsa in the metamorphosis | kafka |
| charles ryder | waugh |
| rosewater | firemen |
| "to be or not to be" | get thee to a |
| "like a dog" | kafka |
| after albert | goethe |
| castle of crossed destinies | calvino |
| don segundo sombra | gaucho |
| theophile gautier | art for art's sake |
| adolphus cusins | shaw |
| "come buy, come buy." | rossetti |
| dragon king | journey to the west |
| conditioning center | brave new |
| three sisters | chekhov |
| "sun moon stars rain" | cummings |
| haunting of hill house | jackson |
| my antonia | cather |
| "newsreel" | dos passos |
| prince dakkar | verne |
| batman | scooby |
| "why is a raven like a writing desk?" | hatter |
| "held but just ourselves and immortality." | because i could not stop for death |
| behn | letter |
| hulot | cousine bette |
"if music be the food of love, play on." | twelfth night |
| wings | demian |
| isaac | things fall apart |
| rockwell kent | moby-dick |
| leatherstocking tales | cooper |
| times of michael | coetzee |
| inn | stevenson |
| lovewit | alchemist |
| exemplary novels | cervantes |
| one of plautus | soldier |
| central london hatchery | brave new |
| giovanni bononcini | tweedledee |
| imoinda | behn |
| ursula | garcia |
| angel esmeralda | hugo |
| nine novels | ballard |
| nicholas snub | berganza |
| jew of malta | marlowe |
| before antony | ambitious |
| salim | naipaul |
| "pied beauty." | hopkins |
| rosaura | esperanza |
| "endymion," | keats |
| "the skin of our teeth" | wilder |
| "sound [his] barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" | whitman |
| "rest," | herbert |
the cider house rules | john irving |
| strophe | pindar |
| flowers of evil | baudelaire |
| eva luna | allende |
| classics | roth |
| toru | wind-up bird chronicle |
| "when i consider how my light is spent" | milton |
| gavroche | hugo |
| starkfield | ethan frome |
| martins | ionesco |
| john dowell | good soldier |
| thomas pynchon | gravity's rainbow |
| "smith" | john |
| "fog" | sandburg |
| "stasis in darkness/then the substanceless blue." | plath |
| "parthenope" | siren |
| eco | baudolino |
| "too soon made glad" | browning |
| ishtar | bull |
| seth | winesburg |
| sammy | a&p |
| in a sharon olds | body |
| mario | italy |
| "scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115" | cooper |
| minnehaha | longfellow |
| "brazen giant of greek fame." | new colossus |
| carlos daneri | borges |
| archie jones | smith |
| ecgtheow | beowulf |
| atonement | mcewan |
| john montague | hill house |
| rover | behn |
| pnin | nabokov |
| newgate prison | defoe |
| alejandra pizarnik | argentina |
| "true daughter of old time" | poe |
| malvolio | twelfth night |
| "things fall apart." | yeats |
| troilus | chaucer |
| nikos kazantzakis | greek |
| percival | lord of the flies |
| wife of bath | chaucer |
| "things fall apart, the center cannot hold" | yeats |
| "kindly stopped for me." | because i could not stop for death |
| kate | dead |
good-bye to all that | graves |
| "childe roland to the dark tower came." | browning |
| "walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across america." | rockland |
| angellica bianca | behn |
| drang | sorrows of |
| "who made thee?" | blake |
homer wells | the cider house rules |
trueba | the house of the spirits |
| "tossing their heads in a sprightly dance." | daffodil |
| jimmy | factorial |
"birches" | frost |
| dylar | white noise |
| elephant of the bastille | argot |
| biafran war | half of a yellow sun |
| laius | jocasta |
"batter my heart, three person'd god" | donne |
| along with leon damas | senghor |
| austerlitz | sebald |
| "little poems in prose." | lazarus |
| andria | terence |
| "guy" | giants |
| nelly dean | wuthering heights |
| katrina van tassel | irving |
| saleem | singer |
| "september 1st, 1939" | auden |
| elie wiesel | night |
| "the eagles" | okigbo |
| "a shape with lion body and the head of a man," | second coming |
| "what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" | tyger |
| adelaide fouque | zola |
| orlick | great expectations |
| brecht | distancing |
| lay dying | faulkner |
| romantic british | keats |
guest (character) | strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde |
| "as slow as the tolling of a death knell" | watch |
| lord orville | burney |
| harriet winslow | old gringo |
| dancer | easter, 1916 |
| winesburg | anderson |
| caryl churchill | joan |
| "voodoo." | welles |
| "mother to son." | hughes |
| terence | self-tormentor |
| child | six characters in search of an author |
| paquette | esmeralda |
| kahnk | things fall apart |
| areopagitica | milton |
| thanatos | freud |
| dreyfus | zola |
| earl of gloucester | king |
| brer rabbit | johnson |
"soul has grown deep" | langston hughes |
| anubis | answer |
| "all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" | beauty |
| alexanderplatz | berlin |
| country of the pointed firs | maine |
| aston villa | gus |
| "pirate" | banana |
| "beside the white chickens" | wheelbarrow |
| coleman silk | roth |
| "was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?" | helen |
| professor pieixoto | handmaid's tale |
| "battle royal." | invisible man |
| headless horseman | irving |
| the trial | kafka |
| andrew undershaft | shaw |
| lazarus | crime and punishment |
| "hope is a thing with feathers" | dickinson |
| "place of many trees." | kilmer |
| anna livia | finnegans wake |
| apprenticeship | goethe |
| "anna livia plurabelle" | beckett |
| pilgrim | general prologue |
| roger chillingworth | scarlet letter |
| salvation army | shaw |
| north of boston | frost |
| madame loisel | maupassant |
| sarah orne jewett | maine |
| valentin | puig |
| captain cat | thomas |
| mita banerjee | hawthorne |
| three musketeers | dumas |
| lewis theobald | pope |
| grace ogot | kenya |
| in luigi pirandello | six characters in search of an author |
| enchanted hunters | lolita |
| panfilo, filostrato | decameron |
| "nymphets" | lolita |
| jack worthing | wilde |
leslie hotson | marlowe |
| wood of tenjin | love |
| "density" | v-2 |
| "defended herself" | chicken |
| on the shadow side | hulme |
| "as she undoubtedly will be." | nana |
| quintus ennius | dactylic hexameter |
| rudy giuliani | manzoni |
| "chaste and lovely form" | laura |
| "the drunken boat" | rimbaud |
| "in his mouth / gazing at the clouds." | grass |
| don alonso | quixote |
| book of laughter | kundera |
| j. g. ballard's | ballard |
| "heroines of self-hate," | rooney |
| lucy honeychurch | forster |
| pisthetaerus | cloud |
| "hoard, and sleep, and feed, and not know me." | ulysses |
| caucasian chalk circle | brecht |
| ola rotimi | dead |
| "funeral blues" | auden |
| "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 |
| "rocks and seas" | conversation |
| mama yaya | tituba |
| wat tyler | vidal |
| ayi kwei armah | season |
| "the moon is beautiful." | soseki |
| "twilight" | trixie |
| "dedication for a plot of ground." | chicken |
| "there should be no more than half a dozen people on the roof at any time." | cider house rules |
| "response" | reader |
| "after every war / someone has to clean up" | grass |
| rosenfeld | rooney |
| incredibly close | 2001 |
| omeros | walcott |
| thirty years war | brecht |
| k. chesterton | chesterton |
| elizabeth montagu | romeo and |
| "work'us" | oliver twist |
| "predators" | season |
| professor challenger | doyle |
| big sleep | philip |
| beaver coat | hauptmann |
| "heart-broken jester" | lazarus |
| coppet | napoleon |
| model kit | hopscotch |
| turn of the screw | james |
| "repulsive, alarming yellow flowers," | master |
| amin maalouf | rubaiyat |
| achille | walcott |
| "you can't do it here, it's not the place!" | america |
| li bai | tang |
| abashvili | azdak |
| letters on tactics | lenin |
| wulkow | hauptmann |
| "laid in the church of the franciscans, on the evening of the day she died." | laura |
| "enchanted magician" | lazarus |
| "molten phosphorus" | copenhagen |
| an experiment in criticism | reader |
| soseki | kafka on the shore |
| "drama of struggle" | dead |
| "command me to follow him." | we must love one another or die |
| new york drama critics | children's hour |
| down syndrome | violent bear it away |
| cassandra | austen |
| grose | the turn of the |
| into the night life | coney island |
| khepri | ra |
khaled hosseini (book) | the kite runner |
| "should not mean, but" | be |
| "an hour to suffer, a lifetime to live," | land |
| christian de neuvillette | bergerac |
| anoa | season |
| alicia | colette |
| "there should be stars for great wars" | cisneros |
| "stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone." | auden |
| lucinda rosenfeld | rooney |
| "fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic." | chandler |
| "ruffling the tawny pelt" | far cry from africa |
| pater jakobus | castalia |
| sneaze | soseki |
| "destroyers" | season |
| "the tomb in palestine / is not the porch of spirits lingering." | sunday morning |
| "windows looking in upon fiery reality" | tattoo |
| slope | trollope |
| my struggle | knausgard |
| "process of alienation." | kikuyu |
| "weasels that stole" | chicken |
| correspondence with a child | alcott |
| "rubble literature" | boll |
| lukashka | cossacks |
| madame alvarez | colette |
| elton | emma |
| roth ira | zuckerman |
| dapple | don quixote |
| "theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life" | lenin |
| italian hours | venice |
| "talent is nothing but faith in yourself, in your own powers." | actor |
| norman foster | stranger in a strange |
| germaine de stael | napoleon |
| branden jacobs | everyman |
| noah claypole | oliver twist |
| erskine childers | spy |
| antistrophe | pindar |
| casa alvisi | venice |
| "the german censors" | heine |
| gaston | colette |
| "idiots" | heine |
| "that vast moth-eaten musical brocade / created to pretend we never die." | larkin |
| flash gordon | mysterious flame of queen loana |
| strepsiades | clouds |
| uncle arhat | red sorghum |
| elsie venner | boston |
| "epic theater." | brecht |
| "one last poem for richard." | cisneros |
| la folle | bayou |
| "smoking his pipe" | symphony in gray major |
| julien pitt | angels in america |
| bliss | coward |
| li'l | driving |
| adventures of augie march | chicago |
| knut hamsun | norway |
| "stormy mane of a pony" | funes |
| cook | cheshire cat |
| atlas shrugged | rand |
| gollum | bilbo |
| goce smilevski | concentration camp |
| "magic theatre -- entrance not for everybody" | steppenwolf |
| "and the beatles' first lp" | lady chatterley's lover |
| "shallow graves" | auster |
| in france | romantic |
| knowell | humor |
| james wood | auster |
| lorenzo savoini | miller |
| "before, behind, between, above, below." | donne |
| nikolaj | pimento |
| inger | growth of the soil |
| "the original of" | pemberley |
| duke of angouleme | julien |
| "terence, this is stupid stuff" | shropshire lad |
| baliardo | behn |
| armande bejart | school for wives |
| arafa | children of gebelawi |
| emperor of the moon | behn |
| edna | caged bird |
| "the father of five sons, and in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons." | i sing the body electric |
| "ploffskin, pluffskin, pelican jee!" | lear |
| "stunning blow" | bierce |
| bertie stanhope | trollope |
| "keep the water white." | lonely londoners |
| "stop calling me a crypto-nazi, or i'll sock you in the face" | debating |
| "what do you think you are going to gain by moving into a neighborhood where you just aren't wanted?" | raisin in the |
| bayou folk | chopin |
| karl lindner | raisin in the |
| "beyond" | bayou |
| dukes of devonshire | pemberley |
| "the kentucky derby is decadent and depraved." | horse |
| vincent | cry, the beloved country |
| smilevski | concentration camp |
| "tra-la" | macneice |
| fulbert | idol |
| susan choi | education |
| "wagahai" | i am a cat |
| solveig | ibsen |
| "evil, superstition, and tyranny," | fearful symmetry |
| "thinking about the beaches" | symphony in gray major |
| "telluric currents" | eco |
| "the pelican's chorus." | lear |
| "turn everything off. start new." | veldt |
| gullveig | vanir |
| tom taylor | lincoln |
| tove jansson | hitler |
| andrew butler | bildungsroman |
| "a circle drawn on a blackboard." | funes |
| mamoudou kouyate | griot |
| "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 |
| eldridge cleaver | bigger |
| "the freedman's story" | atlantic |
| "severe hysteria" | epilepsy |
| "an expression of calm" | all quiet on the western front |
| "clay" | dublin |
| "you will love again the stranger who was your self" | walcott |
| "they eat green salad and drink human blood." | herzog |
| algic researches | song of hiawatha |
| "rid yourself of all your daily cares." | kafka |
| "walks at midnight" | lincoln |
| ochola | gurnah |
| "beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze." | daffodi |
| world of strangers | gordimer |
| raoul duke | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| late bourgeois world | gordimer |
| in the postscript | name of the rose |
| driving miss daisy | georgia |
| balla fasseke | griot |
| "my america! my new-found-land" | donne |
| clare hollingworth | war correspondent |
| celeste albaret | proust |
| mathilde von zahnd | physicist |
| "torturing faces with the vacancy of wide sunflowers" | end of the party |
| "common farmer" | i sing the body electric |
| "spanish sombrero" | smith |
| "riot club" | stoppard |
| on the natural history of destruction | sebald |
| "sexual intercourse began" | lady chatterley's lover |
| "had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars, two valuable horses, and a prominent citizen" | outcasts of |
| abbe faria | dumas |
| country girls | o'brien |
| mary lyon | mice |
| "tubingen, january" | holderlin |
| "the child who became a giant" | dry white season |
| jane johnston | song of hiawatha |
| "no trace... of the martin luther king-type self-effacing love for his oppressors." | bigger |
| brainworm | humor |
| judge clement | humor |
| scout | atticus |
| count of monte cristo | dumas |
| "no more than a machine." | flaubert |
| chatsworth | pemberley |
| "lunar race" | behn |
| "the taxis." | macneice |
| "you, the reader" | baudelaire |
| "glad the end had come." | all quiet on the western front |
| "love after love." | walcott |
| "the man who considers...what good or evil he has done, and what judgement his soul will receive after its passing" | bede |
| black americans | senghor |
| "ah, how you will enchant the angels!" | dinesen |
| "sweet sensations" | conversation |
| edwidge danticat | decameron |
| mah-aht | ra |
| judge banner | natural |
| hwalbindang | korean |
| kerewin | hulme |
| "the slut you are so bent on becoming." | kincaid |
| "vague, distant, misty country." | symphony in gray major |
| "had a cat named flo," | porlock |
| ted brown | lysistrata |
| mother wolff | hauptmann |
| "first came the chasm, and then broad-breasted earth." | theogony |
| "what made me take this trip to africa?" | henderson the rain |
| dreissiger | howells |
| singin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| luna moth | amazing |
| sinbad the sailor | scheherazade |
| skulker | dogs |
| maat | ra |
| filby | time machine |
| "i have great trouble, and some comfort, to acquaint you with." | pamela |
| "if i be waspish, best beware my sting" | taming of the |
| david mccullough | veldt |
| "the combs of a smother of sand" | wreck of the deutschland |
| madwoman in the attic | jane eyre |
| "all afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury." | phedre |
| mario puzo | balzac |
| "savage race" | ulysses |
| sizwe banzi | dead |
| "whether i pound or am being pounded, / all the same there will be moaning!" | peer gynt |
| national prize in literature | spanish civil |
| roger dean | denver |
| peter w. barlow | barlow |
| "lumps in the throat" | frost |
| mantuan | shepheardes |
| "the fate of unrequited love." | garcia marquez |
| don fabrizio | lampedusa |
| beth | alcott |
| "go on living the life of the spirit" | lampedusa |
| robert lebrun | awakening |
| "and with a stronger faith embrace a sword, a horse, a shield." | to lucasta, going to |
| "fair witness" | stranger in a strange |
| acrasia | 1984 |
| finch hatton | out of africa |
| karl huysmans | nana |
| "the town of oran, which is merely a large french port on the algerian coast" | plague |
| charlie drouet | carrie |
| "twinned novels" | hulme |
| "ancient pond" | haiku |
| "i had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me." | much ado about |
| "for god his sake let's get out of this. the place stinks." | candle in the |
| roman general ventidius | all for love |
| "life is ever lord of death, and love can never lose its own!" | snow-bound |
| keri hulme | new zealand |
| "suspended by a handkerchief, and nearly at its last gasp." | dogs |
| "were all westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life" | great gatsby |
| after alexas | all for love |
| grain of wheat | ngugi |
| low church | trollope |
| faunus | pan |
| maryanka | cossacks |
| "stupidity, delusion, selfishness and lust torment our bodies and possess our minds." | flowers of evil |
| provincial mayor | time machine |
| talkative man | narayan |
| snowball | pig |
| "grandmother was a warlock" | porlock |
| olenin | cossacks |
| mission house in sophiatown | cry, the beloved |
| joris | nana |
| sasuke | tanizaki |
| genaro jr | radionovela |
| maria truczinski | tin drum |
| edmond rostand | cyrano |
| "for it is in london that our scene lies." | it was a dark and stormy night |
| "hope had grown grey hairs" | wreck of the deutschland |
| "his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come." | all quiet on |
| shepheardes calender | spenser |
| denys | out of africa |
| "he has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face." | minister's black |
| "dame peace" | parliament of fowls |
| "extricating young gussie." | jeeves |
| friedrich holderlin | hymn |
| "ennobling thoughts," | conversation |
| "toward expression . . . to fulfillment." | frost |
| "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 |
| medical man | time machine |
| and the world kept silent | night |
| "fantasy that she's a meaningful member of a family." | hosseini |
| "oh, what a tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive" | scott |
| torquato tasso | tancredi |
| "i mean, you're a blank, a cipher, a zero." | who's afraid of |
| irie jones | white teeth |
| murat sabanovic | andric |
| "grok" | stranger in a strange |
| abebooks | jerome |
| "i want you to start immediately for america." | extricating young |
| "a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church" | wise blood |
| everything is illuminated | foer |
| "corrected" | soseki |
| "one of us." | knausgard |
| captain vhd vhd | cosmicomics |
| menelaus | helen |
| "dame patience" | parliament of fowls |
| captain peleg | ahab |
| wellesley college | nabokov |
| "behind every great fortune there is a crime," | balzac |
| foer | 2001 |
| cypresses believe in god | spanish civil |
| "but these are all lies. men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." | rosalind |
| "all cats die. socrates is dead. therefore socrates is a cat." | rhinoceros |
| extremely loud | 2001 |
| raymon de ramiere | sand |
"some cromwell guiltless of his own country's blood" | "elegy written in a country churchyard" |
| thornfield hall | jane eyre |
| "crystal palace" | dostoyevsky |
| raskolnikov in crime | dostoevsky |
| movement song | lorde |
| mo yan | china |
| "giving currency to a vulgar error," | spontaneous combustion |
| george henry lewes | spontaneous combustion |
| in book | life of pi |
| "picaros, madmen, naifs, and clowns" | unreliable narrator |
| colonus | antigone |
| frances gage | ain't i a woman |
| esquire | kennedy |
| gabriela mistral | chile |
| ann goldstein | ferrante |
| last witnesses | alexievich |
| "refutation" | sand |
| "love's the boy stood on the burning deck / trying to recite `the boy stood on the burning deck.'" | casabianca |
| anneli taube | kiss of the spider woman |
| if on a winter | calvino |
| kerkylas of andros | sappho |
| fernand lotte | human comedy |
| chief bromden | mental hospital |
| ken kesey | mental hospital |
| "the most immoral of writers" | sand |
| duke of squamuglia | tristero |
| lady rectitude | griselda |
| suda | sappho |
| "bro!" | old english |
| pied beauty | dapple |
| niccolo | tristero |
| jose quadrado | sand |
| count steinbock | human comedy |
| "most perfect...for the mathematical destruction of a mortal." | infernal machine |
| miss barrie | metamorphoses |
| joseph stangerson | study in |
| polynices | antigone |
| "nellie j. banks" | testaments |
| gourd vine | hurston |
| "the lady of shalott." | tennyson |
| gregson | study in |
| "that mighty mighty tribe of johnsons." | street |
| geb | nut |
| "dinner is a casual affair." | brooks |
| "my life is the gardener of my body" | hebrew |
| "make me immortal with a kiss." | helen |
| rick | klara and the sun |
| "a stray ghost-walker with a ghostly gun." | brown |
| scandinavian experimental theater | strindberg |
| "the most obscene of women." | sand |
| "the new small talk." | shaw |
| "ex ovo omnia" | metamorphoses |
| jean morris | heart of darkness |
| angwin | mantel |
| blore | and then there |
| "captive's tale" | algiers |
| "a temporary matter" | lahiri |
| "everything comes out of an egg" | metamorphoses |
| cal stephanides | metamorphoses |
| sherrard | barbarian |
| "knowing owl." | swan |
| governor carter ross | antigone |
| "in exile at sarzana." | cavalcanti |
| "behold the time of the assassins" | drunk |
| brom bones | irving |
| "naked and beautiful, reaching for the light." | hospital |
| ferdinand de grammont | human comedy |
| colonel delmare | sand |
| chingachgook | bumppo |
| "butterflies, off banks of noon" | bird |
| "if anyone should feel differently, they would feel nothing." | comedy |
| in keeley | barbarian |
| "doctor's wife," | blindness |
| "embalmed" | anubis |
| "leap plashless as they swim" | bird |
| "barbaric act of violence" | doll |
| "though lovers be lost love shall not." | thomas |
| "bored by rhetoric and public speaking." | barbarian |
| "i hate and love. why i do so, perhaps you ask. i know not, but i feel it, and i am in torment." | lesbia |
| alexandrine meter | prose |
| "swah-vo-meer m'ro-zhek" | police |
| beginners | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| "the art of losing isn't hard to master" | bishop |
| "!mayombe--bombe--mayombe!" | cuba |
| monsieur crevel | cousine bette |
| tess gallagher | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| meyer wolfsheim | great gatsby |
| "sticky as bluebeard's." | heaney |
| "little penis from man island." | sappho |
| "do not remember me / as disaster / nor as the keeper of secrets" | lorde |
| the 's campaign | wolves |
| vonda mcintyre | atwood |
| talking squids in outer space | atwood |
| "autumn already!" | season in hell |
| randle patrick mcmurphy | mental hospital |
| "swans" | capote |
| chay | ivanhoe |
| wash williams | winesburg |
| fludd | mantel |
| lord of the rings | tolkien |
| winter in majorca | sand |
| "set his mind to evil" | byron |
| "the smile at the foot of the ladder" | miller |
| rene descartes | i have no mouth, and i must scream |
| robert morison | 1918 |
| "did god in portioning wine and bread / give man his thought or his mere body?" | michael |
| "a samoyed-lithuanian dialect of guarani" | library of babel |
| liked best | film |
| maria antonia garces | algiers |
| bharati university | tagore |
| orvil red feather | orange |
| "morning" | drunk |
| hugh macdiarmid | drunk |
| flores | borges |
| "men of death" | mask |
| "a noiseless patient spider." | whitman |
| trevor | vietnam |
| on earth we | vietnam |
| nocturnes | senghor |
| conversations with friends | irish |
| "but where are the snows of yesteryear?" | villon |
| harriet beecher stowe | uncle tom's cabin |
| otoko | beauty and sadness |
| "combing the white hair of the waves blown back" | mermaid |
| "there's a double meaning in that." | much ado about nothing |
| "the memoirs of a lady of quality." | peregrine |
maria dahvana headley | beowulf (retelling) |
| simon armitage | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "literary brownface" | ventriloquism |
| pearl poet | sir gawain and the green knight |
| obabakoak | basque |
| cosette | les |
| "when all wells are drawn dry, / i'll drink a tear out of thine eye." | hair |
| intermediate sex at craiglockhart hospital | regeneration |
| "great soft jelly thing" | i have no mouth, and i must scream |
| "covers me like a kind of bark" | italian |
| "for whom all winds are quiet as the sun, / all waters as the shore" | baudelaire |
| neapolitan novels | ferrante |
| "eat me" | alice |
| briefly gorgeous | vietnam |
| lin daiyu | dream of the red chamber |
| "civil peace." | achebe |
| sibylline leaves | gloss |
| angela carter | fairy tale |
| in king lear | fairy tale |
| "what are you laughing about? you are laughing at yourselves!" | government inspector |
| minta doyle | party |
| "we bend over them ... taking their breath / soft on our faces, wiping their domed brows." | whitman |
| "dormitive principle" | imaginary invalid |
| fumiko | thousand cranes |
| "throwing-up" | ferris wheel |
| george whitefield | man and superman |
| "great blobs of purple and red emotion" | eatonville |
| "point of departure" | universal history of infamy |
| "they call us cotton heads" | mask |
"miss brill" | mansfield |
| "my heart under your foot, sister of a stone" | bee |
| "the curse is finally expiated." | gloss |
| shino | thousand cranes |
| prayer for owen meany | irving |
| garden journal | hill |
| queequeg | white |
| "gossamer thread" | whitman |
| "looked better picked than growing." | manderley |
| "panterheaded ancestors." | mask |
| "does it make any difference / what names we call these lips by, if they keep / on yielding, and the kissing never stops?" | tsvetaeva |
| sumerian inanna | enkidu |
| "put on the kettle" | dumb waiter |
| ezra chater | byron |
| "magical realism in spanish-american fiction." | universal history of infamy |
| behemoth | master and mar |
| tapanhumas | andrade |
| "at the bat." | baseball |
| "so dreadful that not even a sci-fi writer could have made him up." | trujillo |
| tawfiq al-hakim | egypt |
| "bright-hearted companions" | rumi |
| "blond" | rumi |
| edward carpenter | regeneration |
| edward upward | isherwood |
| the 's nest | mental hospital |
| thamyris | milton |
| big foot | dead |
| babette | lottery |
| qfwfq | calvino |
| harriet bird | baseball player |
| mortmere | isherwood |
| fenway park | updike |
| "everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type easter egg." | updike |
| "purifiers" | borges |
| ana | statue |
| "will arise and go now." | lake isle of innisfree |
| "gentleman from" | bayou |
| pearl girls | testaments |
| vanir | mim |
| kate swift | winesburg |
| in the book of the city of ladies | griselda |
| cavalcanti | dante |
| "frost on the ground." | li |
| wilbur wright roll | edison |
| "all the blond ones." | rumi |
| "lingered ... till human voices wake us, and we drown." | mermaid |
| book of the dead | osiris |
| "garish lights, and mincing little fops / and cabarets and songs" | dunbar |
| "perfect loveliness" | dunbar |
| frances vane | peregrine |
| "individuals and things" | basque |
| ndiaye | france |
| "our sauron, our arawn, our darkseid" | trujillo |
| lutie | street |
| "clad in the beauty of a thousand stars" | helen |
| bernard malamud | baseball |
| casey cep | baseball player |
| "permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls." | lamb |
| after john andre | american revolution |
| bret harte | california |
| marie ndiaye | france |
| hans christian andersen | emperor |
| undivine comedy | romantic |
| anna funder | brecht |
| yunior | trujillo |
| "non-fiction novel" | lee |
| pat barker | sassoon |
| "the lord of those dead who are dressed in red. / the man who is masked in a faceless face" | dario |
| sublet | bayou |
| hallucinated city | andrade |
| "interior landscape," | basque |
| zygmunt krasinski | romantic |
| doctor faustus | helen |
| "i will enjoy thee now, my celia," | carew |
| "lurk late" | brooks |
| "old slewfoot" | yearling |
| ettinsmoor | narnia |
| world according to garp | irving |
| "stick" | frog |
| parcae | fate |
| traveller | in the penal colony |
| "you can't fly kites on rainy days" | south |
| ramses the great | ozymandias |
| view of the empire at sunset | rhys |
| walter williams | parker |
| "little, sleek, cowering, timorous beast." | mouse |
| eilert lovborg | hedda |
| "this is the dead land. this is cactus land." | hollow men |
| "our sewage disposal system." | gulag archipelago |
| "and yet those who picture the world as unlimited forget that the number of possible books is not." | library of babel |
| my brilliant friend | little women |
| fugard | island |
| slim | dog |
"the deserted village" | goldsmith |
| "when shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?" | macbeth |
| "ode to the west wind." | shelley |
| "instead of a preface" | russian |
| golden ass | novel |
| "third world woman" | india |
| "at any gathering i am there, mingling in the laughing and grieving." | reed |
| "now come, fire!" | hymn |
| kornakov | doctor zhivago |
| "i like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." | o pioneers |
| bellied whale | good soldier svejk |
| af-roh | hephaestus |
| sexual suspect | world according |
| gospel according to jesus christ | saramago |
| "will you take me home?" | arthur |
| "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 |
| sair | sonnet |
| "brightening" | mask |
| "two-bit" | outsiders |
| "come back in tears, o memory, hope, love of finished years" | rossetti |
| "loose, baggy monsters" | james |
| jean amery | bovary |
| "this is america--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves." | main street |
| tothero | harry |
| steve | show boat |
| "grim demon haunting the marches" | beowulf |
| keith mathews | outsiders |
| tipton grange | middlemarch |
| june rebellion | les |
| marty | harry |
| bernard | house |
| "to understand thoroughly and intuitively" | grok |
| elena ferrante | little women |
| sugriva | ramayana |
| isle is full of noises | caliban |
| "you have only to ask, i will do anything" | cry, the beloved country |
| roebuck ramsden | man and superman |
| "glimpse of a dream smouldering in a cave" | okigbo |
| weary gentlemen | yellow sky |
| bob ewell | sheriff |
| "renascence." | millay |
| "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 |
| rawff | doctor zhivago |
| hith | utopia |
| caryl phillips | rhys |
| baroness orczy | guillotined |
| "not to be born at all is best . . . for envy, sedition, strife, carnage, and war make up the tale of life." | oedipus at colonus |
| first mate | conrad |
| octavius robinson | man and superman |
| "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains" | odes |
"a wonder with a gun - a perfect wonder" | the bride comes to yellow sky |
| "children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison." | midnight's children |
| love in the time of cholera | garcia marquez |
| "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 |
| "why did i ever know you? why were you so beautiful? is it my fault?" | madame bovary |
| "on being brought from africa to america." | wheatley |
| "what does it all mean?" | to the |
| annals of the cakchiquels | maya |
| new york review books | bovary |
| the brothers | latin |
| "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 |
| "wide robe" | lack |
| knightley | emma |
| " out of the " | flowers of evil |
| cyrano | spain |
| "ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay." | deserted village |
| axolotls | cortazar |
| "descend on us." | okigbo |
| zurich | unbearable lightness of being |
komarovsky | doctor zhivago |
| "please don't smoke in bed, or use candles," | cider house rules |
| "tristi fummo." | styx |
| haiti a french | welles |
| sir epicure mammon | alchemist |
| under western eyes | india |
| "suffering is one very long moment . . . we cannot divide it into seasons." | de profundis |
| "muddied people" | styx |
| "country doctor." | bovary |
| charles marlow | heart of darkness |
| "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 |
| "plunged holding his treasure?" | suicide |
| "turning point" | bleak house |
| fay mckelva | optimist's |
| "fiery serpent" | hiawatha |
| leggatt | conrad |
| dangerous liaisons | smallpox |
| "zhahn ah-may-ree's" | bovary |
| toreador song | carmen |
| pair | herrick |
| "looking down into the swift water twenty feet below" | peyton |
| golden gate | john brown |
| ted streshinsky in the saturday evening post | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "teach us ... what sweet thoughts are thine: / i have never heard." | to a skylark |
| "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 |
| harry sinclair | lanny |
| "the tortoise and the hare." | aesop |
| "oh, this is a sin against myself." | nora |
| snout | midsummer night's |
| "parting is such sweet sorrow" | coward |
| "we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." | prospero |
| adunis | ovid |
| "epic prose poem about the life of frederick the great" | death in venice |
| faniaca | virtue rewarded |
| "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 |
| dandan | song |
| in george bernard shaw | juan |
| king albert | suicide |
| rangoon | around the world in |
| "there's no question of heroism" | bernard |
| aethiopia | greek |
| baseball guide | holly |
| janacek | 1q84 |
| cape technical university | communication |
| she stoops to conquer | goldsmith |
| stefano | my brilliant friend |
| reaching for the moon | bishop |
| hek-yoo-bah | trojan |
| "autumn is desolation in the plot / of a thousand acres." | confederate |
| "fake" | genji |
| marcello solara | my brilliant friend |
| "someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the model t on the american nation." | cannery row |
| science fiction world | chinese |
| "they say such different things at school." | michael |
| d.j. west | kiss of the spider woman |
| elizabeth barrett browning | if thou must love me |
| "respectability" | winesburg |
| autobiography of malcolm | haley |
| swingin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| krook | spontaneous combustion |
| gettin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| merry like christmas | i know why the caged bird sings |
| black moon | insomnia |
| "a rolling stone gathers no moss" | syria |
| volcacius sedigitus | comedy |
| "inflections from classical arabic." | library of babel |
| mcteague | paint |
| james chettam | middlemarch |
| hurry harry | bumppo |
| historian mark lawrence schrad | jungle |
| "your fortune, i am now sorry to inform you, is almost nothing." | vicar of |
| matthew biggs | insomnia |
| spenserian | sonnet |
| astronautilia | czech |
| "sink through the sea ... shall rise again" | thomas |
| severo del valle | house of the |
| macedo soares | bishop |
| women in love | lawrence |
| "no more to say, and nothing to weep for but the beings in the dream." | kaddish |
| su shi | song |
| gunpowder | irving |
| ee-un | sonnet |
| "is the warm smell of bread before you bake it" | house on |
| st. louis | maya |
| "why should of all things man unrul'd / such unproportioned dwellings build?" | marvell |
| chiba | life of pi |
| lawrence ferlinghetti | howl |
| "would adore my gifts instead of me." | herbert |
| lady nijo | party |
| cluaneesha | virtue rewarded |
| "modern tragedy" | doll |
| g. h | native |
| "hypocrite reader." | fleurs du mal |
| sententiae | syria |
| snug | midsummer night's |
| "chicken george" | roots |
| clorinda | tancredi |
| emil bergson | o pioneers |
| marie tovesky | o pioneers |
| "begin, and cease, and then again begin." | dover beach |
| "my net is spread, my net is spread." | lion and the jewel |
| the works both human and divine | herrick |
| rist | centaur |
| "you are my peace, my solace, my salvation; on you depends my bliss or desolation." | tartuffe |
| edouard manet | nana |
| "why you got the white mens driving and the colored lifting?" | fences |
| dog in the manger | aesop |
| "i loved her, and sometimes she loved me too" | saddest |
| "laws of inevitability" | war and peace |
| el-meer | tartuffe |
| "cannot rub the strangeness from my sight / i got from looking through a pane of glass." | apple pick |
| "with usura" | pound |
| adolphe | red and |
| slawomir mrozek | police |
| "a matter of common decency." | bernard |
| "those who lawfully may, and those who may not, write such histories as this" | tom |
| midnight's children | rushdie |
| lota de | bishop |
| dull gret | party |
| ebenezer prout | david |
| "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 |
| diana barry | anne |
| "there is no end to my sickness, no term. one disaster comes to vie with another." | trojan |
| "that some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision, i may burst into jubilant praise" | angel |
| "fluid puddings," | james |
| wally | cider house rules |
| karl adolph gjellerup | denmark |
| book nine | tom |
| through the looking | borges |
| "to my lord fairfax" | marvell |
| "you might as well advise me to give up my fortune as my argument." | vicar of |
| henrik pontoppidan | denmark |
| rusty trawler | holly |
| "pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling" | dover beach |
| man and superman | juan |
| okamoto | life of pi |
| "not finding yourself at the age of 34 is a disgrace!" | death of a |
| "beware the ides of march." | julius |
| "and you'll be marching with the band / in step, responding to command" | brecht |
| hedwig niemann | nora |
| doctor leete | looking backward |
| "coma baby" | 80s |
| le horla | maupassant |
| "sell him to the south" | jim |
| buck mulligan | ulysses |
| "a bedlamite speeds to thy parapets, tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning," | bridge |
| suitable boy | india |
| "proem" | bridge |
| "stone walls do not a prison make, / nor iron bars a cage" | prison |
| "style is character." | didion |
| professor welch | lucky |
| was a country | achebe |
| norad | france |
| dennis hasset | church |
| kah-mel dah-ood | stranger |
| roon | brother |
| "the age of time," | fuentes |
| ferdowsi | shahnameh |
| lysidamus | plautus |
| persiles | greek |
| "depraved" | holmes |
| more pricks than kicks | beckett |
| kondomanolious | zorba the greek |
| bergotte | in search of lost time |
| "the sea is calm tonight / the tide is full, the moon lies fair." | dover beach |
| sigismunda | greek |
| "if only we knew." | three sisters |
| satis | philip |
| pied piper | misty of chincoteague |
| dee-oh-nay | boccaccio |
| yee | chang |
| herman mellema | indonesia |
| vidushaka | ring |
| vollmer | world war iii |
| "turns his necessity to glorious gain; / in face of these doth exercise a power / which is our human nature's highest dower." | happy warrior |
| "the sword." | ficciones |
| nelson rodrigues | kiss |
| "whene'er to drink you are inclin'd... remember tam o'shanter's mare." | burns |
| "suffer'd greatly, both with those/ that loved me, and alone" | ulysses |
| wong jiazhi | chang |
| ten-tronckh's | pangloss |
| summer sun celebration | twilight |
| moushumi | namesake |
| "that minx." | confederacy of |
| "how many dawns, chill from his rippling rest, the seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him?" | bridge |
| hulda | independent people |
| "what do i remember / that was shaped / as this thing is shaped?" | asphodel, that greeny flower |
| young lions | shaw |
| "the necks of four bottles." | chicken |
| anagnostis | zorba the greek |
| mount sebastian college | things they |
| shaka zulu | negritude |
| "glory be to god for dappled things." | hopkins |
| "the fugitive." | proust |
| "why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart?" | sonnet--to science |
| time machine | wells |
| "could not stop for" | death |
| tad allagash | 80s |
| claude robichaux | confederacy of |
| "letter concerning the prison of human life" | agincourt |
| augustus carmichael | to the |
| archilochus | hedgehog |
| "there's a little intricate hussy for you!" | malaprop |
| "first traces in the world, of life and time / and love, and mortal hope, and vanishing." | ash |
| "moloch whose mind is pure machinery." | howl |
| casina | plautus |
| absalom pro deo | cry, the beloved |
| "flash upon that inward eye / which is the bliss of solitude." | i wandered lonely as a cloud |
| daqiqi | shahnameh |
| samuel ratchett | murder on the orient express |
| houyhnhnms | lemuel |
| "wrong" | holmes |
| acquired toilet disease | vogel |
| miss lonelyhearts | west |
| zocalo plaza | porter |
| von grimelhausen | simplicius simplicissimus |
| herbert pocket | philip |
| "whale rider." | maori |
| prime minister in up against it | orton |
| almayer | conrad |
| shakbag | elizabeth i |
| "resistance literature." | palestin |
| men in the sun | palestin |
| man with black eye patch | blindness |
| comedy of errors | dromio |
| "a veteran!" | sammy |
| sudden death | quevedo |
| new york draft riots | melville |
| "where ignorance is bliss / 'tis folly to be wise" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| sunday express | hall |
| deest | shaw |
| valley of ashes | myrtle |
| "holding darkness within." | hill house |
"is there balm in gilead?" | "the raven" |
| nyai ontosoro | indonesia |
ignatius j. reilly | a confederacy of dunces |
| "pies, fruits" | chicken |
| season in hell | rimbaud |
| "there's no need for red-hot pokers." | hell is other people |
| "dissolving margins." | naples |
| view of delft | in search of lost time |
| barbedienne | hell is other people |
| pope of the fools | hunchback of notre-dame |
| "the sabbath rang slowly / in the pebbles of the holy streams" | fern hill |
| calhoun | insomnia |
| christopher unborn | fuentes |
| "the daring spirit" | covey |
| "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 |
| "the fat boy with the happy laugh" | sammy |
| "no hungry generations tread thee down." | ode to a nightingale |
| zuleika dobson | oxford |
| vahl | mephistopheles |
| vercelli | old english |
| "little patch of yellow wall" | in search of lost time |
| song of solomon | morrison |
| hippolyta | penthesilea |
| mina murray | dracula |
| "the man who would be king," | "the white man's burden" |
| michael henchard | mayor of |
| "remembered" | updike |
| "heartbreak hotel" | handmaid's tale |
| "why do you beckon me with your hand?" | poem without a hero |
| thomas bernhard | austria |
| horowitz at the mozarteum | loser |
| shruff end | the sea, the |
| robbie turner at dunkirk | atonement |
| steropes | cyclops |
| lower depths | gorky |
| me to play | endgame |
| sam spade | maltese |
| "log" | virgil |
| uss | ariadne |
lord warburton | the portrait of a lady |
| hester | roger |
| ray smith | dharma bums |
| reizei | tale of genji |
| in karel hynek macha | lake |
| "egiga goramen." | ball |
| "half-sick of shadows," | lady of |
| calcutta ashoke | lahiri |
| "clever, disappointed man," | thomas's father |
| satine | lower depths |
| "what is to be done?" | lenin |
| "white-trash" | i know why |
| zahd | thousand and |
| "i could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." | reginald |
| updike | witches of |
| savannah | prince of tides |
| bartleby the scrivener | melville |
| typee | melville |
| horace smith | ozymandias |
| "something there is that doesn't love" | wall |
| carol kennicott | main street |
| malvern hills | piers plowman |
| electric kool | wolfe |
| "for one moment of peace / i would give the peace of the tomb." | poem without a hero |
| jarmila | lake |
| masthead | paris review |
| seafarer | old english |
| ray-zay | tale of genji |
| house of hwang | the good |
| sibyl | picture of dorian |
| bill | kidnap |
| "i cover all." | grass |
| "with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy." | confederacy of |
| "fam'd for thy valour, for thy virtues more." | washington |
| "she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the nile." | malaprop |
| "suicide calculated well in advance." | loser |
| ivan dmitritch gromov | ward number 6 |
| bertolt brecht | joan |
| holden caulfield | salinger |
| hennessey | naked and the |
| "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 |
| "did not give of bird or bush, like nothing else in tennessee" | anecdote of the jar |
| another wallace stevens | 13 |
| "it's just so interesting. the colors and all." | world war iii |
| thackeray | barry |
| wang lung | the good |
| "cut into joints" | chicken |
| zorba the greek | kazantzakis |
| charles bronson | venice |
| agnimitra | ring |
| "the mythos of spring." | comedy |
| "ta-ra-ra-boom-di-ay" | three sisters |
| "mapface" | saleem |
| "are you nobody too?" | dickinson |
| "this is the forest primeval [pry-mee-vull]." | evangeline |
| hamm | unhappiness |
| "alex, the great alexander." | nash |
| nick carraway | fitzgerald |
| christian diestl | shaw |
| hesse | glass bead game |
| "i am a traveler from an antique land." | ozymandias |
| sabine hills | marius |
| molloy | beckett |
| pearl s. buck | buck |
| "imbedded in jelly," | chicken |
| alvaro enrigue | quevedo |
| "in all my dreams before my helpless sight, he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning." | dulce et decorum est |
| jonathan safran foer | extremely loud and incredibly close |
| panic room | snow |
| "could not see to see." | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
| laura trevelyan | white |
| "well-known city engineer shot dead. assailants thought to be natives." | arthur |
| fantine | javert |
| "why do you laugh? is it because you hate the sound of laughing?" | as i lay dying |
| elizabeth bishop | villanelle |
| archer | maltese |
| unquiet grave | crabbe |
| "-kahmpf] look." | daddy |
| "madison is banquo, jefferson's macduff, and birnam wood is congress on its way to dunsinane [dun-sin-ayn]." | macbeth |
| lady fujitsuno | tale of genji |
| "accompanying my boy lover frightened by a fox." | basho |
| jolly seventeen | main street |
| "a lamp on earth" | canto general |
| kabbalah | foucault's pendulum |
| carl | raisin in the sun |
| stream of love | angelica |
| the homecoming | pinter |
| "here" | scarlet letter |
| then | siren |
| phantom | misty of chincoteague |
| heart of a dog | bulgakov |
| ahab | doubloon |
| "palinurus," | crabbe |
| hce | finnegans wake |
| "time to gather your arse up off the floor" | banana |
| gabriel oak | far from the madding |
| minke | indonesia |
| "i stand mesmerized, wondering how you sing / your notes hold the world spellbound." | yeats |
| elle | diving bell and the butterfly |
| lavinia | turnus |
| "our god" | rossetti |
| bill driscoll | ransom of red |
| terasina vidavarri | algren |
| surt | fir |
| "meditation xvii" | for whom the bell |
| klopstock | sorrows of |
| jorge | laugh |
| miss van campen | farewell to arms |
| culture of competition | saladin |
"golgotha" | sassoon |
| "heaven cannot hold him / nor earth sustain." | rossetti |
| max beerbohm | oxford |
| aline | buddenbrooks |
| last letters of jacopo ortis | napoleon |
| "pure and holy, which embraces all the charms of all the graces" | frog |
| "swallowed" | twenty love poems and a song of despair |
| urbana | hal 9000 |
| emperor jones | o'neill |
| magnus derrick | octopus |
| "to him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms" | thanatopsis |
| lowery field | yossarian |
| spiker | james |
| mark mcgurl | writing |
| illiac | hal 9000 |
| "crocodile tongues" | james |
| antoinettte cosway | bertha |
| david copperfield | dickens |
| program era | writing |
| antarctica with mr | angels in america |
| penrod | dog |
| nina simonovich | puppet |
| riding sleipnir | baldur |
| "lie" | journey to the center |
| "a tale of two gardens" | paz |
| sulphur creek | to build a fire |
| jonson | shepherd |
"the darkest evening of the year." | stopping by woods on a snowy evening |
| ee-jee-un | syracuse |
| jackson square | stella |
| "if you lock them together in a room with no food for a week." | maus |
| killigrew | heidegger |
| jo march | alcott |
| hms bellipotent | billy |
| skadi | feet |
| "split land" | yoknapatawpha |
| mfa | writing |
| northern bride | uncle tom's |
| samuel england | saladin |
| "mumu." | sportsman's sketches |
| art spiegelman | graphic |
| thiz | midsummer night's |
| "i flatter myself that my present overtures of good will are highly commendable." | collins |
| "stand on street corners and jeer at europeans" | "shooting an elephant" |
| "the bible is an antique volume" | dickinson |
| in the devil | holocaust |
| norman culpepper washington | diamond |
| " for 10 points each: name this poetry collection which contains a poem that describes how " | leaves of grass |
| "you were right, old hoss; you were right," | to build a fire |
| werther | linden |
| "gas-coin" | heidegger |
| "faces along the bar cling to their average day." | september 1, 1939 |
| mr hyde | stevenson |
| "empty net, at the advent of autumn" | heights of macchu |
| tail of the blue bird | maeterlinck |
| proh | bellerophon |
| fahrenkopf | night of |
| hannah stern | holocaust |
| "more sweetly than our rhyme" | grecian urn |
| "great gromboolian plain" | lear |
| "bad fencer, but a sound thinker" | don juan |
| lunch room | winesburg |
| "mole-main" | "shooting an elephant" |
| medbourne | heidegger |
| hotel costa verde in mexico | night of |
| duro ladipo | death and the king's horseman |
| "gloss" | king |
| efimova | puppet |
| "odd bits of old rhyming slang" | nadsat |
| "defused threat." | saladin |
| king jesus | william |
| "ust-izhma" | ivan |
| "to reform oneself is to live." | rodo |
| heatholoaf | hrothgar |
| wormwood trilogy | science |
| "beware of him, he bites." | david |
| "guantanamera [gwahn-tahn-ah-mair-ah]" | marti |
| anna pavlovna | napoleon |
| walk by anita rau badami | india |
| shay | hrothgar |
| meet | persephone |
| bal-yoh-nee | rappaccini's daughter |
| plumfield | jo |
| mel mcginnis | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| branom | nadsat |
| "counter-attack" | sassoon |
| hermod | baldur |
| tade thompson | science |
| robert faehmel | billiard |
| "ariel." | rodo |
| "have you found any places where god would have felt at home?" | william of baskerville |
| "old-timer" | to build a fire |
| in medieval empires | saladin |
| halvard solness | architect |
| epic of wheat | octopus |
| "flawlessly set in gold so fair" | pearl |
| toulon | javert |
| christmas carol | dickens |
| tez | quetzalcoatl |
| scottish play | macbeth |
| pearl blossom | wang |
| "the male who invites" | izanagi |
| "the dong with the luminous nose." | lear |
| "words had forked no lightning." | do not go gentle into |
| "as if he were dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality." | capote |
| "the kettle, you fool!" | dumb waiter |
| booth | salvation army |
| "the house-top." | melville |
| road back | all quiet on the western front |
| senex amator | plautus |
| dawn | dunbar |
| "brute beauty and valour and act." | windhover |
| "tell me it was for the hunger / & nothing less." | vuong |
| "to quaff at morning, noon, and night" | heidegger |
| another didion | california |
| kawai sora | matsuo |
| bronte | wuthering |
| while at the salem house academy | david |
| "mud-luscious" | in just |
| "reformarse es vivir" | rodo |
| sagramore | hank |
| "that's how i ought to have written" | in search of lost time |
| lady bertilak | girdle |
| gahl | banquo |
| professor baglioni | rappaccini's daughter |
the mysteries of udolpho (genre) | gothic |
| "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." | byron |
| shield sheafson | hrothgar |
| pohv | nose |
french pete | the luck of roaring camp |
| maupassant | pierrot |
| "carey" | dr jekyll |
| harry wotton | picture of dorian |
| friedrich maximilian klinger | sturm und drang |
| "chaka." | negritude |
| "set" | prime of miss |
| torrens | conrad |
| "why i write about mexico." | porter |
| sir anthony | malaprop |
| "a vigorous and sudden snatch" | covey |
| "an ode to himself" | jonson |
| unamuno | cervantes |
| "art, truth and politics." | pinter |
brother juniper | the bridge of san luis rey |
| thomas traherne | metaphysical |
| lila | naples |
| baltimore waltz | vogel |
| tjaden | all quiet on the western front |
| sula | morrison |
| "supernatural horror in literature." | horla |
| "with up so floating many bells down" | anyone lived in a pretty how town |
| christine de pizan | agincourt |
| hitler studies at the | white |
| stoppard | rosencrantz |
| "likes a boggy acre / a floor too cool for corn." | dickinson |
| rebeca | one hundred years of solitude |
| blackwill | elizabeth i |
| history boys | bennett |
| "then - the officer," | marquise of o |
| matthew prichard | mousetrap |
| egeon | solinus |
| "prolonged cries of agony" | octopus |
| "the mightiest of magicians" | hiawatha |
| "black pitch-water" | hiawatha |
| virtue rewarded | richardson |
| "bronze atrocity" | hell is other people |
| "one day anyone died i guess." | cummings |
| ida's bar | cannery |
| demetrius | midsummer night's |
| wylfings | hrothgar |
| "little formless fears" | brutus |
| "stuttering rifles' rapid rattle" | anthem for doomed |
| ezuelo | things fall apart |
| oba waja | death and the king's horseman |
| "traveling box" | brobdingnag |
| "god never made a finer woman" | misfi |
| nadine gordimer | south |
| laughter on the 23rd floor | simon |
| "shrill, demented choirs" | anthem for doomed |
| "mr. fly-off-the-handle" | alex |
| your show of shows | simon |
"rude mechanicals" | a midsummer night's dream |
| "like rotted meat" | dream deferred |
| "think like and act as a man." | julie |
| "to propitiate the gods." | hell screen |
| alice oswald | iliad |
| raymond carver | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| moulmein | "shooting an elephant" |
| ness | agamemnon |
| prascovia osipovna | nose |
| evidence for the resurrection of jesus christ | butler |
| "cabaret" | eatonville |
| aegis | medusa |
| tool | house for mr. biswas |
| twelfth night | age |
| "how clumsy this winged voyager! how weak/comic, and ugly!" | fleurs du mal |
| "we are living in a place abandoned by god." | william of baskerville |
| henry sweet | higgins |
| in the sailor who fell from grace with the sea | cat |
kanaka joe | the luck of roaring camp |
| biff carter | winesburg |
| "all the englishes i grew up with" | tan |
| annixter | octopus |
| "copied out of a loose paper" | burning |
| "temper tantrum kid" | alex |
| tuttle | roaring camp |
| rasheed | thousand |
| kingdom of this world | magic |
| "seven ages of man" | as you like it |
| master builder | ibsen |
| inspector javert | miserables |
| "i would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than" | hall |
| nunavit | historical notes |
| bolom | walcott |
| "stink like rotten meat / or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet" | dream deferred |
| "kindly leave me alone." | alceste |
| "the town is taken by its rats" | melville |
| bohemian | marriage |
| jabez wilson | red-headed |
| aborigine | serpent |
| "the pool players. seven at the golden shovel." | we real |
| hellena | behn |
| "the gingerbread house" | hansel and |
| troezen | hippolytus |
| pink fairy book | shoemaker |
| "young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes." | laurence |
| "the convergence of the twain," | hardy |
| "decalage," | senghor |
| "a creature, like himself, full of mettle and mischief" | brom |
| "i can resist everything except temptation." | lady windermere's |
| "after all, tomorrow is another day." | gone with the wind |
| professor pierre aronnax | nemo |
| detectives benson | machado |
| "enoch and the gorilla" | wise blood |
| "my little horse must think it queer / to stop without a farmhouse near" | frost |
| ernest dowson | gone with the wind |
| "john laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. john is practical in the extreme." | yellow wallpaper |
| "adnexa," | elegy |
| "listen: billy pilgrim has come unstuck in time." | slaughterhouse-five |
| "all this happened, more or less." | slaughterhouse-five |
| "we will try to be good neighbors. and that's all we got to say about that." | raisin in the sun |
| "she'll be stiff with you at first, i expect. she's an unusual character, but you mustn't let her worry you." | rebecca |
| "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 |
| allen's | catherine |
| "i confess! i confess what i did! i'm guilty! i killed you! sir i confess! i killed you!" | amadeus |
| "tobacco reading" | cuba |
| "drive your plow over the bones of the dead" | blake |
| audre | fourth |
| andrew lang | shoemaker |
| jim hawkins | treasure island |
| squire john trelawney | treasure island |
| max brod | kafka |
| resident world controller for western europe | brave new world |
| captain flume | catch-22 |
| laura wade | stoppard |
| miriam chadwick | church |
| dylan thomas | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "mass of stupid filth." | leaves of grass |
| "sometimes meant yes, sometimes no." | holderlin |
| john clayton ii | tarzan |
| "brahms, for all his grumbling and grizzling, had never guessed what it felt like to be suspected of stealing an umbrella." | howards end |
| katusha | tolstoy |
| "a world of made is not a world of born." | pity this busy |
| fairhurst | bleak house |
| natalia ginzburg | manzoni |
| errour | faerie queene |
| nicolas azcarate | cuba |
| robert coover | hansel and |
| "birds of the night" | verlaine |
| "everything that has dark sounds." | lorca |
| friar laurence | romeo and |
| "dream argument." | hughes |
| knights of the round table | lancelot |
| "the magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with" | lorca |
| great seal of england | prince and the |
| "when first the world from chaos rose, tell me, how did love begin?" | dream of the red |
| seven star precious sword | cao |
| william hazlitt | king lear |
| "a monster vile, whom god and man does hate." | faerie queene |
| rosie probert | under milk wood |
| luttrell | wide sargasso sea |
| captain alexander smollett | treasure island |
| cyriacus | cross |
| two fair cousins | scholar |
| futuremouse | smith |
| shaaban robert | tanzania |
| "textually ignorant" | grossman |
| earthly paradise in elijah | ariosto |
| jan bronski | grass |
| jonathan franzen | new yorker |
| myth of the movies | vidal |
| marta weigle | enheduanna |
| joan didion | murder |
| homage to qwert yuiop | burgess |
| water margin | golden lotus |
| england in world war | graves |
| an epic in the war for freedom | tanzania |
| last amazon of dahomey in london | girl, woman, other |
| maeonides | milton |
| "on influence," | carver |
| "i was stamped out like a plymouth fender into this world" | row |
| "all good things must come to an end." | troilus and criseyde |
| "sermon" | eugene |
| dark lady | love's |
| "flame out, like shining from shook foil" | god's grandeur |
| "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." | malvolio |
| ashtavinayaka | ganesh |
| "it rains in my heart." | verlaine |
| pietro bembo | italian |
| history of western massachusetts | bars fight |
| "are not torn down, rings and all." | scrooge |
| cat on a hot tin roof | williams |
| color purple | walker |
| enheduanna | poetry |
| david livesey | treasure island |
| fernando gonzales ochoa | nada |
| thibault | dumas |
| "trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." | self-reliance |
| "the whole world shares your tears / some for two nights or one / and some for all their years" | seth |
| josiah gilbert holland | bars fight |
| hound of the baskervilles | eco |
| "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." | lady windermere's fan |
| tragedians | stoppard |
| "we need a definition of greatness, and i suppose that would be somebody who...somebody who benefited all mankind." | "master harold"...and |
| "moirai" | fate |
| erlend | undset |
| we have always lived in the castle | jackson |
| village voice | off-broadway |
| "science and pseudo-science" | poe |
| florinda | behn |
| "their hits aren't clustering" | v-2 |
| nyalmo | yeti |
| rang shim bombo | yeti |
| lagoon | new zealand |
| "the kingdom of orangia" | master builder |
| beautiful star | mishima |
| "pants" | commedia |
| la paz | hawthorne |
| anna kern | pushkin |
| british angry young men | 50 |
| malagasy poetry | senghor |
| "music has charms to soothe a savage breast." | mourning bride |
| "hell-hounds." | rowlandson |
| "pallaksch" | holderlin |
| "pipe dreams." | iceman cometh |
| best american | story |
| simuvac | white noise |
| "north pole" | equiano |
| giovanelli | james |
| jason strugnell | cope |
| juvenal | mother-in-law |
| kate brady | o'brien |
| euphorion | prometheus bound |
| "the right word," | flaubert |
yann martel | the life of pi |
| "in-laws" | race |
absalom and achitophel | dryden |
| "on parables," | kafka |
| saint anna | jerusalem delivered |
| "i keep in mind that magic moment" | pushkin |
| juan rulfo | mexico |
| paradox on the comedian | diderot |
| camacho | radio |
| "sour grapes." | aesop |
| "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 |
| tibet | holmes |
| anthology of the new black | senghor |
| captain edward ashburnham | good soldier |
| la times | capote |
| joseito fernandez | marti |
| "most loving and affectionate manner" | queequeg |
| chicken with plums | satrapi |
| "travels through the whole word without a pass." | dry white season |
| "if you only followed the parables," | kafka |
| oliver twiss | dickens |
| "conversation" | stein |
| "staircase wit" | diderot |
| "my sweet dear, i send cheer, all the best!" | marot |
| ugwu | half of a yellow sun |
| "clearly doesn't" | death |
| dunbar | sing |
| infernal machine | answer |
| in jean cocteau | answer |
| "betwixt the flames and waves," | marvell |
| "unfortunate lover" | marvell |
| a wedding-guest | albatross |
| m. l. west | prometheus bound |
| miss kenton | butler |
| "death song." | bede |
| baba brennan | o'brien |
| "lying in their blood," | rowlandson |
| gabriel utterson | jekyll becoming |
| "to a sick damsel," | marot |
| chief white halfoat | catch-22 |
| "with blue - uncertain stumbling buzz - between the light - and me." | fly |
| gonzalo arango | nada |
mein kampf | hitler |
| "especially heinous" | machado |
| bagutta prize | manzoni |
| "bore her away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre [seh-pul-kur] in this kingdom by the sea." | annabel lee |
| svayambhu | brahma |
| la violencia | nada |
| kainene | half of a yellow sun |
| "the don't-knows have lived with that lie so long they just can't see it." | heart is a lonely |
| in watermelon sugar | brautigan |
| changing places | campus |
| michel | immoralist |
| razor | maugham |
| hungry joe | catch-22 |
| johnny cade | outsiders |
| special victims unit | machado |
| church of the new revelation | stranger in a strange |
| "there was no door that he would not heave off its hinges, or break it by running at it with his head." | miller |
| "show interest in her goodness--for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand." | good person |
