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| Clue | Most Frequent Answer |
|---|---|
shakespeare | macbeth |
charles dickens | great expectations |
george (no last name, play) | albee |
jim | gift of the magi |
elizabeth (bennet) | pride and prejudice |
don quixote | cervantes |
laura | petrarch |
percy bysshe shelley | ode to the west wind |
tennessee williams | a streetcar named desire |
martha (no last name, play) | albee |
satan | paradise lost |
alice (in wonderland) | carroll |
james joyce | dubliners |
adam | paradise lost |
miguel de cervantes | don quixote |
lucy (lurie) | disgrace |
rosa (burger) | gordimer |
lesbian poet laureate of england | duffy |
polish boy (tadzio) | death in venice |
absalom, absalom! | faulkner |
"a story of san francisco" | norris |
"the second coming" | yeats |
joseph conrad | heart of darkness |
name of the rose | eco |
rebecca (daughter of isaac of york) | ivanhoe |
"ode on a grecian urn" | keats |
ramsay (family) | to the lighthouse |
tale of genji | murasaki shikibu |
lord byron | don juan |
milton | paradise lost |
anna karenina | tolstoy |
"b. wordsworth" (miguel street) | naipaul |
jane austen | emma |
ernest hemingway | the sun also rises |
rabbit | updike |
tony (buddenbrook) | mann |
(tom) robinson | to kill a mockingbird |
canterbury tales | chaucer |
nina | the seagull |
"the library of babel" | borges |
helen of troy | faustus |
ulysses | joyce |
brother jack | invisible man |
"harlem" | hughes |
dostoyevsky | crime and punishment |
beowulf (irish translation) | heaney |
allen ginsberg | howl |
lord darlington (play) | wilde |
paul (baumer) | all quiet on the western front |
anton chekhov | the seagull |
grendel | beowulf |
dickinson | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
leo tolstoy | war and peace |
"dulce et decorum est" | owen |
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead | stoppard |
jean valjean | les miserables |
richard (spouse) | mrs dalloway |
ben (hitman) | the dumbwaiter |
"the road not taken" | frost |
"mending wall" | frost |
pangloss | candide |
"howl" | ginsberg |
orgon | tartuffe |
"the falcon cannot hear the falconer" | yeats |
"do not go gentle into that good night." | thomas |
edgar allan poe | the raven |
"the necklace" | maupassant |
goethe | sturm und drang |
"rage, rage against the dying of the light" | thomas |
julia (lover) | winston (smith) |
candide | voltaire |
gus (robber friend) | native son |
"ariel" | plath |
miss julie | strindberg |
john the savage | brave new world |
brave new world | huxley |
things fall apart | achebe |
okonkwo | achebe |
carl solomon | howl |
omar khayyam | rubaiyat |
dante | divine comedy |
"old age should burn and rave" | thomas |
e. m. forster | a passage to india |
to the lighthouse | woolf |
emma | austen |
leaves of grass | whitman |
eugene onegin | pushkin |
oscar wilde | the picture of dorian gray |
twenty love poems and a song of despair | neruda |
nick (no last name, play) | albee |
"daddy" | plath |
"sailing to byzantium" | yeats |
john donne | holy sonnets |
faust | goethe |
"the garden of forking paths" | borges |
turgenev | a sportsman's sketches |
moby-dick | melville |
sophocles | antigone |
henry higgins | shaw |
ezra pound (translation) | li bai |
clara (del valle) | allende |
magic mountain | mann |
o. henry | "conscience in art" |
ophelia | hamlet |
sam (samela) | "master harold"...and the boys |
eliza doolittle | shaw |
"an occurrence at owl creek bridge" | bierce |
vladimir nabokov | lolita |
winston smith | o'brien |
"i wandered lonely as a cloud." | wordsworth |
euripides | medea |
carlos fuentes (country) | mexico |
jean-paul sartre | no exit |
amina | mahfouz |
sister carrie | dreiser |
death in venice | mann |
william of baskerville | the name of the rose |
lysistrata | aristophanes |
kurt vonnegut | slaughterhouse-five |
thomas gray | "elegy written in a country churchyard" |
ambrose bierce (country, bierce as a character) | mexico |
metamorphoses | ovid |
i know why the caged bird sings | angelou |
"beauty is truth, truth beauty" | keats |
harlem renaissance | langston hughes |
"the weary blues" | langston hughes |
the human comedy (la comedie humaine) | balzac |
"i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" | howl |
the labyrinth of solitude | paz |
the crucible | miller |
stage manager | our town |
john steinbeck | of mice and men |
ruth (play character, wife of teddy) | pinter |
jerry (no last name, play) | albee |
della | the gift of the magi |
one hundred years of solitude | gabriel garcia marquez |
gustave flaubert | madame bovary |
gitanjali | tagore |
vera (short story character) | saki |
siddhartha | hesse |
prior walter | angels in america |
| sylvia | bell jar |
sancho panza | don quixote |
decameron | giovanni boccaccio |
humbert humbert | lolita |
lennie small | of mice and men |
the maltese falcon | hammett |
"ball of fat" | maupassant |
ivanhoe | sir walter scott |
"slouches towards bethlehem to be born." | yeats |
blood wedding | federico garcia lorca |
old english | beowulf (notable poem in old english) |
| "captain" | whitman |
george hurstwood (wheeler) | sister carrie |
carl sandburg | "chicago" |
cairo trilogy | mahfouz |
sherlock holmes (author) | doyle |
elmire | moliere |
a raisin in the sun (play) | hansberry |
oskar matzerath | the tin drum |
| guildenstern | stoppard |
lennie small | of mice and men |
horace (famous latin quote) | dulce et decorum est |
| decameron | boccaccio |
"good fences make good neighbors" | frost |
| much ado about nothing | shakespeare |
henry fleming | red badge of courage |
"nevermore" | the raven |
king creon | antigone |
"a good man is hard to find" | o'connor |
old english | beowulf (notable poem in old english) |
| lord tennyson | lady of |
henry james | the turn of the screw |
"in you everything sank!" | neruda |
canto general | neruda |
| midsummer night | oberon |
much ado about nothing | william shakespeare |
| janice | updike |
| maria | mansfield park |
huckleberry finn | twain |
| bishop | robinson |
much ado about nothing | william shakespeare |
| lennie small | of mice and men |
"the garden party" (new zealand) | mansfield |
younger (family) | a raisin in the sun |
| john wheeler | sister carrie |
king duncan | macbeth |
"ars poetica" | horace |
holy sonnets | john donne |
"still unravish'd bride of quietness" | keats |
"the white man's burden" | kipling |
phillip larkin | "this be the verse" |
| edward king | milton |
oxford | hardy |
| "death" | hephaestus |
estha | india (country of origin) |
oresteia trilogy | aeschylus |
the picture of dorian gray | oscar wilde |
| bertha | edward |
| oresteia | aeschylus |
| antoinette cosway | rhys |
| lucius | golden ass |
"we real cool" | gwendolyn brooks |
lydia languish | the rivals |
| christopher marlowe | chapman |
| tweedledum | through the looking glass |
| lydia languish | sheridan |
| gabriel conroy | dead |
| henrik ibsen | doll's |
miles | the turn of the screw |
les miserables | hugo |
uncle tom | simon (legree) |
gabriel conroy | "the dead" |
flora | the turn of the screw |
| eve | milton |
krapp's last tape | beckett |
abigail williams | the crucible |
griselda | the decameron |
"belle of amherst" | emily dickinson |
| madame bovary | flaubert |
| estha | india |
"rip van winkle" | washington irving |
| tea cake | hurston |
| phillip larkin | this be the verse |
| "dubliners" | joyce |
| "gatsby" | fitzgerald |
the sorrows of young werther | goethe |
| abigail | crucible |
madame bovary | gustave flaubert |
general arroyo | the old gringo |
| kitty | tolstoy |
"in a grove" | ryunosuke akutagawa |
"rip van winkle" | washington irving |
| chaucer | canterbury tales |
one thousand and one nights | arabic |
| "rip van winkle" | irving |
will ladislaw | middlemarch |
| poe | purloined letter |
the bald soprano | eugene ionesco |
lockwood | wuthering heights |
| "we real cool" | brooks |
"dubliners" | james joyce |
| jorge luis borges | argentina |
| virginia woolf | room of one's own |
| black iris | chase |
| myrtle | great gatsby |
ray bradbury | fahrenheit 451 |
| ravana | sanskrit |
"hell is other people" | sartre |
"what happens to a dream deferred?" | hughes |
"the legend of sleepy hollow" | washington irving |
jorge luis borges | argentina (country of origin) |
alfred (father) | the tin drum |
the handmaid's tale | margaret atwood |
| the handmaid's tale | atwood |
"death, be not proud" | donne |
wide sargasso sea | jean rhys |
| harriet | maupassant |
| hector hyppolite | achilles |
| columbus | roth |
"rashomon" | akutagawa |
"to a skylark" | percy bysshe shelley |
naguib mahfouz | egypt (country of origin) |
"that is no country for old men" | yeats |
| dresden | slaughterhouse-five |
"i, too, sing america." | langston hughes |
"the tyger" | blake |
| les fleurs | baudelaire |
| portrait of the artist | joyce |
| "do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?" | our town |
| bellerophon | iobates |
| leon | beatrice |
| "the paths of glory lead but to the grave" | gray |
| one of murakami | beatles |
| harry | snows of |
| house of the spirits | allende |
| cherry orchard | chekhov |
"she walks in beauty" | lord byron |
| davies | pinter |
new orleans | confederacy of dunces (city of setting) |
| childe harold | byron |
| troy maxson | fences |
"hog butcher for the world" | chicago |
naguib mahfouz | egypt (country of origin) |
| probably vishnu | turtle |
| heathcliff | wuthering heights |
| robert frost | difference |
| interpreter of maladies | lahiri |
| richard wright | native |
arthur jarvis | cry, the beloved country |
volpone | jonson |
| "sonnet: to science." | poe |
richard wright | native son |
| mary agnes | testaments |
"gimpel the fool" | isaac bashevis singer |
| edmund | mansfield park |
on the road | kerouac |
| new orleans | confederacy of |
hans castorp | the magic mountain |
| langston hughes | raisin in the sun |
| il canzoniere | petrarch |
| dream of the red chamber | china |
| ivan | alyosha |
lu xun | china |
| ted | adichie |
| janie | mule |
northanger abbey | austen |
| hans castorp | mann |
"lady lazarus" | sylvia plath |
"childe harold's pilgrimage" | lord byron |
the cherry orchard | chekhov |
| colosseum | james |
| sargasso sea | rhys |
| "lady lazarus" | plath |
| gustav von aschenbach | mann |
| ted hughes | plath |
heathcliff | wuthering heights |
| post office | tagore |
| finnegans wake | joyce |
| balzac | zola |
| "i was young and easy under apple boughs" | thomas |
| night journey | o'neill |
cunegonde | candide |
"to his coy mistress" | andrew marvell |
| voltaire | candide |
little women | alcott |
"the song of hiawatha" | henry wadsworth longfellow |
heathcliff | wuthering heights |
"song of myself" | whitman |
| ruth leonard | harry |
| "everything that rises must converge" | o'connor |
thomas keneally | australia |
"gimpel the fool" | isaac bashevis singer |
giovanni boccaccio | decameron |
"grace" | dubliners |
| foucault | eco |
julian (everything that rises must converge) | o'connor |
richard wright | native son |
| northanger abbey | austen |
| gonzolo | artemio |
six characters in search of an author | pirandello |
| to kill a mockingbird | lee |
| don juan | byron |
| "gimpel the fool." | singer |
| pygmalion | shaw |
| superman | shaw |
| evangeline | longfellow |
| invisible man | paint |
| other stories | new zealand |
catherine earnshaw | wuthering heights |
"a swelling of the ground" | because i could not stop for death |
| stephen dedalus | joyce |
| cavalier | herrick |
| nettie | color purple |
| tin drum | grass |
| "a supermarket in california." | ginsberg |
| jesuit leo naphta | mann |
| gulliver | swift |
"a man in black with a meinkampf look." | plath |
| "strike" | fences |
| pedro camacho | vargas |
| "the red wheelbarrow" | williams |
| hamlet | polonius |
"burning bright, in the forest of the night" | "the tyger" |
welsh (poet) | thomas |
| beatrice | much ado about |
| temple of the golden pavilion | mishima |
| olga tokarczuk | polish |
| settembrini | magic mountain |
| dumb waiter | pinter |
| old gringo | bierce |
mrs. norris | mansfield park |
| aston | pinter |
| "the day of the dead" | dubliners |
| nathan zuckerman | roth |
| hero | beatrice |
| lolita | nabokov |
| bertie wooster | jeeves |
| cousin bette | balzac |
104th (squad) | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| dog years in the danzig trilogy | grass |
| styx | achilles |
| "fern hill." | thomas |
| merope | oedipus |
| t. e. lawrence | lady chatterley's lover |
mother courage and her children | brecht |
| nathanael | hoffmann |
the god of small things | arundhati roy |
| "vie" | buchenwald |
the old man and the sea | hemingway |
| our town | wilder |
| "broken-winged bird / that cannot fly" | dream |
puck | a midsummer night's dream |
demian | hesse |
| up bird chronicle | murakami |
madame forestier | the necklace |
estragon | waiting for godot |
| right logic | clouds |
irina (sergeyevna prozorova) | chekhov |
| captain robert walton | frankenstein |
| jonathan swift | lemuel |
| athol fugard | south |
| crying of lot | pynchon |
| guy montag | fahrenheit 451 |
| eleanor | doll's house |
| twenty thousand leagues under the sea | verne |
"tintern abbey." | wordsworth |
| nora helmer | doll's |
| "elegy written in a country churchyard" | gray |
| "vanished into the clouds." | murasaki |
| chinua achebe | things fall apart |
"and death shall have no dominion" | thomas |
jia baoyu | dream of the red chamber |
treasure island | stevenson |
| jaluka | cairo |
| middlemarch | eliot |
| imagist | williams |
| bobby | lahiri |
| zoo story | albee |
mary dalton | native son |
| cleopatra | all for love |
stella (kowalski) | a streetcar named desire |
| muriel spark | salinger |
| "but at my back i always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near." | "to his coy mistress" |
| native son | wright |
| lorca | duende |
| blanche | streetcar named desire |
| tereza | kundera |
| daisy | ionesco |
| "they send to eat in the kitchen / when company comes." | hughes |
| matthew arnold | dover beach |
| "moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" | rubaiyat |
| murder of gonzago | stoppard |
| italo calvino | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| keats | ode |
| tyrone slothrop | pynchon |
| darcy | wickham |
| bernard rieux | plague |
| marcus chalfen | smith |
| marylou | denver |
"ode to a nightingale" | keats |
| carver | esquire |
| william tell | schiller |
| ludmilla | calvino |
| ozymandias | shelley |
| pamela | richardson |
lily briscoe | to the lighthouse |
rocinante | don quixote |
| norman mailer | kennedy |
teddy (play character, husband of ruth) | pinter |
goneril | king lear |
miss gostrey | the ambassadors |
| claudio | much ado about |
| bell jar | plath |
| berenger | rhinoceros |
franz (moor) | schiller |
| endgame | beckett |
| imaginary invalid | moliere |
war and peace | tolstoy |
| "quiet night thought" | li |
| society of the tower | goethe |
| billy budd | melville |
| portnoy | roth |
| in search of lost time | proust |
peer gynt (play) | ibsen |
| salman rushdie | midnight's children |
"i felt a funeral, in my brain" | dickinson |
"a b b a, a b b a" | petrarch |
the mysterious island | verne |
| "deaths for all ages and occasions! deaths by suspension, convulsion, consumption, incision, execution, asphyxiation and malnutrition!" | rosencrantz |
the sea of fertility | mishima |
| magid iqbal | smith |
| hally | kite |
"diary of a madman" (not russian) | chinese (by lu xun) |
| orson welles | detective |
| borges | argentina |
| haruki murakami | japan |
| maus | spiegelman |
| "week of peace" | achebe |
| buddenbrooks | mann |
| jungle book | kipling |
grover's corners | our town |
lizzie (poem character) | "goblin market" |
vladimir (tramp) | waiting for godot |
a handful of dust | waugh |
| "the raven." | poe |
| "each man kills the thing he loves" | wilde |
patrick white | australia |
| hermes | lyre |
| aegeus | minotaur |
| orleanna price | poisonwood bible |
fra pandolf | "my last duchess" |
| ministry of truth | winston |
| saint sebastian | o'connor |
| washington irving | sleepy hollow |
| kilgore trout | vonnegut |
| sophie | haiti |
alan paton | cry, the beloved country |
| "the negro speaks of rivers." | hughes |
| j. d. salinger | glass |
| pequod | moby-dick |
| "white teeth" | smith |
| "little cat feet." | fog |
| dorothea brooke | middlemarch |
| "the albatross" | baudelaire |
| mick | pinter |
| "annabel lee" | poe |
| abel magwitch | great expectations |
| ee-zah-nah-mee | amaterasu |
| bailey | thoreau |
| weimar | schiller |
| susanin | amaterasu |
| "hugh selwyn mauberley," | pound |
| christminster | hardy |
zora neale hurston | their eyes were watching god |
| billy pilgrim | slaughterhouse-five |
| milly | waugh |
| beloved country | paton |
| peeling the onion | grass |
| meursault | camus |
| joseph grand | plague |
| of mice | steinbeck |
| arabian nights | galland |
| major barbara | shaw |
| in the popol vuh | maya |
| octavio paz | mexico |
| molina | puig |
| martine | dinesen |
| joe louis | all my sons |
| sam shaw | soma |
| mowgli | jungle book |
| "in the penal colony." | kafka |
| basil hallward | wilde |
| nicole | testaments |
| algeria | camus |
| the sea | murdoch |
| zeami | mask |
| linda | house |
| dasharatha | ramayana |
| eden | milton |
| brotherhood | invisible man |
| ralph waldo emerson | forster |
| "monsieur madeleine" | coin |
| "the tower" | yeats |
| akaky akakievich | overcoat |
| derek walcott | odyssey |
| macondo | one hundred years of solitude |
konstantin levin | anna karenina |
| hester prynne | scarlet letter |
| esteban | allende |
| paul laurence dunbar | maya |
| sun wukong | journey to the west |
| "drinking alone by moonlight" | li |
| dracula | stoker |
| paradise | fir |
| vivisector | australia |
| "the lottery." | jackson |
| tessie hutchinson | lottery |
| brewer | harry |
| aime cesaire | caliban |
| doctor zhivago | pasternak |
| "i sing the body electric" | leaves of grass |
| "a vast image out of spiritus mundi." | yeats |
| regan | lear |
| konstantin | seagull |
| charlotte | goethe |
| judith | night of |
| scott | mansfield |
| monkswell manor | christie |
| rodolphe | madame bovary |
| harry hickman | iceman cometh |
| sir arthur conan doyle | sherlock |
| yohl | thor |
| "eye-am" | bellerophon |
| under milk wood | thomas |
| "hickey" | iceman cometh |
the red badge of courage | crane |
| glengarry glen ross | mamet |
| josef k | kafka |
| bazarov | turgenev |
| " in " | hopkins |
| catherine morland | austen |
| pallas athena | aegis |
| rama | sugriva |
edward albee | who's afraid of virginia woolf? |
| "because i could not stop for death." | dickinson |
| komako | kawabata |
| "what mighty contests rise from trivial things" | rape of the lock |
| remains of the day | butler |
| david lurie | disgrace |
| pahome | tolstoy |
| yu tsun | borges |
| "i am." | albee |
| "j'accuse." | zola |
| "this is just to say." | williams |
| elysian fields | aeneid |
| sue bridehead | jude the |
| big boy | wright |
| basho | deep north |
| g. sebald | sebald |
smales | gordimer |
| mixing it up | pirandello |
| "a far cry from africa" | walcott |
| tadzio | mann |
| mayella ewell | to kill a mockingbird |
| enkidu | bull |
| portrait of a woman | james |
| jhumpa lahiri | india |
| "we must love one another or die" | auden |
| william faulkner | as i lay dying |
| "the nose." | gogol |
| baron thunder | candide |
| "half a league" | tennyson |
| heart of darkness | conrad |
| "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" | albee |
| in cold blood | capote |
| celia | middlemarch |
| kiss of the spider woman | argentina |
| richard bachman | king |
| robert burns | rose |
| new yorkers | auster |
| robinson crusoe | defoe |
| hughes in a washington | harlem |
| miranda | old gringo |
| dead | stoppard |
| "the passionate shepherd to his love." | marlowe |
| "anyone lived in a pretty how town" | cummings |
| death of artemio cruz | fuentes |
| sibyl vane | wilde |
| johannesburg | cry, the beloved country |
| uncle vanya | chekhov |
"great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| saleem sinai | midnight's children |
| cory | wilson |
| samuel beckett | waiting for |
| william h. parker | tiger |
| temple of the fire baptized | baldwin |
| "a rapture" | cavalier |
| madame pace | six characters in search of an author |
| eugene o'neill's | rubaiyat |
| toni morrison | song of solomon |
| an american tragedy | dreiser |
| addie | as i lay dying |
| george orwell | 1984 |
the school for wives | moliere |
| bev shaw | disgrace |
| melanie isaacs | disgrace |
| buenos aires | autobiography of red |
| marceline | hamlet |
| bride | lorca |
| paula vogel | yiddish |
| scotsman | kidnapped |
| "unstuck in time." | slaughterhouse-five |
| "the rape of the lock." | pope |
| stradlater | holden |
| dean moriarty | on the road |
the catcher in the rye | salinger |
| umuofia | things fall apart |
| john dryden | jonson |
| peneus | daphne |
| bernard shaw | salvation army |
| stephen kumalo | cry, the beloved country |
| "stay where you are until our backs are turned" | mending wall |
| scarlet letter | hawthorne |
anna akhmatova | russian |
| kemmerich | all quiet on the western front |
| angels | kushner |
| perseus | medusa |
| a.e. housman | shropshire lad |
| the birds | aristophanes |
| "i'm with you in rockland." | howl |
| the mousetrap | christie |
roy cohn | angels in america |
| running man | king |
| pablo neruda | socks |
| buck | buck |
| "stamp" | i know why the caged bird sings |
| kemal | cairo |
| pearl | scarlet letter |
| tess | hardy |
| desdichado | ivanhoe |
| steppenwolf | hesse |
| montaigne | cyrano de bergerac |
| kurtz | heart of darkness |
| holderlin | nietzsche |
| pushkin | tsar saltan |
| wuthering heights | heathcliff |
| septimus smith | mrs |
| "for whom the bell tolls?" | hemingway |
| "why i live at the p.o." | welty |
| "glazed with rain / water" | red wheelbarrow |
| howards end | forster |
| "the lamb" | blake |
| "when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed." | lincoln |
one day in the life of ivan denisovich | solzhenitsyn |
| madame odintsova | fathers and sons |
| yeats | the second coming |
| plath | mother |
| "funny they don't see us." | crane |
| brothers karamazov | akutagawa |
| bean eaters | brooks |
| jeeves | wodehouse |
| though neruda | chile |
| stevens | butler |
| tate | sheriff |
| jonathan harker | dracula |
| mizoguchi | mishima |
| thrushcross grange | wuthering heights |
| "transcendental" | emerson |
| "dry up like a raisin in the sun." | dream |
| "is not to reason why, theres is but to do and die," | charge of the light brigade |
| "c d e c d e" | petrarch |
| harper lee | to kill a mockingbird |
| jonas | giver |
| "two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." | ozymandias |
| "the gods have their own laws." | metamorphoses |
| aesop | tortoise |
| "miss wonderly" | maltese |
| agent fred | dick |
| rumi | persian |
| nathan the wise | decameron |
| an essay on criticism | pope |
| the power | greene |
| jones very | salem |
| milan kundera | czech |
| inferno | divine comedy |
| republic of gilead | atwood |
| " to the title " | canto |
| "do i wake or do i sleep?" | keats |
| "the spider's thread." | akutagawa |
| "do you know the land where the lemon-trees grow?" | goethe |
| aomame | murakami |
| thetis | achilles |
| groh | ward number 6 |
| kafka | trial |
| maastricht | d'artagnan |
| dmitri | tolstoy |
their eyes were watching god | hurston |
| jane eyre | reader, i married him |
| "my last duchess," | browning |
| palace walk | cairo |
| moliere | tartuffe |
| colley cibber | pope |
| anchises | aeneid |
| "may i for my own self song's truth reckon, / journey's jargon." | old english |
| "if you will be faithful to me, i'll make you a great man." | xury |
| oran | plague |
emily bronte | wuthering heights |
| "seize the day," | horace |
| "a traveling salesman of wines and spirits," | camus |
| rimbaud | moon |
| federico garcia lorca | ginsberg |
| captain nemo | nautilus |
| paul baumer | all quiet on the western front |
| "ignorant armies clash by night." | dover beach |
| "death of a traveling salesman" | miller |
| phoenix jackson | welty |
| norwegian wood | murakami |
| "the horror! the horror!" | heart of darkness |
| cao xuequin | dream of the red chamber |
| pioneer | middlemarch |
| oprah winfrey | morrison |
| george osborne | thackeray |
| francis nurse | crucible |
| sanderling island | poisonwood bible |
| alfred douglas | importance of being earnest |
| "lament for the death of a bullfighter." | lorca |
| gretta | dead |
| "i remember about the rabbits, george." | of mice and men |
| titanic | hardy |
| pozzo | waiting for godot |
| peter carey | australia |
| new journalist | wolfe |
| amelia | fielding |
| confederacy of dunces | confederacy of |
| master harold | fugard |
| waffen-ss | grass |
| chandara | lahiri |
| dark forest | things fall apart |
| miss watson | douglas |
| charlotte bronte | jane eyre |
| appin murder | kidnapped |
| baron | pope |
| hotspur | falstaff |
| ka | pamuk |
maxim gorky | lower depths |
| "a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent!" | byron |
| bernardo di | hamlet |
| danvers carew | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| brideshead revisited | waugh |
| "it is the hour of departure" | neruda |
| "jana gana mana" | india |
| two of the serpent players | apartheid |
| "runaround," | asimov |
| "rikki-tikki-tavi" | "the white man's burden" |
| arkady kirsanov | fathers and sons |
| "his excellency, general washington" | wheatley |
| count vronsky | anna |
| english by thomas drant | ars |
| "to an athlete dying young," | housman |
| rua | lahiri |
| clifford | waiting for lefty |
| leopold bloom | ulysses |
| bloody chamber | fairy tale |
| franz kafka | penal colony |
| "rita" | machado |
| coming of age in samoa | mead |
| doc | cannery row |
| alchemist | jonson |
| lady windermere | wilde |
| glass menagerie | williams |
| "octopussy" | train |
| my life | australia |
| tomas | unbearable lightness of being |
| rabindranath tagore | india |
| fredrich | paul |
| catherine | farewell to arms |
| "digging," | heaney |
| lucinda | carey |
| iceman cometh | o'neill |
| atlantic monthly | lowell |
| laputa | gulliver's travels |
| walpurgis night | goethe |
| "the open boat" | crane |
| jack gladney | white |
| "a sound of thunder." | bradbury |
| "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou" | rubaiyat |
| yugen | beat |
| elective affinities | goethe |
| "what the thunder said," | eliot |
| alex | clockwork orange |
| david foster wallace | infinite jest |
| septimus hodge | stoppard |
| one flew over the cuckoo | kesey |
| floyd | maltese |
| "what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" | alice |
| walden two | thoreau |
| marlow | heart of darkness |
| "think as you fight" | escamillo |
| miles archer | maltese |
| cottard | camus |
| robert brrowning | finnegans wake |
| "very well, then, i contradict myself. / i am large, i contain multitudes." | song of myself |
| receiver of memory | giver |
| yeehats | judge |
| clockwork orange | burgess |
| toilers of the sea | hugo |
| don gamalieli | artemio |
| hamiltons | steinbeck |
| "the arena is full of blood." | escamillo |
| robert o'neill | anna christie |
| gravity's rainbow | pynchon |
| "rough beast" | yeats |
| tofano | decameron |
| skyfall | james |
| hesperides | herrick |
| george and hazel | harrison bergeron |
| cujo | king |
| "cherub." | alyosha |
"a novel without a hero" | vanity fair |
| house on mango street | mexican |
| isle of guernsey | hugo |
| twilight zone | bierce |
| mathilde loisel | maupassant |
| santa fe | cather |
| no longer at ease | achebe |
| nathaniel hawthorne | scarlet letter |
| jim o'connor | glass menag |
| bts | demian |
| do not say the last name when giving the answer to the first part | alyosha |
| estella | no exit |
| angelo | tristero |
| mechanical hound | fahrenheit 451 |
| basilic | smith |
| "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / are sweeter." | ode |
| pyramus | mulberry |
| "the overcoat." | gogol |
| "fallen cold and dead." | o captain! my captain |
| pedro tercero | allende |
| sei shonagon | pillow book |
| peyton farquar | bierce |
| ralph ellison | invisible man |
| "this is the saddest story i have ever heard." | good soldier |
| kai | snow queen |
| "a gown made of the finest wool" | marlowe |
| "and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils." | wordsworth |
| marner | eliot |
| john seward | abraham |
| cassy | simon |
| du fu | li |
| salem | crucible |
| "year of the depend adult undergarment," | wallace |
| messinger | reading dickens |
| oliver twist | novel |
| "before the wig and the dress coat there were rivers, arterial rivers." | canto general |
| "the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced." | yahoo |
| "give me your hands, if we be friends, and robin shall restore amends." | oberon |
| biff | death of a |
| america is not the heart | bulosan |
| gordias | south africa |
| henry david thoreau | walden |
| sal paradise | on the road |
| mildendo | lilliput |
| "what you've come out for then is simply to render him an immense service." | ambassadors |
| "sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on" | fog |
| "what's it going to be then, eh?" | clockwork orange |
| choh | hurston |
| "longed to travel or to go back to her convent. she wished at the same time to die and to live in paris." | flaubert |
| yasin | cairo |
| "studies of manners" | human comedy |
| georg | kafka |
| one of saramago | portugal |
| "the night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance" | twenty love poems |
| emmeline | simon |
| "anthem for doomed youth" | owen |
| a doll's house | ibsen |
| "first fig" | candle |
| belinda | pope |
| roy | aids |
| molly | great expectations |
| sphinx | oedipus |
| mildred | bradbury |
| "the luck of roaring camp." | harte |
| neeth | raisin in the sun |
| gertrude | cry, the beloved country |
| lotte | goethe |
| ogilvy | winston |
| "live off the fatta the lan" | lennie |
| gregor samsa | kafka |
| dukhiram | lahiri |
| the and crabwalk | grass |
| masnavi | rumi |
| antigone | oedipus |
| wole soyinka | death and the king's horseman |
| morkan | finnegans wake |
| seymour glass | bananafish |
| arundhati roy | india |
| colossus | wolverine |
| fahmy | mahfouz |
"who threw potato salad at ccny lecturers on dadaism" | howl |
| "painted ladies under the gaslamps." | sandberg |
| dead zone | king |
| hofmann | english |
| songs of innocence | blake |
| paterson | williams |
| frieda | kafka |
| "a valediction: forbidding mourning," | donne |
| "better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven." | milton |
| elizabeth bennet in pride | pride and prejudice |
| sanditon | austen |
| lara | doctor zhivago |
| mann | buddenbrooks |
| good soldier | ford |
| wild swans at coole | yeats |
| covent garden | eliza |
| capulet | romeo and juliet |
| charles wilcox | forster |
| "chicago." | sandburg |
| esther greenwood | plath |
| lorraine hansberry | raisin in the sun |
| "what is the grass?" | sandburg |
| empire of blefuscu | lilliput |
| ars amatoria | ovid |
| d'urbervilles | hardy |
| "frost" | mending wall |
| aunt julia | vargas |
| my name | pamuk |
| irene | bierce |
| joseph asagai | raisin in the sun |
| birthday party | pinter |
| "mademoiselle fifi" | maupassant |
| winslow homer | ars |
| frederic taillefer | human comedy |
| larry | tree |
| ernst theodor amadeus hoffmann | hoffmann |
| dalloway | woolf |
| "among school children." | yeats |
| ser cepparello | decameron |
| valentine michael smith | heinlein |
| celie | shug |
| indiana | sand |
| daily telegraph | war correspondent |
| key to all mythologies | eliot |
| "thought they were only mad when baltimore gleamed in supernatural ecstasy." | howl |
| proteus | verona |
| kitty hawk answer | wright |
| "sylvan historian" | beauty |
| gilberte | charles |
| spanish golden age | lope |
| mordred | candle in the |
| "howl?" | ginsberg |
| "gunga din," | kipling |
crime and punishment | dostoevsky |
| edmund wilson | simon |
| james connolly | crabbe |
| darryl van horne | updike |
| "a better man than i am." | kipling |
| the awakening | confederacy of |
| "my soul has grown deep like the rivers." | hughes |
| hurtle duffield | white |
| tulsi | naipaul |
| "auld lang syne" | burns |
| "that's our first principle--no war!" | lysistrata |
| "we are truly different. and we are truly alone." | paz |
| orhan pamuk | istanbul |
| gogol | akutagawa |
| "miracle" | kingsolver |
| kingsley amis | bond |
| jane | bennet |
| wise blood | o'connor |
| melville | moby-dick |
| kattrin | brecht |
| piazza tales | benito |
| streetcar named desire | williams |
| bill tanner | bond |
| "theater of the absurd" | beckett |
| kingdom hearts | mock turtle |
| annie | brooks |
| "goblin market." | rossetti |
| arapesh | three musketeers |
| don caesar | ambitious |
| maphia | saramago |
| elizabeth costello | coetzee |
| "summoner" | venice |
| mayor of casterbridge | hardy |
| thomasina coverly | arcadia |
| manuel puig | argentina |
hyperion (novel) | friedrich holderlin |
| jekyll | stevenson |
| "the gift of the magi." | henry |
| east of eden | steinbeck |
| pontius pilate | master and margarita |
| ira aldridge | lord chamberlain |
| emmanuel goldstein | o'brien |
| dorothy | wordsworth |
| boris pasternak | doctor zhivago |
| esperanza cordero | house on mango street |
| hymir | jormungand |
| "the flea." | donne |
| buendia | garcia marquez |
| "to autumn" | keats |
| "the open window." | saki |
"mistah kurtz--he dead." | heart of darkness |
| wisconsin to chicago | dreiser |
| rhinoceros | ionesco |
| candy darling | of mice and men |
| mirgorod | viy |
| "swann's way" | in search of lost time |
| "a very old man with enormous wings." | garcia marquez |
| jean marie latour | cather |
| hopscotch | cortazar |
| hanno | buddenbrooks |
| death comes for the archbishop | cather |
| "i could not love thee (dear) so much / love'd i not honor more" | lovelace |
| cannery row | steinbeck |
| bleak house | dickens |
| valentine | mephistopheles |
| "look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" | ozymandias |
| tagore | gitanjali |
"prince charming" | the picture of dorian gray |
bundrens | faulkner |
| walter scott | frederick |
| lady of the lake | scott |
| "the robbers" | schiller |
| ann deever | all my sons |
| ragin | ward number 6 |
| ash wednesday | eliot |
| chris | anna christie |
| roland | charlemagne |
| mustafa sa | othello |
| sci-fi | mcewan |
| spirit of evil | yiddish |
| denver | beloved |
| leonora | pirandello |
| tita | esperanza |
| "mignon" | goethe |
| ministry of utmost happiness | roy |
| millay | candle |
| negro theatre unit | wilson |
| "pere goriot" | balzac |
| lensky | pushkin |
| "just right." | granta |
| diana | knight |
under the gaslight | sister carrie |
| life of pi | tiger |
| p. lovecraft | lovecraft |
| "april is the cruelest month," | eliot |
| sweet home | beloved |
| aloysius | brideshead revisited |
| "relax. concentrate. dispel every other thought." | if on a winter's night |
| adso of melk | name of the rose |
| caspar goodwood | james |
| ruben dario | ocampo |
| marius | les |
| pilate | song of solomon |
| roberto marx | on the road |
| philae | moliere |
| angel flores | universal history of infamy |
| "patels" | tiger |
| clare quilty | lolita |
| fury | faulkner |
| an american pastoral | roth |
| ceyx | chaucer |
| "spleen and ideal" | baudelaire |
| matsuo basho | haiku |
albertine | in search of lost time |
around the world in eighty days | verne |
| jacob marley | ebenezer |
| isabel archer | james |
| "paper war." | fielding |
| top girls | joan |
| doctor pangloss | candide |
| modest proposal | swift |
| victor frankenstein | william |
| "bent double, like old beggars under sacks," | owen |
blake | "the tyger" |
| war of the worlds | radio |
eatonville | their eyes were watching god |
| j.r.r. tolkien | beowulf |
| "camera eye" | dos passos |
| haidee | don juan |
| capote | lee |
| "antichrist" | war and peace |
| burchell | vicar of wakefield |
| "an aged man is but a paltry thing" | yeats |
| kristine linde | doll's |
| stranger in a strange land | heinlein |
| "carol" | oleanna |
| "country" | snow |
"after apple-picking." | frost |
| malaprop | sheridan |
| echidna | typhon |
| "no" | eco |
| maryse conde | tituba |
| "curfew tolls the knell of parting day." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| captain ahab in moby | melville |
| blind assassin | atwood |
| larissa | perseus |
| il filostrato | boccaccio |
| seamus heaney | beowulf |
| "you who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes" | laura |
| "light the kettle." | dumb waiter |
| death of a naturalist | heaney |
| "the panther" | rilke |
| coleman barks | rumi |
| with coleridge | wordsworth |
| "don juan in hell" | shaw |
| book of the duchess | chaucer |
king hedley ii | wilson |
| shirazi | hafez |
| prospect garden | dream of the red chamber |
| bigger thomas | native |
| "i have done it again/one year in every ten." | plath |
| yoknapatawpha county | faulkner |
| smiths | ionesco |
| dodge | buried child |
children of gebelawi | mahfouz |
| "blind eyes" | thomas |
| oedipa maas | pynchon |
| ganya | parvati |
disgrace | coetzee |
| "hell screen" | akutagawa |
| al-jawad | mahfouz |
| karen | andersen |
| ister | river |
| yul | korean |
| georges bizet | carmen |
| josef lada | schweik |
| out of africa | dinesen |
| "story" | sailor |
| "strange meeting" | owen |
| "holy" | ginsberg |
| henry iv | pirandello |
| sidi | soyinka |
| olunde | soyinka |
| "the outcasts of poker flat" | harte |
| cornudet | german |
| isaac asimov | science |
| unaccustomed earth | lahiri |
| angry penguins | australia |
| east egg | great gatsby |
| chapter 9 | doubloon |
| margaret atwood | handmaid's tale |
| "sit in one of the dives on fifty-second street" | auden |
| captain beatty | fahrenheit 451 |
| henry hudson | irving |
| kan'ami | mask |
| curly | lennie |
| shalamar | song of solomon |
| terri | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| boris max | native |
| natyashastra | kalidasa |
"stopping by woods on a snowy evening" | frost |
| "guantanamera." | cuba |
| mary pereira | rushdie |
| charon | dead |
| sentimental education | flaubert |
| mark hopkins | sonnet |
| "what women most desire." | wife of bath |
| toby | sterne |
| purgatorio | divine comedy |
| william riggan | lazarillo de tormes |
big brother | 1984 |
| pindar | herodotus |
| linton | wuthering heights |
| "who are mostly good" | brooks |
| nell | unhappiness |
| "la belle dame sans merci," | keats |
konstantin treplev | the seagull |
| "a thing of beauty is a joy forever." | keats |
| wikipedia | thoreau |
| "the old lie." | owen |
| "to the virgins, to make much of time." | rose |
| tristram shandy | sterne |
| son | giver |
germinal | zola |
the dharma bums | kerouac |
| graham greene | spy |
| matteo boiardo | chile |
| algonquin round table | parker |
| notes of a native son | baldwin |
| eilif | brecht |
| icarus | daedalus |
| exeter book | old english |
| caedmon | bede |
| "always depended on the kindness of strangers" | streetcar named |
| yalta | chekhov |
| fernando pessoa | portuguese |
| "what have i got in my pocket?" | bilbo |
| future king | white |
| sayyid ahmad | mahfouz |
"comedies of menace" | pinter |
| chimamanda adichie | nigeria |
| janie crawford | their eyes were watching god |
| mill on the floss | eliot |
| joy luck club | tan |
spiritual couplets | rumi |
(translated by) edward fitzgerald | rubaiyat |
| "one art," | villanelle |
| lorde | brooks |
| goriot | balzac |
| "superman comes to the supermarket." | kennedy |
| "mac flecknoe." | dryden |
| hindley | heathcliff |
| oliver mellors | lady chatterley's lover |
| vicar of wakefield | goldsmith |
| nine feet | paint |
| nyx | erebus |
| roxane | cyrano |
| schwarzgerat | gravity's rainbow |
| cronos | hestia |
| mademoiselle reisz | chopin |
| "carnal embrace." | stoppard |
| ammu | god of small things |
| velutha | roy |
| o'brien | vietnam |
| jose saramago | blindness |
| philippics | lottery |
| luigi | mario |
| ulrich | saki |
| william golding | lord of the flies |
| stephen crane | open boat |
| "sympathy." | caged bird |
miss havisham | great expectations |
| "sapos" | deities |
| veronal | romeo and juliet |
| anne carson | autobiography of red |
| st. lucia | walcott |
| "ennui!" | flowers of evil |
| "if winter comes, can spring be far behind?" | ode to the west wind |
| "the river-merchant's wife." | li |
| lost world | doyle |
| belacqua shuah | beckett |
| jack kerouac | road |
| briony tallis | atonement |
| glass bead games | hesse |
| stephen | joyce |
mayday | gilead |
| dark | bradbury |
| "poems on various subjects," | religious |
| francis a. | lampedusa |
| adriana | syracuse |
| frodo | bilbo |
| erlynne | wilde |
| harry haller | mozart |
| "if-," | kipling |
| tezcatlipoca | quetzalcoatl |
| cat's cradle | vonnegut |
| other ibsen | when we dead awaken |
| most of wheatley | religious |
| hestia | apollo |
| katherina | taming of the |
| "footnote" | ginsberg |
| animal farm | orwell |
| winterset | sacco |
"the sons of la malinche" | paz |
| robert louis stevenson | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
toru okada | murakami |
| "sunday morning" | stevens |
joseph garcin | no exit |
| czechia | kundera |
| "pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo" | grass |
| pen translation prize | mann |
| dover beach | arnold |
| pip | great expectations |
| murder on the orient express | christie |
| far from the madding crowd | hardy |
| "desiree's baby," | chopin |
| dog years | grass |
| r. b. bennett | big brother |
| alquist | czech |
| george tesman | ibsen |
| versos sencillos | marti |
| vasudeva | siddhartha |
ebenezer dorset | the ransom of red chief |
| troo | katherina |
| beneatha | raisin in the sun |
| "the minister's black veil" | hawthorne |
pyramus and thisbe | a midsummer night's dream |
| betty | crucible |
| baldur | loki |
| duke of cornwall | regan |
| harry angstrom | updike |
| dulcinea | don quixote |
| erich remarque | all quiet on the western front |
| "come live with me and be my love." | marlowe |
| robert graves | claudius |
| ayodhya | ramayana |
| dua lipa | pachinko |
| oceania | 1984 |
| nick bottom | robin |
| daniel defoe | plague |
| armand aubigny | desiree's baby |
| dogberry | much ado about nothing |
| jose marti | cuba |
| tang dynasty | li |
| kuchuk hanem | orientalism |
| albert camus | france |
| clarissa | richardson |
| cathay | li |
| aziz | passage to india |
infinite jest | david foster wallace |
| coalhouse walker | ragtime |
| owen meany | baseball |
| "buffalo bill" | cummings |
| importance of being earnest | wilde |
| dunya | crime and punishment |
| slouching towards bethlehem | didion |
| trafalmadore | slaughterhouse-five |
| thomas shadwell | jonson |
| daisy buchanan | fitzgerald |
| pierre arronax | verne |
| mikhail bulgakov | master and margarita |
| tirant lo blanch | don quixote |
| mccann | pinter |
| edna pontellier | awakening |
| white noise | delillo |
brobdingnag | gulliver's travels |
| "by the shores of gitche gumee." | song of hiawatha |
| the misanthrope | moliere |
gwendolyn brooks | we real cool |
| apollonian | nietzsche |
| "tonight i can write the saddest lines." | neruda |
| "god is dead" | nietzsche |
| mathilde | maupassant |
| god of vengeance | yiddish |
| john proctor | crucible |
| ndotsheni | cry, the beloved country |
| the stranger | camus |
| "how do you like your blue eyed boy / mister death?" | cummings |
| in julia ward howe | atlantic |
| harry hope | iceman cometh |
| "ode on a distant prospect of eton college." | gray |
| mictlantecuhtli | underworld |
| oronte | sonnet |
| stone raft | saramago |
| "so much depends / upon" | red wheelbarrow |
| "tam o' shanter" | burns |
| "the war years." | sandburg |
| gabriel lajeunesse | longfellow |
| house on eccles street | coetzee |
| lady rowena | ivanhoe |
| red sammy | o'connor |
| "the memory of you emerges from the night around me" | neruda |
| mehring | gordimer |
| cantos | pound |
ralph (no last name, protagonist) | lord of the flies |
| llareggub | thomas |
| "the discourager of hesitancy." | sword |
| robert herrick | rose |
the hundred years' war | agincourt |
| aunt agatha | jeeves |
| tyrone | long day's journey into night |
| thomas hardy | far from the madding |
| "ode to joy." | schiller |
| "work." | grass |
| "paul revere's ride." | longfellow |
| "and did those feet in ancient time / walk upon england's mountains green?" | blake |
| "easter, 1916." | yeats |
| "grass" | tin drum |
| "a worn path." | welty |
les rougon-macquart | zola |
| main street | lewis |
"done because we are too menny" | jude the obscure |
| constance | jackson |
| "carpe diem," | horace |
| "once upon a midnight dreary" | raven |
| algernon swinburne | sappho |
| "jazz june," | brooks |
| with fire | polish |
quo vadis | polish |
the gulag archipelago | solzhenitsyn |
| andrew marvell | macleish |
| sir gawain | knight |
| anne bradstreet | fire |
| sugar street | egypt |
| criseyde | chaucer |
| ludovico | clockwork orange |
| "who, if i cried out, would hear me among the angelic hierarchies?" | duino elegies |
| "sredni vashtar" | saki |
| "cogwheels" | akutagawa |
| "die soon." | brooks |
| "crust and sugar over, / like a syrupy sweet?" | harlem renaissance |
| knight of the white moon | cervantes |
xury | defoe |
| midgard serpent | jormungand |
| "now you will not swell the rout of lads that wore their honors out." | housman |
mustapha mond | brave new world |
| simon stimson | choir |
| passage to india | forster |
| long goodbye | roth |
"leda and the swan" | yeats |
isabel allende | the house of the spirits |
| senghor | academie |
| leonard bast | forster |
| laertes | polonius |
| "the mother" | brooks |
| heinrich heine | german |
| wilhelm meister | goethe |
| "the conquest and colonialism" | labyrinth of solitude |
| "what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" | tyger |
| adelaide fouque | zola |
| the trial | kafka |
| big sea | hughes |
| english patient | ondaatje |
| "mother to son." | hughes |
| aston villa | gus |
| "who made thee?" | blake |
| reverend edward casaubon | middlemarch |
| charles ryder | waugh |
| rosewater | firemen |
| frou-frou | vronsky |
| olivia | twelfth night |
| frank stockton | sword |
| salim | naipaul |
| "clouds" | sleepy hollow |
| "red, red" | rose |
| charles tansley | to the lighthouse |
| "brazen giant of greek fame." | new colossus |
| valentin | puig |
| giovanni bononcini | tweedledee |
| neva river | pushkin |
| john byrom | tweedledee |
| "little poems in prose." | lazarus |
| "the bride comes to yellow sky" | crane |
| "durer: innsbruck, 1495." | australia |
| "september 1st, 1939" | auden |
| easter uprising | yeats |
| elka | singer |
| birthday letters | plath |
| flowers of evil | baudelaire |
leslie hotson | marlowe |
| "as slow as the tolling of a death knell" | watch |
| isaac | things fall apart |
| "go" | rose |
| anselmo | for whom the bell |
| cathy | read |
| rockwell kent | moby-dick |
| castle of crossed destinies | calvino |
| "hidden carvings and inscriptions." | tolkien |
| inklings | tolkien |
| gordon | plath |
| "some mute inglorious milton" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| golden key | italy |
| age of innocence | wharton |
| hawk in the rain | plath |
| "royal" | underground |
| pelayo | crab |
| northrop frye | tyger |
| "the lake isle of innisfree." | yeats |
| harriet smithson | emma |
| zadie smith | mouse |
| the dunciad and the | pope |
| illustrated man | bradbury |
| roy hobbs | baseball player |
| haunting of hill house | jackson |
| conditioning center | brave new |
| havre | german |
| silas lapham | howells |
| jenny lind | andersen |
| widow wycherly | heidegger |
| "thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure" | tagore |
| jack tanner | shaw |
| central london hatchery | brave new |
| richard lovelace | cavalier |
| austerlitz | sebald |
| khayyam | jug of wine |
| pittsburgh cycle | wilson |
| real thing | stoppard |
| "fond" | kiss |
| father zosima | alyosha |
| raphael hythloday | vespucci |
| solzhenitsyn | gulag |
| charlotte perkins gilman | the yellow wallpaper |
| trina | paint |
| "to a mouse." | burns |
| lady chatterley | lawrence |
| before antony | ambitious |
| "rest," | herbert |
| dorine | loyal |
| ursula | garcia |
| rover | behn |
| marjane satrapi | persepolis |
| kamel daoud | meursault |
| brett ashley | the sun also |
| anubis | answer |
| hulot | cousine bette |
| "truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true." | dream of the red chamber |
| trigorin | checkhov |
john oakhurst | harte |
| truman capote | lee |
| turk | johnson |
| caroline lee hentz | uncle tom's cabin |
| laura sheridan | mansfield |
| "newsreel" | dos passos |
| middle english | sir gawain and the green knight |
| enchanted hunters | lolita |
the persians | aeschylus |
| hercule poirot | christie |
| battle of roncevaux pass | charlemagne |
| four great novels | china |
| "three blind mice" | christie |
| "come buy, come buy." | rossetti |
| "tossing their heads in a sprightly dance." | daffodil |
| "fog" | sandburg |
| john anderton | minority report |
| "i'm truly sorry man's dominion / has broken nature's social union" | burns |
| "storm trooper," | norwegian wood |
| gascoigne | heidegger |
| "anna livia plurabelle" | beckett |
| anna livia | finnegans wake |
| transcendent kingdom | mouse |
| "things fall apart." | yeats |
| literary club | johnson |
| cosmicomics | calvino |
| "walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across america." | rockland |
| andria | terence |
| martins | ionesco |
| bessie | native |
| eco | baudolino |
| dancer | easter, 1916 |
| "endymion," | keats |
| laius | jocasta |
| simon legree | uncle tom's cabin |
| tsitsi dangarembga | zimbabwe |
| john dowell | good soldier |
| mario vargas llosa | julia |
| "place of many trees." | kilmer |
| alison | wife of bath |
| jules verne | nautilus |
| thomas dixon | lucky |
| brecht | distancing |
| all god | maya |
| ned land | nautilus |
| children need traveling shoes | maya |
| holly golightly | breakfast at tiffany's |
| cedric | ivanhoe |
| "wave" | stephen |
| "angelheaded hipsters" | ginsberg |
| "besides the white / chickens." | red wheelbarrow |
| gilbert osmond | portrait of a |
| edgar | fairy tale |
| mario | italy |
| scrooge | fezziwig |
| rilke | first |
| alejandra pizarnik | argentina |
| classics | roth |
| eva luna | allende |
| gavroche | hugo |
| coleman silk | roth |
| apprenticeship | goethe |
| salvation army | shaw |
| thomas mann | italy |
| in a sharon olds | body |
| duino elegies | rilke |
| mita banerjee | hawthorne |
| guitar | song of solomon |
| elephant of the bastille | argot |
| "the gift outright" | frost |
| caryl churchill | joan |
| "the end and the beginning." | grass |
| peter matthiessen | everest |
| vittoria | aunt |
| tevye the milkman | yiddish |
| "illusion" | japanese |
| "boule de suif" | maupassant |
| symposium | gilead |
| umberto eco | name of the rose |
| don segundo sombra | gaucho |
| "pied beauty." | hopkins |
the house of bernarda alba | federico garcia lorca |
| nine novels | ballard |
| lovewit | alchemist |
| shelley levene | mamet |
| norrell | clarke |
| hanuman | ramayana |
| "mighty and dreadful" | donne |
| alcyoneus | giants |
| aphra behn | dryden |
| alexanderplatz | berlin |
| along with leon damas | senghor |
| angelica | orlando |
| herbie | detroit |
| while in argentina | autobiography of red |
| jonathan strange | clarke |
| "my mother is a fish." | as i lay |
| valeria luiselli | brodsky |
| angellica bianca | behn |
| leatherstocking tales | cooper |
| lay dying | faulkner |
| tale of a tub | swift |
| harold pinter | doctor |
| stable | china |
| meg | little women |
| aleksandr pushkin | russian |
| gentleman with the thistledown hair | clarke |
hafez | persian |
| tales of soldiers | bierce |
| amaterasu | tsukuyomi |
| hairy ape | provincetown players |
| "guilt and innocence" | hitler |
| roger chillingworth | scarlet letter |
| headless horseman | irving |
| "the quest for relevance" | africa |
| swift | a modest |
| han kang | south korea |
| vegetarian | south korea |
| dowson | long day's journey into night |
| todd | waugh |
| amy kelly | beloved |
| marquis | carter |
| james weldon johnson | autobiography |
| sally hayes | salinger |
| hussein mosque | palace |
| nikolai chernyshevsky | dostoyevsky |
| marmee | little women |
| "stunning blow upon the back of the neck" | bierce |
| "one beauty." | hair |
| orangedrink lemondrink man | india |
| rosaura | esperanza |
| in luigi pirandello | six characters in search of an author |
| a and darkness | sword in the stone |
| wings | demian |
| "in memoriam a.h.h." | tennyson |
| archie jones | smith |
| jack worthing | wilde |
| katrina van tassel | irving |
| piano lesson | wilson |
| "the dancing girl of izu" | kawabata |
| friedrich nicolai | werther |
| goldberg | pinter |
| malvolio | twelfth night |
| idylls of the king | tennyson |
| captain cat | thomas |
| andrew undershaft | shaw |
good-bye to all that | graves |
| dragon king | journey to the west |
| "horses' heads/ were pointed toward eternity." | dickinson |
| joe keller | all my sons |
| esther | bell jar |
| "twenty-six men and a girl." | gorky |
| all my sons | miller |
| tanya | gorky |
| "a perfect day for bananafish," | salinger |
| marjorie | hair |
| go set a watchman | lee |
| atonement | mcewan |
| torvald | doll's |
| country of the pointed firs | maine |
| troilus | chaucer |
| mersault | stranger |
| "the eagles" | okigbo |
| newgate prison | defoe |
| "childe roland to the dark tower came." | browning |
| "too soon made glad" | browning |
| wife of bath | chaucer |
| terence | self-tormentor |
| "voodoo." | welles |
| lord orville | burney |
| "stasis in darkness/then the substanceless blue." | plath |
trueba | the house of the spirits |
| martin fierro | argentina |
| "sexy," | lahiri |
| nikos kazantzakis | greek |
| san dominick | melville |
| "hot water shop" | the good |
| marco polo | africa |
| p. g. wodehouse | jeeves |
| sacramental melodrama | genet |
| nicholas snub | berganza |
| strophe | pindar |
| "babette's feast," | dinesen |
| wilfred owen | dulce et decorum est |
homer wells | the cider house rules |
| saleem | singer |
| firs | chekhov |
| clara del valle | allende |
"i rise with my red hair / and i eat men like air," | plath |
| beat generation | ginsburg |
| "the story of an hour" | chopin |
| takehiro | tajomaru |
| six gallery | howl |
| armand | chopin |
| the player | rosencrantz |
| jimmy | factorial |
| thomas pynchon | gravity's rainbow |
| "scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115" | cooper |
| pnin | nabokov |
swiss cheese | brecht |
| "was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?" | helen |
| urania | keats |
| minnehaha | longfellow |
| romantic british | keats |
| lazarus | crime and punishment |
| madame loisel | maupassant |
| voss | white |
| erika kohut | austria |
| "the golden shovel." | brooks |
| "i love you" | soseki |
| pilgrim | general prologue |
| "nymphets" | lolita |
| alexander search | portuguese |
| "pirate" | banana |
| orlick | great expectations |
| "battle royal." | invisible man |
| "when i consider how my light is spent" | milton |
| areopagitica | milton |
august strindberg (country) | sweden |
| brian de bois-gilbert | knight |
| sword | polish |
| catullus | sappho |
| okeechobee | hurston |
| "ode to aphrodite." | sappho |
| "you are sane" | dickinson |
| v-2 | pynchon |
| fire in the steppe | polish |
| dylar | white noise |
| biafran war | half of a yellow sun |
| prospero | tempest |
| fatima | radio |
| mules and men | hurston |
| corporal lestrade | walcott |
| arturo | brecht |
| "sick" | rose |
| paul verlaine | rimbaud |
| thanatos | freud |
| d'artagnan first | three musketeers |
| johann wolfgang | schiller |
| "[one event] in june, corn be heavy soon." | jackson |
| "a game of chess" | eliot |
| "all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" | beauty |
| dreyfus | zola |
| urashima taro | aging |
| benedick | beatrice |
| "benjamin" | animal farm |
| alan breck stewart | kidnapped |
| porthos | three musketeers |
becky sharp | vanity fair |
| vi of this work | aeneid |
| the custom-house | scarlet letter |
"turning and turning in the widening gyre" | yeats |
| riddle of the sands | thirty-nine steps |
rawdon crawley | vanity fair |
makak | walcott |
| "song of great capitulation." | brecht |
| cavafy | greek |
| tres marias | allende |
| "nature" | emerson |
| grace ogot | kenya |
| "mere oblivions, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." | jaques |
| mabel loomis todd | letters |
thomas wentworth higginson | emily dickinson |
| dark tower | king |
| clavdia chauchat | mann |
| white album | murder |
"birches" | frost |
| silappatikaram | tamil |
| theophile gautier | art for art's sake |
| consuelo | sand |
| "every angel is terrifying." | duino elegies |
| act 5 | ars |
| lewis carroll | through the looking glass |
| weston | emma |
"if music be the food of love, play on." | twelfth night |
| "why is a raven like a writing desk?" | hatter |
| imoinda | behn |
the thinkery | the clouds |
| behn | letter |
| an angel at my table | mansfield |
| "homeric" | hymn |
| gesta danorum | snorri |
the cider house rules | john irving |
| "sound [his] barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" | whitman |
| one of plautus | soldier |
| song | mailer |
| kahnk | things fall apart |
| those who leave | italian |
| room with a view | forster |
| panfilo, filostrato | decameron |
| walter pater | marius |
| "a shape with lion body and the head of a man," | second coming |
| pablo ibbieta | sartre |
| maggie | crane |
| child | six characters in search of an author |
| confessions | augustine |
| ishtar | bull |
| "parthenope" | siren |
| "smith" | john |
| charles arrowby | murdoch |
| "the black plague" | decameron |
| amy tan | joy luck club |
elegant effendi | istanbul |
| ern malley | australia |
| j. p. morgan's | firemen |
| father lorenzo | betrothed |
| "dear and loving husband." | bradstreet |
| "new," | comedy |
| bathsheba everdene | far from the madding |
| juno | caliban |
| mnemosyne | keats |
| metamorphosis | kafka |
| "commodore" | oiler |
| madame hortense | zorba the greek |
| "forethought" | chicken |
| chebutykin | three sisters |
| anatomy of criticism | comedy |
| oregon state penitentiary | mailer |
| "only connect." | forster |
| novalis | german |
| w.b. yeats | easter rising |
| starkfield | ethan frome |
| three sisters | chekhov |
| manderley | rhododendron |
| angel esmeralda | hugo |
| "the skin of our teeth" | wilder |
| abel | antrobus |
| " for 10 points, name this poet who wrote " | eliot |
| steven spielberg | schindler |
| melissa | egypt |
| saul bellow | chicago |
| eva st | sophie's choice |
the charterhouse of parma | stendhal |
miss (rebecca) jessel | the turn of the screw |
| moomins | hitler |
| confessions of a mask | mishima |
| "city of the big shoulders" | sandburg |
| angelo mancuso | ignatius |
| "the caballero's way" | henry |
| "pamper'd swells with one blood made of two." | donne |
| lyrical ballads | wordsworth |
| baby suggs | beloved |
| adolphus cusins | shaw |
| samuel | color purple |
| human stain | roth |
| yonville | madame bovary |
| prince dakkar | verne |
| both raju | narayan |
| three musketeers | dumas |
| lewis theobald | pope |
| charles darnay | tale of two cities |
| vidiadhar surajprasad naipaul | naipaul |
| london to adelaide | galsworthy |
| uncle peck | vogel |
| tom dacre | chimney |
| "know that, in a former time, love! sweet love! was thought a crime." | lost |
| raymonda | stranger |
| poisonwood bible | kingsolver |
| polybus | oedipus |
| "i shall be as dirty as i please: and i like to be dirty, and i will be dirty." | wuthering heights |
| gerda | buddenbrooks |
| george willard | anderson |
| "bad taste" | ignatius |
| sandra cisneros | mexican |
| vaclav havel | czech |
malone dies | beckett |
| study in scarlet | doyle |
| petruchio | taming of the shrew |
| xanthias | frogs |
| magic theater | hesse |
| exemplary novels | cervantes |
| narayana | english |
| horacio quiroga | uruguay |
| columbia university | boas |
| sammy | a&p |
| "had we but world enough and time." | "to his coy mistress" |
| "must cultivate our gardens." | candide |
| ben gardner | grendel |
| grimm | tailor |
snow country | kawabata |
cleante | tartuffe |
| offred | handmaid's tale |
| life & k | coetzee |
| winesburg | anderson |
| "to be or not to be" | get thee to a |
| "marks of weakness, marks of woe" | blake |
| "beside the white chickens" | wheelbarrow |
| elie wiesel | night |
| lancelot | divine |
| "decolonizing the mind." | ngugi |
| seth | winesburg |
| times of michael | coetzee |
| "civil disobedience." | thoreau |
| peter walsh | mrs |
| joseph knecht | glass bead game |
| peter quint | turn of the screw |
"willow of crystal, a poplar of water" | paz |
| matilda | dahl |
| rasnolnikov | dostoyevsky |
"the plums that were in the icebox" | william carlos williams |
| "asphodel, that greeny flower." | williams |
| "the house of nucingen." | eugene |
| "held but just ourselves and immortality." | because i could not stop for death |
| my antonia | cather |
| "guy" | giants |
| "five summers, with the length / of five long winters" | wordsworth |
| edmond dantes | hero |
| frances | rooney |
| william dobbin | vanity fair |
| amaranta | buendia |
| drang | sorrows of |
| go tell it on the mountain | baldwin |
| rossetti | carols |
| "the plan," | eco |
| aunt ester | pittsburgh |
"before the law" | the trial |
| "better after death" | how do i love thee |
| lucasta | lovelace |
| sarajevo | black hand |
| "wicked" | decameron |
| "strove to resuscitate the dead art/of poetry" | pound |
| sabina | unbearable lightness of being |
| in jesmyn ward | as i lay dying |
| hunchback of notre dame | esmeralda |
| bernard nightingale | byron |
| johanna | sweeney |
| "follow the leader" | melville |
| coast of utopia | stoppard |
| "do i contradict myself?" | song of myself |
| mansfield | bliss |
| falstaff | shakespeare |
guest (character) | strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde |
| sarah orne jewett | maine |
| ecgtheow | beowulf |
| farmer boldwood | gabriel |
| katy | disgrace |
| brer rabbit | johnson |
| "tell me why / this goblin honor which the world adores / should make men atheists and not women whores" | cavalier |
| john montague | hill house |
| "at five in the afternoon." | lorca |
| "rural trilogy." | lorca |
| "green, how i want you green." | lorca |
| shu | romance of the three kingdoms |
| ugo foscolo | napoleon |
| book iii of the faerie queene | spenser |
| abraham cowley | ode |
| bildad | pequod |
| earl of gloucester | king |
| "does it explode?" | dream |
| "black as cain, may be refined, and join th' angelic train." | wheatley |
| darwish | hebrew |
| fair haven | utopia |
| "on a grecian urn." | ode |
| michael furey | dead |
| "the murders in the rue morgue." | poe |
| "remembrances," | raven |
| pinter | birthday party |
| kiyoaki | snow |
| morgiana | arabic |
| "sensemaya." | hughes |
| an enrique gonzalez martinez | modernism |
| "i heard a fly buzz when i died," | dickinson |
| quasimodo | esmeralda |
| carlson | of mice and men |
| all quiet on the western front | remarque |
| tiurin | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| morelli | cortazar |
| day of the locust | west |
| "blow-up." | cortazar |
| paul d | beloved |
| shi nai | water margin |
| orlando | woolf |
| gustave dore | windmill |
| chin | woman warrior |
| "the heights of macchu picchu" | canto general |
| one chinese | creation |
| thornton wilder | our town |
| hedda gabler | ibsen |
| lenore | raven |
| yasunari kawabata | snow |
| robert browning | dubliners |
| glenarvon | lamb |
| john suckling | cavalier |
| professor pieixoto | handmaid's tale |
| casaubon | eco |
| dubois | misanthrope |
| athos | three musketeers |
| "pale kings and princes too." | keats |
equus | horse |
savage detectives | bolano |
| bly | the turn of the |
| samuel taylor coleridge | romanticism |
| "hope is a thing with feathers" | dickinson |
| carlos daneri | borges |
| "nightfall." | science fiction |
the birth of tragedy | nietzsche |
| dictionary of the english language | johnson |
| james boswell | johnson |
| friends of the abc | javert |
| "speak through my words and my blood" | machu picchu |
| "the night dances" | ariel |
| "you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman." | much ado about nothing |
"someones married their everyones" | cummings |
| primus | czech |
| william henry | hammer |
"sun stone" | paz |
| darkness at noon | koestler |
| willy loman | death of a salesman |
| alceste | sonnet |
| shimamura | kawabata |
| julien sorel | stendhal |
| "bigguns" | samneric |
| bianca | tutor |
| "the sisters," | dublin |
| henry wadsworth longfellow | divine |
| george sand | flaubert |
| tatiana | eugene |
| kate | dead |
| daisy miller | james |
| phaedrus | aesop |
| jake blount | heart is a lonely |
| fitzcarraldo editions | nobel |
| "sly animals" | rilke |
| "the hollow men" | eliot |
"the fall of the house of usher" | poe |
emily webb | our town |
| tenth muse lately sprung up in america | bradstreet |
| hazel motes | o'connor |
| "a terrible beauty is born" | yeats |
| percival | lord of the flies |
| vseslav of polotsk | bogatyr |
| harriet winslow | old gringo |
| alvita | jamaica |
| after albert | goethe |
| "hurry up please it's time," | waste land |
| stella-rondo | welty |
| gregor samsa in the metamorphosis | kafka |
| "like a dog" | kafka |
the grand inquisitor | the brothers karamazov |
| ipek | pamuk |
| regina | education |
| karel capek | robot |
| sally seton at bourton | mrs. dalloway |
| gigi | colette |
| "to build a fire," | london |
| reverend samuel parris | crucible |
| "within the mind of god" | our town |
| in the old east slavic | bogatyr |
| in the return of the native | hardy |
| mason city | willie |
| anne frank | russian |
| "white sickness" | saramago |
| "nothing will come of nothing." | lear |
| "mute, inglorious." | milton |
| call of the wild | london |
| paquette | esmeralda |
"in vacant or pensive mood," | wordsworth |
| "why was i allowed to come this far and see sand and trees" | open boat |
| journey to the west | buddha |
| gerard de nerval | eliot |
| prince korasoff | red and |
| "it's not that way, it's over here" | bald soprano |
| von essen | strindberg |
| jew of malta | marlowe |
"to althea, from prison" | richard lovelace |
| travels | swift |
| romance of the three kingdoms | china |
| lyle | blues for mister charlie |
| inn | stevenson |
| bologna to rome | stendhal |
| "fever" | italy |
| vivien | sappho |
| isabella bird | churchill |
| "to whom i was like to give offense" | walls |
vedas | sanskrit |
| apuleius | golden ass |
| "the battle hymn of the republic," | atlantic |
| "a love story," | didion |
| markus zusak | book thief |
| "oh dear! oh dear! i shall be too late!" | white |
| rime of the ancient mariner | coleridge |
| the master and margarita | bulgakov |
| henry louis gates | douglass |
| "i hate and i love." | elegy |
| martian chronicles | bradbury |
| paradiso | divine comedy |
| "art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, and dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell." | death |
| anne of green gables | avonlea |
| lieutenant jimmy cross | vietnam |
| parasha | bronze horseman |
| nelly dean | wuthering heights |
| "kindly stopped for me." | because i could not stop for death |
| tale of igor | pushkin |
| monterey | steinbeck |
| weena | time |
| "jabberwocky." | carroll |
| myrna minkoff | confederacy of |
| polly | magician's nephew |
| william collins | pride and prejudice |
| "puddle-wonderful." | cummings |
| true history of the kelly gang | carey |
| "merrie england," | lucky |
| "latter-day scarlett o'hara" | gone with the wind |
| havana harbor | spy |
| macflecknoe | dryden |
americanah | adichie |
| echo | satyr |
| "if ever two were one, then surely we. / if ever man were loved by wife, then thee." | loving husband |
| "shall i compare thee to a summer's day?" | 14 |
| slaughterhouse-five | vonnegut |
| "sun moon stars rain" | cummings |
| batman | scooby |
| "shantih shantih shantih" | waste land |
death with interruptions | saramago |
| "red thoughts and his teeth were white." | saki |
| "i bathed in the euphrates when dawns were young." | hughes |
| nurse ratched | mental hospital |
| tom jones | fielding |
| "spiritual victories." | china |
| lakunlerefuses | soyinka |
| shropshire | housman |
| "karawane" | dada |
| "how cunningly" | tell-tale heart |
| "the litanies of satan." | flower |
| cincinnati | beloved |
| "things fall apart, the center cannot hold" | yeats |
| "star-cross'd lovers." | romeo and juliet |
| north of boston | frost |
"batter my heart, three person'd god" | donne |
| "true daughter of old time" | poe |
| toru | wind-up bird chronicle |
"soul has grown deep" | langston hughes |
| "nothing gold can stay" | frost |
| "poet of" | palestine |
| "thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no, / nor honeysuckle." | millay |
| jacques lantier | zola |
| bonus buzz | lake isle of innisfree |
| "oh shame upon the earth! apollo, apollo!" | cassandra |
| "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 |
| "in medias res." | ars |
| jara cimrman | curie |
| mina | abraham |
| "i like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." | o pioneers |
| marcus | mcteague |
| memory for forgetfulness | palestine |
| book thief | kite runner |
| kill devil hills | wright |
| prester john | baudolino |
| hugo ball | dada |
| "the horla" | maupassant |
| nip the buds | oe |
| "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 |
| "will you take me home?" | arthur |
| roebuck ramsden | man and superman |
| "come back in tears, o memory, hope, love of finished years" | rossetti |
| "two-bit" | outsiders |
| winnie | waugh |
| "thanatopsis" | bryant |
| kochan | mishima |
| "be chaste, except you ravish me." | donne |
| "this is america--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves." | main street |
| sugriva | ramayana |
| marty | harry |
| june rebellion | les |
| keith mathews | outsiders |
| italian hours | venice |
| "heart-broken jester" | lazarus |
| khepri | ra |
| "enchanted magician" | lazarus |
| "command me to follow him." | we must love one another or die |
| "crystal palace" | dostoyevsky |
| raskolnikov in crime | dostoevsky |
| "talent is nothing but faith in yourself, in your own powers." | actor |
| on the shadow side | hulme |
| "as she undoubtedly will be." | nana |
| "rocks and seas" | conversation |