| vinayaka | ganesh |
| "immanent will that stirs and urges everything" | hardy |
| "their color is a diabolic die." | on being brought |
| the cure | machiavelli |
| "prudence" | hippolytus |
| road to revolution | lenin |
| "sinister mate" | hardy |
| "story." | marvell |
| "to you, clerk, literary man, sedentary person, man of fortune, idler, the same advice. up!... out in the morning!" | whitman |
| grey wall | swastika |
| "le mot juste," | flaubert |
| hilda wangel | master builder |
| david lodge | campus |
| "world-soul" | seagull |
| english novel | ford |
| "you sockdologizing old man-trap" | lincoln |
| "a low, dishonest decade." | september 1, 1939 |
| daniel mallory ortberg | rochester |
| "must muddle the reader's ideas, not regiment them," | name of the rose |
| felix hoenikker | cat |
| incident at vichy | miller |
| world was silent while we died | half of a yellow sun |
| like clover | moses |
| connie reid | lady |
| "all you who sleep tonight." | seth |
| "out-laws" | race |
| "red hounds" | death |
| earl of greystoke | tarzan |
| "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 |
| making cocoa for kingsley amis | cope |
| gilbert kaplan | minority report |
| "the martyr of style." | flaubert |
| toyota | harry |
| friar john | mantua |
| "drinks the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of utica." | rockland |
| "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 |
| arandir | kiss |
| tzesar | solzhenitsyn |
| stanley kowalski | streetcar named |
| "cheeks will be stained with red blood" | moon |
| "the ugly duckling." | andersen |
| dunnet landing | maine |
| joom | scarlet letter |
| vilem | lake |
| aid acid test | wolfe |
| honda | mishima |
| democratic convention in los angeles | esquire |
| waiting for godot | beckett |
| colonel sun | bond |
| rice | awakening |
| "big blonde" | parker |
| francesco del cossa | smith |
| "what shall i do with this absurdity" | yeats |
| "the loser." | mann |
| "a wine chronometer," | melville |
| donald farfrae | mayor of |
| "i stand no wiser than before." | heinrich |
| conquistador | canto |
| ellen olenska | wharton |
| listless | nightmare abbey |
| amanda | saki |
| "all europe contributed to the making of kurtz." | heart of darkness |
| charles dodgson | carroll |
| "ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night." | howl |
| marcus | mcteague |
| "redundant. retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable" | lakunle |
| memory for forgetfulness | palestine |
| "the winning cause pleased the gods, but the losing cause pleased cato." | pharsalia |
| renee vivien | sappho |
| "jetlag," | senghor |
| sergey zalygin | novy mir |
| hugo ball | dada |
| miss ivors | dead |
| saxo grammaticus | snorri |
| "what two letters of the alphabet...express perfection?" | emma |
| pow in the pacific | narrow road to the deep north |
| wei | romance of the three kingdoms |
| decay of the angel | mishima |
| carroll d. laverty | poe |
| enderby | burgess |
| "in my craft or sullen art" | thomas |
| deaths and entrances | thomas |
| "so thoroughly hateful that we do not even like to repeat their names." | king lear |
| "blago bung" | ball |
| in search of our mothers | walker |
| "take pity on my long misery!" | baudelaire |
| "what pipes and timbrels? what wild ecstasy?" | ode on a grecian urn |
| fire next time | baldwin |
| "and you, garcia lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?" | ginsberg |
| theodore dreiser | howells |
| arvid falk | strindberg |
| pulitzer prize for drama for the hot wing king | hall |
| nine stories | esme |
| pecola | bluest eye |
| "if you can't think on your feet, you ought to keep your mouth shut." | glengarry glen ross |
| bwah gil-bair | ivanhoe |
| goh-gan | "goodbye |
| loveit | fopling |
| "foster-child of silence and slow time." | ode to a grecian |
| reverend larynx | nightmare abbey |
| arndt | eugene onegin |
| queen dharini | ring |
| gopher prairie | main street |
| ferdinando flosky | nightmare abbey |
| "the house of asterion" | borges |
| "little girl." | the yellow wallpaper |
| "irretrievable!" | child |
| "it never troubles the wolf how many sheep there be" | virgil |
| run to rabbit at rest | updike |
| lady aoi | tale of |
| french quarter | confederacy of |
| emperor kiritsubo | tale of |
| dorimant | fopling |
| widow wadman | toby |
| "the mariners heard the warning bell; and then they knew the perilous rock." | inchcape |
| "the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living good drinking, and good talk." | melville |
| francine prose | rosenberg |
| "when the world screamed," | challenger |
| "leucosia" | siren |
| "for bonny sweet robin is all my joy" | ophelia |
| "drink me" | alice |
| audrey luna | fourth |
| ferraguto | angelica |
| "there is a thorn - it looks so old." | don juan |
| "among these barren crags" | ulysses |
| mine | daddy |
| gary snyder | dharma bums |
| "sesemi," | buddenbrooks |
| estupina | fortunata and jacinta |
| argalia | angelica |
| heorot | grendal |
| charite | apuleius |
| "piece of the moon" | saleem |
| the vixen | rosenberg |
| "the snows of kilimanjaro" | hemingway |
| "so sweet / and so cold." | "this is just to say" |
| stendhal | red and the black |
| dumas | housman |
| people of the valleys | independent people |
| untold story | ali |
| schiller | sturm und drang |
| "the day you won your town the race." | housman |
| "intimately lives with rain" | tree |
| "bragging and laughing that under his wrist, is the pulse." | chicago |
| robin goodfellow | midsummer night's |
| "ode on melancholy" | keats |
| veen | glengarry glen ross |
| jerry in central park | albee |
| ruyi jingu bang | sun wukong |
| action comics | superman |
| natty bumppo | cooper |
| john ray jr | nabokov |
| valmiki | ramayana |
| purple land | gaucho |
| gorgo | medusa |
| "vile and inhuman story" | playboy of the western world |
| call to arms | china |
| la traviata | hans |
| "has died; they kept hitting him, everyone, even though he does nothing to them." | stone |
| helene weigel | courage |
| western hills | diaries |
| battle of waterloo | vanity |
| "alternate lives" | glass bead game |
| daniel eisenberg | grossman |
| astolfo | ariosto |
| castle of otranto | gothic |
| elene | cross |
| dong zhuo | cao |
| ayane | heart of darkness |
| duke of norfolk | prince and the |
| "doom of the gods" | ragnarok |
| russian at wellesley college | nabokov |
| montoni | mysteries of udolpho |
| "the yellow wallpaper" | husband |
| brahn | cyclops |
| "falconress" | mother |
| "flight" | chopin |
| "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 |
| georgia o'keeffe | didion |
| jyoti | mukherjee |
| magic | vidal |
| amma | girl, woman, other |
| "please, sir, i want some more." | oliver twist |
| corbenic | grail |
| jadis | magician's nephew |
| "powhitetrash" | i know why |
| "fair is foul, and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air." | macbeth |
| vautrin | human comedy |
| klahn | portrait of the artist |
| abbe carlos herrera | human comedy |
| jamie | long day's journey into night |
| tender buttons | stein |
| namesake | lahiri |
| ukonvasara | thor |
| diary of a young girl | frank |
| brigid hughes | paris review |
| "our age's central thinker" | vidal |
| "newly awakening sexual appetite," | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." | walden |
| "a drift of females standing in their shifts." | playboy of the western world |
| "those other two equal'd with me in fate, so were i equal'd with them in renown." | milton |
| "the ballad of reading gaol" | wilde |
| parker tyler | vidal |
| tulla pokriefke | danzig trilogy |
| duke of illyria | twelfth night |
| robert de boron | grail |
| "gay falcon treading her wrist." | mother |
| lucina | napoleon |
| sarah palin | bering strait |
| dialogues of the gods | lucian |
| "save" | fuentes |
| "old pond, frog leaps in, water's sound." | haiku |
| prajapati | brahma |
| "the grecian urn to muse on uncle jim." | cullen |
| mournable body | second person |
| belle epoque paris | sappho |
| obie awards | off-broadway |
| eleanor robson | enheduanna |
| dorrigo evans | narrow road to the deep north |
| richard flanagan | narrow road to the deep north |
| "women as verbal artists." | enheduanna |
| prester john | baudolino |
| blefuscu | lilliput |
| "identity card." | darwish |
| maata mahupuku | mansfield |
| "white smoke" | ceremony |
| "sham grandeurs" | scott |
| "and indrajit," | bengali |
| sakiel-norn | assassin |
| coramantien | behn |
| arges | cyclops |
| hortense briggs | american |
| grusha | caucasian chalk |
| alina reyes | cortazar |
| "the cold splintering, breaking" | those winter sundays |
| aloysius bertrand | prose |
| book thief | kite runner |
| tim walker | enron |
| "sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society." | scott |
| "might not be a normal female." | i know why the caged bird sings |
| castorp | clavdia |
| carmichael | cry, the beloved |
| our strangers | davis |
| hugo pludek | czech |
| guinness world record for longest theatrical run | mousetrap |
| montsou | germinal |
| le voreux | germinal |
| yiddish policemen | chabon |
| in william gass | hitler |
| jodie foster | snow |
| tomis | ovid |
| manuel cabrera | senor |
| christy mahon | playboy of the western world |
| "story ends with me still" | row |
| life on the mississippi | scott |
| "a strong buy." | enron |
| another cortazar | idol |
| cleanth brooks | british museum |
| "gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed." | god's grandeur |
| "unrelenting forces" | i know why the caged bird sings |
| churning of the ocean | hindu |
| peach garden oath | romance of the three kingdoms |
| joshua | smith |
| maheu | germinal |
| "poet of" | palestine |
| rocky | ceremony |
| peter o'toole | modest proposal |
| mormons | angels in america |
| chums of chance | pynchon |
| bend in the river | naipaul |
| tobias | sweeney |
| cimrman | curie |
| connie | lady chatterley's lover |
| frederick griffith | playboy of the western world |
| "american muse," | benet |
| aunt lydia | handmaid's tale |
| "june" | chinese |
| wampanoag | rowlandson |
| "to a waterfowl." | bryant |
| bringing up baby | albee |
| baroka | lion and the jewel |
| "droogs" | burgess |
| robert hunter | alger |
| "the myth of sisyphus?" | camus |
| groom | lorca |
| hannah jarvis | arcadia |
| "wine" | baudelaire |
| satis house | great expectations |
| "the interlopers" | saki |
| mia | camoes |
| good soldier svejk | czech |
| "the horla" | maupassant |
| madame pernelle | tartuffe |
| philip k. dick's | invasion of earth |
| yun ling | mist |
| "in medias res." | ars |
| madame l'espanaye | poe |
| "the purloined letter" | poe |
| "my long two-pointed ladder's sticking through" | trees |
| worldly wiseman | christian |
| tarzan | egypt |
| vindications | book |
| auguste dupin | purloined letter |
| amherst | dickinson |
| adamastor | portuguese |
| "sages standing in god's holy fire" | old |
| argan | moliere |
| ashkenazi jews | yiddish |
| "vincent cradeau." | joseph |
| ruth benedict | mead |
| kat | all quiet on the western front |
| "domestic education." | adams |
| negritude | senghor |
| all the king | warren |
| rainer maria rilke | duino elegies |
| girl of the streets | crane |
| "twenty-six malignant gates," | tan |
| serafina correa | rose |
| "queenie" | updike |
| conservationist | gordimer |
| isak dinesen | out of africa |
| flannery o'connor's | grandmother |
| tony kushner | angels in america |
| alec | hardy |
| catskills | irving |
| as you like it | jaques |
| howie newsome | grover's corners |
| "the poison tree" | blake |
| lake como | julie |
| "pallid bust of pallas," | raven |
| mark kelly | giffords |
| pandaemonium | paradise lost |
| personal matter | oe |
| prince myshkin | dostoyevsky |
| maurice | holden |
| "limpin' lump o' brick-dust." | din |
| "that taste of opiate wine! lure of the dark valley!" | akhmatova |
| "lycidas" | milton |
| scratchy wilson | crane |
| johnny | lord of the flies |
| "who's the dunce now?" | pope |
| "glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens" | williams |
| "thyestes" | seneca |
| "o harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| amerika | kafka |
| herbert stencil | pynchon |
| seashell game | basho |
| aladdin | arabic |
| ishmael | whale |
| mina | abraham |
| bluebeard | world war ii |
| the republic | plato |
| clara wieland | spontaneous combustion |
| manco capac | inca |
| "gray-brown" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| montgomery | island of doctor moreau |
| tococul | breakfast at tiffany's |
"he prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast." | "the rime of the ancient mariner" |
| brooklyn dodgers | rickey |
| "o shades of night--o moody, tearful night!" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| coleridge on lyrical ballads | wordsworth |
| "out, out-" | frost |
| nip the buds | oe |
| manfred | castle |
| elesin | soyinka |
| alexandre dumas | three musketeers |
| "clerk's tale" | decameron |
| new south wales | oscar and |
| countee cullen | harlem renaissance |
| sir walter raleigh | shepherd |
| poet laureate of illinois | brooks |
| electra | sartre |
| thechinese | eating people |
| sybil carpenter | bananafish |
| marguerite | ionesco |
| tiresias | serpent |
| boolie werthan | driving |
| "the veldt" | bradbury |
| mahlke | cairo |
| henry esmond | thackeray |
| leni | kafka |
| "of la mancha." | don quixote |
| gretchen | goethe |
| kumiko | murakami |
| "clean favored" | richard cory |
| "american realism" | chicago |
| jo | hair |
| "petals on a wet, black bough." | pound |
emma tennant | henry james |
| "but i have promises to keep, / and miles to go before i sleep" | frost |
| lucy westenra | castle |
| mikhail bakhtin | rabelais |
| edward covey | douglass |
| liverpool | wuthering heights |
| jenny gabriel | witches of eastwick |
| marcel proust | in search of lost time |
| "the waking" | world war ii |
| in an adichie | sun |
edgar linton | wuthering heights |
| "on the pulse of morning" | angelou |
| phileas fogg | verne |
| "sing sin," | brooks |
| ine | no exit |
| frederic henry | farewell to arms |
| "gather [these things'] buds while ye may" | rose |
| agnes wickfield | david |
| cassim | ali |
| palace of desire | cairo |
| stesichorus | autobiography of red |
| "gerontion" | eliot |
| charrington | 1984 |
| amadis of gaul | quixote |
| "secret code" | car |
| "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 |
| james gregory | italy |
| "we shall rest." | uncle vanya |
| "luxury, peace, and pleasure" | baudelaire |
| "to hear her tender-taken breath, and so live ever - or else swoon to death." | bright star |
| percy shelly | ode to the west wind |
| "a modest proposal." | irish |
| framton nuttel | saki |
| "imperially slim." | richard cory |
| "marry me." | gabriel |
| "thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" | stevens |
| lord of the flies | oe |
| "human beast" | zola |
| bonus note | machine |
| "passport made." | st. crispin's day |
| "he which hath no stomach to this fight" | st. crispin's day |
| jeanie | goblin market |
| "could notactually set eyes on" | temple |
| "well-to-do planter" | occurrence at owl creek bridge |
| teddy lloyd | school |
| stephen breyer | fourth |
| rinaldi | jerusalem delivered |
| dulness | pope |
| "the wall" | sartre |
| gibson | ballard |
| westminster review | eliot |
| roberta alden | dreiser |
| karl moor | schiller |
| something wicked this way comes | bradbury |
| "the great moderation." | hippolytus |
| germaine | color purple |
| warren | frost |
| "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," | keats |
| henryk sienkiewicz | polish |
| "for gawd's sake git the water!" | gunga din |
| "in that holocaust of hell" | dunbar |
| "chivalry" | romance |
| bonus yoruba | death and the king's horseman |
| "to die for one's country" | horace |
| kaddish | ginsberg |
| "was apparent everywhere," | temple |
| dante gabriel | rubaiyat |
| tang sanzang | buddha |
| "the angel of the battlefield." | geneva |
| bonus petrovich | the overcoat |
| kohler | hitler |
| "willingly would make rubbish of the earth." | reader |
| "invitation to the voyage." | baudelaire |
| silas | frost |
| "i caught this morning morning's minion," | windhover |
| beardsley | rape of the lock |
| clarence thomas | oleanna |
| father paneloux | france |
nagg and nell | endgame |
| "break" | frederick |
| eugene ionesco | absurd |
| fire chief | bald soprano |
| judge irwin | willie |
| sound of music | god of small things |
| engelbert humperdinck | hansel and |
| lindsay lohan | parent trap |
| jing-mei | tan |
| in a paul bowles | joseph |
| gilead | handmaid |
| "genius" | dryden |
| bronze horseman | pushkin |
| noel coward | ghost |
| "the revolutionist's handbook and pocket companion." | man and superman |
| bonus buzz | lake isle of innisfree |
| trystero | pynchon |
| yunioshi | breakfast at tiffany's |
| "communal people" | hawk |
| ejcs | hrothgar |
| wreck of the deutschland | hopkins |
| "the violence of beast on beast is read as natural law, but upright man seeks his divinity by inflicting pain." | far cry from africa |
| damis | tartuffe |
| de profundis | opium |
| tom hanks | brown |
| angel clare | hardy |
| professor woland | master and margarita |
| "walpurgisnacht" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "the armies of those i love engirth me." | sing |
| "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times." | tale of two cities |
| victor marchetti | our lady of the flowers |
| "the sandman," | hoffmann |
| "shall never see a poem lovely as" | trees |
| ramon | sartre |
| "the art of dying well." | lady lazarus |
| temple of venus | parliament of fowls |
| rachel | maupassant |
| muhbab ali | kim |
| arnold friend | car |
| "self-reliance." | emerson |
| "between the lines" | eating people |
| "sit and sew." | dunbar |
| archbishop ruggieri | ugolino |
| gunter grass | drum |
| "thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no, / nor honeysuckle." | millay |
| "oh shame upon the earth! apollo, apollo!" | cassandra |
| dunciad | pope |
| "more light! more light!" | hecht |
| do androids dream of electric sheep | dick |
| h.g. wells's | invasion of earth |
| "you eat your victuals fast enough." | shropshire lad |
| joad | steinbeck |
| "this verse" | rape of the lock |
| "going to nassau." | enormous radio |
| byblos | metamorphoses |
| "thirty years now i have labored / to dredge the silt from your throat. / i am none the wiser." | plath |
| "theme for english b," | hughes |
| "yes, you squashed cabbage-leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult to the english language!" | eliza |
| cixin liu | invasion of earth |
| "moves in darkness" | mending wall |
| "life," | johnson |
| miss jean brodie | school |
| charles stewart | key |
| paul kruger | hauptmann |
| "get the guests" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| journal of the plague year | defoe |
| "i celebrate myself and sing myself." | song of myself |
| vermont vigilance | it can't happen here |
| eclogues | virgil |
| rostam | shahnameh |
| aisha | mahfouz |
| "ethnic" | ventriloquism |
| kantorek | all quiet on the western front |
| pete | crane |
| "in a station of the metro." | pound |
| "old yellow pair" | brooks |
| oryx | atwood |
| "porphyria's lover," | browning |
| "swede" | roth |
| forrest gump | curie |
| clyde griffiths | dreiser |
| kostoglotov | solzhenitsyn |
| "the monsters and the critics," | beowulf |
| extinctathon | atwood |
| the 's bastard | jane eyre |
| athena college | coleman |
| pardoner | chaucer |
| loved one | waugh |
| moll flanders | defoe |
| billy bones | stevenson |
| "man thinking" | emerson |
| rider haggard | haggard |
| ensign beverley | rivals |
| silas flannery | calvino |
| "man who looked / with such a wistful eye / upon that little tent of blue / which prisoners call the sky." | wilde |
| joe gargery | great expectations |
| "savage" | brave new world |
| "hold fast" | dream |
| akira kurosawa | akutagawa |
| "avenged in part for lifelong hidings she has had to bear." | hayden |
| eugene de rastignac | balzac |
| "epigram" | russian |
| jose arcadia | garcia |
| colonel aureliano of the buendia | garcia |
| charles condomine | ghost |
| "memorial" | iliad |
| david balfour | kidnapped |
| marib | radio |
| englishwoman adela quested | passage to india |
| "o my chevalier!" | windhover |
| joseph addison | thackeray |
| shoot the kids | oe |
| william bradshaw | mrs |
| great expectations | australia |
| "had somewhere to get to and calmly sailed on." | icarus |
| spallanzani | hoffmann |
| "i sing of olaf glad and big" | cummings |
| "i've lost a whole day over" | six |
| bonus let | karst |
| "waltzing matilda" | australia |
| confessional | plath |
| "dull" | donne |
| crake | atwood |
| air chrysalis | murakami |
| rap on race | mead |
| angels and demons | novel |
| nanny | mule |
| "descent" | avatar |
| "sprung rhythm,' as seen in " | hopkins |
| letter to the reader | stages on life's way |
| "mutilated" | beneatha |
| "to thine own self be true," | polonius |
| rick deckard | dick |
| "like the ingredients of a witches' broth." | design |
| sholem asch | yiddish |
| "five years have past!" | wordsworth |
| "rule britannia." | wheat |
| "big house on the street," | allende |
| mick jenkins | we real cool |
| dolores haze | nabokov |
| fanny price | mansfield park |
| kenneth rexroth | ginsburg |
| jara cimrman | curie |
| "many-tower'd camelot." | lady of |
| fusun | istanbul |
| "i believe that humans should be plants." | south korea |
| "the lorelei" | german |
| "let all who prate of beauty hold their peace." | millay |
| nicholas rubashov | stalin |
| madeline | poe |
| fabrizio del dongo | stendhal |
| black death | decameron |
| brother silent | stages on life's way |
| babo | benito |
| hippolyte | emma |
| "unreal city." | waste land |
| by the waters of babylon | benet |
| ali baba | one thousand and one nights |
| margaret | wilde |
| tom thumb | fairy tale |
| "waiting for the barbarians" | greek |
| rosie | narayan |
| shingo | kawabata |
| "freely, as men strive for right" | how do i love thee |
| potter | crane |
| ann whitefield | shaw |
| johannes kreisler | hoffmann |
| "the mystery of marie roget," | poe |
| "burns at both ends" | candle |
| waverley | scott |
| ralph touchett | james |
| dewey dell | faulkner |
| palamon | knight |
| "the river is never so high that the eyes of the fish are covered," | death and the king's horseman |
| "musee des beaux arts," | auden |
| kill devil hills | wright |
| lords of xibalba | ball game |
| "these pretzels are making me thirsty." | kramer |
| adela | lorca |
| wye | wordsworth |
| "heil hitler" | amon goeth |
| stephen vincent benet | webster |
| winnie | waugh |
| "two roads diverged in a yellow wood." | frost |
| "romance at short notice was her specialty." | saki |
| sketchbook of geofrrey crayon | legend of sleepy hollow |
| "sitting careless" | autumn |
| "three visions of judas" | ficciones |
| algernon moncrieff | wilde |
| harold bloom | paz |
| "delicate ship" | icarus |
| "thanatopsis" | bryant |
| duke of buckingham | la rochelle |
| plot against america | roth |
| "marks of wanton hunger" | chicago |
| mike campbell | the sun also |
| thomas kyd | pamuk |
| grandmother | o'connor |
| "assorted characters of death and blight" | design |
"be just" | kafka |
| kochan | mishima |
| "fair folk." | piers plowman |
| meletus | serpent |
| sohrab | pamuk |
| mistress hobbins | scarlet letter |
| "an unhappy love affair." | stages on life's way |
| an ideal husband | wilde |
| max fleischer | superman |
cancer ward | solzhenitsyn |
| karl rossmann | kafka |
| songs of experience | blake |
| "the invisible worm that flies in the night in the howling storm," | rose |
richard madden | borges |
| james more | stevenson |
| frederick winterbourne | italy |
| cox | hadleyburg |
| argentina with jenna | freedom |
| "will not last the night" | candle |
| "gentleman-callers" | tom |
| "where are the songs of spring?" | keats |
| "tlon, uqbar, orbis tertius" | borges |
| pillow book | japanese |
| xue baochai | stone |
| "gash gold-vermilion." | windhover |
| "artifices," | ficciones |
| pedro romero | the sun also |
| william butler yeats | yeats |
| battle of red cliffs | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "wild god of the world," | hawk |
| "hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind." | autumn |
| "prenez garde a tchou-tchin-tchou" | stepdaughter |
| salamano | camus |
| darling daintyfoot | our lady of the flowers |
| "ecstasy of fumbling" | owen |
| "be chaste, except you ravish me." | donne |
| roylott | snake |
| "if the sun and moon should doubt, they'd immediately go out." | auguries of innocence |
| "the tale of the fuller's wife." | golden ass |
| "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds," | candide |
| nautilus | verne |
| sebastian flyte | brideshead revisited |
| "world state," | john |
| "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county." | twain |
| "birds of prey" | marvell |
| mistress overdone | vienna |
| "beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror," | duino elegies |
| "one could do worse than be a swinger of birches," | frost |
| bonus in shinto | fox |
| the , gent | legend of sleepy hollow |
| sidney herbert | holy sonnets |
| naomi | ginsburg |
| "every woman adores a fascist" | plath |
| elias | naipaul |
| maya angelou | autobiography |
| libation bearers | aegisthus |
| osip mandelstam | stalin |
| marabar caves | passage to india |
| doremus jessup | it can't happen here |
| "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" | wordsworth |
| "thunder words" | finnegans wake |
| "wants to die." | sexton |
| madame merle | james |
| "baby igor." | pynchon |
| "song," | rose |
| edmund waller | rose |
| "golden age" | spain |
| "wild" | old |
| eugene marchbanks | shaw |
| jacques lantier | zola |
| h.d | rose |
| beatriz viterbo | borges |
| viola | twelfth night |
| man in the high castle | dick |
| communists to oedipus | unbearable lightness of being |
| 52nd street | september 1, 1939 |
| on the geneology of morals | nietzsche |
| sequel to drum | o captain! my captain |
| ashing | benet |
| "literary descendant of the confession" | autobiography |
| "principles" | morgenthau |
| lady cheveley | wilde |
| yevgeny | bronze horseman |
| "auguries of innocence," | robin |
| "300 years" | omeros |
| jacques georges | age |
| hillalum | chiang |
| mercutio | fairies |
| national league rookie of the year | rickey |
| "party on the right" | saramago |
| "water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink" | albatross |
| benh zeitlin | beasts of the southern wild |
| neptune by claus of innsbruck | my last duchess |
| good morning | rhys |
| string of pearls | sweeney |
| burns | kiss |
| desdemona | othello |
| late in miss julie | kills |
| "i raise my sword-pen" | burgess |
| azaro | famished road |
| race to the top | education |
| "the prize we sought is won." | o captain! my captain |
| "intended" | heart of darkness |
| hermann broder | singer |
| robinson jeffers | hawk |
| seymore levov | roth |
| leonardo felix | lorca |
| ponyboy curtis | outsiders |
| captain underpants | pilkey |
| connecticut yankee in king arthur | twain |
| leaf storm | macondo |
| "hamlet of the shchigrovsky district" | sportsman's sketches |
| "sweetish sickness" | sartre |
| "guttering, choking, drowning," | owen |
| seven seas | omeros |
| herakles | autobiography of red |
| john nefastis | crying of lot 49 |
| isabella thorpe | northanger abbey |
| martin amis | time's arrow |
| marquis of steyne | thackeray |
| "to resist the hegemony of the english language." | coetzee |
| john fante | bukowski |
| jay rubin | murakami |
| tabitha | baseball |
| "tonight i can" | write |
| ganelon | charlemagne |
| russell-saunders | tenth of december |
| "is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature." | morgenthau |
ministry of education | "the necklace" |
| bel | daniel |
| "desert" | nemo |
| purple hibiscus | adichie |
| hareton | read |
| "grow old along with me! / the best is yet to be" | rabbi ben ezra |
| "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," | biography |
| jim smiley | webster |
| old women | lysistrata |
| coral | red |
| pechorin | lermontov |
| stages on life | either/or |
| "narrative." | frederick |
| while in the rusty spoon | yoyodyne |
| kurt mondaugen | yoyodyne |
| renzo | manzoni |
| roland barthes | author |
| the mountaintop | hall |
| juan preciado | mexico |
| blimunda | saramago |
| against the day | pynchon |
| "letter from birmingham jail." | king |
| "inevitable overthrow in time" | beowulf |
| tabrizi | rumi |
| man without qualities | austria |
| azdak | caucasian chalk |
| columbian orator | frederick |
| pole in spanish | coetzee |
| phi beta kappa society | emerson |
| "the land was ours before we were the land's." | frost |
| "next tomorrow" | macbeth |
| cynthia | bar |
| princess helene | natasha |
| edward rochester | bertha |
| "the story of your life," | chiang |
| solitary | wordsworth |
| "those that i fight i do not hate/those that i guard i do not love," | yeats |
| "with a roar" | snow |
| wayne booth | author |
| antigua | mansfield park |
| "the time you won your town the race, we chaired you through the market-place." | "to an athlete |
| "triple goddesses," | moon |
| philip carey | maugham |
| manley pointer | o'connor |
| billiards at half | boll |
| dance of the forests | soyinka |
| larry darrell | maugham |
| "the center was not holding" | didion |
| kitty pride | wolverine |
| elicio | cervantes |
| three russians in south africa | verne |
| "the former age." | chaucer |
| party of the poor | famished road |
godfrey ablewhite | the moonstone |
| captain nemo in twenty thousand leagues under the sea | verne |
| maitresse erzulie to kiki | on beauty |
| "generique" | murakami |
| zulema halabi | allende |
| x-23 | wolverine |
| sir robert chiltern | wilde |
| the lion d'or | madame bovary |
| hulga | o'connor |
| third empire | sartre |
| bangor | handmaid |
| pharillon | cavafy |
| jose burgos | name of the rose |
| ossian | goethe |
| berenger pines | ionesco |
| "fair youth." | four |
| book of fantasy | rizal |
| immoralist | gide |
| chernobyl | journalist |
| morgan freeman | driving miss daisy |
| "school of resentment" | author |
| anacreon | poetry |
| antwerp | astraea |
| oroonoko | slave |
| pugnax | pynchon |
| second coming | yeats |
| "looks as if she were alive" | browning |
| harvey stone at the cafe select | the sun also |
| frank copperwood | dreiser |
| "secret" | milady |
| darlington hall | remains of the day |
| elizabeth barret | browning |
| william wycherley | restoration |
| cecily | faulkner |
| mircea eliade | ionesco |
| dark avengers | wolverine |
| family life | vas deferens |
| auster | roth |
| daken | wolverine |
| "if i love you, beware!" | habanera |
| prince hal | falstaff |
| will marry when | ngugi |
| pemberley | fitzwilliam |
| "the masque of the red death" | poe |
| antoine roquentin | sartre |
| neil klugman | "goodbye |
| mugo | ngugi |
| toulouse valmorain | allende |
zenocrate | marlowe |
posthumous memoirs of bras cubas (country) | brazil |
william styron | sophie's choice |
| "life-force" | don juan |
dom casmurro | brazil |
| "the emperor's new clothes" | andersen |
| "man hands on misery to man," | this be the verse |
| "the village blacksmith" | chestnut tree |
the grasmere journals | (dorothy) wordsworth |
| hae-mi | murakami |
| "send forth the best ye breed." | kipling |
| finny | separate |
| "nation language," | english |
| when the mad hatter | queen of hearts |
| new york trilogy | auster |
| according to greek | pandora |
| beli | trujillo |
| "all's changed" | yeats |
| "fester[s] like a sore." | dream |
| bethlehem | yeats |
| shere khan | jungle book |
| "little people" | murakami |
| maurice bendix | greene |
| lester kane in chicago | dreiser |
| korova | burgess |
| american senator lewis | remains of the day |
| grischa | checkhov |
| taming of the shrew | christopher |
| book of days | fasti |
| "racism in conrad's heart of darkness." | achebe |
| ruth may | poisonwood bible |
| pamuk | museum of innocence |
| love story | singer |
| "goodbye, columbus" | roth |
| "a hunger artist," | kafka |
| chinese literature | journey to the west |
| john webster | eliot |
| hikari | oe |
| "mithridates, he died old" | shropshire lad |
| "perfect" | child |
| "patmos," | holderlin |
| samson carrasco | don quixote |
| "macdonagh and macbride, and connolly and pearse" | yeats |
| "mock their useful toil." | ambition |
| madame arcati | coward |
| "montage" | dream |
| " in his poem " | williams |
| "there will come soft rains," | bradbury |
| said | salammbo |
| carlene | on beauty |
| leon dupuis | madame bovary |
| "the gold-bug" | poe |
| ryanosuke akutagawa | japan |
| mary mccarthy | hellman |
| sweet thursday | cannery row |
| elsa morante | italian |
| letters to a prime minister | martel |
| "john brown's body" | benet |
| kamau brathwaite | english |
| mr peggotty | david |
| "also a chimney sweep." | carver |
| houellebecq | trump |
| "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 |
| "upward to heaven he flings" | caged bird |
| eugenie grandet | balzac |
| mrs crupp | david |
| periodic table | levi |
| in wodehouse | butler |
| "where the mind is without fear." | tagore |
| mr murdstone | david |
| movement | gunn |
| wu song | water margin |
| port ticonderoga | atwood |
| all for love | dry |
| alden pyle | quiet |
"chickamauga" | bierce |
| "sympathy" | dunbar |
| shlay | howards |
| "are you washed in the blood of the lamb?" | lindsay |
| "good country people" | o'connor |
| other world | cyrano |
| "four monarchies," | bradstreet |
| "something there is that doesn't love a wall." | frost |
| widows | kushner |
| president miguel | the house of the spirits |
| regents park | mrs |
| in the leopard | tancredi |
| barsetshire | trollope |
| valladolid | berganza |
strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde | stevenson |
the kite runner (country) | afghanistan |
"the secret sharer" | conrad |
| sound of the mountain | kawabata |
| dashiell hammett | hellman |
| a 's own | woolf |
| cuttlefish bones | montale |
| huzun | istanbul |
| robert gottlieb | confederacy of dunces |
| save me the waltz | flapper |
| "i'm through." | plath |
| nu | ionesco |
| "burning bright." | blake |
| nakata | kafka on the shore |
| museum of innocence | istanbul |
reverend (arthur) dimmsdale | the scarlet letter |
| galahad | grail |
| louise bennett | english |
| "o villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this." | dogberry |
| "get out as early as you can, / and don't have any kids yourself." | this be the verse |
| isolation | erikson |
| "after blenheim" | southey |
| "paddle in the cold," | yeats |
| amazing adventures of kavalier | chabon |
| bill gorton | the sun also |
| "a lovely light!" | candle |
| varieties of religious experience | john |
| du mal | baudelaire |
| giuseppe ungaretti | montale |
| montoya hotel | the sun also |
| samuel selvon | lonely londoners |
| "fluttering and dancing in the breeze." | wordsworth |
| little foxes | hellman |
| "helen being chosen found life flat and dull, and later had much trouble from a fool." | prayer for my daughter |
| theodore | castle |
| erik lonnrot | borges |
| "continuous as the stars that shine / and twinkle on the milky way." | i wandered lonely as a cloud |
| shams of tabriz | rumi |
| "symphony in gray major" | dario |
| cradle will rock | welles |
| "amateur" | remains of the day |
| "the death of the hired man" | frost |
| lheureux | emma |
william carlos williams | "the red wheelbarrow" |
| "paralysis" | dublin |
| flask | white |
| "lioness on a cheese grater." | lysistrata |
| six inch | lemuel |
| gryphon | mock turtle |
| "representative man" | emerson |
| mangan | dublin |
| vince | buried child |
| "the boy who cried wolf" | aesop |
| zeno of elea | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| luis de | portuguese |
| tell my horse | hurston |
| grushnitsky | hero |
| hunter s. thompson | horse |
| george wilson | jay gatsby |
a thousand splendid suns (country) | afghanistan |
| "i shall not rest quiet at montparnasse" | benet |
| island beneath the sea | allende |
| "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 |
| trout fishing in america | brautigan |
| frances clyne | the sun also |
| "moloko [muh-loh-koh] with knives in it" | clockwork orange |
| "milk with knives in it" | clockwork orange |
| last of the mohicans | cooper |
| exit the king | ionesco |
| clipton | bridge |
| vladek | spiegelman |
| "novel which ... depersonalizes a portion of the human race" | achebe |
| john mcclane | die hard |
| magician of lublin | singer |
| helen schlegel | howards |
| ronny heaslop | passage to india |
| "what immortal hand or eye / could frame thy [this two-word phrase]?" | fearful symmetry |
| r. p. blackmur | stevens |
| "since feeling is first" | death |
| elizabeth drury | world |
| "time held me green and dying, though i sang in my chains like the sea." | fern hill |
| "a youth to fortune and to fame unknown." | elegy written in a country |
| "rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" | stein |
| doc daneeka | catch-22 |
| wellington | united kingdom |
| epping forest | defoe |
| saddler | defoe |
| "crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn," | browning |
| bellipotent | john |
| astrov | doctor |
| jennie gerhardt | dreiser |
| "tales of passion." | ted |
| frank chin | autobiography |
| anse | faulkner |
| laura kinney | wolverine |
| nws | united kingdom |
| in the fatal attractions | wolverine |
| the x-men | wolverine |
| gellhorn | spanish civil |
| sketchbook of geoffrey crayon | irving |
| godhighs | everything that rises must converge |
| john florio | montaigne |
| nellie | heart of darkness |
| galatea | quixote |
| professor uzzi | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| arnolphe | school for wives |
| "simulacra" | barn |
| gathering blue | giver |
| tronckh | candide |
| "brief" | we real cool |
| my father | autobiography |
| theses | luther |
| "tower of babylon." | chiang |
| drama pulitzer | nguyen |
| fable for critics | lowell |
| " for 10 points, name this irish poet of " | yeats |
| game warden | sinatra |
| buzz windrip | lewis |
| ubtreas | benet |
| cheshire cat in alice | carroll |
| "dramatizing herself." | flapper |
| edward lear | limerick |
| abbey theater | yeats |
| "conjugal lewdness." | defoe |
| mnevis bull | ra |
| gay talese | esquire |
| abulafia | eco |
| happen here | lewis |
| jean santeuil | proust |
| "deferred?" | dream |
| "a simple heart." | flaubert |
| d'arthur | galahad |
| donald mahon | faulkner |
| " for 10 points each: when " | thrush |
| "fastball special." | wolverine |
| august wilson | pittsburgh |
| big city | 80s |
| cather | my |
| "then there's a pair of us!" | nobody |
| felix hobain | walcott |
| for anatole | mallarme |
| mead | boas |
| le morte | galahad |
| fountainhead | rand |
| "a passion in the desert." | balzac |
| "with eyes of cold silver" | lorca |
| "romance sonambulo." | lorca |
| la senora | allende |
| "malt does more than milton can / to justify god's ways to man." | shropshire lad |
| "lame balloonman" | in just |
| "vulcanist" | faust |
| "the canary." | mansfield |
| fedallah | pequod |
| "reducing classes" | everything that rises must converge |
| the generation of '27 | lorca |
| benn | remains of the day |
| nathan johnson | frederick |
| if this | 40 |
| "whoso must be a man, must be a nonconformist" | emerson |
| donne | canonization |
| faehmel | boll |
| just to say | williams |
| "romance" | aesop |
| journeyman years | wilhelm meister |
| "fur fla bis fle" | ghost |
| marco | view from the |
| "gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." | cavafy |
| alice munro | canada |
| scanner darkly | dick |
| fathers and sons | turgenev |
| "three white leopards" | eliot |
| jem finch in to kill a mockingbird | atticus |
| emil sinclair | hesse |
| simon pilkings | soyinka |
| cecily cardew | wilde |
| "i am an american, [this city] born." | chicago |
| it can | lewis |
| kate croy | italy |
| "how do i love thee? let me count the ways." | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "poem without" | hero |
| blithe spirit | coward |
| lori parks | topdog/underdog |
| "in the bleak midwinter." | goblin market |
| ottava rima | sailing to byzantium |
| ymca | o'connor |
| diotallevi | eco |
| vachel lindsay | lincoln |
| "the devil and daniel webster?" | benet |
| gummidge | david |
| fearful symmetry | frye |
| "a little phrase" | in search of lost time |
| university of massachusetts | achebe |
| perry index | aesop |
| side of paradise | fitzgerald |
| "an experiment in literary investigation," | gulag archipelago |
| "one-shot," | atticus |
| abednego | daniel |
| kurt von obersdorf | fran |
| sandberg | fog |
"on silent haunches" | "fog" |
| honey ryder | dr. no |
| ignacio sanchez mejias | lorca |
| "speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold. for 10 points each: name this poem that asks, " | those winter sundays |
| vinteuil | in search of lost time |
| splendid phoenix | dream of the red chamber |
| rachael rosen | dick |
| "complicated man." | homer |
| tatyana | eugene |
| "the diary of p." | handmaid |
| donald | tracy |
| pythian | ode |
| dolorous stroke | fisher king |
| heinrich von ofterdingen | flower |
| "exploits what has been invented" | hamlet |
| "funes, the memorious." | borges |
| le chiffre | james |
| jem-mah-tah | dioneo |
| troezen to athens | theseus |
| "the man that corrupted hadleyburg" | twain |
| "foundations" | asimov |
| cormac mccarthy | no country for old |
| "video killed the radio star." | ballard |
| jorge de montemayor's | verona |
| edgar ramirez | hawai'i |
| "you." | second person |
| mersey sound | liverpool |
| evgeny | bronze horseman |
| "accept" | sunrise |
| "the stillness round my form was like the stillness in the air" | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
| brave orchid | hawai'i |
| zamora linmark | hawai'i |
| gao xingjian | mountain |
| joe crowell | grover's corners |
| noh | zeami |
| "essay on phrygian religious customs" | immoralist |
| "outback." | australia |
| "between my finger and thumb, the squat pen rests. i'll dig with it." | heaney |
| tayo | ceremony |
| persuasion | austen |
| edmund spenser | willie |
| war with the newts | capek |
| carol ann duffy | cope |
"the cop and the anthem" | o. henry |
| "as is painting, so is poetry" | horace |
| "beautiful uncut hair of graves" | grass |
| quimbo | simon |
| andre gide | france |
| david herbert lawrence | lawrence |
| waverly jong | tan |
| sometimes a great notion | kesey |
| isle of skye | to the lighthouse |
| stu redman in the stand | sinise |
| "have helen in their hearts" | williams |
| rolling the r's | hawai'i |
| "trilogy" | polish |
| blooms of dublin | joyce |
| in the giver | release |
| methuselah | poe |
| "i was the more deceived" | get thee to a |
| those winter sundays | wheatley |
| diss | siren |
| "even f may become o, q, y, and perhaps also r." | garden party |
| el escorial | fuentes |
| on the roman calendar | fasti |
| matsukaze | zeami |
| "horror of distance" | odour |
| possible lives | de quincey |
| king arthur in the sword in the stone | merlin |
| filomena | ring |
| "exterminate all the brutes!" | heart of darkness |
| "phony." | holden |
| "the very end of the world" | heart of darkness |
| horacio oliveira | cortazar |
| la luna | old gringo |
| "impulse was converted into momentary figures." | billiard |
| hermann | queen of spades |
| cope | larkin |
"poem without a hero" | akhmatova |
| inheritance of loss | desai |
| "paterson." | williams |
| "hold back the edges of your gowns, ladies, we are going through hell." | williams |
| "axolotl." | cortazar |
| clara bowden | smith |
| work in progress | duffy |
| betty smith | trees |
| lavransdatter | kristin |
| "nevsky prospekt," | petersburg |
| bacchus | portuguese |
| weir mitchell | husband |
| korova milk bar | burgess |
| penguin books | lady chatterley's lover |
| "today we all know very well that a may be often b as well as a" | garden party |
| carmen maria machado | husband |
| csi | sinise |
| "revolt," | flowers of evil |
| essays one | davis |
| magister ludi | glass bead game |
| wickham | darcy |
| crooks | lennie |
| "the thin men of haddam." | bird |
| brodsky | petersburg |
| adolphe le bon | poe |
| heart of midlothian | scott |
| "single man in possession of a good fortune" | darcy |
| john millington synge | playboy of the western world |
| o-lan | the good |
| amos oz | israel |
| tale of love | israel |
| leading man | egg |
| lurie | communication |
| "life and opinions." | sterne |
| "hamlet." | doctor zhivago |
| de quincey | ode to a nightingale |
| smerdyakov | karamazov |
| wilder | yonkers |
| "early though the laurel grows / it withers quicker than the rose." | shropshire lad |
| "in a kingdom by the sea" | annabel lee |
| carpentered hen | updike |
| fleur jaeggy | de quincey |
| ash'ari | possession |
| barnstable | cape cod |
| eastern iranian | persian |
| journey through trees | united kingdom |
| lives of animals | coetzee |
| "christian, i'm not a." | davis |
| "printed at naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529." | castle of otranto |
| "sweet and fitting," | ode |
| caverns | kesey |
| the devil's elixirs | uncanny |
| "hermaphroditism" | sterne |
| "two gentlemen of" | verona |
| "the train came out of the long tunnel" | snow |
| castalia | glass bead game |
| novy mir | solzhenitsyn |
| "sound poems." | dada |
| tomas transtromer | buck |
| "night funeral" | harlem |
| pharsalia | petrarch |
| babbitt | lewis |
| nancy | good soldier |
| new life | sonnet |
| harry domin | robots |
| "no man is an island." | donne |
| "where did they get/them two fine cars?" | harlem |
| seymour | glass |
| gerard de villefort | count of monte cristo |
| "what peaches and what penumbras" | ginsberg |
| "the pit and the pendulum" | poe |
| "to a haggis." | burns |
| girl with the dragon tattoo | craig |
| bingley | darcy |
| farraday | butler |
| yuri | doctor zhivago |
| suma | murasaki |
| sukie | witches of |
| "errors" | bradstreet |
| valenod | red and the black |
| indiana state auditor chris traeger on parks | lowe |
| ozzie freedman | conversion of the |
| ralph steadman | thompson |
| tom wingo | prince of tides |
| moonstone | diamond |
| "rappaccini's daughter," | hawthorne |
| red center | handmaid's tale |
| florante sanchez | hawai'i |
| de ropp | saki |
| national steinbeck center | salinas |
| civilizing process | levi-strauss |
| axel | roxas |
| "cabin of clay and wattles." | lake isle of innisfree |
| joe shuster | superman |
| christopher reeve | superman |
| last temptation | jesus |
"narrow fellow in the grass" | dickinson |
| kay-moh-chee | food |
| sora | roxas |
| cholly | bluest eye |
| death of ivan illyich | tolstoy |
| where jacques | touchstone |
| "daffodils" | i wandered lonely as |
| lexa, jane | witches of |
| "a cup of wine, under the flowering trees." | li |
| scanlan | thompson |
| lyrics of lowly life | dunbar |
| battlefield earth | hubbard |
| "buck did not read the newspapers." | call of the |
| "2 + 2 = 5." | winston |
| daodu | soyinka |
| michael sheen | six characters in search of an author |
the silent cry | oe |
| unnameable | beckett |
| "sunflower sutra." | ginsberg |
| four quartets | eliot |
| leander | chapman |
| "notes" | dostoyevsky |
| sherman mccoy | bonfire of the vanities |
| "palm-of-the-hand stories" | kawabata |
inez serrano | no exit |
| "lord, what fools..." | these |
"time's winged chariot" | to his coy mistress |
| raina petkoff | bulgaria |
| "why should a dog or horse or rat have life, but not you?" | never |
| fa'alupega | oral |
| "lay-air-tees" | polonius |
| theodore roethke's | world war ii |
| "honest abe" | bonfire of the vanities |
| bond girl | dr. no |
| "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 |
"optimism is the opium of the people" | kundera |
| tale heart | poe |
| "a tattered coat upon a stick." | old |
| akela | wolf |
| hetty sorrell | adam |
| academy for young ladies | vanity |
| "the public and its problems" | james |
| rankeillor | kidnapped |
| "you do not do" | daddy |
| in the beauty of the lilies | updike |
| "the stars went out and so did the moon" | hughes |
| like touchstone | all's well that ends well |
| streep | thatcher |
| tethys | oceanus |
| december in stockholm | buck |
| airstrip one | winston |
| "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." | ulysses |
| three tall women | albee |
| galta in india | monkey |
| takashi | oe |
| quiet american | greene |
| when koroviev | knee |
| lobster quadrille | mock turtle |
| "bob southey! you're a poet, poet laureate, / and representative of all the race." | don juan |
| the stand | lowe |
| "dire offense" | rape of the lock |
| george etheredge | fopling |
| vesper lynd | bond |
| stamp paid | beloved |
| "the castle," | bald soprano |
| confounded husband | moliere |
| pharos | cavafy |
| rohv | knee |
| amadeus | shaffe |
| wildwood: a | united kingdom |
| in pharaoh | vietnam |
| lavache | all's well that ends well |
| hugh hayden | poet laureate |
| "for carl solomon," | howl |
| mathilde de la mole | red and the black |
| "listen to the reed and the tale it tells" | persian |
| "hobby-horse" | sterne |
| pinzada | interpreter of maladies |
| "lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree / in the cool of the day," | ash wednesday |
| javert | drown |
| "domestic fool." | all's well that ends well |
| kill | penthesilea |
| luna silvestre | paz |
| "the enormous radio" | swimmer |
| roger casement in matadi | conrad |
| pribislav hippe | magic mountain |
| the and as & aliens | craig |
| "careers." | stranger |
| man who turned | stick |
| earwicker | finnegans wake |
| estelle rigault | no exit |
| calling out to yeti | stalin |
| "the paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids." | melville |
| sutter | wilson |
| newland archer | age of innocence |
| edith wharton | age of innocence |
| instead of paris | yonville |
| jim on the mississippi river | huckleberry |
| great temple of osiris | abydos |
| serena joy | handmaid's tale |
| "there shall be no more cakes and ale?" | twelfth night |
| "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "slow-chapped power" | marvell |
| "deserts of vast eternity" | marvell |
| "but none, i think, do there embrace." | grave |
| "confessional biography." | naipaul |
| sherry | laureate |
| djali | esmeralda |
| "oh, whistle, and i'll come to you, my lad," | ghost |
| bird | oe |
| madeline gleason | san francisco |
| "father of american anthropology." | boas |
| claudia chauchat | magic mountain |
| lillian hellman | hammett |
| gutman | maltese |
| "ode to psyche" | keats |
| "persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." | tom |
| house of the seven gables | hawthorne |
| laszlo de almasy | greek |
| "burning city." | vietnam |
| "curious incident of the dog in the night-time." | sherlock holmes |
| wilhelm gustloff | grass |
| jerry siegel | superman |
| "n plus seven" | oulipo |
| "the secret life of walter mitty." | thurber |
| may welland | age of innocence |
| hall's | king |
brenda patimkin | roth |
| catholic mass | nicene |
| life of great american cities | corner |
| adrian leverkuhn | mann |
| ashima calcutta | lahiri |
| "schartz-metterklume method." | saki |
| percy bysshe | ozymandias |
| lewis hyde | stevenson |
| mountain interval | frost |
| "boum" | passage to india |
| atticus finch | sheriff |
| round table | lancelot |
| quantum of solace | craig |
| joseph kell | burgess |
| in saki | wolf |
| "no bigger than an agate stone" | fairies |
| mason & dixon | pynchon |
| jake barnes | the sun also |
| nadsat | russian |
| nick andros | lowe |
| no child left behind act | education |
| georgette | the sun also |
| vera gangart | solzhenitsyn |
| joseph of arimathea | grail |
| clotel | jefferson |
| "the philosophy of composition," | raven |
| hugoliade | ionesco |
| "ratiocination" | auguste |
| gone with the wind | mitchell |
| "ultrasonic music" | ballard |
| in white teeth | islam |
| billy bibbitt | asylum |
| gromov | ward number 6 |
| margaret powers | faulkner |
| "caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon." | windhover |
| satyricon | petronius |
| in the thin man | nick and nora |
| red harvest | hammett |
| "expendable" | cortazar |
| "what happens to" | dream |
| kovrin | black monk |
| place of the gods | benet |
| "a dimpled spider, fat and white, holding up a moth" | frost |
| shadow songs | senghor |
| lamartine | childe harold's pilgrimage |
| "riverrun past" | adam |
| "wandering steps and slow" | adam |
| "american bandstand" | ignatius |
| in part | goethe |
| mother shipton | outcasts of poker |
| lieutenant dan in forrest gump | sinise |
| uriah heap | david |
| tete | allende |
| ou-dis-sun | benet |
| bill sikes | nancy |
| "like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies." | she walks in beauty |
| "i am arturo bandini!" | bukowski |
| golan trevize | asimov |
| "then while we live, in love let's so persevere, / that when we live no more, we may live ever." | loving husband |
| air india flight | mukherjee |
| ivor | dentist |
| blofeld | james |
| "arms, and the man i sing." | virgil |
| "the dream of the rood." | old english |
| invention of love | stoppard |
| titus andronicus | philomel |
| johann blumenbach | race |
| "flowering judas" | porter |
| ts'ui pen | garden of forking paths |
| freyja | feather |
| arrowsmith | lewis |
| tom canty | prince and the pauper |
| "it isn't fair, it isn't right" | jackson |
| "spice" | dune |
| patty berglund | freedom |
| magneto | wolverine |
| "the child's cry / melts in the wall." | mother |
| puritan boston | scarlet letter |
| john singer | heart is a lonely |
| eric | finnegans wake |
| ubu roi | apartheid |
| "the lass of aughrim" | dubliners |
| room of one | woolf |
| mary's frankenstein | shelley |
| gilukhepa | plutarch |
| "solitary way" | adam |
| alfred jarry | apartheid |
| "will v-day be me-day too?" | hughes |
| edinburgh review | romanticism |
| "rare and radiant maiden" | raven |
| ice-9 | cat's cradle |
| hand of ethelberta | hardy |
| "go home and write / a page tonight" | hughes |
| vassar | millay |
| "dear loyalty, that could have served and followed him and loved him as a dog loves!" | white heron |
| duke of ferrera | browning |
| twins | awakening |
| "if ever two were one, then surely we" | bradstreet |
| moon is a harsh mistress | heinlein |
| "lak of steadfastness" | chaucer |
| charlestown | faulkner |
| "memory play." | tom |
| "there on the sad height," | do not go gentle into that good night |
| senator jakob | kafka |
| "into the red eye, the cauldron of morning." | ariel |
| new american poetry | san francisco |
| christopher columbus | irving |
| "so!" | beowulf |
| brief wondrous life of oscar wao | diaz |
| "the seagull." | checkhov |
| publius | syria |
| secretum meum | laura |
| peabody | as i lay dying |
| henry carr | stoppard |
| orgoglio | faerie queene |
| soma | brave new world |
| fiammetta | decameron |
| "the cisco [sis-koh] kid" | kidnap |
| "ow" | tale of genji |
| eduard | goethe |
| shui ta | good person |
| poaceae | grass |
| doors of perception | huxley |
| tsimtsum | pi |
| "conception of the primal horde," | darwin |
| james steerforth | david |
| "madness... madness!" | bridge |
| "petersburg tale" | bronze horseman |
| herr huld | kafka |
| nicolas guillen | hughes |
| pierce inverarity | pynchon |
| metzger | pynchon |
| liesel meminger | book thief |
| cobweb | fairies |
| rossum | robot |
| "and the stoicism of seneca." | shakespeare |
| cyrano de bergerac | rostand |
| large colour prints | tyger |
| the musee des arts et metiers | foucault's pendulum |
"the lawyer of glass" | cervantes |
| fa'agogo | oral |
| rabbi binder | conversion of the |
| st. elizabeth's | pound |
| things they carried | o'brien |
| hwaet | beowulf |
| emilia | decameron |
| tsezar | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| juanito | fortunata and jacinta |
| "verses" | eliot |
| "the story of" | stone |
| fortunata | madrid |
aleksandr solzhenitsyn | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| golden shovel | brooks |
| machado de assis | brazil |
| elmer gantry | lewis |
| charlotte lucas | pride and prejudice |
| lady castlewood | thackeray |
| of human bondage | maugham |
| "merely funny" | not bloody likely |
| fitzcarraldo | tokarczuk |
"lake poets" | romanticism |
| viet thanh nguyen | vietnam |
| radius | robot |
| "this is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper." | eliot |
| "you are alone." | monologue |
| englishmen | diamond |
| trimalchio | petronius |
| bacchae | euripides |
| miss marple | lady of shalott |
| benedict cumberbatch | stoppard |
| nights at the circus | carter |
| amelia sedley | thackeray |
| welcome to the monkey house | vonnegut |
| ian buruma | naipaul |
| communist president | czech |
| "the poetry cloud." | liu |
| sean connery | dr. no |
| hero and | chapman |
| tibullus | elegy |
| fray | feather |
| "mid-term break," | heaney |
| lampito | lysistrata |
| "someone had blundered" | charge of the light brigade |
| merricat | jackson |
| david mamet | united states |
| "we can remember it for you wholesale" | invasion of earth |
| "the blessed damozel" | rossetti |
| "love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds." | shakespeare |
| "flecknoe" | marvell |
| woman in the nineteenth century | fuller |
| "rolls the executions on his tongue like berries" | stalin |
| "scud" | nabokov |
| muriel and afrekete | lorde |
| "sailing home from rapallo" | lowell |
| "dear bosie" | wilde |
| natchez | welty |
| raphael de valentin's | human comedy |
| "the little match girl" | andersen |
| "when i heard the learn'd astronomer," | whitman |
| old creole days | confederacy of |
| zenith | wallace |
| susan glaspell | provincetown players |
| "nightingale." | emperor |
| "gray-beard loon" | ancient mariner |
| lost illusions | lucien |
| "come again... / tho' it were ten thousand mile." | rose |
| angers fragment | snorri |
| "you are caught in the drift." | sea rose |
| daniel gluck | smith |
| sergeant troy | gabriel |
| german industrialist | schindler's ark |
| post-brexit | autumn |
| gar-san | no exit |
| ali baba in the one thousand | arabic |
| i. name | constance |
| "gogo light--bough not break--gogo dead." | waiting for |
| grossman | love in the time of cholera |
| speak, memory | nabokov |
| george washington cable | confederacy of |
| undset | kristin |
| stavrogin in the posessed | dostoevsky |
| according to trevor horn | ballard |
| "how terrible and brief was my desire of you!" | song of despair |
| "making the audience bow their heads as if they had been hit by a blast of wind." | courage |
| "going on a journey" | goethe |
| "an iron house, without windows or doors" | lu |
marilla cuthbert | anne of green gables |
| little father time | jude the |
| fisher king | grail |
| elli | age |
| cedric of rotherwood | ivanhoe |
| baoyu | monk |
| drones club | jeeves |
| in sonnet | time |
| catronia | kidnapped |
| glass key | hammett |
| eastasia | 1984 |
| nizami | persian |
| krypton | superman |
| "drowned phoenician sailor" | eliot |
| detective mac taylor | sinise |
| the king's horseman | soyinka |
| "weaker" | shaw |
| freyr | muspelheim |
| in john | dirt |
| isaac cline | larson |
| hayslope | adam |
| "moor of venice?" | othello |
| in zola | train |
| rehana | desertion |
| thin man | hammett |
| cloud messenger | sanskrit |
| daniel deronda | eliot |
| vercelli codex | cross |
| caroline b. dow | millay |
| longfellow | cambridge |
| bright star | keats |
| pauper | twain |
| mccullers | ballad of the |
| dinah nuthead | adam |
| member of the wedding | mccullers |
| "a gypsy's child" | habanera |
| "nine and fifty" | yeats |
| conseil | verne |
| koo-lohm | siren |
| hazel morse | big blonde |
| in autobiography of red | dickinson |
| roger deakin | united kingdom |
| "risorgimento black and gold casket" | lowell |
| group of noble dames | hardy |
| stanley webber | pinter |
| sam seaborn on the west wing | lowe |
| craig | dr. no |
| "in you the wars and the flights accumulated." | song of despair |
| clee hill | shropshire lad |
| ani | yam |
| "great chieftain of the puddin' race!" | burns |
| arthur donnithorne | adam |
| "listen my children and you shall hear" | longfellow |
| logan killicks | their eyes were watching god |
| kazuo ishiguro | butler |
| arabella donn | jude the |
| "beyond the genius of the sea." | stevens |
| "debauchee of dew" | dickinson |
| jake lonergan in cowboys | craig |
| robbie turner | atonement |
| moses jackson | stoppard |
| soapy | loiter |
| "among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye" | bird |
| "edge." | child |
"the idea of order at key west" | stevens |
| family values | cope |
| "what mad nijinsky wrote / about diaghilev." | auden |
| recreation | lowe |
| ludvik jahn | kundera |
| "meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf" | sea rose |
"my kingdom for a horse!" | richard iii |
| chicana | mexican |
| smersh | bond |
| led zeppelin | liverpool |
| iago | othello |
| "after such knowledge, what forgiveness?" | eliot |
| martin pearce | desertion |
| mikael blomkvist in the american | craig |
| thisman | poe |
| ocampo | argentina |
| hetton | handful of dust |
| "rime" | ancient mariner |
| brian sterling | ballard |
| "samiel" | devil |
| playboy of the western world | ireland |
| in death | mask |
| ohio impromptu | beckett |
| zillah | wuthering heights |
| "knew no haste." | because i could not stop for death |
| lycia | iobates |
| john paul jones | cooper |
| "tender is the night." | keats |
| chancery | bleak house |
| great mahlke in cat | grass |
| "napoleon's at the invalides." | lowell |
| tobias smollett | sterne |
| minister jack eccles | harry |
| "love laws" | god of small things |
| joy hopewell | o'connor |
| "we wear the mask" | dunbar |
| sonya | dostoyevsky |
| miss pinkerton | vanity |
| swing time | smith |
| tom stoppard | rosencrantz |
| perry smith | murder |
| karl ove knausgard | hitler |
| "the horse on the mountain." | lorca |
| "all-purpose poem for state occasions" | cope |
| roderick | poe |
| "blaze like meteors and be gay" | thomas |
| "the encyclopedia of the dead." | kis |
| "the colomber." | buzzati |
| "lyric." | lyre |
| jimmie johnson | crane |
| maud gonne | yeats |
| "write down!" | darwish |
| aloeus | ephialtes |
| poirot | istanbul |
| jessica | shylock |
| fermina | love in the time of cholera |
| "i sang in my chains like the sea" | thomas |
| little girl | six characters in search of an author |
| james frazer | fasti |
| "soldiers' dreams" | matsuo |
| course in general linguistics | saussure |
| blood meridian | mccarthy |
| elfriede jelinek | doll's house |
| patrick leigh fermor | istanbul |
| "forget-me-nots of the angels." | longfellow |