| "whether i pound or am being pounded, / all the same there will be moaning!" | peer gynt |
| an experiment in criticism | reader |
| abashvili | azdak |
| "work'us" | oliver twist |
| noah claypole | oliver twist |
| all the king | warren |
| fanny price | mansfield park |
| season in hell | rimbaud |
| song of solomon | morrison |
| "no hungry generations tread thee down." | ode to a nightingale |
| vahl | mephistopheles |
| "the sabbath rang slowly / in the pebbles of the holy streams" | fern hill |
| claude robichaux | confederacy of |
| sohrab | pamuk |
| rostam | shahnameh |
| david livesey | treasure island |
| color purple | walker |
| hound of the baskervilles | eco |
| new south wales | oscar and |
| father paneloux | france |
| "sages standing in god's holy fire" | old |
| pope of the fools | hunchback of notre-dame |
ignatius j. reilly | a confederacy of dunces |
| "where ignorance is bliss / 'tis folly to be wise" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| valley of ashes | myrtle |
"is there balm in gilead?" | "the raven" |
| nyalmo | yeti |
| "moirai" | fate |
| "we need a definition of greatness, and i suppose that would be somebody who...somebody who benefited all mankind." | "master harold"...and |
| coleridge on lyrical ballads | wordsworth |
| james more | stevenson |
"he prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast." | "the rime of the ancient mariner" |
| "o shades of night--o moody, tearful night!" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "o harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
emma tennant | henry james |
| kat | all quiet on the western front |
| joad | steinbeck |
| "in a station of the metro." | pound |
| the 's campaign | wolves |
| shingo | kawabata |
| shoot the kids | oe |
| "do not remember me / as disaster / nor as the keeper of secrets" | lorde |
| "little penis from man island." | sappho |
| "all this happened, more or less." | slaughterhouse-five |
| "listen: billy pilgrim has come unstuck in time." | slaughterhouse-five |
mein kampf | hitler |
| satis | philip |
| kah-mel dah-ood | stranger |
| roon | brother |
| "stone walls do not a prison make, / nor iron bars a cage" | prison |
| kondomanolious | zorba the greek |
| "the sea is calm tonight / the tide is full, the moon lies fair." | dover beach |
| houyhnhnms | lemuel |
| magic | vidal |
| dark lady | love's |
| "the great moderation." | hippolytus |
| "a world of made is not a world of born." | pity this busy |
| "when first the world from chaos rose, tell me, how did love begin?" | dream of the red |
| 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 |
| professor welch | lucky |
| augustus carmichael | to the |
| miss lonelyhearts | west |
| herbert pocket | philip |
| absalom pro deo | cry, the beloved |
| "flash upon that inward eye / which is the bliss of solitude." | i wandered lonely as a cloud |
| "moloch whose mind is pure machinery." | howl |
| last amazon of dahomey in london | girl, woman, other |
| an epic in the war for freedom | tanzania |
| "fair is foul, and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air." | macbeth |
| jadis | magician's nephew |
| amma | girl, woman, other |
| juan rulfo | mexico |
absalom and achitophel | dryden |
yann martel | the life of pi |
| "world-soul" | seagull |
| "pipe dreams." | iceman cometh |
| "our age's central thinker" | vidal |
| "the art of dying well." | lady lazarus |
| "chivalry" | romance |
| abbe carlos herrera | human comedy |
| vautrin | human comedy |
| "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." | walden |
| fire chief | bald soprano |
| eugene ionesco | absurd |
| luttrell | wide sargasso sea |
| "a monster vile, whom god and man does hate." | faerie queene |
| shaaban robert | tanzania |
| cyriacus | cross |
| johannes kreisler | hoffmann |
| "the whole world shares your tears / some for two nights or one / and some for all their years" | seth |
| parker tyler | vidal |
| "those other two equal'd with me in fate, so were i equal'd with them in renown." | milton |
| ashtavinayaka | ganesh |
| "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." | malvolio |
| "i confess! i confess what i did! i'm guilty! i killed you! sir i confess! i killed you!" | amadeus |
| myth of the movies | vidal |
| "textually ignorant" | grossman |
| maeonides | milton |
| rang shim bombo | yeti |
| captain alexander smollett | treasure island |
| "sitting careless" | autumn |
| loved one | waugh |
| the 's bastard | jane eyre |
| "avenged in part for lifelong hidings she has had to bear." | hayden |
| "of la mancha." | don quixote |
| sir walter raleigh | shepherd |
| tiresias | serpent |
| "with up so floating many bells down" | anyone lived in a pretty how town |
| elene | cross |
| daniel eisenberg | grossman |
| western hills | diaries |
| helene weigel | courage |
| "has died; they kept hitting him, everyone, even though he does nothing to them." | stone |
| rainer maria rilke | duino elegies |
| ejcs | hrothgar |
| "these pretzels are making me thirsty." | kramer |
| another cortazar | idol |
| battle of waterloo | vanity |
| "doom of the gods" | ragnarok |
| ayane | heart of darkness |
| "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 |
| hugo pludek | czech |
| james gregory | italy |
| judge irwin | willie |
| la paz | hawthorne |
| man with black eye patch | blindness |
| "wants to die." | sexton |
| tjaden | all quiet on the western front |
| giovanelli | james |
| our strangers | davis |
| "a strong buy." | enron |
| guinness world record for longest theatrical run | mousetrap |
| "after all, tomorrow is another day." | gone with the wind |
| great seal of england | prince and the |
| "the magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with" | lorca |
| friar laurence | romeo and |
| "a creature, like himself, full of mettle and mischief" | brom |
| "young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes." | laurence |
| "the gingerbread house" | hansel and |
| "the pool players. seven at the golden shovel." | we real |
| "the don't-knows have lived with that lie so long they just can't see it." | heart is a lonely |
| johnny cade | outsiders |
| "i can resist everything except temptation." | lady windermere's |
| "john laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. john is practical in the extreme." | yellow wallpaper |
| professor pierre aronnax | nemo |
| "she'll be stiff with you at first, i expect. she's an unusual character, but you mustn't let her worry you." | rebecca |
| kaddish | ginsberg |
| "a modest proposal." | irish |
| "giving currency to a vulgar error," | spontaneous combustion |
| hungry joe | catch-22 |
| vinayaka | ganesh |
| "show interest in her goodness--for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand." | good person |
| "there was no door that he would not heave off its hinges, or break it by running at it with his head." | miller |
| church of the new revelation | stranger in a strange |
| jim hawkins | treasure island |
| "north pole" | equiano |
brother juniper | the bridge of san luis rey |
| hitler studies at the | white |
| "likes a boggy acre / a floor too cool for corn." | dickinson |
| sula | morrison |
| frances gage | ain't i a woman |
| "picaros, madmen, naifs, and clowns" | unreliable narrator |
| last witnesses | alexievich |
| george henry lewes | spontaneous combustion |
| nicholas rubashov | stalin |
| "the grecian urn to muse on uncle jim." | cullen |
| prajapati | brahma |
| connie | lady chatterley's lover |
| "the waking" | world war ii |
| dialogues of the gods | lucian |
| rocky | ceremony |
| kerkylas of andros | sappho |
| dunbar | sing |
| "conversation" | stein |
| gabriel utterson | jekyll becoming |
| gahl | banquo |
| professor baglioni | rappaccini's daughter |
the mysteries of udolpho (genre) | gothic |
| belle epoque paris | sappho |
| mournable body | second person |
| "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county." | twain |
| "marks of wanton hunger" | chicago |
| road back | all quiet on the western front |
| a wedding-guest | albatross |
| sagramore | hank |
| bronte | wuthering |
| harry wotton | picture of dorian |
| "mud-luscious" | in just |
| resident world controller for western europe | brave new world |
| squire john trelawney | treasure island |
| robert coover | hansel and |
| errour | faerie queene |
| movement song | lorde |
| lady rectitude | griselda |
| viola | twelfth night |
| brooklyn dodgers | rickey |
| alina reyes | cortazar |
| "redundant. retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable" | lakunle |
| sergey zalygin | novy mir |
| tim walker | enron |
| sakiel-norn | assassin |
| "and indrajit," | bengali |
| "white smoke" | ceremony |
| coramantien | behn |
| annixter | octopus |
| "copied out of a loose paper" | burning |
| satis house | great expectations |
| la times | capote |
| "sour grapes." | aesop |
| renee vivien | sappho |
| "the winning cause pleased the gods, but the losing cause pleased cato." | pharsalia |
| "the cold splintering, breaking" | those winter sundays |
| henry sweet | higgins |
| in the sailor who fell from grace with the sea | cat |
kanaka joe | the luck of roaring camp |
| maupassant | pierrot |
| tibet | holmes |
| inspector javert | miserables |
| kingdom of this world | magic |
| "seven ages of man" | as you like it |
| thomas kyd | pamuk |
| kumiko | murakami |
| tool | house for mr. biswas |
| twelfth night | age |
| "how clumsy this winged voyager! how weak/comic, and ugly!" | fleurs du mal |
french pete | the luck of roaring camp |
| aborigine | serpent |
| tuttle | roaring camp |
| "stink like rotten meat / or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet" | dream deferred |
| demetrius | midsummer night's |
| "little formless fears" | brutus |
| "black pitch-water" | hiawatha |
| "one day anyone died i guess." | cummings |
| ida's bar | cannery |
| suda | sappho |
| pied beauty | dapple |
| "that taste of opiate wine! lure of the dark valley!" | akhmatova |
| worldly wiseman | christian |
| "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" | wordsworth |
| salamano | camus |
| roylott | snake |
| bohemian | marriage |
| jabez wilson | red-headed |
| "the mightiest of magicians" | hiawatha |
| waiting for godot | beckett |
| nanny | mule |
| stephen vincent benet | webster |
| "many-tower'd camelot." | lady of |
| fabrizio del dongo | stendhal |
| "blago bung" | ball |
| clara wieland | spontaneous combustion |
| "limpin' lump o' brick-dust." | din |
| "freely, as men strive for right" | how do i love thee |
| maata mahupuku | mansfield |
| "sesemi," | buddenbrooks |
| "irretrievable!" | child |
| listless | nightmare abbey |
| untold story | ali |
| people of the valleys | independent people |
| pulitzer prize for drama for the hot wing king | hall |
| frederick winterbourne | italy |
| miriam chadwick | church |
| captain flume | catch-22 |
| "their color is a diabolic die." | on being brought |
| good soldier svejk | czech |
| flannery o'connor's | grandmother |
| noel coward | ghost |
| "petals on a wet, black bough." | pound |
| "the fugitive." | proust |
| "why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart?" | sonnet--to science |
| time machine | wells |
| toyota | harry |
| buck mulligan | ulysses |
| suitable boy | india |
| summer sun celebration | twilight |
| meletus | serpent |
| dennis hasset | church |
| "all you who sleep tonight." | seth |
| william bradshaw | mrs |
| "human beast" | zola |
| anagnostis | zorba the greek |
| "gerontion" | eliot |
| doctor leete | looking backward |
| "sell him to the south" | jim |
| "a stray ghost-walker with a ghostly gun." | brown |
| rick | klara and the sun |
| angwin | mantel |
| scandinavian experimental theater | strindberg |
| electra | sartre |
| "the interlopers" | saki |
| in the book of the city of ladies | griselda |
| elesin | soyinka |
| "egiga goramen." | ball |
| hamm | unhappiness |
| "birds of prey" | marvell |
| marabar caves | passage to india |
| view of delft | in search of lost time |
| tad allagash | 80s |
| "little patch of yellow wall" | in search of lost time |
| casina | plautus |
| "wild" | old |
| william butler yeats | yeats |
| dee-oh-nay | boccaccio |
| pied piper | misty of chincoteague |
| me to play | endgame |
| jonathan safran foer | extremely loud and incredibly close |
| "epigram" | russian |
| "accompanying my boy lover frightened by a fox." | basho |
| while at the salem house academy | david |
| david copperfield | dickens |
| "think like and act as a man." | julie |
"rude mechanicals" | a midsummer night's dream |
| "a tale of two gardens" | paz |
"the darkest evening of the year." | stopping by woods on a snowy evening |
| andrew butler | bildungsroman |
| black americans | senghor |
| gretchen | goethe |
| ferdinando flosky | nightmare abbey |
| reverend larynx | nightmare abbey |
| action comics | superman |
| "clay" | dublin |
| ezuelo | things fall apart |
| "traveling box" | brobdingnag |
| nadine gordimer | south |
| "going to nassau." | enormous radio |
| antoinettte cosway | bertha |
| "art, truth and politics." | pinter |
| "domestic education." | adams |
| sir anthony | malaprop |
| "why i write about mexico." | porter |
| "supernatural horror in literature." | horla |
| thomas traherne | metaphysical |
| jo march | alcott |
| hms bellipotent | billy |
| "lie" | journey to the center |
| bill driscoll | ransom of red |
| thiz | midsummer night's |
| "you, the reader" | baudelaire |
| scout | atticus |
| miss van campen | farewell to arms |
| le horla | maupassant |
| lysidamus | plautus |
| "the age of time," | fuentes |
| was a country | achebe |
| eugene marchbanks | shaw |
| duke of buckingham | la rochelle |
| hulda | independent people |
| "split land" | yoknapatawpha |
| "there's a little intricate hussy for you!" | malaprop |
| "style is character." | didion |
| sunday express | hall |
| new york draft riots | melville |
| bergotte | in search of lost time |
| christopher unborn | fuentes |
| "coma baby" | 80s |
| shaka zulu | negritude |
| "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 |
| chief white halfoat | catch-22 |
| friar john | mantua |
| "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 |
| felix hoenikker | cat |
| connie reid | lady |
| like clover | moses |
| "resistance literature." | palestin |
| spallanzani | hoffmann |
| "romance at short notice was her specialty." | saki |
| svayambhu | brahma |
| "bore her away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre [seh-pul-kur] in this kingdom by the sea." | annabel lee |
| "ethnic" | ventriloquism |
| libation bearers | aegisthus |
| osip mandelstam | stalin |
| earl of greystoke | tarzan |
| governor carter ross | antigone |
| "knowing owl." | swan |
| sherrard | barbarian |
| in keeley | barbarian |
| fludd | mantel |
| "set his mind to evil" | byron |
| hilda wangel | master builder |
| daniel mallory ortberg | rochester |
| prime minister in up against it | orton |
| "whale rider." | maori |
| zocalo plaza | porter |
| "chaka." | negritude |
| men in the sun | palestin |
| orvil red feather | orange |
| "a samoyed-lithuanian dialect of guarani" | library of babel |
| "behold the time of the assassins" | drunk |
| conservationist | gordimer |
| "pallid bust of pallas," | raven |
| "june" | chinese |
| christine de pizan | agincourt |
| another didion | california |
| "beware of him, he bites." | david |
| "guantanamera [gwahn-tahn-ah-mair-ah]" | marti |
| illiac | hal 9000 |
| "permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls." | lamb |
| wilbur wright roll | edison |
| seashell game | basho |
| "eat me" | alice |
| book of the dead | osiris |
| senex amator | plautus |
| "the house-top." | melville |
| personal matter | oe |
| lowery field | yossarian |
| "swallowed" | twenty love poems and a song of despair |
| urbana | hal 9000 |
"golgotha" | sassoon |
| boolie werthan | driving |
| "terence, this is stupid stuff" | shropshire lad |
| emperor jones | o'neill |
| magnus derrick | octopus |
| "letter concerning the prison of human life" | agincourt |
| kantorek | all quiet on the western front |
| "i sing of olaf glad and big" | cummings |
| rap on race | mead |
| tom hanks | brown |
| "the violence of beast on beast is read as natural law, but upright man seeks his divinity by inflicting pain." | far cry from africa |
| wye | wordsworth |
| "to him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms" | thanatopsis |
| pearl s. buck | buck |
| moushumi | namesake |
| "that minx." | confederacy of |
| "whene'er to drink you are inclin'd... remember tam o'shanter's mare." | burns |
| ten-tronckh's | pangloss |
| michel | immoralist |
| "if anyone should feel differently, they would feel nothing." | comedy |
| "!mayombe--bombe--mayombe!" | cuba |
| "the town is taken by its rats" | melville |
| "but i have promises to keep, / and miles to go before i sleep" | frost |
| "unfortunate lover" | marvell |
| "betwixt the flames and waves," | marvell |
| "staircase wit" | diderot |
| m. l. west | prometheus bound |
| "the kingdom of orangia" | master builder |
| anna kern | pushkin |
| "the male who invites" | izanagi |
| robert faehmel | billiard |
| epic of wheat | octopus |
| mr hyde | stevenson |
| "empty net, at the advent of autumn" | heights of macchu |
| norman culpepper washington | diamond |
| werther | linden |
| "gas-coin" | heidegger |
| mary lyon | mice |
| toulon | javert |
| tez | quetzalcoatl |
| scottish play | macbeth |
| meet | persephone |
| bal-yoh-nee | rappaccini's daughter |
| plumfield | jo |
| pearl blossom | wang |
| samuel england | saladin |
| terasina vidavarri | algren |
| virtue rewarded | richardson |
| "to propitiate the gods." | hell screen |
| your show of shows | simon |
| laughter on the 23rd floor | simon |
| evidence for the resurrection of jesus christ | butler |
| "more sweetly than our rhyme" | grecian urn |
| dante gabriel | rubaiyat |
| "if you lock them together in a room with no food for a week." | maus |
| art spiegelman | graphic |
| culture of competition | saladin |
| nina simonovich | puppet |
| program era | writing |
| mfa | writing |
| jackson square | stella |
| "life," | johnson |
| auguste dupin | purloined letter |
| "that's how i ought to have written" | in search of lost time |
| "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." | byron |
| "this verse" | rape of the lock |
| last letters of jacopo ortis | napoleon |
| stephen breyer | fourth |
| gibson | ballard |
| rider haggard | haggard |
| "morning" | drunk |
| oba waja | death and the king's horseman |
| rasheed | thousand |
| "all the englishes i grew up with" | tan |
| bolom | walcott |
| nunavit | historical notes |
| "i would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than" | hall |
| in medieval empires | saladin |
| efimova | puppet |
| wormwood trilogy | science |
| tail of the blue bird | maeterlinck |
| beardsley | rape of the lock |
| "to die for one's country" | horace |
| mark mcgurl | writing |
| walk by anita rau badami | india |
| "shall never see a poem lovely as" | trees |
| duro ladipo | death and the king's horseman |
| "ust-izhma" | ivan |
| "defused threat." | saladin |
| tade thompson | science |
| "the dong with the luminous nose." | lear |
| " for 10 points each: name this poetry collection which contains a poem that describes how " | leaves of grass |
| "great gromboolian plain" | lear |
| heatholoaf | hrothgar |
| "gloss" | king |
| "odd bits of old rhyming slang" | nadsat |
| bliss | coward |
| cook | cheshire cat |
| julien pitt | angels in america |
| cixin liu | invasion of earth |
| h.g. wells's | invasion of earth |
| "bad fencer, but a sound thinker" | don juan |
| in france | romantic |
| king jesus | william |
| lunch room | winesburg |
| "mole-main" | "shooting an elephant" |
| hotel costa verde in mexico | night of |
| fahrenkopf | night of |
| "to reform oneself is to live." | rodo |
| "passport made." | st. crispin's day |
| on the geneology of morals | nietzsche |
| "unreal city." | waste land |
| margaret | wilde |
| "five years have past!" | wordsworth |
| "you were right, old hoss; you were right," | to build a fire |
| christmas carol | dickens |
| medbourne | heidegger |
| "i caught this morning morning's minion," | windhover |
| "willingly would make rubbish of the earth." | reader |
| "marry me." | gabriel |
| "secret code" | car |
| in a paul bowles | joseph |
| arnold friend | car |
| archbishop ruggieri | ugolino |
| "he which hath no stomach to this fight" | st. crispin's day |
| elle | diving bell and the butterfly |
| "our god" | rossetti |
| jonson | shepherd |
| alice oswald | iliad |
| stesichorus | autobiography of red |
| "gather [these things'] buds while ye may" | rose |
| "heaven cannot hold him / nor earth sustain." | rossetti |
| "mumu." | sportsman's sketches |
| "my long two-pointed ladder's sticking through" | trees |
| "the purloined letter" | poe |
| madame l'espanaye | poe |
| philip k. dick's | invasion of earth |
| penrod | dog |
| "who's the dunce now?" | pope |
| "thyestes" | seneca |
| groom | lorca |
| "twenty-six malignant gates," | tan |
| mormons | angels in america |
| wampanoag | rowlandson |
| jing-mei | tan |
| "pants" | commedia |
| best american | story |
| malagasy poetry | senghor |
| camacho | radio |
| max brod | kafka |
| saint anna | jerusalem delivered |
| euphorion | prometheus bound |
| "to you, clerk, literary man, sedentary person, man of fortune, idler, the same advice. up!... out in the morning!" | whitman |
| "story." | marvell |
| paradox on the comedian | diderot |
| "i keep in mind that magic moment" | pushkin |
| serafina correa | rose |
| thackeray | barry |
| wang lung | the good |
| zorba the greek | kazantzakis |
| panic room | snow |
| hesse | glass bead game |
| road to revolution | lenin |
| "i am a traveler from an antique land." | ozymandias |
| molloy | beckett |
| hannah stern | holocaust |
| proh | bellerophon |
| ezra chater | byron |
| "put on the kettle" | dumb waiter |
| sumerian inanna | enkidu |
| "gossamer thread" | whitman |
| balla fasseke | griot |
| driving miss daisy | georgia |
| "faces along the bar cling to their average day." | september 1, 1939 |
| solveig | ibsen |
| "words had forked no lightning." | do not go gentle into |
| hermod | baldur |
| mel mcginnis | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| shay | hrothgar |
| "telluric currents" | eco |
| "pure and holy, which embraces all the charms of all the graces" | frog |
| rebeca | one hundred years of solitude |
| xue baochai | stone |
| "counter-attack" | sassoon |
| "flawlessly set in gold so fair" | pearl |
| halvard solness | architect |
| "old-timer" | to build a fire |
| "have you found any places where god would have felt at home?" | william of baskerville |
| "ariel." | rodo |
| "brute beauty and valour and act." | windhover |
| "an ode to himself" | jonson |
| "the mystery of marie roget," | poe |
| "prolonged cries of agony" | octopus |
| unamuno | cervantes |
| lila | naples |
| "a vigorous and sudden snatch" | covey |
| "gentleman-callers" | tom |
| "a noiseless patient spider." | whitman |
| cosette | les |
| "there's a double meaning in that." | much ado about nothing |
| lord of the flies | oe |
| rachel | maupassant |
| "tell me it was for the hunger / & nothing less." | vuong |
| professor woland | master and margarita |
| "bronze atrocity" | hell is other people |
| "i flatter myself that my present overtures of good will are highly commendable." | collins |
| surt | fir |
| lavinia | turnus |
| "stunning blow" | bierce |
| edna | caged bird |
| northern bride | uncle tom's |
| skadi | feet |
| killigrew | heidegger |
| "dissolving margins." | naples |
| daqiqi | shahnameh |
| "wrong" | holmes |
| joseph addison | thackeray |
| communists to oedipus | unbearable lightness of being |
| jorge | laugh |
| klopstock | sorrows of |
| "meditation xvii" | for whom the bell |
| black death | decameron |
| "the daring spirit" | covey |
| vercelli | old english |
| sigismunda | greek |
| "holding darkness within." | hill house |
| "there's no need for red-hot pokers." | hell is other people |
| barbedienne | hell is other people |
| "set" | prime of miss |
| aline | buddenbrooks |
| anna pavlovna | napoleon |
| "crocodile tongues" | james |
| spiker | james |
| branom | nadsat |
| "dull" | donne |
| 52nd street | september 1, 1939 |
| "the monsters and the critics," | beowulf |
| oliver twiss | dickens |
| joseito fernandez | marti |
| anthology of the new black | senghor |
| "our sewage disposal system." | gulag archipelago |
| chicken with plums | satrapi |
| bluebeard | world war ii |
| "my america! my new-found-land" | donne |
| ferdowsi | shahnameh |
| karl moor | schiller |
| "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," | keats |
| knights of the round table | lancelot |
| "had somewhere to get to and calmly sailed on." | icarus |
| silas | frost |
| warren | frost |
| "dream argument." | hughes |
| tang sanzang | buddha |
| "could not stop for" | death |
| "no more than a machine." | flaubert |
| "clean favored" | richard cory |
| "imperially slim." | richard cory |
| "moves in darkness" | mending wall |
| "thirty years now i have labored / to dredge the silt from your throat. / i am none the wiser." | plath |
| "luxury, peace, and pleasure" | baudelaire |
| "delicate ship" | icarus |
| "the bible is an antique volume" | dickinson |
| "stand on street corners and jeer at europeans" | "shooting an elephant" |
| edmond rostand | cyrano |
| in the devil | holocaust |
| ee-jee-un | syracuse |
| babo | benito |
| charrington | 1984 |
| "suffer'd greatly, both with those/ that loved me, and alone" | ulysses |
| "ecstasy of fumbling" | owen |
| vidushaka | ring |
| nelson rodrigues | kiss |
| henry esmond | thackeray |
| rinaldi | jerusalem delivered |
| "the wall" | sartre |
| then | siren |
| phantom | misty of chincoteague |
| "stuttering rifles' rapid rattle" | anthem for doomed |
| wylfings | hrothgar |
| snowball | pig |
| "this is the forest primeval [pry-mee-vull]." | evangeline |
| "did not give of bird or bush, like nothing else in tennessee" | anecdote of the jar |
| another wallace stevens | 13 |
| aladdin | arabic |
| "gray-brown" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "shrill, demented choirs" | anthem for doomed |
| ness | agamemnon |
| moulmein | "shooting an elephant" |
| raymond carver | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| grain of wheat | ngugi |
| "like rotted meat" | dream deferred |
| "mr. fly-off-the-handle" | alex |
| "kindly leave me alone." | alceste |
| persiles | greek |
| "depraved" | holmes |
| mount sebastian college | things they |
| "glory be to god for dappled things." | hopkins |
| antarctica with mr | angels in america |
| prascovia osipovna | nose |
| sulphur creek | to build a fire |
| riding sleipnir | baldur |
| "cabaret" | eatonville |
| "god never made a finer woman" | misfi |
| marguerite | ionesco |
| tarzan | egypt |
| "break" | frederick |
| "genius" | dryden |
| dewey dell | faulkner |
| extinctathon | atwood |
| biff carter | winesburg |
| "temper tantrum kid" | alex |
| "one could do worse than be a swinger of birches," | frost |
| david balfour | kidnapped |
| billy bones | stevenson |
| joe gargery | great expectations |
| "we are living in a place abandoned by god." | william of baskerville |
| aegis | medusa |
| athena college | coleman |
| "man who looked / with such a wistful eye / upon that little tent of blue / which prisoners call the sky." | wilde |
| rosie | narayan |
| argentina with jenna | freedom |
| darling daintyfoot | our lady of the flowers |
| doremus jessup | it can't happen here |
| "the tale of the fuller's wife." | golden ass |
| master builder | ibsen |
| palace of desire | cairo |
| teddy lloyd | school |
| heart of a dog | bulgakov |
| miss jean brodie | school |
| agnimitra | ring |
| "a lamp on earth" | canto general |
| "wild god of the world," | hawk |
| vermont vigilance | it can't happen here |
| "beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze." | daffodi |
| "walks at midnight" | lincoln |
| "they eat green salad and drink human blood." | herzog |
| "glad the end had come." | all quiet on the western front |
| tove jansson | hitler |
| "no trace... of the martin luther king-type self-effacing love for his oppressors." | bigger |
| "a circle drawn on a blackboard." | funes |
| judge clement | humor |
| "an expression of calm" | all quiet on the western front |
| "clerk's tale" | decameron |
| "the sandman," | hoffmann |
| "severe hysteria" | epilepsy |
| eldridge cleaver | bigger |
| "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 |
| mamoudou kouyate | griot |
| raoul duke | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| the homecoming | pinter |
| gabriel oak | far from the madding |
| hce | finnegans wake |
| "gash gold-vermilion." | windhover |
| "hold fast" | dream |
| dylan thomas | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "drive your plow over the bones of the dead" | blake |
| "my little horse must think it queer / to stop without a farmhouse near" | frost |
| lady bertilak | girdle |
| "carey" | dr jekyll |
| pohv | nose |
| shield sheafson | hrothgar |
| menelaus | helen |
| "reformarse es vivir" | rodo |
| jolly seventeen | main street |
| "i stand mesmerized, wondering how you sing / your notes hold the world spellbound." | yeats |
| torrens | conrad |
| friedrich maximilian klinger | sturm und drang |
| singin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| amadis of gaul | quixote |
| "the revolutionist's handbook and pocket companion." | man and superman |
| "to hear her tender-taken breath, and so live ever - or else swoon to death." | bright star |
| shakbag | elizabeth i |
| "communal people" | hawk |
| hennessey | naked and the |
| temple of venus | parliament of fowls |
| david mccullough | veldt |
| madwoman in the attic | jane eyre |
| history boys | bennett |
| blackwill | elizabeth i |
| stoppard | rosencrantz |
| almayer | conrad |
| baltimore waltz | vogel |
| booth | salvation army |
| "the kettle, you fool!" | dumb waiter |
| "with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy." | confederacy of |
| savannah | prince of tides |
| "i could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." | reginald |
| ivan dmitritch gromov | ward number 6 |
| hippolyta | penthesilea |
| brainworm | humor |
| kawai sora | matsuo |
| "to quaff at morning, noon, and night" | heidegger |
| "as if he were dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality." | capote |
| dawn | dunbar |
| egeon | solinus |
| matthew prichard | mousetrap |
| "then - the officer," | marquise of o |
| "before, behind, between, above, below." | donne |
| algic researches | song of hiawatha |
| jane johnston | song of hiawatha |
| "had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars, two valuable horses, and a prominent citizen" | outcasts of |
| knowell | humor |
| armande bejart | school for wives |
| goce smilevski | concentration camp |
| sidney herbert | holy sonnets |
| "let all who prate of beauty hold their peace." | millay |
| yunioshi | breakfast at tiffany's |
| archer | maltese |
| "are you nobody too?" | dickinson |
| allen's | catherine |
| "adnexa," | elegy |
| "ah, how you will enchant the angels!" | dinesen |
| nikolaj | pimento |
| "i celebrate myself and sing myself." | song of myself |
| scratchy wilson | crane |
| "droogs" | burgess |
| "the kentucky derby is decadent and depraved." | horse |
| gullveig | vanir |
| "more light! more light!" | hecht |
| "invitation to the voyage." | baudelaire |
| "o my chevalier!" | windhover |
| "vincent cradeau." | joseph |
| "the veldt" | bradbury |
| jenny gabriel | witches of eastwick |
| samuel ratchett | murder on the orient express |
| von grimelhausen | simplicius simplicissimus |
| max beerbohm | oxford |
| comedy of errors | dromio |
| amerika | kafka |
| francine prose | rosenberg |
| "leucosia" | siren |
| "drink me" | alice |
| "beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror," | duino elegies |
| acrasia | 1984 |
| beth | alcott |
| robert lebrun | awakening |
| norad | france |
| "a bedlamite speeds to thy parapets, tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning," | bridge |
| more pricks than kicks | beckett |
| deest | shaw |
| sudden death | quevedo |
| veen | glengarry glen ross |
| "if you can't think on your feet, you ought to keep your mouth shut." | glengarry glen ross |
| "the mariners heard the warning bell; and then they knew the perilous rock." | inchcape |
| queen dharini | ring |
| "a veteran!" | sammy |
| "pies, fruits" | chicken |
| nyai ontosoro | indonesia |
| "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 |
| calhoun | insomnia |
| zuleika dobson | oxford |
| "if only we knew." | three sisters |
| edwidge danticat | decameron |
| charles condomine | ghost |
| "two roads diverged in a yellow wood." | frost |
| edward covey | douglass |
| baroka | lion and the jewel |
| "the fat boy with the happy laugh" | sammy |
| "first traces in the world, of life and time / and love, and mortal hope, and vanishing." | ash |
| archilochus | hedgehog |
| acquired toilet disease | vogel |
| laura trevelyan | white |
| atlas shrugged | rand |
| englishwoman adela quested | passage to india |
| "stormy mane of a pony" | funes |
| adventures of augie march | chicago |
| li'l | driving |
| gollum | bilbo |
| "evil, superstition, and tyranny," | fearful symmetry |
| "imbedded in jelly," | chicken |
| tragedians | stoppard |
| we have always lived in the castle | jackson |
| "half-sick of shadows," | lady of |
| calcutta ashoke | lahiri |
lord warburton | the portrait of a lady |
| "musee des beaux arts," | auden |
| "could not see to see." | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
| "the sword." | ficciones |
| "turns his necessity to glorious gain; / in face of these doth exercise a power / which is our human nature's highest dower." | happy warrior |
| nick carraway | fitzgerald |
| "alex, the great alexander." | nash |
| "mapface" | saleem |
| yee | chang |
| "in all my dreams before my helpless sight, he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning." | dulce et decorum est |
| alvaro enrigue | quevedo |
| "proem" | bridge |
| wong jiazhi | chang |
| "the necks of four bottles." | chicken |
| young lions | shaw |
| "what do i remember / that was shaped / as this thing is shaped?" | asphodel, that greeny flower |
| "how many dawns, chill from his rippling rest, the seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him?" | bridge |
| herman mellema | indonesia |
| vollmer | world war iii |
| christian diestl | shaw |
| roger dean | denver |
| peter w. barlow | barlow |
| "it's just so interesting. the colors and all." | world war iii |
| charles bronson | venice |
| "cut into joints" | chicken |
| "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 |
| minke | indonesia |
| "porphyria's lover," | browning |
| man in the high castle | dick |
| plot against america | roth |
| charles dodgson | carroll |
| "the loser." | mann |
| "ta-ra-ra-boom-di-ay" | three sisters |
| "the mythos of spring." | comedy |
| sabine hills | marius |
| charite | apuleius |
| "among these barren crags" | ulysses |
| the vixen | rosenberg |
| "intimately lives with rain" | tree |
| "i've lost a whole day over" | six |
| by the waters of babylon | benet |
| "big house on the street," | allende |
| journal of the plague year | defoe |
| "wagahai" | i am a cat |
| smilevski | concentration camp |
| tobias | sweeney |
| volcacius sedigitus | comedy |
| astronautilia | czech |
| harry sinclair | lanny |
| harold bloom | paz |
| "mutilated" | beneatha |
| elizabeth bishop | villanelle |
| "why do you laugh? is it because you hate the sound of laughing?" | as i lay dying |
| fantine | javert |
| "well-known city engineer shot dead. assailants thought to be natives." | arthur |
| unquiet grave | crabbe |
| "i was stamped out like a plymouth fender into this world" | row |
| "all good things must come to an end." | troilus and criseyde |
| songs of experience | blake |
| rudy giuliani | manzoni |
| stream of love | angelica |
| carl | raisin in the sun |
| "here" | scarlet letter |
| "-kahmpf] look." | daddy |
| kabbalah | foucault's pendulum |
| lady fujitsuno | tale of genji |
| "madison is banquo, jefferson's macduff, and birnam wood is congress on its way to dunsinane [dun-sin-ayn]." | macbeth |
| "world state," | john |
| fusun | istanbul |
| "the lorelei" | german |
| arandir | kiss |
| "time to gather your arse up off the floor" | banana |
| "palinurus," | crabbe |
| ahab | doubloon |
| lucy honeychurch | forster |
| eleanor robson | enheduanna |
| "women as verbal artists." | enheduanna |
| "old pond, frog leaps in, water's sound." | haiku |
| "jetlag," | senghor |
| saxo grammaticus | snorri |
| "what two letters of the alphabet...express perfection?" | emma |
| "to thine own self be true," | polonius |
| hippolyte | emma |
| erlend | undset |
| as you like it | jaques |
| "the poison tree" | blake |
| "on influence," | carver |
| marta weigle | enheduanna |
| florinda | behn |
| "burns at both ends" | candle |
| ensign beverley | rivals |
| roth ira | zuckerman |
| thibault | dumas |
| lagoon | new zealand |
| josiah gilbert holland | bars fight |
| history of western massachusetts | bars fight |
| frederick griffith | playboy of the western world |
| "the myth of sisyphus?" | camus |
| two fair cousins | scholar |
| reizei | tale of genji |
| ray smith | dharma bums |
| hester | roger |
| uss | ariadne |
| "log" | virgil |
| dunciad | pope |
| steropes | cyclops |
| robbie turner at dunkirk | atonement |
| jyoti | mukherjee |
| "story ends with me still" | row |
| montoni | mysteries of udolpho |
| cleanth brooks | british museum |
| "density" | v-2 |
| "clever, disappointed man," | thomas's father |
| satine | lower depths |
| in karel hynek macha | lake |
| aunt lydia | handmaid's tale |
| ruth benedict | mead |
| "for it is in london that our scene lies." | it was a dark and stormy night |
| "what made me take this trip to africa?" | henderson the rain |
| "he has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face." | minister's black |
| arafa | children of gebelawi |
| "will not last the night" | candle |
| "assorted characters of death and blight" | design |
| gettin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| historian mark lawrence schrad | jungle |
| "inflections from classical arabic." | library of babel |
| "wine" | baudelaire |
| "old yellow pair" | brooks |
| "bored by rhetoric and public speaking." | barbarian |
| karl lindner | raisin in the |
| "what do you think you are going to gain by moving into a neighborhood where you just aren't wanted?" | raisin in the |
| "behind every great fortune there is a crime," | balzac |
| wellesley college | nabokov |
| captain peleg | ahab |
| "i want you to start immediately for america." | extricating young |
| "were all westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life" | great gatsby |
| "a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church" | wise blood |
| swingin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| merry like christmas | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "three visions of judas" | ficciones |
| "like the ingredients of a witches' broth." | design |
| "but these are all lies. men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." | rosalind |
| faunus | pan |
| talkative man | narayan |
| provincial mayor | time machine |
| "stupidity, delusion, selfishness and lust torment our bodies and possess our minds." | flowers of evil |
| wreck of the deutschland | hopkins |
| fairhurst | bleak house |
| "everything that has dark sounds." | lorca |
| hellena | behn |
| "sometimes meant yes, sometimes no." | holderlin |
| katusha | tolstoy |
| "epic theater." | brecht |
| "idiots" | heine |
| "remembered" | updike |
| amherst | dickinson |
| trystero | pynchon |
| alec | hardy |
| negritude | senghor |
| laura wade | stoppard |
| the cure | machiavelli |
| "decalage," | senghor |
| "we will try to be good neighbors. and that's all we got to say about that." | raisin in the sun |
| horowitz at the mozarteum | loser |
| thomas bernhard | austria |
| kainene | half of a yellow sun |
| making cocoa for kingsley amis | cope |
| incident at vichy | miller |
| "to a sick damsel," | marot |
| angel clare | hardy |
| damis | tartuffe |
| "if the sun and moon should doubt, they'd immediately go out." | auguries of innocence |
| "artifices," | ficciones |
| "why do you beckon me with your hand?" | poem without a hero |
| lower depths | gorky |
| dulness | pope |
| something wicked this way comes | bradbury |
| "heartbreak hotel" | handmaid's tale |
| shruff end | the sea, the |
| sam spade | maltese |
| maria truczinski | tin drum |
| mission house in sophiatown | cry, the beloved |
| "grandmother was a warlock" | porlock |
| denys | out of africa |
| "his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come." | all quiet on |
| frederic henry | farewell to arms |
| germaine | color purple |
| house of hwang | the good |
| "the man who would be king," | "the white man's burden" |
| joan didion | murder |
| jan bronski | grass |
| tococul | breakfast at tiffany's |
| "i believe that humans should be plants." | south korea |
| holden caulfield | salinger |
| "what is to be done?" | lenin |
| turn of the screw | james |
| professor challenger | doyle |
| "fam'd for thy valour, for thy virtues more." | washington |
| "i cover all." | grass |
| pardoner | chaucer |
| karl rossmann | kafka |
| angels and demons | novel |
| jason strugnell | cope |
| michael henchard | mayor of |
| mina murray | dracula |
| "ruffling the tawny pelt" | far cry from africa |
| "suicide calculated well in advance." | loser |
| "she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the nile." | malaprop |
| jarmila | lake |
| bertolt brecht | joan |
| li bai | tang |
| "my sweet dear, i send cheer, all the best!" | marot |
| mathilde von zahnd | physicist |
| gunter grass | drum |
| baba brennan | o'brien |
| kate brady | o'brien |
| "music has charms to soothe a savage breast." | mourning bride |
| "pallaksch" | holderlin |
| simuvac | white noise |
| "enoch and the gorilla" | wise blood |
| "for bonny sweet robin is all my joy" | ophelia |
| grose | the turn of the |
| ochola | gurnah |
| framton nuttel | saki |
| ugwu | half of a yellow sun |
| "death song." | bede |
| "travels through the whole word without a pass." | dry white season |
| achille | walcott |
| malvern hills | piers plowman |
| "something there is that doesn't love" | wall |
| typee | melville |
| "for one moment of peace / i would give the peace of the tomb." | poem without a hero |
| bill | kidnap |
| omeros | walcott |
| electric kool | wolfe |
| "all cats die. socrates is dead. therefore socrates is a cat." | rhinoceros |
| world was silent while we died | half of a yellow sun |
| "you sockdologizing old man-trap" | lincoln |
| sibyl | picture of dorian |
| ray-zay | tale of genji |
| seafarer | old english |
| masthead | paris review |
| erskine childers | spy |
| percy shelly | ode to the west wind |
| norman foster | stranger in a strange |
| widow wadman | toby |
| dorimant | fopling |
| "when the world screamed," | challenger |
| "self-reliance." | emerson |
| after alexas | all for love |
| do androids dream of electric sheep | dick |
| "the freedman's story" | atlantic |
| "you will love again the stranger who was your self" | walcott |
| in an adichie | sun |
| pandaemonium | paradise lost |
| lindsay lohan | parent trap |
| "the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living good drinking, and good talk." | melville |
| zahd | thousand and |
| "white-trash" | i know why |
| country girls | o'brien |
| "tubingen, january" | holderlin |
| "the child who became a giant" | dry white season |
| "riot club" | stoppard |
| henryk sienkiewicz | polish |
| ine | no exit |
| "sing sin," | brooks |
| "on the pulse of morning" | angelou |
| bertie stanhope | trollope |
| "thinking about the beaches" | symphony in gray major |
| lucy westenra | castle |
| lorenzo savoini | miller |
| "smoking his pipe" | symphony in gray major |
| "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 |
| tom taylor | lincoln |
| filby | time machine |
| maat | ra |
| "magic theatre -- entrance not for everybody" | steppenwolf |
| "all afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury." | phedre |
| "fantasy that she's a meaningful member of a family." | hosseini |
| ishmael | whale |
| mia | camoes |
| thirty years war | brecht |
| medical man | time machine |
| "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 |
| "grok" | stranger in a strange |
| irie jones | white teeth |
| "i mean, you're a blank, a cipher, a zero." | who's afraid of |
| "theme for english b," | hughes |
| "if i be waspish, best beware my sting" | taming of the |
| "i have great trouble, and some comfort, to acquaint you with." | pamela |
| horace smith | ozymandias |
| updike | witches of |
| "an unhappy love affair." | stages on life's way |
| carol kennicott | main street |
| bartleby the scrivener | melville |
| paul kruger | hauptmann |
| gilead | handmaid |
| "get the guests" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| shepheardes calender | spenser |
| low church | trollope |
| countee cullen | harlem renaissance |
| poet laureate of illinois | brooks |
| lake como | julie |
khaled hosseini (book) | the kite runner |
| "to a waterfowl." | bryant |
| "sit and sew." | dunbar |
| "corrected" | soseki |
| "vague, distant, misty country." | symphony in gray major |
| mother wolff | hauptmann |
| dreissiger | howells |
| naomi | ginsburg |
| manfred | castle |
| eugene de rastignac | balzac |
| "memorial" | iliad |
| roman general ventidius | all for love |
| charlie drouet | carrie |
| mantuan | shepheardes |
| "rubble literature" | boll |
| "the moon is beautiful." | soseki |
| sneaze | soseki |
| "one of us." | knausgard |
| murat sabanovic | andric |
| goh-gan | "goodbye |
| bwah gil-bair | ivanhoe |
| audrey luna | fourth |
| "little girl." | the yellow wallpaper |
| natty bumppo | cooper |
| "the snows of kilimanjaro" | hemingway |
| "piece of the moon" | saleem |
| robin goodfellow | midsummer night's |
| dapple | don quixote |
| loveit | fopling |
| run to rabbit at rest | updike |
| "it never troubles the wolf how many sheep there be" | virgil |
| emperor kiritsubo | tale of |
| lady aoi | tale of |
| "should not mean, but" | be |
| ruyi jingu bang | sun wukong |
| mine | daddy |
| argalia | angelica |
| estupina | fortunata and jacinta |
| strepsiades | clouds |
| "a wine chronometer," | melville |
| "all europe contributed to the making of kurtz." | heart of darkness |
| "i stand no wiser than before." | heinrich |
| "there is a thorn - it looks so old." | don juan |
| my struggle | knausgard |
| kenneth rexroth | ginsburg |
| palamon | knight |
| "stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone." | auden |
| elton | emma |
| pisthetaerus | cloud |
| "funeral blues" | auden |
| "twilight" | trixie |
| soseki | kafka on the shore |
| wulkow | hauptmann |
| air chrysalis | murakami |
| uncle arhat | red sorghum |
| elsie venner | boston |
| model kit | hopscotch |
| elizabeth montagu | romeo and |
| slope | trollope |
| marib | radio |
| confessional | plath |
| "heil hitler" | amon goeth |
| christian de neuvillette | bergerac |
| "an hour to suffer, a lifetime to live," | land |
| into the night life | coney island |
| beaver coat | hauptmann |
| new york drama critics | children's hour |
| mah-aht | ra |
| "first came the chasm, and then broad-breasted earth." | theogony |
| pedro romero | the sun also |
| mike campbell | the sun also |
| an ideal husband | wilde |
| nautilus | verne |
| janacek | 1q84 |
| baseball guide | holly |
| "had a cat named flo," | porlock |
| luna moth | amazing |
| mario puzo | balzac |
| vindications | book |
| max fleischer | superman |
| "and with a stronger faith embrace a sword, a horse, a shield." | to lucasta, going to |
| "life is ever lord of death, and love can never lose its own!" | snow-bound |
| judge banner | natural |
| akira kurosawa | akutagawa |
| "glimpse of a dream smouldering in a cave" | okigbo |
| "renascence." | millay |
| caryl phillips | rhys |
| namesake | lahiri |
| "in that holocaust of hell" | dunbar |
| "thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" | stevens |
| ted brown | lysistrata |
| ferraguto | angelica |
| gary snyder | dharma bums |
| aid acid test | wolfe |
| vilem | lake |
| francesco del cossa | smith |
| "big blonde" | parker |
| donald farfrae | mayor of |
| "every woman adores a fascist" | plath |
| knightley | emma |
| fire next time | baldwin |
| enderby | burgess |
| carroll d. laverty | poe |
| "the drunken boat" | rimbaud |
| don alonso | quixote |
| book of laughter | kundera |
| "the armies of those i love engirth me." | sing |
| democratic convention in los angeles | esquire |
| "take pity on my long misery!" | baudelaire |
| arvid falk | strindberg |
| theodore dreiser | howells |
| "cheeks will be stained with red blood" | moon |
| joom | scarlet letter |
| dunnet landing | maine |
| sinbad the sailor | scheherazade |
| phileas fogg | verne |
| roberta alden | dreiser |
| agnes wickfield | david |
| "zhahn ah-may-ree's" | bovary |
| "country doctor." | bovary |
| "descend on us." | okigbo |
| view of the empire at sunset | rhys |
| "the ugly duckling." | andersen |
| "there's no question of heroism" | bernard |
| "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds," | candide |
| new york review books | bovary |
| the brothers | latin |
| cyrano | spain |
| branden jacobs | everyman |
| antistrophe | pindar |
| wat tyler | vidal |
| pow in the pacific | narrow road to the deep north |
| manco capac | inca |
| adunis | ovid |
| ramon | sartre |
| "someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the model t on the american nation." | cannery row |
| "with usura" | pound |
| slawomir mrozek | police |
| "fake" | genji |
| sketchbook of geofrrey crayon | legend of sleepy hollow |
| the , gent | legend of sleepy hollow |
| robert hunter | alger |
| "queenie" | updike |
| "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times." | tale of two cities |
| muhbab ali | kim |
| nine stories | esme |
| wei | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "now come, fire!" | hymn |
| mikhail bakhtin | rabelais |
| jo | hair |
| montgomery | island of doctor moreau |
| alexandre dumas | three musketeers |
| bringing up baby | albee |
| "well-to-do planter" | occurrence at owl creek bridge |
| "so thoroughly hateful that we do not even like to repeat their names." | king lear |
| isak dinesen | out of africa |
| sybil carpenter | bananafish |
| "my net is spread, my net is spread." | lion and the jewel |
| "modern tragedy" | doll |
| bellied whale | good soldier svejk |
| sound of music | god of small things |
| maya angelou | autobiography |
| jean amery | bovary |
| "for god his sake let's get out of this. the place stinks." | candle in the |
| "i had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me." | much ado about |
cancer ward | solzhenitsyn |
| silas flannery | calvino |
| jamie | long day's journey into night |
| rice | awakening |
| corbenic | grail |
| arges | cyclops |
| dandan | song |
| faniaca | virtue rewarded |
| science fiction world | chinese |
| su shi | song |
| macedo soares | bishop |
| finch hatton | out of africa |
| "fair witness" | stranger in a strange |
| "the town of oran, which is merely a large french port on the algerian coast" | plague |
| ola rotimi | dead |
| "savage race" | ulysses |
| "golden age" | spain |
| edmund waller | rose |
| elias | naipaul |
| wood of tenjin | love |
| snout | midsummer night's |
| "oh, this is a sin against myself." | nora |
| sententiae | syria |
| "cannot rub the strangeness from my sight / i got from looking through a pane of glass." | apple pick |
| wally | cider house rules |
| "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains" | odes |
| astolfo | ariosto |
| hortense briggs | american |
| "hoard, and sleep, and feed, and not know me." | ulysses |
| "after every war / someone has to clean up" | grass |
| joshua | smith |
| in william gass | hitler |
| yiddish policemen | chabon |
| life on the mississippi | scott |
| peach garden oath | romance of the three kingdoms |
| zurich | unbearable lightness of being |
| "instead of a preface" | russian |
| golden ass | novel |
| cape technical university | communication |
| bob ewell | sheriff |
| "fiery serpent" | hiawatha |
| toreador song | carmen |
| golden gate | john brown |
| "unrelenting forces" | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed." | god's grandeur |
| maheu | germinal |
| beginners | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| "the art of losing isn't hard to master" | bishop |
| "parting is such sweet sorrow" | coward |
| "a rolling stone gathers no moss" | syria |
| hurry harry | bumppo |
| matthew biggs | insomnia |
| krook | spontaneous combustion |
| black moon | insomnia |
| "on being brought from africa to america." | wheatley |
| "sham grandeurs" | scott |
| richard flanagan | narrow road to the deep north |
| dorrigo evans | narrow road to the deep north |
| aloysius bertrand | prose |
| grusha | caucasian chalk |
| manuel cabrera | senor |
| obie awards | off-broadway |
| gorgo | medusa |
| lucina | napoleon |
| john ray jr | nabokov |
| valmiki | ramayana |
| "the ballad of reading gaol" | wilde |
| sarah palin | bering strait |
| diary of a young girl | frank |
| "the house of asterion" | borges |
| le voreux | germinal |
| cluaneesha | virtue rewarded |
| lady nijo | party |
| chiba | life of pi |
| "predators" | season |
| robert de boron | grail |
| "foster-child of silence and slow time." | ode to a grecian |
| la traviata | hans |
| ferdinand de grammont | human comedy |
| chingachgook | bumppo |
| liked best | film |
| bharati university | tagore |
| kohler | hitler |
| clarence thomas | oleanna |
| "barbaric act of violence" | doll |
| "might not be a normal female." | i know why the caged bird sings |
| christy mahon | playboy of the western world |
| byblos | metamorphoses |
| tess gallagher | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| vonda mcintyre | atwood |
| talking squids in outer space | atwood |
| hugh macdiarmid | drunk |
| alexandrine meter | prose |
| "swah-vo-meer m'ro-zhek" | police |
| 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 |
| fernand lotte | human comedy |
| ann goldstein | ferrante |
| "that mighty mighty tribe of johnsons." | street |
| "make me immortal with a kiss." | helen |
| jean morris | heart of darkness |
| cassim | ali |
| tawfiq al-hakim | egypt |
| edward upward | isherwood |
| de profundis | opium |
| adamastor | portuguese |
| polynices | antigone |
| "most perfect...for the mathematical destruction of a mortal." | infernal machine |
| "gentleman from" | bayou |
| mortmere | isherwood |
| "sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society." | scott |
| georgia o'keeffe | didion |
| "falconress" | mother |
| castorp | clavdia |
| my brilliant friend | little women |
| brahn | cyclops |
| esquire | kennedy |
| big foot | dead |
| french quarter | confederacy of |
| pete | crane |
| "in his mouth / gazing at the clouds." | grass |
| "the fate of unrequited love." | garcia marquez |
| sizwe banzi | dead |
| ayi kwei armah | season |
| "dedication for a plot of ground." | chicken |
| montsou | germinal |
| ukonvasara | thor |
| "vile and inhuman story" | playboy of the western world |
| bernard | house |
| elena ferrante | little women |
| duke of illyria | twelfth night |
| "newly awakening sexual appetite," | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "stick" | frog |
| "lurk late" | brooks |
| "american muse," | benet |
| "clad in the beauty of a thousand stars" | helen |
| doctor faustus | helen |
| "so dreadful that not even a sci-fi writer could have made him up." | trujillo |
| sublet | bayou |
| yunior | trujillo |
| "gay falcon treading her wrist." | mother |
| purple land | gaucho |
| maurice | holden |
| "alternate lives" | glass bead game |
| call to arms | china |
| dong zhuo | cao |
| castle of otranto | gothic |
| chums of chance | pynchon |
| girl of the streets | crane |
| catskills | irving |
nagg and nell | endgame |
| "you eat your victuals fast enough." | shropshire lad |
| "yes, you squashed cabbage-leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult to the english language!" | eliza |
| russian at wellesley college | nabokov |
| mahlke | cairo |
| ali baba | one thousand and one nights |
| "lycidas" | milton |
| herbert stencil | pynchon |
| "their hits aren't clustering" | v-2 |
| rosie probert | under milk wood |
| william hazlitt | king lear |
| "flame out, like shining from shook foil" | god's grandeur |
| "throwing-up" | ferris wheel |
| fumiko | thousand cranes |
| madame merle | james |
| minta doyle | party |
| "please, sir, i want some more." | oliver twist |
| "sermon" | eugene |
| england in world war | graves |
| water margin | golden lotus |
| earthly paradise in elijah | ariosto |
| futuremouse | smith |
| homage to qwert yuiop | burgess |
| seven star precious sword | cao |
| nocturnes | senghor |
| "great soft jelly thing" | i have no mouth, and i must scream |
| "covers me like a kind of bark" | italian |
| neapolitan novels | ferrante |
| "our sauron, our arawn, our darkseid" | trujillo |
| lutie | street |
edgar linton | wuthering heights |
| "powhitetrash" | i know why |
| klahn | portrait of the artist |
| brigid hughes | paris review |
| tender buttons | stein |
| tulla pokriefke | danzig trilogy |
| "a drift of females standing in their shifts." | playboy of the western world |
| cox | hadleyburg |
| otoko | beauty and sadness |
| "literary brownface" | ventriloquism |
| gaston | colette |
| germaine de stael | napoleon |
| alicia | colette |
| "destroyers" | season |
| okamoto | life of pi |
| snug | midsummer night's |
| "my heart under your foot, sister of a stone" | bee |
| "the curse is finally expiated." | gloss |
| "windows looking in upon fiery reality" | tattoo |
| "weasels that stole" | chicken |
| "defended herself" | chicken |
| madame alvarez | colette |
| "theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life" | lenin |
| "you can't do it here, it's not the place!" | america |
| "repulsive, alarming yellow flowers," | master |
| coppet | napoleon |
| letters on tactics | lenin |
| "sprung rhythm,' as seen in " | hopkins |
| the republic | plato |
| "laid in the church of the franciscans, on the evening of the day she died." | laura |
| down syndrome | violent bear it away |
| cassandra | austen |
| anoa | season |
| sholem asch | yiddish |
| "we bend over them ... taking their breath / soft on our faces, wiping their domed brows." | whitman |
| "dormitive principle" | imaginary invalid |
| yun ling | mist |
| "what are you laughing about? you are laughing at yourselves!" | government inspector |
| sibylline leaves | gloss |
| dull gret | party |
| "drama of struggle" | dead |
| "molten phosphorus" | copenhagen |
| "but where are the snows of yesteryear?" | villon |
| on earth we | vietnam |
| "men of death" | mask |
| flores | borges |
| trevor | vietnam |
| eclogues | virgil |
| "magical realism in spanish-american fiction." | universal history of infamy |
| prayer for owen meany | irving |
| "birds of the night" | verlaine |
| ernest dowson | gone with the wind |
| detectives benson | machado |
| "living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy" | letters to a young poet |
| "it rains in my heart." | verlaine |
| jonathan franzen | new yorker |
| "tobacco reading" | cuba |
| "descent" | avatar |
| "trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." | self-reliance |
| "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." | lady windermere's fan |
| danish west indies | rhys |
| "are not torn down, rings and all." | scrooge |
| pietro bembo | italian |
| fernando gonzales ochoa | nada |
| enheduanna | poetry |
| cat on a hot tin roof | williams |
| "great blobs of purple and red emotion" | eatonville |
| "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 |
| shino | thousand cranes |
| garden journal | hill |
| "looked better picked than growing." | manderley |
| "science and pseudo-science" | poe |
| village voice | off-broadway |
| "prudence" | hippolytus |
| "immanent will that stirs and urges everything" | hardy |
| andrew lang | shoemaker |
| audre | fourth |
| "mass of stupid filth." | leaves of grass |
| bagutta prize | manzoni |
| "sinister mate" | hardy |
| in watermelon sugar | brautigan |
| "hypocrite reader." | fleurs du mal |
| "the convergence of the twain," | hardy |
| pink fairy book | shoemaker |
| troezen | hippolytus |
| nicolas azcarate | cuba |
| natalia ginzburg | manzoni |
| rist | centaur |
| edouard manet | nana |
| intermediate sex at craiglockhart hospital | regeneration |
| "for whom all winds are quiet as the sun, / all waters as the shore" | baudelaire |
| "lingered ... till human voices wake us, and we drown." | mermaid |
| "the memoirs of a lady of quality." | peregrine |
| "combing the white hair of the waves blown back" | mermaid |
| "when all wells are drawn dry, / i'll drink a tear out of thine eye." | hair |
| obabakoak | basque |
| clorinda | tancredi |
| "they call us cotton heads" | mask |
"be just" | kafka |
| "fair folk." | piers plowman |
| "point of departure" | universal history of infamy |
| george whitefield | man and superman |
| prince myshkin | dostoyevsky |
| leni | kafka |
| "all the blond ones." | rumi |
| "so sweet / and so cold." | "this is just to say" |
| lota de | bishop |
| hedwig niemann | nora |
| "that some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision, i may burst into jubilant praise" | angel |
| diana barry | anne |
| rusty trawler | holly |
| "to my lord fairfax" | marvell |
| "why should of all things man unrul'd / such unproportioned dwellings build?" | marvell |
| schiller | sturm und drang |
| pecola | bluest eye |
| "ode on melancholy" | keats |
| jerry in central park | albee |
| "the yellow wallpaper" | husband |
| duke of norfolk | prince and the |
| arndt | eugene onegin |
| gopher prairie | main street |
| "perfect loveliness" | dunbar |
| "garish lights, and mincing little fops / and cabarets and songs" | dunbar |
| "chaste and lovely form" | laura |
| quintus ennius | dactylic hexameter |
| "the day you won your town the race." | housman |
| stendhal | red and the black |
| dumas | housman |
| "bragging and laughing that under his wrist, is the pulse." | chicago |
| special victims unit | machado |
| razor | maugham |
| in king lear | fairy tale |
| angela carter | fairy tale |
| "civil peace." | achebe |
| waverley | scott |
| ralph touchett | james |
| tom thumb | fairy tale |
| english novel | ford |
| ebenezer prout | david |
| babette | lottery |
| pearl girls | testaments |
| edward carpenter | regeneration |
| "blond" | rumi |
| "bright-hearted companions" | rumi |
"miss brill" | mansfield |
| lawrence ferlinghetti | howl |
| midnight's children | rushdie |
| "out-laws" | race |
| "must muddle the reader's ideas, not regiment them," | name of the rose |
| "red hounds" | death |
| "drinks the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of utica." | rockland |
| "the martyr of style." | flaubert |
| "a low, dishonest decade." | september 1, 1939 |
| frances vane | peregrine |
| st. louis | maya |
| through the looking | borges |
| la violencia | nada |
| gilbert kaplan | minority report |
| "especially heinous" | machado |
| gonzalo arango | nada |
| "with blue - uncertain stumbling buzz - between the light - and me." | fly |
| marcello solara | my brilliant friend |
| "autumn is desolation in the plot / of a thousand acres." | confederate |
| reaching for the moon | bishop |
| stefano | my brilliant friend |
| "a matter of common decency." | bernard |
| adela | lorca |
| briefly gorgeous | vietnam |
| "individuals and things" | basque |
| kate swift | winesburg |
| niccolo | tristero |
| cavalcanti | dante |
| count steinbock | human comedy |
| battle of red cliffs | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "tlon, uqbar, orbis tertius" | borges |
richard madden | borges |
| "on parables," | kafka |
| raymon de ramiere | sand |
| jose quadrado | sand |
| miss barrie | metamorphoses |
| "the lady of shalott." | tennyson |
| "nellie j. banks" | testaments |
| joseph stangerson | study in |
| "my life is the gardener of my body" | hebrew |
| geb | nut |
| "the lord of those dead who are dressed in red. / the man who is masked in a faceless face" | dario |
| gregson | study in |
| blore | and then there |
| conversations with friends | irish |
| "captive's tale" | algiers |
| "ex ovo omnia" | metamorphoses |
| "the most obscene of women." | sand |
| "refutation" | sand |
| hallucinated city | andrade |
| zygmunt krasinski | romantic |
| "interior landscape," | basque |
| tapanhumas | andrade |
| ndiaye | france |
| marie ndiaye | france |
| pat barker | sassoon |
| undivine comedy | romantic |
| miss kenton | butler |
| "if you only followed the parables," | kafka |
| "most loving and affectionate manner" | queequeg |
| captain edward ashburnham | good soldier |
| "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 |
| late bourgeois world | gordimer |
| world of strangers | gordimer |
| "did god in portioning wine and bread / give man his thought or his mere body?" | michael |
| "love's the boy stood on the burning deck / trying to recite `the boy stood on the burning deck.'" | casabianca |
| duke of squamuglia | tristero |
| british angry young men | 50 |
| beautiful star | mishima |
| "lying in their blood," | rowlandson |
| in jean cocteau | answer |
| infernal machine | answer |
| "clearly doesn't" | death |
| "baby igor." | pynchon |
| mistress hobbins | scarlet letter |
| "the most immoral of writers" | sand |
| monsieur crevel | cousine bette |
| rick deckard | dick |
| queequeg | white |
| if on a winter | calvino |
| anneli taube | kiss of the spider woman |
| "in-laws" | race |
| "the right word," | flaubert |
| david lodge | campus |
| "le mot juste," | flaubert |
| grey wall | swastika |
| "hell-hounds." | rowlandson |
| juvenal | mother-in-law |
| changing places | campus |
| bronze horseman | pushkin |
| engelbert humperdinck | hansel and |
| bend in the river | naipaul |
| "the german censors" | heine |
| rosenfeld | rooney |
| amin maalouf | rubaiyat |
| "heroines of self-hate," | rooney |
| lucinda rosenfeld | rooney |
| "thunder words" | finnegans wake |
| "out, out-" | frost |
| bonus let | karst |
| "for gawd's sake git the water!" | gunga din |
| heorot | grendal |
| westminster review | eliot |
| "walpurgisnacht" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| victor marchetti | our lady of the flowers |
| octavius robinson | man and superman |
| hith | utopia |
| rawff | doctor zhivago |
| "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 |
| "waltzing matilda" | australia |
| "the angel of the battlefield." | geneva |
| letter to the reader | stages on life's way |
| brother silent | stages on life's way |
| robert morison | 1918 |
| "in exile at sarzana." | cavalcanti |
| cal stephanides | metamorphoses |
| "everything comes out of an egg" | metamorphoses |
| wash williams | winesburg |
| colonel delmare | sand |
| rene descartes | i have no mouth, and i must scream |
| "children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison." | midnight's children |
| "naked and beautiful, reaching for the light." | hospital |
| qfwfq | calvino |
| colonel aureliano of the buendia | garcia |
| beatriz viterbo | borges |
| moll flanders | defoe |
| "savage" | brave new world |
| jose arcadia | garcia |
| celeste albaret | proust |
| "they say such different things at school." | michael |
| bernard malamud | baseball |
| casey cep | baseball player |
| after john andre | american revolution |
| "i hate and love. why i do so, perhaps you ask. i know not, but i feel it, and i am in torment." | lesbia |
| "leap plashless as they swim" | bird |
| eilert lovborg | hedda |
| "respectability" | winesburg |
| harriet beecher stowe | uncle tom's cabin |
| "butterflies, off banks of noon" | bird |
| chay | ivanhoe |
| "autumn already!" | season in hell |
| pearl poet | sir gawain and the green knight |
| autobiography of malcolm | haley |
| "your fortune, i am now sorry to inform you, is almost nothing." | vicar of |
| d.j. west | kiss of the spider woman |
| correspondence with a child | alcott |
| "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 |
| "song," | rose |
| "the smile at the foot of the ladder" | miller |
| winter in majorca | sand |
| maria antonia garces | algiers |
| lin daiyu | dream of the red chamber |
| simon armitage | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "you might as well advise me to give up my fortune as my argument." | vicar of |
| book nine | tom |
| "and you'll be marching with the band / in step, responding to command" | brecht |
| "beware the ides of march." | julius |
| "not finding yourself at the age of 34 is a disgrace!" | death of a |
| karl adolph gjellerup | denmark |
| man and superman | juan |
| "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 |
| "epic prose poem about the life of frederick the great" | death in venice |
| ee-un | sonnet |
| women in love | lawrence |
| severo del valle | house of the |
| spenserian | sonnet |
| "the tortoise and the hare." | aesop |
| "pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling" | dover beach |
| henrik pontoppidan | denmark |
| hek-yoo-bah | trojan |
| she stoops to conquer | goldsmith |
| "no more to say, and nothing to weep for but the beings in the dream." | kaddish |
| "we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." | prospero |
| aethiopia | greek |
| king albert | suicide |
| in george bernard shaw | juan |
| "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 |
| clare hollingworth | war correspondent |
| in the postscript | name of the rose |
| "sink through the sea ... shall rise again" | thomas |
| "rid yourself of all your daily cares." | kafka |
| anna funder | brecht |
| "non-fiction novel" | lee |
| hans christian andersen | emperor |
| bret harte | california |
| "why did i ever know you? why were you so beautiful? is it my fault?" | madame bovary |
| "wide robe" | lack |
| "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 |
| annals of the cakchiquels | maya |
| "what does it all mean?" | to the |
| great expectations | australia |
| ashkenazi jews | yiddish |
| jeanie | goblin market |
| "flight" | chopin |
| ellen olenska | wharton |
| amanda | saki |
| hannah jarvis | arcadia |
| pillow book | japanese |
| "american realism" | chicago |
| "waiting for the barbarians" | greek |
| aisha | mahfouz |
| honda | mishima |
| churning of the ocean | hindu |
| conquistador | canto |
| colonel sun | bond |