| squire allworthy | fielding |
| polyneices | antigone |
| thiazi | feet |
| porfiry petrovich | crime and punishment |
| "if swans can rain / white rape from heaven, then what is a girl to do?" | erdrich |
| hard times | thurber |
| kiran desai | pamuk |
| claude frollo | esmeralda |
| "white night-gowns," | stevens |
| "disillusionment of ten o'clock." | stevens |
| "the fall of house voticky" | capek |
| gerard manley hopkins | praise |
| svidrigailov | crime and punishment |
| "an afternoon of nurses and rumors." | yeats |
| pacific street saloon | time of your life |
| "scatter, wheeling in great broken rings, upon their clamoring wings." | yeats |
| "the fish is red." | bishop |
| "i say now these are the soul." | sing |
| s. wu | romance of the three kingdoms |
| bonus british | peter |
| "peppered with thorn pricks" | blackberry |
| "beardless children" | pearl |
| "everybody's protest novel." | native |
| alp | finnegans wake |
| "the beloved" | pale fire |
| "that which we call a rose / by any other name would smell as sweet." | balcony |
| algiers | don quixote |
| outback | australia |
| fountain of youth | heidegger |
| vahn | statue |
| "where knowledge is free" | tagore |
| "proper souls." | david |
| story of a new name | naples |
| "the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses." | cummings |
| peter pan | sword |
| "perestroika," | 1980 |
| "spiteful" | dostoyevsky |
| giant peach | wonka |
| and then there were none | miller |
| "father, how can i love you or any of my brothers more?" | lost |
| crispin | stevens |
| messenger | giver |
| "that you are losing." | greek |
| the landlady | dostoyevsky |
| scheherazade | one thousand and one nights |
| tucson | color purple |
chichikov | dead souls |
| "the months and days are the travelers of eternity" | matsuo |
| "eat the cones" | frost |
| "durable" | thomas |
| philip terry | on the road |
| lord henry wotton | wilde |
| dust bowl | steinbeck |
| greek war of independence | byron |
| "the most exquisite pairs of ears i have ever seen." | salinger |
| garces | don quixote |
| night of the iguana | williams |
| gaudy night | wimsey |
| "beowulf: the monsters and the critics." | tolkien |
| king of ward | portuguese |
| madness of king george | bennett |
| hasanaginica | goethe |
| "like the quarry-slave at night, scourged to his dungeon" | bryant |
| "dr. heidegger's experiment" | hawthorne |
| nervous conditions | zimbabwe |
| "a psalm of life." | longfellow |
| maureen corrigan | great gatsby |
| "eat people." | china |
| "pretend i'm chaste," | spanish |
| craig raine | mars |
| andrei | war and peace |
| street in bronzeville | brooks |
| "can therefore choose between the endings," | hardy |
| heart of the matter | greene |
| "ain't i a woman?" | truth |
| "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." | archilochus |
| "be a man, my son," | kipling |
| zosia | pan tadeusz |
| lobel | frog |
| "the poetess." | sappho |
| in the signifying monkey | equiano |
| max sebald | sebald |
| macunaima | andrade |
| "unbound." | prometheus |
| strindberg | proscenium |
| vivian bearing | donne |
| fair labor standards act | minimum |
| many philip roth | jew |
| "hanging here on the gallows" | poland |
| "da" | sanskrit |
| mel | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| "key." | simon |
| eliza | uncle tom's |
| haemon | antigone |
| mickey mouse | iwerks |
| effia | gyasi |
| intima theater | proscenium |
| other rooms | dill |
| "interesting narrative" | equiano |
| skully's landing | capote |
| tartar steppe | buzzati |
| esteban trueba | house of the spirits |
| dick hickock | capote |
| simplicissimus | brecht |
| "deathless" | sappho |
| samuel m. johnson's | dictionary |
| tomas rodaja | lawyer |
| hermes to apollo | lyre |
| "she" | bond |
| marquis of saluzzo | decameron |
| jim casy | steinbeck |
| " wrote " | hopkins |
| winfried georg sebald | sebald |
| "homer nods" | horace |
| luciana [loo--nah | syracuse |
| lovborg | hedda |
| ben richards | king |
| "what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / slouches towards bethlehem to be born?" | yeats |
| "of the spangled mind." | ode to aphrodite |
| remembrance of earth | china |
| ann more | donne |
| "time is tied to the wrist" | mars |
| frantz fanon | wretched of the earth |
| " lists " | dapple |
| ricky roma | mamet |
| house for mr | naipaul |
| ruby turpin | revelation |
| extraordinary voyages | french |
| van helsing | dracula |
"the windhover" | hopkins |
| "drowsy syncopated tune" | hughes |
| caine mutiny | wouk |
| "dog of tears" | portuguese |
| "classics." | heaney |
| mademoiselle | nabokov |
| "save the children" | china |
| jenny cameron | fielding |
| what we talk about when we talk about love | carver |
| the devil | irving |
| mimi c. magsalin | rizal |
| estrella | rizal |
| queen of spades | pushkin |
| "nymph's reply" | marlowe |
| ben ezra | stoppard |
| ramon gris | wall |
| "tim'rous beastie" | burns |
| rosalind | as you like it |
| thomas bertram | mansfield park |
| sign in sidney | hansberry |
| baker street | sherlock |
| craiglockhart hospital | sassoon |
| catriona | stevenson |
| river of the arrow | kim |
| "to be or not to be, that is the question." | machine |
| tor house | california |
vardaman (bundren) | as i lay dying |
| good person of szechwan | china |
| darconville | theroux |
| "eternal recurrence." | nietzsche |
| yusef | diamond |
| oliver goldsmith | she stoops to conquer |
| "angel of death." | huck |
| squire thornhill | vicar of |
| shirley | welty |
| chronicles of narnia | lewis |
| louise mallard | chopin |
| clotho | pelops |
| "and treat those two imposters just the same." | triumph |
| kennebunkport | tarkington |
| pablo honey | magic theater |
| "dreamers." | sassoon |
| dead souls | gogol |
| city lights bookstore | california |
| thomas russell sullivan | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| columbine | pierrot |
| shen tsien | good person |
| on beauty | howards end |
| archibald macleish | be |
| "ode to the confederate dead" | lowell |
| sentimental journey | sterne |
| "purely, as they turn from praise." | how do i love thee |
| "someone else was dreaming" | borges |
| "red room" | strindberg |
| jack merridew | samneric |
| "friends" | emma |
| trojan women | cassandra |
| trujillo | julia |
| "the conversation of the dogs" | cervantes |
| cacambo | candide |
| louise | chopin |
| gina apostol | rizal |
| "o, reason not the need." | lear |
| hal 9000 | 2001 |
| jim burden | my |
| daniel o'connell | nautilus |
| alfieri | view from the |
| "that government is best which governs least." | thoreau |
| willa cather | my |
| "strange to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes," | ginsburg |
| "giant wings prevent him from walking." | flowers of evil |
| church fathers | david |
| gordon lish | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| father jerome | castle |
| "my hope and treasure lies above" | fire |
| "tradition and the individual talent" | new critic |
| natasha | rostov |
| "bent / above a sinking fire." | leda |
| "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" | cummings |
| radio panamericana by pedro camacho | julia |
| lope de vega | fuenteovejuna |
| "homage" | bradstreet |
| artificial paradises | fleurs du mal |
| crab | two gentlemen of |
| proust in german | kiss |
| raynell | wilson |
jack burden | all the king's men |
| waindell college by dr | pnin |
| naoko | norwegian wood |
| "alterest all things with thy peering eyes." | poe |
| ask to embla | ash |
| "desperate men" | ransom of red |
| clelie | scudery |
| "an excuse for putting on weight" | david |
| denys finch | out of africa |
| eloise | salinger |
| "my wealth has come from a combination of living in america, some lucky genes, and" | interest |
| "yes, call me by my pet-name!" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" | auld lang syne |
| latin to an oxford | wimsey |
| lawrence rainey | waste land |
| "every day you play" | neruda |
| ivan yakovlevich | nose |
| helen alving | ghosts |
| "delirium" | season in hell |
| kapasi | lahiri |
| "to a louse" | burns |
| revolution according to raymundo mata | rizal |
| "the happy prince" | wilde |
| bradstreet | age |
| "jangling journalist" | wolfe |
| hazel | watership down |
| diedrich knickerbocker | irving |
| biswas | naipaul |
| laura miller | mueller report |
| "school" | matsuo |
| byron in italy | david |
| "oxymorons and serpentae carminael! ... schlock!" | wolfe |
| "i cultivate a white rose" | cuba |
| catherine barkley | farewell to arms |
| sergeant trotter | mousetrap |
| "more sinn'd against than sinning" | lear |
| "placetne, magistra?" | wimsey |
alice b. toklas | stein |
| poemes | verlaine |
| "dying." | dracula |
| "the judgment" | kafka |
| theophilus msimangu's | cry, the beloved country |
| "red shoes." | andersen |
| oswald the lucky rabbit | mickey |
| "living? our servants will do that for us." | axel |
| gerald duval | all quiet on the western front |
| corporal himmelstoss | all quiet on the western front |
| "the nutcracker and the mouse king" | hoffmann |
| coppelius | hoffmann |
| antonio | shylock |
| pontifex | butler |
| "anthem" | rand |
| coatlicue | feather |
| james baldwin | mead |
| time of gifts | istanbul |
| "apropos of the wet snow." | dostoyevsky |
| apostol | rizal |
| major scobie | diamond |
| schlegel | howards end |
| warren buffett | interest |
| kizuki | norwegian wood |
| arden of faversham | elizabeth i |
| roman elegies | goethe |
| "upon appleton house." | marvell |
| sambo | simon |
| rosamond | middlemarch |
| what is to be done | dostoyevsky |
| "darkling plain" | dover beach |
| "grave men, near death" | thomas |
| "dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah," | flowers of evil |
| tarrou | bernard |
| "i want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees," | neruda |
| "ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of gold fishes" | gray |
| le cid | corneille |
| lao she | cat |
| questing beast | once and future king |
| "let my country awake." | tagore |
| geoffrey crayon | irving |
| eugenides | waste land |
| "sapphic love" | david |
| eponine | les |
| "hopped along the imperial highway." | frog |
| tiryns | eurystheus |
| "wild men" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| enmerkar | tower of babel |
| other voices | dill |
| madame sofronie | gift of the |
| godfrey reggio | silas |
| if not | sappho |
| "the wine of life keeps oozing drop my drop,/the leaves of life keep falling one by one." | rubaiyat |
| bartlett | johnson |
| betrayal | pinter |
| priapus | hestia |
| poema | chile |
| malory at the isis | archer |
| "lonely old grubber" | ginsberg |
| misfit | o'connor |
| laurie anderson | jo |
| bill oliver | death of a salesman |
| karl | kafka |
| "only the wind's home," | waste land |
| kitchen god | tan |
| thousand cranes | tea |
| english by edward fitzgerald | rubaiyat |
| " for 10 points each, canto general is a work by this nobel prize-winning poet who wrote " | neruda |
| "pah-chay" | six characters in search of an author |
| henry fielding | fairy tale |
| jonathan | achebe |
| queens marie | ionesco |
| fefu | fornes |
| "the distance of the moon." | calvino |
| "can you not trust me as a physician?" | the yellow wallpaper |
| rusanov | solzhenitsyn |
| anjana | ramayana |
| tudor arghezi | ionesco |
| "for madmen only" | steppenwolf |
| captain vere | billy budd |
| voltaire in candide | french |
| baron hulot | human comedy |
| aegisthus in an aeschylus | clytaemnestra |
| steller | sebald |
| sir topas | twelfth night |
| "can the devil speak true?" | macbeth |
| mio romagna | sacco |
| rutulian | turnus |
| thane of cawdor | macbeth |
| "the metamorphosis." | kafka |
| clutter | lee |
| the dial | second coming |
| kerma | turtle |
| song dynasty | water margin |
| bel ami | maupassant |
| john le carre's | berlin |
| captain hoseason | david |
| "victoria's requiem." | russian |
| millicent boyd | golf |
| royal court theatre | island |
| morrie | south |
| on being brought | wheat |
| howard roark | architect |
| arnold lobel | frog |
| troy to italy | aeneid |
| robert juet | hudson |
| john cheever | prison |
| doris kilman | clarissa dalloway |
| alexievich | monologue |
| virgin | moby-dick |
| grassdale manor | wildfell |
| "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" | misfi |
| kalabis | havel |
| caliban | tempest |
| green knight | gawain |
| fonny | if beale street could talk |
| shamela | fielding |
| connell | rooney |
| nidhogg | serpent |
| overland monthly | california |
| true story | lucian |
| ray gillette | archer |
"life for me ain't been no crystal stair" | langston hughes |
| kaikeyi | ramayana |
| corinna | corinna |
| cabin | stowe |
| "you must change your life" | rilke |
| anne bronte | epistolary |
| argas | tartuffe |
| deus ex machina | tartuffe |
| delamarche | kafka |
| "egg-rasher" | achebe |
| her friends | fornes |
| parul sehgal | woolf |
| marie byrd land | ross |
| robert southey | fairy tale |
| little america | ross |
| night sky with exit wounds | vuong |
| harper | wolfe |
| vasily vasilych | hamlet |
| resources of quinola | balzac |
| ancient mariner | dice |
| sin | satan |
| harrow | penal colony |
| "dream variations" | hughes |
| dupin | purloined letter |
| "paradise lost." | milton |
| bone people | maori |
| "action." | falling |
| "season word" | haiku |
| "ten thousand tiny bubbles bursting on his skin" | maori |
| "night coming tenderly, black like me." | hughes |
| evgenii | bronze horseman |
| loman | miller |
| elizabeth gaskell | ghost |
| government inspector | gogol |
| "the case against" | woolf |
| "snow-bound" | whitter |
| "barbara frietchie" | whitter |
| " 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 |
| in christina rosetti | frog |
| four iambic | rubaiyat |
| king of thebes | oedipus |
| a. s. byatt's | fairy tale |
| camelot | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "black woman" | senghor |
| christina rossetti | goblin market |
| normal people | irish |
| "sunstone" | paz |
| marry warren | crucible |
| "nothing puzzles god" | achebe |
| ethiopiques | senghor |
| paulina salas | death |
| "a girl i knew," | salinger |
| ermes marana | calvino |
| hooper | brideshead revisited |
| "with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life" | how do i love thee |
| rastignac in the human comedy | balzac |
| ataguitania | calvino |
| "we are no other than a moving row/of magic shadow-shapes that come and go." | rubaiyat |
| william gilmore simms | uncle tom's cabin |
| spainard | benito |
| victoria land | ross |
| helen oyeyemi | fairy tale |
| the sword and the distaff | uncle tom's cabin |
| maxine hong kingston | chinese |
| lord of aratta | tower of babel |
| enemy of the people | two minutes hate |
| daphne du maurier | rebecca |
| rules of the game | six characters in search of an author |
| georgiana burne | rubaiyat |
| christmas past | ghost |
| evelyn waugh | brideshead revisited |
| "the game" | irish |
| cato the elder | farm |
| at swim | dublin |
| igraine | arthur |
| ned kelly | carey |
| twelve labors | eurystheus |
| canopus | lessing |
| marcel proust in in search of lost time | french |
| etemenanki | tower of babel |
| "teach yourself italian." | lahiri |
| samecksan | lilliput |
| "poisoning" | alice |
| norris changes trains | isherwood |
| book of salt | stein |
| maxwell anderson | vanzetti |
| laura wingfield | williams |
| judge mckelva | welty |
| woodhouse | archer |
| acrisius of argos | danae |
| "ave atque vale," | baudelaire |
| marshall mcluhan | finnegans wake |
| "left school," | brooks |
| breakfast at tiffany | capote |
| lincoln in the bardo | saunders |
| set at christmastime | doll's |
| cyril figgis | archer |
| "nana" | zola |
| emmanuel egudu | elizabeth |
| sighet | night |
| "eats men like air." | lady lazarus" |
| "being read to by a boy." | eliot |
| "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" | eliot |
| j.m. synge | playboy of the western world |
| "abortions will not let you forget." | brooks |
on famous women | boccaccio |
| "rain is when the earth is television" | mars |
| "dillingham" | gift of the |
124 bluestone road | beloved |
| "wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight" | thomas |
| "gentleman from sole to crown" | robinson |
| "about suffering they were never wrong." | auden |
| tirso de molina | don juan |
| klara | never let me go |
| "the sea and the mirror" | tempest |
| tish | if beale street could talk |
| "this hour, this night, my feelings go hard." | li |
| "hoary-headed swain" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" | hughes |
| "since i cannot prove a lover... i am determined to prove a villain" | richard iii |
| "effect" | distancing |
| susan barton | friday |
| don gonzalo | don juan |
| miss ethel lange | south |
| "harrison bergeron" | vonnegut |
| "i know why he beats his wing! / i know why the caged bird sings" | dunbar |
| "did he who made the lamb make thee?" | blake |
| "a very small, brief book of thoughts, maximes," | big man |
"one calm summer night" | robinson |
| wainwright prize | diary |
| brief history of seven killings | jamaica |
| "the deluge at norderney" | dinesen |
| sassoon | sassoon |
| "the ransom of red chief" | henry |
| weird sisters | macbeth |
| jean anouilh | antigone |
| "silence invaded the suburbs" | yeats |
| milkman | song of solomon |
| "how can we know the dancer from the dance?" | yeats |
john grimes | go tell it on the mountain |
| sholem aleichem | yiddish |
| crucifer | theroux |
| quasimodo in the hunchback of notre dame | hugo |
| george chapman | iliad |
| "use the right word, not its second cousin." | cooper |
| althea | prison |
| "out of the ash" | lady lazarus" |
| tayeb salih | arabic |
| "why so pale and wan, fond lover?" | suckling |
| sinbad | sailor |
| east river | brooklyn |
| dwayne hoover in breakfast of champions | vonnegut |
| "proposing to say, not merely come near it" | cooper |
| jenkins | revolution |
| stephen albert | borges |
| sandra gilbert | julia |
| birds in cloudcuckooland | aristophanes |
| koorma | turtle |
| "son" | borges |
"but all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty" | sappho |
| guy de maupassant | german |
| vikentios kornaros | greek |
| "adieu, the flow'ry plain" | wheat |
| alfred doblin | berlin |
| adventures of peregrine pickle | smollett |
| prix goncourt | france |
| diana moon glampers | harrison bergeron |
| spring snow | mishima |
| sir alan gardiner | mantel |
| tanagra | corinna |
| andre brink | season |
| lawrence shannon | night of |
| mrs dalloway | woolf |
| "mother died today." | meursault |
| "blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay." | thomas |
| robert cohn | the sun also |
| "the wasteland." | eliot |
| "dapple-dawn-drawn falcon." | windhover |
| "bury my heart at wounded knee" | benet |
| "let it be for nought." | if thou must love me |
| little em | david |
| "song of the reed flute." | rumi |
| "attic shape" | beauty |
| tramecksan | lilliput |
| "the innocent" | california |
| "nobody." | dickinson |
| "an old man in a dry month" | eliot |
| armida | jerusalem delivered |
| nagas | serpent |
| "a man may, in effect, make a whore of his own wife" | defoe |
| "sweet thing" | williams |
| mitchell holmes | golf |
| harun | meursault |
| celimene | alceste |
| tiff | comedy of |
| "what we talk about when we talk about" | frank |
| handbook | shaw |
| junot diaz | brief wondrous life of oscar wao |
| oklahoma to california in the grapes of wrath | steinbeck |
| madeleine forestier | maupassant |
| jean rhys | jane eyre |
| "the contest of cithaeron and helicon." | corinna |
| "the snow queen," | mirror |
| from the earth to the moon | french |
| hook of holland | istanbul |
| "miniver cheevy" | robinson |
| "black milk of daybreak" | holocaust |
| karl bushy | sturm und drang |
| identified with the bennu | phoenix |
| oldest member | golf |
| "like the cat has nine times to die" | lady lazarus" |
| "an art" | lady lazarus" |
| kroeber, sapir | boas |
| "that has made all the difference" | frost |
| mary lamb | shakespeare |
| "out, out damned spot!" | macbeth |
| laurel hand | welty |
| anne rutledge | lincoln |
| "escape from spiderhead." | tenth of december |
| governor bellingham | scarlet letter |
| aurora by georges clemenceau | zola |
| anoosh | persepolis |
| arthur dimmesdale | scarlet letter |
| "we cannot make [this thing] / stand still, yet we will make him run." | sun |
| "demon-child." | scarlet letter |
| yeshua ha | master and mar |
| "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 |
| john maxwell coetzee | coetzee |
| william john bankes | daube |
| santa claus | nicholas |
| henry green | hudson |
| "no joy in mudville" | baseball player |
| "green sea" | owen |
| midland city pontiac | vonnegut |
| africa to america | wheat |
| "why, phoebus, moves thy car so slow?" | wheat |
| "he seems to me equal to the gods." | sappho |
| mount doom | bilbo |
| ddt | carson |
| uhuru | ngugi |
| nagra | dover |
| best actress | driving miss daisy |
| "the third and final continent" | lahiri |
| charles bovary | flaubert |
| "mother goose" | cat |
| "a kind of solution." | greek |
| bokanovsky process | brave new world |
james incandenza | infinite jest |
| gustav freytag | falling |
| macduff | macbeth |
| frederic moreau | flaubert |
| europa | 1980 |
| harry fatt | waiting for lefty |
| "sepulchre there by the sea." | poe |
| never do again | wallace |
| essays of elia | lamb |
| "is rich" | updike |
| ryunosoke akutagawa | rashomon |
| pierre corneille | spain |
| "huddled/camouflage" | dover |
| chad newsome | ambassadors |
| alfred birnbaum | murakami |
| derek hartfield | murakami |
| william hale | murder |
| aunt polly | paint |
| elgin | byron |
| "not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the british guards" | dickens |
| captain shotover | shaw |
| charley | steinbeck |
| colored man | georgia |
| "song of the war carts." | tang |
| "don juan." | byron |
| richard wilbur | tartuffe |
| "born again" | nietzsche |
| "novels of the rose" | d'annunzio |
| well of loneliness | hall |
| "game of thrones with footnotes." | mueller report |
| mantel | interloper |
| "how can i turn from africa and live?" | walcott |
| the the abject | death in venice |
| general in his labyrinth | garcia |
| richard huelsenbeck | dada |
| judgement day | violent bear it away |
| bright lights | 80s |
| "the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war" | stowe |
| valvert | duel |
| pan tadeusz | poland |
| roman marcus vinicius | polish |
| odette de crecy | charles |
| "the truth about native crime," | cry, the beloved country |
| george shearing | road |
| "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." | be |
| baron in the trees | calvino |
| faber | fahrenheit 451 |
| "childe harold's pilgrimage" | byron |
| "where am i going to?" | car |
| cottingley fairies | doyle |
| death on the nile | shaffer |
| king theseus | oedipus |
| "sings the tune without the words" | dickinson |
| ismene | oedipus |
| genghis cohen | pynchon |
| sherman alexie | reservation |
| sydney carton | tale of two cities |
| melchizedek analogizes | decameron |
| "the lady with the dog" | chekhov |
| welty | welty |
| vladimir lensky | duel |
| grasshopper lies heavy | dick |
| lying life of adults | ferrante |
| lewis lambert strether | ambassadors |
| jocasta | oedipus |
| ralph fiennes | english patient |
| the king's henchman | millay |
| niketas choniates | baudolino |
| too late the phalarope | paton |
| gore vidal | los angeles |
| "master" | basho |
| "tithonus poem" | sappho |
| alex, pete, georgie | clockwork orange |
| john polidori | frankenstein |
madame ranevskaya | the cherry orchard |
| recognition of shakuntala | sanskrit |
| scales of justice | anubis |
| wimpole street | eliza |
| "the darkling thrush." | hardy |
| starship troopers | heinlein |
| "sing about the pleasant summer which has just begun." | kalidas |
| pollux | leda |
| mercury theatre | welles |
| cleon for demos | aristophanes |
| mahfouz | children of gebelawi |
| "merry pranksters," | wolfe |
| "a season in hell." | rimbaud |
| modern languages department | communication |
| j.p | carver |
| "bad moral character" | dickens |
| durvasa | kalidas |
| "going down impassive rivers" | rimbaud |
| "modern sequel" | greek |
isaac bashevis singer | yiddish |
| luis alejandro velasco for the el espectador | garcia |
| george caldwell | updike |
| "so much depends," | red wheelbarrow |
| "the cliffs of england stand" | dover beach |
| tonkunstler society | salieri |
| benny profane | pynchon |
| svejk | dog |
| merton densher | italy |
| "elegy for alto." | okigbo |
| "just sag, like a heavy load" | dream deferred |
| honey | albee |
| "brekekekex koax koax." | aristophanes |
| supposedly fun thing | wallace |
| full surrogacy now | ferrante |
| kenzaburo oe | personal matter |
| real inspector hound | stoppard |
| daljit nagra | dover |
| south side boys | native |
| vampyre | frankenstein |
| giles corey | press |
| thus spoke zarathustra | nietzsche |
| the flies | orestes |
| woland | knee |
| sandy | journey to the west |
| felix unger | odd couple |
| tanizaki | kabuki |
| "to lucasta going to the warres." | lovelace |
| "history is about to crack wide open. millennium approaches." | rosenberg |
| "elderly maimed tablet." | dream of the red chamber |
| wilbur larch | abortion |
| richard zenith | portuguese |
| newark colleges of rutgers university | goodbye |
| ottone | frank |
| "safe in their alabaster chambers" | dickinson |
| "pisan" | cantos |
| yale series of younger poets | auden |
| kreutzer sonata | tolstoy |
| "languid lemon tree." | spain |
| pater | beauty |
| cat and mouse | grass |
| lazarillo de tormes | spain |
| district commissioner | nigeria |
| casanova in bolzano | marai |
| song offerings | bengali |
| our ancestors | calvino |
| geats | grendel |
| thirteen ways of looking | blackbird |
| panulphe | tartuffe |
| phoebus | ovid |
| bridge of san luis rey | wilder |
"mother-rival" | eliza doolittle |
| almustafa | prophet |
| "years" | dickinson |
| poprishchin | diary of a madman |
| pumblechook | great expectations |
| wallis | beasts of the southern wild |
| "the conscience of the nation" | boll |
| secretaire | letter |
| the frogs and the clouds | comedy |
| freddy eynsford | eliza |
| spokane | reservation |
| "ithaka." | cavafy |
| merlin | don quixote |
| hoke colburn | driving miss daisy |
| finn | grendel |
| "a fable for tomorrow." | carson |
| "death-pale figures" | keats |
| pellinore | questing beast |
| "mother of exiles" | new colossus |
| "the curse of minerva." | byron |
| koran | william |
| hilaire belloc | chesterton |
| "of our world as it might have been" | dick |
| jan erlone | native |
| little prince | saint-exupery |
| hamza | muhammad |
| "ward number six" | chekhov |
| "verses upon the burning of our house" | bradstreet |
| cesaro | viola |
| "blond beast" | nietzsche |
| "transparent eye-ball." | emerson |
| my lovely | philip |
| pale king | wallace |
| sting | bilbo |
| "strikes it rich" | yiddish |
| agatha christie | train |
| "the final problem," | doyle |
| amijima | love |
| "if they give you ruled paper, write the other way." | jimenez |
| silent spring | carson |
| poole | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| bristol | cabot |
| pancho villa | mexico |
| queen of air | sword in the stone |
| lionel | gordimer |
| "misery" | blacksmith |
| wolf hall | mantel |
| "hamlet and his problems" | new critic |
| pizan | rose |
| autobiography of an ex | georgia |
| quevedo | spain |
| "the english tongue i love" | walcott |
| septimus bons | forster |
| "the speckled band." | doyle |
| "the courier's tragedy," | pynchon |
| roanoke | paul d |
| duchess of malfi | webster |
| in platero | jimenez |
| tybalt | nurse |
| "the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe." | olenska |
| menander | comedy |
| chikamatsu | puppet |
| burger's | gordimer |
| "woman hollering creek" | llorona |
| "blitzball." | phineas |
| ennius | scipio |
| horus | osiris |
| "all the world's a stage." | seven ages of |
| "krik?" | haiti |
| "deep solitude." | twenty love poems |
| oscar madison | odd couple |
| "the new dress." | woolf |
| richard brinsley sheridan | ireland |
| pride and prejudice | austen |
| "beastly, beastly book." | brave new world |
| fremont | kite |
| "the jolly corner," | james |
| cisneros | llorona |
| "grand style" | leavis |
| maecenas | horace |
| mary warren | crucible |
| "listen my children and you shall hear / the midnight ride of paul revere" | longfellow |
| "young goodman brown." | hawthorne |
| "great white wings/drag beside them like oars" | baudelaire |
| ngugi wa thiong'o | kenya |
| anthony hecht | dover beach |
| aegean | dover beach |
| "indiana general" | old gringo |
| saint valentine | parliament of fowls |
| hobbit | bilbo |
| year of living dangerously | koch |
| "coastal shelf." | larkin |
| "the green door." | green |
| life-studies | lowell |
| new heloise | bovary |
| matt bonner | mule |
| roger mexico | pynchon |
| djerba | abydos |
| la maga | hopscotch |
| orpheus and eurydice | france |
| adham, gabal | children |
| no one writes to the colonel | garcia |
| betrayed by rita hayworth | puig |
| herero | yoyodyne |
| robert creeley | san francisco |
| chapter 15 | bonfire of the vanities |
| "gather ye rosebuds while ye may" | herrick |
| hassan to amir | thousand |
| christopher knowles | separate |
| "the deceitful marriage," | berganza |
| "elements and an angelic sprite," | holy sonnets |
| margaret peel | lucky |
| v-2 rockets | pynchon |
| "now is the time to drink" | horace |
| scarlett | mitchell |
| clarel | melville |
| "all i could see from where i stood / was three long mountains and a wood." | renascence |
| ferber | parker |
| nostalgia for death by xavier villaurrutia | labyrinth of solitude |
| witches | dahl |
| weiss | bonfire of the vanities |
| "believe me, i loved you all." | brooks |
| "would rather be / a pagan suckled in a creed outworn." | wordsworth |
primrose (family) | the vicar of wakefield |
| grapes | neruda |
| zverkov | turgenev |
| "half in love with easeful death." | bird |
| "sonnet 31" | larkin |
| banana trilogy | neruda |
| "plank in reason" | brain |
| "a fine and private place" | grave |
| "male" | dictionary |
| "not born for death" | bird |
| aunt alexandra | atticus |
| "the danger of a single story" | adichie |
| hetton abbey | waugh |
| "the cask of amontillado." | seal |
| "the people." | sandburg |
| spenlow and jorkins | david |
| remedios | fold |
if beale street could talk | baldwin |
| cathy ames | east of |
| adam mickiewicz | pushkin |
| history house | roy |
| goodreads | pnin |
| swaminatha iyer | tamil |
| regency | clarke |
| "from house to house" | larkin |
| "american names." | benet |
| godfrey cass | raveloe |
| half of a yellow sun | adichie |
| john raffles | eliot |
| "i was the shadow of the waxwing slain" | pale fire |
| wilkins micawber | uriah |
| hotson | shakespeare's sonnets |
| thady quirk | castle |
| desiree | chopin |
| "strong and diverse," | benet |
| libra | kennedy |
| jeff | slouching towards bethlehem |
| myra breckinridge | los angeles |
| "dover beach." | arnold |
| "krak!" | haiti |
| cider house rules homer wells | abortion |
| pantagruel | rabelais |
| "arrangement in black and white" | parker |
| "none of them knew the color of the sky." | the open boat |
| principe | rubaiyat |
| ariel dorfman | chile |
| totem | darwin |
| una | knight |
| clybourne park improvement association | karl |
| deems taylor | millay |
| "for fools rush in..." | where |
| nicholas bulstrode | eliot |
| phedre | racine |
| holy church of christ without christ | o'connor |
| "who am i? and " | nobody |
| "charioted by bacchus and his pards." | bird |
| christine | cook |
| kandata | akutagawa |
| chocolate factory | dahl |
| in sylvia plath | nazi |
| "and that has made all the..." | difference |
| devil's dictionary | bierce |
| louisa may alcott | little women |
| "acquainted with the night." | frost |
| s. behrman | octopus |
| marie cordona | camus |
| knausgard | father |
| crick institute | atwood |
| "drink to me only with thine eyes." | to |
| "invents" | hamlet |
| reichenbach falls with moriarty | sherlock |
| bluest eye | morrison |
| "i think we are in rat's alley / where the dead men lost their bones." | waste land |
| arcite | knight |
| in the jungle | comrade |
| "death by drowning," | kafka |
| "the most delicious poem about someone dying" | yeats |
| sondra finchley | dreiser |
| "piece of string" | maupassant |
| "stands on the grave of dreams" | caged bird |
| "the half-life of love is forever." | yunior |
| rodolphe boulanger | emma |
| thomas carew | cavalier |
| uss housatonic | hunley |
| "the summer they electrocuted the rosenbergs" | bell jar |
| "power of making words express what he feels," | leavis |
| odale's choice | brathwaite |
| "a trivial comedy for serious people," | importance of being earnest |
darl (bundren) | as i lay dying |
| dioscuri | pollux |
| mccarthyism in the crucible | miller |
| colombian nobel laureate | garcia marquez |
| "a white heron" | maine |
| "don't have any kids yourself" | larkin |
| jose arcadio buendia | one hundred years of solitude |
| jerusalem delivered | tancredi |
| "there's a stake through your black heart," | plath |
| astrid lindgren | sweden |
| "can you describe this?" | russian |
| "old egg," | wodehouse |
| made knight | candle in the |
| don delillo | kennedy |
| thomas stockmann | enemy of the people |
| "sad steps" | larkin |
| adventures of three englishmen | verne |
| bleh | lemuel |
the ponder heart | welty |
| sri lanka in running in the family | ondaatje |
| "froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer" | soldier |
| meshach | daniel |
| sportsman's sketches | turgenev |
| zhen | water margin |
| baltasar | saramago |
| ricardo reis | pessoa |
| u. v | tamil |
| "demon of experiment" | six |
| baasie | the burgher's |
| barchester towers | trollope |
| hundred years together | solzhenitsyn |
| richard adams | watership down |
| vulture peak | buddha |
| an irish airman foresees his death | yeats |
| "locked up in coffins of block." | chimney sweep |
| ansley | roman fever |
| eugene | duel |
| emil post | cain |
| machiavel | marlowe |
| ifemelu | adichie |
| francis bellamy | looking backward |
| profiles in courage | kennedy |
| sonny | welty |
| number the stars | hammersberg |
| work squad | solzhenitsyn |
| pencey prep | holden |
| "dying / is an art, like everything else. / i do it exceptionally well," | lazarus |
| "could sit and ponder all day" | welty |
| george farr | faulkner |
| "yeux glauques" | pound |
| "a refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in london" | thomas |
| "a civilization of" | george |
| "beauty is twice beauty, and what is good is doubly good." | socks |
| father balbi | casanova |
| caroline lamb | byron |
| gargantua | rabelais |
| "rape." | brooks |
| "twas mercy brought me from my pagan land." | wheatley |
| ras the exhorter | invisible man |
| tobias wolff | vietnam |
| joseph campbell | hero |
| "the story of a shipwrecked sailor." | garcia |
| "there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go" | cummings |
| "hills like white elephants." | abortion |
| luis de gongora | spain |
| oslo | norway |
| dubose | to kill a mockingbird |
| "proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side." | wheatley |
| "the chimney sweeper" | blake |
| algernon | ernest |
| that hecht | dover beach |
| clair | simon |
| pozdnyshev | tolstoy |
| constantine cavafy | greek |
| pigsy | journey to the west |
| thomas love peacock | abbey |
| jack spicer | san francisco |
| sean o'casey | ireland |
| tales of the jazz age | fitzgerald |
| in shahnameh | persian |
| world controller | brave new world |
| "jewel stairs' grievance." | li |
| "the lord is my shepherd, i shall not want." | psalms |
| jabez stone | benet |
| kobo abe | stick |
| "red in tooth and claw" | tennyson |
| "an image of africa" | conrad |
| semele | dionysus |
| "mr. w. h." | shakespeare's sonnets |
| spanish tragedy | pamuk |
| ottilie and the captain | goethe |
| "they that begin by burning books will end by burning people." | german |
| bret easton ellis | 80s |
| imipolex g | pynchon |
| my name is red | pamuk |
| deianeira | river |
| "paradise [to be] regained." | thoreau |
| ichabod crane | irving |
| tommy traddles at salem house | david |
| "the parliament of fowls." | chaucer |
| pot of gold | plautus |
| "call the roller of big cigars." | stevens |
| pheoby watson | hurston |
| marguerite de navarre | decameron |
| dally | switchblade |
| radcliffe college | goodbye |
| mabel waring | woolf |
| boo radley | to kill a mockingbird |
| "breath of autumn's being." | west wind |
| sacred wood | new critic |
| barsad | tale of two cities |
| "walks through the valley of the shadow of death." | charge of the light brigade |
| "wild african savage" | paul d |
| "thy firmness makes my circle just," | metaphysical |
| "death as nostalgia, rather than as the fruition or end of life, is death as origin" | labyrinth of solitude |
| harjo | harjo |
| "complacencies of the peignoirs, and late coffee and oranges" | stevens |
| ephesus | petronius |
maxim de winter | daphne du maurier |
| how much land does a man need | tolstoy |
| abbey of theleme | rabelais |
| love suicides of amijima | chikamatsu |
| "crawled under a lorry." | gus |
| "on the front porch at frank martin's drying-out facility" | carver |
| the chairs and the | ionesco |
| "el aleph" | borges |
| walter savage landor | oxford |
| ukemochi | food |
| "it is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings" | li |
| rochester | jane eyre |
| podsnap | brave new world |
| elizabeth rousset | boule de suif |
| catholic flyte | brideshead |
| chinatown | tristero |
| zhahn val-zhahn | miserables |
| "first expression of american thought as a unity" | chicago world's fair |
| lucie manette | tale of two cities |
| "clever" | latin |
| "destroyer and preserver" | ode to the west wind |
| marquesas | typee |
| new critics | new critic |
| santa clara valley | judge |
| good man is hard to find | o'connor |
| michael robartes | easter rising |
| "general william booth enters into heaven." | lindsay |
"the diamond as big as the ritz" | fitzgerald |
| madame arnoux | flaubert |
| "dear old crumpet." | wodehouse |
| ragtime | houdini |
| noah webster | dictionary |
| chronicle of a death foretold | garcia marquez |
| carpentier | magical realism |
| "elementary, my dear." | john |
| "jammed up against the blades" | hedgehog |
| bora chung | booker |
| "a barren field frozen with snow" | dream |
| "thirty pairs of yapping hounds." | questing beast |
| "some village-hampden," | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| nemean odes | pindar |
| "hostile" | dragon |
| "real or fancied indifference of some man or woman i love." | song of mysel |
| british christmas | in the bleak midwinter |
| carol rosen | balcony |
| "on moonlit heath and lonesome bank." | housman |
| wonderboy | baseball |
| fair pay act | mcdaniel |
| aku-nna | married |
| through king pellam | joseph |
| "coming of age in the usa." | alvarez |
| "i'm a jew. i'm small. i'm a homosexual. and i live in sheffield." | history boys |
| "tan man." | brooks |
| tim o'brien's | vietnam |
| "emancipation." | harley |
| story of europe | octopus |
| "the child is not dead" | afrikaans |
| "whole works" | iliad |
| "interpreting" | rumi |
| crimson hexagon | borges |
| silence of the girls | iliad |
| edward l. greenstein | job |
| own me in belle reve penitentiary | harley |
| victor zsasz | harley |
| textus receptus | erasmus |
| ned rise | park |
| "this is what you cannot understand." | rumi |
| "ten thousand" | daffodil |
| cursed bunny | booker |
| invention of morel | argentina |
| anopopei | naked and the |
| fritjof capra | physic |
| "time" | borges |
| valentin arregui | kiss |
| "on earth we're briefly gorgeous" | drown |
| yi sang prize | booker |
| blixen | kenya |
| hippie boy | stick |
| gray's elegy | west |
| "e-r-o-s" | cupid |
| alphonse keyaerts | heart of darkness |
| celebrations of hestia | donkey |
| "the symbol of a vast power, huge, terrible." | train |
| "drawing-down of blinds" | owen |
denise levertov (movement) | black mountain |
| charles ryder in brideshead revisited | oxford |
| the flamingo's smile | panda |
| dorfman | kushner |
| dragon palace | aging |
| "i came here to forgive, but all i can do is take pleasure in your misery." | rosenberg |
| "the country of the blind" | wells |
| story of a marriage | greer |
| brau | nickel |
| longer ending | erasmus |
| eye view | yi |
| detlev spinell | piano |
| aulds | covey |
| increase and cotton | mather |
| "evolutionary cul-de-sacs" | panda |
| greek new testament | erasmus |
| "tell me about a" | complicated |
| the sundial | hill house |
| sage | koestler |
| "must ever call" | dragon |
| pool of blood | akutagawa |
| "between my arms." | drown |
| "forest and steppe." | sportsman's sketches |
| alice dunbar nelson | cage |
| amleth in the gesta | denmark |
| "for what did knees have to receive me? for what were the breasts that i sucked?" | job |
| innana | aphrodite |
| "dialectic of inward deepening" | stages on life's way |
| niger river | park |
| the naked and the dead | mailer |
| "the ultimate boon." | monomyth |
| "hero's journey," | monomyth |
| joker | harley |
| vortigern | merlin |
| "much turning." | complicated |
| oahu in hawaii | pearl harbor |
| "tone" | boer |
| it is | grimke |
| "i believe in one god." | nicene |
| peter in central park | albee |
| walter klemmer in an elfriede jelinek | piano |
| code of the woosters | reginald |
| "the mower." | hedgehog |
| punch | thackeray |
| shrewsbury | housman |
| "balloon syndrome." | hedgehog |
| "i am prepared to die" | rivonia |
| "sad breeze through the olive trees" | lorca |
| in the devil wears prada | streep |
| gopis of vrindavan | 108 |
| "frosty wind made moan" | in the bleak midwinter |
| "no stir in the air, no stir in the sea, the ship was still as she could be." | inchcape |
| william le queux | invasion |
| carlier | heart of darkness |
| "eyes like ripening fruit." | archaic torso of apollo |
| "man at war with the hostile world." | monsters and the critics |
| janan | new life |
| kalinych | sportsman's sketches |
| w.c. handy | if beale street could talk |
| blee | saramago |
| southwestern trust | train |
| in richard johnson | merlin |
| fermor | odes |
| breyten breytenbach | afrikaans |
| muktika upanishad | 108 |
| "monody on queen caroline." | west |
| "who have lived their day" | brooks |
| milos forman | salieri |
| marshal hong | 108 |
| grammar school | history boys |
| "in vino veritas," | stages on life's way |
| "quit" | sing |
| "all of you might be tricked as" | mandrake |
| rene gallimard | butterfly |
| prithvi | sita |
| song liling | butterfly |
| doych | hopkins |
| madame irma | balcony |
| "hilarius bookbinder" | kierkegaard |
| cyclops | odyssey |
| "the chambered nautilus" | holmes |
| testimony of a thousand witnesses | grimke |
| "shut up and calculate!" | physic |
| bud | harley |
| "spare us yet, lest we forget--lest we forget!" | kipling |
| "holy writ." | borges |
| "the book of sand" | borges |
| rockland | ginsberg |
| "the labyrinth." | borges |
| "earth stood hard as iron" | in the bleak midwinter |
| callimaco | mandrake |
| "victor eremita." | kierkegaard |
| "dead smile" | owen |
| "in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." | yeats |
| vuong | drown |
| kenneth waltz | realism |
| "liberty, cherished liberty, fight thou on the side of thy defenders." | maupassant |
| "deeds, not words" | denmark |
| flush at the casa guidi | browning |
| ingrid jonker | afrikaans |
| din attar | simurg |
| celestial master zhang | 108 |
| "with a profound appeal" | dragon |
| "aesthetic" | either/or |
| "sons of ben," | suckling |
| vera knoop | rilke |
| "snob" | thackeray |
| "(i think i made you up inside my head.)" | plath |
| el culebron | snake |
| peter shaffer | horse |
| "a lump of food that my children chewed without stopping" | ferrante |
| "ballade upon a wedding." | suckling |
| julia quinn | bridgerton |
| sahr | saramago |
| griffin | wells |
| fernanda | fold |
| claudio gatti | ferrante |
| spark | nun |
| "hamlets" | turgenev |
| "no mockeries... no prayers nor bells." | owen |
| yvain | knights of the round table |
| "thruster holding me tight" | song of mysel |
| reinhold niebuhr | realism |
| british christianity | joseph |
| zal | simurg |
| pulitzer for tales of the south pacific | michener |
| "let the rose blossom each year" | sonnet |
| charles grosvenor osgood | spenser |
| oswald mosley | mitford |
| "the inchcape rock" | southey |
| "never giggled or planned or cried" | brooks |
| "dark side of the human soul." | balcony |
| "boundless deep." | crossing the bar |
| sestigers | afrikaans |
| wolfram von eschenbach | grail |
| "about as sensitive as a ... toilet seat." | salinger |
| "recessional" | kipling |
| "but oh, the clay is vile, beneath our feet, and long the mile." | sing |
| "of poppy and cold mandrake juice" | jew of malta |
| cutlers | history boys |
| rocinante in don quixote | cervantes |
| "think of sweet and chocolate" | brooks |
| true confessions of an albino terrorist | afrikaans |
| katherine cornell in a rudolf breiser | browning |
| "projective verse" | black mountain |
| story of the lost child | ferrante |
| you don | harley |
| pat conroy | wolfe |
| lou | harley |
| japan to canada | life of pi |
| farid ud | simurg |
| bryansk forest | ilya |
| "there rose a tree. o pure transcendence!" | rilke |
| raghuvamsa | sita |
| "wise young woman" | mandrake |
| "because i do not hope to turn again" | ash wednesday |
| "i fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, and weep the more because i weep in vain." | west |
| tweede asem | afrikaans |
| pythian odes | corinna |
| much of gravity | world war ii |
| "barely daring to breathe or achoo" | plath |
| buchi emecheta | married |
| "pry" | donkey |
| e.l. doctorow's | rosenberg |
| hart's | questing beast |
| "confirmed" | kundera |
| "horatian ode." | cromwell |
| "a gay fantasia on national themes" | kushner |
| black mask | harley |
| "the world as the world's not." | housman |
| "loved a thunderbird instead" | plath |
| "slave breaker" | covey |
| dertigers | afrikaans |
| guido cavalcanti | ash wednesday |
| "grins and lies...hides our cheeks and shades our eyes." | dunbar |
| "mighty" | baseball |
| ace chemicals | harley |
| khor | sportsman's sketches |
| great santini | conroy |
| "aye tear her tattered ensign down" | ship |
charles olson (movement) | black mountain |
| "know one important thing" | hedgehog |
| drop city | alaska |
| "the horseman in the sky" | bierce |
| "orchard fruits" | rossetti |
| "anecdote of the jar" | stevens |
| judith martin | manners |
| in the time of the butterflies | alvarez |
| "the fury and the mire of human veins" | yeats |
| the sharper's cards | borges |
| malindy | sing |
| soolt | tristan |
| iseult | tristan |
| winding stair | yeats |
| magnificent ambersons | tarkington |
| akim | tom |
| companion | mickey |
| "same caliber" | tom |
| paris metro | dumas |
| tommaso debenedetti | kundera |
| "of '98." | generation |
| "no vulgar assassin" | bierce |
| lord redesdale | mitford |
| "i sought a theme, and sought for it in vain," | yeats |
| spike jonze | adaptation |
| days of abandonment | ferrante |
| when william came | invasion |
| malakas | philippines |
| "i believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things..." | visible and |
| the theater of cruelty | genet |
| "beauty of inflections" | stevens |
| "sad" | shepherd |
| "i witness and wait," | song of mysel |
| "listen closely" | dream |
| simonpilkings | soyinka |
| path of thunder | okigbo |
| frenchprofessor | nabokov |
| good deeds | morality |
| "not fear the devil himself," | land |
| "to amouse" | burns |
| d'annunzio | francesca |
| devil in the white city | chicago world's fair |
| aunt sissy | brooklyn |
| "we will drown away the woes of ten thousand generations." | li |
| ulises | bolano |
| messengerand baal | india |
| twobenedictine | sancho |
| "for a long time, i went to bed early" | in search of lost time |
| "don't tread on me." | gadsden |
| necip | snow |
| machinal | expressionism |
| "theantichrist" | war and peace |
| "philosophical chapters." | war and peace |
| "exchange [these people] and eat them." | child |
| "at the hotel de bourgogne between de bergerac and a boeotian" | duel |
| "the white seal" | jungle book |
| adding machine | expressionism |
| yohr | human |
| "an affirming flame." | auden |
| eagle in sherwood anderson | willard |
| preference | sevastopol |
| "ironic pointsof light" | auden |
| "on the air" | welles |
| shankuntala | kalidas |
| flopsy | peter |
| gospelaccordingto jesus christ | saramago |
| lasttemptation of christ | kazantzakis |
| "but still i face westward with a dreary moan." | li |
| johannes de silentio | kierkegaard |
| "i carry your heart with me" | cummings |
| sea of storiesafterwriting | india |
| hisgeorgics | vergilius |
| second shepherds | jesus |
| buddy | willard |
| the lion and the jewel | photographer |
| "they'll come for wool and go back shorn" | sancho |
| "out flew the web and floated wide" | mirror |
| orgonhides | moliere |
| "diversely framed." | candle |
| arab in albert camus | meursault |
| bruno schulz | judaism |
| "happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" | tolstoy |
| poligraf poligrafovich in a mikhail bulgakov | dog |
| giovanni malatesta | francesca |
| chris ware | graphic novel |
| "adrift in the void" | death and the king's horseman |
| "carrots." | anne of green gables |
| "a lump of vanity" | john |
| "nemean" | pindar |
| reuven | brooklyn |
| "here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud" | cummings |
| "all of animated nature" | candle |
| "wee,sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie." | burns |
| georgie | nadsat |
| "cries of hate" | meursault |
| "how can i turn from [this place] and live?" | africa |
| "cinnamon shops," | judaism |
| accidental death of an anarchist | police |
| handfulof dustwrotebrideshead revisited | waugh |
| "waffles" | uncle vanya |
| "in thy hands, my lord." | endless |
| laura esquivel | recipe |
| "imaginary gardens with real toads in them" | moore |
| catherine burroughs | closet |
| "the cheater's guide to love," | yunior |
| father amador | die |
| "a sudden blow." | leda |
| sonia | uncle vanya |
| charles morel | in search of lost time |
| matthew lopez | howards end |
| melquiades | die |
| lost children archive | mexico |
| "sketches" | sevastopol |
| vinteuil sonata | in search of lost time |
| nate silver | howards end |
| puig | argentina |
| benjamin bunny | peter |
| "harp with a woman'shead" | millay |
| "awful weight" | renascence |
| "as i was going down impassive rivers / i no longer felt myself guided byhaulers." | drunken boat |
| norn skuld | valkyrie |
| thelighthouse | painter |
| "puts out moresexual vibes than" | flo |
| persian emperorthat | marlowe |
| how you lose her | yunior |
| "strong brown god." | eliot |
| "what krishna meant... when he admonished arjuna / on the field of battle" | eliot |
| western biological | cannery row |
| "the unknown masterpiece." | human comedy |
| piskarev | nevsky prospekt |
| machines like me | mcewan |
| castorand | swans |
| "twenty-eight young men" | song of myself |
| playa | chekhov |
| "ozymandias." | shelley |
| sergeant pluck | ireland |
| heiner muller | ishiguro |
| maggieand brickfeud with big daddy | williams |
| in like water for chocolate | esperanza |
| "my fatherland or my headscarf," | snow |
| "kill all yuppies" | american psycho |
| "the shieldofachilles" | auden |
| "new norwegian" | bokmal |
| lapland | snow queen |
| wild duck | ibsen |
| "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." | song of myself |
| "hell," | naraka |
| adam trask | east of eden |
| akawabata | snow |
| bagheera | jungle book |
| "bingen on the rhine" | the open boat |
| critic laura miller | mcewan |
| stanford creative writing program | one flew over the cuckoo's nest |
| colonel aponte | die |
| the st. cloud's orphanage | cider house rules |
| "i count religion but a childish toy." | marlowe |
| wickfield | uriah |
| kyot | eco |
| nenny in the house on mango street | esperanza |
| "dominated by a 'literary'... element conducive to the act of contemplation." | closet |
| "be drunk!" | spleen |
| bridge | brooklyn |
| "singing wildly" | li |
| constantinconstantius | kierkegaard |
| thayers | boston |
| " in a poem that urges to " | heart |
| campensis | isis |
| "far and wee." | cummings |
| evelina | burney |
| "scourge of penance" | everyman |
| "defunct" | cummings |
| "i'm with you" | rockland |
| "mexico city blues." | keroua |
| menedamus | self-tormentor |
| "i am a man, i consider nothing human alien to me" | self-tormentor |
| "isthmian," | pindar |
| let him die | okigbo |
| okeoma | adichie |
| westernized lakunle | lion and the jewel |
| avonlea on prince edward island | anne of green gables |
| "modern fiction" | shakespeare |
| fair in jimmy corrigan | graphic novel |
| bonus have | nadsat |
| andrea in cortazar | paris |
| "swaggering soldier." | latin |
| "sitting alone and remembering." | old gringo |
| orandfear | kierkegaard |
| english by constance garnett | shakespeare |
| walk together | wilson |
| triumph of death | d'annunzio |
| butt the hoopoe | india |
| kahani | india |
| intintern abbey | river |
| "just above my chamber door" | pallas |
| toole | new orleans |
| "struck and banded which way please them" | tennis ball |
| palmyra | dry |
| "play with music" | brecht |
| satanicverses | india |
| gibreel | india |
| "my love is like a red red rose." | burns |
| haleasks | john |
| pecola breedlove | bluest eye |
| colin clout | shepheardes |
| tea obreht | tiger |
| "friendshipandpleasure" | li |
| "stranger, bear word to the spartans we..." | boll |
| daniel jose older | lovecraft |
| septimus harding | warden |
| every man | jonson |
| "brahmins." | boston |
| russian at waindell college | nabokov |
| charleskinbote | nabokov |
| "pallid" | raven |
| spenser | sidney |
| serapion | all for love |
| "bee-loud glade," | lake isle of innisfree |
| "meek." | wife of bath |
| john kennedy toole | confederacy of dunces |
| "when chapman billies leave the street," | burns |
| red channels | blacklist |
| elisabeth hauptmann | brecht |
| rachel lynde | anne of green gables |
| aunt jimmy | bluest eye |
| arkham house | lovecraft |
| danny | brooklyn |
| "letter to a young lady in" | paris |
| passion play | jesus |
| "a pool of moon bright" | li |
| republic of fiume | d'annunzio |
| "discover thesecond face hidden behind the one you see" | kierkegaard |
| "lusty bachelor," | wife of bath |
| maginot line | bluest eye |
| sauron | ring |
| botany of desire | pollan |
| reverend arthur villars | burney |
| "i am waiting." | coney island |
| "continuity of parks." | cortazar |
| pinakes | callimachus |
| thisthinker | kierkegaard |
| "aye, naked! and the wind, god's icy wind, will blow!" | john |
| "her salt tears fell from her, and softened the stones" | tree |
| sir pelham grenville wodehouse | wodehouse |
| "how choose/between [this place] and the englishtongue i love?" | africa |
| the ' play | jesus |
| thisauthor | burns |
| ilujinle | lion and the jewel |
| "the fairy queen." | anne of green gables |
| tumblr | callimachus |
| "you love me yet!" | john |
| cheever | john |
| "all that i really love / is the rain that flattens on the bay, / and the eel-grass in the cove." | millay |
| sophie treadwell | expressionism |
| elmer rice | expressionism |
| dim andbillyboy | nadsat |
| okigbo | adichie |
| dick | bluest eye |
| "with a woman's head" | candle |
| "caballero de la triste figura" | sancho |
| hippolyte tautain | club |
| adirondacks | willard |
| kozeltsof | sevastopol |
| williamshakespeare | england |
| library of alexandria | callimachus |
| stephanie burt | callimachus |
| "heart with pleasure fills / and dances with" | daffodil |
| "a soft inland murmur." | river |
| biafra | okigbo |
| jay cee for ladies | esther |
| "how much land does a man need?" | tolstoy |
| "junkman's obbligato" | coney island |
| torrents of spring | shakespeare |
| cesarea tinajero in mexico in the savage detectives | bolano |
| peer gyntsuite | morning mood |
| "bowing my head, i think of home." | li |
| pale firewho | nabokov |
| oresteia of aeschylus | mourning becomes electra |
| biafran war in half of a yellow sun | adichie |
| sophie von kuhn | hymn |
| lafayette theater | harlem |
| art speigelman | graphic novel |
| "flood-tidebelow me!" | brooklyn |
| missstacy | anne of green gables |
| "bosom friend" | anne of green gables |
| in shinto | white |
| aetia | callimachus |
| coulibri plantation | rhys |
| "how many dawns, chill from his rippling rest" | brooklyn |
| "there's a remedy for everything exceptdeath" | sancho |
| ". for 10 points each: aeschylus claims that the persians was " | frogs |
| charles perrault | fairy tales |
| tomb for boris davidovich | kis |
| "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation" | sandburg |
| kitty duval | time of your life |
| dry white | season |
| james kirke paulding | irving |
| season of migration to the north | arabic |
| sandy williams | hughes |
| adaptive manipulator | computer |
| mila | poland |
| "i'll fergive her!" | street |
| john alden | longfellow |
| trasks | steinbeck |
| "had not often been disfigured by frowns" | bayou |
| anna scherer | war and peace |
| red peter | ape |
| "american everygirl who happens to be jewish." | wouk |
| richard marriot | fish |
| "town" | fish |
| johnny the priest | anna christie |
| "mezzo cammin" | longfellow |
| summerland | chabon |
| meyer landsman | chabon |
| anita raja | ferrante |
| "perceiving functions," | jung |
| aggressive menace | computer |
| "blend of chalk and rot." | hamlet |
| enoch emery | o'connor |
| oki | beauty and sadness |
| oki toshio | beauty and sadness |
| ethan feld | chabon |
| eulalie | ghost |
| holy spirit in acts | tower of babel |
| "[this event] will not be televised." | revolution |
| "the lone survivors of the shipwreck" | swift |
| pale of settlement | fiddler on the roof |
| post-fourier | infinite jest |
| "tell me who to kill," | naipaul |
| kis | joyce |
| kenneth branagh | christie |
| "tarts" | o'neill |
| "if i were a rich man" | fiddler on the roof |
| "deep, sluggish" | bayou |
| solomon wilberforce | season |
| "literary offenses" | cooper |
| ama ata aidoo | ghost |
| "creature" | heart of darkness |
| "longing for death." | night |
| cam island | chabon |
| elulu | ur |
| "sense of failure that is the source of almost all my anxiety" | italian |
| "does the set of all those sets that do not contain themselves [pause] contain itself?" | paradox |
| "the voice." | infernal machine |
| "the end, just like a harp's sigh, comes light" | night |
| "arab and african." | othello |
| oliver effingham | cooper |
| "cursed with the brand of slavery." | desiree's baby |
| "hush'd be the camps." | whitman |
| guandi | temple |
| "buying a fishing rod for my grandfather." | gao |
| tom dillion tiktok | infinite jest |
| franz biberkopf | berlin |
| "death fugue." | holocaust |
| "what passes for cookery in england is an abomination" | woolf |
| "elephant in the room" | revolution |
| christopher smart | pope |
| american birth control league | higgins |
| "fair verona" | descriptions of |
| "it's me, hi, i'm the problem it's me." | swift |
| "with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." | love |
| tan twan eng | mist |
| "vivat, vivat, vivat, vivat." | imaginary invalid |
| "earnestly entreateth the hermit to shrieve him" | gloss |
| sehgal | woolf |
| balulu | ur |
| otsego hall | cooper |
| castalian order | hesse |
| hilliad | pope |
| "sylvia's death." | sexton |
| wieland | ventriloquism |
| sonora | detective |
| universal history of infamy | borges |
| "a vape shop up the street." | infinite jest |
| "resume." | parker |
| keiko | beauty and sadness |
| east coast magazine | ferris wheel |
| japanese ministry of transport | richard parker |
| "doctorates in political economy from harvard" | infinite jest |
| " for 10 points each: this other pinter play was inspired by his own affair with bbc presenter joan bakewell. this nine scene " | betrayal |
| "a triumph." | daube |
| "the widow ching - pirate." | universal history of infamy |
| happy valley | rhododendron |
| "last night i dreamed i went to [this place] again." | manderley |
| "give you many / combs and rings" | tsvetaeva |
| jennifer glaser | jew |
| "affected by sort of a cold shadow of the white man's curiosity" | hawthorne |
| shigekuni honda | mishima |
| "naturalist," | zola |
| "the uncivil teacher of court etiquette kotsuke no suke" | universal history of infamy |
| tereus and philomela | bird |
| "young authors" | chicago |
| "thrown against a sharp white background" | hurston |
| native companion at the illinois state fair | wallace |
| "listen to the river." | hesse |
| in satan says | body |
| "one for all and all for one." | three musketeers |
| when martin luther king | birmingham |
| "my temple, my mural, my sky." | swift |
| william bowery | swift |
| carwin | ventriloquism |
| abner doubleday | cooper |
| in rooney | emma |
| "glaring" | rhododendron |
| in an ivan turgenev | hamlet |
| john hill | fielding |
| "i have done what you wanted to do, walt whitman, / allen ginsberg" | body |
| "exult o shores, and ring o bells!" | whitman |
| lunatic view | menace |
| "less lovely" | party |
| the panic of 1907 | interstate commerce |
| "the negro is your brother" | birmingham |
| griboedov | massolit |
| "greasy black cap" | master |
| "i am thrown. i am against. i sharp. i color." | parker |
| tsvetaeva | hamlet |
| trauma plot | bird |
| like the master | bulgakov |
| ostnorsk | bokmal |
| elizabeth temple | bumppo |
| "well done, cutty-sark!" | drunk |
| "there is nowhere finer than" | nevsky prospekt |
| "i am large, i contain multitudes" | song of myself |
| garry essendine in present laughter | coward |
| "sun moon stars." | rain |
| "inverts," | in search of lost time |
| "copying a copy of the real." | barthes |
| balbec | in search of lost time |
| "the ladder sways as the boughs bend." | apple pick |
| hercules furens | seneca |
| "winter solstice?" | snow |
| coward | blithe spirit |
| inbrideshead revisited | painter |
| dara mcanulty | diary |
| "musical prodigy" | williams |
| lucas hnath | doll |
| miss jelkes | williams |
| "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 |
| arab shakespeare trilogy | machine |
| "facino cane" | human comedy |
| mopsy | peter |
| "some boy's been swinging them." | birches |
| three sistersandthe cherry orchard | chekhov |
| "famous clairvoyante" | sosostris |
| oscar hijuelos | pulitzer |
| alias grace | atwood |
| inanother | marlowe |
| marriesin | east of eden |
| juan carlos etchepare in heartbreak tango | puig |
| santiago nasar | die |
| mrozek | absurd |
| harald hjarne | endless |
| tamakazura | fireflies |
| huey lewis | american psycho |
| sweet sorrow | coward |
| harold carnes | american psycho |
| "blind skyscrapers" | auden |
| hagen | pnin |
| the prairie and the | cooper |
| "the procreant urge of the world." | song of myself |
| prince hotaru | fireflies |
| moral letters to lucilius | seneca |
| "twenty-eight years of womanlylife." | song of myself |
| "who wouldnot live long." | auden |
| hester eastman | scarlet letter |
| "honor your superior!" | machine |
| "the ballad of the harp weaver." | millay |
| "understanding which has made a stranger a brother" | tagore |
| "this is notan exit." | american psycho |
| serebrakov | uncle vanya |
| "the presentation of credible experiences and happenings in literature." | realism |
| "to left and right" | birches |
| archaic greek | kouroi |
| efforts of affection | moore |
| alp arslan | anatolia |
| "pan-mediterranean muses," | ovid |
| songs of mihyar | syria |
| sword of honorand | waugh |
| third policeman | ireland |
| "no-neck monsters" | williams |
| deerslayer | cooper |
| ghana in an akosua busia | season |
| the dilemma of one | ghost |
| isherwood | berlin |
| discovery one in arthur clarke | computer |
| giovanni drogo | buzzati |
| patrick bateman | american psycho |
| alaska in the yiddish policemen | chabon |
| into | painter |
| joe dimaggio | old man and the sea |
| "she looked over his shoulder" | auden |
| "hub fans bid kid adieu." | updike |
| leonard marnham | mcewan |
| eed | othello |
| "there are millions of suns left," | song of myself |
| "the city and the dogs" | vargas llosa |
| "acreation of the devil." | bell |
| thirsty | richard parker |
| "wherefore art thou" | descriptions of |
| "bluebeard," | bloody chamber |
| lamorna ash | fish |
| "you're not dylan thomas, i'm not patti smith" | swift |
| young naturalist | diary |
| "come back to the raft ag'in, huck honey!" | fiedler |
| death in the american novel | fiedler |
| nick's | time of your life |
| homegoing | gyasi |
| ted williams to hamlet | updike |
| french communist | isherwood |
| wouk | fiddler on the roof |
| "state domain" | big man |
| in ellison | ape |
| "can fill the unforgiving minute / with sixty seconds' worth of distance run [will] be a man, my son!" | if |
| wolf cub village | eating people |
| franz kromer | demian |
| roomandgo tell it on the mountain | baldwin |
| maniac in dario fo | police |
| age of anxietyand | auden |
| "cup" | dice |
| "the broken wall, the burning roof and tower / and agamemnon dead" | leda |
| michael hamburger | holocaust |
| geico | flo |
| "dies like a dog" | trial |
| "the end is nigh" | watchmen |
| "nothing ever ends, adrian" | watchmen |
| theabidharma-kosadescribes | naraka |
| robby | mcewan |
| "failed cattle thief" | trujillo |
| oenone to paris | behn |
| "do i contradictmyself" | song of myself |
| walter kovacs | watchmen |
| "sentimental and ... trite, reassuringly platitudinous." | fiedler |
| pendulumandthe name of the rose | eco |
| "horny feet" | emperor of ice-cream |
| "as a snake would a bird." | heart of darkness |
| "shield maidens" | valkyrie |
| "bundles of acute angles" | heart of darkness |
| baloo | jungle book |
| "somewhere behind turkenfeld," | sebald |
| vaugoubert | in search of lost time |
| sunay zaim | snow |
| heroides | behn |
| devil's row | crane |
| gunnr | valkyrie |
| "you spoiled the song," | gorky |
| j. m. barrie's | butler |
| "nice seeing your honest, chubby face" | burns |
| "let us offer our pinch of dust all to this god" | shakespeare |
| tiina nunnally | undset |
| "scholar-beauty" | dream of the red chamber |
| carnal prayer mat | scholar |
| research in the southern | ross |
| "wailing shells" | owen |
| bill buford | bukowski |
| "modern classics" | liverpool |
| life of alexander | plutarch |
| "thyrsis" | arnold |
| vox clamantis | gower |
| isles of greece | don juan |
| the king's horseman, amusa | mask |
| "dignity" | butler |
| "acquired more essential history from plutarch than most men could from" | shakespeare |
| kilmarnock volume | burns |
| bev | clybourne park |
| du shaoqing | scholar |
| times square on new years | burns |
| annie adams fields | jewett |
| panini's ashtadhyayi | grammar |
| roger avary | los angeles |
| "vulture-like" | poe |
| ferdinand celine in a bukowski | los angeles |
| "heroine whom no one but [the author] will like" | emma |
| earl of rochester | disappointment |
| "theory and play." | duende |
| strait | gide |
| "handsome, clever, and rich" | austen |
| "drunk with fatigue" | owen |
| "boston marriage" | jewett |
| "three fathers" | damas |
| "orisons" | owen |
| jeanne nardal | damas |
| "the gold watch" | los angeles |
| "an epitome of bierce's strange doomed and constricted life" | patriotic gore |
| "brueghel's icarus" | auden |
| "pressing lidless eyes" | eliot |
| nigeria in death | soyinka |
| an account of my hut | zuihitsu |
| "invocation" | deities |
| absurd person singular | alan |
| bev and russ | lindner |
| "why the host of 'jeopardy!' matters" | abdul-jabbar |
| frame | horse |
| "affirms something." | cathedral |
| "the parable of the old man and the young" | owen |
| adventures of caleb williams | godwin |
| "white legs disappearing into the green" | auden |
| "did he smile his work to see?" | blake |
| mildred douglas | hairy ape |
| sylvy | white heron |
| cuneiform | sumerian |
| "follow the brush." | zuihitsu |
| "ya," | cutting |
| artist of disappearance | desai |
| "vague des passions" | romantic |
| manuscript found in saragossa | wandering jew |
| tolkappiyam | grammar |
| "the stars threw down their spears" | blake |
| teri | hubbard |
| dodsworth | lewis |
| speculum meditantis | gower |
| pendulum | da vinci code |
| six characters | rules of the game |
| an awful rowing toward god | sexton |
| the wreath and the wife | undset |
| "the band sounded louder and gayer" | new zealand |
| "godfather" | bukowski |
| cloris | disappointment |
| "the hell of impotence" | disappointment |
| "dream vision" | gower |
| "first known author in world literature." | enheduanna |
| notes on the state of virginia | jefferson |
| janet frame | mansfield |
| "marble, well-governed cities." | auden |
| "drink! don't think!" | ship |
| rene de chateaubriand's | romantic |
| ahasuerus in jan potocki | wandering jew |
| pigments | damas |
| great epics | tamil |
| "nun's priest's tale" | chaucer |
| gate | gide |
| for nigeria | mask |
| "lowlife and high tech" | ballard |
| apollo stars | hubbard |
| identity card | darwish |
| etgar keret | israel |
| like the monk | gothic |
| "the story of my dovecot." | babel |
| "when he woke up, the dinosaur was still there" | flash |
| "the management of grief." | mukherjee |
| belbo | foucault's pendulum |
| larry kramer | auden |
| like sharon olds | confessional |
| "time, not corydon, hath conquer'd" | arnold |
| thais by menander | corinth |
| part way back | sexton |
| "and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise." | if |
| "the island called god." | row |
| "sky like lead," | auden |
| allan woodcourt | summerson |
| anita | desai |
| literary souvenirs | art for art's sake |
| "the prince of aquitaine, his tower in ruins" | desdichado |
| eugene sue | wandering jew |
| corsican brothers | dumas |
| "the father of the green revolution." | norwegian |
| adboulaye sadji | damas |
| tyrannosaurus rex | bradbury |
| augusto monterroso | flash |
| thenarrator | poe |
| on isis | plutarch |
| "of the knees" | midnight's children |
| sensibilityandprideandprejudice | austen |
| "cybernetic culture" | cyberpunk |
| masaoka shiki | tanka |
| william wells brown | jefferson |
| harriet jacobs | wilson |
| scott in mansfield | horse |
| "what [she has] suffered and why [she is] calling out." | deities |
| saint frideswide | chest |
| "a nobleman and his sister." | letter |
| admirable crichton | butler |
| jean page | bridgerton |
| "panegyrick" | cromwell |
| "fathered" | san francisco |
| "wichita vortex sutra," | ginsberg |
| maganda | philippines |
| "lifts her leafy arms" | pray |
| "like rotten meat" | dream |
| "goatskin water-bag" | kipling |
| oceanographic institution | woods hole |
| grand lord | hell |
| "jocund company," | daffodil |
| "dream of baboons and periwinkles." | stevens |
| "imagine golden birds." | stevens |
| look homeward | wolfe |
| nicene creed in english | visible and |
| "where i'm calling from" | carver |
| in eugene peterson | job |
| "sung me moon-struck." | plath |
| hod | balder |
| "i will not see it!" | lorca |
| "what makes you look so white?" | kipling |
| "there be no sadness of farewell,/ when i embark;" | crossing the bar |
| terence mcnally | kiss |
| segou | park |
| asheville | wolfe |
| brian epstein | liverpool |
| "hand-switching" | manners |
| orchid thief | adaptation |
blandings castle | wodehouse |
| " for 10 points each: henry wadsworth longfellow started his poem about this person with the line " | revere |
| susan orlean in adaptation | streep |
| "when i was one-and-twenty" | 22 |
| "i'll never do that again, i promise!" | job |
| "yclept" | spenser |
| world wrestling federation | panda |
| "poking among the meats" | ginsberg |
| "feet beating out" | dream |
| judge of the nations | kipling |
| "among twenty snowy mountains" | stevens |
| keyarts | heart of darkness |
| congo river | conrad |
| "never get across" | tree |
| "riverrun, past eve and adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay." | finnegans wake |
| "bind up your loins like a man." | job |
| prince of tides | conroy |
| piet wetjoen | boer |
| "comforters" | job |
| "could not cease in the inglorious arts of peace," | cromwell |
| rhimes | bridgerton |
| "beauty of innuendoes" | stevens |
| "three [of these things] for muster mark," | quark |
| act of creation | koestler |
| grassmann's law | sanskrit |
| "was round upon the ground" | anecdote of the jar |
| "the stars go waltzing out in blue and red" | plath |
| psmith | john |
| "happy beat." | dream |
| don dubrow | nickel |
| greek kronia | saturnalia |
| "all things are watching her and she cannot see them" | lorca |
| carlos danieri | borges |
| denoalan | tristan |
| "out-did the sparkling waves in glee" | daffodil |
| chris packham | panda |
| emperor mata kharibu | dance of the forests |
| "holy glimmers of goodbyes." | owen |
| "not worldly." | mrs. dalloway |
| "what the hammer? what the chain, in what furnace was thy brain?" | blake |
| "dreaming spires." | arnold |
| "die as cattle" | owen |
| lord ruthven | cyberpunk |
| aunt ester in gem of the ocean | wilson |
| "thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." | eliot |
| "equal to [these beings]." | deities |
| alan steinberg | abdul-jabbar |
| detective nicky belane | los angeles |
| "eternal note of sadness" | arnold |
| "i owe everything to that meeting." | babel |
| "duende" | lope de vega |
| "who killed the pork chops?" | ginsberg |
| "ayckbourn" | alan |
| jane fairfax | knightley |
| "artificial wilderness," | auden |
| when the loam | butler |
| stevens in kazuo ishiguro | butler |
| colonel ardenti | foucault's pendulum |
| weigle | enheduanna |
| "suppers" | burns |
| william empson | shakespeare |
| "revolutionary act" | midnight's children |
| lucy terry | bars fight |
| sundarban | midnight's children |
russ (stoller) | clybourne park |
| james graham ballard | ballard |
| "half the seed of europe" | owen |
| district officer pilkings | mask |
| "absent soul," | lorca |
| "toward heaven still." | tree |
| cincinnati bengals | brown |
| "crusoe in england." | daffodil |
ann radcliffe (work) | the mysteries of udolpho |
| world war ii in a markus zusak | book |
| rennepont | wandering jew |
| yande codou | senghor |
| sangam | tamil |
| henry chinaski | bukowski |
| vincent starrett | holmes |
| wes mckinney | panda |
| "lonesome man in kansas." | ginsberg |
| carmilla | cyberpunk |
| "the bliss of what?" | daffodil |
| revelation motor company | fran |
| "the single artificer of the world" | stevens |
| "ram of pride" | owen |
| "sweet city" | arnold |
| "hatter" | mad |
| paulette | damas |
| kannagi | tamil |
| anna waterhouse | abdul-jabbar |
| "dirty realism." | bukowski |
| "abram," | owen |
| celexa | serotonin |
| "i will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!" | george iii |
| willis | george iii |
| capek | capek |
| "novelsof manners" | austen |
| "blood-shod," | owen |
| isaac laquedem | wandering jew |
| in flann | joyce |
| italian hermeticism | montale |
| "thunder their songs" | montale |
| "a glimpse of yellow lemons" | montale |
| "plantation tradition" | chestnutt |
| memory of departure | gurnah |
| paschal | chrysostom |
| lachlan mackinnon | cope |
| yusuke kafuku | murakami |
| i. keynes | liquid |
| elizabeth-jane | wife selling |
| homeland elegies | trump |
| reilly | confederacy of dunces |
| "the fragrance of the lemon trees" | montale |
| "elite" | boston |
| "one day, i'll write about [these things] like we own them." | flowers |
| " for 10 points each: name this country that byron called a " | greece |
| screenwriters ring lardner | blacklist |
| "dominant point of reference" | italian |
| howard phillips lovecraft | lovecraft |
| his humour | jonson |
| poetic justice | harjo |
| "to roosevelt" | dario |
| ayad akhtar | trump |
| hermetic tradition | montale |
| sunken bell | fairies |
| lafayette ronald hubbard | hubbard |
| percival wemys madison | lord of the flies |
| in hauptmann | fairies |
| "two-fifths genius, three-fifths sheer fudge" | lowell |
| " 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 |
| latin american boom | vargas |
| thorn birds | outback |
| boggis | fox |
| "delusion notes." | nietzsche |
| "fantastic" | fox |
| nella larsen | passing |
| mythistorema | greek |
| "s.c." | outback |
| noor hindi | flowers |
| "dean of american letters" | howells |
| simoun | rizal |
| "god sees the truth, but waits." | tolstoy |
| yellow submarine | beatles |
| pluck | third policeman |
| edna o'brien | joyce |
| red hook | view from the bridge |
| travelsacross | outback |
| mongane wally serote | dry white season |
| "sinners in the hands of an angry god." | sermon |
| blue nights | didion |
| anjum | roy |
| "greenleaf" | o'connor |
| christian monty kipps | on beauty |
| meggie cleary | outback |
| "the goophered grapevine," | chestnutt |
| stanley koteks | yoyodyne |
| at the whitman | boy, snow, bird |
| purpose of american politics | morgenthau |
| madame koto | famished road |
| crisostomo ibarra | rizal |
| eddie | view from the bridge |
| our american cousin | lincoln |
| melanie bruwer | dry white season |
| "anesthesia" | holmes |
| l'abri | desiree's |
| stone pits | raveloe |
| "my master." | soseki |
| astrophel | sidney |
| andric | turk |
| cthulhu | lovecraft |
| "the only real horror in most of these fictions is the horror of bad taste and bad art." | lovecraft |
| "sly fox" | jonson |
| "and sons." | father |
| "a man without land is nobody." | montreal |
| raveloe | eliot |
| "the glory that was greece, / and the grandeur that was rome." | helen |
| poet louise gluck | nobel |
| talita | hopscotch |
| "powhatan's daughter." | brooklyn |
| the barsetshire series | warden |
| "possibility" | island |
| jed martin | houellebecq |
| granta | nobel |
| "the sea like a vast silvered mirror reflects the sky like a sheet of zinc." | symphony in gray major |
| dunstan | raveloe |
| glenn gould | austria |
| "bring in the wine" | li |
| last gentleman | new orleans |
| the children's hour | hellman |
| alisonbechdel | fun home |
| "don't panic!" | hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy |
| "the deacon's masterpiece." | holmes |
| time of the hero | vargas |
| " for 10 points each: byron addressed a ten-year old " | heart |
| " ends by praising " | heart |
| red sorghum | mo |
| "dazzling red glare" | meursault |
| "to gun-stones" | tennis ball |
| bridge on the drina | turk |
| "quiet nightthought" | li |
| wild gallant | jonson |
| "how to write about africa" | granta |
| " this thing. byron's poem " | heart |
| maid of athens | heart |
| bosola | tennis ball |
| moritz jaeger | hauptmann |
| horatio oliveira | hopscotch |
| hiram's hospital | warden |
azul (collection) | dario |
| "don't speak." | mo |
| "boston brahmin." | holmes |
| paradise vendors | confederacy of dunces |
| "unrepentant" | blacklist |
| lucy maud montgomery | anne of green gables |
| kitsune | inari |
| "how to write about pakistan." | granta |
| trollope | thackeray |
| concept of the political | schmitt |
| trotta | roth |
| soaphead church | bluest eye |
| hellman | blacklist |
| with salvatore quasimodo | montale |
| "men, forgive him, for he knows not what he has done." | jesus |
| the corrections | oprah |
| ti noel | haiti |
| killsan | meursault |
| avalon coldmoon | soseki |
| ton beau | marot |
| makamisa | rizal |
| "waste land limericks" | cope |
| flann o'brien | third policeman |
| "the golden trumpets of radiance" | montale |
| "common attic." | cavafy |
| "ballad of the ladies of times past" | villon |
| "every photograph reinforces the aura" | barn |
| captain stolz | dry white season |
| "for don m - banned" | dry white season |
| mathers | third policeman |
| finn mac cool | o'brien |
| barry mcstay | bats |
| "lupi ad anglos," | sermon |
| vespertilio | bats |
| jarrow | bede |
| bonus genentech | insulin |
| bean in a roald dahl | fox |
| inthe libationbearers | clytemnestra |
| politics among nations | morgenthau |
| belsey | on beauty |
| howells | chestnutt |
| lots of goto | basic |
| gordon ngubene | dry white season |
| a 's night | beatles |
| pooka mcphillimey | o'brien |
| mad king sweeney | o'brien |
| unlike ungaretti | montale |
| "spaghetti code" | basic |
| yoyodyne | pynchon |
| boeing | yoyodyne |
| "comedies" | restoration |
| adrian henri | penguin |
| "problem plays." | troilus and criseyde |
| robert langdon | da vinci code |
| dan brown | da vinci code |
| decad | hymn |
| "i have gone out, a possessed witch" | sexton |
| "awful" | row |
| aubert | mysteries of udolpho |
| pierre picaud | count of monte cristo |
| mycroft holmes | abdul-jabbar |
| trisolaris | liu |
| paperbacks | liverpool |
| lady tortoise | dance of the forests |
| sally hemings | jefferson |
| wu jingzi | scholar |
| in the physicists | solomon |
| les filles | desdichado |
| chimeras in nerval | desdichado |
| year of magical thinking | didion |
| captain flint | chest |
| silia | rules of the game |
| "modern poets" | liverpool |
| seven books on the structure of the human body | vesalius |
| legrand | chest |
| sheridan le fanu | cyberpunk |
| neuromancer | ballard |
| "furu ike ya." | cutting |
| master of hestviken | undset |
| "six principles of political realism" | morgenthau |
| snow white by oyeyemi | boy, snow, bird |
| like yiannis ritsos | cavafy |
| political justice | godwin |
| "most photographed" | barn |
| john buchan | thirty-nine steps |
| like nicolaus copernicus | padua |
| "is it about a bicycle?" | third policeman |
| mandrake | machiavelli |
| prairie madness | norwegian |
| birds of america | audubon |
| william congreve | mourning bride |
| bunce | fox |
| "i woke with this marble head in my hands" | greek |
| pirandello | rules of the game |
| themisfit | o'connor |
| "you knew, didn't you? i'm part of you," | lord of the flies |
| dark horse comics | escapist |
| ablackwoman | o'connor |
| " for 10 points each: name these animals, one of which represented winfield scott's plan to " | snake |
| dalkey archive | joyce |
| "my land has palm trees where the thrush sings." | brazil |
| clayton chiclitz | yoyodyne |
| country wife | restoration |
| "heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd." | mourning bride |
| "wrestles with" | gorilla |
"how can i face such slaughter and be cool?" | a far cry from africa |
| britishschoolboys | lord of the flies |
| ambeth ocampo | rizal |
| modernhebrew | israel |
| lane company | chest |
| kingdom of god is within you | tolstoy |
| richard hannay | thirty-nine steps |
| "opensesame." | scheherazade |
| amazing midget radio comics | escapist |
| tubingen | holderlin |
| frank novak | boy, snow, bird |
| conjure woman | chestnutt |
| "from dawn to dark" | audubon |
| cassimafter | scheherazade |
| ralph de bricassart | outback |
| "children throwing rocks at israeli tanks / seconds before becoming [these things]" | flowers |
| against the jews | chrysostom |
| "the autocrat of the breakfast table" | holmes |
| ben du toit | dry white season |
| empire comics | escapist |
| "exile song" | brazil |
| mikis theodorakis | greek |
| "principle of universal discovery." | physicist |
| holy thursday | chrysostom |
| "drive my car," | beatles |
| liturgy of saint basil | chrysostom |
| de selby | third policeman |
| oyeyemi | fox |
| no smoking | o'connor |
| "i've lost a whole day over these people!" | six characters in search of an author |
| eli lilly | insulin |
| svoss | outback |
| olanna | half of a yellow sun |
| friedrich durrenmatt | switzerland |
| dugal mcadoo | chestnutt |
| thomas bailey aldrich | chestnutt |
| "to my husband," | cope |
| "postmodern novelist." | delillo |
| hard day | beatles |
| venetian epigrams | goethe |
| kipps | united kingdom |
| giants in the earth | norwegian |
bluntschli | shaw |
| "thatched hut lacks all color" | du |
| "sweating with blood" | picture of dorian gray |
| "say it!" | no ideas but in things |
| "house of god." | leopard |
| katniss everdeen | hunger games |
| allie cone | satanic verses |
| ushant | wharton |
| kitchen | bourdain |
| mattie silver | wharton |
| st. anthony's abbey | boll |
| assassination of margaret thatcher | mantel |
"to adore each breast" | "to his coy mistress" |
| rotimi | photo |
| " and whose eye is " | blackbird |
| "the sceptre and the isle." | ulysses |
| tassel with brom bones | irving |
| "[this city] delivered." | jerusalem |
| in jon krakauer | everest |
| "who watches the watchmen?" | juvenal |
| "you could give back [this thing] to [this thing]." | donkey |
| " but is better known as " | wallace |
| "the function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle." | yeats |
judge honda | mishima |
| "realist with wings." | atwood |
| " 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 |
dimitri gurov | "the lady with the dog" |
"it is difficult / to get the news from poems" | william carlos williams |
| "prince of tyre" | pericles |
| "what i tell you three times is true," | carroll |
| "lot's wife." | szymborska |
| into thin air | everest |
| karamazov | dmitri |
| past nine | boll |
| "idiotic" | interloper |
| "mouldy tale" | jonson |
| "carrying...a book of myths in which our names do not appear." | auden |
| sonezaki by chikamatsu monzaemon | love |
| "waterfall of lushan mountain" | li bai |
| english review | ford |
| croisenois | red and the black |
| "the remedy." | drug |
| arms and the man | shaw |
| in a heine | doppelganger |
| gale hawthorne | hunger games |
| "the dismantling of lemuel pitkin," | west |
| "withered leaves to quicken a new birth." | west wind |
hal (incandenza) | infinite jest |
| lying life of adults to english | italian |
| in nguyen | drug |
| gas heart | tzara |
| saddest story | world war i |
| enfield tennis academy | infinite jest |
| frank lentricchia | close |
the grass harp | truman capote |
| goop cruise | mccarthy |
| "purple smoke rising from the mountains" | li bai |
| "the terror of their neighbors, before the white men came" | achebe |
| mookherjee | kim |
| "insignificant creature." | napoleon |
| "truth as subjectivity" | kierkegaard |
| penistone crags | wuthering heights |
| nanmu | du |
| lea | colette |
| "malapropisms" | sheridan |
| colette | paris |
| "old time is still a-flying." | donkey |
| shipping out | wallace |
| ben okri | nigeria |
| "of migration to the north." | season |
"poor yorick!" | hamlet |
"the hunting of the snark" | carroll |
| "horses neighing and snorting" | du |
| "what is [this substance]?" | grass |
| niels | copenhagen |
| "unripe peach" | banana |
| justice of the ten pound court | irving |
| dambreuse | flaubert |
| "disgusting" | banana |
| everest | satanic verses |
| "find pleasure in the spilling of blood" | dostoyevsky |
| "the host of the beast" | boll |
| chrissie watkins | jaws |
| change of world | auden |
| "galumphing back" | carroll |
| margarita in a mikhail bulgakov | master |
| "a farewell to tobacco" | lamb |
| "silvergrass." | banana |
| "hangs still;" | hughes |
| "has overgrown causes and effects" | grass |
| john vanbrugh | shakespeare |
| "how swift how secretly / the shadow of the night comes on." | macleish |
| "most blameless" | ulysses |
| "deal[ing] with lesser boy - to prove ability." | god |
| "rollin' 'round the bend," | cash |
| " 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 |
| "going to" | america |
| disillusionment of ten | stevens |
| brinker hadley | separate peace |
| devon prep | phineas |
| baratheon | game of thrones |
| "lying in a hammock" | rich |
| bodger | shaw |
| de stael's | stendhal |
| foxface | hunger games |
| "how dull it is to pause / to make an end." | ulysses |
| "keep [his] head when all about" | kipling |
| "always coming on / the always rising of the night." | to his coy mistress |
| farishta | satanic verses |
| colonel manly | contrast |
| felicite | flaubert |
"crossing the bar" | tennyson |
| szymborska | poland |
| lord saxmundham | shaw |
| holy city | jerusalem |
| district 12 | hunger games |
| macon dead iii | fly |
| president snow | hunger games |
| "toomai of the elephants" | jungle book |
| "hoary cripple, with malicious eye" | browning |
| "by the pricking of my thumbs" | something wicked this way comes |
| "bread and circuses" | juvenal |
| "[this object] of the sea," | donkey |
| "linguistic and moral destruction." | grass |
| yaa gyasi | homegoing |
| life of napoleon | stendhal |
| "lift every voice and sing." | johnson |
| duke of tintagel | wharton |
| chao gai | water margin |
| man who loved love by iharu seikaku | floating world |
| margrethe bohr | copenhagen |
| "but why?" | copenhagen |
| "eternal union" | dostoyevsky |
| horner | shakespeare |
| mercy otis warren | american revolution |
| royall tyler | contrast |
| comedy in the contrast | sheridan |
| anita loos | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| fenrir with angrboda | loki |
jimenez | donkey |
| "wait-and-get" | photo |
| everest vilas | satanic verses |
| mathilde de morny | paris |
| "diamonds are a girl's best friend." | gentlemen prefer blondes |
michael frayn | copenhagen |
| "beautiful word" | interloper |
| "best is yet to be" | browning |
| rich white gentleman | johnson |
| lorelei lee | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| helen carey | of human bondage |
| nan st | wharton |
| "for the rest," | to his coy mistress |
mathilde aubain | flaubert |
| antigone in ghana | brathwaite |
| "men," | chorus |
| the french war | greene |
| "old women." | chorus |
| "stoops" | maid |
| volsung and hljod | sigmund |
| "wart" | arthur |
| cheh | maya |
| second witch | something wicked |
annie proulx | the shipping news |
| grim | geirrod |
| "lied in every word." | browning |
| lady narborough | picture of dorian gray |
"fra lippo lippi" | robert browning |
| kashiwagi | mishima |
| "love shall be our token, / love be yours and love be mine." | carols |
| francis villon | ballad |
| mark the match boy | alger |
| "sycorax video style" | brathwaite |
| born to slow horses | brathwaite |
matthew maule | the house of the seven gables |
| "vegetable love" | to his coy mistress |
| "god will give him blood to drink." | house of the seven |
| eurymedon | iapetus |
| when izanami | yomi |
| fay | texas |
| "the middle way is safest" | phaethon |
| seneca crane | hunger games |
| blind billy blue | odyssey |
| myrrhine | lack |
| emma lazarus | colossus |
"the blizzard" | pushkin |
| les propheties | nostradamus |
| christine linde | doll |
| raymond chandler | philip |
| marie arouet | voltaire |
| reform club in london | around the world in |
| kiyoagi matsugae | mishima |
| antiope | amazon |
| myantonia | cather |
| "brimming pools of ecstasy." | eye |
| sickness unto death | kierkegaard |
| "have made this crying sound" | reed |
| julian sorel | red and the black |
| "it's best to cut conversation short, say good-bye, and leave." | reed |
| elmer moffatt | wharton |
| kinesias | lack |
| the trial and the castle | kafka |
| experience showing the two contrary states of the human soul | songs of innocence |
| forbidden tree | paradise lost |
| "to make much of time" | virgin |
| ragged dick | alger |
| ginnungagap | ymir |
"schemes of mice and men" | burns |
| "go oft awry" | best-laid |
| "[stretching] in vain to reach the prize," | gray |
| " he also wrote " | stevens |
| " for 10 points each: this american modernist poet of " | stevens |
| sani abacha | nigeria |
| "the moonlight glistens in front of my bed / as if there is frost on the ground" | li bai |
| broom of the system | wallace |
| "down through the narrows of the river kiang" | li bai |
| "fulcrum of violence" | hughes |
| sergius saranoff | shaw |
| "little yellow book" | picture of dorian gray |
| first lady eva peron | argentina |
| tomsky | pushkin |
| undine spragg in the custom of the country | wharton |
| "grow vaster than empires" | to his coy mistress |
| mayor larry vaughan | jaws |
| lord chancellor | more |
| "moon's / spotlight, banking on the miracle of sun" | lawrence |
| western flyer | steinbeck |
| sea of cortez | steinbeck |
rosanette | flaubert |
| father dosen | mishima |
| "whoso list to hunt, i know where is an hind." | wyatt |
| "golden comb." | heine |
| kriesler | hoffmann |
| "oh tee-tay, too-tay, tah-tee, ti-bee tahn-tah, tee-rahn-eh, too-list-ee" | alliteration |
| "two small people, without dislike or suspicion" | li bai |
| "destroy the love she shares with count vronsky - and head for the train tracks." | karenina |
| "drie[s] up / like a raisin in the sun" | hughes |
men and women | robert browning |
| "you need not clap your torches to my face," | browning |
| "a case for reparations." | atlantic |
| delly cartwright | hunger games |
| burmin | pushkin |
| "it has not arrived" | dickens |
| giovanna | aunt |
| "uffish thought" | carroll |
boojum | carroll |
| "agony in eight fits," | carroll |
| buttercup | hunger games |
| "thou." | jug of wine |
| "losing theirs" | kipling |
| whodunnit | shaffer |
| atta troll | midsummer night's dream |
| il penseroso | milton |
| "was a damaged person who deserved nothing." | rooney |
sun quan | romance of the three kingdoms |
| heine | midsummer night's dream |
| "a moment's monument" | pre-raphaelite |
| uss indianapolis | jaws |
| house of life | pre-raphaelite |
| crossroads | franzen |
| "land ethic" | sand county almanac |
| avignon on good friday in an italian | laura |
| " 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 |
| "a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community." | sand county almanac |
| english for the dial | buddhism |
| "the fairest of maidens" | heine |
| clack the rattlebug | gaiman |
| "on random sheets of waste paper" | hoffmann |
lopakhin | the cherry orchard |
| father pirard | red and the black |
| "the grave's a fine and private place." | to his coy mistress |
| "not all that glisters [is] gold." | gray |
| " for 10 points each: stevens described this animal that " | blackbird |
| beautiful world | rooney |
| "so various, so beautiful, so new" | dover |
| "beach" | dover |
| history of little goody | goldsmith |
| "the battle of the ants." | walden |
| miss inamura | crane |
| thomas schell | 9/11 |
| raymond de chelles | wharton |
| gene forrester | separate peace |
| captain quint | jaws |
| golyadkin | doppelganger |
| kate hardcastle | maid |
| "are nothing like the sun" | eye |
| aldo leopold | sand county almanac |
| "jealous nature" | karenina |
| elizabeth peabody | buddhism |
| farther away | franzen |
| "melange" | drug |
| american gods | gaiman |
| mason tarwater | violent bear it away |
| japhy rider | buddhism |
| "music of the spheres." | scipio |
| where are you | rooney |
| my year of rest | 9/11 |
| "o tite tute, tati tibi tanta tyranne tulisti" | alliteration |
| violent bear it away | o'connor |
| tod hackett | los angeles |
| lauretta | o mio |
| "kawazu," | heian |
| nakatomi plaza | die hard |
| " for ten points each: in " | plum |
| "to his mistress going to bed." | donne |
| sneerwell | school for scandal |
wallenstein trilogy | schiller |
| the and 's mirth | chapman |
| battle of waterloo in the charterhouse of parma | stendhal |
| "two friends." | franco-prussian |
| "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed." | ozymandias |
| elias lonnrot | kalevala |
| "was told that it was disgraceful." | whitman |
| andy tucker | conscience in |
| "handed in his checks on the 7th december, 1850" | outcasts of |
| anne catherick | woman in white |
| "posthumous memoir" | brazil |
| "the indian burying ground" | freneau |
| in a henry vaughan | world |
| thunder-ten-tronckh | cunegonde |
| jeff peters | conscience in |
| austrian emperor albert | william tell |
| daniel sauters | potok |
| reuven malter | potok |
| dinesen | gothic |
| three comrades | remarque |
| valentine gersbach | herzog |
| "heaven has no rage like love turned to hatred, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" | congreve |
| war years | lincoln |
| journey to the center of the earth | verne |
| "a harmless drudge," | dictionary |
| asher lev | potok |
| "watcher of the skies" | chapman |
| great depression in the adventures of augie march | bellow |
| young men of the new age | oe |
| czeslaw milosz | captive mind |
| "moralist" | captive mind |
| "little we see in nature that is ours." | world is too much with us |
| porlock | coleridge |
| "thoughts about the person from porlock." | smith |
sunja | pachinko |
| to be young | hansberry |
| man with two left feet | wodehouse |
| paris spleen | baudelaire |
| "paris of the west," | san |
| "kubla khan." | coleridge |
| "what powerful but unrecorded race/ once dwelt in that annihilated place." | ozymandias |
| henderson the rain king | bellow |
| nickel boys | whitehead |
| hettie cohen | baraka |
| ruby dee | hansberry |
| "a terribly strange bed" | collins |
| laura fairlie | woman in white |
| bright room called day | kushner |
| charles surface | school for scandal |
| ethel rosenberg | angels in america |
| "solitary the thrush, the hermit withdrawn to himself," | lincoln |
| twilight sparkle | my little pony |
min jin lee | pachinko |
| grapes of wrath | steinbeck |
| rosalie murray | agnes grey |
| "the day is ours, the bloody dog is dead." | richmond |
"the wild honey suckle" | freneau |
| briony tallis in atonement | robinson crusoe |
| peachy carnahan | kipling |
| gene | separate |
| daniel dravot | kipling |
| "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 |
| "if fame belonged to me, i could not escape her," | letters |
| aunt florence | letter |
| king dahfu | henderson the rain |
| "what, but the mystery which it obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crepe so awful?" | minister's black |
| "for of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'it might have been!" | maud |
| cash | as i lay dying |
| "archipelago" | gulag |
| keating | fountainhead |
| loved me | fleming |
| rosa diaz | pimento |
| andy samberg | brooklyn nine-nine |
| peralta | die hard |
| "everybody has won." | dodo |
| trilogy of the rat | murakami |
| vampire hunter in a seth grahame | lincoln |
| george hsu | queen mother |
| gianni schicchi | o mio |
| villa villekulla | pippi |
alfred uhry | driving miss daisy |
| lonely hunter | georgia |
| white book | han |
| "essay on the principle of population" | malthus |
| henry george | rent |
| blind beggar of alexandria | chapman |
| "saw eternity the other night, like a great ring of pure and endless light." | world |
| maurice bendrix in the end of the affair | greene |
| "designed to shock the whites out of their apathy" | bigger |
| am a martinican woman | fanon |
| andre braugher | brooklyn nine-nine |
| the chosen | potok |
| "scenes of parisian life," | human comedy |
| rouse up | oe |
| edge of the wild | warg |
| "stout cortez, when with eagle eyes / he stared at the pacific." | on first looking into chapman's homer |
| black book | pamuk |
| casino royale | bond |
| "bigger thomas... is afraid, terribly afraid. but afraid of what? of himself." | fanon |
| from russia with love | fleming |
| "greasepaint" | heloise |
| "much have i travell'd in the realms of gold" | on first looking into chapman's homer |
| rinuccio | o mio |
| doctor gonzo | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| "the daughters of the late colonel" | mansfield |
| "return of words," | heloise |
| pudd'nhead wilson | twain |
| rokovoko | queequeg |
| "genuflection." | warsaw |
| "i thought it would" | cheshire cat |
| gloria weston | robbie |
| professor abraham van helsing | stoker |
| every man in his humor with every man out of his humor | jonson |
| "the negro and language." | fanon |
| captain raymond holt | brooklyn nine-nine |
| " 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 |
| in the hobbit | warg |
| "may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm" | robot |
| ge'ez | kebra nagast |
| evenings at medan | franco-prussian |
| natsume soseki | i am a cat |
| matho | salammbo |
| jimmy figgis | pimento |
| "two chinamen, behind them a third, / are carved in [the title stone]." | lapis lazuli |
| black obelisk | remarque |
| elizabeth hobbs keckley | lincoln |
| "bronzed, lank man" | lincoln |
| alden pyle in the quiet american | greene |
intimate apparel | nottage |
| "slave of history" | captive mind |
| mady | herzog |
| "they tell me you are wicked and i believe them." | chicago |
| "frog," | heian |
| "somewhere in the clouds above" | yeats |
| station at the horizon | remarque |
| "we were somewhere around barstow... when the drugs began to take hold." | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| way of the world | congreve |
| detective jake peralta | brooklyn nine-nine |
| detective peralta | die hard |
| " for ten points each: koch described spraying hollycocks with lye in a parody of this author's poem " | williams |
| "must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law." | robot |
| "ketman" | captive mind |
| amis | bond |
| savile | wilde |
| "a prayer for my daughter" | sailing to byzantium |
| "long sleep, or just some human sleep." | woodchuck |
| nick and honey | who's afraid of |
| antilochus | memnon |
| kali yuga | kalki |
| "on a hot tin roof." | cat |
| "when love with unconfined..." | wings |
| "this sleep of mine" | woodchuck |
| harry perowne | robinson crusoe |
| since nabokov | pnin |
| "dick, joe, ned and jack" | chimney sweep |
| "but, will you be my preceptor, mr. higginson?" | letters |
| jill boardman | water |
| according to vergil | aristaeus |
| layla | persian |
| "hitch-hiking" | key west |
| knock | marlowe |
| qasim | children of gebelawi |
| "everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down" | cash |
| whittier | maud |
| cora to the valentine | underground |
| alicorn amulet | trixie |
tamburlaine the great | marlowe |
| "feel right around there and see how soft it is." | curley |
| cycnus | shield of heracles |
| "strange white flowers" | time machine |
| ajax the greater | achilles |
| my soul | finlandia |
| edward bulwer | pen |
| wen jiabao in an aravind adiga | narayan |
| our man in havana | tiger |
| "i'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" | pere goriot |
| "heartfelt story of a hapless antihero" | pnin |
| captains courageous | kipling |
| friday to christianity | robinson |
| "macavity" | cat |
| balram | narayan |
| la cousine bette | balzac |
| "a basket with ten different fruit jellies in ten little jars." | signs and symbols |
| harvey cheyne | kipling |
| gifted and black | hansberry |
| in the book of the heavenly cow | hathor |
| civilians | bierce |
| george this | albee |
| fall of the city of mahagonny | brecht |
| majnun | persian |
| countess of pembroke | sidney |
| "that's a fine death!" | napoleon |
| maria van rough | contrast |
| dimple | contrast |
| claudine in school | colette |
| america with grushenka | dmitri |
| miles standish | god |
| victoria noorthoorn | yeats |
| mahj | persian |
| "is mightier than the sword." | pen |
| "govern in a thing so small." | design |
| "yes and his heart was going like mad and yes i said yes i will yes." | marion |
| fault in our stars | green |
| duke frederick | as you like it |
| the , the intuitionist | whitehead |
| "art of this," | poem |
| "queer, sultry summer" | rosenberg |
| general fink | svejk |
| bulwer-lytton | euripides |
| puzo | pere goriot |
| maman | samedi |
| june carter | cash |
| virginia otis | wilde |
| "coward holding a baby-killer in his manly arms," | no exit |
| culver creek preparatory high school | green |
| till | memnon |
| ee-poh-leet | phedre |
| dorus | sidney |
| asa hawks | wise blood |
| house for mr biswas | naipaul |
| jaroslav hasek | czech |
| after hasek | brecht |
| "stately pleasure-dome" | porlock |
| chika unigwe | adichie |
| "prince of cats," | romeo and juliet |
| "i keep a close watch on this heart of mine." | cash |
| leonora ashburnham | good soldier |
| "my kingdom for" | horse |
| "rise up, for you the flag is flung, for you the bugle trills," | lincoln |
| puff | sheridan |
| peloponnese | ladon |
| big brother in a george orwell | 84 |
| john valentine | indiana |
| "a distant - stately lover." | god |
| eugene vidocq | vautrin |
| "i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow." | villanelle |
| "i'm not capitulating." | rhinoceros |
| "what passing-bells for these who die as [blank]?" | cattle |
| keek | shield of heracles |
| goma | cat |
| pro football hall of fame | ohio |
| "no stone left unturned," | euripides |
| ursa major | trixie |
| "cutie marks" | my little pony |
| in nordic | urd |
| lady ashton | bride of |
| pell | ladon |
| "she sang beyond the genius of the sea" | key west |
benvolio | romeo and juliet |
| in kafka on the shore | cat |
| heraclidae | euripides |
| christmas yet to come | ebenezer |
| "the canterville ghost" | wilde |
| "loved chivalry, truth and honor, freedom and courtesy" | knight |
| komatsu | 84 |
| gaht | kenya |
| ben-ren-zhay | rhinoceros |
| stanislaus in all quiet on the western front | kat |
| hate week | 84 |
| master of ravenswood | bride of |
| bridge of the requiter | chinvat |
| bellow | ravelstein |
| von finkenstein | svejk |
| "cheat-death" | vautrin |
mycetes | marlowe |
| stories of vladimir nabokov | signs and symbols |
| "an aging couple... at a loss about what to do about their institutionalized son." | signs and symbols |
queen mab | romeo and juliet |
| bengalsky | cat |
| so big | chicago |
| "should be palpable and mute," | poem |
| joaquin phoenix | cash |
| "i wasted my time when i would try, try, try." | cash |
| richelieu | pen |
| "bronies." | my little pony |
"tell how a man, though, could possibly thread the lyre's narrow modes?" | sonnets to orpheus |
| edna ferber | chicago |
| "old possum's book of practical" | cat |
| "poet of the american revolution" | freneau |
| "we shall never be younger." | christopher |
| walter hartright | woman in white |
| "the lone and level sands stretch far away," | ozymandias |
| be still | finlandia |
| "sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal it knows not what it is." | sailing to byzantium |
| sabbath lily | wise blood |
| "bustopher jones" | cat |
| "everyone had always said that john would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father." | go tell it on the |
| lucilius | seneca |
| gabriel syme | thursday |
| "i am hungry to be interrupted" | smith |
| "gods are able" | sonnets to orpheus |
| victorine | vautrin |
| "o death, my captain, it is time! let us raise the anchor!" | flowers of evil |
| ciudad seva | puerto rico |
| hunger angel | muller |
| " exemplifies his " | stress |
| unwomanly face | alexievich |
| irina dumitrescu | heaney |
| henry shackleford | mcbride |
| cootings machine | klara and the sun |
| el llano en llamas | rulfo |
| poseidon impregnated medusa | chrysaor |
| man who had all the luck | miller |
| "the squat pen rests" | beowulf |
| earth grocery store | mcbride |
| de maintenon | three musketeers |
| kathy | never let me go |
| hailsham | never let me go |
| yo boing | puerto rico |
| international booker | english |
| johan van heemskerk | arcadia |
| lily collins | mirror |
| "all god's chillun got wings" | o'neill |
| "the last days of john brown." | thoreau |
| klamm | castle |
| falck | maeterlinck |
| voices of utopia | alexievich |
| "what good is it, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?" | james |
| guppy | spontaneous combustion |
| danny devito | lorax |
| "a carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers." | zami |
| good lord bird | mcbride |
| an appeal in favor | child |
| mrs lovett | sweeney |
| land of green plums | muller |
| skittles | trayvon |
| jared lee loughner | giffords |
| tamara | invisible cities |
| esther summerson | bleak house |
| "speaks for the trees" | lorax |
| athalie | racine |
| "naif" | holden |
| jenny erpenbeck | english |
| "the singer" | jamaica |
| "arch." | proscenium |
| green eggs | seuss |
| "soul is marching on." | brown |
| "little onion" | mcbride |
| belarusian nobel | alexievich |
| "cousin bridget" | lamb |
| " for 10 points each: this other whitman poem begins " | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| "old foolosopher," | iceman cometh |
| joe mott | iceman cometh |
| first sinojapanese war | shimonoseki |
| " titled " | leaves of grass |
| " for 10 points each: this american poet wrote the collection leaves of grass, which also includes " | whitman |
| "bedrock bar, the end of the line cafe...the last harbor." | iceman cometh |
| "af" | klara and the sun |
| classic slave narratives | douglass |
| ilya muromets | bogatyr |
| "go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog" | revelation |
| "demon barber of fleet street" | sweeney |
| "picaro" | lazarillo de tormes |
| "phony" | holden |
| david beeves | miller |
| "peor and baalim forsake their temples dim" | milton |
| saint-cyr | racine |
| "thund'ring noise" | burn |
| sister outsider | lorde |
| "to die is to rest" | philippines |
| "and sullen molloch" | milton |
| heaneywulf in a london | heaney |
| ambroise phillips | ode to aphrodite |
| martinique | three musketeers |
| "colloquial flow" | chauce |
| "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." | lorde |
| kurt tucholsky | castle |
| windhoveri | hopkins |
| lewis strether | ambassadors |
| equiano | douglass |
| julia roberts | mirror |
| "philippine temptation" | twain |
| "over the river and through the woods." | child |
| in candide | el |
| "usher ii" | mars |
| napoleon, grimm | mirror |
| chadwick newsome | ambassadors |
| with august falck | proscenium |
| falconthe windhover | hopkins |
| bella in the twilight | stewart |
| volkh | bogatyr |
| josie | klara and the sun |
| class of americans called africans | child |
| la henriade | voltaire |
| "when at the races with a lady, brush dust off her gown. if there is no dust, brush it nonetheless." | ars amatoria |
| tony loneman | orange |
| "just because you are a great nobleman, you think you are a great genius" | figaro |
| "with thee," | wild nights |
| dreams from my father | president |
| yucatan peninsula | maya |
| hobhouse | don juan |
| count paris | romeo and juliet |
| walter gilkyson | oil |
| "ghost caught in individualism's blind alley" | china |
| "lessons in living." | not speak |
| falconsprung | stress |
| romelio ureta | death |
| jobling | spontaneous combustion |
| headley | heaney |
| "how all occasions do inform against me." | soliloquies |
| hilary mantel | wolf hall |
| michael verancius | wedding |
| wife of willesden | jamaica |
| " despite his previous love for rosaline. in this play, one character kills his wife" | romeo and juliet |
| "biomythography" | zami |
| carlos bulosan | great depression |
| roughing it | twain |
| "hasped and hooped and hirpling," | heaney |
| sulpicia | satire |
| madame marie | ambassadors |
| "diamonds and toads" | perrault |
| "give thanks to the lord, for he is good." | psalms |
| giving up the ghost | mantel |
| in skepticism | in medias res |
| theofraste | wife of bath |
| in zadie smith | jamaica |
| " after stating, " | dapple |
| russian golden age | hero of our time |
| " was written by this southern gothic author of stories like " | o'connor |
| age of enlightenment | voltaire |
| red hare | china |
| "great shift" | saussure |
| "conscience does make cowards of us all" | soliloquies |
| "alyson from bath into alvita from willesden" | chauce |
| "father of tragedy" | aeschylus |
| night!s | romeo and juliet |
| "what a rogue and peasant slave am i!" | soliloquies |
| " for 10 points each: hopkins' phrase " | stress |
| "menippean" | satire |
| never let me go | ishiguro |
| "i have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?" | ain't i a woman |
| "superfluous man" | hero of our time |
| "the quadrooms" | child |
| "from the castle walls, but from counting houses." | mantel |
| rhetoric of fiction | unreliable narrator |
| people of the cave | arabic |
| josey wales | jamaica |
| "the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape" | soliloquies |
| "the oral history of a nuclear disaster." | chernobyl |
| ylla | mars |
| elemental odes | neruda |
| glubbdubdrib | gulliver's |
| pavel kirsanov | fathers and sons |
| ejlert lovberg | hedda |
| the and the memorandum | havel |
| north american plate | aleutian |
| "no one shall sleep" | nessun dorma |
| "i knew a simple soldier boy / who grinned at life in empty joy" | sassoon |
| pansy | portrait of a lady |
| judge brack | hedda |
| ode for the birthday of queen anne | handel |
| in through the looking glass | walrus |
| saint vaivaswata | vishnu |
| "my self-possession gutters" | portrait of a lady |
| lucy sacheverell | lovelace |
| mad hatter in wonderland | alice |
| tyger | symmetry |
| "would prefer not to," | melville |
| "what passing bells for doomed youth? / only the monstrous anger of the guns" | owen |
| tom in the glass menagerie | amanda |
| "the father of science fiction" | welles |
| newcomes | thackeray |
| jim bayliss | miller |
| "suicide in the trenches." | sassoon |
| jones in animal farm | pig |
| keneally | schindler |
| "the vorpal blade went snicker-snack." | jabberwock |
| bill singleman | death of a salesman |
| ned rosier | portrait of a lady |
| antananarivo | madagascar |
| ralph in lord of the flies | pig |
| cat in the hat | seuss |
| "the jungle is dark, but full of diamonds," | death of a salesman |
| "the lady of shallot" | tennyson |
| "merry war" | beatrice |
| "thou hast committed fornication: but that was in another country" | portrait of a lady |
| margaret garner | morrison |
| cleanser of the altars | pig |
| churning of the milky ocean | vishnu |
| akutagawa prize | japan |
| democracy and education | dewey |
| kara sea to the kazakh steppes | ural |
| "floodtide below me!" | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| "reflex from a distance." | pavlov |
| " 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 |
| "be my mirror, my sword and shield" | viva la vida |
| japhy ryder in the dharma bums | kerouac |
| "the bow and the lyre." | paz |
| "ianthe," | byron |
| noble prize in medicine | pavlov |
| "song offering." | gitanjali |
| chanticleer | the canterbury tales |
| georgi abalishi | brecht |
| caucasus mountains | south ossetia |
| death god | quetzalcoatl |
| egyptians in the book of exodus | boil |
| job | eliphaz |
| accelerating inflation rate of unemployment | friedman |
| killing joke | moore |
| "dappled things" | hopkins |
| art as experience | dewey |
| after job | boil |
| ironshirts | brecht |
| chekov | gun |
| before elihu | eliphaz |
| neal cassady | dean |
| snake woman | quetzalcoatl |
| good person of schezuan | brecht |
| polly peachum | brecht |
| beat | on the road |
| godot | beckett |
| "you furnish your parts towards eternity." | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| "i used to rule the world." | viva la vida |
| bocaccio | decameron |
| abkhazia | south ossetia |
| happy days | beckett |
| permanent income hypothesis | friedman |
| " and includes a description of the " | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| "bottled spider." | richard iii |
| "now is the winter of our discontent / made glorious summer by the son of york." | richard iii |
| zac efron | lorax |
| "tease us out of thought," | keats |
| elise and cleante | miser |
| "the changeling" | lamb |
| harpagon | miser |
| spirit of reason | inferno |
| spoon river anthology | lincoln |
| "great star" | lincoln |
| "they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning." | lincoln |
| organ | tartuffe |
| "look homeward, angel" | milton |
| "beneath the myrtle shade." | maecenas |
| "supperless to bed ... must retire." | keats |
| licensing order | milton |
| ratatosk | eagle |
| rutabaga stories | sandburg |
| meso | aztec |
| news on the march | citizen kane |
| "people of israel, listen to all the laws that i am giving you today." | deuteronomy |
| "cruel and sudden" | donne |
| countess cathleen | yeats |
| aleel | yeats |
| "....seen your painted women and the gas lamps luring the farm boys." | sandburg |
| " and a poem that celebrates a " | leaves of grass |
| "determined to prove a villain" | richard iii |
| xquic | hero twins |
| steve deever | miller |
| defoe | moll flanders |
| "no trespassing" | citizen kane |
| girl with a watering can | renoir |
| "of the progress of the soul." | donne |
| "the ship is anchor'd safe" | lincoln |
| cedar mountains | humbaba |
| clarence in the tower of london | richard iii |
| 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 |
| "i saved latin. what did you ever do?" | rushmore |
| "bound with garlands of her own" | keats |
| mose porter | iceman cometh |
| "the ceremony of innocence is drowned." | yeats |
| "] (the poem is " | wheat |
| cloudcuckooland | birds |
| jim leland | citizen kane |
| andrew falk | miller |
| "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 |
| "kill my style/and you break pavlowa's legs/and you blind ty cobb's batting eye." | sandburg |
| "on the morning of christ's nativity." | milton |
| eve of st | keats |
| "a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it." | citizen kane |
| murder of roger ackroyd | christie |
| mistress higgins | scarlet letter |
| "down under" | australia |
| zadok the priest | handel |
| timon of athens | shakespeare |
| ") [10e] this author wrote " | wheat |
| "prairie years" | sandburg |
| "western sky in the night." | lincoln |
| "dull rhymes" | keats |
| jerry thompson | citizen kane |
| "the sailor uncle" | lamb |
| utoya | breivik |
| black man | scarlet letter |
| "anybody interested in grabbing a couple of burgers and hittin' the cemetery?" | royal tenenbaums |
| land of nod | enoch |
| " for 10 points each: name this collection which includes " | leaves of grass |
| larry slade | iceman cometh |
| professor willard | grover's corners |
| hun hanahpu | hero twins |
| howard wagner in death of a salesman | miller |
| lusiads | portugal |
| "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 |
| forbidden city the | grand canal |
| sloane | ferris bueller's day off |
| what if | xkcd |
| "aj srishti shukher ullashe" | nazrul |
| shuidiao getou | song |
| "storm and drive." | sturm und drang |
| de laceys | frankenstein |
| "what's to become of me?" | shaw |
| "surcease" | raven |
| odewale in ola rotimi | oedipus |
| jessica chastain | zero dark thirty |
| "i can receive nothing from a stranger." | nora |
| principal ed rooney | ferris bueller's day off |
| "the oozy weeds about me twist." | billy budd |
| the 's window | hansberry |
| moderato cantabile | duras |
| henry clerval | frankenstein |
| tom walker | irving |
| "some realms i owned, two rivers, a continent" | bishop |
| sword in the stone | arthur |
| il commendatore | don giovanni |
| clint | how i met your mother |
| jaimie foxx | django unchained |
| "corinna's going a maying" | herrick |
| bane | dark knight rises |
| bud korpenning | manhattan transfer |
| nek-hul-yoo-dawff | tolstoy |
| edward malone | doyle |
| "skunk hour" | lowell |
| "indited to dinner." | nell |
| al-masalla | heliopolis |
| in the color purple | shug |
| colonel shaw | lowell |
| randall munroe | xkcd |
| kathryn bigelow | zero dark thirty |
| j. b. leishman's | duino elegies |
| roscius | lord chamberlain |
| "in the darbies" | billy budd |
| rickshaw boy | cat |
| "vanished" | clouds |
| kuh-poh-tee | breakfast at tiffany |
| "shall but drink the more." | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| james gibbons huneker | slam |
| "reverberated across the roof of the world." | slam |
| "we're not going to go there." | django unchained |
| pauline pfeiffer hemingway | key west |
| tengo kawana | 1q84 |
| temple of my familiar | walker |
| "the great lawsuit" | fuller |
| "starry" | billy budd |
| biology department | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| franz moor | schiller |
| the lover | duras |
| "three loved houses" | key west |
| "twist and shout" | ferris bueller's day off |
| margaret saville | frankenstein |
| oroonoko in a thomas southerne | behn |
| franz kafka prize | murakami |
| locksley | ivanhoe |
| "get thee back into the tempest and night's plutonian shore!" | raven |
| "imperial affliction / sent us of the air" | dickinson |
| miss lara | django unchained |
| elementary and sherlock | detective |
| "quarrel" | ivan |
| ferrari | ferris bueller's day off |
| waiting for the barbarians the magistrate | coetzee |
| squire booby | fielding |
| nepommuck | shaw |
| "two weeks" | how i met your mother |
| "where are the days of tobias" | angel |
| kate beckett | detective |
| "back-us" | dionysus |
| "sweet-ass." | xkcd |
| "the ribs and terrors in the whale" | melville |
| "some of these days" | nausea |
| robin sherbatsky | how i met your mother |
"kisses are a better fate than wisdom" | cummings |
| when joel chandler harris | remus |
| mount judge | pennsylvania |
| besancon | red and the black |
| bani adam for a nowruz | translation |
| amy lowell | imagist |
| lady | hunger games |
| mawl | geirrod |
| t. e. hulme | imagist |
| jose ybarra | breakfast at tiffany's |
| vanita | wee willie winkie |
| "nearly all young criminals have had lying mothers," | doll |
| madame de renal | red and the black |
| peeta melark | hunger games |
| england by van helsing in a bram stoker | vampire |
unoka | things fall apart |
| "of mans first disobedience, and the fruit of" | paradise lost |
| congo jake | manhattan transfer |
| sobek | horus |
| dmitri ivanovich nekhlyudov | tolstoy |
| "pondered weak and weary," | raven |
| "my name is not nobody!... learn, you bloody tyrants, that men can still think." | odyssey |
| "you are pithy and historical as the roman forum." | colossus |
| "the new [this figure]." | colossus |
| orca | jaws |
| "on turning her up in her nest with the plough, november, 1785" | mouse |
| sally athelny | of human bondage |
| "and death i think is no parenthesis." | since feeling is firs |
| arabella wilmot | vicar of wakefield |
| alexandra bergson | carl |
| rudolphe | flaubert |
| the boys | syracuse |
| "perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries" | library of babel |
| "by the tumtum tree" | carroll |
| dahish | city of brass |
| "milky way falling from the ninth heaven" | li bai |
| "we are not a school of painters." | imagist |
| richard castle | detective |
| james gandolfini | zero dark thirty |
| "are gone to praise god and his priest and king who make up a heaven of our misery" | chimney |
| waverly | chinese |
| dobbin | piano |
| five great epics | three |
| town in an amos tutuola | three |
| in walcott | odyssey |
| "a song of ice and fire" | game of thrones |
| mount salus | optimist's |
| leon panetta | zero dark thirty |
| une tempete | caliban |
| "the wazir and the sage duban" | genies |
| "mousy" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "one next himself in power, and next in crime." | beelzebub |
| "ay-may sez-ehr's" | caliban |
| arrivants | brathwaite |
| catwoman | dark knight rises |
| sharona fleming | detective |
| "hay-uh-rot" | beowulf |
| sunshine | shipping news |
| coast guard | jaws |
| quoyle | shipping news |
| no country for old men by cormac mccarthy | texas |
| "for three years" | pound |
| cool million | west |
| langston | hughes |
| jack torrance in the shining | king |
| barney stinson | how i met your mother |
| island with fugard | kani |
| "crouch" | lioness |
| "herr god, herr lucifer." | lazarus |
| price is right | how i met your mother |
| lissoy | deserted village |
| cristoph martin wieland | dario |
| "the fisherman and the genie" | one thousand and one nights |
| paul sheldon in misery | king |
| philistine dalila | samson agonistes |
| caprona in the land that time forgot | haggard |
| "unlimited but periodic" | library of babel |
| "tangerine flake" | college |
| gods are not to blame | oedipus |
| ojuola | oedipus |
| de vionnet | ambassadors |
| nazi germany in dragon | lanny |
| "when i want." | marriage |
| freddy hill | pygmalion |
| half-pint | mirror |
| garland, polokov | czech |
| right stuff | wolfe |
| "anna christie" | o'neill |
| ed roth | college |
| in carter | world war i |
| la mere | figaro |
| jurgis rudkus by upton sinclair | jungle |
| "i am [this sort of] man." | sincere |
| momma | not speak |
| reservation blues | alexie |
| junior in the absolutely true diary of a part | alexie |
| "wagnerian" | swan |
| pilgrimage to john hobhouse | byron |
| bierce | devil's dictionary |
| bertha flowers | not speak |
| kala | haggard |
| "the lady, or [this animal]?" | tiger |
| "what [this author] doesn't know about modern architecture." | wolfe |
| "give crowns and pounds and guineas / but not your heart away." | when i was one-and-twenty |
| george barris | college |
| "our luxury." | wild nights |
| "might i but moor / to-night with thee," | wild nights |
| "did my heart love ,,til now? forswear it, sight! / for i ne" | romeo and juliet |
| "o that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!" | soliloquies |
| femi osofisan | antigone |
| "the bloody chamber." | carter |
| motivos de son | hughes |
| "drink and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim." | ode to a |
| "a melody sweetly play'd in tune." | rose |
| "marriage a la mode" | mansfield |
| sylvain bemba | black |
| happy death | camus |
| big oakland powwow | orange |
| "alejandro nebuchadnezzar." | president |
| drapier | swift |
| u-33 | haggard |
| "of things past." | prague |
| red queen in through the looking | alice |
| whose body | wimsey |
| "a mere-copy book." | lamb |
| "open sesame." | ali |
| "say goodbye to her, to" | antony |
| kindred | time travel |
| "the company of wolves." | carter |
| anthills of the savannah | achebe |
| "and the city." | prague |
| "far finer language than spanish." | borges |
| bunny ross | oil |
| photos by ara guler | prague |
| "you have to be always drunk." | spleen |