| "ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night." | howl |
| "what shall i do with this absurdity" | yeats |
| carmichael | cry, the beloved |
| blefuscu | lilliput |
| "at the bat." | baseball |
| behemoth | master and mar |
| adolphe | red and |
| "chicken george" | roots |
| "those who lawfully may, and those who may not, write such histories as this" | tom |
| "there is no end to my sickness, no term. one disaster comes to vie with another." | trojan |
| gunpowder | irving |
| mcteague | paint |
| james wood | auster |
| "shallow graves" | auster |
| "common farmer" | i sing the body electric |
| la folle | bayou |
| "and the beatles' first lp" | lady chatterley's lover |
| james chettam | middlemarch |
| dukes of devonshire | pemberley |
| "turn everything off. start new." | veldt |
| oryx | atwood |
| crake | atwood |
| "begin, and cease, and then again begin." | dover beach |
| "is the warm smell of bread before you bake it" | house on |
| "fluid puddings," | james |
| g. h | native |
| "would adore my gifts instead of me." | herbert |
| inger | growth of the soil |
| duke of angouleme | julien |
| "the original of" | pemberley |
| on the natural history of destruction | sebald |
| "spanish sombrero" | smith |
| ann whitefield | shaw |
| potter | crane |
| kostoglotov | solzhenitsyn |
| clyde griffiths | dreiser |
| "the taxis." | macneice |
| abbe faria | dumas |
| "sexual intercourse began" | lady chatterley's lover |
| "lunar race" | behn |
| chatsworth | pemberley |
| count of monte cristo | dumas |
| "torturing faces with the vacancy of wide sunflowers" | end of the party |
| baliardo | behn |
| "beyond" | bayou |
| bayou folk | chopin |
| susan choi | education |
| "doctor's wife," | blindness |
| brom bones | irving |
| "ploffskin, pluffskin, pelican jee!" | lear |
| "stop calling me a crypto-nazi, or i'll sock you in the face" | debating |
| emperor of the moon | behn |
| harriet bird | baseball player |
| the 's nest | mental hospital |
| "you are my peace, my solace, my salvation; on you depends my bliss or desolation." | tartuffe |
| fulbert | idol |
| "tra-la" | macneice |
| elizabeth barrett browning | if thou must love me |
| "keep the water white." | lonely londoners |
| vincent | cry, the beloved country |
| "to understand thoroughly and intuitively" | grok |
| thamyris | milton |
| af-roh | hephaestus |
| el-meer | tartuffe |
| "loose, baggy monsters" | james |
| "laws of inevitability" | war and peace |
| dog in the manger | aesop |
| "why you got the white mens driving and the colored lifting?" | fences |
| "the pelican's chorus." | lear |
| knut hamsun | norway |
| "though lovers be lost love shall not." | thomas |
| "brightening" | mask |
| sair | sonnet |
| sexual suspect | world according |
| tipton grange | middlemarch |
| steve | show boat |
| foer | 2001 |
| olenin | cossacks |
| maryanka | cossacks |
| "dame patience" | parliament of fowls |
| captain vhd vhd | cosmicomics |
| "oh, what a tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive" | scott |
| "a temporary matter" | lahiri |
| gourd vine | hurston |
| "will arise and go now." | lake isle of innisfree |
| genaro jr | radionovela |
| sasuke | tanizaki |
| "ennobling thoughts," | conversation |
| "dame peace" | parliament of fowls |
| "hope had grown grey hairs" | wreck of the deutschland |
| "the father of five sons, and in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons." | i sing the body electric |
| cypresses believe in god | spanish civil |
| parcae | fate |
| "purifiers" | borges |
| ana | statue |
| ettinsmoor | narnia |
| "old slewfoot" | yearling |
| "i will enjoy thee now, my celia," | carew |
| "you have only to ask, i will do anything" | cry, the beloved country |
| vanir | mim |
| friedrich holderlin | hymn |
| "extricating young gussie." | jeeves |
| "embalmed" | anubis |
| "you can't fly kites on rainy days" | south |
| "bro!" | old english |
| "frost on the ground." | li |
| world according to garp | irving |
| traveller | in the penal colony |
| extremely loud | 2001 |
| abebooks | jerome |
| lord of the rings | tolkien |
| "the slut you are so bent on becoming." | kincaid |
| kerewin | hulme |
| and the world kept silent | night |
| "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 |
| "there should be no more than half a dozen people on the roof at any time." | cider house rules |
| torquato tasso | tancredi |
| "man thinking" | emerson |
| "swede" | roth |
| "toward expression . . . to fulfillment." | frost |
| joris | nana |
| "the combs of a smother of sand" | wreck of the deutschland |
| skulker | dogs |
| everything is illuminated | foer |
| "suffering is one very long moment . . . we cannot divide it into seasons." | de profundis |
| under western eyes | india |
| haiti a french | welles |
maria dahvana headley | beowulf (retelling) |
| walter williams | parker |
| slim | dog |
| fugard | island |
| madeline | poe |
| "muddied people" | styx |
| leggatt | conrad |
| "turning point" | bleak house |
| "dinner is a casual affair." | brooks |
| "tristi fummo." | styx |
| "please don't smoke in bed, or use candles," | cider house rules |
| "third world woman" | india |
| "ode to the west wind." | shelley |
| charles stewart | key |
| madame pernelle | tartuffe |
| "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 |
| sir epicure mammon | alchemist |
komarovsky | doctor zhivago |
| weary gentlemen | yellow sky |
| pair | herrick |
| love in the time of cholera | garcia marquez |
| gospel according to jesus christ | saramago |
| argan | moliere |
| johnny | lord of the flies |
| the works both human and divine | herrick |
| marie tovesky | o pioneers |
| emil bergson | o pioneers |
| fay mckelva | optimist's |
| "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 |
"the deserted village" | goldsmith |
| marcel proust | in search of lost time |
| "the invisible worm that flies in the night in the howling storm," | rose |
| h.d | rose |
| sebastian flyte | brideshead revisited |
| "i loved her, and sometimes she loved me too" | saddest |
| kornakov | doctor zhivago |
| rangoon | around the world in |
| mama yaya | tituba |
| "process of alienation." | kikuyu |
| caucasian chalk circle | brecht |
| ramses the great | ozymandias |
| "and yet those who picture the world as unlimited forget that the number of possible books is not." | library of babel |
| "this is the dead land. this is cactus land." | hollow men |
| "little, sleek, cowering, timorous beast." | mouse |
| "when shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?" | macbeth |
| "suspended by a handkerchief, and nearly at its last gasp." | dogs |
| hwalbindang | korean |
| "sweet sensations" | conversation |
| incredibly close | 2001 |
| j. g. ballard's | ballard |
| don fabrizio | lampedusa |
| "lumps in the throat" | frost |
| national prize in literature | spanish civil |
| "response" | reader |
| flash gordon | mysterious flame of queen loana |
| dolores haze | nabokov |
| keri hulme | new zealand |
| "go on living the life of the spirit" | lampedusa |
| "ancient pond" | haiku |
| "twinned novels" | hulme |
| karl huysmans | nana |
| dangerous liaisons | smallpox |
| charles marlow | heart of darkness |
| "teach us ... what sweet thoughts are thine: / i have never heard." | to a skylark |
| ted streshinsky in the saturday evening post | slouching towards bethlehem |
"some cromwell guiltless of his own country's blood" | "elegy written in a country churchyard" |
| mark kelly | giffords |
| howie newsome | grover's corners |
| algernon moncrieff | wilde |
| first mate | conrad |
| "not to be born at all is best . . . for envy, sedition, strife, carnage, and war make up the tale of life." | oedipus at colonus |
| baroness orczy | guillotined |
| " out of the " | flowers of evil |
| thornfield hall | jane eyre |
| "the new small talk." | shaw |
| "plunged holding his treasure?" | suicide |
| "looking down into the swift water twenty feet below" | peyton |
| tomis | ovid |
| peter o'toole | modest proposal |
| tzesar | solzhenitsyn |
| tony kushner | angels in america |
| liverpool | wuthering heights |
| in search of our mothers | walker |
| "save" | fuentes |
| miss ivors | dead |
| "the river is never so high that the eyes of the fish are covered," | death and the king's horseman |
| bonus in shinto | fox |
| bonus yoruba | death and the king's horseman |
| "was apparent everywhere," | temple |
| stanley kowalski | streetcar named |
| decay of the angel | mishima |
| "where are the songs of spring?" | keats |
| jodie foster | snow |
| gabriela mistral | chile |
| mick jenkins | we real cool |
| forrest gump | curie |
| grandmother | o'connor |
| "glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens" | williams |
| cimrman | curie |
| bonus petrovich | the overcoat |
| thechinese | eating people |
| "rule britannia." | wheat |
| axolotls | cortazar |
| "ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay." | deserted village |
"a wonder with a gun - a perfect wonder" | the bride comes to yellow sky |
| "at any gathering i am there, mingling in the laughing and grieving." | reed |
| isle is full of noises | caliban |
| k. chesterton | chesterton |
| "the tomb in palestine / is not the porch of spirits lingering." | sunday morning |
| "identity card." | darwish |
| "what pipes and timbrels? what wild ecstasy?" | ode on a grecian urn |
| "and you, garcia lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?" | ginsberg |
| deaths and entrances | thomas |
| mistress overdone | vienna |
| "prenez garde a tchou-tchin-tchou" | stepdaughter |
| "hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind." | autumn |
| lords of xibalba | ball game |
| pater jakobus | castalia |
| "one last poem for richard." | cisneros |
| "that vast moth-eaten musical brocade / created to pretend we never die." | larkin |
| casa alvisi | venice |
| "fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic." | chandler |
| ken kesey | mental hospital |
| chief bromden | mental hospital |
| "in my craft or sullen art" | thomas |
| mo yan | china |
| randle patrick mcmurphy | mental hospital |
| "swans" | capote |
| meyer wolfsheim | great gatsby |
| "sticky as bluebeard's." | heaney |
| lukashka | cossacks |
| big sleep | philip |
| "there should be stars for great wars" | cisneros |
| "we shall rest." | uncle vanya |
| "between the lines" | eating people |
| "could notactually set eyes on" | temple |
| bonus note | machine |
| "grim demon haunting the marches" | beowulf |
| tothero | harry |
| in book | life of pi |
| colonus | antigone |
| etemenanki | tower of babel |
| "blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay." | thomas |
| sometimes a great notion | kesey |
| "have helen in their hearts" | williams |
| "trilogy" | polish |
| el escorial | fuentes |
| heinrich von ofterdingen | flower |
| oklahoma to california in the grapes of wrath | steinbeck |
| "wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight" | thomas |
| jorge de montemayor's | verona |
| "sound poems." | dada |
| caverns | kesey |
| "two gentlemen of" | verona |
| ash'ari | possession |
| lives of animals | coetzee |
| serena joy | handmaid's tale |
| odale's choice | brathwaite |
| "modern sequel" | greek |
isaac bashevis singer | yiddish |
| swaminatha iyer | tamil |
| europa | 1980 |
| "a kind of solution." | greek |
| "deep solitude." | twenty love poems |
| "none of them knew the color of the sky." | the open boat |
| "ode to the confederate dead" | lowell |
| ossian | goethe |
| dance of the forests | soyinka |
| solitary | wordsworth |
| "red room" | strindberg |
| uss housatonic | hunley |
| dioscuri | pollux |
| "drink to me only with thine eyes." | to |
| "persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." | tom |
| house of the seven gables | hawthorne |
| yuri | doctor zhivago |
| bingley | darcy |
| nancy | good soldier |
| new life | sonnet |
| dally | switchblade |
| boo radley | to kill a mockingbird |
| weir mitchell | husband |
| carmen maria machado | husband |
| "hamlet." | doctor zhivago |
| smerdyakov | karamazov |
| laszlo de almasy | greek |
| sora | roxas |
| cholly | bluest eye |
| "ode to psyche" | keats |
| lobel | frog |
| quasimodo in the hunchback of notre dame | hugo |
| koorma | turtle |
| dwayne hoover in breakfast of champions | vonnegut |
| birds in cloudcuckooland | aristophanes |
| miss ethel lange | south |
| "harrison bergeron" | vonnegut |
| "merry pranksters," | wolfe |
| "american names." | benet |
| spenlow and jorkins | david |
| adventures of three englishmen | verne |
| "there's a stake through your black heart," | plath |
| an irish airman foresees his death | yeats |
| "general william booth enters into heaven." | lindsay |
| holy church of christ without christ | o'connor |
| weird sisters | macbeth |
| maureen corrigan | great gatsby |
| squire allworthy | fielding |
| hundred years together | solzhenitsyn |
| sondra finchley | dreiser |
| crick institute | atwood |
| port ticonderoga | atwood |
| "are you washed in the blood of the lamb?" | lindsay |
| "strong and diverse," | benet |
| "misery" | blacksmith |
| "the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe." | olenska |
| oscar madison | odd couple |
| "mother goose" | cat |
| felix unger | odd couple |
| tanizaki | kabuki |
| kiran desai | pamuk |
| polyneices | antigone |
| "mr. w. h." | shakespeare's sonnets |
| stephen albert | borges |
| sandra gilbert | julia |
| "effect" | distancing |
| sinbad | sailor |
| east river | brooklyn |
| "out of the ash" | lady lazarus" |
| "how can we know the dancer from the dance?" | yeats |
| podsnap | brave new world |
| "the story of a shipwrecked sailor." | garcia |
| "good country people" | o'connor |
| "something there is that doesn't love a wall." | frost |
| tirso de molina | don juan |
| chronicle of a death foretold | garcia marquez |
| "hills like white elephants." | abortion |
| catholic flyte | brideshead |
| george farr | faulkner |
| jabez stone | benet |
| ottilie and the captain | goethe |
| tommy traddles at salem house | david |
| imipolex g | pynchon |
| pozdnyshev | tolstoy |
| pigsy | journey to the west |
| world controller | brave new world |
| "the deluge at norderney" | dinesen |
| don gonzalo | don juan |
| gore vidal | los angeles |
| ralph fiennes | english patient |
| wilbur larch | abortion |
| gustav freytag | falling |
| odette de crecy | charles |
| "the third and final continent" | lahiri |
| jeff | slouching towards bethlehem |
| hotson | shakespeare's sonnets |
| phedre | racine |
| "arrangement in black and white" | parker |
| cider house rules homer wells | abortion |
| "dover beach." | arnold |
| "left school," | brooks |
| "this hour, this night, my feelings go hard." | li |
| ricardo reis | pessoa |
| in the leopard | tancredi |
| "hoary-headed swain" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "eats men like air." | lady lazarus" |
| "like the cat has nine times to die" | lady lazarus" |
| "an art" | lady lazarus" |
| jean rhys | jane eyre |
| myra breckinridge | los angeles |
| jessica | shylock |
| "blaze like meteors and be gay" | thomas |
| "the fish is red." | bishop |
| chinatown | tristero |
| love suicides of amijima | chikamatsu |
| "wild african savage" | paul d |
| jerusalem delivered | tancredi |
| "acquainted with the night." | frost |
| thomas love peacock | abbey |
| harry fatt | waiting for lefty |
| walter savage landor | oxford |
| "the parliament of fowls." | chaucer |
| little girl | six characters in search of an author |
| james frazer | fasti |
| "soldiers' dreams" | matsuo |
| elfriede jelinek | doll's house |
| fountain of youth | heidegger |
| "where knowledge is free" | tagore |
| "everybody's protest novel." | native |
| save me the waltz | flapper |
| samuel selvon | lonely londoners |
| "get out as early as you can, / and don't have any kids yourself." | this be the verse |
| louise bennett | english |
| "nation language," | english |
| baasie | the burgher's |
| "no joy in mudville" | baseball player |
| anoosh | persepolis |
| yeshua ha | master and mar |
| sri lanka in running in the family | ondaatje |
| aunt alexandra | atticus |
| ferber | parker |
| "abortions will not let you forget." | brooks |
| shams of tabriz | rumi |
| "amateur" | remains of the day |
| "tim'rous beastie" | burns |
| "to a louse" | burns |
| mrs crupp | david |
| mr murdstone | david |
| "i'm through." | plath |
| bluest eye | morrison |
| "poisoning" | alice |
| ryanosuke akutagawa | japan |
| "the months and days are the travelers of eternity" | matsuo |
| "durable" | thomas |
chichikov | dead souls |
| movement | gunn |
| kamau brathwaite | english |
| in wodehouse | butler |
| montoya hotel | the sun also |
| mr peggotty | david |
| auster | roth |
| new york trilogy | auster |
| maurice bendix | greene |
| shere khan | jungle book |
| taming of the shrew | christopher |
| american senator lewis | remains of the day |
| "out, out damned spot!" | macbeth |
| diana moon glampers | harrison bergeron |
on famous women | boccaccio |
| nu | ionesco |
reverend (arthur) dimmsdale | the scarlet letter |
| "the masque of the red death" | poe |
| antoine roquentin | sartre |
| bill gorton | the sun also |
| thomas carew | cavalier |
| in the jungle | comrade |
| samecksan | lilliput |
| woodhouse | archer |
| acrisius of argos | danae |
| set at christmastime | doll's |
| cyril figgis | archer |
| kroeber, sapir | boas |
| pemberley | fitzwilliam |
| oroonoko | slave |
| "the village blacksmith" | chestnut tree |
| "man hands on misery to man," | this be the verse |
| kapasi | lahiri |
| "school" | matsuo |
| naoko | norwegian wood |
| darlington hall | remains of the day |
| le cid | corneille |
| good person of szechwan | china |
| chronicles of narnia | lewis |
| squire thornhill | vicar of |
| "attic shape" | beauty |
| "the innocent" | california |
| "nobody." | dickinson |
| john le carre's | berlin |
| alfred doblin | berlin |
| "son" | borges |
| guy de maupassant | german |
| "sweet thing" | williams |
| harun | meursault |
| natasha | rostov |
| crab | two gentlemen of |
| alfieri | view from the |
| antonio | shylock |
| clutter | lee |
| kerma | turtle |
| song dynasty | water margin |
| trojan women | cassandra |
| river of the arrow | kim |
jack burden | all the king's men |
| "mother died today." | meursault |
| if this | 40 |
| "a passion in the desert." | balzac |
| felix hobain | walcott |
| edward lear | limerick |
| "dramatizing herself." | flapper |
| benn | remains of the day |
| rosamond | middlemarch |
| "grave men, near death" | thomas |
| "delirium" | season in hell |
| helen alving | ghosts |
| steller | sebald |
| overland monthly | california |
| kizuki | norwegian wood |
| frank copperwood | dreiser |
| "the distance of the moon." | calvino |
| william gilmore simms | uncle tom's cabin |
| bokanovsky process | brave new world |
| elgin | byron |
| laurie anderson | jo |
| bartlett | johnson |
| betrayal | pinter |
| "wild men" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| godfrey reggio | silas |
| poemes | verlaine |
| sandy | journey to the west |
| thus spoke zarathustra | nietzsche |
| south side boys | native |
| grasshopper lies heavy | dick |
| honey | albee |
| benny profane | pynchon |
| luis alejandro velasco for the el espectador | garcia |
| faber | fahrenheit 451 |
| "victoria's requiem." | russian |
| "yes, call me by my pet-name!" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| jean santeuil | proust |
| " for 10 points each: when " | thrush |
| "in the bleak midwinter." | goblin market |
| "poem without" | hero |
| "el aleph" | borges |
| how much land does a man need | tolstoy |
| "the gold-bug" | poe |
| "macdonagh and macbride, and connolly and pearse" | yeats |
| leon dupuis | madame bovary |
| cecily | faulkner |
| mircea eliade | ionesco |
| dark avengers | wolverine |
| daken | wolverine |
| pugnax | pynchon |
| vince | buried child |
| "the game" | irish |
| "write down!" | darwish |
| messenger | giver |
| and then there were none | miller |
| "paddle in the cold," | yeats |
| "john brown's body" | benet |
| love story | singer |
| fathers and sons | turgenev |
| alice munro | canada |
| it can | lewis |
| happen here | lewis |
| vladek | spiegelman |
| "angel of death." | huck |
| "anthem" | rand |
| r. p. blackmur | stevens |
| ermes marana | calvino |
| hooper | brideshead revisited |
| garces | don quixote |
| algiers | don quixote |
| work squad | solzhenitsyn |
| "red shoes." | andersen |
| geoffrey crayon | irving |
| "let my country awake." | tagore |
| normal people | irish |
| georgiana burne | rubaiyat |
| evelyn waugh | brideshead revisited |
| oldest member | golf |
| karl bushy | sturm und drang |
| emmanuel egudu | elizabeth |
| book of salt | stein |
| lincoln in the bardo | saunders |
madame ranevskaya | the cherry orchard |
| andrei | war and peace |
| frantz fanon | wretched of the earth |
| tomas rodaja | lawyer |
| marquis of saluzzo | decameron |
| lovborg | hedda |
| "if swans can rain / white rape from heaven, then what is a girl to do?" | erdrich |
| camelot | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "don juan." | byron |
| genghis cohen | pynchon |
| "beastly, beastly book." | brave new world |
| general in his labyrinth | garcia |
| no one writes to the colonel | garcia |
| "the courier's tragedy," | pynchon |
| kreutzer sonata | tolstoy |
| v-2 rockets | pynchon |
| second coming | yeats |
| "looks as if she were alive" | browning |
| harvey stone at the cafe select | the sun also |
| bellipotent | john |
| grushnitsky | hero |
| buzz windrip | lewis |
| gellhorn | spanish civil |
| "born again" | nietzsche |
| maxine hong kingston | chinese |
| helen oyeyemi | fairy tale |
| cato the elder | farm |
| christmas past | ghost |
| christina rossetti | goblin market |
| a. s. byatt's | fairy tale |
| canopus | lessing |
| elizabeth gaskell | ghost |
| tor house | california |
| samson carrasco | don quixote |
| "all's changed" | yeats |
| bethlehem | yeats |
| "we cannot make [this thing] / stand still, yet we will make him run." | sun |
| "escape from spiderhead." | tenth of december |
| john maxwell coetzee | coetzee |
| "nothing puzzles god" | achebe |
| zosia | pan tadeusz |
| macunaima | andrade |
| nervous conditions | zimbabwe |
| ben ezra | stoppard |
vardaman (bundren) | as i lay dying |
| city lights bookstore | california |
| radio panamericana by pedro camacho | julia |
| willa cather | my |
| "ave atque vale," | baudelaire |
| althea | prison |
| "i know why he beats his wing! / i know why the caged bird sings" | dunbar |
| the sword and the distaff | uncle tom's cabin |
| robert southey | fairy tale |
| harper | wolfe |
| "you must change your life" | rilke |
| "egg-rasher" | achebe |
| la senora | allende |
| grischa | checkhov |
| "racism in conrad's heart of darkness." | achebe |
| "representative man" | emerson |
"but all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty" | sappho |
| her friends | fornes |
| at swim | dublin |
| daphne du maurier | rebecca |
| mitchell holmes | golf |
| armida | jerusalem delivered |
| prix goncourt | france |
| adventures of peregrine pickle | smollett |
| vikentios kornaros | greek |
| toulouse valmorain | allende |
| abbey theater | yeats |
| "conjugal lewdness." | defoe |
| "friends" | emma |
| trujillo | julia |
| "someone else was dreaming" | borges |
| artificial paradises | fleurs du mal |
| raynell | wilson |
| royal court theatre | island |
| millicent boyd | golf |
| "song of the reed flute." | rumi |
| harrow | penal colony |
| larry darrell | maugham |
| philip carey | maugham |
| chernobyl | journalist |
| leaf storm | macondo |
| renzo | manzoni |
| anacreon | poetry |
| jim burden | my |
| thousand cranes | tea |
| "black woman" | senghor |
| vasily vasilych | hamlet |
| ned kelly | carey |
| government inspector | gogol |
| ancient mariner | dice |
| bone people | maori |
| anne bronte | epistolary |
| "a trivial comedy for serious people," | importance of being earnest |
darl (bundren) | as i lay dying |
| daniel o'connell | nautilus |
| "caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon." | windhover |
| machado de assis | brazil |
| "expendable" | cortazar |
| william john bankes | daube |
| "miniver cheevy" | robinson |
| trout fishing in america | brautigan |
| nicolas guillen | hughes |
| brief wondrous life of oscar wao | diaz |
| bacchae | euripides |
| of human bondage | maugham |
| nights at the circus | carter |
| "don't have any kids yourself" | larkin |
| louisa may alcott | little women |
| ethiopiques | senghor |
| kitchen god | tan |
| fefu | fornes |
| "lonely old grubber" | ginsberg |
| caliban | tempest |
| jonathan | achebe |
| henry fielding | fairy tale |
| mio romagna | sacco |
| alexievich | monologue |
| grassdale manor | wildfell |
| shamela | fielding |
| connell | rooney |
| sir alan gardiner | mantel |
| "he seems to me equal to the gods." | sappho |
| from the earth to the moon | french |
| longfellow | cambridge |
| andre brink | season |
| "black milk of daybreak" | holocaust |
| "gentleman from sole to crown" | robinson |
| breakfast at tiffany | capote |
| marshall mcluhan | finnegans wake |
"one calm summer night" | robinson |
| milkman | song of solomon |
| susan barton | friday |
| astrid lindgren | sweden |
| "can you describe this?" | russian |
| don delillo | kennedy |
| ifemelu | adichie |
| francis bellamy | looking backward |
| profiles in courage | kennedy |
| "sad steps" | larkin |
| soapy | loiter |
| "ten thousand tiny bubbles bursting on his skin" | maori |
| virgin | moby-dick |
| in white teeth | islam |
| "the child's cry / melts in the wall." | mother |
| "the dream of the rood." | old english |
| bill sikes | nancy |
| freyja | feather |
| "flowering judas" | porter |
| donald mahon | faulkner |
| "fastball special." | wolverine |
| ymca | o'connor |
| nellie | heart of darkness |
| ubtreas | benet |
| "the death of the hired man" | frost |
| karl ove knausgard | hitler |
| ocampo | argentina |
| junot diaz | brief wondrous life of oscar wao |
| "the snow queen," | mirror |
| lester kane in chicago | dreiser |
| "whoso must be a man, must be a nonconformist" | emerson |
| scanner darkly | dick |
| university of massachusetts | achebe |
| "the devil and daniel webster?" | benet |
| gummidge | david |
| "we wear the mask" | dunbar |
| jean anouilh | antigone |
| "use the right word, not its second cousin." | cooper |
| "proposing to say, not merely come near it" | cooper |
| tayeb salih | arabic |
| "a very small, brief book of thoughts, maximes," | big man |
| "teach yourself italian." | lahiri |
| norris changes trains | isherwood |
| regency | clarke |
| "from house to house" | larkin |
| witches | dahl |
| "the danger of a single story" | adichie |
| "the cask of amontillado." | seal |
| roger deakin | united kingdom |
| john paul jones | cooper |
| swing time | smith |
| remembrance of earth | china |
| max sebald | sebald |
| "hanging here on the gallows" | poland |
| "da" | sanskrit |
| wainwright prize | diary |
| "the little match girl" | andersen |
| raphael de valentin's | human comedy |
| "who am i? and " | nobody |
| "the encyclopedia of the dead." | kis |
| tartar steppe | buzzati |
| winfried georg sebald | sebald |
| caine mutiny | wouk |
| effia | gyasi |
| "the poetess." | sappho |
| vivian bearing | donne |
| king of ward | portuguese |
| pumblechook | great expectations |
| scheherazade | one thousand and one nights |
| "lyric." | lyre |
| fermina | love in the time of cholera |
| course in general linguistics | saussure |
| hermes to apollo | lyre |
| "unbound." | prometheus |
| pacific street saloon | time of your life |
| playboy of the western world | ireland |
| susan glaspell | provincetown players |
| "blond beast" | nietzsche |
| jan erlone | native |
| sting | bilbo |
| "death-pale figures" | keats |
| ottone | frank |
| new heloise | bovary |
| "i say now these are the soul." | sing |
| "the colomber." | buzzati |
| jimmie johnson | crane |
| the chairs and the | ionesco |
| "complacencies of the peignoirs, and late coffee and oranges" | stevens |
| libra | kennedy |
| half of a yellow sun | adichie |
| "an iron house, without windows or doors" | lu |
| "proper souls." | david |
| "the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses." | cummings |
| extraordinary voyages | french |
| ricky roma | mamet |
| ann more | donne |
| mademoiselle | nabokov |
| "dog of tears" | portuguese |
| "deathless" | sappho |
| i. name | constance |
| in zola | train |
| "walks through the valley of the shadow of death." | charge of the light brigade |
| lord henry wotton | wilde |
| philip terry | on the road |
| the landlady | dostoyevsky |
| waindell college by dr | pnin |
| byron in italy | david |
| chocolate factory | dahl |
| principe | rubaiyat |
| totem | darwin |
| "plank in reason" | brain |
| "believe me, i loved you all." | brooks |
| "sonnet 31" | larkin |
| fray | feather |
| muriel and afrekete | lorde |
| "an excuse for putting on weight" | david |
| "should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" | auld lang syne |
| wilder | yonkers |
| korova milk bar | burgess |
| "nevsky prospekt," | petersburg |
| clara bowden | smith |
| "axolotl." | cortazar |
| "printed at naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529." | castle of otranto |
| morrie | south |
| "that which we call a rose / by any other name would smell as sweet." | balcony |
| alp | finnegans wake |
| "the happy prince" | wilde |
| "spiteful" | dostoyevsky |
| "more sinn'd against than sinning" | lear |
| denys finch | out of africa |
| "sapphic love" | david |
"the diamond as big as the ritz" | fitzgerald |
| midland city pontiac | vonnegut |
| tramecksan | lilliput |
| nagas | serpent |
| aurora by georges clemenceau | zola |
| "can the devil speak true?" | macbeth |
| thane of cawdor | macbeth |
| captain hoseason | david |
| john millington synge | playboy of the western world |
| brodsky | petersburg |
| de quincey | ode to a nightingale |
| tale of love | israel |
| amos oz | israel |
| oslo | norway |
| "twas mercy brought me from my pagan land." | wheatley |
| dubose | to kill a mockingbird |
| island beneath the sea | allende |
| elizabeth barret | browning |
| frances clyne | the sun also |
| santa claus | nicholas |
| henry green | hudson |
| fleur jaeggy | de quincey |
| cormac mccarthy | no country for old |
| jem-mah-tah | dioneo |
| "and treat those two imposters just the same." | triumph |
| schlegel | howards end |
| six inch | lemuel |
| exit the king | ionesco |
| "novel which ... depersonalizes a portion of the human race" | achebe |
| magician of lublin | singer |
| cecily cardew | wilde |
| "i shall not rest quiet at montparnasse" | benet |
| on beauty | howards end |
| "the half-life of love is forever." | yunior |
| gordon lish | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| "bent / above a sinking fire." | leda |
| "to be or not to be, that is the question." | machine |
| church fathers | david |
| what we talk about when we talk about love | carver |
| shen tsien | good person |
| "the lord is my shepherd, i shall not want." | psalms |
| tales of the jazz age | fitzgerald |
| "red in tooth and claw" | tennyson |
| ichabod crane | irving |
| "paradise [to be] regained." | thoreau |
| "a refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in london" | thomas |
| journey through trees | united kingdom |
| eastern iranian | persian |
| colombian nobel laureate | garcia marquez |
| evgeny | bronze horseman |
| "a season in hell." | rimbaud |
| j.p | carver |
| gargantua | rabelais |
| "proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side." | wheatley |
| "call the roller of big cigars." | stevens |
| tatyana | eugene |
| eloise | salinger |
| clotho | pelops |
| mabel waring | woolf |
| deems taylor | millay |
| "the people." | sandburg |
| "old egg," | wodehouse |
| ivan yakovlevich | nose |
| what is to be done | dostoyevsky |
| pablo honey | magic theater |
| the devil | irving |
| "ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of gold fishes" | gray |
| questing beast | once and future king |
| "the curse of minerva." | byron |
| "of our world as it might have been" | dick |
| "first expression of american thought as a unity" | chicago world's fair |
| "apropos of the wet snow." | dostoyevsky |
| castalia | glass bead game |
| anthony hecht | dover beach |
| aegean | dover beach |
| hobbit | bilbo |
| elizabeth rousset | boule de suif |
primrose (family) | the vicar of wakefield |
| "breath of autumn's being." | west wind |
| aloeus | ephialtes |
| valvert | duel |
| "novels of the rose" | d'annunzio |
| charles bovary | flaubert |
| pierre corneille | spain |
| svejk | dog |
| "elegy for alto." | okigbo |
| the king's henchman | millay |
| "strange to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes," | ginsburg |
| anse | faulkner |
| laura kinney | wolverine |
| in the fatal attractions | wolverine |
| " for 10 points, name this irish poet of " | yeats |
| epping forest | defoe |
| saddler | defoe |
| "crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn," | browning |
| "clever" | latin |
| nidhogg | serpent |
| "sweetish sickness" | sartre |
| ashing | benet |
| captain nemo in twenty thousand leagues under the sea | verne |
| "the former age." | chaucer |
| the x-men | wolverine |
| hermann broder | singer |
| jennie gerhardt | dreiser |
| possible lives | de quincey |
| hermann | queen of spades |
| "elderly maimed tablet." | dream of the red chamber |
| "going down impassive rivers" | rimbaud |
| richard zenith | portuguese |
| "the lady with the dog" | chekhov |
| in shahnameh | persian |
| "dear old crumpet." | wodehouse |
| "hopped along the imperial highway." | frog |
| tiryns | eurystheus |
| "male" | dictionary |
| thady quirk | castle |
| kandata | akutagawa |
| "charioted by bacchus and his pards." | bird |
| desiree | chopin |
| "krak!" | haiti |
| cat and mouse | grass |
| la maga | hopscotch |
| life-studies | lowell |
| louise | chopin |
| cacambo | candide |
| "o, reason not the need." | lear |
| arcite | knight |
| "the new dress." | woolf |
| "the paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids." | melville |
| amadeus | shaffe |
brenda patimkin | roth |
| mountain interval | frost |
| ryunosoke akutagawa | rashomon |
| adam mickiewicz | pushkin |
| "half in love with easeful death." | bird |
| "not born for death" | bird |
| "my hope and treasure lies above" | fire |
| father jerome | castle |
| "sing about the pleasant summer which has just begun." | kalidas |
| durvasa | kalidas |
| mercury theatre | welles |
| "beautiful uncut hair of graves" | grass |
"the cop and the anthem" | o. henry |
| war with the newts | capek |
| sir robert chiltern | wilde |
| antwerp | astraea |
| kitty pride | wolverine |
| arnold lobel | frog |
| troy to italy | aeneid |
| robert juet | hudson |
| ray gillette | archer |
| cottingley fairies | doyle |
| barsetshire | trollope |
| barchester towers | trollope |
| knausgard | father |
| all for love | dry |
| godfrey cass | raveloe |
| x-23 | wolverine |
| phi beta kappa society | emerson |
| the lion d'or | madame bovary |
| "how can i turn from africa and live?" | walcott |
| sherman alexie | reservation |
| "song of the war carts." | tang |
| "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." | be |
| rochester | jane eyre |
| joseph campbell | hero |
| elsa morante | italian |
| houellebecq | trump |
| harjo | harjo |
| "krik?" | haiti |
| "languid lemon tree." | spain |
| tethys | oceanus |
| "you do not do" | daddy |
| "bob southey! you're a poet, poet laureate, / and representative of all the race." | don juan |
| raina petkoff | bulgaria |
| "why should a dog or horse or rat have life, but not you?" | never |
| giuseppe ungaretti | montale |
| noah webster | dictionary |
| "those that i fight i do not hate/those that i guard i do not love," | yeats |
| drama pulitzer | nguyen |
| roman marcus vinicius | polish |
| "sings the tune without the words" | dickinson |
| "gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." | cavafy |
| lori parks | topdog/underdog |
| "patmos," | holderlin |
| carlene | on beauty |
| william wycherley | restoration |
| nakata | kafka on the shore |
| hae-mi | murakami |
| "symphony in gray major" | dario |
| cuttlefish bones | montale |
| robert gottlieb | confederacy of dunces |
| "death as nostalgia, rather than as the fruition or end of life, is death as origin" | labyrinth of solitude |
| nostalgia for death by xavier villaurrutia | labyrinth of solitude |
| niketas choniates | baudolino |
| scales of justice | anubis |
| thirteen ways of looking | blackbird |
| "blitzball." | phineas |
| "tithonus poem" | sappho |
| pamuk | museum of innocence |
| george etheredge | fopling |
| wildwood: a | united kingdom |
| mount doom | bilbo |
| sydney carton | tale of two cities |
| king theseus | oedipus |
| ismene | oedipus |
| "sepulchre there by the sea." | poe |
| "is rich" | updike |
| malory at the isis | archer |
| 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 |
| baron hulot | human comedy |
| "can you not trust me as a physician?" | the yellow wallpaper |
| anjana | ramayana |
| voltaire in candide | french |
| "generique" | murakami |
| azaro | famished road |
| "is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature." | morgenthau |
| maitresse erzulie to kiki | on beauty |
| wellington | united kingdom |
| "simulacra" | barn |
| "the wine of life keeps oozing drop my drop,/the leaves of life keep falling one by one." | rubaiyat |
| poema | chile |
| "the jolly corner," | james |
| the the abject | death in venice |
| cedric of rotherwood | ivanhoe |
| hetton | handful of dust |
| daniel gluck | smith |
| post-brexit | autumn |
| christopher knowles | separate |
| party of the poor | famished road |
| pheoby watson | hurston |
| "rape." | brooks |
james incandenza | infinite jest |
| filomena | ring |
"poem without a hero" | akhmatova |
| work in progress | duffy |
| "the english tongue i love" | walcott |
| fremont | kite |
| pharillon | cavafy |
| "principles" | morgenthau |
| purple hibiscus | adichie |
| "the cisco [sis-koh] kid" | kidnap |
| "ow" | tale of genji |
| martin amis | time's arrow |
| man without qualities | austria |
| azdak | caucasian chalk |
| spokane | reservation |
| merlin | don quixote |
| phoebus | ovid |
| kurt mondaugen | yoyodyne |
| while in the rusty spoon | yoyodyne |
| book of fantasy | rizal |
| richard wilbur | tartuffe |
| maecenas | horace |
| hazel morse | big blonde |
| in autobiography of red | dickinson |
| robbie turner | atonement |
| lamartine | childe harold's pilgrimage |
| mother shipton | outcasts of poker |
| viet thanh nguyen | vietnam |
| juanito | fortunata and jacinta |
| fortunata | madrid |
| twelve labors | eurystheus |
| four iambic | rubaiyat |
| king of thebes | oedipus |
| marry warren | crucible |
| rastignac in the human comedy | balzac |
| "we are no other than a moving row/of magic shadow-shapes that come and go." | rubaiyat |
| berenger pines | ionesco |
| against the day | pynchon |
| "dear loyalty, that could have served and followed him and loved him as a dog loves!" | white heron |
| john fante | bukowski |
| "locked up in coffins of block." | chimney sweep |
| silent spring | carson |
| song offerings | bengali |
| herakles | autobiography of red |
william carlos williams | "the red wheelbarrow" |
| last of the mohicans | cooper |
| "now is the time to drink" | horace |
| freddy eynsford | eliza |
| "years" | dickinson |
"mother-rival" | eliza doolittle |
| panulphe | tartuffe |
| roger mexico | pynchon |
| "safe in their alabaster chambers" | dickinson |
| elmer gantry | lewis |
| periodic table | levi |
| "i am arturo bandini!" | bukowski |
| clotel | jefferson |
| "ultrasonic music" | ballard |
| gilukhepa | plutarch |
| shadow songs | senghor |
| "and the stoicism of seneca." | shakespeare |
| the musee des arts et metiers | foucault's pendulum |
| jocasta | oedipus |
| cleon for demos | aristophanes |
| mnevis bull | ra |
| cather | my |
| family life | vas deferens |
zenocrate | marlowe |
| "a lovely light!" | candle |
| "helen being chosen found life flat and dull, and later had much trouble from a fool." | prayer for my daughter |
| chancery | bleak house |
| "a fable for tomorrow." | carson |
| gay talese | esquire |
| neil klugman | "goodbye |
| "goodbye, columbus" | roth |
| when the mad hatter | queen of hearts |
"the secret sharer" | conrad |
| "a white heron" | maine |
| the frogs and the clouds | comedy |
| "transparent eye-ball." | emerson |
| tybalt | nurse |
| menander | comedy |
| angers fragment | snorri |
| brian sterling | ballard |
| in death | mask |
| led zeppelin | liverpool |
| michael robartes | easter rising |
| "yeux glauques" | pound |
| rodolphe boulanger | emma |
| ariel dorfman | chile |
| undset | kristin |
| according to trevor horn | ballard |
| the king's horseman | soyinka |
| "the poetry cloud." | liu |
| helen schlegel | howards |
| "since feeling is first" | death |
| "the final problem," | doyle |
| our ancestors | calvino |
| geats | grendel |
| little prince | saint-exupery |
| lionel | gordimer |
| finn | grendel |
| herero | yoyodyne |
| burger's | gordimer |
| saint valentine | parliament of fowls |
| cesaro | viola |
| "hamlet and his problems" | new critic |
| djerba | abydos |
| casanova in bolzano | marai |
| lazarillo de tormes | spain |
| lavransdatter | kristin |
| "video killed the radio star." | ballard |
| babbitt | lewis |
| inheritance of loss | desai |
| wimpole street | eliza |
| "the darkling thrush." | hardy |
| "they that begin by burning books will end by burning people." | german |
| septimus bons | forster |
| in the giver | release |
| methuselah | poe |
| "i was the more deceived" | get thee to a |
| diss | siren |
| "demon of experiment" | six |
| "essay on phrygian religious customs" | immoralist |
| mersey sound | liverpool |
| kurt von obersdorf | fran |
| "sympathy" | dunbar |
| shlay | howards |
| pot of gold | plautus |
| marquesas | typee |
| "the speckled band." | doyle |
| blooms of dublin | joyce |
| luna silvestre | paz |
| "exploits what has been invented" | hamlet |
| james steerforth | david |
| herr huld | kafka |
| pierce inverarity | pynchon |
| dashiell hammett | hellman |
| "life-force" | don juan |
| "secret" | milady |
| ozzie freedman | conversion of the |
| tom wingo | prince of tides |
| three russians in south africa | verne |
| zulema halabi | allende |
| hulga | o'connor |
| third empire | sartre |
| metzger | pynchon |
| duke of ferrera | browning |
| lady cheveley | wilde |
| eduard | goethe |
| quevedo | spain |
| rohv | knee |
| roger casement in matadi | conrad |
| man who turned | stick |
| estelle rigault | no exit |
| instead of paris | yonville |
| on the roman calendar | fasti |
| king arthur in the sword in the stone | merlin |
| pater | beauty |
| year of living dangerously | koch |
| ddt | carson |
| uhuru | ngugi |
| baron in the trees | calvino |
| george shearing | road |
| "the truth about native crime," | cry, the beloved country |
| "grand style" | leavis |
| korova | burgess |
| confounded husband | moliere |
| "lay-air-tees" | polonius |
| "lord, what fools..." | these |
| "dire offense" | rape of the lock |
| lobster quadrille | mock turtle |
| when koroviev | knee |
| leander | chapman |
| sacred wood | new critic |
| new critics | new critic |
| abbey of theleme | rabelais |
| john polidori | frankenstein |
| vampyre | frankenstein |
"the lawyer of glass" | cervantes |
| "lak of steadfastness" | chaucer |
| "perfect" | child |
| percy bysshe | ozymandias |
| atticus finch | sheriff |
| mary mccarthy | hellman |
| varieties of religious experience | john |
| jim on the mississippi river | huckleberry |
| great temple of osiris | abydos |
| "so much depends," | red wheelbarrow |
| father balbi | casanova |
| kay-moh-chee | food |
| "daffodils" | i wandered lonely as |
| lyrics of lowly life | dunbar |
| "buck did not read the newspapers." | call of the |
| "but none, i think, do there embrace." | grave |
| madeline gleason | san francisco |
| kill | penthesilea |
| "lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree / in the cool of the day," | ash wednesday |
| manley pointer | o'connor |
| mason & dixon | pynchon |
| jake barnes | the sun also |
| georgette | the sun also |
| rachael rosen | dick |
| place of the gods | benet |
| ou-dis-sun | benet |
| in part | goethe |
| ramon gris | wall |
| darconville | theroux |
| "living? our servants will do that for us." | axel |
| nathan johnson | frederick |
| "reducing classes" | everything that rises must converge |
| "vulcanist" | faust |
| seymore levov | roth |
| "intended" | heart of darkness |
| ansley | roman fever |
| "power of making words express what he feels," | leavis |
| marguerite de navarre | decameron |
| "a civilization of" | george |
| algernon | ernest |
| "tradition and the individual talent" | new critic |
| lope de vega | fuenteovejuna |
| proust in german | kiss |
| quiet american | greene |
| "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." | ulysses |
inez serrano | no exit |
| galta in india | monkey |
| theodore | castle |
| little foxes | hellman |
| museum of innocence | istanbul |
| huzun | istanbul |
| devil's dictionary | bierce |
maxim de winter | daphne du maurier |
| blood meridian | mccarthy |
| outback | australia |
| "father, how can i love you or any of my brothers more?" | lost |
| simplicissimus | brecht |
| heart of the matter | greene |
| "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." | archilochus |
| "the cliffs of england stand" | dover beach |
| "brekekekex koax koax." | aristophanes |
| sergeant trotter | mousetrap |
| history house | roy |
| una | knight |
| banana trilogy | neruda |
| grapes | neruda |
| pantagruel | rabelais |
| robinson jeffers | hawk |
| hareton | read |
| late in miss julie | kills |
| galatea | quixote |
| theses | luther |
| tell my horse | hurston |
| clipton | bridge |
| george caldwell | updike |
| uriah heap | david |
| tete | allende |
| arden of faversham | elizabeth i |
| ask to embla | ash |
| clelie | scudery |
| peter pan | sword |
| ras the exhorter | invisible man |
| lucie manette | tale of two cities |
| leading man | egg |
| crucifer | theroux |
| "the sea and the mirror" | tempest |
| laura wingfield | williams |
| celimene | alceste |
| tiff | comedy of |
| mrs dalloway | woolf |
| priapus | hestia |
| things they carried | o'brien |
| new american poetry | san francisco |
| "hamlet of the shchigrovsky district" | sportsman's sketches |
| ani | yam |
| gromov | ward number 6 |
| "flecknoe" | marvell |
| hero and | chapman |
| lurie | communication |
| gryphon | mock turtle |
| "milk with knives in it" | clockwork orange |
| "moloko [muh-loh-koh] with knives in it" | clockwork orange |
| good morning | rhys |
| gathering blue | giver |
| "the time you won your town the race, we chaired you through the market-place." | "to an athlete |
| rabbi binder | conversion of the |
| benedict cumberbatch | stoppard |
| "the summer they electrocuted the rosenbergs" | bell jar |
| "stands on the grave of dreams" | caged bird |
| emil post | cain |
| victoria land | ross |
| rules of the game | six characters in search of an author |
| marcel proust in in search of lost time | french |
| simon pilkings | soyinka |
| "three white leopards" | eliot |
| puritan boston | scarlet letter |
| little america | ross |
| spainard | benito |
| president miguel | the house of the spirits |
| cabin | stowe |
| "barbara frietchie" | whitter |
| "snow-bound" | whitter |
| "would rather be / a pagan suckled in a creed outworn." | wordsworth |
"the idea of order at key west" | stevens |
| "debauchee of dew" | dickinson |
| "listen my children and you shall hear" | longfellow |
| "go home and write / a page tonight" | hughes |
| vera gangart | solzhenitsyn |
| margaret powers | faulkner |
| hugoliade | ionesco |
| magneto | wolverine |
| ruth may | poisonwood bible |
| book of days | fasti |
| according to greek | pandora |
| "mock their useful toil." | ambition |
| charlestown | faulkner |
| christopher columbus | irving |
| "the seagull." | checkhov |
| "beyond the genius of the sea." | stevens |
| john cheever | prison |
| doris kilman | clarissa dalloway |
| green knight | gawain |
| other world | cyrano |
| "after blenheim" | southey |
| "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 |
| letters to a prime minister | martel |
| "then there's a pair of us!" | nobody |
| "beauty is twice beauty, and what is good is doubly good." | socks |
| joy hopewell | o'connor |
| sonya | dostoyevsky |
| stanley webber | pinter |
| recognition of shakuntala | sanskrit |
| jack spicer | san francisco |
| kobo abe | stick |
| "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," | biography |
| godhighs | everything that rises must converge |
| tronckh | candide |
| radcliffe college | goodbye |
| chad newsome | ambassadors |
| robert creeley | san francisco |
| widows | kushner |
| "invents" | hamlet |
| "and that has made all the..." | difference |
| "i raise my sword-pen" | burgess |
| old women | lysistrata |
ministry of education | "the necklace" |
| "narrative." | frederick |
| "inevitable overthrow in time" | beowulf |
| columbian orator | frederick |
| "lioness on a cheese grater." | lysistrata |
| john florio | montaigne |
| patty berglund | freedom |
| kovrin | black monk |
| large colour prints | tyger |
| poaceae | grass |
| "madness... madness!" | bridge |
| "ward number six" | chekhov |
| queen of air | sword in the stone |
| newark colleges of rutgers university | goodbye |
| "for fools rush in..." | where |
| mahfouz | children of gebelawi |
| ukemochi | food |
| "season word" | haiku |
| in christina rosetti | frog |
| loman | miller |
| " for 10 points each, name this collection which attempts to provide a history of latin america, consisting of 231 poems across 15 sections, including " | canto |
| kaikeyi | ramayana |
| other voices | dill |
| "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" | misfi |
| galahad | grail |
| "the most delicious poem about someone dying" | yeats |
| "a fine and private place" | grave |
| remedios | fold |
| number the stars | hammersberg |
| santa clara valley | judge |
| matt bonner | mule |
| paulina salas | death |
| "fluttering and dancing in the breeze." | wordsworth |
| "where the mind is without fear." | tagore |
| "upward to heaven he flings" | caged bird |
| "for madmen only" | steppenwolf |
| howard roark | architect |
| madame sofronie | gift of the |
| leonardo felix | lorca |
| desdemona | othello |
| mercutio | fairies |
| "guttering, choking, drowning," | owen |
| woland | knee |
| alex, pete, georgie | clockwork orange |
| lewis lambert strether | ambassadors |
| modern languages department | communication |
| kennebunkport | tarkington |
| time of gifts | istanbul |
| "with a roar" | snow |
| marquis of steyne | thackeray |
| cobweb | fairies |
| fiammetta | decameron |
| sighet | night |
| maxwell anderson | vanzetti |
| "dillingham" | gift of the |
| peabody | as i lay dying |
| secretum meum | laura |
| amelia sedley | thackeray |
| trimalchio | petronius |
| hwaet | beowulf |
| story of a new name | naples |
| "the most exquisite pairs of ears i have ever seen." | salinger |
| erik lonnrot | borges |
| rutulian | turnus |
| "what we talk about when we talk about" | frank |
| lawrence shannon | night of |
the grasmere journals | (dorothy) wordsworth |
| "send forth the best ye breed." | kipling |
| "the emperor's new clothes" | andersen |
| mugo | ngugi |
| resources of quinola | balzac |
| marie byrd land | ross |
| sin | satan |
| dupin | purloined letter |
| "paradise lost." | milton |
| evgenii | bronze horseman |
| natchez | welty |
| "burning bright." | blake |
| lady castlewood | thackeray |
| ice-9 | cat's cradle |
| "a girl i knew," | salinger |
| "with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life" | how do i love thee |
| corinna | corinna |
| night sky with exit wounds | vuong |
| tanagra | corinna |
| "why so pale and wan, fond lover?" | suckling |
"the windhover" | hopkins |
| "can therefore choose between the endings," | hardy |
| gerard manley hopkins | praise |
| patrick leigh fermor | istanbul |
| poirot | istanbul |
| "an afternoon of nurses and rumors." | yeats |
| "so!" | beowulf |
| "memory play." | tom |
| eponine | les |
| captain vere | billy budd |
john grimes | go tell it on the mountain |
| "about suffering they were never wrong." | auden |
| "the story of" | stone |
| emilia | decameron |
| satyricon | petronius |
| "silence invaded the suburbs" | yeats |
| "mithridates, he died old" | shropshire lad |
| "a hunger artist," | kafka |
| john webster | eliot |
| "if i love you, beware!" | habanera |
| "little people" | murakami |
| will marry when | ngugi |
| eliza | uncle tom's |
| many philip roth | jew |
| true story | lucian |
| "no bigger than an agate stone" | fairies |
| billy bibbitt | asylum |
| "ratiocination" | auguste |
| "the lass of aughrim" | dubliners |
| iago | othello |
| pontifex | butler |
| revolution according to raymundo mata | rizal |
| family values | cope |
| "in you the wars and the flights accumulated." | song of despair |
| hook of holland | istanbul |
| tish | if beale street could talk |
| "the contest of cithaeron and helicon." | corinna |
| "dapple-dawn-drawn falcon." | windhover |
| "let it be for nought." | if thou must love me |
| fonny | if beale street could talk |
| "sunstone" | paz |
| "dr. heidegger's experiment" | hawthorne |
| sonny | welty |
| machiavel | marlowe |
| "love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds." | shakespeare |
| sergeant troy | gabriel |
| "samiel" | devil |
| tom stoppard | rosencrantz |
| george chapman | iliad |
| daniel deronda | eliot |
| "going on a journey" | goethe |
| krypton | superman |
| "mid-term break," | heaney |
| deus ex machina | tartuffe |
| argas | tartuffe |
| igraine | arthur |
| estrella | rizal |
| craiglockhart hospital | sassoon |
| apostol | rizal |
| oliver goldsmith | she stoops to conquer |
| "dreamers." | sassoon |
| "the horse on the mountain." | lorca |
| clarel | melville |
| hassan to amir | thousand |
| the generation of '27 | lorca |
| "with eyes of cold silver" | lorca |
| "romance sonambulo." | lorca |
| "could sit and ponder all day" | welty |
| bret easton ellis | 80s |
| richard adams | watership down |
| gina apostol | rizal |
| mimi c. magsalin | rizal |
| beli | trujillo |
| madame arcati | coward |
| "montage" | dream |
| other rooms | dill |
| luciana [loo--nah | syracuse |
| skully's landing | capote |
| thiazi | feet |
| fedallah | pequod |
| hazel | watership down |
| lawrence rainey | waste land |
| sassoon | sassoon |
| johann blumenbach | race |
| kazuo ishiguro | butler |
| clee hill | shropshire lad |
| barsad | tale of two cities |
| "fester[s] like a sore." | dream |
| bill oliver | death of a salesman |
| kalabis | havel |
| aegisthus in an aeschylus | clytaemnestra |
| on being brought | wheat |
| "adieu, the flow'ry plain" | wheat |
| anne rutledge | lincoln |
| arthur dimmesdale | scarlet letter |
| "why, phoebus, moves thy car so slow?" | wheat |
| "beardless children" | pearl |
| bradstreet | age |
| catherine barkley | farewell to arms |
| "desperate men" | ransom of red |
| diotallevi | eco |
| "no man is an island." | donne |
| "the green door." | green |
| secretaire | letter |
| caroline lamb | byron |
| "come again... / tho' it were ten thousand mile." | rose |
| ali baba in the one thousand | arabic |
| "we can remember it for you wholesale" | invasion of earth |
| "malt does more than milton can / to justify god's ways to man." | shropshire lad |
| night of the iguana | williams |
| vahn | statue |
| giant peach | wonka |
| richard brinsley sheridan | ireland |
| pizan | rose |
| "moor of venice?" | othello |
| adolphe le bon | poe |
| well of loneliness | hall |
| bright lights | 80s |
| welty | welty |
| sean o'casey | ireland |
the kite runner (country) | afghanistan |
| madame arnoux | flaubert |
| "thy firmness makes my circle just," | metaphysical |
| frederic moreau | flaubert |
| "on the front porch at frank martin's drying-out facility" | carver |
| "early though the laurel grows / it withers quicker than the rose." | shropshire lad |
| betty smith | trees |
| "life and opinions." | sterne |
| in sonnet | time |
| "hermaphroditism" | sterne |
| "sweet and fitting," | ode |
| farraday | butler |
| "the train came out of the long tunnel" | snow |
| ignacio sanchez mejias | lorca |
strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde | stevenson |
the ponder heart | welty |
| reichenbach falls with moriarty | sherlock |
| "i think we are in rat's alley / where the dead men lost their bones." | waste land |
| "death by drowning," | kafka |
| jose arcadio buendia | one hundred years of solitude |
| marie cordona | camus |
| "piece of string" | maupassant |
| baoyu | monk |
| "how terrible and brief was my desire of you!" | song of despair |
| africa to america | wheat |
| identified with the bennu | phoenix |
| blithe spirit | coward |
| august wilson | pittsburgh |
| abulafia | eco |
| "deferred?" | dream |
| coatlicue | feather |
| troezen to athens | theseus |
| donne | canonization |
| "also a chimney sweep." | carver |
| pharos | cavafy |
| calling out to yeti | stalin |
| "hobby-horse" | sterne |
| "listen to the reed and the tale it tells" | persian |
| "boum" | passage to india |
| fa'agogo | oral |
| "letter from birmingham jail." | king |
| "fair youth." | four |
| the mountaintop | hall |
| astrov | doctor |
a thousand splendid suns (country) | afghanistan |
| "a simple heart." | flaubert |
| big city | 80s |
| "a little phrase" | in search of lost time |
| sign in sidney | hansberry |
| rosalind | as you like it |
| jack merridew | samneric |
| hal 9000 | 2001 |
| s. behrman | octopus |
| mccarthyism in the crucible | miller |
| eugene | duel |
| waverly jong | tan |
| isaac cline | larson |
| queen of spades | pushkin |
| louise mallard | chopin |
| columbine | pierrot |
| jem finch in to kill a mockingbird | atticus |
| "romance" | aesop |
| perry index | aesop |
| "one-shot," | atticus |
| vinteuil | in search of lost time |
| "the diary of p." | handmaid |
| "in a kingdom by the sea" | annabel lee |
| mary lamb | shakespeare |
| klara | never let me go |
| "rain is when the earth is television" | mars |
| brief history of seven killings | jamaica |
| "an image of africa" | conrad |
| zeno of elea | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| mangan | dublin |
| lheureux | emma |
| "paralysis" | dublin |
| civilizing process | levi-strauss |
| streep | thatcher |
| like touchstone | all's well that ends well |
| fa'alupega | oral |
| edmund spenser | willie |
| bleh | lemuel |
| emil sinclair | hesse |
| christine | cook |
| clybourne park improvement association | karl |
| wilkins micawber | uriah |
| zhahn val-zhahn | miserables |
| "the boy who cried wolf" | aesop |
| "edge." | child |
| ian buruma | naipaul |
| "into the red eye, the cauldron of morning." | ariel |
| pythian | ode |
| "the very end of the world" | heart of darkness |
| "exterminate all the brutes!" | heart of darkness |
| andre gide | france |
| "as is painting, so is poetry" | horace |
| sherry | laureate |
| "confessional biography." | naipaul |
| where jacques | touchstone |
| lavache | all's well that ends well |
"time's winged chariot" | to his coy mistress |
| "slow-chapped power" | marvell |
| "complicated man." | homer |
| "speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold. for 10 points each: name this poem that asks, " | those winter sundays |
| hall's | king |
| "n plus seven" | oulipo |
| joseph kell | burgess |
| "deserts of vast eternity" | marvell |
| "oh, whistle, and i'll come to you, my lad," | ghost |
| "a cup of wine, under the flowering trees." | li |
| "notes" | dostoyevsky |
| "burning city." | vietnam |
| joe crowell | grover's corners |
| splendid phoenix | dream of the red chamber |
| theodore roethke's | world war ii |
| "palm-of-the-hand stories" | kawabata |
| sherman mccoy | bonfire of the vanities |
| "honest abe" | bonfire of the vanities |
| "domestic fool." | all's well that ends well |
| life of great american cities | corner |
| semele | dionysus |
| deianeira | river |
| "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" | cummings |
| catriona | stevenson |
| "nymph's reply" | marlowe |
| baker street | sherlock |
| dolorous stroke | fisher king |
| "impulse was converted into momentary figures." | billiard |
| penguin books | lady chatterley's lover |
| "revolt," | flowers of evil |
| "errors" | bradstreet |
| novy mir | solzhenitsyn |
| the devil's elixirs | uncanny |
| "you." | second person |
| edgar ramirez | hawai'i |
| "the man that corrupted hadleyburg" | twain |
| giles corey | press |
| "just sag, like a heavy load" | dream deferred |
| macduff | macbeth |
| "childe harold's pilgrimage" | byron |
| "the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war" | stowe |
| "time is tied to the wrist" | mars |
| quimbo | simon |
| "foundations" | asimov |
| rolling the r's | hawai'i |
| "careers." | stranger |
| moonstone | diamond |
| "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 |
| professor uzzi | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| vladimir lensky | duel |
| matsukaze | zeami |
| "even f may become o, q, y, and perhaps also r." | garden party |
| those winter sundays | wheatley |
| horacio oliveira | cortazar |
| tayo | ceremony |
| "horror of distance" | odour |
| david herbert lawrence | lawrence |
| florante sanchez | hawai'i |
| "there shall be no more cakes and ale?" | twelfth night |
| vesper lynd | bond |
| pribislav hippe | magic mountain |
| sutter | wilson |
| "between my finger and thumb, the squat pen rests. i'll dig with it." | heaney |
| isle of skye | to the lighthouse |
| donald | tracy |
| intima theater | proscenium |
| wallis | beasts of the southern wild |
| hoke colburn | driving miss daisy |
| bridge of san luis rey | wilder |
| "pisan" | cantos |
| "christian, i'm not a." | davis |
| gerard de villefort | count of monte cristo |
| "the castle," | bald soprano |
| in pharaoh | vietnam |
| "the prize we sought is won." | o captain! my captain |
| seven seas | omeros |
| sequel to drum | o captain! my captain |
| burns | kiss |
| "300 years" | omeros |
| nws | united kingdom |
| margaret peel | lucky |
| "gather ye rosebuds while ye may" | herrick |
| zamora linmark | hawai'i |
| brave orchid | hawai'i |
| "accept" | sunrise |
| noh | zeami |
| "a tattered coat upon a stick." | old |
| mary warren | crucible |
| "all the world's a stage." | seven ages of |
| horus | osiris |
| "weaker" | shaw |
| cope | larkin |
| "today we all know very well that a may be often b as well as a" | garden party |
| essays one | davis |
| pharsalia | petrarch |
| pinzada | interpreter of maladies |
| carol ann duffy | cope |
| "the enormous radio" | swimmer |
| james baldwin | mead |
| akela | wolf |
| scanlan | thompson |
| in saki | wolf |
| grossman | love in the time of cholera |
marilla cuthbert | anne of green gables |
| "rolls the executions on his tongue like berries" | stalin |
| nizami | persian |
| pale king | wallace |
| scarlett | mitchell |
| best actress | driving miss daisy |
| "listen my children and you shall hear / the midnight ride of paul revere" | longfellow |
| "to lucasta going to the warres." | lovelace |
| "eternal recurrence." | nietzsche |
| shirley | welty |
| corporal himmelstoss | all quiet on the western front |
| strindberg | proscenium |
| in the signifying monkey | equiano |
| if not | sappho |
| hasanaginica | goethe |
| craig raine | mars |
| "ain't i a woman?" | truth |
| " lists " | dapple |
| "water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink" | albatross |
| "making the audience bow their heads as if they had been hit by a blast of wind." | courage |
| rehana | desertion |
| vercelli codex | cross |
| englishmen | diamond |
| miss marple | lady of shalott |
| "if ever two were one, then surely we" | bradstreet |
| member of the wedding | mccullers |
| mccullers | ballad of the |
| tibullus | elegy |
| woman in the nineteenth century | fuller |
| "the blessed damozel" | rossetti |
| "sailing home from rapallo" | lowell |
| lampito | lysistrata |
| zenith | wallace |
| "after such knowledge, what forgiveness?" | eliot |
| tobias smollett | sterne |
| wayne booth | author |
| "school of resentment" | author |
| "party on the right" | saramago |
| wu song | water margin |
| logan killicks | their eyes were watching god |
| edinburgh review | romanticism |
| "you are caught in the drift." | sea rose |
| lost illusions | lucien |
| cynthia | bar |
| too late the phalarope | paton |
| carpentier | magical realism |
| baltasar | saramago |
| meshach | daniel |
| sportsman's sketches | turgenev |
| cathy ames | east of |
| jacques georges | age |
| "the land was ours before we were the land's." | frost |
| "desert" | nemo |
| jim smiley | webster |
| jose burgos | name of the rose |
| antigua | mansfield park |
| titus andronicus | philomel |
| "spice" | dune |
| "arms, and the man i sing." | virgil |
| roland barthes | author |
| juan preciado | mexico |
| abednego | daniel |
| ottava rima | sailing to byzantium |
| "the secret life of walter mitty." | thurber |
| "schartz-metterklume method." | saki |
the silent cry | oe |
| takashi | oe |
| "continuous as the stars that shine / and twinkle on the milky way." | i wandered lonely as a cloud |
| a 's own | woolf |
| chinese literature | journey to the west |
william styron | sophie's choice |
| "lame balloonman" | in just |
| for anatole | mallarme |
| coral | red |
| "next tomorrow" | macbeth |
| caroline b. dow | millay |
| koo-lohm | siren |
| "risorgimento black and gold casket" | lowell |
| "all-purpose poem for state occasions" | cope |
| "napoleon's at the invalides." | lowell |
| "meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf" | sea rose |
| martin pearce | desertion |
| sweet thursday | cannery row |
| battlefield earth | hubbard |
| bird | oe |
| "curious incident of the dog in the night-time." | sherlock holmes |
| djali | esmeralda |
| "father of american anthropology." | boas |
| jerry siegel | superman |
| marco | view from the |
| ganelon | charlemagne |
godfrey ablewhite | the moonstone |
| jay rubin | murakami |
| "of the spangled mind." | ode to aphrodite |
| ruby turpin | revelation |
| "classics." | heaney |
| esteban trueba | house of the spirits |
| "interesting narrative" | equiano |
| daodu | soyinka |
| lycia | iobates |
| elli | age |
| freyr | muspelheim |
| "the thin men of haddam." | bird |
| ralph steadman | thompson |
| ivor | dentist |
| "then while we live, in love let's so persevere, / that when we live no more, we may live ever." | loving husband |
| "like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies." | she walks in beauty |
"lake poets" | romanticism |
| journeyman years | wilhelm meister |
| faehmel | boll |
| side of paradise | fitzgerald |
| gerald duval | all quiet on the western front |
| "i want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees," | neruda |
| roman elegies | goethe |
| "every day you play" | neruda |
| "four monarchies," | bradstreet |
| regents park | mrs |
| fitzcarraldo | tokarczuk |
| "merely funny" | not bloody likely |
| cyrano de bergerac | rostand |
| welcome to the monkey house | vonnegut |
| "fur fla bis fle" | ghost |
| kate croy | italy |
| "petersburg tale" | bronze horseman |
| flask | white |
| luis de | portuguese |
| ronny heaslop | passage to india |
| gone with the wind | mitchell |
| john singer | heart is a lonely |
| vassar | millay |
| eric | finnegans wake |
| isabella thorpe | northanger abbey |
| tabitha | baseball |
| billiards at half | boll |
| elicio | cervantes |
| neptune by claus of innsbruck | my last duchess |
| twins | awakening |
| liesel meminger | book thief |
| tsimtsum | pi |
| russell-saunders | tenth of december |
| yevgeny | bronze horseman |
| "the center was not holding" | didion |
| "brief" | we real cool |
| sketchbook of geoffrey crayon | irving |
| george wilson | jay gatsby |
| "time held me green and dying, though i sang in my chains like the sea." | fern hill |
| fable for critics | lowell |
| captain underpants | pilkey |
| ponyboy curtis | outsiders |
| orgoglio | faerie queene |
| shui ta | good person |
| moon is a harsh mistress | heinlein |
| pechorin | lermontov |
"narrow fellow in the grass" | dickinson |
| red center | handmaid's tale |
| "triple goddesses," | moon |
| tobias wolff | vietnam |
| derek hartfield | murakami |
| alfred birnbaum | murakami |
| "verses upon the burning of our house" | bradstreet |
| aunt polly | paint |
| poole | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| pole in spanish | coetzee |
| john nefastis | crying of lot 49 |
| connecticut yankee in king arthur | twain |
| "auguries of innocence," | robin |
| radius | robot |
| "dying." | dracula |
| diedrich knickerbocker | irving |
| "tonight i can" | write |
| "tower of babylon." | chiang |
| "how do i love thee? let me count the ways." | sonnets from the portuguese |
| prince hal | falstaff |
| "there will come soft rains," | bradbury |
| bel | daniel |
| morgan freeman | driving miss daisy |
| edward rochester | bertha |
| blimunda | saramago |
| immoralist | gide |
| tabrizi | rumi |
| district commissioner | nigeria |
| chapter 15 | bonfire of the vanities |
| orpheus and eurydice | france |
| string of pearls | sweeney |
| lieutenant dan in forrest gump | sinise |
| "american bandstand" | ignatius |
| "what happens to" | dream |
| benh zeitlin | beasts of the southern wild |
| soma | brave new world |
| charlotte lucas | pride and prejudice |
| red harvest | hammett |
| in the thin man | nick and nora |
| nick andros | lowe |
| "literary descendant of the confession" | autobiography |
| princess helene | natasha |
| "among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye" | bird |
| eugenides | waste land |
| "the judgment" | kafka |
| theophilus msimangu's | cry, the beloved country |
| publius | syria |
| "there on the sad height," | do not go gentle into that good night |
| henry carr | stoppard |
| "grow old along with me! / the best is yet to be" | rabbi ben ezra |
| joe shuster | superman |
| christopher reeve | superman |
| " wrote " | hopkins |
| "the fall of house voticky" | capek |
| gaudy night | wimsey |
| hillalum | chiang |
| "the story of your life," | chiang |
| doors of perception | huxley |
| never do again | wallace |
| william hale | murder |
| captain shotover | shaw |
| the flies | orestes |
| merton densher | italy |
| supposedly fun thing | wallace |
| melchizedek analogizes | decameron |
| "to resist the hegemony of the english language." | coetzee |
| "destroyer and preserver" | ode to the west wind |
| hunter s. thompson | horse |
| my father | autobiography |
| arnolphe | school for wives |