| wandering stars | orange |
| ngugi wa mirii | marriage |
| in octavia butler | time travel |
| lauren | time travel |
| "the lady of the house of love," | world war i |
| dartmoor with sir henry | hound of the |
| seven sleepers | arabic |
| "kandy kolored" | college |
| "what is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?" | soliloquies |
| "unweeded garden," | soliloquies |
| coupable | figaro |
| "roman fever" | daisy miller |
| edgar rice burroughs | haggard |
| thebaid | statius |
| l'argent and l'assommoir | rougon |
| ted mosby | how i met your mother |
| geb and nut | shu |
| ennead | heliopolis |
| natalie teeger | detective |
| "into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country [this word]." | awake |
| weimar classicism | sturm und drang |
| "the song of destruction" | nazrul |
| "there's a certain slant of light" | dickinson |
| kimbro | paint |
| calvin candide | django unchained |
| in the plague | beach |
| "the viy" | ivan |
| collegehumor | django unchained |
| joseph andrews | fielding |
| "for the union dead." | lowell |
| tiger mother | chinese |
| tamaki | softball |
| essays and poems | fuller |
| "we will not anticipate the past" | sheridan |
| matthew cuthbert | anne |
| t.h. white | once and future king |
| "quaint and curious volumes" | raven |
| "not all the vats upon the rhine/ yield such an alcohol" | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| "just one more thing." | detective |
| thomas melvill | leaves |
| "big boy leaves home" | uncle tom's children |
| stephen spender | duino elegies |
| for colored girls | public theater |
| topdog/underdog | public theater |
| matthew broderick | ferris bueller's day off |
| "riverside city" | moon |
| "plunge and expire." | leaves |
| cousin pons | human comedy |
| sitka | roth |
| "yield their names to the element" | confederate |
| louise crane | key west |
| lulamae barnes | holly |
| harriet vane | wimsey |
| murder must advertise | wimsey |
| "the other tartuffe." | figaro |
| miranda tate | dark knight rises |
| "glorious rays and light" | swan |
| abe froman | ferris bueller's day off |
| "loyal subjects," | cap |
| jane porter | haggard |
| "with the beatles" | akutagawa |
| broomhilda | django unchained |
| "your humble narrator." | clockwork orange |
| "spherical fruits" | library of babel |
| ikem | anthills of the savannah |
| "oh my brothers" | clockwork orange |
| " 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 |
| "small electric" | moon |
| "i have so many enemies" | psalms |
| "this is my letter to the world," | dickinson |
| "lovely ludwig van" | clockwork orange |
| vinteuil with odette | proust |
| soares | robinson |
| when pi | banana |
| neil patrick harris | how i met your mother |
| "second greatest love story" | how i met your mother |
| usa network | detective |
| jason clarke | zero dark thirty |
| diary of a superfluous man | ivan |
| germinal in the rougon | zola |
| pearl louie brandt | chinese |
| christoph waltz | django unchained |
| "part or particle of god." | transcendental |
| "say good bye to miss lara" | django unchained |
| tony shalhoub | detective |
| black hat guy | xkcd |
| the matchmaker | wilder |
| christopher nolan | dark knight rises |
| time indian | alexie |
| "you and i would have to be so changed" | nora |
| "i am not that young any more" | didion |
| heptapod | chiang |
| coricancha | inti |
| charon the golden bough | cumaean sibyl |
| "to the queen of sheba." | elegies |
| " for 10 points each: name this novel whose protagonist, in the final chapter, becomes a " | awakening |
| in marvel comics | munitions |
| "[i]n you everything sank!" | twenty love poems and a song of despair |
| "frailty and the decay" | world |
| marsh chapel experiment | leary |
| toulou | nottage |
| avoid boring people | watson |
| miss toobad | nightmare abbey |
| journal of a tour to the hebrides | boswell |
| raymond queneau | oulipo |
| "erotic" | eight |
| "the world is what it is" | naipaul |
| rainbow six | clancy |
| titan coeus | phoebe |
| "the wide net" | green |
| at the cavendish laboratory at cambridge | watson |
| lachesis | eris |
| in nonnus | sinew |
| england to north america | cabot |
| "conceits" | metaphysical |
| pachamama | inti |
| sarras | galahad |
| imahmana | viracocha |
| best american short stories | visually impaired |
| "whirl of sugarboom prices." | camera eye |
| after dr jekyll | danvers |
| "stalkers" | strugatsky |
| farming of bones | haiti |
| jimmy porter | look back in anger |
| veblen | pecuniary |
| gandalf in the hobbit | troll |
| "the weasel, twelve monkeys and the shrub." | presidential campaign |
| hugi | thjalfi |
| micaela | carmen |
| "walks, and will not rest" | lincoln |
| parts unknown | bourdain |
| yo gabba gabba | bourdain |
| besides the women of trachis | sophocles |
| duke orsino | twelfth night |
| "might rouse [this man] in you all!" | lincoln |
| much of the fenian | oisin |
| "a man and a woman and" | bird |
| guy fieri | bourdain |
| theban plays | sophocles |
| norse cosmology | yggdrasil |
| gwendolen fairfax | importance of being earnest |
| pheidippides | herodotus |
| tofa sauni | oral |
| shockand shroud in thomas pynchon | robot |
| "here are presented the results of the enquiry." | herodotus |
| "nothing is funnier than" | unhappiness |
| "look at the dew on the leaves and grass" | death |
| malay annals | epic |
| himavant | mountain |
| halldor laxness | iceland |
| canens | circe |
| "nightmare at 20,000 feet" | matheson |
| "white serpent" | child |
| church lees | scarlet |
| elpenor | circe |
| emmy hennings | voltaire |
| jake heke | young adult |
| when cabot | venice |
| nazneen | brick lane |
| "sing for the whole world." | independent people |
| sudd in south sudan | swamp |
| misty of chincoteague | penning |
| bone in the throat | bourdain |
| peacock | shelley |
| "donelson." | melville |
| inthepoem | freud |
| "important jew" | freud |
| "needs ourlove." | freud |
| "catalogue of catalogues." | borges |
| " 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 |
| bioy casares | borges |
| jay mcinerey | 80s |
| agastya | mountain |
| "stop[s], wounded by the wandering scent." | neruda |
| mei hsu | fortune cookie |
| raise the wage act | 15 |
| "insider baseball" | presidential campaign |
| "suppose truth is a woman, what then?" | nietzsche |
| "there is so much graciousness in cunning" | nietzsche |
| beautiful things that heaven bears | ethiopia |
| joe gillayley | maori |
| "in flanders fields." | soldier |
| whale rider | new zealand |
| katherine mansfield | garden party |
| "green valley" | auden |
| " for 10 points each: moloch appears in this ginsberg poem, in which the narrator " | howl |
| "augustblistering sun" | camera eye |
| big money | camera eye |
| "five franciscan nuns," | boat |
| "if i get hungry, / i eat the flesh of my usurper. / beware... beware... of my hunger, / and of my anger." | palestin |
| shiva of the knees | indian independence |
| john stanhope | dickinson |
| "saddest of all possible words." | baseball |
| "shall not sleep, though poppies grow." | soldier |
| "home burial" | north of boston |
| roadside picnic | strugatsky |
| frederick r. waterford | historical notes |
| ozobranchus | leech |
| cornelii | ecce |
| "man passes there through forests of symbols." | correspondences |
| great frost | orlando |
| dame brusen | galahad |
| atropos | eris |
| cold spring harbor laboratory | watson |
| "triple-faced." | moon |
| "goodbye to all that" | didion |
| jean de meun | rose |
| snufkin | troll |
| panchala | draupadi |
| witi ihimaera | new zealand |
| hirudotherapy | leech |
| "hanging from the beam, / slowly swaying." | brown |
| tocapo | viracocha |
| avrion mitchison | watson |
| "shows," | uncle tom's cabin |
| john marr | sailor |
| "patent" | troll |
| "mother tongue." | tan |
| "it so happens i am sick of being a man." | walk |
| "euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant" | huxley |
| "ccny lecturers on dadaism" | potato salad |
| performances of god of vengeance on broadway | obscenity |
| thousand-yard | kafka |
| sex and the city | mccarthy |
| bennington college | tartt |
| mountain king | troll |
| wrought urn | canonization |
| titaness | phoebe |
| snork maiden in tove jansson | troll |
| "terra firma," | leto |
| miles gloriosus | plautus |
| logris | galahad |
| "the very" | pine-apple |
| tintagel | morgan |
| arthur to avalon | morgan |
| "of politeness." | pine-apple |
| meru | mountain |
| yevgeny zamyatin | brave new world |
| letters written to | richardson |
| "carried through many nations and over many seas, i arrive" | elegy |
| mystery of edwin drood | raven |
| william f. whyte | corner |
| george costanza | seinfeld |
| "i understand." | stepdaughter |
| candylady | nottage |
| "falling is the essence of a flower." | mishima |
| "hard times," | hughes |
| "decorated" | bradbury |
| injun joe | graveyard |
| ball | voltaire |
| droogs | burgess |
| "bland motions" | bird |
| "slow and steady" | tortoise |
| marguerite henry | misty of chincoteague |
| "caucasian" | race |
| "talent and destiny are apt to feud" | vietnam |
| lady gregory | yeats |
| "specialty" | romance at short notice |
| "a letter from [this author]." | wheatley |
| tracy smith | poet laureate |
| "a small part of the pantomime" | bird |
| else lasker | blue |
| grand isle | gulf |
| timothee chalamet | little women |
| "test the reality of misty fields" | bird |
| "ethiopian." | race |
| maureen beebe | misty of chincoteague |
| "society." | corner |
| nebula awards | bend in the river |
| "a hundred and fifty different ways" | touchstone |
| jon the bailiff | independent people |
| laxness | saga |
| am legend | matheson |
| "coiled" | child |
| "a modest defense of publick stews," | mandeville |
| stark industries | munitions |
| "death ship," | matheson |
| michael richards | kramer |
| marionetta | nightmare abbey |
| enderby quartet | four |
| "take this cup from me." | hamlet |
| "will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." | modest proposal |
jack potter | crane |
| shraddhadeva manu | fish |
| nonni | independent people |
| countess of roussillon | all's well that ends well |
| "first chapters" | you |
| joe sangster | ali |
| summerhouses | independent people |
| joyboy | cemeteries |
| "benediction upon the audience." | kalidasa |
| armitage | laureate |
| "he is the very pine-apple of politeness" | malaprop |
| tristes tropiques | levi-strauss |
"a sadder and a wiser man" | the rime of the ancient mariner |
| blues for mister charlie | baldwin |
| scythrop in nightmare abbey | shelley |
| "model plays" | eight |
"fear and loathing" (city) | las vegas |
| origin of table manners | levi-strauss |
| eastern shore | misty of chincoteague |
| hero twins to xibalba | ball game |
| imaginary prisons | prison |
| "down on lenox avenue." | hughes |
| "consultant in poetry to the library of congress." | poet laureate |
| "a dollar and a half." | hughes |
| escape to life | erika |
| paths of glory | graveyard |
| chanu | brick lane |
| "the night's plutonian shore." | raven |
| adulateur | warren |
| savage mind | levi-strauss |
| fujiwara no teishi | death |
| saltwater cowboys | penning |
| in lewis carroll | carpenter |
| no reservations | bourdain |
| babrius | aesop |
| walrus | carpenter |
| hungry ghosts for dc comics | bourdain |
| get jiro | bourdain |
| boreas | aesop |
| along with seascape | albee |
| bertha mason in the caribbean | rhys |
| lady bracknell | importance of being earnest |
| pantanal | swamp |
| drum-taps | lincoln |
| "the fox and the grapes" | aesop |
| "are one," | bird |
| okefenokee | swamp |
| "dr. tony" | bourdain |
| "couplet" | elegy |
| georges perec | oulipo |
| oechalia | sophocles |
| lopa de vega's | aesop |
| evander in the aeneid | cacus |
| "retire" | robot |
| history of the dividing line | swamp |
| gelonus | herodotus |
| at utgard | age |
| "terrible" | eight |
| eckels | bradbury |
| "moxon's master" | robot |
| "skrymir" | utgard-loki |
| "misunderstanding" | importance of being earnest |
| great dismal | swamp |
| persian wars in thehistories | herodotus |
| "wandering over withered fields." | death |
| "en vain pour eviter" | carmen |
| gp | albee |
| "i am, george" | albee |
| chilote | imbunche |
| alfred wendt | young adult |
| "fine clothes" | hughes |
| ron jones at a palo alto | third wave |
| "what work is" | detroit |
| "a different drama is underway." | hamlet |
| "downward to darkness." | bird |
| "been assured by a very knowing american" | modest proposal |
| oskar schell | extremely loud and incredibly close |
| " for 10 points each: the awakening is a novel by this author of the short story " | chopin |
| "some visitor... only this and nothing more." | raven |
| "sequel to" | drum-taps |
| plaszow | amon goeth |
"song of the bleeding throat" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| enrico iv | pirandello |
| "epistolary psychogram" | wheatley |
| "hail and farewell" | elegy |
| "melancholy mark'd...for her own" | graveyard |
| in the loved one | cemeteries |
| simone simonini | graveyard |
| "they'll see how beautiful i am." | hughes |
| "the wound-dresser." | drum-taps |
| florence pugh | little women |
| "my affluence over my niece is very small." | malaprop |
| "let's take off this little frock" | stepdaughter |
| "the whipping," | hayden |
| duino castle | elegy |
| "but tell me, who are they, these wanderers?" | elegy |
| "we sat and wept" | babylon |
| doris lessing | bend in the river |
| "belle isle, 1949." | detroit |
| "close bosom-friend of the maturing sun." | autumn |
| cherry lane theatre | nottage |
| love marriage | ali |
| castle rackrent | countess cathleen |
| scythrop | nightmare abbey |
| pier with chains | prison |
| "forefathers of the hamlet sleep?" | graveyard |
| peek | levi-strauss |
| under ariel roth | seventh-day adventist |
| ricarimpex | leech |
| walk on the wild side | algren |
| national book critics choice award | smiley |
| in on heroes | carlyle |
| battista | calvino |
| the ' workshop | smiley |
| dionysian in the birth of tragedy | nietzsche |
| "as i walked out one evening" | auden |
| "i'm lonely--i'll make me a world" | johnson |
| "the creation," | johnson |
| fauchelevent | les miserables |
| "a thousand screams the heavens smote; / and every scream tore through my throat." | renascence |
| sci-fi series | lessing |
| sam craig | our town |
| soviet art | pasternak |
| "blank" | verse |
| "seven tales" | philippines |
| good samaritan | parable |
| "runcible spoon" | lear |
| gullinbursti | boar |
| "come as a master from deutschland." | death |
| "walking down bristol street." | auden |
| "that fearful sound of 'fire' and 'fire'," | verse |
| sonezaki | suicide |
| such a long journey | mistry |
| black national anthem | sing |
| "there is sweet music here that softer falls / than petals from blown roses on the grass." | tennyson |
| anna wulf | lessing |
| in aunts aren | watson |
| "not god but a swastika" | nazi |
| guignol | commedia dell'arte |
| "like air." | lady lazarus |
| "all humanity is now involved in a great controversy between christ and satan regarding the character of god." | seventh-day adventist |
| stone diaries | canada |
| sissy | tree grows in brooklyn |
| nick joaquin | philippines |
| "instapoet." | kaur |
| "romani" | ecce |
| walther von | linden |
| "lift every voice and [perform this action] / till earth and heaven ring" | sing |
| " flower with a " | sunflower sutra |
| frankie machine in nelson algren | drug |
| "aunts of all kinds are damned bad things" | she stoops to conquer |
| aunt dahlia | wooster |
| "gives / immortal youth to mortal maids." | verse |
| carol shields | canada |
| anne ferris | hotel |
| "a message from the emperor." | kafka |
| life of pi by the canadian | india |
| "i mete and dole / unequal laws unto a savage race," | tennyson |
| "o black and unknown bards" | go down, moses |
| "the owl and the pussycat." | lear |
| edwin arlington robinson | richard cory |
| box man | sebald |
| "i have been happy - and i love the theme" | poe |
| jack keefe | baseball |
| "ulysses." | tennyson |
| "ride a watersmooth-silver stallion" | cummings |
| joel harrison knox | other voices, other rooms |
| dhanvantari | leech |
| humbaba in the cedar forest | gilgamesh |
| "every profound spirit needs a mask." | nietzsche |
| "where is god now?" | concentration camp |
| "fauna of the night," | freud |
| "ballad" | landlord |
| blake.saw | howl |
| frisco | sunflower sutra |
| "aunt agatha takes the count." | wooster |
| "so musically wells." | helen |
| titorelli | kafka |
| camden | deathbed |
| odd couple | simon |
| "put away / my labor and my leisure too / for his civility." | dickinson |
| "drowned" | concentration camp |
| little eva | tom |
| giovanni's room | baldwin |
| kaws | mickey |
| margot robbie | harley |
| "old ironsides." | ship |
| ashburnham house | nowell |
| after cassandra cain | harley |
| in frank norris | train |
| royal welch fusiliers | world war i |
| "let us sleep now," | owen |
| remedios the beauty | fold |
| "it is a fatal mistake ever to offer resistance to people who are stronger than ourselves." | maupassant |
| "disappeared in the dead of winter" | yeats |
| william of malmesbury | arthur |
| "diary" | superfluous |
| "handsomest... man in the world" | drown |
| "of '27." | generation |
| lesley gore | harley |
| oisin | aging |
| "hapworth 16, 1924." | salinger |
| sandy stranger | nun |
| john wheelwright | baseball |
| "what passing-bells for those who die as cattle?" | owen |
| "the cow, the old cow, she is dead," | housman |
| "an aged man is but a paltry thing / a tattered coat upon a stick," | yeats |
| "from which gentlemen are not excluded." | bierce |
| when charlemagne | carloman |
| belgravia | hopkins |
| "i loafe and invite my soul, / i lean and loafe at my ease." | song of mysel |
| "scratches its innocent behind on a tree" | auden |
| encolpius | satyricon |
| shelgrim | octopus |
| "i must be my own mamma." | thackeray |
| president of liberia | johnson |
| james hargreaves | spinning jenny |
| in mist | cervantes |
| svyatogor | ilya |
| iowa writers | smiley |
| sissy rommely | tree grows in brooklyn |
| "patient griselda." | decameron |
| "sad lexicon," | baseball |
| "all animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it" | butler |
| the widow | indian independence |
| "i shall never get you put together entirely" | plath |
| in a christmas | henry |
| incidents in the life of a slave girl | harriet |
| "fire and ice." | frost |
| "principal conclusions" | mueller report |
| chicago to paterson | boxer |
| "hurricane" | boxer |
| m. bechade | leech |
| pegeen mike | playboy of the western world |
| "revaluation of all values," | nietzsche |
| we were in auschwitz | concentration camp |
| year of the flood | atwood |
| homegoing by yaa gyasi | ghana |
| "after that hunky wayne guy." | harley |
| renee montoya | harley |
| germinie lacerteux | goncourt |
| elisabeth forster | nietzsche |
| "heard [the eternal note of sadness] on the aegean." | sophocles |
| "so there stood matthew arnold and this girl." | hecht |
| "why swell'st thou then?" | death |
| "judge gives negro 90 days in county jail." | landlord |
| "tapping at my chamber door" | poe |
| notes on chopin | gide |
| "sort of thrilled" | smash |
| "put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves" | auden |
| dove linkhorn | algren |
| "the clocks had ceased their chiming, / and the deep river ran on" | auden |
| " it opens " | sunflower sutra |
| "callooh! callay!" | chortle |
| sign of four | watson |
| "temple in which living pillars / sometimes give voice to confused words," | correspondences |
| "mere thinker." | emerson |
| cowboys ennis | visually impaired |
| "come buy our orchard fruits / come buy, come buy." | frost |
| "the decapitated chicken," | uruguay |
| "this be" | verse |
| eduardo galeano | uruguay |
| "the sailor lad" | tennyson |
| "there's some corner of a foreign field / that is forever england." | soldier |
| messenio | menaechmi |
| breakfast of champions | vonnegut |
| what the butler saw | orton |
| "kamikaze man," | plath |
| "the loss of the titanic." | boat |
| open veins of latin america | uruguay |
| "excuse me." | aeschylus |
| "a world of happiness" | helen |
| non-u.s | haiti |
| commander in the handmaid | atwood |
| one state in we | brave new world |
| "upon the burning of [her] house." | verse |
| "the aleph." | borges |
| jack absolute | pine-apple |
| "letter to the god of" | love |
| visitation zones | strugatsky |
| poligraf poligrafovich | bulgakov |
| "a dust whom england bore, shaped, made aware" | soldier |
| edward estlin cummings | cummings |
| university of auckland | new zealand |
| sartor resartus | carlyle |
| "the portent" | brown |
| "mexican book" | mccarthy |
| "fugue" | death |
| candace bushnell | mccarthy |
| necklace | maupassant |
| "jill goes down on her back." | auden |
| "for god's sake hold your tongue, and let me love." | canonization |
| "babushka" | plath |
| sasha | orlando |
| willem | kafka |
| groves of academe | mccarthy |
| "victory odes" | greek |
| "was not an important failure." | icarus |
| "van-tuy's" | in search of lost time |
| "the colossus." | plath |
| "pigeons|just|like|that." | cummings |
| tales from shakespeare | lamb |
| "language of love." | hebrew |
| fundamental beliefs | seventh-day adventist |
| hero-worship | carlyle |
| ubu | poland |
| "philosopher of clothing" | carlyle |
| understanding fiction | warren |
| morning star | mulberry |
| amor fati | nietzsche |
| "say yes to life." | nietzsche |
| dinaw mengestu | ethiopia |
| "we happy few, we band of brothers" | agincourt |
| "since then - 'tis centuries - and yet" | dickinson |
| sensei | suicide |
| lindo jong | fortune cookie |
| "yours truly" | camera eye |
| "deutches requiem." | borges |
| "courtly" | love |
| "i will drink / life to the lees," | tennyson |
| "choric song" | tennyson |
| "tintinnabulation" | helen |
| "behold," | ecce |
| hard hours | hecht |
| "better than thy stroke." | death |
| "working week and [his] sunday rest." | auden |
| two soviet | strugatsky |
| in ti | aeschylus |
| tincan | sunflower sutra |
| "sprung" | hopkins |
| historical notes | gilead |
| "the story of the girl who stood up for education," | malala |
| "the unnamed." | betrothed |
| nnedi okorafor | science |
| man with the golden arm | drug |
| you know me al | baseball |
| rubin carter | boxer |
| arlecchino | commedia dell'arte |
| "merely told the unhappy present to recite the past like a poetry lesson." | freud |
| "zek" | ivan |
| " and closes with a " | sunflower sutra |
| "in fairly good translation," | sophocles |
| "you ain't gonna be able to say a word / if i land my fist on you." | landlord |
| "the band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light" | baseball |
| parable of the ring | decameron |
| nii parkes | ghana |
| "incident" | suicide |
| uqbar | borges |
| algren | boxer |
| moira at jezebel | atwood |
| "the bear." | go down, moses |
| offred in the handmaid | atwood |
| elyot | hotel |
| aunt sissy by francie | tree grows in brooklyn |
| "promenade of discoveries" | gide |
| pancho rodriguez | smash |
| scrabble with the commander | atwood |
| iyaloja | market |
| lady murasaki shikibu | genji |
| "saboteur," | plath |
| fra cristoforo | betrothed |
| binti | science |
| " which he refers to as " | ginsberg |
| amusa | market |
| aunt pedigree | she stoops to conquer |
| " was written by this poet. in another poem, he describes a " | ginsberg |
| katie | tree grows in brooklyn |
| winter by canadian | greek |
| "tropical" | philippines |
| "cor meum" | ecce |
| fiver | watership down |
| blysspluss | atwood |
| "at the creation, ever heard a theme / nobler than [this spiritual]?" | go down, moses |
| "what a thrill." | plath |
| jack twist | visually impaired |
| nine lyric poets | greek |
| "brokeback mountain." | visually impaired |
| "frumious bandersnatch" | carroll |
| "the tender grace of a day that is dead / will never come back to me." | tennyson |
| rupert brooke | soldier |
| "how one becomes what one is." | ecce |
| "why i am a fatality" | ecce |
| member of parliament | danvers |
| ti-jean | walcott |
| "cut off the telephone" | auden |
| baptist church in san francisco | tan |
| "bad instruction." | fortune cookie |
| "the lotos eaters" | tennyson |
| geoscience research institute at loma linda university | seventh-day adventist |
| shao hao | mulberry |
| "the entertainment," | infinite jest |
| "where the beggars raffle the banknotes" | auden |
| wilbur schramm in iowa | writing |
| thousand acres | smiley |
| "the fire sermon." | waste land |
| other canadian | mistry |
| "sextus molestus," | ecce |
| saadat hasan manto | indian independence |
| marathi | mistry |
| vogelweide | linden |
| kokoro by natsume soseki | suicide |
| "o, well for the fisherman's boy" | tennyson |
| way of all flesh | bildungsroman |
| interior | maeterlinck |
| melisande | maeterlinck |
| "dare you see a soul at the white heat?" | dickinson |
| "listens close to your sweet speaking / and lovely laughing" | greek |
| francisco de quevedo | gongora |
| "yogeybogeybox" | joyce |
| dakkar in the mysterious island | nemo |
| "pity this busy monster, manunkind" | cummings |
| tsoht | fugard |
| herland | perkins |
| "the miller's tale" | tub |
| daybreak | gay science |
| mythologiques | levi-strauss |
| joel cairo | falcon |
| casper gutman | falcon |
| "great old ones" | lovecraft |
| man group | booker |
| "three long mountains and a wood" | infinity |
| "lament for the death of" | bullfighter |
| abraham lincoln in twenty thousand leagues under the seas | farragut |
| michaelis | lady |
| cousin lymon | ballad of the |
| christopher tietjens | ford |
| without a summer | darkness |
| fill | food |
| roger byam | bounty |
| v | thin man |
| wave of the future | lindbergh |
| petey the cat | dog man |
| thomas mallory | morte d'arthur |
| "not pygmalion likely!" | not bloody likely |
| "anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy." | catch-22 |
| dwayne hoover | breakfast of |
| "hansel and gretel" | grimm |
| lakewood | osteen |
| nih-kawff | crime and |
| simianshen | four |
| faunia farley | coleman |
| heart is a lonely hunter | mccullers |
| sydney to bellingen | church |
| divine | our lady of the flowers |
| edward tudor | prince and the |
| captain queeg | wouk |
| annie ernaux | nobel |
| paul proteus | vonnegut |
| avis everhard | iron heel |
| "i'm leaving them there." | boot |
| amazon antiope | theseus |
| sugarcandy mountain | moses |
| s. e. hinton | rumble fish |
| coulibri | wide sargasso sea |
| redcrosse knight | duessa |
| "i had a dream, which was not all a dream." | darkness |
| in the barsoom | john |
| tom driscoll | pudd'nhead wilson |
| shirley jackson | lottery |
| baudolino | picaresque |
| humphrey chimpden earwicker | finnegans wake |
| ilya petrovich | police |
| "piping down the valleys wild / piping songs of pleasant glee / on a cloud i saw a child." | songs of innocence and |
| pale fire | nabokov |
| "it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea." | annabel lee |
| "the catastrophe of success" | streetcar named desire |
| "i am sorry then you have so lost a father that you must lose a husband" | burgundy |
| both oscar | booker |
| "high english social values." | shaw |
| "delicious" | cold |
| "a false sorceress" | duessa |
| "we / left school. we / lurk late. we / strike straight. we / sing sin. we / thin gin. we / jazz june. we / die soon." | we real |
| why people believe weird things | skeptic |
| one of wilde | salome |
| nora charles | thin man |
| tahng sahn-zahng | sun wukong |
| petit gervais | coin |
| koo-lee-bree | wide sargasso sea |
| lady oisille | marguerite |
| meade | ring |
| black bess | highwayman |
| "radicalize their consciousness to challenge patriarchy." | harjo |
| ratchett | orient express |
| medicago | sativa |
| jean shepherd | libertine |
| "somebody blew up america," | september 11 |
| which of the fates | clotho |
| his romantic | holderlin |
| "came down and settled over me" | millay |
| in crime | police |
| hawk tower | california |
| "last night i dreamed i went to manderley again." | rebecca |
| "stared at the pacific" | cortes |
| sodapop | outsiders |
| ilium | vonnegut |
| absolon | miller |
| helium | john |
| "climb from a fried fish shop down by the mint" | shaw |
| "in the palm of your hand" | millay |
| "dapple-dawn-drawn" | alliteration |
| in catch | chuck |
| oreads | satyr |
| "oligarchy" | iron heel |
| painter of signs | english |
| nikodim fomich | police |
| city of the beasts | allende |
| hareton earnshaw | read |
| tsotsi | fugard |
| brangwen | rainbow |
| abraham van brunt | brom |
| helmet of awe | fafnir |
| burgos | laugh |
| your best life now | osteen |
| "the man with bandaged hands." | david |
| "i must kill a man!" | maupassant |
| imm by star | cholesterol |
| at balder | dwarf |
| "appalling" | howards end |
| parlemente | marguerite |
| an artist of the floating world | ishiguro |
| the and war and remembrance | wouk |
| spite of himself | doctor |
| sih-mee-ahn-shen | four |
| captain hook | peter |
| "in october 1914" | arabic |
| barsoom | burroughs |
| belmonte | bullfighter |
| rusty-james | rumble fish |
| "lover's tomb." | thomas |
| port said | arabic |
| "two roads diverged in a wood, and i, / i took the one less traveled by, / and that has made all the difference." | frost |
| "or does it" | explode |
| "sonnets on pink silk handkerchiefs." | milan |
| "a tree that may in summer wear / a nest of robins in her hair" | kilmer |
| lata mehra | seth |
| "spiritual dislocation" | success |
| "cultivated." | sativa |
| abominable snowman | yeti |
| "thou still unravished bride of quietness, thou foster-child of silence and slow time." | grecian urn |
| "on first looking into chapman's homer" | cortes |
| valperga | shelley |
| "campensis." | isis |
| "everlasting fields of clover" | moses |
| sukie rougemont | witches of eastwick |
| polk county | hurston |
| "drill" | malthus |
| nobel laureate elfriede jelinek | rhine |
| "contrary states" | songs of innocence and |
| when rebecca | danvers |
| suitable boy in english | seth |
| "varney," | vampire |
| prince amerigo | james |
| joey | september 11 |
| muriel the white goat | animal farm |
| "4000 israeli workers" | september 11 |
| "a stone's throw from the equator, with a bottomless historical chasm separating the two" | arabic |
| "faithful hound" | antisthenes |
| six early stories | mann |
| greatest unread novelist | australia |
| georgetown | freedom |
| wilbur whateley | necronomicon |
| "thumbing my nose at you know who" | bokonon |
| in war | natasha |
| fanny brawne | to autumn |
| "sausage" | joyce |
| ybon | naipaul |
| "nothinghead," | welcome to the monkey house |
| "you're not allowed to have arrows." | jerusalem |
| thorsten fehr | plasticity |
| father ximenez | popol vuh |
| eloise wengler | salinger |
| adele varens | rochester |
| "jesus saviour pilot me / over life's tempestuous sea." | hayden |
| james hall | bounty |
| breath, eyes, memory | haiti |
| german by daphne hardy | darkness at noon |
| shukumar | interpreter of maladies |
| "did you leave because of my attic wife." | rochester |
| "confessions of a bad feminist" | adichie |
| "picasso without paint" | sinatra |
| manly health | whitman |
| "rahm-owe's" | diderot |
| "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 |
| thar | jaipur |
| fatelessness | hungarian |
| "ethical birth control" | welcome to the monkey house |
| "crooked rose" | thomas |
| "devour" | time |
| "infant sorrow," | songs of innocence and |
| gruzhnitsky | lermontov |
| "you and i can make mistakes--but not the party." | darkness at noon |
| shoba | interpreter of maladies |
| hawa mahal | jaipur |
| while lovelace | prison |
| fortune of love | quixote |
| "from every angle of the universe" | aleph |
| amiri baraka | september 11 |
| witches of eastwick | updike |
| strange wine | ellison |
| mayotte capecia | fanon |
| jason mantzoukas | pimento |
| "mad poet" | necronomicon |
| "the forgetting" | concentration camp |
| "literary coffeehouses" | austria |
| "anatomy" | world |
| alexandra spofford | witches of eastwick |
| "...airman forsees his death" | yeats |
| the heart | georgia |
| pimento | brooklyn nine-nine |
| hans gruber | die hard |
| mathilde moisel | necklace |
| felixmarte de hyrcania | quixote |
| dennis tedlock | popol vuh |
| len rix | hungarian |
| gerald du maurier | peter |
| jane smart | witches of eastwick |
| mary crawford | fanny |
| "smiling preacher." | osteen |
| bram stoker | vampire |
| anoosh in persepolis | satrapi |
| poker flat | four |
| " the narrator apologizes for eating these fruits, which were " | plum |
| an humorous day | chapman |
| port-au-prince | haiti |
| jack favell | rebecca |
| jean genet | our lady of the flowers |
| "sentiments... are repressed entirely" | salammbo |
| miskatonic university in arkham | lovecraft |
| "would you like to have a bag of candy and a nice ride?" | ransom of red |
| "infant joy" | songs of innocence and |
| "the galoshes of fortune." | andersen |
| dick turpin | highwayman |
| michael shermer | skeptic |
| "i'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than" | hawk |
| billy the poet | welcome to the monkey house |
| ambassador to mexico | lindbergh |
| am malala | autobiography |
| "he is all pine and i am apple orchard," | mending wall |
| "it's a wonder i haven't abandoned all my ideals." | dutch |
| arnold rubek | when we dead awaken |
| "dark satanic mills." | jerusalem |
| inspector bertozzo | fo |
| david lean | bridge |
| satrapi's persepolis | comic |
| in persepolis | god |
| katalin street | hungarian |
| "in july as in january / for the sincere friend / who gives me his hand frankly." | i cultivate a white rose |
| bokonon | cat |
| sophie caco | breath, eyes, memory |
| in a marvell | garden |
| "here at the furthest verge of earth." | prometheus bound |
| many romantic | byron |
| "spooks" | coleman |
| "annihilate[s] all that's made" | garden |
| edward lloyd | dickens |
| the and satantango | hungarian |
| ethical suicide parlor | welcome to the monkey house |
| "the ballad of reading gaol (redding jail)." | wilde |
| le ly hayslip | autobiography |
| guelphs | shelley |
| an untamed state | adichie |
| "poor relation" | mansfield park |
| "for a beaker full of the warm south" | keats |
| hurston | boas |
| mount purgatory | divine comedy |
| assault by harry mulisch | dutch |
| "the dunwich horror." | necronomicon |
| "where you're madder than i am" | rockland |
| "dreaded" | necronomicon |
| "industrious bee / computes its time as well as we." | garden |
| death of the poet | lermontov |
| eye of the storm | white |
| " 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 |
| amber fort | jaipur |
| old ones | necronomicon |
| melancholy of resistance | hungarian |
| martin guzzlewit | dickens |
| p450scc | cholesterol |
| seven moral tales | translation |
| bridge on the river kwai | world war ii |
| both your houses | pennsylvania |
| "corpo" | it can't happen here |
| earth changed places | autobiography |
| daisy armstrong | orient express |
| miles franklin | australia |
| huxtable | architecture |
| charles nordhoff | bounty |
| irena | when we dead awaken |
| "der sandmann." | the tales of hoffman |
| "the marvelous real." | hoffmann |
| "our helper... amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing." | mighty fortress |
| "bring me my bow of burning gold; bring me my arrows of desire" | jerusalem |
| "hands off the mask!" | fo |
| bad feminist | adichie |
| oryza | sativa |
| "hang on to the innocence and turbulence and capacity for wonder" | journalism |
| encyclopedie with jean | diderot |
| mount mccabe | bokonon |
| "'gadzooks!' quoth i, 'but here's a saucy bawd!'" | libertine |
| nickelas nicklebery | dickens |
| "where you imitate the shade of my mother." | rockland |
| "angel-headed" | hipster |
| when heaven | autobiography |
| winds of war | wouk |
| "ideas worth spreading." | ted |
| sandstone | jaipur |
| if in alexandre dumas | dantes |
| zycron | assassin |
| laguna pueblo | ceremony |
| terra nostra | fuentes |
| reading | nottage |
| "number 44" | stranger |
| witness for the prosecution | christie |
| "little blue men" | pearl |
| something happened | heller |
| gilbert durand | idol |
| black coffee | hastings |
| "ruth, rachel, esther, and bathsheba" | lakunle |
| alex thomas | assassin |
| ygnirod | assassin |
| julie otsuka | woman warrior |
| fair in chicago | larson |
| blackmore | lawrence |
| serious money | churchill |
| "is indignant that scotland has so few trees." | johnson |
| mary richards | hadleyburg |
| laura in il canzoniere | petrarch |
| augustan | vates |
| "happy age" | astraea |
| "seven moons" | almeida |
| "just like you" | sweden |
| "a tip-toe" | st. crispin's day |
in a mikhail lermontov | heroes |
| "odour of chrysanthemums" | lawrence |
| marlene | kitchen |
| "cruel hand." | time |
| the death and | jacobs |
| antoine macquart | spontaneous combustion |
| "speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold. for 10 points each: " | wheatley |
| when the emperor was divine | woman warrior |
| blu | woman warrior |
| "fantastic baroque machine," | devil |
| shaila bhave | mukherjee |
| gabe | brother |
| "the king of poets" | season in hell |
| "redux," | astraea |
| "canvas of our pitiable desires" | reader |
| exit west | hamid |
| swedish royal dramatic theater | anna christie |
| eustace tilley | new yorker |
| "the swimmer," | new yorker |
| domingo sarmiento | dictator novel |
| bob ford | city and the pillar |
| "mr. strugnell" | larkin |
| "cyriack, this three years day," | milton |
| rastignac | lucien |
| jeremiah de saint-amour | love in the time of cholera |
| tatwine | cross |
| "black stone on a white stone" | bolano |
| jair | orthrus |
| "in the bardo." | lincoln |
| dominique bauby | diving bell and the butterfly |
| vivien in the pure | colette |
| "hadleyburg" | stranger |
| sir claud amory | hastings |
| "i knew it wouldn't be much of a poem / but i love the title." | cope |
| "wonderland quartet" | oates |
| pope joan | churchill |
| viracocha at ollantaytambo | inca |
| how to get filthy rich in rising asia | hamid |
| "the uncanny" | sandman |
| heliodorus | ethiopia |
| in suzan | brother |
| "fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / within his bending sickle's compass come." | time |
| tijuana | richler |
jack stapleton | the hound of the baskervilles |
| cook islands | staff |
| bauby | count of monte cristo |
alfred uhry (trilogy) | atlanta |
| " is by robert hayden, who also wrote a poem framed as a letter by this poet. this poet wrote " | wheatley |
| italian jewish | levi |
| "the adventure of silver blaze." | haddon |
| in nightmare abbey | childe harold's pilgrimage |
bill nye (ah sin) | harte |
| an akhmatova | heroes |
| uhry | atlanta |
| goodman fielder wattie award | young adult |
| in august wilson | brother |
| american way of death | mitford |
| " referencing ariel's line " | tempest |
| badal sarkar | bengali |
| pursuit of love | mitford |
| amal | bengali |
| leslie marmon silko | ceremony |
| "sink" | kitchen |
| augusto roa bastos | dictator novel |
| "grief" | pine |
| noirtier | count of monte cristo |
| ann yamanaka | woman warrior |
| splinter cell | clancy |
| "those winter sundays." | hayden |
| "move to the right!" | thatcher |
| yasmin ghorami | ali |
| "i have no children by which i can ... get a single penny." | modest proposal |
| nazruddin | naipaul |
| in foer | holocaust |
| "silken, sad, uncertain rustling" | raven |
| hoodoo love | nottage |
| happier hunting ground | cemeteries |
| "white christmas" | vietnam |
| rod serling | bet |
| leaves of the banyan tree | young adult |
| once were warriors | young adult |
| senator burrows | munitions |
| "boy wonder" | richler |
| chincoteague bay | assateague |
| sisyphos | thanatos |
| "show about nothing." | kramer |
| shehan karunatilaka | almeida |
| according to coase | club |
| "the last great prophet of tautology" | shadwell |
| " describes how " | tempest |
| grace frick | yourcenar |
| great flood | enoch |
| spider | christie |
| in christie | hastings |
| the chateau d''s | dantes |
| bollingen prize | fitzgerald |
| mareech sambad | mukherjee |
| "city of the dead." | cairo |
| varieties of disturbance | davis |
| richard griffen | chase |
| "the -eenth of marchember" | donne |
| "sing, o muse, of the rage of achilles." | homer |
| dialogues of the courtesans | comedy |
| destiny and desire | fuentes |
| " and described " | wheatley |
| an address to the atheist | wheatley |
| aleksandr tvardovsky | novy mir |
| "sunk in sleep." | donne |
| renee vivien prize | yourcenar |
| "shines" | sweden |
| "chac mool" | fuentes |
| celestina | fuentes |
| "chartism." | carlyle |
| "they're hanging [the title character] in the mornin'." | danny deever |
| reluctant fundamentalist | hamid |
| house of boxes | pearl |
| "fox." | lakunle |
| filipino hawaiians | woman warrior |
| "offering." | sunrise |
| lucy prebble | enron |
| "index entry" | davis |
| "the triple fool" | donne |
| fa mu lan | hawai'i |
| alms of alcippe | yourcenar |
| "i appear iridescent; my form is shining now" | cross |
| "a tear more rare than pearl" | hair |
| in hanif kureishi | jungle book |
| sarah waters | picaresque |
| complete works of william shakespeare | football |
| "tobacco shop." | campos |
| gateway of the sun in tiwanaku | staff |
| in the city | los angeles |
| "versions" | cheng |
| moshe the beadle | night |
| love in a cold climate | mitford |
| "mr. bleaney" | larkin |
| ignatius dullfeet | brecht |
| cerinthus | sulpicia |
| great birnam | dunsinane |
| "at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning" | wise |
| "hypocrite, my likeness, my brother" | reader |
| the 1911 revolution | ah q |
oleanna | mamet |
| elieshi lema | swahili |
"the hunger had more power than even sorrow over me. (ugolino)" | inferno |
| "samiel," | bullet |
| "nick shadow," | devil |
| "god doth not need either man's work or his own gifts." | milton |
| "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 |
| fanny robin | child |
salve deus rex judaeorum | emilia lanier |
| "verse shall stand, / praising thy worth, despite" | time |
| bernardo soares in the book of disquiet | heteronym |
| "the tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere." | fenimore cooper's literary offenses |
| aubrey burl | love's |
| "natural depravity." | claggart |
| yunje | diaries |
| david lloyd george | skunk hour |
| oates | henry |
| tipping the velvet | picaresque |
| arthur shelby | george |
| chambers | pudd'nhead wilson |
| joe bonham | trumbo |
| marcus in death valley | dentist |
| celestial city | christian |
| josue | fuentes |
| neddy | swimmer |
| jerry dingleman | richler |
| tibetan buddhism | bon |
| madrigal | imagism |
| "hold their manhoods cheap." | st. crispin's day |
| daiyu | flowe |
| dejah thoris | john |
| adventures of ook | pilkey |
| "bread and wine" | holderlin |
| "familiar human subjects." | goethe |
| "has gone to be a soldier in the army of the lord." | john brown |
| la scienza nuova | finnegans wake |
| braing | rainbow |
| "thou art more lovely and more..." | temperate |
| facundo | dictator novel |
| in a harte | chinese |
| the st. crispin's | shakespeare |
| "on a thursday, as today is, in autumn." | stone |
rongguo house | dream of the red chamber |
| buddha of suburbia | jungle book |
| "man-cub" | jungle book |
| teen sensations | blume |
| new york cafe | heart is a lonely |
| maria verlaine | city and the pillar |
| linda hammerick | truong |
| holy sonnet ten | donne |
| now it can be told | breakfast of |
| toph | eggers |
| kawl | crime and |
"rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing." | the windhover |
| "is all that we see or seem." | dream within |
| reek | salome |
| another of pessoa | campos |
| "to feel everything in every way" | campos |
| narratives of empire | vidal |
| ding ling | communist |
| "flung on the sand." | sea rose |
| "drip such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf." | sea rose |
| prince heinrich hotel | billiard |
| cynewulf | cross |
| "on a day i already remember," | stone |
| "the true blue protestant poet" | shadwell |
| "like lightning dart into the nation's heart," | scottsboro |
| "he didn't even have time to kick off his seaboots" | pincher |
| "clubman" | periphetes |
| story of the stone | jade |
| last night of ballyhoo | atlanta |
| isaac's storm | larson |
| "cleanness" | patience |
| irene westcott | enormous radio |
| orthrus | nemean |
| elizabeth siddal | rossetti |
| "they also serve who only stand and wait." | patience |
| monsieur pain | bolano |
| book of jude | enoch |
| mokattam hills | cairo |
ningguo house | dream of the red chamber |
| singaporean ling jishi | diaries |
| "our almost-instinct" | larkin |
| neddy merrill | swimmer |
| "raised no cry. i wonder why." | scottsboro |
| national theatre | girl, woman, other |
| "91 revere street." | lowell |
| margarete steffin | brecht |
| "parable play" | brecht |
| "distinctive design that constitutes individual identity." | inscape |
| amores | ovid |
| "indo-chinese" | truong |
| walter younger | raisin in the sun |
| book iv of virgil | bee |
| "still can push the vision splendid to a birth." | keats |
| "plain language from truthful james," | chinese |
| uncle billy | outcasts of poker flat |
| bernardine evaristo | girl, woman, other |
| telipinu | bee |
| achebe | haiti |
| gurnah | desertion |
| "black wires" | dark lady |
| five metrical feet | elegy |
| "what will survive of us is love." | larkin |
| "a penny for your thoughts, schopenhauer" | lowell |
| "stunted" | sea rose |
julius excluded from heaven | erasmus |
| george jean nathan | american mercury |
| according to hesiod | nemean |
| "yet do i marvel." | cullen |
| "at spring-time" | keats |
| "from the gold bar of heaven." | the blessed |
| rightist movement | communist |
| cesar vallejo | bolano |
| "make a poet black, and bid him sing" | cullen |
| "worth its song." | scottsboro |
| abdulrazak gurnah | tanzania |
| "mwendo" | swahili |
the education of a christian prince | erasmus |
| "apprenticeship," | wilhelm |
| princess of france | love's |
| "garbage city" | cairo |
| pincher martin | lord of the flies |
| a metrical foot | ovid |
| trilce | surrealism |
| "i did not write it. god wrote it. i merely did his dictation." | beecher |
| "not brave enough." | reader |
| zhiyanzhai | dream of the red chamber |
| duddy kravitz | richler |
| "that there were flowers also in hell." | imagism |
| dark age ahead | jacobs |
| "the diary of miss sophie," | communist |
| "thing poems," | rilke |
| "archaic torso of apollo" | rilke |
| all the year round | ghost |
| aarne-thompson | fairy tale |
| africae | name of the rose |
| "sharp pang of appetite" | mantel |
| prize for fiction | mantel |
| "below there!" | ghost |
| "the hill." | spoon river anthology |
| "notes and errata" | infinite jest |
| possession | fairy tale |
| columella | farm |
| "watch-tower of a town which an earthquake shatters down" | goblin market |
| willa | penal colony |
| japanese nobel | kawabata |
| boy, snow, bird | fairy tale |
| salvatore | name of the rose |
| beyond black | mantel |
| "hobbling down the glen," | goblin market |
| "ineluctable modality of the visible" | ulysses |
| "stately, plump" | ulysses |
| "brilliance" | rilke |
| "paces in cramped circles" | rilke |
| "trumpets for the sky itself to hear" | song of solomon |
| "muses of pieria" | farm |
| five ages of man | farm |
| "the signal-man." | ghost |
| "yes i said yes i will yes." | ulysses |
| deasy | ulysses |
| party of marxist unification | for whom the be |
| "jack and the beanstalk." | fairy tale |
| "reminds him that it is time for a second breakfast." | mantel |
| "so now get up," | mantel |
| geoponici | farm |
| "shout in the street" | ulysses |
| "little rabbit" | for whom the be |
| "talk-stories" | chinese |
| "fly." | song of solomon |
| "pleasure past and anguish past, is it death or is it life?" | goblin market |
| "there is no friend like a sister" | goblin market |
| old commandant | penal colony |
| "have faith and wait" | penal colony |
| "may god strike you dead, you two-faced scorpion! you thorn in my flesh!" | lorca |
| "you would not believe, would you, / that i came from good welsh stock?" | spoon river anthology |
| margaret fuller | spoon river anthology |
| "upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots." | goblin market |
| "under the ridge." | for whom the be |
| pilar | for whom the be |
| woman warrior | chinese |
| sloper | james |
| silvestra | italy |
"good girl" (instead of "good woman") | snow country |
| pepe el romano | lorca |
| angustias | lorca |
| 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 |
| "from the stairwell bearing a bowl of lather," | ulysses |
| "all of you" | achebe |
| karkov | for whom the be |
| "lady of the pearls." | italy |
| mirror for the romantic | dream of the red chamber |
| wilderness | rubaiyat |
| "that dark center where procreation flared." | rilke |
| "for life, as it were." | james |
| washington square | james |
| new poems | rilke |
| "we cannot know his legendary head" | rilke |
| "sugarman" | song of solomon |
| "your day has come" | song of solomon |
| "bag of gold" | song of solomon |
| "put me on to edenville. aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one." | ulysses |
| "good woman" | kawabata |
| edwin muir | penal colony |
| "stubbornly, scrupulously silent" | name of the rose |
| "a thousand bars" | rilke |
| fezziwig | ghost |
| "i would have been as great as george eliot" | spoon river anthology |
| despite laura | goblin market |
| "ghosts." | chinese |
| "ritual dance around a circle / in which a mighty will stands paralyzed." | rilke |
| "and she was loved!" | song of solomon |
| "he oxygen, she hydrogen, / their son, a devastating fire." | spoon river anthology |
| "telemachus." | ulysses |
| "story of the three bears." | fairy tale |
| holy sinner | italy |
| "clashed swords with [him] twenty strokes" | akutagawa |
| "poppy or charms can make us sleep as well" | donne |
| izaak walton | donne |
| carol in oleanna | mamet |
| mitch | mamet |
| michel tournier | friday |
| foe | friday |
| poll | friday |
| hugo award | china |
| bernard gui | name of the rose |
| "put a bullet through his head" | robinson |
| chum frink | babbitt |
| "comical history" | french |
| in a franz grillparzer | sappho |
| frontiers of science | china |
| kind of alaska | doctor |
| "mr. flood's party" | robinson |
| wit | donne |
| "all is to be dared" | sappho |
| "weaves wiles" | sappho |
| man who mistook his wife for a hat | doctor |
| "she fears him, and will always ask / what fated her to choose him." | robinson |
| blindness by jose saramago | portuguese |
| "baby" | mamet |
| yu hua | china |
| margaret edson | donne |
| "speaking about it as an idea" | mamet |
| "i have been slipping downhill long enough" | shoot |
| "the zip city - zeal, zest and zowie" | babbitt |
| "states and empires" | french |
| "the days of old" | robinson |
| oliver sacks | doctor |
| biography of cancer | doctor |
| sinclair lewis | babbitt |
| monarch | babbitt |
| myra | babbitt |
| "old potter's tale" | akutagawa |
| calicut | portuguese |
| benamuckee | friday |
| elia kazan | streetcar named desire |
| siddhartha mukherjee | doctor |
| william halsted | doctor |
| serebryakov | shoot |
| journey to the center of the earth by jules verne | french |
| "be my ally" | sappho |
| micromegas | french |
| "since she whom i loved hath paid her last debt," | donne |
| "ode to jealousy" | sappho |
| in stephen mitchell | rilke |
| "where are the clown, the boozer, the fighter... where is old fiddler jones?" | spoon river anthology |
| peter neumeyer | penal colony |
| phaon | sappho |
| "child rowland to the dark tower came, / his word was still 'fie, foh, and fum.'" | fairy tale |
| "naturally, a manuscript." | name of the rose |
| mercy hospital | song of solomon |
| perses | farm |
| "in the garden room" | ghost |
| edgar lee masters | spoon river anthology |
| "dwindled and grew grey, then fell with the first snow" | goblin market |
| "heavy knotted rope." | penal colony |
| red azalea | chinese |
| "the glass coffin." | fairy tale |
| "scar literature" | chinese |
| leslie jamison | doctor |
| "tradition, touching all he sees / beguiles and reassures" | robinson |
| "talking about it" | mamet |
| "moon river." | tlon |
| chronicle of a blood merchant | china |
| body problem | china |
| seneca doane | babbitt |
| good citizen | babbitt |
| baltimore gun club | french |
| pond of blood | akutagawa |
| sidney farber | doctor |
| speranza | friday |
| empathy exams | doctor |
| mt. stromboli | french |
| "this is my play's last scene" | donne |
| "biography" | doctor |
| "born too late." | robinson |
| "richard cory." | robinson |
| mountain of needles | akutagawa |
| "swell'st." | donne |
| "many-colored throne" | sappho |
| "many-colored mind" | sappho |
| anushka | master and mar |
| holcomb | lee |
| "seizing" | beauty |
| edward ferrars | sense and sensibility |
| willoughby | sense and sensibility |
| elinor | sense and sensibility |
| "the story of a childhood," | persepolis |
| gold rush | california |
| lost guard | pynchon |
| reverend bacon | wolfe |
| "a thing of [this concept] is a joy forever." | beauty |
| "a foil to europe" | image of africa |
| barton park | sense and sensibility |
| christopher isherwood | berlin |
| monroeville | lee |
| "good god! what is the meaning of this?" | sense and sensibility |
| curtain of green | welty |
| mercedes | baseball player |
| "lay the guilt on women" | mexico |
| alec leamas | berlin |
| "dies alone" | meursault |
| go set | lee |
| doc knobb | baseball player |
| "undaunted spirit" | mexico |
| st bernard | pynchon |
| laszlo jamf | pynchon |
| "will never / pass into nothingness." | beauty |
| "shalt remain" | beauty |
| china grove | welty |
| spy who came | berlin |
| luck | california |
| steele | sense and sensibility |
| "public transportation." | meursault |
| "first dream" | mexico |
| "injecting blood into the veins of society." | persepolis |
| the reverend | lee |
| shirley-t.'s | welty |
| marianne dashwood | sense and sensibility |
| "envoy." | meursault |
| sandy bar | california |
| roaring camp | california |
| "you foolish men" | mexico |
| "a plantation and two hundred slaves." | o'connor |
| "it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors," | picture of dorian gray |
| we real cool | brooks |
| "flowery tale" | keats |
| "peace comes dropping slow" | yeats |
| sterling holloway | peter |
| tartuffe by moliere | don juan |
| hattie | hurston |
| sor juana | mexico |
| "believe me, i knew you, though faintly" | brooks |
| "whale-road," | old english |
| all saints | don juan |
| wopsle | pip |
| nunkie | hurston |
| "like sticky pearls." | lady lazarus" |
| patty sing | o'connor |
| middle kingdom egyptian | sailor |
| "the vampire who said he was you / and drank my blood for a year," | plath |
| lucy potts | hurston |
| "spring to her feet and stretch her young body" | grete |
| "plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood" | brooks |
| "number three." | plath |
| "she shall have a hump on each shoulder ... [and] skin like a mummy." | sheridan |
| o'trigger | sheridan |
| "does exceptionally well." | lady lazarus" |
| "spelt by [the] unletter'd muse." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "midnight's all a glimmer" | yeats |
| "and the wolf." | peter |
| "thin gin" | brooks |
| "voice like a selected weapon / or a measured injection." | plath |
| "shadows with the magic hand of chance." | keats |
| "nine bean rows" | yeats |
| "muck," | hurston |
| "shorthand and french." | grete |
| "they had to call and call" | lady lazarus" |
| "a smiling woman" | lady lazarus" |
| susan gubar | jane eyre |
| "tread softly because you tread on my dreams." | yeats |
| "all art is quite useless." | picture of dorian gray |
| traps of faith | mexico |
| school for scandal | sheridan |
| "in a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?" | borges |
| "symphonic fairy tale," | peter |
| woodcraft | uncle tom's cabin |
| "usually in lonely rustic septic tank rural settings" | wolfe |
| "monstrous apparition." | sir gawain and the green knight |
| sally rooney | irish |
| four sons of aymon | charlemagne |
| "the real thing." | brideshead revisited |
| "strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood." | white |
| "thought she heard someone crying" | mansfield |
| "extravagant." | mansfield |
| "determines / to immortalize itself in ruin." | mexico |
| "an authentic ghost story." | uncle tom's cabin |
| "matter was uniformly scattered in space." | calvino |
| sears roebuck | their eyes w |
| "at daybreak" | calvino |
| "magnitude," | harold |
| "gams." | white |
| "rather sound judgment with great simplicity of mind," | candide |
| "black hat trimmed with gold daisies" | mansfield |
| godber | mansfield |
| scottish highlands in the journal of a tour to the hebrides | johnson |
| "between my finger and my thumb" | irish |
| maria ruskin | wolfe |
| ruedi | calvino |
| uzzi-tuzii | calvino |
| twelve peers | charlemagne |
| matter of france | charlemagne |
| "social leper" | brideshead revisited |
| "whether he is or not, i still have nothing to eat." | candide |
| "stalking the billion-footed beast" | wolfe |
| "radical chic" | wolfe |
| "unclubbable" | johnson |
| george shelby | uncle tom's cabin |
| "aghlich mayster," | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "the mother of all axes" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| emir of babylon | charlemagne |
| anthony blanche | brideshead revisited |
| "mule talk" | their eyes w |
| "astronomer-poet" | rubaiyat |
| torcello | pinter |
| byzantine emperor hugo | charlemagne |
| "to teach you how to be a wife." | boccaccio |
| "they're called social reformers." | harold |
| "nice" | pinter |
| "get up and give history a kick up the backside and get it going again," | harold |
| "vague, nameless horror" | white |
| daggoo | white |
| whitaker | welty |
| colonel brandon | sense and sensibility |
| furious hours | lee |
| "dwells with [this concept] that must die." | beauty |
| benjamin bailey | beauty |
| "laus veneris." | rubaiyat |
| papa-daddy's | welty |
| sally bowles | berlin |
| "a thais / in her you court, but a lucretia / when you've possessed her" | mexico |
| "pyramidal, funereal, earth-born" | mexico |
| kim wilde | persepolis |
| judge lynch | california |
| willie maxwell | lee |
| dill | lee |
| eliza williams | sense and sensibility |
| ernest thayer | baseball player |
| "ash-heels" | california |
| "the tentmaker" | rubaiyat |
| whitley stokes | rubaiyat |
| "k-mart realists" | wolfe |
| renaud | charlemagne |
| "scalar" | harold |
| antichrist by an anabaptist | candide |
| "milk in a bottle / corked sloppily with paper" | irish |
| starbuck | white |
| "at 2 or 3 or 4 a.m." | wolfe |
| chang weiyuan | dream of the red chamber |
| "isn't life..." | mansfield |
| zinc cliffs | calvino |
| "imparting some special virtue of its own, as in ... japonicas" | white |
| jardins publiques | mansfield |
| "i like guys to hurt me" | irish |
| "smoke-heap of cinders and ash" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| janie crawford by zora neale hurston | their eyes w |
| "it is better to live rich, than to die rich" | johnson |
| "master of the universe" | wolfe |
| baligant | charlemagne |
| "man of magnitude." | harold |
| granny bb | calvino |
| transito soto | house of the spirits |
| "some blessed hope, whereof he knew" | hardy |
| "lean and slipper'd pantaloon" | jaques |
| "faithless" | horace |
| niels klim | latin |
| "gentlemen" | hardy |
| "sferics" | pynchon |
| "and what shoulder, and what art, / could twist the sinews of thy heart? " | blake |
| "all the world" | jaques |
| emperor of all maladies | doctor |
| "break this heavy chain / that does freeze my bones around!" | blake |
| "conformity" | emerson |
| "each age" | dickinson |
| "woeful" | nurse |
| pyrgopolynices in roman | comedy |
| "all that remained for me of catholicism was its smell" | drum |
| "earth's answer" | blake |
| "for whom do you bind your golden hair" | horace |
| "currents of the universal being" | emerson |
| "how did you find the quarrel on the seventh cause?" | jaques |
| knemon | comedy |
| "happy good-night air" | hardy |
| "reply churlish" | jaques |
| "full of strange oaths," | jaques |
| "assent" | dickinson |
| "you're straightaway dangerous - / and handled with a chain." | dickinson |
| "much madness is divinest sense," | dickinson |
| "there's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all are perjur'd / all foresworn, all naught, all dissemblers." | nurse |
| antiphanes | comedy |
| the secret postal service | pynchon |
| "to be great is to be misunderstood." | emerson |
| "alexandrian stanza" | emerson |
| "retort courteous," | jaques |
| "acrostic" | emerson |
| "sunned" | blake |
| "heed the false calculations of chaldean" | horace |
| red lantern | house of the spirits |
| "there would still have been milton and the universal alphabet." | eliza |
| duke senior | jaques |
| "crescent above" | dickinson |
| carmina | horace |
| leucothoe | horace |
| janice avery | bridge to terabithia |
| katherine paterson | bridge to terabithia |
| twinkies | bridge to terabithia |
| easter mass | bridge to terabithia |
| archpoet | latin |
| "brothers poem" | sappho |
| lesbos | sappho |
| "spy glass." | hurston |
| "like a pipe for a christmas present, or records" | harlem renaissance |
| "darkness dread & drear." | blake |
| "mimic rout." | poe |
| rape of the sabine women | saki |
| wilfrid | saki |
| kris kelvin | polish |
| christian lygia | polish |
| "lady of beauty" | sappho |
| thomas of celano | latin |
| benediktbeuern abbey | latin |
| "the gilded six bits" | hurston |
a minor apocalypse (language) | polish |
| "a book that one thumbs / listlessly till slumber comes." | harlem renaissance |
| helen waddell | latin |
| "barabbas came to us by sea," | house of the spirits |
| "pythagoras, thucydides, / herodotus, and homer ... burnt brightlier towards their setting-day." | hardy |
| "corpse outleant." | hardy |
| "wandering scholars" | latin |
| mrs quabarl | saki |
| "god'll damn you to hell when you die" | bridge to terabithia |
| "monstrous and empty," | latin |
| "day of wrath." | latin |
| "we are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan" | brooks |
| sappleton | saki |
| may belle | bridge to terabithia |
| missie may | hurston |
| "create a sensation" | poe |
| "the shadow of the empire state building" | hurston |
| "wispy... 'kilroy-is-here' announcements;" | brooks |
| "turkish pavilion." | julie |
| "crazy again tonight! absolutely crazy!" | julie |
| "heritage" | harlem renaissance |
| "writhes" | poe |
| beasts and super-beasts | saki |
| "mimes, in the form of god on high... / hither and thither fly" | poe |
| "hearts with one purpose alone" | easter rising |
| "art, science, and religion" | john |
| jack abbott | mailer |
| "corambis." | polonius |
| "botched civilization" | pound |
| "for three years, / was out of sync with his time." | pound |
| "nonfiction novel" | mailer |
| almansor | german |
| "american translation." | joy luck club |
| "who could frame thy fearful symmetry?" | blake |
| "there are no flies or mosquitoes to sting you," | john |
| "careless indictment" | go set a watchman |
| "humiliated christ" | paz |
| "more polished than the ivory of dieppe" | emma |
| "her nights in argument" | easter rising |
| popo | joy luck club |
| "the apparel oft proclaims the man." | polonius |
| "noble son is mad." | polonius |
| "bud" | chile |
| "old bitch gone in the teeth." | pound |
| anne de breuil | milady |
| "shall reign throughout our days," | pound |
| girl of mataski | john |
| monica in munich | forster |
| templemar | milady |
| fleur-de-lis | milady |
| adele morales | mailer |
| "malicious," | six |
| regina hubbard | hellman |
| "thrones" | pound |
| "the sons of" | paz |
| "drunken, vainglorious lout" | easter rising |
| helmholtz watson | john |
| "all things are are a-flowing." | pound |
| "baffling hermeticism" | paz |
| imitation of christ | john |
| "will the despotism of the earthly never cease?" | german |
| "like an empty net" | chile |
| "the sage heraclitus" | pound |
| abab | pound |
| "rock drill" | pound |
| wych elm tree | forster |
| "bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth." | jaques |
| "tangled bine-stems scored the sky / like strings of broken lyres." | hardy |
| "quip modest," | jaques |
| "the poets light but lamps," | dickinson |
| "part and parcel with god" | emerson |
| "it's no sin to sin in confidence" | tartuffe |
| "moment of unkindness." | tartuffe |
| "lens / disseminating their circumference." | dickinson |
| "opinion" | comedy |
| family idiot | emma |
| "middle" | comedy |
| "mondaugen's story." | pynchon |
| jan | drum |
| "envious age has been flying," | horace |
| "the land's features" | hardy |
| "demur," | dickinson |
| "perches in the soul." | dickinson |
| "with smiles / and with soft deceitful wiles," | blake |
| institute for union with nothingness | house of the spirits |
| "lamentable" | nurse |
| "proof" | comedy |
| "sixteen men were shot?" | easter rising |
| "if excess of love / bewildered them till they died?" | easter rising |
| "in the midst of it all" | easter rising |
| don abbondio | six |
| "every word [this author] writes is a lie" | hellman |
| "my blessing season in thee." | polonius |
| "between the streets and the air" | chile |
| "bleeding," | paz |
| "mattress-grave," | german |
| mei woo | joy luck club |
| "imitation is suicide . . ." | emerson |
| in the belly of the beast | mailer |
| "queen mother of the western skies," | joy luck club |
| "oh, i am slain," | polonius |
| "poplar of water" | paz |
| homais | emma |
| gaylen | mailer |
| "worlds scoop their arcs - and firmaments - row - diadems drop." | dickinson |
| lois leveen | nurse |
| "forward, backward, or across." | emerson |
| "envy is ignorance" | emerson |
| malabar caves | forster |
| kovalyov | nose |
| "in my barren land you are the final rose" | neruda |
| sydney pollack | out of africa |
| hatton | out of africa |
| "but slowly, slowly!," | japanese |
| shiki | japanese |
| "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 |
| "my ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongue's utterance." | balcony |
| "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 |
| "wild to do something for father" | hair |
| "moth machine" | out of africa |
| "cutting word." | japanese |
| eau claire | hair |
| "lovely road that runs" | cry, the beloved country |
| "there were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle." | neruda |
| "rumble thy bellyful" | lear |
| "miss spiritual tramp of 1948" | salinger |
| "notes from an immigrant's handbook," | out of africa |
| "for the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts" | wilde |
| "the orchard walls are high and hard to climb" | balcony |
| "destroy it and man is destroyed" | cry, the beloved country |
| chinese pidgin english in sea of poppies | india |
| "too" | sing |
| "the darker brother" | sing |
| "cuckoo" | japanese |
| "kentucky straight bourbon" | glass menag |
| "you're one times one! you're blue roses!" | glass menag |
| elma | balcony |
| "a newly fried pancake." | nose |
| black boy | autobiography |
| "cataracts and hurricanoes" | lear |
| "never, never, never, never, never" | lear |
| "funny little dwarf" | wilde |
| dedicated to jessie pope | dulce et decorum est |
| "what belongs to him or her and to none else" | sing |
"ah you who are silent!" | neruda |
| "to go home singing." | medea |
| "elvis puff." | india |
| sophie mol | india |
| amitav ghosh | india |
| w. s. merwin | neruda |
| rahel | india |
| "what belongs to the day." | sing |
| "the birthday of the infanta," | wilde |
| "the horror and the glory." | autobiography |
| jimmy jimmerino | salinger |
| "hanging face" | dulce et decorum est |
| "blow out your candles" | glass menag |
| jimmy aaron | autobiography |
| "experiments with the action of magnetism had occupied public attention," | nose |
| "curse through sludge." | dulce et decorum est |
| emil grubbe | doctor |
| "eros turannos" | robinson |
| bear | shoot |
| prince albert tobacco | babbitt |
| domenico scarlatti | portuguese |
| "in the middle of the road / like roland's ghost winding a silent horn" | robinson |
| prout | babbitt |
| "ascend to heaven" | akutagawa |
| longinus | sappho |
| broken stars | china |
| "nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die" | salinger |
| amanda wingfield | glass menag |
| jane pittman | autobiography |
| "the universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion" | sing |
| "the body electric?" | sing |
| "squatters" | out of africa |
| shadows on the grass | out of africa |
| "is not private, but not final." | dulce et decorum est |
| "of an ex-colored man." | autobiography |
| bus stop | balcony |
| "blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" | lear |
| "gas! gas! quick, boys!" | dulce et decorum est |
| william inge | balcony |
| booper | salinger |
| issa | japanese |
| "the unborn child that's inheritor of our fear." | cry, the beloved country |
| along with francois rabelais | dostoyevsky |
| "o romeo, romeo! wherefore art thou romeo?" | balcony |
| "white hills, white thighs" | neruda |
| kenya by danish | out of africa |
| emmanuelson | out of africa |
| book three of horace | dulce et decorum est |
| "misty panes and thick green light." | dulce et decorum est |
| "man's life's as cheap as beast's" | lear |
| "isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?" | akutagawa |
| "queer shoulder to the wheel" | ginsburg |
| delilah for a polish | balzac |
| zandrine | chopin |
| "i have done it again." | plath |
| "] is found stuffed in a chimney after being murdered by an orangutan. c. auguste dupin [" | poe |
| coton mais | chopin |
"the arrow / the dew that flies." | plath |
| "mastered all the arts of cowardice" | medea |
| "vough-care" | balzac |
| "yoo-zhan day rahs-tin-yahc" | balzac |
| "canvas-covered wagon" | chopin |
| "our sincerest laughter with some pain is drought" | bird |
| brently mallard | chopin |
| valmonde | chopin |
| "the happiest of mortals, for he is above everything he possesses." | candide |
| admiral byng | candide |
| bhishma | mahabharata |
| "dead hands, dead stringencies." | plath |
| otranto | castle |
| "kitchenette building." | brooks |
| "blood red thing" | poe |
| otis slemmons | hurston |
| "bessie, bop, bach." | harlem renaissance |
| grace poole | bertha |
| "deathless child of zeus" | sappho |
| "luh-cawn" | 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 |
| baron montes | balzac |
| "lying in the shadow of the big stone pillar" | chopin |
| "child of hope and fear." | dictionary |
| "poet hidden in the light of thought" | bird |
| "i've given you all and now i'm nothing." | ginsburg |
| "what sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls?" | ginsburg |
| lieutenant mamiya | murakami |
| "shall break into a hundred thousand flaws" | lear |
| "the thieving magpie." | murakami |
| "you cannot fold a flood-- / ... because the winds would find it out-- / and tell your cedar floor." | fire |
| "half the gladness that thy brain must know." | bird |
| "] features in many stories by, for 10 points, what author of " | poe |
| "vough-trahn" | balzac |
| "to encourage the others." | candide |
| "great stage of fools." | lear |
| jacques lacan | poe |
| "the key is in the sunlight at the window." | ginsburg |
| father gassalasca jape | dictionary |
| ascent to heaven | mahabharata |
| "stasis in darkness" | plath |
| maria edgeworth | castle |
| condy | castle |
| "the disinherited one" | knight |
| "lost his bottle of oil." | hades |
| janacek's sinfonietta | murakami |
| hidimbi | mahabharata |
| "art, like everything else." | plath |
| ngong hills | out of africa |
| "even greeks look down on other greeks, too clever to see the good in them." | medea |
| tixo | cry, the beloved country |
| "clumsy" | glass menag |
| great derangement | india |
| "camest thou hither" | balcony |
| "body of a woman," | neruda |
| "trahmp la-more" | balzac |
| "rose embower'd in its own green leaves." | bird |
| "hail to thee, blithe spirit!" | bird |
| "even and odd." | poe |
| simon winchester in the meaning of everything | dictionary |
| "raise up thy thoughts above the sky / that dunghill mists away may fly." | fire |
| "so it feels like hell" | plath |
| sir patrick | castle |
| "explode his inward air" | hades |
| "single" | pushkin |
| princess ateh | dictionary |
| sandwich islands | dictionary |
| malta kano | murakami |
| "here stood that trunk, and there that chest." | fire |
| wamba | knight |
| "in silent night when rest i took," | fire |
| "adieu, adieu, all's vanity" | fire |
| sir murtaugh | castle |
| "the black sluggard." | knight |
| "never known the weariness, the fever, and the fret" | bird |
| "alien corn" | bird |
| at madame vauquer | balzac |
| "polemic" | dictionary |
| "sort of gaming" | thoreau |
| "in bright array they seek the work of war." | wheatley |
| "a temporary insanity curable by marriage," | dictionary |
| interstellar | thomas |
| "moonlight before his bed" | li bai |
| "yew-uhl" | to kill a mockingbird |
| avram brankovich | dictionary |
| milorad pavic | dictionary |
| "cease, gentle muse!" | wheatley |
| seven gothic tales | dinesen |
| "cynics," | dictionary |
| signor brunoni | elizabeth |
| romney in florence | elizabeth |
| "received ideas." | dictionary |
| "so, ye three ghosts, adieu!" | odes |
| "supple and turbulent, a ring of men" | stevens |
| gaskell | elizabeth |
| yusuf masudi | dictionary |
| "all good things are wild and free" | thoreau |
| margaret hale | elizabeth |
| "after the first death, there is no other." | thomas |
| in the damask drum | mask |
| chaim soutine | dahl |
| bucket | dahl |
| poesy | odes |
| "married at fourteen" | li bai |
| "amazons." | elizabeth |
| "eastward i go only by force; but westward i go free" | thoreau |
| "s.m.a." | wheatley |
| merriam-webster | dictionary |
| "tis better to have loved and lost // than to never have loved at all." | tennyson |
| john adolphus etzler | thoreau |
| "the woods decay.." | tennyson |
| "muse! bow propitious while my pen relates" | wheatley |
| "i shall but love thee better after death." | elizabeth |
| "after many a summer dies a swan." | tennyson |
| "not as a god, but as a god might be." | stevens |
| "on which she embroidered fantails once." | stevens |
| therese fowler's | fitzgerald |
| captain brown | elizabeth |
| "the khazars." | dictionary |
| love, ambition | odes |
| lopakhin by madame ranevskaya | chekhov |
| von dideritz | chekhov |
| "dread[s] being awakened from the happiest dream" | emma |
| "black velvety jacket of brilliant flies" | rimbaud |
| "a black, e white, i red, u green, o blue" | rimbaud |
| "die in peaceful harbor," | petrarch |
| "sun's ray / was darkened." | petrarch |
| "of eros and of dust" | auden |
| "children afraid of the night." | auden |
| cranford | elizabeth |
| antoine galland | scheherazade |
| "grey-haired" | chekhov |
| "the lower race," | chekhov |
| "vowels." | rimbaud |
| "was indifferent to all crews" | rimbaud |
| "captured" | petrarch |
| "md, d.ph., d.lit., etc., etc." | helsing |
| huberto naranjo | allende |
| penguin classics | rashomon |
| "the world's delight is a brief dream." | petrarch |
| book of disquiet | portuguese |
| "devil's" | dictionary |
| "portrait of the artist as a young dog." | thomas |
| "all voting" | thoreau |
| "one does not always marry when insane," | bierce |
| michael caine | thomas |
| "let the boys bring flowers in last month's newspapers" | stevens |
| hildegarde moncrief | fitzgerald |
| "the curious case of benjamin button" | fitzgerald |
| "must enter again... the synagogue of the ear of corn" | thomas |
| "goddesses for the lazy" | cloud |
| "accursed poets." | rimbaud |
| "crimson lacquer," | rashomon |
| "maimed," | dream of the red chamber |
| "much trouble," | cloud |
| "prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone" | auden |
| "soul wail." | helsing |
| "vain hope and vain sadness," | petrarch |
| "heteronyms." | portuguese |
| "war on kitsch" | kundera |
| blanca | allende |
| "the lice searchers." | rimbaud |
| "a world in decay," | rashomon |
| "who is the potter, pray, and who the pot?" | rubaiyat |
| philip sidney | larkin |
| a. m. barnard | little women |
| "today i have much to do: i must kill off memory." | russian |
| "tamam shud" | rubaiyat |
| "wilderness were paradise enow" | rubaiyat |
| "air of the dream" | house |
| "hardness and the brightness and the plain" | larkin |
| "between the end of the chatterley ban / and the beatles' first lp." | larkin |
| don issachar | lisbon |
| grandpa joe | dahl |
| "we should all be feminists" | adichie |
| obinze | adichie |
| "it would have been too dark--too dark altogether" | kurtz |
| camara laye | adichie |
| "i shall not die of a cough." | seal |
| bobby watsons | ionesco |
| "always wears her hair in the same style." | ionesco |
| "night, street, lamp, drugstore" | russian |
| "two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication" | seal |
| after a batavian | lisbon |
| "what little [that character's creator] didn't say." | julia |
| how the garcia girls lost their accents | julia |
| jankyn | wife of bath |
| "pippi longstocking" | sweden |
| roseanna | sweden |
| lady pole | clarke |
| "the strength and the pain / of being young." | larkin |
| "there was nothing either above or below" | kurtz |
| "the author to her book" | brain |
| nicholas branch | kennedy |
| "if i poisoned the beginnings of your breaths, / believe that even in my deliberateness i was not deliberate." | brooks |
| "thousand injuries of fortunato." | seal |
| "two beautiful elm trees" | house |
| merry's museum | little women |
| mary maloney | dahl |
| huchette theater | ionesco |
| stieg larsson | sweden |
| "played in the snow" | adichie |
| "black night / white snow" | russian |
| overlords | clarke |
| ted sorensen | kennedy |
| "what is, is right." | lisbon |
| jacques the anabaptist | lisbon |
| formula 86 | dahl |
| nora ephron | kennedy |
| "one thing at least is certain, light has weight," | rubaiyat |
| "not respecting universal reason." | lisbon |
| geraldine brooks | little women |
| "kicked the hornet's nest." | sweden |
| "yes, there's a problem with gender... and we must fix it," | adichie |
| "the black cat" | seal |
| "boots of lead... lift a box / and creak across my soul" | brain |
| "i've stayed in the front yard all my life." | brooks |
| lisbeth salander in the girl with the dragon tattoo | sweden |
| "yes, for the love of god!" | seal |
| "the intended." | kurtz |
| "wasp." | sweden |
| silver age | russian |
| "have a thing in the ground" | house |
| "wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him." | kurtz |
| "wider than the sky." | brain |
| "far-reaching singleness" | larkin |
| "a drum / kept beating" | brain |
| plumfield academy | little women |
| "forest" | ionesco |
| broadside press | brooks |
| story of a crime | sweden |
| "raceteenth," | adichie |
| willy loman in an arthur miller | house |
| "mourners to and fro" | brain |
| pierre bayle | lisbon |
| great glass elevator | dahl |
| "feeble" | brain |
| greta gerwig | little women |
| "a girl gets sick of a rose" | brooks |
| "hit" | kennedy |
| "i work all day, and get half-drunk at night." | larkin |
| "had kicked himself loose of the earth." | kurtz |
| "man from the south." | dahl |
| "the twelve," | russian |
| "the sentinel," | clarke |
| "i was probably the only person... that [this man] had not made a pass at" | kennedy |
| "plain as a wardrobe" | larkin |
| "existential hero" | kennedy |
| ezeudu | things fall apart |
| "monstrous hell-bride" | grendel |
| "serpent's tooth" | lear's daughters |
| latunsky | margarita |
| pickup | gordimer |
| "had an accident. so may you all" | grendel |
| hall heorot | grendel |
| arthur jarvis by absalom | cry, the beloved country |
| "the machine stops" | forster |
| art of the novel | kundera |
| "the pacification of the primitive tribes," | things fall apart |
| "holy goof." | road |
| national book award for the sea around us | carson |
| grazia deledda | italian |
| flight to arras | saint-exupery |
| "our own heart exceeds us" | duino elegies |
| reeds in the wind | italian |
| vashti | forster |
| nineteen ways of looking at wang wei | paz |
| "what happened to" | gordimer |
| "saltmother" | paz |
| captain segura | spy |
| "trifling" | overcoat |
| person of consequence | overcoat |
| colonies | gilead |
| harry houdini | doyle |
| "beauteous" | isle |
| "stranger-god." | death in venice |
| tonto fistfight in heaven | reservation |
| reardan | reservation |
| cecil vyse | forster |
| "finale of seem." | be |
| "i could be a good woman if i had five thousand a year." | becky |
| "rather exaggerated" | overcoat |
| saifo | kite |
| apartment no | margarita |
| gitanjali by rabindranath tagore | bengali |
| the and the home and the world | bengali |
| "the howl of the loser, the lament of the hell-serf." | grendel |
| "the grieving for linos" | duino elegies |
| "a lovely road that runs from ixopo into the hills." | cry, the beloved country |
| "the growing stone" | camus |
| "think of the hands / how they rest without weight." | duino elegies |
| "madrid, 1937" | paz |
| "would not go to war" | things fall apart |
| wadi el natrun | saint-exupery |
| "the emotion / that almost dismays us, / when a joyful thing falls." | duino elegies |
| "penal and correctional institutions." | cry, the beloved country |
| "purple patches" | horace |
| "what the book is about" | gordimer |
| "tis his own blame... and must needs taste his folly," | lear's daughters |
| "smiling, lifeless man" | road |
| "was begun in trondheim and finished in san francisco" | cry, the beloved country |
| "meaning of so tiny a being as the [...] sea lace." | carson |
| "little round hole in the red-earth wall" | things fall apart |
| "perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph" | things fall apart |
| brick lane | bengali |
| broken nest | bengali |
| "salamander." | paz |
| wind, sand | saint-exupery |
| "if one were to suddenly / take me to its heart, i would vanish into its / stronger existence" | duino elegies |
| dorothy freeman | carson |
| "author's note" | cry, the beloved country |
| "old broken-down pier" | road |
| bureau of fisheries | carson |
| "hurled from a considerable height" | forster |
| "weighty openings" | horace |
| "daughter of fire, spirit of fire." | paz |
| "this is the royal bed." | rose |
| "fifth dimension." | margarita |
| old bull lee | road |
| shieldings | grendel |
| "the celestial omnibus" | forster |
| "dreams and hopes for the future" | saint-exupery |
| "abandon" | margarita |
| katya bagnelli in nice | gordimer |
| "has been through it" | saint-exupery |
| hrothgar | grendel |
| "strange blight" | carson |
| "homelessness." | forster |
| "a word once sent abroad can never return." | horace |
| madam tofana | margarita |
| bernard chabalier | gordimer |
| "more like a tavern or a brothel," | lear's daughters |
| eliot weinberger | paz |
| "the hardest, the most complicated part was only just beginning." | chekhov |
| "-ology," | dream of the red chamber |
| "rest your sleeping head, my love, / human on my faithless arm." | auden |
| "tell whoso hath sorrow / grief never shall last" | scheherazade |
| "terrible change for the worse." | helsing |
| jean de satigny | allende |
| george smiley | spy |
| "strictness, strictness, and always strictness!" | overcoat |
| "for you, a thousand times over!" | kite |
| raymond sintes | camus |
| hermetic order of the golden dawn | yeats |
| "fastened to a dying animal." | yeats |
| "benign indifference of the universe" | camus |
| ada | gilead |
| "rumble and roll" | tang |
| toby esterhase | spy |
| "mortal coil" | be |
| dulcinea del toboso | don quixote |
| "the giant rat of sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared," | doyle |
| "waste no compassion on these separate dead!" | walcott |
| tigre | walcott |
| "bloofer lady" | helsing |
| "lost letters" | kundera |
| "prayer to the virgin" | petrarch |
| "cuckoo land?" | cloud |
| "inexperience" | kundera |
| "sixty-three words." | kundera |
| "one of the few people who could see faults" | emma |
| "forehead itching red torments" | rimbaud |
| "two words," | allende |
| "three dull things" | emma |
| quincy morris | helsing |
| "ebony horse" | scheherazade |
| "good spirits" | helsing |
| "if my stay / was vain, let my vanishing, at least, be virtuous." | petrarch |
| "nights of insult let you pass / watched by every human love" | auden |
| "if equal affection cannot be, / let the more loving one be me." | auden |
| "the planet of inexperience" | kundera |
| "no longer felt [itself] guided by haulers." | rimbaud |
| "lovely eyes" | petrarch |
| david hawkes | dream of the red chamber |
| "radiantly beautiful" | helsing |
| "looking up at the stars" | auden |
| "second part," | don quixote |
| "four paragons" | tang |
| "lamplighter" | spy |
| "three hundred" | tang |
| petrovich 150 rubles | overcoat |
| "jezebel's." | gilead |
| m.r | james |
| "the rhodora" | be |
| love medicine | reservation |
| "crowd of spectators." | camus |
| "worm, colonel of carrion" | walcott |
| "beauty is its own excuse for" | be |
| louise erdrich | reservation |
| cide hamete benengeli | don quixote |
| "decrepit age that has been tied to me / as to a dog's tail." | yeats |
| "howls of execration" | camus |
| "the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns." | be |
| "third sally." | don quixote |
| "full of noises, / sounds and sweet airs." | isle |
| alistair crowley | yeats |
| "complete" | tang |
| "studied to be a pastor of souls" | brecht |
| "peter quint--you devil!" | james |
| "how many flowers have fallen" | tang |
| "he would be king on it." | isle |
| moustique | walcott |
| "alienation effect" | brecht |
| "runner" | kite |
| "sirocco." | death in venice |
| william makepeace thackeray | becky |
| ardua hall holograph | gilead |
| spencer brydon | james |
| marie celeste | doyle |
| "fifteen apparitions have i seen; the worst a coat upon a coat-hanger." | yeats |
| "came in from the cold," | spy |
| "baby nicole." | gilead |
| absolutely true diary | reservation |
| lone ranger | reservation |
| "thousand twangling instruments," | isle |
| james wormold | spy |
| "silent scream" | brecht |
| "blues." | reservation |
| "partial magic" | don quixote |
| p. v. glob's | heaney |
| "foundling" | fielding |
| "up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred" | australia |
| yr with deborah blau | mental hospital |
| "a man is destined sometimes to have his head cut off." | china |
| "the corner" | capote |
| extracting the stone of madness | spanish |
| michael pekarofski | great gatsby |
| beyond the forest | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "condemned." | fleurs du mal |
| thomas gerald clancy | australia |
| "there is more to admire in humans than there is to scorn." | plague |
| "this blessed house." | lahiri |
| "something that was all his own" | native |
| "little squirrel" | doll's house |
| ahmad abd | egypt |
| john huston | red badge of courage |
| flowers for algernon | mouse |
| "we've started two atomic wars since 1990," | fahrenheit 451 |
| carlo collodi | italy |
| bonnie prince charlie | fielding |
| "a secondary world which your mind can enter." | tolkien |
| mike nichols | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| arabella hunt | fielding |
| partridge | fielding |
| "bush ballads" | australia |
| "lower[s] his head and think[s] of home." | li |
| "sub-creator" | tolkien |
| "i'm going to hide behind language" | spanish |
| waters | fielding |
| "nee voh's" | great gatsby |
| sonnets of death | spanish |
| liza | dostoyevsky |
| "abmaphid." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
"with feminine vengeance" | a raisin in the sun |
| "the wind, tens of thousands of miles long" | li |
| nastenka | dostoyevsky |
| bog people | heaney |
| "that's what it says in all the novels that men write." | raisin in the sun |
| "a christmas memory." | capote |
| "on fairy-stories" | tolkien |
| middle-earth | tolkien |
| reiko | norwegian wood |
| hidden face of eve | egypt |
| "you can now eat and shoot... that's all you want to do." | red badge of courage |
| jim conklin | red badge of courage |
| "dried and frozen carcass of a leopard" | snows of kilimanjaro |
| professor nemur | mouse |
khlobuyev | dead souls |
| "venerable friends" | heidegger |
| tertius lydgate | middlemarch |
| raymond rambert | plague |
| "upward and upward" | falstaff |
| tina | lahiri |
| sleeping woman | norwegian wood |
| paul auster | red badge of courage |
| "finest writing since shakespeare" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| donnegan | mouse |
| millat | mouse |
| "girl with dark glasses" | blindness |
"drunk with the joy of singing i forget myself and call thee friend" | tagore |
| "paddle his own canoe." | biswas |
| record of a travel | matsuo |
| lucius brockway | paint |
| merchant of venice | shylock |
| "socially distanced" | blindness |
| "round and round the place, with a clasp-knife" | huck |
| camps | plague |
| "what fearful pranks ensue" | burns |
colonel killigrew | "dr. heidegger's experiment" |
| "escape" | biswas |
| white clown | fahrenheit 451 |
| "banana tree," | matsuo |
| "if you poison us, do we not die?" | shylock |
| sir tomato | italy |
| "what i killed for, i am" | native |
| "universal darkness buries all." | pope |
| "halloween." | burns |
| "julian," | snows of kilimanjaro |
| ensure in yaa gyasi | mouse |
| "deserving destitutes" | biswas |
| worn satchel | matsuo |
| "a vivid figure of the union of opposites." | thomas |
| bigger thomas by richard wright | native |
| head tavern | falstaff |
| lord of punt | sailor |
| "the shape of the letters on my father's [tombstone] gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man." | pip |
| "illiterate him quite from your memory" | sheridan |
| "strip of blue between the boards" | dinesen |
| "a street in bronzeville'', is based on her childhood in segregated chicago and she wrote of a group of pool players who " | brooks |
| "grandeur" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "british artillery park on the ancre" | borges |
| young pioneer | peter |
| "blue flannel suit." | plath |
| acutes | mental hospital |
| "i am not deceived, i do not think it is still summer / because sun stays and birds continue to sing." | brooks |
| "disdainful smile." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "plods his weary way" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "heaven-candle," | old english |
| "modern" | old english |
| "do not fear, do not turn pale" | sailor |
| "stone guest." | don juan |
| "name" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| county sligo | yeats |
| "ghost-custodian" | old english |
| "with her red hair" | lady lazarus" |
| valmorain | allende |
| "as a seashell" | lady lazarus" |
| miss malin | dinesen |
| "hit or miss the moon." | frost |
| amenaa | sailor |
| jose zorrilla | don juan |
| tenorio | don juan |
| trabb | pip |
| "barrabas came to us by sea" | allende |
| wiglaf | old english |
| "bright as a nazi lampshade" | lady lazarus" |
| kamante | dinesen |
| "what shall i give my children? who are poor" | brooks |
| "made all the difference." | frost |
| "what a trash / to annihilate each decade" | plath |
| kasparson | dinesen |
| maud brown | brooks |
| "when i have fears that i may cease to be," | keats |
| make mine music | peter |
| natalya sats | peter |
| "the pure gold baby/that melts to a shriek" | lady lazarus" |
| "white nights," | dostoyevsky |
| chronics | mental hospital |
| "that frozen niche [where] men have put you" | spanish |
| "stood dumb / when your betraying sisters, / cauled in tar, / wept by the railings." | heaney |
| "blackberry-picking" | heaney |
| "big jim evans saying it was a hard blow" | heaney |
| "i had often cowled in the slumbrous heavy air" | australia |
| "bulletin debate," | australia |
| "cindy, oh cindy" | raisin in the sun |
| "last survivor" | old english |
| "out here in jutland / in the old man-killing parishes / i will feel lost, / unhappy and at home" | heaney |
| blifil | fielding |
| "up the country" | australia |
| "waited till his billy boiled," | australia |
| "camped by a billabong." | australia |
"one for whom bread food is not enough" | a raisin in the sun |
| "we must carry on as though we did [know the difference between truth or illusion]" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "what a dump!" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "one of the first graphic novel moments" | great gatsby |
| upton inn | fielding |
| "power that crosses the white sea," | antigone |
| "do not know the secret of the poet's heart." | shaw |
answered prayers | capote |
| sook | capote |
| "wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man." | antigone |
| "steps are already quite white with dew" | li |
| silmarillion | tolkien |
| "a four-foot box, a foot for every year." | heaney |
| "jolly swagman" | australia |
| judd woldin | raisin in the sun |
| war trash | li |
| "dreamer" | dostoyevsky |
| officer dewey | capote |
| "you want me white." | spanish |
| "summer's blood" | heaney |
| willy harris | raisin in the sun |
| "if it's hoarfrost on the ground" | li |
| republic of wine | china |
| numenor | tolkien |
"the earth will be a soft cradle" | mistral |
| nghi vo | great gatsby |
| rise of colored empires | great gatsby |
| true story of ah | china |
| bardolph at the boar | falstaff |
| "with big nails, to keep off the devil." | huck |
| "heretical" | importance of being earnest |
| "lethe" | fleurs du mal |
| leah napolin | singer |
| "no one now sees fairies any more" | wife of bath |
| wick cutter | my |
| frampol | singer |
| yentl | singer |
| lewis milestone | all quiet |
| lady truth | petrarch |
| "the lesbians." | fleurs du mal |
| in my father | singer |
| black dobbe | singer |
| "the spinoza of market street" | singer |
| daily express | dead |
| "womanless man" | wilson |
| "in the pale glimmer" | fleurs du mal |
| "coronation oration" | petrarch |
| "archangel of hatred" | nautilus |
| cara | julia |
| "cannot contain their urine" | shylock |
| woman at point zero | egypt |
| plastic box company | mouse |
| geoffrey keynes | tyger |
| "summer grass" | matsuo |
| "mere scutcheon." | falstaff |
| judge thatcher | huck |
| green fisherman | italy |
| catchfools by the fox | italy |
| straw raincoat | matsuo |
| "great anarch" | pope |
| midori | norwegian wood |
| "wide as all the world." | snows of kilimanjaro |
| daniel keyes | mouse |
| "before us the future looms dark, and that we can scarcely..." | dead souls |
| borthrop trumbull | middlemarch |
| "cold as any stone." | falstaff |
| "will be superfluous even to ourselves." | all quiet |
| detering | all quiet |
| "all that remains" | matsuo |
| "only goodness." | lahiri |
| sofia | julia |
| accidie | petrarch |
| "fairy power," | wife of bath |
| negro leagues | wilson |
| "dreams of scaffolds" | fleurs du mal |
| "my twin, my brother" | fleurs du mal |
| "chekov and zulu" | rushdie |
| "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 |
| science museum of minnesota | wilson |
| uncle willie | maya |
| star trek | rushdie |
| "notes of a dirty old man." | california |
| on illustrious men | petrarch |
| anton cuzak | my |
| "will we walk all night through solitary streets?" | california |
| algernon montcrieff | importance of being earnest |
| rufino | julia |
| "adamantine chains" | petrarch |
| "the circular ruins," | borges |
| farragut | nautilus |
| collected works | fleurs du mal |
| "the scriptwriter?" | julia |
| "limbo" | fleurs du mal |
| "to whom it may concern" | maya |
| "in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire" | california |
| charles bukowski | california |
| north london in a zadie smith | wife of bath |
| yale repertory theatre | wilson |
| "beam me up" | rushdie |
| "ready to carve a flock of geese" | dead |
| freddy malins | dead |
| life of jesse james | my |
| shimerda | my |
| "shine, perishing republic." | california |
| "penitential psalms" | petrarch |
| "scipio's dream." | petrarch |
| lloyd richards | wilson |
| "go down swinging." | wilson |
| san francisco renaissance | california |
| "duck-shaped woman" | as i lay dying |
| "o time thy pyramids" | borges |
| lewis page mercier | nautilus |
| "screwed" | dead |
| "elegiac duodecimal scale" | andersen |
| "as a novelist." | andersen |
| uriah heep | andersen |
| lillian ross | red badge of courage |
| "oh, would some power give us the gift / to see ourselves as others see us!" | burns |
| "let thy mouth / be heir to those who are now exanimate. / gather the north flowers to complete the south." | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "false samaritan" | blindness |
| "nothing more wonderful than the murder of a mouse in an air pump." | heidegger |
| "let me not forget." | tagore |
| bracebridge hall | irving |
| "stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought." | fahrenheit 451 |
| hoja | pamuk |
| wouter van twiller | irving |
| astrid | south africa |
| "solid men of boston" | paint |
| robert sempill | burns |
mary garth | middlemarch |
| vincy | middlemarch |
| "royal anthology" | matsuo |
| bonkowski | pamuk |
| "when the stars threw down their spears / and water'd heaven with their tears." | tyger |
battle of shrewsbury (henry iv) | falstaff |
| "field of miracles" | italy |
| "an unconscious determinant" | native |
| fredric wertham | native |
| edmund curll | pope |
| scaly city | south africa |
| "future" | mouse |
| "white evil." | blindness |
| "where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way" | tagore |
"a terrible mistake" | the tyger |
| "firefly." | norwegian wood |
| pinocchio | italy |
| nights of plague | pamuk |
| pillars of society | doll's house |
| "the quality of mercy is not strain'd / it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven." | shylock |
| "let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours" | tagore |
| "sixth sense" | all quiet |
| "i do; i will." | falstaff |
| prince lemon | italy |
| haired fairy | italy |
| "non-poisonous" | paint |
| talking cricket | italy |
| firdaus | egypt |
| "on turning her up in her nest, with the plough." | burns |
| "my pretty rose tree." | tyger |
| "liked to hear of how japan was conquering china." | native |
| "headscarf girls." | pamuk |
| "repaired" | doll's house |
| discreet escorts | south africa |
| "solved the problem of sex rather well." | south africa |
| "dog man" | south africa |
| "if you prick us, do we not bleed?" | shylock |
| "a slow process of annihilation" | egypt |
| "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men / gang aft agley." | burns |
| "the same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world." | tagore |
| "what dread hand? and what dread feet?" | tyger |
| monkey | matsuo |
| widow douglas | huck |
| laura marris | plague |
| maureen freely | pamuk |
| "fall into degradation" | doll's house |
| prince of dullness | pope |
| "the devil can cite scripture for his purpose." | shylock |
| toru watanabe | norwegian wood |
| burning boy | red badge of courage |
| "poshlost" | dead souls |
"forbear!" | "dr. heidegger's experiment" |
| edward causabon | middlemarch |
| sentinel | biswas |
| earl miner | matsuo |
| "admits the possibility of his being subhuman" | native |
| "my father's suitcase," | pamuk |
| "exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference." | irving |
| promise | south africa |
| rubber soul | norwegian wood |
| "potato-faced" | snows of kilimanjaro |
| captain kopeikin | dead souls |
manilov | dead souls |
| shama at the hanuman house with the tulsi | biswas |
| "banish all the world," | falstaff |
| "see with blinding sight." | thomas |
| lafargue | native |
"dread empire" | pope |
| "history" | irving |
| laban | shylock |
| "effeminate," | things fall apart |
| reconsiderations | augustine |
| "i am pagliacci." | rorshach |
| new frontiersman | rorshach |
| "coming home" | tom |
| mystery garage | tracy |
| jenna maroney | tracy |
| "the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth" | mead |
| "places with no carpet on the floor" | hughes |
| "a tawdry cheapness" | pound |
| recluse | wordsworth |
| guenevere | lancelot |
| "his true penelope was flaubert" | pound |
| "hope is both the earliest and most indispensible virtue inherent in the state of being alive" | erikson |
| "identity crisis." | erikson |
| naphta | magic mountain |
| sidley park | stoppard |
| aunts at rachel | handmaid |
| "there are no rules." | calvin |
| "anacreon in heaven" | key |
| virginia clemm | annabel lee |
| hms tonnant | key |
| lady carlotta | saki |
| "green freedom of the cockatoo upon a rug." | stevens |
| petrie | welty |
| "hoary cripple." | browning |
| "will be at the table/when company comes" | hughes |
| big jim evans | heaney |
| "cogito ergo sum." | descartes |
| eshuoro | soyinka |
| dolorous guard | lancelot |
| "yermolay and the miller's wife" | turgenev |
| joseph k. the trial | kafka |
| lord munodi | lemuel |
| "let's go exploring!" | calvin |
| "junkie, strung out in heavens high, hitting an all time low." | tom |
| "karshish, the arab physician" | browning |
| "i taste a liquor never brewed." | dickinson |
| "sex and temperament in three primitive societies." | mead |
| "shut her up in a sepulchre." | annabel lee |
| "tabula rasa." | locke |
| elstir | in search of lost time |
| irene adler | sherlock holmes |
| twin snakes | mario |
| stagnationand intimacy | erikson |
| "stormy, husky, brawling" | chicago |
| johnny goodboy tyler | hubbard |
| shatov | dostoyevsky |
| spaceman spiff | calvin |
| "ashes to ashes" | tom |
| "space oddity." | tom |
| "passed the school, where children strove at recess, in the ring" | because i could not stop for death |
| "man of steel." | superman |
| "be embraced, millions!" | schiller |
| grandeurthe windhover | hopkins |
| "i was a child and she was a child" | annabel lee |
| brazil by guilherme | haiku |
| "no hopeful verse" | hawthorne |
| "the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth," | sandburg |
| salamis | herodotus |
| "unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster." | raven |
| ulgine barrows | thurber |
| george reeves | superman |
| independence day | welty |
| "a little stillness dancer," | heaney |
| "it was a hard blow" | heaney |
| "savage as wild beasts," | odyssey |
| "christ follows dionysus" | pound |
| massolit | master and margarita |
master of go | kawabata |
| reverend smith | things fall apart |
| ambrose bierce in the mexican revolution | old gringo |
| hans castorp by thomas mann | magic mountain |
| spooner | pinter |
| aglaya | dostoyevsky |
| monica | augustine |
| "the bitch is dead." | bond |
| peter schilling | tom |
| "on the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep." | key |
| "custom is king of all." | herodotus |
| "thou mastering me god! giver of breath and bread," | hopkins |
| "the catbird seat" | thurber |
| 400-acre | gordimer |
| "love rectangle" | eliot |
| "schoolboy" | wilson |
| eumaeus | odyssey |
| "gonna fly now" | rocky |
| "yo, adrian!" | rocky |
| watchmen | rorshach |
| "death is the mother of beauty," | stevens |
| "picker-up of learning's crumbs" | browning |
| frank boas | mead |
| "in the crowding darkness, not a word did they say" | brooks |
| meleagant | lancelot |
| "when the warrior returns" | key |
| "time passes" | to the lighthouse |
| "alive and coarse and strong and cunning." | chicago |
| "lilith" | magic mountain |
| "old soldier watching from his tent." | baudelaire |
| leah centers | handmaid |
| "the virtuoso's collection," | hawthorne |
| owen warland | hawthorne |
| "bitch" | bond |
| gettler | bond |
| flight of the conchords | tom |
| cappy | mario |
| "petrified man" | welty |
| "i will arise and go now, and go to innisfree..." | yeats |
| "[the title animals] and death" | sartre |
| in treatise on demonstration of problems in algebra | khayyam |
| "astronomer-poet of persia" | khayyam |
| hetty sorrel | eliot |
| "belhomme's beast" | maupassant |
gus (hitman) | the dumbwaiter |
| de almeida | haiku |
| second company | all quiet on the western front |
| addio | pirandello |
| onion | decameron |
| "dog carcass in alley... tire tread on burst stomach." | rorshach |
| "do it! do it!" | rorshach |
| grizz | tracy |
| halicarnassus | herodotus |
| "lovely stars" | longfellow |
| "hardly a man is now alive who remembers." | longfellow |
| "roof was scarcely visible, the cornice but a mound," | because i could not stop for death |
| "football in the first year of man'en" | oe |
| bezdomny | master and margarita |
| metal gear solid | mario |
| irs in operation snow white | hubbard |
| erwin martin | thurber |
| "complacencies of the peignoir." | stevens |
| "inebriate of air" | dickinson |
| democrat cornudet | maupassant |
| "where there ain't no light." | hughes |
| court of miracles | esmeralda |
| letter concerning toleration | locke |
| " for 10 points, name this jesuit poet of " | hopkins |
| mike tyson | mario |
| "who? who?" | disraeli |
| "big shoulders" | chicago |
| seven guitars | wilson |
| isaac butler | 1980 |
| goldeneye estate | bond |
| "the living daylights" | bond |
| "very scary" | calvin |
| tracer bullet | calvin |
| "yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again." | sandburg |
| mirah lapidoth | eliot |
| "iron youth" | all quiet on the western front |
| "it's eating my head" | maupassant |
| "i remember you dead" | pinter |
| kongi's | soyinka |
| sybil | disraeli |
| ojiugo | things fall apart |
| arkadiy | turgenev |
| "it's us" | old gringo |
| bride of messina | schiller |
| "betray'd to endless night," | holy sonnets |
| geometry | descartes |
| jermaine | tom |
| "each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." | raven |
| "there lives the dearest freshness deep down things," | hopkins |
| roger | lord of the flies |
| "be ashamed that i, too, am, america." | hughes |
| "honoured sir." | locke |
| the flies and nausea | sartre |
| "the old marrieds" | brooks |
| himmelstoss | all quiet on the western front |
| copper knight | lancelot |
| "papers want to know what shirts he wears" | tom |
| "hessian trooper" | sleepy hollow |
| "hysterical pregnancy" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| mayor of zalamea | spain |
| pedro calderon | spain |
| god bless you | firemen |
| model-t | firemen |
| sea garden | rose |
| "cushioned parapet" | lady or the tiger |
| "anguished deliberation." | lady or the tiger |
| "i will write it out in a verse, --macdonagh and macbride, connolly and pearse" | yeats |
| "the terrible burden of destiny" | chicago |
| "as a young man laughs," | chicago |
| countess czerlaski | eliot |
| feuerbach | eliot |
| "people ride a hundred miles to see." | abigail |
| "indians smashed" | abigail |
| father huismans | naipaul |
| "younger men... and children... women... birds." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| de la barca | spain |
| "tangling shadows" | twenty love poems |
| gladiator | vronsky |
| beth henley | 1980 |
| wetstein | werther |
| "shining." | japanese |
| cornhuskers | chicago |
| smoke and steel | chicago |
| "perverted moral judgment" | eliot |
| life of jesus | eliot |
| "mister" | color purple |
| "a spider, trying to hide" | twenty love poems |
| "tool maker," | chicago |
| "swagman," | australia |
| axaxaxas mlo | book |
| buckingham | richard iii |
| amalia von edelreich | schiller |
"like adamant draw mine iron heart." | holy sonnets |
| dan kois | 1980 |
| "oral history" | 1980 |
| "m, o, a, i." | twelfth night |
| jakob gradus | pale fire |
| "deputation of five strangers" | lady or the tiger |
john shade | pale fire |
| "creep-o" | rocky |
| bill watterson | calvin |
| tim tebow | tom |
| "the american scholar" | emerson |
| "the slaughterer" | singer |
| "parting at morning" | browning |
| miss bodwin | beloved |
| "let the rain kiss you" | hughes |
| "dear parents' head on a pillow" | abigail |
| queen yaruga | pale fire |
| communist red wolf | calvino |
| "the approach to al'mutasim." | book |
| combed thunderclap | book |
| hastings | richard iii |
| enlace | calvino |
| "reflecting gems" | richard iii |
| "the god abandons antony" | greek |
| "old indian chief" | sleepy hollow |
| rebecca taichman | yiddish |
| i. l. peretz | yiddish |
| "echoes down the corridor," | abigail |
| minister of the left | japanese |
| ten-square-foot | japanese |
| "stacker of wheat," | chicago |
| "b-text" | faustus |
| "the reward of sin is death," | faustus |
| "sandy-haired woman" | two minutes hate |
| "long thin nose" | two minutes hate |
| "b-b! ... b-b!" | two minutes hate |
| "small goatee" | two minutes hate |
the path to the nest of spiders | calvino |
| le chiffre in casino royale | bond |
| mephistophilis | faustus |
| "opening and shutting like that of a landed fish." | two minutes hate |
| fiction department | two minutes hate |
| "poppet" | abigail |
| "seas of bright juice suffuse heaven" | song of myself |
| yasha mazur | singer |
| compeyson | great expectations |
| valeria | lolita |
| manly pointer | o'connor |
| smyerdakov | dostoyevsky |
| "the best place to hide a leaf is in a forest" | book |
| celie addresses | color purple |
| "the more we reflect upon," | lady or the tiger |
| kitty shcherbatsky | vronsky |
| "are coming today" | greek |
miguel street | naipaul |
| "millennium approaches" | 1980 |
| "conceptism." | spain |
| "human heart." | lady or the tiger |
| makhotin | vronsky |
| big man | naipaul |
| "a scandal in bohemia" | sherlock holmes |
| chartist movement | disraeli |
| world only spins forward | 1980 |
| lord marchmain | waugh |
| corinne | color purple |
| "unscrupulosity of statement" | eliot |
| reverend amos barton | eliot |
| "the atlas of your body." | twenty love poems |
| charles kinbote | pale fire |
| "exquisite music" | greek |
| "jumbuck" | australia |
| lou albano | mario |
| pauline | mario |
| second reform act | disraeli |
| "iron horse" | things fall apart |
| psychlos | hubbard |
| schweizer | schiller |
| mickey goldmill | rocky |
| sylvester stallone | rocky |
| "smartest man in the morgue" | rorshach |
| "life is too much like a pathless wood" | frost |
| rex mottram | waugh |
| pike | welty |
| room 101 | 1984 |
| "love that was more than love" | annabel lee |
| "phoebus." | esmeralda |
| joseph anton | rushdie |
| "the blackbird of glanmore" | heaney |
| "battle police." | farewell to arms |
| boy willietries | wilson |
| "the artist of the beautiful" | hawthorne |
| magrath sisters | 1980 |
| "get away from earth awhile." | frost |
| on the use of the chorus in tragedy | schiller |
| council room of the continental principalities | 1980 |
| "sister's choice" | color purple |
| georgia to god | color purple |
| "crosses of fire" | twenty love poems |
| "as a weapon i may be of some use. but as a man, i'm a wreck," | vronsky |
| "the flowing river never stops, and yet the water never stays the same." | japanese |
scenes of clerical life | george eliot |
| "say goodbye" | greek |
| tarry town | sleepy hollow |
| "yellow dress" | color purple |
| "red sox beat yanks 5-4 on chapman's homer" | pale fire |
| "pleasant things." | japanese |
| "crowd of hungarians" | chicago |
| "keg of beer and an accordion" | chicago |
| "brutal" | chicago |
| castle of indolence | sleepy hollow |
| boiberik | yiddish |
| "shovelboard" | abigail |
| wandering jew | hawthorne |
| "stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley" | sleepy hollow |
| "harder it is to answer," | lady or the tiger |
| mihailov | vronsky |
| "faces of women and children" | chicago |
| tobias oates | australia |
| wycliffe bible | book |
| floyd barton | wilson |
| "the a.b. memoirs," | handmaid |
| "break, blow, burn, and make me new." | holy sonnets |
| "lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind." | rose |
| "beds of" | rose |
| "nolite te bastardes carborundorum" | handmaid |
| "nameless battle during the revolutionary war" | sleepy hollow |
| uss scorpion | australia |
| nevil shute | australia |
| e. l. doctorow's ragtime | firemen |
| "one who wastes her time and me." | rose |
| "bed of crimson joy." | rose |
| "while ye may." | rose |
| "like a foggy mist" | faustus |
| "the dark girl of long alley." | calvino |
| "never lost a battle" | chicago |
| "gay castles" | sleepy hollow |
| kiyaoki | mishima |
| "magnetic curses" | sandburg |
| hendrick hudson | irving |
| salmagundi | irving |
| "penman of the american revolution." | dickinson |
| "what maidens loth?" | keats |
| "less traveled by." | frost |
"wish fulfillment" | freud |
| salinas valley | steinbeck |
| "sorry he could not travel both" | frost |
psychology of the unconscious | jung |
| "archetype," | jung |
| "extrovert." | jung |
| "a report to an academy." | kafka |
tales of a wayside inn | longfellow |
| "measured out my life with coffee spoons" | eliot |
| "great wings beating still above the staggering girl" | yeats |
| pennsylvania farmer | dickinson |
| barrack | kipling |
| "as two stiff compasses are two" | donne |
| "dragged diana from her car" | poe |
| "jerusalem / in england's green and pleasant land." | blake |
| mikolka | crime and punishment |
| marmeladov | crime and punishment |
| "there is a middle ground in things." | horace |
| "take the wings of morning, pierce the barcan wilderness." | bryant |
| "do i dare disturb the universe?" | eliot |
| "the only emperor is" | stevens |
| "grassy and wanted wear" | frost |
| when lucy | dracula |
| "introvert," | jung |
| ying chan | mishima |
| siberia by sonya | crime and punishment |
| rose-of-sharon | steinbeck |
| "darkly painted on the crimson sky." | bryant |
| "show you fear in a handful of dust" | eliot |
| macquart | zola |
| regulations respecting the british colonies on the continent of america considered | dickinson |
| "dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul" | longfellow |
| "lives in the shadow of passaic falls." | williams |
"baghdad-on-the-subway" | o. henry |
| whitby | dracula |
| shaggy | scooby |
| euphorion with helen | goethe |
| "principal enemy of moral progress in the world." | russell |
| modestine | stevenson |
| "the aged p," | great expectations |
| baptiste clamence | camus |
| amber | scooby |
| dabney | welty |
| lucy poems | wordsworth |
| gitche gumee | longfellow |
| "i like for you to be still." | neruda |
| cannon street hotel by the smyrna | waste land |
| travels with a donkey | stevenson |
| am not | russell |
| "the world is too much with us." | wordsworth |
| "why i write such good books" | nietzsche |
| "fire" | sherlock |
| harlem globetrotters | scooby |
| pew | stevenson |
| ubermensch | nietzsche |
| "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" | cummings |
| "irma's injection." | freud |
| barabas | marlowe |
| sussex downs | sherlock |
| inspector lestrade | sherlock |
| temperament in three primitive societies | mead |
| "zoinks!" | scooby |
| "reference" | russell |
| mambrino | don quixote |
| "the just judges" | camus |
| "jinkies!" | scooby |
| delta wedding | welty |
| egmont | goethe |
| "judge-penitent" | camus |
| abe slaney | sherlock |
| lithebe | cry, the beloved country |
| scrappy | scooby |
| jim hawkin | stevenson |
| "knowledge by description." | russell |
| gines de pasamonter | don quixote |
| manus in growing up in new guinea | mead |
| uncle ebenezer | stevenson |
| coolsville | scooby |
| aleksandr vershinin | three sisters |
| baseball hall of fame | cooper |
| gil scott | revolution |
| grimaud | three musketeers |
| "two and forty hours." | descriptions of |
| "a plague on both your houses." | descriptions of |
| dante's purgatorio | descriptions of |
| "thy neighbor as thyself." | love |
| shema | love |
| "fabius." | dickinson |
| max mallowan | christie |
| james dillingham young | henry |
| "the courtship of miles standish," | longfellow |
| "fort-da" | freud |
| "timshel." | steinbeck |
| razmann | schiller |
| "will lead my steps aright." | bryant |
| "pile the bodies high," | sandburg |
| "have done with childish days- the lightly proffered laurel, the easy, ungrudged praise." | kipling |
| licinius | horace |
| jamie hood | bird |
| "dr[ies] up, like a raisin in the sun?" | hughes |
| "if you're anything like me." | swift |
| "hipster." | mailer |
| "lovesick major" | three sisters |
| rural hours | cooper |
judge marmaduke temple | cooper |
| "no more time's dark events, charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky" | whitman |
| jamie lloyd | descriptions of |
| tridentine mass | christie |
| "monster on the hill... slowly lurching toward your favorite city" | swift |
| "descriptive tale" | cooper |
| natty bumppo in the last of the mohicans | cooper |
| "bleeding drops of red." | whitman |
| "i think i've seen this film before and i didn't like the ending." | swift |
| tortured poets | swift |
| "halcyon days" | bird |
| tony marston | christie |
| slop in tristram shandy | obstetrics |
| "powerful western fallen star." | whitman |
| "go pick out a white dress" | swift |
| chamberlen | obstetrics |
| not without laughter | hughes |
| "no ideas but in things," | williams |
| "the city in the sea" | poe |
| "big boy doing a man's work" | frost |
| "life is real! life is earnest!" | longfellow |
| "collective unconscious." | jung |
| lenox avenue | hughes |
| jesse b. semple | hughes |
| room ballads | kipling |
| "along that pathless coast" | bryant |
| nwoye | things fall apart |
| "what's wrong with someone laughing as they tell the truth?" | horace |
| "the haunted palace," | poe |
| isao | mishima |
| "you're a better man than i am, gunga din!" | kipling |
| "is all pine" | frost |
| "the jewish cemetery at newport," | longfellow |
| "what mad pursuit?" | keats |
| "zoophagous maniac." | dracula |
| rotpeter | kafka |
| pacification of the primitive tribes of the lower niger | things fall apart |
| "i'se been a-climbin' on, and reachin' ladders, and turning corners" | hughes |
| carlisle | dickinson |
| "the only moving thing / was the eye of" | stevens |
| obierka | things fall apart |
| "the tell-tale heart." | poe |
| "beautiful spark of the gods." | schiller |
| schweizer, roller | schiller |
| "judging functions," | jung |
"shovel them under" | sandburg |
| seth handaside | irving |
| "purple with green rings," | stevens |
| georges duroy | maupassant |
| "betrothed unto your enemy," | donne |
priscilla (poetry) | longfellow |
| luzhin | crime and punishment |
| lizaveta | crime and punishment |
| beyond the pleasure principle | freud |
| "the long train of ages glides away." | bryant |
| chestney | o'connor |
| "put his head to the window." | blake |
| olive branch petition | dickinson |
| "the comedian as the letter c." | stevens |
dirty hands | sartre |
| "down on lennox avenue," | hughes |
| tonight we improvise | pirandello |
| shawshank redemption | king |
| rietze the candle | singer |
| jaggers | great expectations |
| prince prospero | poe |
| "was the common property of the human race" | paine |
| the slave and the | singer |
| maitre holbroque | maupassant |
| georg bendemann | kafka |
| "the rain set in early tonight" | browning |
| "reposes" | wordsworth |
| nyms | lemuel |
| "common sense." | paine |
| satan in goray | singer |
| "twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle." | second coming |
| hoederer | sartre |
| "mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you" | lindsay |
| "faultless painter" | browning |
| sampson carrasco | cervantes |
| morph ball | samus |
| pensey | holden |
| "pilot of the galilean lake." | milton |
| "dirty picture" | slaughterhouse-five |
| miss pross | tale of two cities |
| pikachu in the subspace emissary | samus |
| "except the pleasure of seeing it." | smith |
| "sisters of the sacred well" | milton |
| charles parnell | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "roofs of the world." | song of myself |
| "poo-tee-weet?" | slaughterhouse-five |
| pig bodine | pynchon |
| whole sick crew | pynchon |
"the bet" | chekhov |
| randolph driblette | pynchon |
gayev | the cherry orchard |
| national book award | singer |
| "the eagle that is forgotten." | lindsay |
| "sullen wind" | browning |
| "tore the elm-tops down for spite" | browning |
| zero suit | samus |
| kirilov | dostoyevsky |
"under this dark sycamore," | tintern abbey |
| "a host of golden daffodils." | wordsworth |
| doctor hinkfuss | pirandello |
| big endians | lemuel |
| leslie knope | bridge to terabithia |
| "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." | emerson |
| "to live in mankind is far more than to live in a name" | lindsay |
| "meeting at night" | browning |
| "you ever ate a chicken that was two days old?" | o'connor |
| "a poet could not but be gay, / in such a jocund company." | wordsworth |
| "the poet of the body" | song of myself |
| "if i am the devil's child, i will live then from the devil." | emerson |
| shabbatai zevi | singer |
| "who" | lemuel |
| nastassya | dostoyevsky |
| measure of the soul | augustine |
| city of god | augustine |
| kingsley amis in colonel sun | bond |
| bud collyer | superman |
| "and yet, god has not said a word!" | browning |
| "ledaean body bent above a sinking fire" | yeats |
| oberlin college | beloved |
| alan moore | rorshach |
| "sitting in a tin can" | tom |
| "tell my wife i love her very much- she knows!" | tom |
| "ready to kill" | sandburg |
| "i stop somewhere waiting for you" | song of myself |
| "may be from below," | emerson |
| "creeping through the black / cutting through the jungle with a golden track." | lindsay |
| "strive to do, and agonize to do, and fail in doing" | browning |
| late mattia pascal | pirandello |
| "poet of the soul." | song of myself |
| "what do i know?" | emerson |
| communist hugo | sartre |
| "april rain song." | hughes |
| "the sword of washington would have been wielded in vain." | paine |
| "unscrew the locks from the doors! / unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" | song of myself |
| "barbaric yawp" | song of myself |
| crown of feathers | singer |
| beardsley school for girls | lolita |
| journey to parnassus | cervantes |
| "schoolteacher" | beloved |
| "so it goes" | slaughterhouse-five |
| iron cross | grass |
| "not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion." | smith |
| arkenstone | bilbo |
| "spring is the mischief in me" | frost |
| "run" | updike |
| "the sea is calm tonight." | dover beach |
| chozo on zebes | samus |
| danzig | grass |
| tallon iv | samus |
| roland weary | slaughterhouse-five |
| rinehart | invisible man |
| "attercop, attercop, won't you stop, stop your spinning and look for me?" | bilbo |
| shire | bilbo |
| guy montag in fahrenheit | bradbury |
| adam malkovich in the galactic federation | samus |
| charge beam | samus |
| "look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth" | milton |
| "justify the ways of god to man" | milton |
| dante riordan | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| ridley | samus |
| dubula | cry, the beloved country |
| hoseason | stevenson |
| fairchilds | welty |
| amaranta ursula | one hundred years of solitude |
| manus in new lives for old | mead |
| "proot" | stevenson |
| "knowledge by acquaintance" | russell |
| "sense" | russell |
| carmicael | cry, the beloved country |
| troy flavin | welty |
| wemmick | great expectations |
| "she dwelt among the untrodden ways," | wordsworth |
| ecce homo | nietzsche |
| "it is the hour of departure. oh abandoned one!" | neruda |
| king of bohemia | sherlock |
| cumean sibyl | waste land |
| duke of alba | goethe |
| "the adventure of the empty house" | sherlock |
| great dane | scooby |
| long john silver | stevenson |
| kidnapped | stevenson |
| "it is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist" | wilde |
| metroid | samus |
| golden day | invisible man |
| "beauty which the appearance of utility bestows" | smith |
| emma clery | portrait of the artist as a young man |
moocow | a portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "derive nothing from" | smith |
| "from what i've tasted of desire" | frost |
"a&p" | updike |
| clongowes college | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| cranly | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| will halloway | bradbury |
jim nightshade | bradbury |
| lord petre | pope |
"invisible hand" | smith |
| "malt does more than" | milton |
| "earth's the right place for love" | frost |
| "knowing how way leads onto way," | frost |
| rhode island in the witches of eastwick | updike |
| "we are here as on a darkling plain," | dover beach |
| jerry cruncher | tale of two cities |
| davin | 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 |
| jane gallagher | holden |
| "keeping time, time, time, / in a sort of runic rhyme." | poe |
| "world of merriment their melody foretells" | poe |
| "hope springs eternal in the human breast" | pope |
| cooger | bradbury |
| parasite queen | samus |
| " to him, / but it's not elves exactly, and i'd rather / he said it for himself." | frost |
| eloisa to abelard | pope |
| "turbid ebb and flow / of human misery," | dover beach |
| carton | tale of two cities |
| power suits | samus |
| eliot rosewater | slaughterhouse-five |
| d.b | holden |
| "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind," | pope |
| "what dire offence from am'rous causes springs" | pope |
| "i could say " | frost |
| space pirates | samus |
| pilenz | grass |
| "when you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold" | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "c----," | rape of the lock |
| "half past two" | grangerford |
| leonard in the boer war | butler |
| "necessary explanation" | idiot |
| "enormous, implacable, and dumb" | idiot |
| "po" | li |
| aubrey beardsley | rape of the lock |
| edgar branch | grangerford |
| "beneath the falls." | snow |
| "deputy governor" | abigail |