| game warden | sinatra |
| frank chin | autobiography |
| "tales of passion." | ted |
| "where am i going to?" | car |
| ts'ui pen | garden of forking paths |
| blofeld | james |
| mary's frankenstein | shelley |
| hand of ethelberta | hardy |
| arabella donn | jude the |
| arthur donnithorne | adam |
| tom canty | prince and the pauper |
| ragtime | houdini |
| tsezar | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "verses" | eliot |
| st. elizabeth's | pound |
| "this is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper." | eliot |
| rossum | robot |
| "you are alone." | monologue |
| "will v-day be me-day too?" | hughes |
| room of one | woolf |
| "jewel stairs' grievance." | li |
| "there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go" | cummings |
| clair | simon |
| "it is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings" | li |
| d'arthur | galahad |
| "alterest all things with thy peering eyes." | poe |
| golden shovel | brooks |
| nadsat | russian |
| "an experiment in literary investigation," | gulag archipelago |
| just to say | williams |
| "i am an american, [this city] born." | chicago |
| "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 |
| "what immortal hand or eye / could frame thy [this two-word phrase]?" | fearful symmetry |
| john mcclane | die hard |
| elizabeth drury | world |
| spanish tragedy | pamuk |
aleksandr solzhenitsyn | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| dust bowl | steinbeck |
| crispin | stevens |
| "eat the cones" | frost |
| that hecht | dover beach |
| "game of thrones with footnotes." | mueller report |
| le morte | galahad |
| vachel lindsay | lincoln |
| arrowsmith | lewis |
| pauper | twain |
| bright star | keats |
| jake lonergan in cowboys | craig |
| recreation | lowe |
| "wandering steps and slow" | adam |
| "a dimpled spider, fat and white, holding up a moth" | frost |
| "riverrun past" | adam |
| zhen | water margin |
| vulture peak | buddha |
| thomas stockmann | enemy of the people |
| "purely, as they turn from praise." | how do i love thee |
| fearful symmetry | frye |
| "solitary way" | adam |
| alfred jarry | apartheid |
| ubu roi | apartheid |
| "that government is best which governs least." | thoreau |
| "giant wings prevent him from walking." | flowers of evil |
| "the nutcracker and the mouse king" | hoffmann |
| coppelius | hoffmann |
| major scobie | diamond |
| "the canary." | mansfield |
| cheshire cat in alice | carroll |
| weiss | bonfire of the vanities |
| great mahlke in cat | grass |
| ludvik jahn | kundera |
| golan trevize | asimov |
| air india flight | mukherjee |
| "rare and radiant maiden" | raven |
| yusef | diamond |
| thomas russell sullivan | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| thomas bertram | mansfield park |
| "the philosophy of composition," | raven |
| "a gypsy's child" | habanera |
| mikael blomkvist in the american | craig |
| craig | dr. no |
| sam seaborn on the west wing | lowe |
| group of noble dames | hardy |
| miss pinkerton | vanity |
| minister jack eccles | harry |
| mead | boas |
| archibald macleish | be |
| sentimental journey | sterne |
| "all i could see from where i stood / was three long mountains and a wood." | renascence |
| "froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer" | soldier |
| in sylvia plath | nazi |
| german industrialist | schindler's ark |
| catronia | kidnapped |
| "upon appleton house." | marvell |
| hikari | oe |
| sambo | simon |
| "dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah," | flowers of evil |
| "perestroika," | 1980 |
| said | salammbo |
| " in his poem " | williams |
| fountainhead | rand |
| "disillusionment of ten o'clock." | stevens |
| porfiry petrovich | crime and punishment |
| madness of king george | bennett |
| fair labor standards act | minimum |
| "peppered with thorn pricks" | blackberry |
| laura miller | mueller report |
| "darkling plain" | dover beach |
| latin to an oxford | wimsey |
| old creole days | confederacy of |
| "when i heard the learn'd astronomer," | whitman |
| ohio impromptu | beckett |
| sean connery | dr. no |
| communist president | czech |
| svidrigailov | crime and punishment |
| roderick | poe |
| "white night-gowns," | stevens |
| "placetne, magistra?" | wimsey |
| "i cultivate a white rose" | cuba |
| eugenie grandet | balzac |
| amazing adventures of kavalier | chabon |
| tucson | color purple |
| "scatter, wheeling in great broken rings, upon their clamoring wings." | yeats |
| claude frollo | esmeralda |
| "forget-me-nots of the angels." | longfellow |
| bacchus | portuguese |
| la luna | old gringo |
| round table | lancelot |
| s. wu | romance of the three kingdoms |
| greek war of independence | byron |
| "jangling journalist" | wolfe |
| "oxymorons and serpentae carminael! ... schlock!" | wolfe |
alice b. toklas | stein |
| dinah nuthead | adam |
| stavrogin in the posessed | dostoevsky |
| george washington cable | confederacy of |
| "gogo light--bough not break--gogo dead." | waiting for |
| "o villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this." | dogberry |
| finny | separate |
dom casmurro | brazil |
posthumous memoirs of bras cubas (country) | brazil |
| "someone had blundered" | charge of the light brigade |
| detective mac taylor | sinise |
| eastasia | 1984 |
| glass key | hammett |
| moses jackson | stoppard |
| merricat | jackson |
| "it isn't fair, it isn't right" | jackson |
| invention of love | stoppard |
| "tender is the night." | keats |
| csi | sinise |
| girl with the dragon tattoo | craig |
| "the pit and the pendulum" | poe |
| "what peaches and what penumbras" | ginsberg |
| seymour | glass |
| "where did they get/them two fine cars?" | harlem |
| "night funeral" | harlem |
| warren buffett | interest |
| "my wealth has come from a combination of living in america, some lucky genes, and" | interest |
| "what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / slouches towards bethlehem to be born?" | yeats |
| "green sea" | owen |
| j.m. synge | playboy of the western world |
| maud gonne | yeats |
| "i sang in my chains like the sea" | thomas |
| perry smith | murder |
| "hold back the edges of your gowns, ladies, we are going through hell." | williams |
| "paterson." | williams |
| o-lan | the good |
| jim casy | steinbeck |
| "homer nods" | horace |
| van helsing | dracula |
| "the conversation of the dogs" | cervantes |
| oswald the lucky rabbit | mickey |
| hard times | thurber |
| cradle will rock | welles |
| thin man | hammett |
| hayslope | adam |
| crooks | lennie |
| magister ludi | glass bead game |
| little father time | jude the |
| heart of midlothian | scott |
| house for mr | naipaul |
| street in bronzeville | brooks |
| "love laws" | god of small things |
| "phony." | holden |
| "funes, the memorious." | borges |
| le chiffre | james |
| the and as & aliens | craig |
| stu redman in the stand | sinise |
| "that has made all the difference" | frost |
124 bluestone road | beloved |
| made knight | candle in the |
"chickamauga" | bierce |
| alden pyle | quiet |
| "drowsy syncopated tune" | hughes |
| ben richards | king |
| "she" | bond |
| "outback." | australia |
| "rime" | ancient mariner |
| zillah | wuthering heights |
"my kingdom for a horse!" | richard iii |
| chicana | mexican |
| "since i cannot prove a lover... i am determined to prove a villain" | richard iii |
| "nana" | zola |
| sholem aleichem | yiddish |
| tomas transtromer | buck |
| carpentered hen | updike |
| sukie | witches of |
| suma | murasaki |
| honey ryder | dr. no |
"on silent haunches" | "fog" |
| sandberg | fog |
| "the stillness round my form was like the stillness in the air" | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
| earwicker | finnegans wake |
| ashima calcutta | lahiri |
| quantum of solace | craig |
| "for carl solomon," | howl |
| "gray-beard loon" | ancient mariner |
| "nightingale." | emperor |
| conseil | verne |
| "dear bosie" | wilde |
| handbook | shaw |
| "a man may, in effect, make a whore of his own wife" | defoe |
| "bury my heart at wounded knee" | benet |
| little em | david |
| good man is hard to find | o'connor |
if beale street could talk | baldwin |
| goodreads | pnin |
| mel | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" | hughes |
| tonkunstler society | salieri |
| pellinore | questing beast |
| "the deceitful marriage," | berganza |
| full surrogacy now | ferrante |
| bangor | handmaid |
| governor bellingham | scarlet letter |
| "demon-child." | scarlet letter |
| persuasion | austen |
| stamp paid | beloved |
| "a psalm of life." | longfellow |
| "be a man, my son," | kipling |
| "key." | simon |
| "like the quarry-slave at night, scourged to his dungeon" | bryant |
| "did he who made the lamb make thee?" | blake |
| "the ransom of red chief" | henry |
| amijima | love |
| autobiography of an ex | georgia |
| in platero | jimenez |
| pan tadeusz | poland |
| colored man | georgia |
| mantel | interloper |
| essays of elia | lamb |
| "history is about to crack wide open. millennium approaches." | rosenberg |
| my name is red | pamuk |
| robert cohn | the sun also |
| "knew no haste." | because i could not stop for death |
| "nine and fifty" | yeats |
| smersh | bond |
| tarrou | bernard |
| lao she | cat |
| "ithaka." | cavafy |
| december in stockholm | buck |
| in the beauty of the lilies | updike |
| ataguitania | calvino |
| delamarche | kafka |
| karl | kafka |
| "only the wind's home," | waste land |
| starship troopers | heinlein |
| pollux | leda |
| gutman | maltese |
| lillian hellman | hammett |
| claudia chauchat | magic mountain |
| wilhelm gustloff | grass |
| indiana state auditor chris traeger on parks | lowe |
| unnameable | beckett |
| "2 + 2 = 5." | winston |
| lexa, jane | witches of |
| enemy of the people | two minutes hate |
| sir topas | twelfth night |
| richard huelsenbeck | dada |
| pride and prejudice | austen |
| ennius | scipio |
| chikamatsu | puppet |
| senator jakob | kafka |
| dead souls | gogol |
| pencey prep | holden |
| hetty sorrell | adam |
| "that you are losing." | greek |
| "the conscience of the nation" | boll |
| yale series of younger poets | auden |
| "if they give you ruled paper, write the other way." | jimenez |
| wolf hall | mantel |
| "action." | falling |
| national steinbeck center | salinas |
| the stand | lowe |
| airstrip one | winston |
| "scud" | nabokov |
| david mamet | united states |
| speak, memory | nabokov |
| cloud messenger | sanskrit |
| academy for young ladies | vanity |
| misfit | o'connor |
| the dial | second coming |
| rusanov | solzhenitsyn |
| tudor arghezi | ionesco |
| queens marie | ionesco |
| rankeillor | kidnapped |
| last temptation | jesus |
| "cabin of clay and wattles." | lake isle of innisfree |
| nagra | dover |
| death on the nile | shaffer |
| "the beloved" | pale fire |
| biswas | naipaul |
| judgement day | violent bear it away |
| "sunflower sutra." | ginsberg |
| four quartets | eliot |
| valenod | red and the black |
| "bad moral character" | dickens |
| lying life of adults | ferrante |
| daljit nagra | dover |
| real inspector hound | stoppard |
| kenzaburo oe | personal matter |
| "huddled/camouflage" | dover |
| charley | steinbeck |
| "not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the british guards" | dickens |
| fisher king | grail |
| drones club | jeeves |
| three tall women | albee |
| "the stars went out and so did the moon" | hughes |
| de ropp | saki |
| axel | roxas |
| "rappaccini's daughter," | hawthorne |
| hetton abbey | waugh |
| "the public and its problems" | james |
| 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 |
| "single man in possession of a good fortune" | darcy |
| joseph of arimathea | grail |
| wickham | darcy |
| ephesus | petronius |
| constantine cavafy | greek |
| "dying / is an art, like everything else. / i do it exceptionally well," | lazarus |
| "the chimney sweeper" | blake |
| "homage" | bradstreet |
| race to the top | education |
| michael sheen | six characters in search of an author |
| death of ivan illyich | tolstoy |
| national league rookie of the year | rickey |
| "conception of the primal horde," | darwin |
| stages on life | either/or |
| zverkov | turgenev |
| "i was the shadow of the waxwing slain" | pale fire |
| john raffles | eliot |
| nicholas bulstrode | eliot |
| luis de gongora | spain |
| "drowned phoenician sailor" | eliot |
| harry domin | robots |
| barnstable | cape cod |
| "to a haggis." | burns |
| catholic mass | nicene |
| in john | dirt |
| gar-san | no exit |
| no child left behind act | education |
| "being read to by a boy." | eliot |
| "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" | eliot |
| "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 |
| madeleine forestier | maupassant |
| laurel hand | welty |
| "what mad nijinsky wrote / about diaghilev." | auden |
| "great chieftain of the puddin' race!" | burns |
| thisman | poe |
| judge mckelva | welty |
| parul sehgal | woolf |
| lord of aratta | tower of babel |
"life for me ain't been no crystal stair" | langston hughes |
| bel ami | maupassant |
| "dream variations" | hughes |
| "night coming tenderly, black like me." | hughes |
| newland archer | age of innocence |
| mathilde de la mole | red and the black |
| "an old man in a dry month" | eliot |
| "the wasteland." | eliot |
| spring snow | mishima |
| bonus british | peter |
| "crawled under a lorry." | gus |
| "the metamorphosis." | kafka |
| "the case against" | woolf |
| "young goodman brown." | hawthorne |
| "elements and an angelic sprite," | holy sonnets |
| "strikes it rich" | yiddish |
| adrian leverkuhn | mann |
| lewis hyde | stevenson |
| may welland | age of innocence |
| javert | drown |
| hugh hayden | poet laureate |
| "master" | basho |
| valladolid | berganza |
| isolation | erikson |
| sound of the mountain | kawabata |
| du mal | baudelaire |
| u. v | tamil |
| "indiana general" | old gringo |
| "great white wings/drag beside them like oars" | baudelaire |
| "woman hollering creek" | llorona |
| duchess of malfi | webster |
| betrayed by rita hayworth | puig |
| adham, gabal | children |
| ngugi wa thiong'o | kenya |
| "coastal shelf." | larkin |
| poprishchin | diary of a madman |
| roanoke | paul d |
| dick hickock | capote |
| samuel m. johnson's | dictionary |
| "save the children" | china |
| hamza | muhammad |
| "beowulf: the monsters and the critics." | tolkien |
| haemon | antigone |
| mickey mouse | iwerks |
| cisneros | llorona |
| "pretend i'm chaste," | spanish |
| my lovely | philip |
| hilaire belloc | chesterton |
| bristol | cabot |
| agatha christie | train |
| koran | william |
| "mother of exiles" | new colossus |
| pancho villa | mexico |
| edith wharton | age of innocence |
| "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" | letter from birmingham jail |
| gao xingjian | mountain |
| enmerkar | tower of babel |
| jenkins | revolution |
| almustafa | prophet |
| jenny cameron | fielding |
| "eat people." | china |
| max mallowan | christie |
| "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation" | sandburg |
| james kirke paulding | irving |
| sandy williams | hughes |
| john alden | longfellow |
| trasks | steinbeck |
| "mezzo cammin" | longfellow |
| "perceiving functions," | jung |
| "notes and errata" | infinite jest |
| "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 |
| "if you're anything like me." | swift |
| "hush'd be the camps." | whitman |
| enoch emery | o'connor |
| shigekuni honda | mishima |
| "naturalist," | zola |
| "dr[ies] up, like a raisin in the sun?" | hughes |
| james dillingham young | henry |
| "the courtship of miles standish," | longfellow |
| "fort-da" | freud |
| "[this event] will not be televised." | revolution |
| "the lone survivors of the shipwreck" | swift |
| post-fourier | infinite jest |
| kenneth branagh | christie |
| "literary offenses" | cooper |
| elulu | ur |
| "does the set of all those sets that do not contain themselves [pause] contain itself?" | paradox |
| oliver effingham | cooper |
| into | painter |
| "she looked over his shoulder" | auden |
| "there are millions of suns left," | song of myself |
| "acreation of the devil." | bell |
| thirsty | richard parker |
| "wherefore art thou" | descriptions of |
| "you're not dylan thomas, i'm not patti smith" | swift |
| holy spirit in acts | tower of babel |
| "do i contradictmyself" | song of myself |
| pendulumandthe name of the rose | eco |
| "horny feet" | emperor of ice-cream |
| "shield maidens" | valkyrie |
| baloo | jungle book |
| vaugoubert | in search of lost time |
| sunay zaim | snow |
| patrick bateman | american psycho |
| "stillness" | earth |
| elijah bailey | earth |
| seven books of the diana | verona |
| "wolves" | kesey |
| shingo ogata in a kawabata | mountain |
| "i come, my sweet, to sing to you" | williams |
| "spacer" | earth |
| henry stamper | kesey |
| "i want to trade my horse for her house, my saddle for her mirror, my knife for her blanket" | lorca |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "two honest confessions" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "longing inspired by the law of gravity." | palestine |
| "legal" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "our symbols." | palestine |
| mahmoud darwish | palestine |
| petronius | polish |
| "west briton" | dead |
| "a mouse crossing the floor," | tell-tale heart |
| "green and wooden" | williams |
| fifth season | earth |
| "a negative peace which is the absence of tension." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| "a cricket which has made a single chirp." | tell-tale heart |
| "we are going to have fun" | island |
| "lured" | flower |
| trappist | dead |
| beatriz | coetzee |
| "littluns" | island |
| "coaxed" | flower |
| "avarice" | flower |
| mexico in the old gringo | fuentes |
| amir | kite runner |
| "danse russe" | williams |
| 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 |
| "can't appreciate these quilts" | walker |
| "chronicle of the nineteenth century." | red and the black |
| "narrative structures" | bond |
| "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 |
| "cocoons" | passage to india |
| "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 |
| saeed | west |
| "dostioffski," | on the road |
| "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 |
| roethke | villanelle |
| "drop into thyself, and be a fool" | pope |
| houdan | saki |
| "distancing effect" | brecht |
| 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 |
"epistle to dr. arbuthnot" | pope |
| shug avery | walker |
| 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 |
| "flesh," | lorca |
| "never give an inch!" | kesey |
| "kissambushed" | dada |
| "creature that bulged" | island |
| anna lundberg | six characters in search of an author |
| celie in the color purple | walker |
| "sever." | kiss |
| "terrence, this is stupid stuff," | housman |
| a. s. kline's | sonnet |
| uncle anoosh | marjane |
| reza | marjane |
| forest brotherhood | doctor zhivago |
| nikolai | doctor zhivago |
| "three classics" | yiddish |
| "leaping and creeping" | lilliput |
| evgraf | doctor zhivago |
| mingotts | age of innocence |
| "dashing and not very respectable," | saki |
| ernst stavro blofeld | bond |
| "heavy judger of men." | moloch |
| "the sunny pavement of greenwich village." | kaddis |
| "tell st. peter to open the gates" | fences |
| graz | marjane |
| "40 meters and a pipe." | west |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| remedia amoris | ovid |
"poems are made by fools like me, but only god can make a tree." | kilmer |
| "ah, sunflower!" | ginsberg |
rootabaga stories | sandburg |
| "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 |
| "hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads, and freight handler to the nation." | chicago |
| rushdie | midnight's children |
| "who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" | pope |
| penelopiad | greek |
| nuttel | saki |
| "to err is human; to forgive, divine." | pope |
| "tobermory." | saki |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| la vita nuova | sonnet |
| mexico city by dean moriarty | on the road |
| "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 |
| human acts | south korea |
| miep gies | frank |
| mouschi | frank |
| vulgate cycle | grail |
| gwendolen harleth | eliot |
| "rest cure" | husband |
| panamericana in mario vargas llosa | radio |
| "i took all...my dreams...and i buried them inside you," | fences |
| "ten times worse when they repent." | pope |
| "atelier" | six characters in search of an author |
| wangero | walker |
| st. lucian | greek |
| "life and lies" | brecht |
| "antithesis of the thames." | africa |
| "beautiful colors" | emperor |
| "slow-stepped verse," | sanskrit |
| "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 |
| "a splash quite unnoticed" | williams |
| sons of jacob | gilead |
| 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 |
| "sonny boy" | jeeves |
| "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 |
| dick kennedy | verne |
| "the mad scene. enter ophelia!" | long day's journey into night |
| "feudal spirit," | jeeves |
| nottle | jeeves |
| "old age should burn and rage at close of day." | thomas |
| 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 |
| "i like mysteries but i rather dislike muddles," | passage to india |
| cyril fielding | passage to india |
| liberius | doctor zhivago |
| "heart's abhorrence" | spain |
| "-orooni" | on the road |
| good person of szechuan | brecht |
| "each time you happen to me all over again" | age of innocence |
| lawrence lefferts | age of innocence |
| harlem shadows | mckay |
| scottish highlands | rob roy |
| "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 |
| dussel | frank |
| "life-blood seemed to sip" | ancient mariner |
| "farewell to english." | africa |
| "royal blood." | grail |
| flegetanis | grail |
| e. i. lonoff | frank |
| "discovering home" | africa |
| "taboo subjects" | africa |
| max gottlieb | lewis |
| "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 |
| "ridiculus sum" | bovary |
| 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 |
| "secret annex." | frank |
| "skin...white as leprosy" | ancient mariner |
| "chloe liked olivia." | room of one's own |
| "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 |
| "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." | second coming |
| la belle dame | keats |
| glasgow cathedral | rob roy |
| 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 |
| "for the colour of his hair." | wilde |
| "leads." | united states |
| cady's life | frank |
| the van daans | frank |
| "suspension of disbelief" | ancient mariner |
| gussie fink | jeeves |
| "silly novels by lady novelists." | eliot |
| "his happy good-night air/some blessed hope, whereof he knew/and i was unaware." | darkling thrush |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "linoleum roses on the floor." | mexican |
| "cemetery of reconciliation." | grass |
| "vinegar-faced" | wuthering heights |
| old man warner | jackson |
| spring of my life | haiku |
| "you must keep writing." | mexican |
| larry mccaslin | god of small things |
| "i'll shake the sky / like a hundred violins" | mexican |
| "c.3.3." | wilde |
| "meditation upon death." | thanatopsis |
| diana vernon | rob roy |
| camus | plague |
| "the will to believe," | james |
| leora | lewis |
| "all the world to nothing! ha!" | richard iii |
| "rudely stamp'd" | richard iii |
| "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 |
| "not shaped for sportive tricks." | richard iii |
| dorn | seagull |
| sorin | seagull |
| carry on | jeeves |
| samuel ferguson | verne |
| "the great art of making money," | room of one's own |
| "likes looking at the walls" | mexican |
| "spring is passing" | haiku |
| elise pachen | murder |
| evie | murder |
| "a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up up up" | nineteen eighty-four |
| boris trigorin | seagull |
| david grann | murder |
| eurotas | helen |
| tom joad | grapes of wrath |
| "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 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 |
| "awake!" | farsi |
| "thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess" | wuthering heights |
| gorgias | helen |
| "what is that tree?" | seagull |
| merricat blackwood | jackson |
| prince genji | murasaki |
| "aedh wishes for the cloths of heaven" | yeats |
| borderlands | mexican |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| chris hemsworth | snow |
| jeanie deans | scott |
| olga knipper | seagull |
| "little fish" | room of one's own |
| "scuttling" | grass |
| "it is best to be prepared" | god of small things |
| "seventeen months." | russian |
| "darkness" | stoppard |
| "the men sat still - thinking - figuring" | grapes of wrath |
| "all men i hope live so." | richard iii |
| rhodes scholar chacko | god of small things |
| "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 |
| "a wild civility" | herrick |
| "delight in disorder." | herrick |
| "this great war" | uncle tom's cabin |
| keeler to loomis | house on mango street |
| "all that's best of dark and bright" | beauty |
| "old times" | mississippi |
| "life on" | mississippi |
| "but here there are no cows" | frost |
| "my last." | duchess |
| uncle doaker | wilson |
| lord morena | apartheid |
| "zeze the x" | house on mango street |
| "proverbs of hell." | blake |
| four zoas | blake |
| "prophetic book" | blake |
| marriage of heaven | blake |
| gloria anzaldua | mexican |
| oskar matzerath in the tin drum | grass |
| "dewdrop world." | haiku |
| huntsman eric | snow |
| "buzz when [she] died." | flies |
| merci | keats |
| claus of innsbruck | duchess |
| "spot of joy" | duchess |
| "the beast?" | beauty |
| "just this / or that in you disgusts me," | duchess |
| "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 |
| ebling mis | asimov |
| "a minor bird," | frost |
| stephano | caliban |
| frank osbaldistone | rob roy |
| "a dill pickle." | mansfield |
| "only pleasure" | six characters |
| "in search of an author." | six characters |
| coulibi | jane eyre |
| "nenny," | house on mango street |
| thefoundationseries | asimov |
| "gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name," | duchess |
| "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 |
| god with alyosha the baptist in gang | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| two fathoms | mississippi |
| "what the hell are you talking about?" | stoppard |
| "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 |
| "eddieandbill" | in just |
| "in just-." | cummings |
| we the living | rand |
| jacob's room | woolf |
| travels with charley | steinbeck |
| msimangu | stephen |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "english rubaiyat" | pound |
| professor kuckuck | mann |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| plastic people of the universe | stoppard |
| 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 |
| neon bible | toole |
| lin chong | water margin |
| last tycoon | fitzgerald |
| julian west | looking backward |
| scrivener | melville |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| "haunted by humans." | book thief |
| "would always wish evil, and always works the good." | mephistopheles |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "constantly passing bars" | rilke |
| "strike straight." | brooks |
| grunlich | mann |
| 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 |
| levy pants company | confederacy of |
| "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 |
| "whips" | godot |
| st. olaf's | jay gatsby |
| "holiday" | soma |
| victor sings | awakening |
| "some peaceful province" | dryden |
| cicada | murasaki |
| "set traps for freedom" | rilke |
| "wild beast's fur" | rilke |
| "no world" | rilke |
| "china," | cantos |
| macalister | to the |
| thea kronborg | cather |
| daoud | brother |
| crome yellow | huxley |
| esmerelda | hunchback of notre-dame |
| eloi | time |
| princess celestia | twilight |
| "torture one poor word ten thousand ways." | dryden |
| liza dalby | murasaki |
| "wild little plant" | murasaki |
| "superb three-mast" | maupassant |
| "thin like brook water" | pound |
| "oh-bay-ah" | jane eyre |
| zhu bajie | journey to the west |
| "outcasts always mourn" | ballad of reading |
| "keen tremor" | awakening |
| tomas arroyo | mexico |
| "faces of beasts" | rilke |
| klaus mann | mephistopheles |
| wingfield | menagerie |
| "minuscule." | charlemagne |
| ministry of transport | pi |
| "disagreeable little woman" | awakening |
| 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 |
| while at grand isle | awakening |
| "granite carapace" | bronze horseman |
| w. k. wimsatt | author |
| "only disconnect." | didion |
| skeetah | mississippi |
| "if at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it," | seagull |
| "unobstructed world." | rilke |
| "in the opposite house / as lately as today" | death |
| paquette in candide | pangloss |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| lowland | lahiri |
| vikram seth | india |
| cai jing | water margin |
| 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 |
| song jiang | water margin |
| 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 |
| "innumerable centers of culture." | author |
| auerbach | mephistopheles |
| joyeuse | charlemagne |
| "neurasthenic cher" | didion |
| su tong | red |
| but your land is beautiful | paton |
| the sea-wolf | london |
| tadzio in death in venice | mann |
| "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 |
| "old-fashioned what-not" | menagerie |
| hugo the strong | charlemagne |
| "chill corpse" | bronze horseman |
| "frail cottage" | bronze horseman |
| bois sauvage | mississippi |
| "a legendary head / with eyes like ripening fruit." | rilke |
| isaac luria | pi |
| "the only person worth playing for." | awakening |
| addie bundren | mississippi |
| fujitsobo | murasaki |
| nick carraway in the great gatsby | fitzgerald |
| "zampa." | awakening |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| evelyn | bar |
| gardencourt | james |
| "gone, gone, sold and gone" | douglass |
| 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 |
| freedom or death and the | kazantzakis |
| henry tilney | northanger abbey |
| "near me on the grass lies glanvil's book." | scholar-gipsy |
| 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 |
| touchett | james |
| 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 |
| olive chancellor | james |
| "chapter 25" | douglass |
| milton rogers | silas |
| group portrait with lady | boll |
| erastro in la galatea | cervantes |
| camilla | to the |
| bobby thomson | baseball |
| blake poem | tyger |
| "oppresses like the weight of cathedral tunes," | there's a certain slant of light |
| "the bathtub" | hushpuppy |
| "suck'd me first and, now sucks thee." | flea |
| "an apparition of these faces in the crowd; / petals on a wet, black bough." | in a station at the metro |
| curley | of mice and |
| "sophocles long ago / heard it on the aegean," | dover beach |
| "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 |
| azar nafisi | irani |
| olstead | bar |
| "representative american man." | douglass |
| james greenleaf whittier | douglass |
| "weaver of raveloe" | silas |
| kongi's harvest | soyinka |
| "eager faces turning" | o captain! my captain |
| "the great automatic grammatizator." | dahl |
| hank morgan | connecticut yankee in |
| "and men / go often awry." | to a mouse |
| biglow papers | lowell |
| rosemary hoyt | dick |
| other flammable objects | irani |
| reading lolita in tehran | irani |
| katharine peabody loring | james |
| "lectures on liberation." | douglass |
| "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 |
| "six feet." | how much land does a man need |
| in fathers | rand |
| "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 |
| "whistles far and wee," | in just |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| magwitch | philip |
| shadow and act | ellison |
| hushpuppy | beasts of the southern wild |
| 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 |
| "utter loneliness" | douglass |
| aumsa | soyinka |
| "laugh[ed] at the archer." | albatross |
| tom corey | silas |
| going solo | dahl |
| year of the death | ricardo reis |
| mack | cannery row |
| owl eyes | funeral |
| 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 |
| james mccune smith | douglass |
| kuut | south africa |
| "maggie and milly and molly and may" | cummings |
| thomas luck | roaring camp |
| "melancholy air and intellectual abstraction" | hamlet |
| "bashed open skulls" | moloch |
| glum | brobdingnag |
| flay | banquo |
| "more brave than me, more blonde than you." | olaf |
| "daisy bell" | hal 9000 |
| "boz" | dickens |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| angela davis | douglass |
| back bay | silas |
| "ladies of sorrow" | opium |
| "on the deck" | o captain! my captain |
| "all the trophies of his former loves" | lock |
| "mounted to the lunar sphere" | lock |
| "sank like lead" | albatross |
| "rags to riches" | silas |
| helen vendler | o captain! my captain |
| ma kilman | omeros |
| "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 |
| "snow falling faintly" | dublin |
| "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 |
| klondike gold rush | prospector |
| miss dubose | atticus |
| "all he had, a tear" | elegy written in a country |
| according to the hymiskvidha | tyr |
| prince gremin | eugene |
| "glad and big" | olaf |
| kree | tutor |
| mikt | underworld |
| galbis | cuba |
| "make miniature valhalla of my heart" | bird |
| regent's | jekyll becoming |
| farwell to arms | hemingway |
| mohan | house for mr. biswas |
| yossarian | catch-22 |
| dora flood | cannery |
| lennie in of mice | steinbeck |
| lee goodwin | yoknapatawpha |
| in a free state | egypt |
| tortilla flat | california |
| "forges decrees" | russian |
| 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 |
| "pleasure in the pathless woods" | childe harold's |
| joe dimaggio in the old man | hemingway |
| "cigar-girl" | marie |
| "perhaps gracious, perhaps mocking" | hesse |
| "a pain" | bird |
| "real courage" | atticus |
| timothy leary | hesse |
| "the north wind and the sun," | aesop |
| "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 |
| "floats downstream till the current ends" | bird |
| "storm in the sky in the evening" | russian |
| dante tours | divine |
| "a stage where every man must play a part" | merchant of |
| enjolras | javert |
| birnam wood | malcolm |
| sailor who fell | mishima |
| hortensio | tutor |
| "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 |
| "god of death." | electra |
| before lsd | hesse |
| major major major major | milton |
| chant of jimmie blacksmith | australia |
| borachio | much ado about nothing |
| abraxas | hesse |
| autobiography of alice | stein |
| "mobilis in mobili" | nemo |
| "respectful whistle." | catch-22 |
| "c'est moi" | emma |
| "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 |
| brustein | hansberry |
| lotaria | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "horror of the spirit" | jekyll becoming |
| herbert quain | borges |
| nils runeberg | borges |
| julian barnes | emma |
| "prosperous in proper sense" | bird |
| after valjean | drown |
| fleance | banquo |
| "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 |
| yahoo in the land of the houyhnhnms | lemuel |