| "bog in the history department" | who's |
| "bland, intellectual joke" | who's |
| tom kernan | dubliners |
| three hundred poems | li |
| "at sixteen you departed, you went ... by the river of swirling eddies" | li |
| "three men" | li |
| "have not grown old" | yeats |
| "i am the enemy you killed my friend." | owen |
| "to the depth and breadth and height / my soul can reach" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "ghazal of dark death" | lorca |
| rugby school | biography |
| "personal knowledge." | biography |
| wymark | asylum |
| randle p | asylum |
| "at every jolt, the blood / come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs." | owen |
| "whiter...than snow" | othello |
| "the green eyed monster" | othello |
"jenny" | dante gabriel rossetti |
| "bashful and tender" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "cedars" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "lazy laughing languid" | rossetti |
| "herr ribbentrop." | butler |
| all too human | sterne |
| "squirrel-soul" | sterne |
| joan gilling | asylum |
| "spiritual accountant." | dubliners |
| "the net," | waiting for godot |
| "en-dim-ee-in" | keats |
| "cannot admit absence." | donne |
| "black smoke" | invasion of earth |
| "grossly mistaken" | praise of folly |
| "consecrate[d] to fame" | rape of the lock |
| "mock-heroic" | rape of the lock |
| "i think he died for me." | dubliners |
| "women don't have prostates." | waiting for godot |
| chantilly | poe |
| "kindness and mercy" | invasion of earth |
| quail | invasion of earth |
| "nature's dumb creatures." | praise of folly |
| william michael | rossetti |
| "breath of my chant" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "midst of stars," | rape of the lock |
| "two-edged" | rape of the lock |
| weymouth | butler |
| runaway horses | snow |
| rogozhin | idiot |
| c | poe |
| books of bokonon | cat's cradle |
| "here we go round the mulberry bush" | who's |
| father purdon | dubliners |
| illusory land of the great void | stone |
| "before the curtain," | thackeray |
| "let spades be trumps" | rape of the lock |
| earl mccabe | cat's cradle |
| robert hirst | grangerford |
| satoko | snow |
| ippolit | idiot |
| "a fairy's child" | keats |
| "profound dull tunnel" | owen |
| "little engine" | rape of the lock |
| albert schweitzer | cat's cradle |
| felix bokonon | cat's cradle |
| "colonel" | grangerford |
| "billet-doux" | rape of the lock |
| nastasya filippovna | idiot |
| eliza draper | sterne |
| de haarlemse toneelschuur | waiting for godot |
| "smart lad" | shropshire lad |
| "betimes away" | shropshire lad |
| "es muss sein!" | unbearable lightness of being |
| "victory" | ode |
| "sophons" | invasion of earth |
| "industry" | praise of folly |
| "the tale of the three apples" | arabic |
| "[flows] down inside" | snow |
| philip gabriel | murakami |
| colonel sartoris | emily |
| "conform the order of their lives" | bryant |
| "immortal soul" | italy |
| wings of the dove | italy |
| "i have lived too long in foreign parts" | italy |
| lost highway | wallace |
| empyrean | divine comedy |
| deutscher | bradbury |
| "a completely beautiful human being" | idiot |
| bandusian | horace |
| mohammed ben | france |
| "it is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland," | horace |
| "half by expectation, half by inattention" | tan |
| "full fathom five thy father lies" | ariel |
| "fragrant zone" | keats |
| "smooth as monumental alabaster" | othello |
| "sublunary lovers' love" | donne |
| aurora leigh | elizabeth |
| "monument more lasting than bronze." | ode |
| "lame-footed punishment rarely forgets the wicked man" | horace |
| haired woman | pamuk |
| judge hathorne | webster |
| "whining and hypochondriacal" | romanticism |
| clym yeobright | diamond |
| allan quatermain | diamond |
| paul berlin | vietnam |
| ted lavender | vietnam |
| sunday school | paint |
| professor woland in mikhail bulgakov | devil |
| right you are | pirandello |
| morten kiil | enemy of the people |
| "languishing" | marvell |
| "garlic-tavern-keepers of bakeries" | lysistrata |
| "god si love," | passage to india |
| muslim dr | passage to india |
| "king without a kingdom" | orestes |
| soselo | stalin |
| "wonderfully and oddly hollow" | wallace |
| parson yorick | sterne |
| "ole missis" | paint |
| "london bridge is falling down." | eliot |
| "in the bitter sea" | lorca |
| "ode to stephen dowling bots" | grangerford |
| "brotherly-love" | grangerford |
| slop | sterne |
| ladies' day | asylum |
| "bai" | li |
| "think!" | waiting for godot |
| "in blood of innocence" | donne |
| "you are a great artist." | rape of the lock |
| "long-robed philosophers," | praise of folly |
| "pleasantly surprise his boss" | butler |
| "personal god quaquaquaqua." | waiting for godot |
| "lover by lover" | yeats |
| "paddle in the cold / companionable streams" | yeats |
| nemean, isthmian | ode |
| "wallbreakers" | invasion of earth |
| "sea-winds blown from east and west" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "call" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "western orb sailing the heaven." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| john caryll | rape of the lock |
| "you know who." | cat's cradle |
| "fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea." | rossetti |
| "perfume." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| harney | grangerford |
| mcmurphy | asylum |
| bartell d'arcy's | dubliners |
| tereza by milan kundera | unbearable lightness of being |
| "encumbered sleeper" | owen |
| "any man's death diminishes [him]" | donne |
"same [one of these objects] that smiles today / to-morrow will be dying." | rose |
| self-love | praise of folly |
| "hodge-podge medley of speech" | praise of folly |
| papa monzano | cat's cradle |
| "of heaven." | trees |
| "fragrant pines" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| the rambler | biography |
| "some bookworm." | who's |
| "is my team ploughing?" | shropshire lad |
| "einmal ist keinmal." | unbearable lightness of being |
| mustardseed | fairies |
| "the nineteenth autumn has come upon me / since i first made my count." | yeats |
| joyce kilmer | trees |
| "hundred martyrs to democracy," | cat's cradle |
| true church | eliot |
| "no ... we have nothing to ask him." | candide |
| "milk-plus," | burgess |
| "of liars" | montaigne |
| "of cannibals," | montaigne |
| "the eternal feminine draws us on." | faust |
| "it is better to be a starving apothecary than a starving poet" | keats |
| "threnodic essence" | soyinka |
| "broad-backed hippopotamus" | eliot |
| "no title" | li |
| "will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us." | keats |
| hauchecome | maupassant |
| "common people" | egypt |
| sandy jenkins | frederick |
| calonice | lysistrata |
| "we have bastardized ... to please our corrupt taste" | montaigne |
| drexel | wright |
| thales | faust |
| "magical root" | frederick |
| omega point | everything that rises must converge |
| ernie | wright |
| "a vale of soul-making." | keats |
| "rests on his belly in the mud." | eliot |
| " and which opens " | eliot |
| " he used the sanskrit words shantih, shantih, shantih to close a poem that begins " | eliot |
| king charles ix | montaigne |
| "the man who lived underground," | wright |
| john gibson lockhart | keats |
| "first notes of song" | duino elegies |
| " after converting to anglicanism, this author wrote " | eliot |
| flashman | school |
| "safety first," | school |
| "mind's bible" | keats |
| "most painful event" | duino elegies |
| "goodness, truth, and beauty, come first." | school |
| tom brown | school |
| "neptunist" | faust |
| "the man of achievement" | keats |
| "dweller in truth." | egypt |
| ilish | egypt |
| rose stanley | school |
| "horrible hypocrisy" | frederick |
| enishte | istanbul |
| tonja carter | go set a watchman |
| "the hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse" | chile |
| disjunctions | paz |
| "but who can talk of give and take" | easter rising |
| last party | mailer |
| mah-jongg | joy luck club |
| "costly thy habit as thy purse can buy" | polonius |
| "faces in the crowd." | pound |
| chestny | everything that rises must converge |
| charles shields | go set a watchman |
| "happy as hell" | go set a watchman |
| "puckish," | six |
| "brevity is the soul of wit." | polonius |
| "stud" | chile |
| "calm course of a star," | paz |
| lord sudley | milady |
| "rid of them centuries ago" | john |
| hymns to the night | german |
| "nimble little maidservant" | six |
| "changed, changed utterly" | easter rising |
| "can never fail / for it is based upon a rock," | eliot |
| sissy jupe | school |
| "attempts." | montaigne |
| detective britten | wright |
| marguerite mason | duino elegies |
| "the greatest." | duino elegies |
| "read the poet gaspara stampa sufficiently yet?" | duino elegies |
| lester mead | banana |
strong wind | banana (trilogy) |
al-sayyid | mahfouz |
| "voice grew shrill." | easter rising |
| "sadly familiar reductionist tendency." | soyinka |
| "not hate progress, only its nature / which makes all roofs and faces look the same" | soyinka |
| "useless beauty" | maupassant |
| "paste." | maupassant |
| m'choakumchild | school |
| kitchen shack with the communist jan erlone | wright |
| "secret thesis" | duino elegies |
| "the stepchild," | six |
| pentimento | hellman |
| "borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry" | polonius |
"it bites my eyes like a mad dog" | lysistrata |
| "highest excellence o'er power" | laura |
| "dick steele" | thackeray |
| lisabetta | decameron |
| "away from all that is base" | laura |
| "the land of lost content." | shropshire lad |
| "freckles" | fairies |
| "tithe-pig's tail," | fairies |
| "too cunning to be profound." | auguste |
| "the scapegoat's agony" | waiting for godot |
| "cushion with the stuffing out" | everything that rises must converge |
| "elegance." | petronius |
| quartilla | petronius |
| esch batiste | as i lay dying |
| "answered the hardest question right." | as i lay dying |
| reverend whitfield | as i lay dying |
| "bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs," | fairies |
| peaseblossom | fairies |
| "sprightly words" | decameron |
| "flood timber" | beowulf |
| "with a hostile world" | beowulf |
| "ovid's fragile medusa" | unbearable lightness of being |
| "the hard stool," | waiting for godot |
| six memos for the new millennium | unbearable lightness of being |
| "team of little atomi." | fairies |
| "bed and company" | fairies |
| "sinister design" | auguste |
| "golden hair" | laura |
| "arbiter" | petronius |
| giton | petronius |
| "doggerel verse" | stone |
| salvage the bones | as i lay dying |
| mab | fairies |
| tigellinus | petronius |
| "fate will unwind as it must," | beowulf |
| "more faithful than he intended to be." | tom |
| "fifty years to-night / that god saved the queen." | shropshire lad |
| titania in william shakespeare | fairies |
| "precious jade." | stone |
| ciappelletto | decameron |
| filocolo | decameron |
| "montale's black lucifer" | unbearable lightness of being |
"the grand march" | the unbearable lightness of being |
| "tried to leave" | tom |
"five pennies is a nickel" | welty |
| "townsman of a stiller town," | shropshire lad |
| miguel asturias | banana |
| "sex strike" | lysistrata |
| "quadruped graminivorous," | school |
| "but hold! they do not wear trousers" | montaigne |
| anna murray | frederick |
| bitzer | school |
| eight men | wright |
| "what are those blue remembered hills, / what spires, what farms are those?" | shropshire lad |
| "restock to the earth." | maupassant |
| carlo campanati | burgess |
| "an enemy of all religion," | frederick |
| "of ancient customs" | montaigne |
| "barren numbness." | duino elegies |
| " another of his speakers is asked a question by the smyrna merchant " | eliot |
| lawrence durrell | egypt |
| "to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of god" | burgess |
| kenneth toomey in earthly powers | burgess |
| pierre teilhard | everything that rises must converge |
| thomas chatterton | keats |
| "i cheer a dead man's sweetheart, / never ask me whose" | shropshire lad |
| macgowan | as i lay dying |
| "sestet," | laura |
| "building blocks" | beowulf |
| nowell codex | beowulf |
| sund | beowulf |
| "inimitable combs" | praise of folly |
| "the freest writer." | sterne |
| "beacon burns" | shropshire lad |
| "pensioners" | fairies |
peter ackroyd | biography |
| simonides | ode |
| "artisans," | praise of folly |
| "come and kiss me. / never mind my bruises, / hug me, kiss me, suck my juices." | rossetti |
| "sleep the sleep of the apples." | lorca |
| "room iridescent with agony" | lorca |
| gypsy ballads | lorca |
| "you are not my hero." | cat's cradle |
| in human | sterne |
| "emissary from the world of reality" | tom |
| english humorists of the eighteenth century | thackeray |
| chrysogenee | rose |
| "life and death are reconciled" | paz |
| "turn back think again" | stalin |
| "i recognize an ancient flame" | divine comedy |
| reverend james morrell | shaw |
| "icy waters" | horace |
| leila in saint petersburg | don juan |
| "pleading child" | tan |
| "he was not a marrying man." | emily |
| "roughly 37" | wallace |
| "gradual regeneration" | raskolnikov |
| malaciah | willie |
| "two kinds." | tan |
| "misty halo." | heart of darkness |
| biskra | france |
| pierre de ronsard | old |
| gina | stendhal |
| "where the bee sucks, there suck i." | ariel |
| "social x-rays," | bonfire of the vanities |
| "such depravity" | simon |
| sam staples | thoreau |
| "talos." | willie |
| kadife | pamuk |
| things they carried by tim | vietnam |
| "ding-dong-dong" | paint |
| richard mansfield | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| "a phenomenon... well known to naturalists" | ode to the west wind |
| "quitting... animosities" | irish |
| "when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, / the single secret will still be man." | cummings |
| "four gray walls, and four gray towers, / overlook a space of flowers" | lady of shalott |
| "proportioned, spiritless poems" | bradstreet |
| "guides through the boundless sky" | bryant |
| butterfly, stork | pamuk |
| "like a frenchman" | webster |
| michael herr | vietnam |
| silver star | vietnam |
| "a key that wouldn't unlock anything" | paint |
| ponza | pirandello |
| utterson | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| lanyon | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| terza rima | ode to the west wind |
| "devoured alive by a rat," | irish |
| drosselmeier | hoffmann |
| "the sea-blooms and the oozy woods... tremble and despoil themselves." | ode to the west wind |
| "dead thoughts over the universe." | ode to the west wind |
| lindalino | irish |
| "harsh humanity" | simon |
| "their tax-bills." | thoreau |
| raceteenth | nigeria |
| "unstoried, artless, unenhanced, / such as she was, such as she would become" | frost |
| "solitary traveler" | mrs |
| "conversion." | mrs |
| "peaceable revolution" | thoreau |
| alyona ivanova | raskolnikov |
| killall | webster |
| dore bible | paint |
| "busy monster." | cummings |
| "noone stooped to kiss his face" | cummings |
| canterville chase | ghost |
| "the conjunction of the mind, and opposition of the stars." | marvell |
| myrrhine, calonice | lysistrata |
| "god's first temples." | bryant |
| seven beauties | persian |
| abraham liscov | hoffmann |
| briareus | windmill |
| "deep and dark unity." | flowers of evil |
| 52-stanza | bradstreet |
| "proportion" | mrs |
| "ah, ah!" | hoffmann |
| marie stahlbaum | hoffmann |
| boris the manskinner by lieutenant mamiya | murakami |
| ellen sewell | thoreau |
| "whose woods these are i think i know." | frost |
| john berryman | bradstreet |
| 50-pound | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| doctor mackenzie | bald soprano |
| "are forever" | diamond |
| rat kiley | vietnam |
| ben rogers | paint |
| "who become lost" | mexico |
| "primitive tribes" | nigeria |
| edgar derby | world war ii |
| "the four ages of poetry" | romanticism |
| "rihaku" | li |
| noboru wataya | murakami |
| "gradual initiation into a new unknown life" | raskolnikov |
| joyous guard | lancelot |
| "the pomegranate" | kawabata |
| shusai | kawabata |
| roller | schiller |
| "burying lamps" | twenty love poems |
| "semi-barbaric" | lady or the tiger |
| "invisible procession" | greek |
| tappan zee | sleepy hollow |
| jack maggs | australia |
| "andromache, i think of you!" | flowers of evil |
| "on the outskirts of bikanir." | book |
| "a little world made cunningly." | holy sonnets |
| this indo-trinidadian | naipaul |
| babe | 1980 |
| "bergin and water." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "cultured" | spain |
| araucaniad | spain |
| "devious mazes of passion" | lady or the tiger |
| "pined away." | goblin market |
| "embarrassing things" | japanese |
| mercy lewis | abigail |
| clarence | richard iii |
| lois lane | superman |
| "to every middlesex village and farm." | longfellow |
| "daughter of elysium." | schiller |
| amalia | schiller |
| red barber | thurber |
| "casual flock of pigeons" | stevens |
| kimiko | kawabata |
| "the flawed bell" | baudelaire |
| golden house | rushdie |
| don manuel | schiller |
| armgart | schiller |
| crimes of the heart | 1980 |
| "the jealous extremaduran" | cervantes |
| golden helmet of mambrino | cervantes |
| manichaeism to the christianity | augustine |
| tony gazzo | rocky |
| "to the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng" | key |
| "winged seraphs of heaven" | annabel lee |
| "a wind blew out of a cloud" | annabel lee |
| "under his eye." | handmaid |
| "for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction." | don juan |
| vernon | don juan |
| "lies within the shell of a cracked nut," | heart of darkness |
| "manunkind" | cummings |
| monkey king | buddha |
| "thousand sister calyxes arching" | their eyes were watching god |
| "the strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." | enemy of the people |
| "breaker of nations" | stalin |
| "don't let them tell you what to do!" | pinter |
| "evangelical teaching: dr. cumming," | eliot |
| black tulip | dumas |
| "a horse leaping over a high fence." | open boat |
| moktir | france |
| "hearts have not" | old |
| "that is no country for," | old |
| "a mere child" | kawabata |
| peter fallow | bonfire of the vanities |
| clelia | stendhal |
| patriotic gore | simon |
| visceral realists | mexico |
| otto katz | czech |
| essence of christianity | eliot |
| alexis zorba | greek |
| "forever flushing round a summer sky," | sleepy hollow |
| "powwows" | sleepy hollow |
| "tucker bag" | australia |
| "a noise that set one's teeth on edge" | two minutes hate |
| "novel" | romance |
| "reaping early" | lady of shalott |
| "spent in jail," | thoreau |
| "too far from town to learn baseball" | frost |
| "pauses" | pinter |
| "unacknowledged legislators of the world." | romanticism |
| eustacia vye | diamond |
| esperanca in the heart of the matter | diamond |
| rachel verinder | diamond |
| "bold sir lancelot." | lady of shalott |
| shekure | pamuk |
| no one | pirandello |
| "the people's messenger" | enemy of the people |
| "whither... dost thou pursue thy solitary way?" | bryant |
| "monty." | pinter |
| kater murr | hoffmann |
| "i want a hero: an uncommon want." | don juan |
| sadie burke | willie |
| black virgin | france |
| "how love fled... and hid his face amid a crowd of stars" | old |
| ted jordan | tan |
| michel houellebecq | france |
| "crystallization" | stendhal |
| farnese tower | stendhal |
| janiculum | stendhal |
| "a man with guts" | bradbury |
| benno von archimboldi | mexico |
| "now am i free to be poetical?" | frost |
| "simon will listen while you read a song." | bradstreet |
| "genge" | pirandello |
| cavendish palace | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| "the trumpet of a prophecy." | ode to the west wind |
| "drive" | ode to the west wind |
| "the curse is come upon me" | lady of shalott |
| bolton | lady chatterley's lover |
| "sky and branches" | mrs |
| "flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil" | heart of darkness |
| "a rose for" | emily |
| leafy | their eyes were watching god |
| cinesias | lysistrata |
| "why can't we be friends?" | passage to india |
| "whole being is sheer negative impulse, a tangle of contradictions," | paz |
| "gate of our being" | paz |
| robert conquest | stalin |
| "that fool weakling keith," | bradbury |
| haydee | don juan |
| "very fiery particle" | don juan |
| ivan karamazov | devil |
| "annihilates all that's made to a green thought, in a green shade" | marvell |
| thomas fairfax | marvell |
| scyros | orestes |
| famous barbecue | grandmother |
| felton | dumas |
| "let itself be snuffed out by an article." | don juan |
| dolph pillsbury | willie |
| "d'artagnan romances" | dumas |
| mordaunt | dumas |
| "old leather-face," | willie |
| "a fantasia in the russian manner on english themes." | shaw |
| "great white defendant" | bonfire of the vanities |
| "noble fountain" | horace |
| lucius calpurnius piso | horace |
| "all voting a sort of gaming" | thoreau |
| "ceiling" | nigeria |
| "perfumes, colors, and sounds" | flowers of evil |
| "all may judge" | bradstreet |
| miesmies | hoffmann |
| sateen dura luxe | world war ii |
| "head-scarf girls." | pamuk |
| new hampshirite jabez stone | webster |
| "man speaking to men." | romanticism |
| going after cacciato | vietnam |
| lady frola | pirandello |
| if you think you are | pirandello |
| wind/pinball | murakami |
| "black rain, and fire, and hail will burst." | ode to the west wind |
| "ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically." | lady chatterley's lover |
| "such heaps of broken glass... you'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen." | frost |
| "new story" | raskolnikov |
| simon girty | webster |
| francis jeffrey | romanticism |
| "caught fire" | bald soprano |
| egdon heath | diamond |
| curt lemon | vietnam |
| "dome of a vast sepulchre" | ode to the west wind |
| the drapier's letters | irish |
| "a forest hymn" | bryant |
| "lady of midnight." | paz |
| "semi-moonman" | stalin |
| sara teasdale | bradbury |
| "i thought once how theocritus had sung" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| too loud a solitude | czech |
| cornelius van baerle's | dumas |
| "the butcher cumberland" | don juan |
| huey long | willie |
| "open-ey'd conspiracy his time doth take" | ariel |
| "history has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues" | eliot |
| "the definition of love" | marvell |
| "daybreak is the face of the sun" | paz |
| "orbs of liquid grey" | italy |
| coliseum | italy |
| "datta. dayadhvam. damyata" | eliot |
| "the son of evening sun." | their eyes were watching god |
| "smelfungus," | sterne |
| "big black valise that looked like the head of a hippopotamus" | grandmother |
| auguste maquet | dumas |
| "the boss," | willie |
| proud flesh | willie |
| kurtz in the congo by joseph conrad | heart of darkness |
| "hell is empty, and all the devils are here!" | ariel |
| edgar atkins teagarden | grandmother |
| filippo chirazzi | bonfire of the vanities |
| suyuan woo | tan |
| "like reeds," | ariel |
| on love | stendhal |
| heartbreak house | shaw |
| "suppression of savage customs" | heart of darkness |
| prospero in the tempest | ariel |
| old capital | kawabata |
| count mosca | stendhal |
| aubrey buffing | bonfire of the vanities |
| "lemon tarts" | bonfire of the vanities |
| hesione hushabye | shaw |
| "pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence." | cummings |
| h. b | emily |
| "nine nines." | buddha |
| golden cicada | buddha |
| levi matvei | devil |
| "in their hundred voices, 'no, not yet.'" | passage to india |
| "certain flight." | bryant |
| knight in the panther | stalin |
| "number one," | stalin |
| homer barron | emily |
| comparison of the two languages | persian |
| "shines out with its honor unstained." | horace |
| "through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument." | emily |
| "the turn of the screw." | ghost |
| "hieronymo's mad againe" | eliot |
| "the garden" | marvell |
| "from zone to zone," | bryant |
| "awaken me" | paz |
| "e unibus pluram." | wallace |
| wheelchair assassins | wallace |
| "hours." | italy |
| "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," | romanticism |
| norman bowker | vietnam |
| william wood | irish |
| "too busy feeling grief," | their eyes were watching god |
| "begotten by despair, upon impossibility," | marvell |
| "vendors of grain-eggs-pulse-and-vegetables" | lysistrata |
| "groves," | bryant |
| "the innumerable caravan, who moves to that mysterious realm" | bryant |
| sections | paz |
| "man passes" | flowers of evil |
| pylades | orestes |
| featherstone | bradbury |
| "build that shed out in the garden" | pinter |
| a quadrillion kilometers | devil |
| otis | ghost |
| "where the rocking billows rise and sink / on the chafed ocean side." | bryant |
| "and other extremes." | paz |
| the 's skin | stalin |
| tilita | bradbury |
| "raphel mai amecche zabi almi" | divine comedy |
| "philebus." | orestes |
| "away in brutish london, for a hollow crown" | bradstreet |
| rabo karabekian | world war ii |
| "the stone," | bald soprano |
| "play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do" | paint |
| "preston the wise" | windmill |
| zoe | nigeria |
| "ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain." | bradstreet |
| princess pirlipat | hoffmann |
| "at last on the cloudy river of the sky" | li |
| heather badcock | lady of shalott |
razumikhin | crime and punishment |
| "hypocrite reader! my double! my brother!" | flowers of evil |
| "pretty eyes, pretty eyes!" | hoffmann |
| olive | pamuk |
| "native new england." | simon |
| "devilish" | simon |
| "helmet and the helmet-feather" | lady of shalott |
| "burn'd like one burning flame together." | lady of shalott |
| sotherton | mansfield park |
| "pacification" | nigeria |
| "through forests of symbols" | flowers of evil |
| "lady jane." | lady chatterley's lover |
| deliverance | dickey |
| ricardo guiraldes | gaucho |
| mosquito inlet light | open |
| ahn-wee | spleen |
| "from her fair and unpolluted flesh." | violet |
| "the steadfast tin soldier" | andersen |
| golden dancer | inherit the wind |
| absalom kumalo | paton |
| "i love you more than words can wield the matter." | king lear |
| "that never dreams" | paz |
| camoes prize | saramago |
| jack clitheroe | plough and the stars |
| waverly novels | scott |
| cape cod to greenwich village | provincetown players |
| leah, felix | nw |
| act i of 's othello | venice |
| guatemalan nobel | asturias |
| paton | mandela |
| humaine | train |
| george cram cook | provincetown players |
| slow learner | pynchon |
| tih | midsummer night's |
| "i know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows" | oberon |
| scott's waverley | cooper |
| long walk to freedom | mandela |
| the once and | peregrine |
| "the black unicorn" | lorde |
| torquilstone castle | ivanhoe |
| "listen!" | beowulf |
| korn | john |
| "into nine levels" | dickey |
| "a small, good thing," | car |
| "great measure responsible" | scott |
| count of st | queen of spades |
| "throb of heart divine" | poe |
| "sentience of all vegetable things" | roderick |
| clive linley | amsterdam |
| "where now the horse and the rider?" | tolkien |
| "only once" | aarfy |
| "god's grandeur" | hopkins |
| "for esme - with love and squalor" | bananafish |
| cathcart | john |
| the pilot | cooper |
| eureka | poe |
| bessie burgess | plough and the stars |
| "of course all life is a process of breaking down" | fitzgerald |
| nigerian nobel | soyinka |
| millamant in the way of the world | congreve |
| lingk | ricky |
| william langland | piers plowman |
| tay-nard-yayz | cosette |
| "the airborne toxic event." | white noise |
| teth | oceanus |
| henchard | mayor of |
| "the seven voyages of sinbad the sailor" | thousand and |
| nick adams | hemingway |
| "shoot straight" | brooks |
| anse bundren | as i lay |
| ned mccaslin to memphis | reivers |
| no name in the street | baldwin |
| tees | our man in |
| pulitzer prize for fiction for the amazing adventures of kavalier | chabon |
| plin | manticore |
| awol in rome | john |
| infinite city | san francisco |
| "it's between the two of us now!" | balzac |
| mulk raj anand | bloomsbury |
| "kong yiji" | china |
| sara coleridge | ode to a nightingale |
| la bete | train |
| chemical essays | roderick |
| synge | ireland |
| vernon halliday | amsterdam |
| "every gentleman in the south a major or colonel" | scott |
| lay dying in mississippi | faulkner |
| miss corrie | reivers |
| gemmata | dioneo |
| el senor presidente | asturias |
| john watson in doyle | sherlock |
| "sound of water" | frog |
| sylvia plath to frieda hughes | mother |
| "buckdancer's choice." | dickey |
| "knew to my veins and glands as a child." | petersburg |
| dieter | hitler |
| in orlando furioso | ruggiero |
| "streak of bad luck" | outcasts of poker |
| thenardiers | cosette |
| rick telander | basketball |
| newark public library | "goodbye |
| "that things cannot be otherwise than as they are" | pangloss |
| "erect" | riddle |
| ian mcewan | atonement |
| "lillibullero," | toby |
| "wives" | fortunata and jacinta |
| llewelyn moss | no country for old |
| "diary of a country mouse" | wyatt |
| "celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light." | washington |
| "what have poets, in any case, to do with sin?" | poem without a hero |
| "after homer and before" | stein |
"invictus" | henley |
| graziella | naples |
| alvaro | rose |
| "just take his head off outside." | queen of hearts |
| goshawk | peregrine |
| in a patricia highsmith | train |
| "participatory novels," | plimpton |
| robert musil | austria |
| "hothouse on the roof" | banana |
| achtung | tyrone |
| varts | gravity's rainbow |
| "a difficult interval for a poet." | stein |
| "frank sinatra has a cold." | esquire |
| gomorrah | naples |
| langland | pearl |
| journey | verne |
| hyde park gates news | woolf |
| "i am large. i contain" | multitudes |
| "i heard he was lying helpless, and so i came up--took my chance." | russia |
| kostilyoff | lower depths |
| onnie jay holy | wise blood |
| jeremy | alchemist |
| "could not speak english" | malaprop |
| confession of a white widowed male | humbert |
| benito perez galdos | fortunata and jacinta |
| john betjeman | wyatt |
| peter kien | canetti |
| "of fred" | handmaid's tale |
| part of speech | brodsky |
| "elegy to john donne." | brodsky |
| "hwaet!" | beowulf |
| ariosto | orlando |
| boon hogganbeck | reivers |
| "what must be said" | israel |
| new spelling of my name | lorde |
| "the true story of ah q." | lu |
| elwan | assassination |
| charles anthony bruno | train |
| payadas | gaucho |
| corner in westminster | owen |
| marcos jimenez in the autumn of the patriarch | garcia |
| "get thee to a nunnery" | ophelia |
| sergeant x | esme |
| camoes | lusiads |
| "mizu no oto" | frog |
| unlimited dream company | ballard |
| square theatre | iceman cometh |
| our man | greene |
| bradamante | ruggiero |
| guy haines | train |
| county mayo | ireland |
| anwar in a mahfouz | assassination |
| in arms | bulgaria |
| "die-dough" | virgil |
| vaska | lower depths |
| kansas city to new york | american |
| london fields | amis |
| tahn | midsummer night's |
| "the course of true love never did run smooth" | lysander |
| brother lawrence | spain |
| edward malone to south america | challenger |
| "when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter" | dream of the red chamber |
| helen macdonald | united kingdom |
| dorothy wordsworth | united kingdom |
| don parritt | iceman cometh |
| alden pyle in vietnam | quiet american |
| colonel sonriente | senor |
| bertram cates | inherit the wind |
| irish citizen army | plough and the stars |
| randa | assassination |
| sohn-ree-en-tay | senor |
| "deathbed" | leaves of grass |
| pierre choderlos | dangerous liaisons |
| la bonne chanson | verlaine |
| margaret canby | keller |
| "every spirit upon earth seemed fervourless as i" | darkling thrush |
| ghost of christmas past | fezziwig |
| ghost of don andrea | spanish tragedy |
| hieronimo | spanish tragedy |
| jack duluoz | big sur |
| pish | immortal |
| slavery society in rochester | fourth |
| arthur symons | city in the sea |
| "into the furious lashing of the tides" | drunken boat |
| lucia in the betrothed | manzoni |
| lucia in the lazzaretto of milan | plague |
| hokku | renga |
| "fubbed." | stevens |
| buried child | shepard |
| epistemology of the closet | john |
| spinner of years | hardy |
| "midnight mass of the dying year" | longfellow |
| "a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." | fourth |
| "the masterpiece of nature." | friend |
| cynara | gone with the wind |
| "the cook's tale," | chaucer |
| "songs are unlike literature." | dylan's nobel |
| "i greet you at the beginning of a great career" | emerson |
| catharine | lobotomy |
| french lieutenant | fowles |
| "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." | cynic |
| charles smithson | fowles |
| "the god with the lyre" | rilke |
| sonnets to orpheus | rilke |
| "flung roses, roses riotously with the throng." | gone with the wind |
| "yelping redskins." | drunken boat |
| sarah woodruff | fowles |
with kurt weill wrote the threepenny opera | brecht |
| in the betrothed | plague |
| "attraction to what is going to destroy tradition" | streetcar named desire |
| benya krik | babel |
| "the death of the old year." | longfellow |
| "seraphs swing their snowy hats - / and saints - to windows run." | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| "the most visible point of his island," | robinson |
| world war ii japan in an artist of the floating world | ishiguro |
| the self-tormentor | terence |
| romance, the , and the inheritors | ford |
| silver age of russian | pasternak |
| waindell | campus |
| fugitive | proust |
| "logically inevitable" | robinson |
| an alan sillitoe | race |
| " in a hardy poem that opens " | thrush |
| essex borstal | bakeries |
| "don't ye love sperm?" | moby-dick |
| "the plot against the giant" | stevens |
| lev gumilyov | akhmatova |
| goodness of god | rowlandson |
| mary rowlandson | captivity |
| magnalia christi americana | mather |
| time regained | proust |
| postscript to the name of the rose | jorge |
| plowed under | paper |
| loneliness of the long distance runner | 50 |
| channel firing | world war i |
| nature of a crime | ford |
| nikolai punin | akhmatova |
| alfred peron | beckett |
| "all the clocks in the city" | as i walked out one evening |
| lost in the stars with kurt weill | anderson |
| "black little god" | queequeg |
| curse of the starving class | shepard |
| red brick university | lucky jim |
| poum | spanish civil |
| simon darcourt | canada |
| " one of these birds sings " | thrush |
| " 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 |
| hecyra | terence |
| my sister | pasternak |
| yojo | queequeg |
| margaret bourke | war correspondent |
| triple-a | paper |
| immanent will | hardy |
| "heavenly labials in a world of gutturals." | stevens |
| sound of waves | mishima |
| "maul'd and mock'd." | goblin market |
| zami | lorde |
| la lison | train |
| this haibun travelogue | narrow road to the deep north |
| ludovico technique | clockwork orange |
| magid | islam |
| keisha | nw |
| marxist naphta | hans |
| berghof | hans |
| "nature is never spent." | god's grandeur |
| balthus | rilke |
| letters to a young painter | rilke |
| "melic" | poetry |
quincas borba (author) | joaquim maria machado de assis |
| "the frost king." | keller |
| "too many... mopey suburbanites." | new yorker |
| cecil graham in act iii | cynic |
| household tales | grimm |
| 465th | fly |
| "sapiential books" | wisdom |
| bembo | italian |
| frost fairies | keller |
| golden bough | frazer |
| nee bohk--choh | decameron |
| "floating tom" | deerslayer |
| hutter | deerslayer |
| white goddess | frazer |
| land of mist | doyle |
| olympia press | golden lotus |
| "out, vile jelly" | blind |
| blindness | saramago |
| saigyo | narrow road to the deep north |
| bella kurnitz in a neil simon | yonkers |
| edoras | tolkien |
| the crack-up | fitzgerald |
| the-college | white noise |
| "generations have trod, have trod, have trod," | god's grandeur |
| gottfried lessing | ring |
| henry drummond | inherit the wind |
| rachel brown | inherit the wind |
| "play for voices" | under milk wood |
| "faithless harlot" | against the day |
| yashmeen harlot | against the day |
| aravind adiga | assassination |
| "some vengeful god" | hap |
| project | works progress administration |
| venable | lobotomy |
| "blast of misogynist rage and public humiliation" | diaz |
| viktor shklovsky | distancing |
| "the viol, the violet, and the vine" | city in the sea |
| cleveland wrecking company | brautigan |
| new weird | machado |
posthumous memoirs of bras cubas (author) | joaquim maria machado de assis |
| "resignedly beneath the sky / the melancholy waters lie." | city in the sea |
| the ladies' anti | fourth |
| first series of essays | self-reliance |
| "desire to preserve tradition" | streetcar named desire |
| "mendacity" | big daddy |
| "silence dogood" | franklin |
| kerouac | big sur |
| cambyuskan | squire |
| "purblind doomsters had as readily strown blisses... as pain." | hap |
| atsumori | heike |
| franz xaver kappus | letters to a young poet |
| explosion in a cathedral | carpentier |
| brautigan | big sur |
| saturnine poems | verlaine |
| miracle worker | keller |
| "know that thy sorrow is thy ecstasy!" | hap |
| nadaismo | colombia |
| "the elves and the shoemaker" | grimm |
| balthazar | spanish tragedy |
| james thurber | new yorker |
| harold ross | new yorker |
| prince andrei bolkonsky | napoleon |
| "his soul upon the growing gloom." | darkling thrush |
| sargon of akkad | poetry |
| suddenly last summer | lobotomy |
| odessa tales | babel |
| sparknotes of moby | dylan's nobel |
| letters to a young poet | rilke |
| covey | douglass |
| the vicomte de valmont | dangerous liaisons |
| "guy de maupassant." | babel |
| jorge amado | brazil |
| "defamiliarization" | distancing |
| manzoni | napoleon |
| "war is sweet to them who know it not." | pindar |
| galsworthy | stevenson |
| learned to drive | vogel |
| great railway bazaar | theroux |
| "war is god." | holden |
| great ventriloquist | ash |
| fairy melusine | ash |
| "the classics can console. but not enough." | naipaul |
| johnny corkscrew | sword |
| clive durham | maurice |
| "dictation," | concentration camp |
| james blackadder | possession |
| "alienation effects in chinese theatre" | brecht |
| warning for fair women | elizabeth i |
| an outcast of the islands | conrad |
| james mcauley | malley |
| rescue in malaysia | conrad |
| "tulips" | ariel |
| lyca | lost |
| vogel | indecent |
| "stomach kind of fell as i felt how hard the world was going to be." | a&p |
| "the lady, or the tiger?" | stockton |
| duke of ephesus | solinus |
| "once he liked humans; / how long ago this was!" | naipaul |
| auguste villiers | axel |
| jolyon | galsworthy |
| "found" | songs of innocence and |
| christabel lamotte | possession |
| "mr. sludge, 'the medium'" | browning |
| bollinger club | oxford |
| de scudery | moliere |
| "light, hope, and life." | axel |
| "bush poets" | australia |
| mortimer cropper | ash |
| roland michell | possession |
| maud bailey | possession |
| de l'isle-adam | axel |
| "munich mannequins." | ariel |
| ridiculous precieuses | moliere |
| in ozick | concentration camp |
| "the kid" | blood meridian |
| "the shawl." | ozick |
| r. leavis | leavis |
| "whatever shares the eternal reciprocity of tears." | insensibility |
| "mistress." | chekhov |
| "the character of the happy warrior" | nelson |
| earth of mankind | indonesia |
| jill bryant | koch |
| "our town." | wilder |
| love in a fallen city | chang |
| "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 |
| "three girls in nothing but bathing suits" | a&p |
| "he / whom every man in arms should wish to be." | happy warrior |
| ananta toor | indonesia |
| "dandy, but liquor is quicker." | candy |
| willie mink | nun |
| lilly sabina | antrobus |
| "hangs over every american typewriter." | fitzgerald |
| "i think that i shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree." | kilmer |
| "like a buttercup / upon its branching stem." | asphodel, that greeny flower |
| dyskolos | menander |
| sovereignty of good | murdoch |
| iris murdoch | ireland |
| frank raymond leavis | leavis |
| "happy are men who yet before they are killed can let their veins run cold." | insensibility |
| billy kwan | koch |
| "mariner who first unfurl'd an eastern banner over the western world" | hartford |
against interpretation | sontag |
| pramoedya ananta toer | indonesia |
| "lawful wife" | chekhov |
| "by choice... made themselves immune" | insensibility |
| his dark materials | pullman |
| buru quartet | indonesia |
| athenian new comedy | menander |
| quiet city | shaw |
| the prince de ligne | casanova |
| under the net | murdoch |
| john crowe ransom | leavis |
| "human moments in world war iii" | delillo |
| "unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend, and of the curveship lend a myth to god." | bridge |
| loiseau | chicken |
| max morden | banville |
| lyra belacqua | pullman |
| "line-up for yesterday" | nash |
| "and we live by an invisible sun within us." | flame |
| "an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato" | ebenezer |
| goddess | wheatley |
| man and | shaw |
| tom foster | winesburg |
| j.b | macleish |
| "what all schoolchildren learn / those to whom evil is done / do evil in return" | september 1, 1939 |
| call of the wild in the yukon | london |
| in mel | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| yord | feet |
| "the little black boy" | songs of innocence and |
| footnote to history | samoa |
| tawv | holocaust |
| cohn | ethel |
| cliffs of dover | peach |
| marshals of france | alceste |
| major kovalev | nose |
| mead hall | hrothgar |
| "the god of my youth, the object, all my life long, of love and veneration" | mozart |
| wiesel | buchenwald |
| "solely to avoid looking a fool" | "shooting an elephant" |
| operation shylock | jew |
| curtis hartman | kate |
| "if i can stop one heart from breaking, i shall not live in vain." | dickinson |
| meek | dead |
| mephistopheles, faust | goethe |
| "a woman who cries with determination behind her closed door" | god |
| "the tenderness of patient minds" | anthem for doomed |
| yomi | izanagi |
| "the liberators" | canto general |
| "the earth's name is juan" | canto general |
| john hersey | new yorker |
| "sick-or-axe" | tempest |
| t | night of |
| polyeidos | athena |
| tragic episode | gilbert |
| slothrop | pisces |
| tiberinus | janus |
| helen white | winesburg |
"shooting an elephant" | orwell |
| fordyce | collins |
| nathan englander | frank |
| going to the territory | ellison |
| gallery of prospero | rodo |
| history of a troubled life | uruguay |
| professional foul | stoppard |
| heinrich von kleist | marquise of o |
| kleist | romantic |
| cropper | possession |
| george murchison | beneatha |
| artamene | scudery |
| "the misfit." | sammy |
| macomb | dill |
| his odes | horace |
| judge holden | blood meridian |
| mary arden | shakespeare |
| as you like it in the forest of arden | shakespeare |
| "the mongoose," | naipaul |
| paul pennyfeather | oxford |
| hans jakob christoffel | simplicius simplicissimus |
| four prentices of london | heywood |
| woman killed with kindness | heywood |
| sara de maupers | axel |
| egeon of syracuse | solinus |
| mictlan, quetzalcoatl | blood |
| "god bless us every one." | tim |
| green town | something wicked |
| phineas fletcher | uncle tom's |
| el pweeg | prison |
| "up the the ladder of the earth...through the awful tangles of lost forests" | heights of macchu |
| lothar | clara |
| "two folds of crepe" | veil |
| "musee de beaux-arts [myoo-zay day boh-zart] arts" | auden |
| "poly-deck-tees" | perseus |
| though reverend shannon | episcopal |
| "liver cancer" | aids |
| "will soon be engaged," | collins |
the good earth | pearl s. buck |
| heinrich boll | billiard |
| dolokhov | mason |
| nathan zuckerman in the human stain | roth |
| sophie zawitowska | holocaust |
rosencrantz and guildenstern | stoppard |
| juturna | turnus |
| george 's | salvation army |
| spielvogel | alex |
| "the mouse's petition" | priestley |
| etheredge | gambling |
| piers plowman | passus |
| in a carl sandburg | grass |
| piney woods | outcasts of poker |
| "the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven" | alexie |
| "with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other" | hatter |
| marbodius | penguin island |
| charley bates | handkerchief |
| "the words on the page" | leavis |
| "innamorato." | orlando |
| lorin stein | paris review |
| paper lion | plimpton |
| tommo | whale |
| desolation peak | dharma bums |
| teucer | ajax |
| anton chigurh | no country for old |
| lucky jim | amis |
| polonius | ophelia |
| "i, too, dislike it." | poetry |
| "trainor, the druggist" | spoon river anthology |
| susan henchard | elizabeth-jane |
| "one gray toe / big as a frisco seal." | daddy |
| "the monkey," | singer |
| vi to viii of don juan | malaprop |
| briony | atonement |
| lola | atonement |
| paris review | plimpton |
| "things of beauty." | pillow book |
| leader of the home rule league | parnell |
| anna barbauld | priestley |
| elaine castillo | bulosan |
| "a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again" | harper's |
| in perez galdos | blind |
| "animal" | lion and the jewel |
| death valley | mcteague |
| sheppey | maugham |
| "pro rege nostro," | henley |
| roberto saviano | naples |
| matzerath | three |
| marius pontmercy | cosette |
| in jewett | maine |
| brooklyn in heaven | basketball |
| pygmalion and arms | shaw |
| anatole france | penguin island |
| "very bad novel" | uncle tom's |
| "many thousands gone" | bigger |
| "[this body part] and ideal" | spleen |
| "like oars" | albatross |
| kaht | decameron |
| angel face | senor |
| "little tragedies" | mozart |
| tartarus of maids | massachusetts |
| "humanism" | ariosto |
| "the fall of rome." | auden |
| george plimpton | roth |
| ancash | dickinson |
| stumpy | thomas |
| desolation angels | dharma bums |
| "she should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word." | to-morrow, and |
| "-yun] eye" | daddy |
| artful dodger | handkerchief |
| "beautiful dream" | blanche |
| cry, the | paton |
| "hairy" | riddle |
| freedom from want | bulosan |
| "paradise of bachelors" | massachusetts |
"00000" | gravity's rainbow |
| "pensive prisoner's prayer" | priestley |
| man of mode | fopling |
| "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" | congreve |
| hermann in a pushkin | gambling |
| rigleys | chrysanthemum |
| center of the earth | verne |
| happars | typee |
| japhy ryder | dharma bums |
| "hail to the chief" | lady of the lake |
| "accomplish[ing] nothing and arriv[ing] in air." | deerslayer |
| uncle reed | red room |
| "cried his grief" | anyone |
| "cold-wetness" | seafarer |
| in enemies of promise | crabbe |
| exit ghost | roth |
| mirabell | congreve |
| "shiva handed him a million dollars." | patel |
| colorado command | world war iii |
| "faux-sicilian cyclops" | quevedo |
| cookie | koch |
| "the girls in their summer dresses." | shaw |
| like fitzgerald | dick |
| "r is for ruth, to tell you the truth, there's just no more to be said, just r is for ruth." | nash |
| the histoire de ma vie | casanova |
| hornblower | nelson |
| volcano lover | sontag |
| "the hearth and" | salamander |
| lu ling | tan |
| "i knew him... a fellow of infinite jest." | alas, poor yorick |
| jake | madrid |
| death in the afternoon | bull |
| malabar | rocking-horse winner |
| julie charles | lake |
| hansbach | journey to the center |
| rose tattoo | williams |
| playground | basketball |
| mad hatter in alice | carroll |
| "amen." | seafarer |
| el buscon | spain |
| delphin slade | roman fever |
| tender | dick |
| "vision of" | hartford |
| "human moments" | world war iii |
| baby kochamma | roy |
| "women never forgive failures." | konstantin |
| melanie klein | ring |
| embers | marai |
| "wits" | barlow |
| john banville | ireland |
| "is success in life." | flame |
| mood | indonesia |
| c. s. forester's | nelson |
| neo-gothic bridge | brooklyn |
| max havelaar | indonesia |
| in urn burial | flame |
| "farts sing like sirens." | quevedo |
| prozorov | three sisters |
| "life is a pure" | flame |
| matter and memory | bergson |
| "hard, gemlike" | flame |
| mary hartley fitch | the sea, the |
| "beautiful riverbank" | blanche |
| marquis of londonderry | malaprop |
| "the town-ho's story" | harper's |
| "argumentum fistulatorium." | toby |
| sadiku | baroka |
| alexei ivanovich in a dostoyevsky | gambling |
| "i have lit my treasured candles, / one by one, to hallow this night" | poem without a hero |
| "the only secret people keep / is immortality." | dickinson |
| "ali baba and the forty thieves" | thousand and |
| menaechmi | plautus |
| philocomasium | soldier |
| "what is" | grass |
| alec scudder | maurice |
| "tonight i can write [these compositions]" | saddest lines |
| "is no parenthesis." | death |
| ursus | bull |
| my country | duffy |
| labrax | rope |
| "i am the master of my fate; i am the captain of my soul." | invictus |
| "i know that i shall meet my fate" | death |
| "laughed his joy" | anyone |
| the village | crabbe |
| siege of namur | toby |
| detroit lions | plimpton |
| birling | priestley |
| constant reader | parker |
| pyrgopolynices | soldier |
| "under the bludgeonings of chance / my head is" | bloody, but unbowed |
| titanomachy | oceanus |
| "aryan [" | daddy |
| pierpont mauler | joan |
| "aladdin's wonderful lamp" | thousand and |
| juan dahlmann | south |
| "debt we pay to human guile" | dunbar |
"furioso" | orlando |
| "a crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine" | washington |
| "hateful things" | pillow book |
| james lingk | ricky |
| aaronow | patel |
| "mending" | wall |
| raina | bulgaria |
| james fitz | lady of the lake |
| il milione | travel |
| "illness as metaphor." | sontag |
| yehuda amichai | darwish |
| babamukuru | nervous conditions |
| ferrars | roger |
| northumberland | shrewsbury |
| leni lamiasson | kiss of the spider woman |
| "pale horse, pale rider." | 1918 |
| justice wargrave | nursery rhyme |
| " which made a ship sink in " | hardy |
| virgin suicides | eugenides |
| heid | elvis |
| "notes on camp." | sontag |
| "a lady asks me," | cavalcanti |
| neff | set |
| bob childan | san francisco |
| trieste | zeno |
| italo svevo | calvino |
| "topography" | algiers |
| dolce stil novo | cavalcanti |
| "last cigarettes" | zeno |
| murray jay siskind | white noise |
| jurgis | comrade |
| eddie carbone | view from the |
| "plain" | darkling |
| "pilot fish" | moveable |
| name the muse of history | clio |
| here lies | parker |
| toltec empire | tula |
| middlesex | eugenides |
| that erdrich | elvis |
| lesbia | catullus |
| the recognitions | gaddis |
| "sore must be the storm / that could abash" | bird |
| "a plank in reason, broke." | brain |
| oscar fenichel | mother |
| girl meets boy | ali smith |
| imogen | ali smith |
| "everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!" | bishop |
| "the double vision of michael robartes" | yeats |
| june kashpaw | erdrich |
| el trato | algiers |
| "challenge to me, because we write about the same place." | darwish |
| "came down the walk." | bird |
| "seen [this thing] - go round - / they might as wise have lodged a bird." | brain |
| "sophisticated fun" | tristero |
| owen aherne | michael |
| katherine anne porter | 1918 |
| nhamo | nervous conditions |
| "hide-run" | goat |
| her real glory | kiss of the spider woman |
| vera claythorne | nursery rhyme |
| "victory filled up / the little rented boat" | bishop |
| "mr. difficult" | gaddis |
| " 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 |
| "a screaming comes across the sky." | v-2 |
| antonio de sosa | algiers |
| ricote | don quixote |
| "plunged in the battery-smoke" | tennyson |
| "i have met them at close of day." | easter, 1916 |
| "what's america, but the legend of rock 'n' roll?" | elvis |
| adrift on | nile |
| felicia hemans | casabianca |
| cimbria | country |
| came like swallows | 1918 |
| pyramid of quetzalcoatl | tula |
| tropic of capricorn | miller |
| "the book of the grotesque" | carpenter |
| clodia metelli | lesbia |
| "the minority report" | dick |
| bilskirnir | 540 |
| invisible cities | calvino |
| "to and fro" | brain |
| "god has pity on kindergarten children." | hebrew |
| "near-total historical amnesia" | sontag |
| tropic of cancer | miller |
| subterraneans | kerouac |
| st. jude | corrections |
| crevel | cousine bette |
| "a bird came down the walk" | dickinson |
| "figurative incarceration" | lawyer |
| "half is enough" | tennyson |
| becka | testaments |
| anthony sattin | nile |
| tobis | kiss of the spider woman |
| el toboso | dulcinea |
| aslan | narnia |
| stephen to johannesburg | theophilus |
| smay | july's people |
| andromaque | racine |
| u.s.a | dos passos |
| "the blue hotel" | swede |
| allworthy | partridge |
| new york editions | james |
| "contains multitudes." | whitman |
| brooklyn | view from the |
| gustav von | death in venice |
| jose robles | hemingway |
| iphigenia in tauris | euripides |
| "women and fiction" | room of |
| trickster of seville | juan |
| "the altar" | herbert |
| "apart-aid" | the burgher's |
| tonia perez | cisco kid |
| "strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes, while i walk on the sunny pavement of greenwich village." | kaddish |
| rose in fences | pittsburgh |
| "the valiant" | lucy |
| aulis | euripides |
| "a city of fountains large and small, of parks where music once rang out from the bandstands" | geneva |
| "a room of one's own" | stephen |
| in roots | kunta |
| modern husband | fielding |
| alexander herzen | stoppard |
| "car-bone" | view from the |
| nawv | brave new |
| tar baby | morrison |
| yearling | kinnan |
| melanie wilkes | pitty |
| "as if he were anxious to attach himself to [the title character's] windpipe without delay." | oliver twist |
| kurtz in africa | heart of darkness |
| "declaring that any civilian caught interfering with the railroad, its bridges, tunnels or trains will be summarily hanged" | occurrence at |
| bokanovsky | brave new |
| little house on the prairie | ingalls |
| in tom jones | partridge |
| robert heinlein | starship troopers |
| nellie on the thames | heart of darkness |
| clio | adonis |
| ramchunder | vanity fair |
| bett | munro |
| laurence | piano |
| "semi-morons" | epsilon |
| saratoga trunk | ferber |
| palermo | geneva |
| willie stark | warren |
| ebisu | hiruko |
| "to my friend g. n. from wrest" | carew |
| in stendahl | como |
| stone guest | juan |
| in julius caesar | friends |
| packingtown | jungle |
| modern breakthrough | denmark |
| farquhar | drink |
| secret river | kinnan |
| bug war | starship troopers |
| trumpkin | lucy |
| royal family | ferber |
| sarah jane hamilton | pitty |
| severo | house of the |
| "an elegy upon the death of the dean of paul's" | donne |
| princess marya | war and peace |
| charles hamilton in gone with the wind | pitty |
| "which way does your beard point tonight?" | whitman |
| jean racine | corneille |
| "i wander through each chartered street." | london |
| aldonza lorenzo | dulcinea |
| "free radicals" | munro |
| "miss stein instructs" | moveable |
| "in english my name means hope. in spanish it means too many letters." | house on |
| jody baxter | yearling |
| bald hills | war and peace |
| "a sillier old lady i never met in all my life." | pitty |
| "the sourest-natured dog that lives" | two gentlemen of |
| "lend me your ears" | friends |
| dan-ay-ee | polydectes |
| james hilton | shangri-la |
| shlee | comrade |
| karen blixen | dinesen |
| union army | little women |
| though dos passos | moveable |
| like robert herrick | cavalier |
| "singing, each to each," | mermaid |
| "missing one thing: god!" | dario |
| erotokritos | jerusalem delivered |
| lenz | lenz |
| ghost road | regeneration |
| "faint stale smells of beer" | sawdust |
| "you open me like a flower," | ocampo |
| monique truong | stein |
| lucy ellmann | single sentence |
| samara | nile |
| blood knot | fugard |
| siegfried sassoon | owen |
| "the thought-fox" | coetzee |
| " for 10 points each: name this concept which a critic calls a " | menace |
| "great empire crumbled and fell apart." | chernobyl |
| william boot | journalist |
| "to teach, by his own example, love and reverence to all things." | gloss |
| tenant of wildfell hall | epistolary |
| bourton | party |
| "a solitary human voice." | chernobyl |
| arana | basque |
| eber | tenth of december |
| alice ruth moore | dunbar |
| "free bird" | angelou |
| "i do not think that they will sing to me." | mermaid |
| victoria ocampo | argentina |
| francis ford coppola | film |
| "drowned lilies dancing" | gautier |
| english for spiritual | couplet |
| "to roosevelt." | dario |
| in sartre | spanish civil |
| dario cuerda in leopoldina | ocampo |
| "o lithuania, my homeland!" | pan tadeusz |
| soplica | judge |
| niebla | unamuno |
| " 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 |
| "ego tripping." | giovanni |
| "spicy nest" | hair |
| three strong women | france |
| comedie | single sentence |
| "nivolas" | unamuno |
| binh | stein |
| masuji ono | booker |
| cesaire | tempest |
| valere | marriage |
| sophia parnok | tsvetaeva |
| "well-knit plots" | detective |
| white guard | bulgakov |
| charles brockden brown | ventriloquism |
| khlestakov | government inspector |
| sarita | fornes |
| "lonely old courage-teacher" | whitman |
| mikhail berlioz | massolit |
| lady lowborough | wildfell |
| "exceptional heroic" | body |
| ota | thousand cranes |
| the girlfriend | tsvetaeva |
| "crimson faces," | rhododendron |
| "stood fifty feet high" | rhododendron |
| "something has died. isn't there now." | booker |
| "why we love" | chernobyl |
| maine lobster festival | wallace |
| "call me [this character] of the shchigrovsky district." | hamlet |
| cruelty special to our species | korean |
| "regional eroto-political contrast" | ferris wheel |
| "ticket to the fair." | wallace |
| memoirs of a woman of pleasure | hill |
| "how it feels to be colored me." | hurston |
| "i feel most colored when i am thrown against a sharp white background." | parker |
| "sylvia, sylvia / where did you go / after you wrote me / from devonshire / about raising potatoes / and keeping bees?" | sexton |
| claire zachanassian | visit |
| "prayer to masks" | senghor |
| jack halford | epistolary |
| "life is not a walk across a field" | doctor zhivago |
| "bony scandalmonger" | hamlet |
| frith | manderley |
| "great stuffer of bags" | eatonville |
| belano | detective |
| "bee sequence" | plath |
| master of ceremonies | mask |
| "the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe." | whitman |
| phyllis | marriage |
| "king of the zipper" | ferris wheel |
| "consider the lobster" | wallace |
| bei dao | mist |
| inimitable | wodehouse |
| eye in the door | regeneration |
| "sad bad glad mad brother's name" | villon |
| "dares to claim the sky." | angelou |
| virginia tech | giovanni |
| fanta | france |
| alain mabanckou | single sentence |
| fleet debtors prison | peregrine |
| jonathan cape | orwell |
| "all right we are two nations" | dos passos |
| "i mean, i can fly / like a bird in the sky" | giovanni |
| "nikki-rosa." | giovanni |
| "listen to the song of" | rumi |
| broken glass | single sentence |
| abel sanchez | unamuno |
| adventures of roderick random | smollett |
| first crusade by torquato tasso | jerusalem delivered |
| fifteen-syllable | jerusalem delivered |
| "civilwarland in bad decline," | saunders |
| "on stupid pills." | james |
| willie ballroom | fugard |
| "summer evening by the window with" | psalms |
| nut | shu |
| "bad blood" | season in hell |
| precrime division | minority report |
| "donna me prega." | cavalcanti |
| anthea | ali smith |
| "of glass." | lawyer |
| "double vision" | michael |
| isis, nut | set |
| le dernier amour | flaubert |
| khady | france |
| los banos de | algiers |
| "the phases of the moon" | michael |
| combray | proust |
| hal at shrewsbury | hotspur |
| "casabianca" | bishop |
| "gentleman of shalott" | tennyson |
| anis zani | nile |
| "before the great wars" | psalms |
| amichai | psalms |
| noviolet bulawayo | zimbabwe |
| elisabeth demand | ali smith |
| "prince of all ballad-makers." | villon |
| "preludes" | sawdust |
| prufrock | sawdust |
| "stride is wilderness of freedom" | coetzee |
| marcel schwob | argot |
| "our very sorrows weep, / that joys so ripe, so little keep." | hair |
| anthropophagic manifesto | andrade |
| "victory lap" | tenth of december |
| alfred prufrock | mermaid |
| "trampled" | sawdust |
| clapeau | chef |
| suffering wife | lenz |
| gotz von berlichingen | lenz |
| "mermaids singing, each to each" | eliot |
| "god sobs in my arms" | tonight |
| "three bards" | romantic |
| verbalucetm | james |
| "restaurants with oyster shells." | sawdust |
| sur | ocampo |
| wives of geniuses | stein |
| have sat with | stein |
| agha shahid ali | tonight |
| "shake your head and scatter" | sun |
| commodore hawser trunnion | peregrine |
| hodoshe | island |
| clicking of cuthbert | golf |
| both gods of the lightning | sacco |
| in saunders | james |
| "the intestine of the leviathan." | paris sewer |
| apocalypse now | film |
| "so for your arrogance / and your ruthlessness / i am swept back / where dead lichens drip / dead cinders upon moss of ash." | asphodel |
| rodney has a relapse | milne |
| work team | island |
| my man | wodehouse |
| "letter to the icamiabas" | lusiads |
| willie lincoln | saunders |
| "the ballade of the ladies of bygone days." | villon |
| georges guieysse | argot |
| louchebem | argot |
| tadeusz | judge |
| txillardegi | unamuno |
| peter smollett | orwell |
| the generation of '98 | unamuno |
| georges hugon | nana |
| dialogue with death | koestler |
| dirk gently | adams |
| prisoner of the caucasus | byron |
| kingston to oxford | jerome |
| falconieri | tancredi |
| and quiet flows the don | cossacks |
| in the shadow of no towers | spiegelman |
| quentin durward | scott |
| happy loman | death of a |
| in night | moshe |
| conversation poems | coleridge |
| don federico | rat |
| "a portrait of shunkin." | tanizaki |
| "the beauty of the dark" | tanizaki |
| solitude of prime numbers | italian |
| manyoshu | milky way |
| "chase his mate." | parliament of fowls |
| "curtal" | sonnet |
| once paul | beloved |
| jamaica kincaid | lucy |
| "the man with night sweats." | gunn |
| "a warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations." | hitler |
| orve knausgaard | hitler |
| "the end of the party" | greene |
| flappers | bernice |
| effie | just-so |
| another of the just so stories | hedgehog |
| republic of pemberley | austen |
| minou | sand |
| "monster" | me too |
| hunger of memory | rodriguez |
| letters from | auden |
| kunta kinte | slave |
| in sebald | 40 |
| lambton | pemberley |
| consuelo in minou | sand |
| "that great scroll" | diderot |
| paolo giordano | italian |
| tanabata | milky way |
| "fact." | cosmicomics |
| no pain cafe | walcott |
| brinkley court | jeeves |
| "silver river." | milky way |
| "flakes of rust" | beloved |
| "[fall] away." | beloved |
| homage to catalonia | orwell |
| montmorency | jerome |
| small place | kincaid |
| "eternal language" | frost |
| "every city light" | frost |
| "at midnight." | frost |
| jacques the fatalist | diderot |
| "a report on a journey" | shanghai |
| hitchhiker | adams |
| "inscape" | wreck of the deutschland |
| russian messenger | cossacks |
| "he has not sinned at all" | peer gynt |
| mensagem | pessoa |
| "landlord's daughter" | highwayman |
| some prefer nettles | chikamatsu |
| amy waldman | 2001 |
| gnasher | dogs |
| "by contraries" | west-running brook |
| diary of an old man | kabuki |
| ko un | me too |
| catherine robbe | me too |
| "robe gree-yay" | me too |
| alain | me too |
| jews of sighet | moshe |
| c.k. stead | new zealand |
| running brook | gold |
| "exiles by the falk laws." | wreck of the deutschland |
| felix | ash |
| kincaid | letter |
| simon gillayley | hulme |
| "vivian darkbloom" | nabokov |
| "it's more real to me here than if i went up." | olenska |
| strega prize | italian |
| matsushima | deep north |
| sado island | milky way |
| heo gyun | korean |
| "chweh yung-mee" | me too |
| eliezer | moshe |
| "holistic detective agency." | adams |
| santo domingo | time of the hero |
| theydulce | world war i |
| "princox" | stevens |
| shaun | finnegans wake |
| martha gellhorn | war correspondent |
| "library plus blind man can only equal" | jorge |
| "kick'd and knock'd" | goblin market |
| decorum est | world war i |
| sostrata | mother-in-law |
| "by the turkey who lives on the hill," | runcible |
| "different in his essential nature than the normal men around him." | john |
| jacques roumain | vo |
| "the american dream is at the expense of the american negro" | debating |
| "the story of a girl who stood up for [this activity] and was shot by the taliban." | education |
| sarah miles in world war ii | greene |
| "the happy life home." | veldt |
| fighting terms | gunn |
| lonely londoners | english |
| "loafe and invite" | soul |
| "come and see the blood in the streets" | spanish civil war |
| rebel angels | canada |
| ford madox ford | good soldier |
| cotton | mather |
| shem | finnegans wake |
| "dante... bruno. vico... joyce." | beckett |
| "women in lifeboats" | war correspondent |
| eve sedgwick | john |
| " for 10 points each: hardy's " | world war i |
| "fished from obscurity," | stevens |
| philumena | mother-in-law |
| bouvard et pecuchet | flaubert |
| "what can i give him, poor as i am?" | goblin market |
| timofey pavlovich pnin | campus |
| the prisoner | proust |
| ss strathallan | war correspondent |
| "how south african censorship works." | gordimer |
| "till china and africa meet," | as i walked out one evening |
| "you cannot conquer time." | as i walked out one evening |
| urquhart mcvarish | canada |
| her the sovereignty | rowlandson |
| "there is no such thing as the state" | september 1, 1939 |
| pechorin in a mikhail lermontov | hero |
| "the offshore pirate," | flapper |
| moses aloetta | lonely londoners |
| growth of the soil | norway |
| black mathilde | head |
| "large, handsome, stone building" | pemberley |
| "there once was a man from decatur . . ." | limerick |
| alcee arobin | awakening |
| "in the position of a kind of jeremiah" | debating |
| isak | growth of the soil |
| cooger and dark's | something wicked this way comes |
| surinam | slave |
| "natural beauty." | pemberley |
| "with a ring at the end of his nose." | lear |
| malala yousafzai | education |
| "the dynamo and the virgin," | adams |
| de vulgari eloquentia | dante |
| "kirghiz eyes," | clawdia |
| "i explain a few things," | spanish civil war |
| wormsley common gang | greene |
| "one big thing." | hedgehog |
| "how the whale got his throat," | just-so |
| "under the spreading" | chestnut tree |
| sense of movement | gunn |
| lensmand geissler | growth of the soil |
| pussycat | runcible |
| joachim ziemssen | hans |
| "the stars are dead. the animals will not look" | spanish civil war |
| "how the tiger got his stripes." | jungle book |
| ardita | flapper |
| macneice | auden |
| christiania | norway |
| "mince, and slices of quince" | runcible |
| "the ice palace." | flapper |
| james whitcomb riley | english |
| "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 |
| "invisible gentlemen" | japan |
| primo levi | 40 |
| adventures with my pets | dumas |
| mysouff | dumas |
| nonsense songs | lear |
| stories, botany and alphabets | lear |
| brathwaite | dante |
| exit one | ghosts |
| in the shadow of young girls in flower | proust |
| anil | ondaatje |
| storm of steel | western front |
| ingram frizer | marlowe |
| "a world without collisions." | hally |
| "the secret agent," | greenwich observatory |
| alchemy of sorrow | hermes |
| " form of this god makes the speaker " | hermes |
| to the reader | hermes |
| "valley" | ash |
| orphanage | cider house rules |
| "nightmare" | abbey |
| flosky | abbey |
| madame defarge | pross |
| selina | screenplay |
| "now you are caught, foul soul" | phlegyas |
| "just to let the air in" | abortion |
| "on self-respect" | slouching towards bethlehem |
| " 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 |
| deptford | marlowe |
| confessions of an english opium eater | de quincey |
| dirk | screenplay |
| marquise of merteuil | smallpox |
| oedipus at colonus | sophocles |
| ondaatje | canada |
| ernst junger | western front |
| "john wayne: a love song." | slouching towards bethlehem |
| allen mandelbaum | phlegyas |
| in john irving | abortion |
| "the decay of lying." | wilde |
| "see the object as in itself it really is." | arnold |
| adolf verloc | greenwich observatory |
| "the necessity of atheism." | oxford |
| "mad jacobin" | oxford |
| "all quiet on" | western front |
| sir percy blakeney | guillotined |
| " satan is called " | hermes |
| "the rival poet." | shakespeare's sonnets |
| the de laclos | dangerous liaisons |
| "the most exquisite moment of her whole life." | mrs. dalloway |
| vile bodies | waugh |
| "striking through the thought of his dear ones" | watch |
| "the critic as artist." | wilde |
| vivian | wilde |
| fences in the pittsburgh cycle | wilson |
| "easter wings." | herbert |
| "sent to the devil somewhat 'ere his time" | byron |
| awashima | hiruko |
| "to saxham" | carew |
| "that's the way that go!" | gabriel |
| love suicides at sonezaki | chikamatsu |
| "such a shout is useless" | phlegyas |
| in fences | trumpet |
| say roh | hemingway |
| seer | prospero |
| "the pulley" | herbert |
| loveless | moloch |
| ice palace | parker |
| billy bathgate | doctorow |
| carew | donne |
| nikolenka | rostov |
| hugh conway | shangri-la |
| stah | cloud |
| "the sacred and profane memories of charles ryder." | brideshead |
| jitney | wilson |
| william hatcliffe | shakespeare's sonnets |
| "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses" | parker |
| city of dis | styx |
| robert zwelinzima | sizwe bansi is dead |
| ocean view orchards | cider house rules |
| st. cloud's | cider house rules |
| freemason pierre choderlos | dangerous liaisons |
| justine | sade |
| cimarron | screenplay |
| "the perfect critic," | eliot |
| "blithe spirit." | to a skylark |
| in the skin of a lion | canada |
| " for 10 points each: in a poem from les fleurs du mal called " | hermes |
| "sighs," | de quincey |
| queen honeybee | shug |
| "chronicle his own impressions" | wilde |
| "any existence" | wilde |
| function of criticism at the present time | arnold |
| "bed" | in the penal colony |
| toobad | abbey |
| sowerberry | oliver twist |
| "parish boy's progress." | oliver twist |
| unwin | bumble |
| "bible of infidels" | william |
| father brown | chesterton |
| borgias in a sherlock holmes | detective |
| "two-faced year, mother of change and fate." | lazarus |
| plinio designori | castalia |
| hydriotaphia | browne |
| "in a funk." | suicide |
| "trash" | we must love one another or die |
| "the simple art of murder," | chandler |
| "hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police . . ." | we must love one another or die |
| in the long goodbye | mexico |
| "double, double, toil and trouble" | weird sisters |
| "your followers have swallowed you like mummia, and being sick ... vomit you up" | webster |
| amerigo vespucci | rushdie |
| "you bring out [this ethnicity] in me." | mexican |
| hildegard von bingen's | morality |
| day of the turbins | stalin |
| "to believe we can live without taking life is delusional" | kingsolver |
| guide to the galaxy | adams |
| alfred noyes | highwayman |
| "fears in solitude" | conversation |
| "the lovely shapes and sounds intelligible" | frost |
| peer | button-moulder |
| white king | through the looking glass |
| story of hong gildong | korean |
| ten thousand lives | ko |
| in the great gatsby | ash |
| cossack ivan mazepa | pushkin |
| amir khusrow | persian |
| "stockmen in denver suits" | beat |
| corney | bumble |
| juliana bordereau in the aspern papers | venice |
| "a book containing different wisdom than ours." | william |
| "the average detective story is no worse than the average novel." | chandler |
| everyman | good deeds |
| gasparo | webster |
| price | kingsolver |
| vilkins | bumble |
| natella | azdak |
| fragment on mummies | browne |
| twist | bumble |
| "i married him" | reader |
| "our gustatory pleasure." | lobster |
| kilanga | kingsolver |
| "twist ending," | prison |
| li xingdao | caucasian chalk circle |
| "nine jewels" | persian |
| milly theale in the wings of the dove | venice |
| qassem | children |
| chandler | philip |
| "the aztec love of war" | mexican |
| "panacea" | browne |
| "whistling dick's christmas stockings" | prison |
| riva degli schiavoni | james |
| bsharri | gibran |
| "forsake" | good deeds |
| dance of the happy shades | canada |
| filippo argenti | styx |
| when mark david chapman | beatles |
| metamorphoses of the vampire | flowers of evil |
| stanley fish | milton |
| "ashamed to have written." | we must love one another or die |
| rifaa | children |
| mysterious flame of queen loana | eco |
| animal, vegetable | kingsolver |
| "looked over" | shield of achilles |
| barnet in london | oliver twist |
| "fat prince" | azdak |
| "mad elephant" | rushdie |
| surprised by sin | paradise lost |
| "huddled masses" | breathe free |
| auberon quinn | detective |
| "like the thought of" | heaven |
| "annus mirabilis." | dryden |
| beppo | detective |
| "the mariachi trumpets of the blood" | mexican |
| "mummy, maw and gulf." | weird sisters |
| white devil | webster |
| badroulbadour | heaven |
| "metaphysical" | detective |
| weimar germany with adrian leverkuhn | doktor faustus |
| gilbert keith chesterton | chesterton |
| "damned fool -- he ruined the song!" | actor |
| "living phantom." | murasaki |
| "pilgrimage." | charlemagne |
| "the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth." | pi |
| barbara grizzuti harrison | didion |
| "to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow" | didion |
| deirdre bair | godot |
| jewish max vanderburg | book thief |
| "frail cottage" | bronze horseman |
| bois sauvage | mississippi |
| "portrait plays" | ibsen |
| isaac luria | pi |
| "the only person worth playing for." | awakening |
| addie bundren | mississippi |
| fujitsobo | murasaki |
| while at grand isle | awakening |
| "granite carapace" | bronze horseman |
| w. k. wimsatt | author |
| "only disconnect." | didion |
| "keen tremor" | awakening |
| tomas arroyo | mexico |
| "a legendary head / with eyes like ripening fruit." | rilke |
| "chapter 25" | douglass |
| milton rogers | silas |
| lantern yard | silas |
| "the stables are the real centre of the household" | shaw |
| paul scofield | lear |
| "exiled" | albatross |
| "she will rise again" | saramago |
| belinda in an alexander pope | lock |
| "his own idiosyncratic voice" | o captain! my captain |
| "zampa." | awakening |
| "once so beautiful" | albatross |
| william dean howells | silas |
| "glittering" | lock |
| lady utterword | shaw |
| "shot down over libya." | dahl |
| "crack your cheeks" | lear |
| "hoots and jeers" | albatross |
| evelyn | bar |
| gardencourt | james |
| "gone, gone, sold and gone" | douglass |
| touchett | james |
| "wild beast's fur" | rilke |
| "no world" | rilke |
| "nine worthies." | charlemagne |
| edward seidensticker | murasaki |
| "tied...down" | godot |
| "iron railing" | bronze horseman |
| "all is void, void, void" | seagull |
| western canon | author |
| "ritual dance" | rilke |
| "faces of beasts" | rilke |
| "surely tomorrow." | godot |
| pedro paramo | mexico |
| "marble pair of guardian lions" | bronze horseman |
| lay dying by william faulkner | mississippi |
| "intent" | author |
| shining by stephen king | author |
| "plunges into the heart and is gone" | rilke |
| "ugly - babbling old - witch!" | menagerie |
| skeetah | mississippi |
| "if at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it," | seagull |
| "whips" | godot |
| klaus mann | mephistopheles |
| wingfield | menagerie |
| "minuscule." | charlemagne |
| ministry of transport | pi |
| "disagreeable little woman" | awakening |
| "proud young city" | bronze horseman |
| salvage the bones by jesmyn ward | mississippi |
| "always wears mourning... to match my life." | seagull |
| "shining prince" | murasaki |
| hans huberman | book thief |
| "set traps for freedom" | rilke |
| hugo the strong | charlemagne |
| "chill corpse" | bronze horseman |
| "innumerable centers of culture." | author |
| auerbach | mephistopheles |
| joyeuse | charlemagne |
| "neurasthenic cher" | didion |
| su tong | red |
| victor sings | awakening |
| "some peaceful province" | dryden |
| cicada | murasaki |
| "old-fashioned what-not" | menagerie |
| miss dubose | atticus |
| "all he had, a tear" | elegy written in a country |
| "sacred emily" | stein |
| meiringen | holmes |
| "still throbs in the old, old scars" | bird |
| "no monument stands." | russian |
| "you never really understand a person...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." | atticus |
| oxford street | opium |
| perpetual orgy | emma |
| olive chancellor | james |
| "floats downstream till the current ends" | bird |
| "storm in the sky in the evening" | russian |
| dante tours | divine |
| "when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway" | atticus |
| "all he wished, a friend." | elegy written in a country |
| gnostic | hesse |
| "when this you see remember me" | stein |
| "ladies of sorrow" | opium |
| "on the deck" | o captain! my captain |
| "all the trophies of his former loves" | lock |
| "snow falling faintly" | dublin |
| clytemnestra in aeschylus | electra |
| thomas de quincey | opium |
| "emerging from the jungle." | machu picchu |
| "little cuss" | prospector |
| "delete the adjectives and...have the facts" | atticus |
| professor aronnax on the abraham lincoln | nemo |
| "gnomon," | dublin |
| lotaria | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "horror of the spirit" | jekyll becoming |
| klondike gold rush | prospector |
| nils runeberg | borges |
| julian barnes | emma |
| "prosperous in proper sense" | bird |
| "make miniature valhalla of my heart" | bird |
| regent's | jekyll becoming |
| "abandon all hope, ye who enter here." | divine |
| "black gold" | journey to the west |
| "if [this character] had not read all those novels...[this character]'s fate might have been different" | emma |
| father flynn | dublin |
| jean de la fontaine | aesop |
| herbert quain | borges |
| "eager faces turning" | o captain! my captain |
| "the great automatic grammatizator." | dahl |
| henry sugar | dahl |
| peter brook | lear |
| alessandro tassoni | lock |
| "the people all exulting" | o captain! my captain |
| "historical, satirical, philosophical, ... or straight" | dahl |
| gpt | dahl |
| station eleven | lear |
| "mounted to the lunar sphere" | lock |
| "utter loneliness" | douglass |
| aumsa | soyinka |
| "laugh[ed] at the archer." | albatross |
| tom corey | silas |
| going solo | dahl |
| florence with mrs | james |
| "so funny and ugly." | albatross |
| "bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths" | o captain! my captain |
| "walk? not bloody likely!" | shaw |
| pratchett | dahl |
| james mccune smith | douglass |
| "sank like lead" | albatross |
| "rags to riches" | silas |
| helen vendler | o captain! my captain |
| ma kilman | omeros |
| "take their case." | soyinka |
| cadbury | dahl |
| "the wren goes to't" | lear |
| "slimy things...upon the shiny sea" | albatross |
| "swaying mass" | o captain! my captain |
| "prince of cloud and sky" | albatross |
| kongi's harvest | soyinka |
| back bay | silas |
| other flammable objects | irani |
| reading lolita in tehran | irani |
| katharine peabody loring | james |
| "lectures on liberation." | douglass |
| azar nafisi | irani |
| olstead | bar |
| "representative american man." | douglass |
| james greenleaf whittier | douglass |
| "weaver of raveloe" | silas |
| angela davis | douglass |
| "and did those feet in ancient time." | blake |
| "i shan't be gone long - you come too." | frost |
| hari seldon | asimov |
| berenice charles | wilson |
| geoff dyer | venice |
| galactic empire | asimov |
| madame de thoux | uncle tom's cabin |
| ethel lange in blood knot | apartheid |
| "the beast?" | beauty |
| "unobstructed world." | rilke |
| "well worth reading about." | mississippi |
| jeff atman | venice |
| "not to blame for his key" | frost |
| "whose love is innocent." | beauty |
| jane taylor | apartheid |
| "all-fray zhah-ree's" | apartheid |
| gloria anzaldua | mexican |
| oskar matzerath in the tin drum | grass |
| "dewdrop world." | haiku |
| david grann | murder |
| "just this / or that in you disgusts me," | duchess |
| lord morena | apartheid |
| "zeze the x" | house on mango street |
| "proverbs of hell." | blake |
| four zoas | blake |
| "prophetic book" | blake |
| marriage of heaven | blake |
| "a wild civility" | herrick |
| "delight in disorder." | herrick |
| "this great war" | uncle tom's cabin |
| two fathoms | mississippi |
| "all that's best of dark and bright" | beauty |
| "old times" | mississippi |
| "life on" | mississippi |
| "but here there are no cows" | frost |
| "liquefaction" | herrick |
| "julia poems" | herrick |
| "would have the rabbit out of hiding" | frost |
| three lawsof robotics | asimov |
| "a heart...too soon made glad." | duchess |
| dick allbright | mississippi |
| keeler to loomis | house on mango street |
| "the sons of adam are limbs of each other" | farsi |
| jabez branderham | wuthering heights |
| uncle julian | jackson |
| "pack of crazy fools" | jackson |
| martins with the fire chief | ionesco |
| junior anti | nineteen eighty-four |
| "laughing cockroaches" | russian |
| "shall i live in hope?" | richard iii |
| eurotas | helen |
| rhodes scholar chacko | god of small things |
| "i'll have her, but i will not keep her long." | richard iii |
| "was ever woman in this humour won?" | richard iii |
| "says goodbye sometimes." | mexican |
| "would you like a cup of tea?" | jackson |
| manson family | murder |
| "like the months of the year" | ionesco |
| "the great art of making money," | room of one's own |
| "likes looking at the walls" | mexican |
| "spring is passing" | haiku |
| elise pachen | murder |
| tom joad | grapes of wrath |
| "two gin-scented tears." | nineteen eighty-four |
| "half-men," | russian |
| "astronomy, relativity, geography" | room of one's own |
| "angelfood" | ionesco |
| "long live the emperor" | ionesco |
| theoclymenus | helen |
| "there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. there's just stuff people do" | grapes of wrath |
| olga knipper | seagull |
| "little fish" | room of one's own |
| "scuttling" | grass |
| borderlands | mexican |
| "seventeen months." | russian |
| "darkness" | stoppard |
| "the men sat still - thinking - figuring" | grapes of wrath |
| "all men i hope live so." | richard iii |
| "i'd lost my way on the moor!" | wuthering heights |
| in emma cline | murder |
| "monstrous vermin." | samsa |
| gregor | samsa |
| "anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes" | nineteen eighty-four |
| "under the spreading chestnut tree." | nineteen eighty-four |
| "it is best to be prepared" | god of small things |
| "oh-bay-ah" | jane eyre |
| "the limper." | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "before i knocked." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "happy and careless" | six characters |
| "i've lost a whole day over [this group]!" | six characters |
| "still-born" | pound |
| "cream gilded cabin." | pound |
| the zek shukhov | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "for thine is the kingdom" | eliot |
| uncle doaker | wilson |
| jose norberto allende | cortazar |
| "how can you ask a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?" | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "irritating cleverness" | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "aunt cora's patchwork" | jane eyre |
| married him | jane eyre |
| esme | stoppard |
| busman | robot |
| serpent club | cortazar |
| "sang the sun in flight." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| terrance hayes | brooks |
| plastic people of the universe | stoppard |
| "constantly passing bars" | rilke |
| hendrik hofgen | mephistopheles |
| pondicherry | pi |
| "allez vous-en!" | awakening |
| comala | mexico |
| "break a window to the west." | bronze horseman |
| ben jonson | dryden |
| "implied" | author |
| "cramped circles." | rilke |
| "haunted by humans." | book thief |
| "thin like brook water" | pound |
| "hired assassin" | menagerie |
| "force its own reception" | dryden |
| "in pious times, ere priest-craft did begin." | dryden |
| standover man | book thief |
| "si tu savais." | awakening |
| impromptu | awakening |
| "torture one poor word ten thousand ways." | dryden |
| liza dalby | murasaki |
| "wild little plant" | murasaki |
| "superb three-mast" | maupassant |
| "would always wish evil, and always works the good." | mephistopheles |
| confessions of felix krull | mann |
| "both incline / their drowsy faces...on either side of [this poet's] enormous grave" | eliot |
| rock 'n' roll and travesties | stoppard |
| "this same flower that smiles today / tomorrow will be dying" | herrick |
| "never to stoop." | duchess |
| "taming a sea-horse" | duchess |
| "soft soul of america" | blake |
| "nenny," | house on mango street |
| thefoundationseries | asimov |
| "strike straight." | brooks |
| "she walks in [this word]." | beauty |
| "careless shoe-string" | herrick |
| "when art / is too precise in every part." | herrick |
| albion | blake |
| "i'm going out to fetch the little calf" | frost |
| ebling mis | asimov |
| "a minor bird," | frost |
| claus of innsbruck | duchess |
| "spot of joy" | duchess |
| "my last." | duchess |
| "gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name," | duchess |
| grunlich | mann |
| "only pleasure" | six characters |
| "in search of an author." | six characters |
| coulibi | jane eyre |
| "the hollow round of my skull" | eliot |
| avrahm yarmolinsky | stoppard |
| "do you think that the soul first shows itself by a gnashing of teeth?" | robot |
| "cramp." | robot |
| "in a green bay." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| schubal | kafka |
| god with alyosha the baptist in gang | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| professor kuckuck | mann |
| adela quested in the marabar | forster |
| "cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes." | brooks |
| ultimus | robot |
| river arno | forster |
| "vile" | six characters |
| "alienated windy corner, perhaps forever," | forster |
| "rented back room" | brooks |
| "kah-rel cha-pek" | robot |
| "what the hell are you talking about?" | stoppard |
| "english rubaiyat" | pound |
| warigia | ngugi |
| devil on the cross | ngugi |
| meme | buendia |
| "gave me eyes, gave me ears; / and humble cares, and delicate fears." | wordsworth |
| "dear, dear sister" | wordsworth |
| day magazine in new york | bell jar |
| "abyss" | hero |
| "the eyes of the panther." | bierce |
| "[his] foe outstretched" | blake |
| "forges decrees" | russian |
| "thrust home!" | cyrano |
| "wive it wealthily in padua" | taming of the shrew |
| "into that blackness" | pequod |
| "monomaniac soul." | pequod |
| "gold upon [her] head" | goblin |
| "apples and quinces, lemons and oranges." | goblin |
| "so gay ever glancing ever changing" | wordsworth |
| " examples of these people often have a hamartia, or fatal flaw, that leads to their downfall. morally gray characters are called the " | hero |
| "thigh with a horn in it" | spain |
| "memory and desire." | bananafish |
| "beasts of england" | pig |
| "beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs" | bierce |
| "brute neighbors" | walden |
| "must have uncommended died" | rose |
| "newly sprung in june" | rose |
| "eater of left-overs." | death and the king's horseman |
| herta muller | bread |
| word book | bierce |
| colt .44 | bierce |
| house of pride | knight |
| petals of blood | ngugi |
| "carnivalesque" | rabelais |
| elizabeth on an arctic | frankenstein |
| "ageless," | du maurier |
| "i am taking this only so that you do not think you have failed to do anything." | trial |
| "assigned only to you. i'm going now to close it" | trial |
| "lowliest gatekeeper." | trial |
| "man-hating half-woman" | miss julie |
| "return." | hero |
| old major | pig |
| "a perfect day for" | bananafish |
| "philosophical poem" | mab |
| "lacking a common memory" | borges |
| university of leeds | ngugi |
| kihika | ngugi |
| kihika in the mau mau rebellion | ngugi |
| "morning and evening" | goblin |
| "weak and degenerate brain." | miss julie |
| "brother square-toes" | kipling |
| "america two dollars and twentyseven cents." | ginsberg |
| "a duck-sized horse." | caged bird |
| "bedazzled with the sun" | taming of the shrew |
| "immortal hand or eye." | blake |
| "sex is fun -- or hell" | bananafish |
| "ruler of the minds of all people" | tagore |
| julia flyte | waugh |
| "mopping and mowing" | goblin |
| "five o'clock." | spain |
| "human war" | ginsberg |
| masago | akutagawa |
| ogre of endless tears | ngugi |
| "red hell" | pequod |
| gloomy | hero |
| "into a single current" | tagore |
| "material counterpart" | pequod |
| maurice bavaud | tell |
| "mossy glen" | goblin |
| lenny shepherd | bell jar |
| "open his soul beyond terror" | hero |
| artifices | borges |
| "when it comes to slaughter / you will do your work on water" | kipling |
| "flow to a sea of silence." | tagore |
| munira | ngugi |
| "initiation," | hero |
| "there never was a body that [gave] the undertaker a tip" | o'connor |
| "eclipse himself" | cyrano |
| "god is within us." | tagore |
| kabir | tagore |
| aegidius tschudi | tell |
| "rat's pace" | goblin |
| "steep woods and lofty cliffs" | wordsworth |
| "you prob'ly must have heard of" | bell jar |
| madame lebrun | caged bird |
| "atonement with the father." | hero |
| district officer robson | ngugi |
| captain fox | mab |
| "drums in [a soldier's] ear," | mab |
| "do what thou wilt." | rabelais |
| adrienne | chopin |
| "one thing" | decameron |
| william benton | bierce |
| fairie queene | knight |
| frenchman alec therien | walden |
| "little atomies" | mab |
| jeanette winterson | frankenstein |
| "christmas won't be christmas without any presents," | alcott |
| "confrontation is largely metaphysical" | death and the king's horseman |
| "the importance of being" | ernest |
| "shot to rags" | bierce |
| "redcrosse" | knight |
| mercutio in romeo | mab |
| "from air to air, as through an empty net" | neruda |
| "arise to birth with me, my brother." | neruda |
| "will never know... his mother." | chopin |
| cornelius agrippa | frankenstein |
| nat hocken | du maurier |
| "perhaps your men can help us." | things fall apart |
| "complaint book," | calvino |
| "our court" | lear's daughters |
| carisbrooke | cry, the beloved country |
| "white granular powder" | carson |
| "has a music of its own" | ernest |
| radigund | knight |
| "whip of cricket's bone" | mab |
| panurge | rabelais |
| venetia moore | mab |
| "in a gentlemanly manner" | alcott |
| "produces vibrations." | ernest |
| chasuble | ernest |
| "economy" | walden |
| susanna clarke | mab |
| ladies of grace adieu | mab |
| "starts and wakes... swears a prayer or two and sleeps again." | mab |
| "sad trash." | frankenstein |
| "you seem to be displaying signs of triviality." | ernest |
| house of busyrane | knight |
| "disappeared among the reeds and willows" | chopin |
| bower of bliss | knight |
| "humiliate the host" | george |
| "folk laughter." | rabelais |
| "sexless" | du maurier |
| "monte verita" | du maurier |
| "bunburyist" | ernest |
| dusters | tin drum |
| "billingsgates" | rabelais |
| "go, lovely" | rose |
| villa diodati | frankenstein |
| "body and soul free" | chopin |
| "the end of imagination." | roy |
| sound of music by the orangedrink lemondrink man | roy |
| ellery channing | walden |
| oracle of the golden bottle | rabelais |
| "in deserts, where no men abide," | rose |
| cecily and gwendolen | ernest |
| duessa | knight |
| "i will not give up berlin!" | george |
| "final act of betrayal by a ruling class that has failed its people" | roy |
| "fairies' midwife" | mab |
| "don't look now" | du maurier |
| fruitlands | alcott |
| maubert isabeau | bread |
| archimago | knight |
| "the angel of the central committee" | neruda |
| felix de lacey | frankenstein |
| transcendental wild oats | alcott |
| "clash of cultures." | death and the king's horseman |
| praise singer | death and the king's horseman |
| martha in edward albee | george |
| peyton thomas | alcott |
| turkishwoman safie | frankenstein |
| letters by captain walton | frankenstein |
| john matteson | alcott |
| "not too bold," | knight |
| "plaits the manes of horses." | mab |
| "year without a summer." | frankenstein |
| amy march in little women | alcott |
| "in town and jack in the country" | ernest |
| "lilacs," | chopin |
| "old roses" | roy |
| "breaches, ambuscadoes, spanish blades" | mab |
| kirill eskov | tolkien |
| love's whirlwind | coward |
| "withers quicker than the rose" | shropshire lad |
| "the god" | claudius |
| "the bad light is near and nothing is real." | stone |
| "the whole world is growing smaller every day" | kafka |
| "i don't want to be a tree, i want to be its meaning." | istanbul |
| "the chair she sat in, like a burnished throne" | eliot |
| "unreal city under the brown fog of a winter dawn." | eliot |
| gikuyu | ngugi |
| "how to travel with a salmon." | eco |
| "the stammerer." | claudius |
| "you only need to change your direction" | kafka |
| the b. toklas | stein |
| "absolute simplicity" | catch-22 |
| "pleasures" | opium |
| "a veritable peace-maker" | dublin |
| "leaning from the steep slope." | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "swart growth of hair" | jekyll becoming |
| "the one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience" | atticus |
| button molder | ibsen |
| pirates of the caribbean | eco |
| "a fantasy world more real than reality." | eco |
| "old king log" | claudius |
| "the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence." | kafka |
| grishkin | eliot |
| "the most wonderful thing of all?" | ibsen |
| poet in new york | lorca |
| jackie croyton | coward |
| "keeper" | dream |
| "there'll be time enough for sleep" | shropshire lad |
| "audio-animatronics" | eco |
| "i, [this man]." | claudius |
| haladdin | tolkien |
| "the wood's in trouble" | shropshire lad |
| "each is another and no other: / crossing and vanishing." | stone |
| isaac singer | yiddish |
| canewell | pittsburgh |
| "a feline smell," | eliot |
| "existing monuments" | eliot |
| "good morning, daddy! ain't you heard?" | dream |
| "like a syrupy sweet" | dream |
| before lsd | hesse |
| "song of the thousand voices." | hesse |
| strand | holmes |
| "pains" | opium |
| "every thinking activity implies mirrors" | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "midway upon the journey of our life / i found myself within a forest dark" | divine |
| four saints in three acts | stein |
| 27 rue de fleurus | stein |
| "rise up in birth with me." | machu picchu |
| virgil thomson | stein |
| "the napoleon of crime." | holmes |
| "say mwah" | emma |
| "its blood is red on the cruel bars." | bird |
| snoopy | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| hastie lanyon | jekyll becoming |
| "perhaps gracious, perhaps mocking" | hesse |
| "a pain" | bird |
| "real courage" | atticus |
| timothy leary | hesse |
| "the north wind and the sun," | aesop |
| "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" | elegy written in a country |
| "lost generation." | stein |
| "simony," | dublin |
| "sidereal eagle, misty vine." | machu picchu |
| "heights" | machu picchu |
| "without fear of wind or vertigo" | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "i am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor!" | nemo |
| five civil war | nemo |
| nautilus in twenty thousand leagues under the sea | nemo |
| "failed to love a tree in each person" | machu picchu |
| "a light and diplomatic" | bird |
| "god of death." | electra |
| autobiography of alice | stein |
| "mobilis in mobili" | nemo |
| "respectful whistle." | catch-22 |
| "c'est moi" | emma |
| "sings of freedom" | bird |
| "drowning man is said to cling to a straw." | prospector |
| "man-o'war jack" | prospector |
| "draws the world" | borges |
| pierre menard | borges |
| "we read no more that day," | divine |
| abraxas | hesse |
| thirty best short stories of the year | bell jar |
| "that which bites you is in your own clothing." | ngugi |
| "black into white" | pig |
| "ignacio's blood in the ring." | spain |
| "gone without corsets & eyes" | ginsberg |
| "come on and kiss me." | taming of the shrew |
| ilmorog | ngugi |
| "thank god!" | waugh |
| "stood, / like a lily in a flood" | goblin |
| "crust[s] and sugar[s] over" | dream |
| "with a thousand faces." | hero |
| "death and the compass" | borges |
| "how to answer" | tagore |
| "what angel is hidden in your cheek?" | lorca |
| book of lost tales | tolkien |
| "music of creation." | tolkien |
| "legendarium." | tolkien |
| "does it stink like rotten meat?" | dream |
| "play the fool" | claudius |
| armanoush | istanbul |
| "impress / thoughts of more deep seclusion." | wordsworth |
| "i promise to stand still" | tell |
| "we must not look at" | goblin |
| "i know why [what animal] sings?" | caged bird |
| "skilled in circumvention of the law." | bierce |
| "fie fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow" | taming of the shrew |
| "more obedient" | taming of the shrew |
| "you sit there smiling." | tagore |
| karanja | ngugi |
| "would not open lip from lip" | goblin |
| "cat's face" | goblin |
| "market" | goblin |
| "the sect of the phoenix." | borges |
| "four legs good, two legs bad." | pig |
| "the best dream that ever i had in my life" | taming of the shrew |
| kurt | waugh |
| river wye | wordsworth |
| "the hapless soldiers sigh" | blake |
| sea witch | andersen |
| "gold coin from quito" | pequod |
| "organization for modern theft and robbery" | ngugi |
| baron of attinghausen | tell |
| "ragnarok." | borges |
| asya | istanbul |
| stool pigeon | pittsburgh |
| "people don't do such things!" | ibsen |
| black speech | tolkien |
| "dear mother, fairest queen." | bradstreet |
| "barren field" | dream |
| in an alejandra pizarnik | stone |
| alaska by michael chabon | yiddish |
| "a little fable" | kafka |
| "family size" | eco |
| learned what | pittsburgh |
| "he is the god of love" | ibsen |
| peleg | pequod |
| "rule them all." | tolkien |
| john woodbridge | bradstreet |
| "olympian mixture" | claudius |
| "saw the skull beneath the skin." | eliot |
| "we meet at the final crossroads" | ibsen |
| "the dove and the leopard fought" | lorca |
| "strong foundation of proud babel" | bradstreet |
| "bastard of [this city]." | istanbul |
| radio golf | pittsburgh |
| "a boy brought the white sheet." | lorca |
| "my pleasant things in ashes lie." | bradstreet |
| "pillars of magic" | stone |
| dolphin hotel | murakami |
| "american wood." | pequod |
| "always" | coward |
| "i, too" | dream |
| "river that goes curving, / advances and retreats." | stone |
| gem of the ocean | pittsburgh |
| laurel | shropshire lad |
| "whole mines of gold" | bradstreet |
| "i go among your body as among the world" | stone |
| knights templar | eco |
| "rat." | murakami |
| "all the riches the east doth hold" | bradstreet |
| "corridors of a dissolving autumn." | stone |
| "poor uncle" | claudius |
| "calcutec." | murakami |
| "the road goes ever on" | tolkien |
| hay fever | coward |
| "the one cock in the basket" | ibsen |
| tommy barban | dick |
| arab in the stranger | camus |
| girton college | room of one's own |
| stephen daedalus | joyce |
the dry salvages | t.s. eliot |
| pearl-feather | song of hiawatha |
| edward prendick | island of doctor moreau |
| lowland | lahiri |
| vikram seth | india |
| evie | murder |
| hara in gone with the wind | mitchell |
| mister george knightly | emma |
| kat, muller, kropp | all quiet on the western front |
| henry gatz | funeral |
| when klipspringer | funeral |
| savage reservation | brave new world |
| "the best laid schemes of" | to a mouse |
| griffin in the invisible man | wells |
| "bettyandisabel." | in just |
| margaret schlegel | howards |
| cai jing | water margin |
| thea kronborg | cather |
| daoud | brother |
| crome yellow | huxley |
| esmerelda | hunchback of notre-dame |
| eloi | time |
| princess celestia | twilight |
| st. olaf's | jay gatsby |
| "holiday" | soma |
| "in the opposite house / as lately as today" | death |
| song jiang | water margin |
| "bones are picked clean" | and death shall have no dominion |
| quvenzhane wallis | hushpuppy |
| " 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 |
| morlocks | time |
| gao qiu | water margin |
| "revisit[ed] the banks of the wye during a tour." | tintern |
| "when it comes the landscape listens, / shadows hold their breaths." | there's a certain slant of light |
| but your land is beautiful | paton |
| the sea-wolf | london |
| tadzio in death in venice | mann |
| paquette in candide | pangloss |
| "the bathtub" | hushpuppy |
| "suck'd me first and, now sucks thee." | flea |
| "whistles far and wee," | in just |
| "thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" | ode to a nightingale |
| "winter afternoons," | there's a certain slant of light |
| "let us go then, you and i/when the evening is spread out against the sky/like a patient etherized upon a table." | eliot |
| sha wujing | journey to the west |
| "leopoldine," | cantos |
| "painted on the wall." | my last duchess |
| freedom or death and the | kazantzakis |
| in fathers | rand |
| hank morgan | connecticut yankee in |
| "and men / go often awry." | to a mouse |
| biglow papers | lowell |
| rosemary hoyt | dick |
| year of the death | ricardo reis |
| mack | cannery row |
| owl eyes | funeral |
| magwitch | philip |
| shadow and act | ellison |
| "six feet." | how much land does a man need |
| henry tilney | northanger abbey |
| "near me on the grass lies glanvil's book." | scholar-gipsy |
| a man's a man a' that | burns |
| "apparell'd in celestial light." | ode: intimations of immortality |
| east coker | eliot |
| little gidding | eliot |
| wilfrid sellars | pragmatism |
| nick carraway in the great gatsby | fitzgerald |
| "an apparition of these faces in the crowd; / petals on a wet, black bough." | in a station at the metro |
| curley | of mice and |
| "oppresses like the weight of cathedral tunes," | there's a certain slant of light |
| "a time when meadow, grove, and stream" | ode: intimations of immortality |
| seagull | chekhov |
| john fowles | magical realism |
| " and the speaker states, " | emperor of ice cream |
| "pallid bust of pallas just above [the speaker's] chamber door." | raven |
| group portrait with lady | boll |
| erastro in la galatea | cervantes |
| camilla | to the |
| bobby thomson | baseball |
| blake poem | tyger |
| "sophocles long ago / heard it on the aegean," | dover beach |
| "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." | second coming |
| la belle dame | keats |
| glasgow cathedral | rob roy |
| "meditation upon death." | thanatopsis |
| diana vernon | rob roy |
| camus | plague |
| "the will to believe," | james |
| leora | lewis |
| prince genji | murasaki |
| macalister | to the |
| chris hemsworth | snow |
| jeanie deans | scott |
| huntsman eric | snow |
| "buzz when [she] died." | flies |
| merci | keats |
| stephano | caliban |
| frank osbaldistone | rob roy |
| "a dill pickle." | mansfield |
| jacob's room | woolf |
| travels with charley | steinbeck |
| "aedh wishes for the cloths of heaven" | yeats |
| sons of jacob | gilead |
| "ten times worse when they repent." | pope |
| "atelier" | six characters in search of an author |
| wangero | walker |
| st. lucian | greek |
| "life and lies" | brecht |
| good person of szechuan | brecht |
| "each time you happen to me all over again" | age of innocence |
| lawrence lefferts | age of innocence |
| "his happy good-night air/some blessed hope, whereof he knew/and i was unaware." | darkling thrush |
| vergy | red and the black |
| john fuegi | brecht |
| "every man his own" | bond |
| on her majesty | bond |
| "so much depends upon the red wheelbarrow." | williams |
becky thatcher | tom sawyer |
| "a pluralistic universe" | james |
| max gottlieb | lewis |
| harlem shadows | mckay |
| scottish highlands | rob roy |
| "old age should burn and rage at close of day." | thomas |
| lin chong | water margin |
| last tycoon | fitzgerald |
| julian west | looking backward |
| scrivener | melville |
| mister fitzwilliam darcy | pride and prejudice |
| joe trace | jazz |
| point counterpoint | huxley |
| "thanks to the human heart by which we live" | ode: intimations of immortality |
| "nothing new in the west." | all quiet on the western front |
| msimangu | stephen |
| rip | wolf |
| pictures | williams |
| newnham college | room of one's own |
| "poised against the sunset, / crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog / and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye--." | sunflower sutra |
| "with blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz / between the light and me / and then the windows failed, and then / i could not see." | dickinson |
| "mourn'd--and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| fireside | lowell |
| zhu bajie | journey to the west |
| "outcasts always mourn" | ballad of reading |
| "china," | cantos |
| levy pants company | confederacy of |
| "on indolence," | ode |
| robert frost medal | we real cool |
| "was it a vision, or a waking dream?" | ode to a nightingale |
| li po | pound |
| "engaged" | becky |
| "shot heard 'round the world," | baseball |
| "sir gawain and the green knight," | kiss |
| wwi in a german | paul |
| "a study of provincial life." | middlemarch |
| much of lahiri | india |
| neon bible | toole |
| "in just-." | cummings |
| we the living | rand |
| alice manfred | jazz |
| "all the advantages of christianity and alcohol, and none of the defects." | soma |
| "redbreast in a cage / puts all heaven in a rage." | robin |
| "would i might rouse the lincoln in you all!" | lindsay |
| "lincoln." | lindsay |
| new french review | gide |
| "was young and easy under the apple boughs / about the lilting house and happy as the grass was green." | fern hill |
| essays in radical empiricism | pragmatism |
| "eddieandbill" | in just |
| tlee | feather |
| pullman porter | brutus |
| "the world no longer let me love. my hope and treasure lie above." | burning |
| frij | midas |
| "universal alphabet" | higgins |
| volodin | the first circle |
| eurynome | creation |
| "a palace and a prison on each hand." | venice |
| kwaht | feather |
| hushpuppy | beasts of the southern wild |
| "thanatopsis club" | lewis |
| "post data" | paz |
| "nansen kills a kitten" | mishima |
| josy | meg |
| north fork river | roaring camp |
| madame valmonde | desiree |
| castle of wolfenbach | catherine |
| "mile" | compson |
| ma rainey | wilson |
| alejo carpentier | magic |
| geeb | egypt |
| "lovely and soothing" | when lilacs last in |
| "my dear fellow" | jo |
| baptist alyoshka | ivan |
| fetyukov | ivan |
| "oh-fee-on" | creation |
| george selby | simon |
| oakhurst | hamlet |
| frank poole | hal 9000 |
| yosh | ivan |
| hermia | lysander |
| "tote" | boule de suif |
| potamoi | river |
| "the gunman kill and go free to kill again" | chicago |
| fooz | egypt |
| "delicate monster" | reader |
| "creeping like a snail unwillingly to school." | seven ages of |
| earth by the river styx | hades |
| goodman grey | minister's |
| john brooke | meg |
| celine varens | edward |
| vuh-loh-din | the first circle |
| "when old age shall this generation waste" | grecian urn |
| osip bazdeyev | mason |
| everything that rises must | o'connor |
| "colored queen who wears a kimono and plucks his eyebrows" | god |
| "concerned with a rather strictly defined, clinical version of truth" | pisces |
"hit a world at every plunge" | funeral ("i felt a funeral, in my brain") |
| orwell | coolie |
| "moments of great tension." | william of baskerville |
| duke of gloucester | edgar |
| suburban bank | sherlock |
| "my friend" | heights of macchu |
| when rabbit | marty tothero |
| "pink elephants," | john barleycorn |
| "and the maiden," | death |
| "children...that old lie" | owen |
| "o thou my lovely boy" | sonnet |
| "what we talk about when we talk about anne frank" | new yorker |
| fitz-norman | forrest |
| "when in disgrace with fortune" | sonnet |
| bliss hickman | adam |
| "man delights not me; no, nor woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so." | what a piece of work is |
| jay-kez | as you like it |
| banquo | macbeth |
| "with mournful tread" | o captain! my captain |
| kirkes in new york | jo |
| "whose mind is pure machinery" | moloch |
| monsieur le blanc | marie |
| vincent spaulding | red-headed |
| "spleen and ideal." | fleurs du mal |
| three tabloids | gilbert |
| stanley webber in the birthday party | pinter |
| "brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" | aristophanes |
| "on the death of george whitefield" | elegy |
| phillis | elegy |
| alexander portnoy | roth |
| kagu-tsuchi | fir |
| "ever the stars above look down / on thy stars below in" | frederick |
| ras the destroyer | invisible man |
"the congo" | vachel lindsay |
| bob cratchit | tim |
| william halloway | something wicked |
| "an extravagance of laughter," | ellison |
| rodo | uruguay |
| glum | brobdingnag |
| flay | banquo |
| "more brave than me, more blonde than you." | olaf |
| farwell to arms | hemingway |
| mohan | house for mr. biswas |
| yossarian | catch-22 |
| dora flood | cannery |
| lennie in of mice | steinbeck |
| lee goodwin | yoknapatawpha |
| yahoo in the land of the houyhnhnms | lemuel |
| tortilla flat | california |
| according to the hymiskvidha | tyr |
| prince gremin | eugene |
| "glad and big" | olaf |
| kree | tutor |
| mikt | underworld |
| galbis | cuba |
| "a stage where every man must play a part" | merchant of |
| enjolras | javert |
| birnam wood | malcolm |
| in a free state | egypt |
| rolls-royce | myrtle |
| macondo in one hundred years of solitude | garcia marquez |
| "on my first sonne" | jonson |
| greek passion | kazantzakis |
| second vatican council | john xxiii |
| pacem in terris | john xxiii |
| lohl | paz |
| "an abyss where vice is triumphant" | misanthrope |
| "one may enjoy the freedom of being an honest man" | misanthrope |
| "daisy bell" | hal 9000 |
| "bashed open skulls" | moloch |
| "rapture on the lonely shore" | childe harold's |
| english socialist party | big brother |
| jabez | red-headed |
| "son of phlegm, grandchild to water" | age |
| west wind | nokomis |
| wenonah | nokomis |
| kuut | south africa |
| "maggie and milly and molly and may" | cummings |
| thomas luck | roaring camp |
| "melancholy air and intellectual abstraction" | hamlet |
| "boz" | dickens |
| major major major major | milton |
| chant of jimmie blacksmith | australia |
| borachio | much ado about nothing |
| black bottom | wilson |
| koot | underworld |
| calpurnia | cook |
| "a simple man am i" | marti |
| rue pavee | seine |
| "thoroughgoing racist" | conrad |
| sailor who fell | mishima |
| grace with the sea | mishima |
| joseph moody | minister's |
| "are apt to forget to remember." | anyone lived in a pretty |
| "foretopman" | billy |
| battle of caporetto | switzerland |
| "a voice of gladness, and a smile, and eloquence of beauty" | thanatopsis |
| encyclopedia britannica | red-headed |
| charles thomas wooldridge | ballad of |
| jean prouvaire | javert |
| glumdalclitch | brobdingnag |
| "-sih-dus]." | milton |
| hortensio | tutor |
| "shocking" | chopin |
| bin-yee | desiree |
| "ate up brains and imagination" | moloch |
| nair | river |
| "my likeness! my brother!" | reader |
| jaques | as you like it |
| "sphinx of cement and aluminum" | moloch |
| "shall be the hero of [his] own life" | david |
| "pleasure in the pathless woods" | childe harold's |
| brustein | hansberry |
| "cigar-girl" | marie |
| after valjean | drown |
| fleance | banquo |
| "ancient as the world and older than the flow of blood in human veins" | hughes |
| "statistics lie" | olaf |
| demi | meg |
| samneric | lord of the flies |
| bridge of sighs | venice |
| potato face blind man | rootabaga |
| enrique flores | cuba |
| joe dimaggio in the old man | hemingway |
| "ridiculus sum" | bovary |
| "antithesis of the thames." | africa |
| "beautiful colors" | emperor |
| "slow-stepped verse," | sanskrit |
| human acts | south korea |
| miep gies | frank |
| mouschi | frank |
| vulgate cycle | grail |
| gwendolen harleth | eliot |
| "a splash quite unnoticed" | williams |
| panamericana in mario vargas llosa | radio |
| "i took all...my dreams...and i buried them inside you," | fences |
| "hear it ring!" | fences |
| nadia | west |
| vittoria da colonna | sonnet |
| "as chiron was to achilles, i am to cupid" | ovid |
| "good old dog" | fences |
| slim gaillard | on the road |
| "i give you my sweat and my blood," | fences |
| "you say i take and don't give!" | fences |
| "rest cure" | husband |
| "royal blood." | grail |
| flegetanis | grail |
| e. i. lonoff | frank |
| "discovering home" | africa |
| "taboo subjects" | africa |
| "lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." | eliot |
| "don't you remember?" | emperor |
| ghost writer | frank |
| "but he hasn't got anything on!" | emperor |
| "sonny boy" | jeeves |
| "the mad scene. enter ophelia!" | long day's journey into night |
| "feudal spirit," | jeeves |
| nottle | jeeves |
| kyot the provencal | grail |
| "a pair" | south korea |
| right ho | jeeves |
| "ordinary domestic scenes." | africa |
| "the moor, i know his trumpet" | long day's journey into night |
| old gaspard | long day's journey into night |
| perceval | grail |
| dick kennedy | verne |
| mexico city by dean moriarty | on the road |
| "to live life to the end is not a childish task." | doctor zhivago |
| "an intense horror of superstition." | husband |
| "tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt me," | darcy |
| s | husband |
| "blast a hole into forever." | fences |
| "freedom has a price" | marjane |
| "how much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow." | darcy |
| saeed | west |
| "i like mysteries but i rather dislike muddles," | passage to india |
| "dark london" | west |
| marin county | west |
| constance garnett | karamazov |
| "sighs on which i fed my heart" | sonnet |
| giacomo da lentini | sonnet |
| remi boncoeur | on the road |
| "perhaps...my writings will not be given to the lethe's waters," | ovid |
| "practical in the extreme" | husband |
| "the most fantastic parking-lot attendant in the world." | on the road |
| sergeant lituma | radio |
| "dostioffski," | on the road |
| cyril fielding | passage to india |
| liberius | doctor zhivago |
| "heart's abhorrence" | spain |
| "-orooni" | on the road |
| "tell st. peter to open the gates" | fences |
| graz | marjane |
| "40 meters and a pipe." | west |
| a. s. kline's | sonnet |
| uncle anoosh | marjane |
| reza | marjane |
| la vita nuova | sonnet |
| nikolai | doctor zhivago |
| "three classics" | yiddish |
| "leaping and creeping" | lilliput |
| evgraf | doctor zhivago |
| "everything is lawful." | karamazov |
| "flamboyant pattern." | husband |
| "peace be upon you" | yiddish |
| "blows a small fortune" | yiddish |
| "death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner." | fences |
| mykonos | west |
| forest brotherhood | doctor zhivago |
| "thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess" | wuthering heights |
| gorgias | helen |
| "what is that tree?" | seagull |
| merricat blackwood | jackson |
| helter skelter | murder |
| peters | murder |
| two minutes hate | nineteen eighty-four |
| thought police | nineteen eighty-four |
| "no foreign sky protected me, / no stranger's wing shielded my face" | russian |
| "farewell to english." | africa |
| "capers nimbly...to the lascivious pleasing of a lute," | richard iii |
| "presumptive fathers" | grass |
| "crying sound" | farsi |
| "melody gloucester pegasus" | jackson |
| "wi'-gi-e" | murder |
| "what men or gods are these?" | keats |
| "i sold you and you sold me," | nineteen eighty-four |
| "it is an equal error...to blame the praiseworthy and to praise the blameworthy" | helen |
| "the smell of rot fills the country" | grapes of wrath |
| "decadent rubbish." | seagull |
| "chloe liked olivia." | room of one's own |
| "a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up up up" | nineteen eighty-four |
| boris trigorin | seagull |
| "all the world to nothing! ha!" | richard iii |
| "rudely stamp'd" | richard iii |
| "linoleum roses on the floor." | mexican |
| "cemetery of reconciliation." | grass |
| "vinegar-faced" | wuthering heights |
| old man warner | jackson |
| spring of my life | haiku |
| "awake!" | farsi |
| larry mccaslin | god of small things |
| "i'll shake the sky / like a hundred violins" | mexican |
| "knot it" | murder |
| "celestial" | keats |
| sex league | nineteen eighty-four |
| "one whistles, another meows, a third snivels." | russian |
| "tame a wild tongue" | mexican |
| "sad red" | mexican |
| paul pokriefke | grass |
| call of the toad | grass |
| "you must keep writing." | mexican |
| the van daans | frank |
| "suspension of disbelief" | ancient mariner |
| gussie fink | jeeves |
| "silly novels by lady novelists." | eliot |
| we do not part | south korea |
| "cremated, just as i would like to be" | frank |
| joe wilson | verne |
| "with sin / in the secret house of shame." | wilde |
| "exquisite pattern." | emperor |
| "not shaped for sportive tricks." | richard iii |
| "skin...white as leprosy" | ancient mariner |
| "broad brushstrokes" | africa |
| "stony eye-balls" | ancient mariner |
| "bright-eyed" | ancient mariner |
| biographia literaria | ancient mariner |
| "mentally negligible" | jeeves |
| original of laura | nabokov |
| "we are such stuff as manure is made on, so let's drink up and forget it," | long day's journey into night |
| silberberg | frank |
| "life-blood seemed to sip" | ancient mariner |
| "secret annex." | frank |
| dorn | seagull |
| sorin | seagull |
| carry on | jeeves |
| samuel ferguson | verne |
| "c.3.3." | wilde |
| "rudimentary souls" | africa |
| james strand | verne |
| "the coward does it with a kiss, / the brave man with a sword" | wilde |
| "new clothes" | emperor |
| variations on the death of trotsky | united states |
| cady's life | frank |
| "snare / strangled into a scream" | wilde |
| "who looked / so wistfully at the day." | wilde |
| "night-mare" | ancient mariner |
| "glittering eye." | ancient mariner |
| "the psychology of the individual," | jeeves |
| charlotte haze | nabokov |
| "an image of" | africa |
| "young sinner" | wilde |
| "for the colour of his hair." | wilde |
| "leads." | united states |
| dussel | frank |
| "is at hand." | the second coming |
| xion | roxas |
| cat's eye and oryx and crake | atwood |
| "i've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset" | hughes |
| anna lundberg | six characters in search of an author |
| celie in the color purple | walker |
| "sever." | kiss |
| "terrence, this is stupid stuff," | housman |
"epistle to dr. arbuthnot" | pope |
| remedia amoris | ovid |
| dee | walker |
| tashi | walker |
| "the shaughraun." | age of innocence |
| "locksley hall," | spring |
| "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." | spring |
| lydia bennet | wickham |
| roethke | villanelle |
| "drop into thyself, and be a fool" | pope |
| houdan | saki |
| "distancing effect" | brecht |
| shug avery | walker |
| shingo ogata in a kawabata | mountain |
| "i come, my sweet, to sing to you" | williams |
| "spacer" | earth |
| henry stamper | kesey |
| daneel olivaw | earth |
| "willing to face hungry lions." | letter from birmingham jail |
| lygia | polish |
| elsa von freytag-loringhoven | dada |
| "i'm the reason why it's no go" | island |
| "narrative structures" | bond |
| "enveloped in cotton." | tell-tale heart |
| "the spilled blood" | lorca |
| "piercing familiarity." | letter from birmingham jail |
| abbe pirard | red and the black |
| "pack of pariah dogs" | saki |
| "in new york." | bond |
| bulter mansion | song of solomon |
| paulo coelho | alchemist |
| "can't appreciate these quilts" | walker |
| "chronicle of the nineteenth century." | red and the black |
| "a cricket which has made a single chirp." | tell-tale heart |
| christine nilsson | age of innocence |
| "fools" | pope |
| "put thousands together less bad, but the cage less gay," | red and the black |
| summer of love | kilmer |
| "a poem should not mean / but be" | macleish |
montage of a dream deferred | langston hughes |
| "the proper study of mankind is man." | pope |
| property man | six characters in search of an author |
| "in the ghoul-haunted woodland of weir." | ulalume |
"poems are made by fools like me, but only god can make a tree." | kilmer |
| rushdie | midnight's children |
| "who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" | pope |
| penelopiad | greek |
| nuttel | saki |
| "whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen" | moloch |
| "where are the songs of" | spring |
| art of love | ovid |
| "who said the free? ... surely not me?" | hughes |
| "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" | pope |
| johnny carson | walker |
| "hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads, and freight handler to the nation." | chicago |
| "ah, sunflower!" | ginsberg |
rootabaga stories | sandburg |
| milkman dead iii | song of solomon |
| "i'm the man who sailed those early seas" | hughes |
| "roar aloud, 'subscribe, subscribe'" | pope |
| gardens | walker |
| michael ondaatje | greek |
| "mates in eight moves." | bond |
| ismael | moby-dick |
"everyday use" | walker |
| "tobermory." | saki |
| "dashing and not very respectable," | saki |
| ernst stavro blofeld | bond |
| "heavy judger of men." | moloch |
| "the sunny pavement of greenwich village." | kaddis |
| "beyond sandy hook," | hughes |
| "if you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it." | alchemist |
| possessing the secret of joy | walker |
| sillerton jackson | age of innocence |
"into the valley of death / rode the six hundred" | the charge of the light brigade |
| "to err is human; to forgive, divine." | pope |
| mingotts | age of innocence |
| "lured" | flower |
| "live with" | fuentes |
| "who shall say i am not / the happy genius of my household?" | williams |
| portuguese nobel laureate | saramago |
| janov pelorat | earth |
| foundation's edge | earth |
| tuqan | palestine |
| "suns" | flower |
| "great map" | saramago |
| "wolves" | kesey |
| "we lay our scene" | verona |
| "two households, both alike in dignity" | verona |
| "you killed me...and i forgot, like you, to die" | palestine |
| "object there was none. passion there was none" | tell-tale heart |
| "reply" | williams |
| "p-h," | saramago |
| "branches." | lorca |
| "legal" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "our symbols." | palestine |
| mahmoud darwish | palestine |
| "a negative peace which is the absence of tension." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "cocoons" | passage to india |
| enormous room | cummings |
| "creep over" | husband |
| "poem and an error" | ovid |
| "no, not yet." | passage to india |
| "wind in the chimney," | tell-tale heart |
| "an unjust law is no law at all." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "wait" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "fellow clergymen." | letter from birmingham jail |
| trappist | dead |
| "we are going to have fun" | island |
| "littluns" | island |
| "coaxed" | flower |
| "avarice" | flower |
| mexico in the old gringo | fuentes |
| amir | kite runner |
| "danse russe" | williams |
| "flesh," | lorca |
| "never give an inch!" | kesey |
| "kissambushed" | dada |
| "creature that bulged" | island |
| beatriz | coetzee |
| "longing inspired by the law of gravity." | palestine |
| "ancient walls" | palestine |
| black gaiety | dead |
| "jolifanto bambla" | dada |
| "expanding like a balloon" | island |
| "sin," | flower |
| jack vance | earth |
| "mazirian the magician." | earth |
| professor otto lidenbrock | earth |
| petronius | polish |
| "rings in the ear" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "compelled to carry the gospel of freedom" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend." | verona |
| body sweats | dada |
| "soul" | mountain |
| silvia | verona |
| "whipper-snappers of boys" | dead |
| "stillness" | earth |
| elijah bailey | earth |
| seven books of the diana | verona |
| "i want to trade my horse for her house, my saddle for her mirror, my knife for her blanket" | lorca |
| "west briton" | dead |
| "a mouse crossing the floor," | tell-tale heart |
| "green and wooden" | williams |
| fifth season | earth |
| "up above the water" | lorca |
| "sleepwalking ballad." | lorca |
| "the smell of coffee" | palestine |
| "twisty things" | island |
| "whose wings are dull realities." | tell-tale heart |
| "vulture eye." | tell-tale heart |
| "two honest confessions" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "a normal life among normal people." | mountain |
| "forgive me" | williams |
| "white moderate" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "beware, beware of my hunger" | palestine |
| "anti-art" | dada |
| "a great ape...sitting asleep with its head between its knees" | island |
| "of evil" | flower |
| "please shut off the telephone" | williams |
| "icicle of moon." | lorca |
| "body laid out" | lorca |
| girls of slender means | scotland |
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