| calpurnia | cook |
| "a simple man am i" | marti |
| rue pavee | seine |
| "thoroughgoing racist" | conrad |
| "-sih-dus]." | milton |
| grace with the sea | mishima |
| joseph moody | minister's |
| "are apt to forget to remember." | anyone lived in a pretty |
| "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" | elegy written in a country |
| "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 |
| black bottom | wilson |
| koot | underworld |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| virgil thomson | stein |
| "lost generation." | stein |
| "simony," | dublin |
| "the chair she sat in, like a burnished throne" | eliot |
| "unreal city under the brown fog of a winter dawn." | eliot |
| button molder | ibsen |
| "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 |
| yosh | ivan |
| vuh-loh-din | the first circle |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "post data" | paz |
| "nansen kills a kitten" | mishima |
| "keeper" | dream |
| "like a syrupy sweet" | dream |
| "audio-animatronics" | eco |
| "i, [this man]." | claudius |
| haladdin | tolkien |
| "the wood's in trouble" | shropshire lad |
| frij | midas |
| "universal alphabet" | higgins |
| volodin | the first circle |
| eurynome | creation |
| "a palace and a prison on each hand." | venice |
| kwaht | feather |
| geeb | egypt |
| "thanatopsis club" | lewis |
| earth by the river styx | hades |
| goodman grey | minister's |
| john brooke | meg |
| celine varens | edward |
| hermia | lysander |
| tlee | feather |
| pullman porter | brutus |
| "the world no longer let me love. my hope and treasure lie above." | burning |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| madame valmonde | desiree |
| castle of wolfenbach | catherine |
| "mile" | compson |
| ma rainey | wilson |
| alejo carpentier | magic |
| suburban bank | sherlock |
| jay-kez | as you like it |
| banquo | macbeth |
| 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 |
| josy | meg |
| north fork river | roaring camp |
| "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 |
| "there'll be time enough for sleep" | shropshire lad |
| kirill eskov | tolkien |
| "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 |
"the congo" | vachel lindsay |
| 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 |
| "crust[s] and sugar[s] over" | dream |
| pirates of the caribbean | eco |
| in an alejandra pizarnik | stone |
| alaska by michael chabon | yiddish |
| "a little fable" | kafka |
| "bastard of [this city]." | istanbul |
| learned what | pittsburgh |
| "he is the god of love" | ibsen |
| peleg | pequod |
| "rule them all." | tolkien |
| rodo | uruguay |
| "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 |
| "barren field" | dream |
| "poor uncle" | claudius |
| "calcutec." | murakami |
| "the road goes ever on" | tolkien |
| hay fever | coward |
| laurel | shropshire lad |
| asya | istanbul |
| stool pigeon | pittsburgh |
| "people don't do such things!" | ibsen |
| gem of the ocean | pittsburgh |
| "the one cock in the basket" | ibsen |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "always" | coward |
| "i, too" | dream |
| "river that goes curving, / advances and retreats." | stone |
| bob cratchit | tim |
| william halloway | something wicked |
| "an extravagance of laughter," | ellison |
| "brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" | aristophanes |
| "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 |
| armanoush | istanbul |
| "family size" | eco |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "thank god!" | waugh |
| "stood, / like a lily in a flood" | goblin |
| "impress / thoughts of more deep seclusion." | wordsworth |
| "with a thousand faces." | hero |
| black speech | tolkien |
| "dear mother, fairest queen." | bradstreet |
| "man delights not me; no, nor woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so." | what a piece of work is |
| "my friend" | heights of macchu |
| when rabbit | marty tothero |
| "pink elephants," | john barleycorn |
| "and the maiden," | death |
| "children...that old lie" | owen |
| baron of attinghausen | tell |
| "market" | goblin |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| yomi | izanagi |
| "the liberators" | canto general |
| "the earth's name is juan" | canto general |
| going to the territory | ellison |
| "sick-or-axe" | tempest |
| t | night of |
| "ragnarok." | borges |
| "the sect of the phoenix." | borges |
| bliss hickman | adam |
| "portrait plays" | ibsen |
| 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 |
| ogre of endless tears | ngugi |
| "red hell" | pequod |
| gikuyu | ngugi |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| nathan englander | frank |
| john hersey | new yorker |
| "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 |
| gloomy | hero |
| ilmorog | ngugi |
| polyeidos | athena |
| tragic episode | gilbert |
| slothrop | pisces |
| tiberinus | janus |
| helen white | winesburg |
"shooting an elephant" | orwell |
| fordyce | collins |
| "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 |
| mead hall | hrothgar |
| "the god of my youth, the object, all my life long, of love and veneration" | mozart |
| wiesel | buchenwald |
| "when it comes to slaughter / you will do your work on water" | kipling |
| "flow to a sea of silence." | tagore |
| munira | ngugi |
| district officer robson | ngugi |
| "there never was a body that [gave] the undertaker a tip" | o'connor |
| yord | feet |
| operation shylock | jew |
| footnote to history | samoa |
| tawv | holocaust |
| cohn | ethel |
| cliffs of dover | peach |
| marshals of france | alceste |
| major kovalev | nose |
| "more obedient" | taming of the shrew |
| "you sit there smiling." | tagore |
| karanja | ngugi |
| "would not open lip from lip" | goblin |
| "cat's face" | goblin |
| "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 |
| day magazine in new york | bell jar |
| "abyss" | hero |
| "the eyes of the panther." | bierce |
| "[his] foe outstretched" | blake |
| "beasts of england" | pig |
| "thrust home!" | cyrano |
| "wive it wealthily in padua" | taming of the shrew |
| "into that blackness" | pequod |
| 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 |
| spielvogel | alex |
| "brother square-toes" | kipling |
| "america two dollars and twentyseven cents." | ginsberg |
| "a duck-sized horse." | caged bird |
| "solely to avoid looking a fool" | "shooting an elephant" |
| macomb | dill |
| mictlan, quetzalcoatl | blood |
| "god bless us every one." | tim |
| green town | something wicked |
| "atonement with the father." | hero |
| "initiation," | hero |
| "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 |
| george 's | salvation army |
| though reverend shannon | episcopal |
| gallery of prospero | rodo |
| history of a troubled life | uruguay |
| professional foul | stoppard |
| heinrich von kleist | marquise of o |
| kleist | romantic |
| cropper | possession |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "liver cancer" | aids |
| "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 |
| "bedazzled with the sun" | taming of the shrew |
| "lowliest gatekeeper." | trial |
| "man-hating half-woman" | miss julie |
| "return." | hero |
| old major | pig |
| "a perfect day for" | bananafish |
| petals of blood | ngugi |
| warigia | ngugi |
| devil on the cross | ngugi |
| colt .44 | bierce |
| house of pride | knight |
| "philosophical poem" | mab |
| "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 |
| "the mongoose," | naipaul |
| paul pennyfeather | oxford |
| hans jakob christoffel | simplicius simplicissimus |
| "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 |
| george murchison | beneatha |
| artamene | scudery |
| "the misfit." | sammy |
| egeon of syracuse | solinus |
| his odes | horace |
| judge holden | blood meridian |
| mary arden | shakespeare |
| as you like it in the forest of arden | shakespeare |
| "monte verita" | du maurier |
| "bunburyist" | ernest |
| dusters | tin drum |
| "billingsgates" | rabelais |
| "go, lovely" | rose |
| "fairies' midwife" | mab |
| "body and soul free" | chopin |
| "the end of imagination." | roy |
| "the shawl." | ozick |
| "light, hope, and life." | axel |
| "bush poets" | australia |
| mortimer cropper | ash |
| roland michell | possession |
| maud bailey | possession |
| de l'isle-adam | axel |
| "sexless" | du maurier |
| 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 |
| meme | buendia |
| "gave me eyes, gave me ears; / and humble cares, and delicate fears." | wordsworth |
| "dear, dear sister" | wordsworth |
| four prentices of london | heywood |
| woman killed with kindness | heywood |
| sara de maupers | axel |
| "the little black boy" | songs of innocence and |
| "the lady, or the tiger?" | stockton |
| johnny corkscrew | sword |
| "stomach kind of fell as i felt how hard the world was going to be." | a&p |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| jeanette winterson | frankenstein |
| "beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs" | bierce |
| "brute neighbors" | walden |
| "munich mannequins." | ariel |
| ridiculous precieuses | moliere |
| in ozick | concentration camp |
| "the kid" | blood meridian |
| de scudery | moliere |
| 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 |
| amy march in little women | alcott |
| "in town and jack in the country" | ernest |
| "lilacs," | chopin |
| "old roses" | roy |
| peyton thomas | alcott |
| bower of bliss | knight |
| "humiliate the host" | george |
| "folk laughter." | rabelais |
| martha in edward albee | george |
| "breaches, ambuscadoes, spanish blades" | mab |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| rescue in malaysia | conrad |
| "tulips" | ariel |
| lyca | lost |
| vogel | indecent |
| "three girls in nothing but bathing suits" | a&p |
| frank raymond leavis | leavis |
| "happy are men who yet before they are killed can let their veins run cold." | insensibility |
| billy kwan | koch |
| "do what thou wilt." | rabelais |
| adrienne | chopin |
| "one thing" | decameron |
| william benton | bierce |
| fairie queene | knight |
| frenchman alec therien | walden |
| "little atomies" | mab |
| nat hocken | du maurier |
| lyra belacqua | pullman |
| "line-up for yesterday" | nash |
| athenian new comedy | menander |
| r. leavis | leavis |
| house of busyrane | knight |
| venetia moore | mab |
| captain fox | mab |
| "drums in [a soldier's] ear," | mab |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "and we live by an invisible sun within us." | flame |
| 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 |
| "the words on the page" | leavis |
| 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 |
| iris murdoch | ireland |
| "he / whom every man in arms should wish to be." | happy warrior |
| ananta toor | indonesia |
| "dandy, but liquor is quicker." | candy |
| "will never know... his mother." | chopin |
| cornelius agrippa | frankenstein |
| villa diodati | frankenstein |
| "don't look now" | du maurier |
| "whatever shares the eternal reciprocity of tears." | insensibility |
| "mistress." | chekhov |
| "the character of the happy warrior" | nelson |
| earth of mankind | indonesia |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "disappeared among the reeds and willows" | chopin |
| embers | marai |
| "wits" | barlow |
| "hard, gemlike" | flame |
| "is success in life." | flame |
| mood | indonesia |
| "that never dreams" | paz |
| "perhaps your men can help us." | things fall apart |
| "complaint book," | calvino |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "author's note" | cry, the beloved country |
| "was begun in trondheim and finished in san francisco" | cry, the beloved country |
| "meaning of so tiny a being as the [...] sea lace." | carson |
| the histoire de ma vie | casanova |
| hornblower | nelson |
| volcano lover | sontag |
| "dreams and hopes for the future" | saint-exupery |
| "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 |
| matter and memory | bergson |
| john banville | ireland |
| 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 |
| "you seem to be displaying signs of triviality." | ernest |
| 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 |
| birling | priestley |
| constant reader | parker |
| pyrgopolynices | soldier |
| "under the bludgeonings of chance / my head is" | bloody, but unbowed |
| titanomachy | oceanus |
| "aryan [" | daddy |
| james fitz | lady of the lake |
| "aladdin's wonderful lamp" | thousand and |
| rose tattoo | williams |
| playground | basketball |
| mad hatter in alice | carroll |
| "ali baba and the forty thieves" | thousand and |
| "laughed his joy" | anyone |
| the village | crabbe |
| siege of namur | toby |
| detroit lions | plimpton |
| "amen." | seafarer |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| raina | bulgaria |
| "fifth dimension." | margarita |
| old bull lee | road |
| shieldings | grendel |
| "the celestial omnibus" | forster |
| eliot weinberger | paz |
| "abandon" | margarita |
| katya bagnelli in nice | gordimer |
| "has been through it" | saint-exupery |
| "what happened to" | gordimer |
| "smiling, lifeless man" | road |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "saltmother" | paz |
| "the pacification of the primitive tribes," | things fall apart |
| "holy goof." | road |
| "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 |
| cecil vyse | forster |
| ezeudu | things fall apart |
| "monstrous hell-bride" | grendel |
| "serpent's tooth" | lear's daughters |
| latunsky | margarita |
| "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 |
| "i know that i shall meet my fate" | death |
| menaechmi | plautus |
| philocomasium | soldier |
| "what is" | grass |
| gitanjali by rabindranath tagore | bengali |
| the and the home and the world | bengali |
| pierpont mauler | joan |
| 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 |
| person of consequence | overcoat |
| colonies | gilead |
| harry houdini | doyle |
| "beauteous" | isle |
| "stranger-god." | death in venice |
| tonto fistfight in heaven | reservation |
| reardan | reservation |
| "the growing stone" | camus |
| "one gray toe / big as a frisco seal." | daddy |
| "the monkey," | singer |
| "third sally." | don quixote |
| "full of noises, / sounds and sweet airs." | isle |
| alistair crowley | yeats |
| raymond sintes | camus |
| captain segura | spy |
| "trifling" | overcoat |
| "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 |
| "the hearth and" | salamander |
| susan henchard | elizabeth-jane |
| 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 |
| alec scudder | maurice |
| "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 |
| death valley | mcteague |
| sheppey | maugham |
| "pro rege nostro," | henley |
| roberto saviano | naples |
| james wormold | spy |
| "silent scream" | brecht |
| "blues." | reservation |
| spencer brydon | james |
| paris review | plimpton |
| "things of beauty." | pillow book |
| leader of the home rule league | parnell |
| in jewett | maine |
| elaine castillo | bulosan |
| "a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again" | harper's |
| in perez galdos | blind |
| "animal" | lion and the jewel |
| "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 |
| vi to viii of don juan | malaprop |
| briony | atonement |
| lola | atonement |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| "trainor, the druggist" | spoon river anthology |
| "crowd of spectators." | camus |
| "studied to be a pastor of souls" | brecht |
| "the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns." | be |
| matzerath | three |
| marius pontmercy | cosette |
| anna barbauld | priestley |
| "the mouse's petition" | priestley |
| etheredge | gambling |
| piers plowman | passus |
| in a carl sandburg | grass |
| love medicine | reservation |
| "complete" | tang |
| "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 |
"00000" | gravity's rainbow |
| "pensive prisoner's prayer" | priestley |
| man of mode | fopling |
| "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 |
| lucky jim | amis |
| polonius | ophelia |
| "i, too, dislike it." | poetry |
| "little tragedies" | mozart |
| cry, the | paton |
| "hairy" | riddle |
| freedom from want | bulosan |
| "paradise of bachelors" | massachusetts |
| "thousand twangling instruments," | isle |
| "innamorato." | orlando |
| lorin stein | paris review |
| paper lion | plimpton |
| tommo | whale |
| desolation peak | dharma bums |
| teucer | ajax |
| anton chigurh | no country for old |
| ardua hall holograph | gilead |
| "partial magic" | don quixote |
| 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 |
| in enemies of promise | crabbe |
| exit ghost | roth |
| mirabell | congreve |
| center of the earth | verne |
| brooklyn in heaven | basketball |
| pygmalion and arms | shaw |
| anatole france | penguin island |
| "very bad novel" | uncle tom's |
| "shiva handed him a million dollars." | patel |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" | congreve |
| hermann in a pushkin | gambling |
| rigleys | chrysanthemum |
| "strictness, strictness, and always strictness!" | overcoat |
| "for you, a thousand times over!" | kite |
| tigre | walcott |
| 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 |
| "looking up at the stars" | auden |
| "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 |
| clive durham | maurice |
| robert musil | austria |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "many thousands gone" | bigger |
| "[this body part] and ideal" | spleen |
| "like oars" | albatross |
| kaht | decameron |
| angel face | senor |
| "beautiful dream" | blanche |
| tartarus of maids | massachusetts |
| "humanism" | ariosto |
| peter kien | canetti |
| hyde park gates news | woolf |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| varts | gravity's rainbow |
| "a difficult interval for a poet." | stein |
| "frank sinatra has a cold." | esquire |
| gomorrah | naples |
| langland | pearl |
| journey | verne |
| "of fred" | handmaid's tale |
| "i am large. i contain" | multitudes |
| "lovely eyes" | petrarch |
| david hawkes | dream of the red chamber |
| "radiantly beautiful" | helsing |
| quincy morris | helsing |
| "the hardest, the most complicated part was only just beginning." | chekhov |
| "-ology," | dream of the red chamber |
| "hothouse on the roof" | banana |
| achtung | tyrone |
| "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 |
| art of the novel | kundera |
| "die in peaceful harbor," | petrarch |
| "sun's ray / was darkened." | petrarch |
| "of eros and of dust" | auden |
| "children afraid of the night." | auden |
| book of disquiet | portuguese |
| antoine galland | scheherazade |
| "grey-haired" | chekhov |
| "the lower race," | chekhov |
"invictus" | henley |
| graziella | naples |
| "accursed poets." | rimbaud |
| 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 |
| ian mcewan | atonement |
| "lillibullero," | toby |
| "wives" | fortunata and jacinta |
| "participatory novels," | plimpton |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "a world in decay," | rashomon |
| "crimson lacquer," | rashomon |
| "maimed," | dream of the red chamber |
| london fields | amis |
| tahn | midsummer night's |
| "the course of true love never did run smooth" | lysander |
| sohn-ree-en-tay | senor |
| edward malone to south america | challenger |
| "all voting" | thoreau |
| "one does not always marry when insane," | bierce |
| michael caine | thomas |
| charles anthony bruno | train |
| 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 |
| "bloofer lady" | helsing |
| "lost letters" | kundera |
| "prayer to the virgin" | petrarch |
| "cuckoo land?" | cloud |
| alvaro | rose |
| "just take his head off outside." | queen of hearts |
| goshawk | peregrine |
| in a patricia highsmith | train |
| "yew-uhl" | to kill a mockingbird |
| avram brankovich | dictionary |
| milorad pavic | dictionary |
| "cease, gentle muse!" | wheatley |
| "after the first death, there is no other." | thomas |
| "cynics," | dictionary |
| signor brunoni | elizabeth |
| romney in florence | elizabeth |
| randa | assassination |
| brother lawrence | spain |
| part of speech | brodsky |
| "elegy to john donne." | brodsky |
| "hwaet!" | beowulf |
| ariosto | orlando |
| interstellar | thomas |
| "moonlight before his bed" | li bai |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| merriam-webster | dictionary |
| love, ambition | odes |
| "devil's" | dictionary |
| "portrait of the artist as a young dog." | thomas |
| boon hogganbeck | reivers |
| "what must be said" | israel |
| new spelling of my name | lorde |
| "the true story of ah q." | lu |
| elwan | assassination |
| bradamante | ruggiero |
| "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 |
| cranford | elizabeth |
| "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 |
| don issachar | lisbon |
| "the black unicorn" | lorde |
| torquilstone castle | ivanhoe |
| "listen!" | beowulf |
| korn | john |
| cathcart | john |
| "a small, good thing," | car |
| "i've stayed in the front yard all my life." | brooks |
| lisbeth salander in the girl with the dragon tattoo | sweden |
| square theatre | iceman cometh |
| our man | greene |
| llewelyn moss | no country for old |
| 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 |
| captain brown | elizabeth |
| "the khazars." | dictionary |
| "tis better to have loved and lost // than to never have loved at all." | tennyson |
| "sort of gaming" | thoreau |
| "in bright array they seek the work of war." | wheatley |
| "a temporary insanity curable by marriage," | dictionary |
| "mizu no oto" | frog |
| unlimited dream company | ballard |
| "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 |
| "feeble" | brain |
| "what is, is right." | lisbon |
| jacques the anabaptist | lisbon |
| formula 86 | dahl |
| "for esme - with love and squalor" | bananafish |
| "into nine levels" | dickey |
| deliverance | dickey |
| ricardo guiraldes | gaucho |
| mosquito inlet light | open |
| ahn-wee | spleen |
| "from her fair and unpolluted flesh." | violet |
| "the steadfast tin soldier" | andersen |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| leah, felix | nw |
| act i of 's othello | venice |
| guatemalan nobel | asturias |
| paton | mandela |
| humaine | train |
| george cram cook | provincetown players |
| "the airborne toxic event." | white noise |
| awol in rome | john |
| golden dancer | inherit the wind |
| absalom kumalo | paton |
| "i love you more than words can wield the matter." | king lear |
| slow learner | pynchon |
| camoes prize | saramago |
| jack clitheroe | plough and the stars |
| waverly novels | scott |
| cape cod to greenwich village | provincetown players |
| 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 |
| "far-reaching singleness" | larkin |
| "boots of lead... lift a box / and creak across my soul" | brain |
| "mourners to and fro" | brain |
| pierre bayle | lisbon |
| great glass elevator | dahl |
| "existential hero" | kennedy |
| 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 |
| "the black cat" | seal |
| "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 |
| sylvia plath to frieda hughes | mother |
| "buckdancer's choice." | dickey |
| "knew to my veins and glands as a child." | petersburg |
| dieter | hitler |
| "every gentleman in the south a major or colonel" | scott |
| the pilot | cooper |
| "night, street, lamp, drugstore" | russian |
| "two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication" | seal |
| vernon halliday | amsterdam |
| in orlando furioso | ruggiero |
| lay dying in mississippi | faulkner |
| miss corrie | reivers |
| gemmata | dioneo |
| el senor presidente | asturias |
| john watson in doyle | sherlock |
| "sound of water" | frog |
| 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 |
| after a batavian | lisbon |
| anse bundren | as i lay |
| ned mccaslin to memphis | reivers |
| no name in the street | baldwin |
| "black night / white snow" | russian |
| overlords | clarke |
| nicholas branch | kennedy |
| "who is the potter, pray, and who the pot?" | rubaiyat |
| philip sidney | larkin |
| william langland | piers plowman |
| tay-nard-yayz | cosette |
| plin | manticore |
| teth | oceanus |
| henchard | mayor of |
| "the seven voyages of sinbad the sailor" | thousand and |
| nick adams | hemingway |
| "shoot straight" | brooks |
| "had kicked himself loose of the earth." | kurtz |
| "man from the south." | dahl |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| land of mist | doyle |
| olympia press | golden lotus |
| "out, vile jelly" | blind |
| blindness | saramago |
| saigyo | narrow road to the deep north |
| aravind adiga | assassination |
| edoras | tolkien |
| the crack-up | fitzgerald |
| tees | our man in |
| pulitzer prize for fiction for the amazing adventures of kavalier | chabon |
| pish | immortal |
| golden bough | frazer |
| nee bohk--choh | decameron |
| "floating tom" | deerslayer |
| hutter | deerslayer |
| white goddess | frazer |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ted sorensen | kennedy |
| algernon montcrieff | importance of being earnest |
| rufino | julia |
| "adamantine chains" | petrarch |
| "the circular ruins," | borges |
| farragut | nautilus |
| "condemned." | fleurs du mal |
| "what little [that character's creator] didn't say." | julia |
| how the garcia girls lost their accents | julia |
| berghof | hans |
| "nature is never spent." | god's grandeur |
| frost fairies | keller |
| letters to a young painter | rilke |
| "melic" | poetry |
quincas borba (author) | joaquim maria machado de assis |
| "the frost king." | keller |
| "will we walk all night through solitary streets?" | california |
| bella kurnitz in a neil simon | yonkers |
| 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 |
| prince andrei bolkonsky | napoleon |
| manzoni | napoleon |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "too many... mopey suburbanites." | new yorker |
| cecil graham in act iii | cynic |
| household tales | grimm |
| 465th | fly |
| "sapiential books" | wisdom |
| bembo | italian |
| "resignedly beneath the sky / the melancholy waters lie." | city in the sea |
| brautigan | big sur |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| collected works | fleurs du mal |
| star trek | rushdie |
| "notes of a dirty old man." | california |
| "duck-shaped woman" | as i lay dying |
| "o time thy pyramids" | borges |
| lewis page mercier | nautilus |
| life of jesse james | my |
| sofia | julia |
| accidie | petrarch |
| "fairy power," | wife of bath |
| negro leagues | wilson |
| "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 |
| "go down swinging." | wilson |
| san francisco renaissance | california |
| the vicomte de valmont | dangerous liaisons |
| "guy de maupassant." | babel |
| jorge amado | brazil |
| "defamiliarization" | distancing |
| "his soul upon the growing gloom." | darkling thrush |
| "some vengeful god" | hap |
| project | works progress administration |
| venable | lobotomy |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| "seraphs swing their snowy hats - / and saints - to windows run." | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| 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 |
| balthus | rilke |
| "a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." | fourth |
| "the masterpiece of nature." | friend |
| on illustrious men | petrarch |
| anton cuzak | my |
| explosion in a cathedral | carpentier |
| the ladies' anti | fourth |
| first series of essays | self-reliance |
| "desire to preserve tradition" | streetcar named desire |
| "mendacity" | big daddy |
| "silence dogood" | franklin |
| "ready to carve a flock of geese" | dead |
| freddy malins | dead |
| "screwed" | dead |
| shimerda | my |
| "shine, perishing republic." | california |
| "penitential psalms" | petrarch |
| "scipio's dream." | petrarch |
| lloyd richards | wilson |
| "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 |
| ghost of christmas past | fezziwig |
| ghost of don andrea | spanish tragedy |
| hieronimo | spanish tragedy |
| jack duluoz | big sur |
| "midnight mass of the dying year" | longfellow |
| "coronation oration" | petrarch |
| "archangel of hatred" | nautilus |
| uncle willie | maya |
| benya krik | babel |
| "the death of the old year." | longfellow |
| charles smithson | fowles |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| cara | julia |
| 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 |
| straw raincoat | matsuo |
| bardolph at the boar | falstaff |
| "with big nails, to keep off the devil." | huck |
| epistemology of the closet | john |
| spinner of years | hardy |
| " in a hardy poem that opens " | thrush |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| silver age of russian | pasternak |
| waindell | campus |
| fugitive | proust |
| "logically inevitable" | robinson |
| an alan sillitoe | race |
| loneliness of the long distance runner | 50 |
| essex borstal | bakeries |
| "don't ye love sperm?" | moby-dick |
| immanent will | hardy |
| "heavenly labials in a world of gutturals." | stevens |
| sound of waves | mishima |
| simon darcourt | canada |
| "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 |
| "maul'd and mock'd." | goblin market |
| " 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 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "summer grass" | matsuo |
| "mere scutcheon." | falstaff |
| judge thatcher | huck |
| green fisherman | italy |
| catchfools by the fox | italy |
| "only goodness." | lahiri |
| "great anarch" | pope |
| midori | norwegian wood |
| " which made a ship sink in " | hardy |
| ford madox ford | good soldier |
| prince of dullness | pope |
| bracebridge hall | irving |
| "cannot contain their urine" | shylock |
| woman at point zero | egypt |
| plastic box company | mouse |
| geoffrey keynes | tyger |
| "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 |
| "repaired" | doll's house |
| discreet escorts | south africa |
| "solved the problem of sex rather well." | south africa |
| "dog man" | south africa |
| "the devil can cite scripture for his purpose." | 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 |
"dread empire" | pope |
| "history" | irving |
| promise | south africa |
| 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 |
| pechorin in a mikhail lermontov | hero |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| sarah miles in world war ii | greene |
| "if you prick us, do we not bleed?" | shylock |
| toru watanabe | norwegian wood |
| burning boy | red badge of courage |
| "poshlost" | dead souls |
"forbear!" | "dr. heidegger's experiment" |
| edward causabon | middlemarch |
| sentinel | biswas |
| "kick'd and knock'd" | goblin market |
| decorum est | world war i |
| sostrata | mother-in-law |
| rebel angels | canada |
| "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 |
| "there is no such thing as the state" | september 1, 1939 |
| bouvard et pecuchet | flaubert |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| urquhart mcvarish | canada |
| her the sovereignty | rowlandson |
| "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 |
| exit one | ghosts |
| "the ice palace." | flapper |
| james whitcomb riley | english |
| "loafe and invite" | soul |
| "come and see the blood in the streets" | spanish civil war |
| cooger and dark's | something wicked this way comes |
| "under the spreading" | chestnut tree |
| sense of movement | gunn |
| lensmand geissler | growth of the soil |
| pussycat | runcible |
| joachim ziemssen | hans |
manilov | dead souls |
| shama at the hanuman house with the tulsi | biswas |
| "banish all the world," | falstaff |
| "see with blinding sight." | thomas |
| lafargue | native |
| "the happy life home." | veldt |
| fighting terms | gunn |
| lonely londoners | english |
| 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 |
| laban | shylock |
| rubber soul | norwegian wood |
| "potato-faced" | snows of kilimanjaro |
| captain kopeikin | dead souls |
| "let me not forget." | tagore |
| "when the stars threw down their spears / and water'd heaven with their tears." | tyger |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "mince, and slices of quince" | runcible |
| "the offshore pirate," | flapper |
| moses aloetta | lonely londoners |
| growth of the soil | norway |
| prince lemon | italy |
| haired fairy | italy |
| "non-poisonous" | paint |
| "firefly." | norwegian wood |
| "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 |
| "future" | mouse |
| "white evil." | blindness |
| "where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way" | tagore |
"a terrible mistake" | the tyger |
| talking cricket | italy |
| pinocchio | italy |
| nights of plague | pamuk |
| pillars of society | doll's house |
| de vulgari eloquentia | dante |
| "kirghiz eyes," | clawdia |
| "i explain a few things," | spanish civil war |
| wormsley common gang | greene |
| "an unconscious determinant" | native |
| fredric wertham | native |
| edmund curll | pope |
| scaly city | south africa |
| "in the position of a kind of jeremiah" | debating |
| isak | growth of the soil |
| "how the whale got his throat," | just-so |
| surinam | slave |
| "natural beauty." | pemberley |
| "with a ring at the end of his nose." | lear |
| malala yousafzai | education |
| "the dynamo and the virgin," | adams |
mary garth | middlemarch |
| vincy | middlemarch |
| "royal anthology" | matsuo |
| bonkowski | pamuk |
| black mathilde | head |
| "large, handsome, stone building" | pemberley |
| "there once was a man from decatur . . ." | limerick |
| alcee arobin | awakening |
| "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 |
| record of a travel | matsuo |
| hunger of memory | rodriguez |
| letters from | auden |
| kunta kinte | slave |
| in sebald | 40 |
| bigger thomas by richard wright | native |
| "if you poison us, do we not die?" | shylock |
| reiko | norwegian wood |
| hidden face of eve | egypt |
| 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 |
| no pain cafe | walcott |
| "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 |
| "one big thing." | hedgehog |
| "by the turkey who lives on the hill," | runcible |
| "the man with night sweats." | gunn |
| "a warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations." | hitler |
| kingston to oxford | jerome |
| falconieri | tancredi |
| and quiet flows the don | cossacks |
| in the shadow of no towers | spiegelman |
| quentin durward | scott |
| jamaica kincaid | lucy |
| in night | moshe |
| conversation poems | coleridge |
| paolo giordano | italian |
| tanabata | milky way |
| "fact." | cosmicomics |
| "monster" | me too |
| georges hugon | nana |
| dialogue with death | koestler |
| dirk gently | adams |
| prisoner of the caucasus | byron |
"drunk with the joy of singing i forget myself and call thee friend" | tagore |
| "paddle his own canoe." | biswas |
| lewis milestone | all quiet |
battle of shrewsbury (henry iv) | falstaff |
| "field of miracles" | italy |
| lambton | pemberley |
| consuelo in minou | sand |
| "that great scroll" | diderot |
| "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 |
| "what fearful pranks ensue" | burns |
colonel killigrew | "dr. heidegger's experiment" |
| "escape" | biswas |
| white clown | fahrenheit 451 |
| "banana tree," | matsuo |
| head tavern | falstaff |
| sir tomato | italy |
| "what i killed for, i am" | native |
| c.k. stead | new zealand |
| running brook | gold |
| raymond rambert | plague |
| lucius brockway | paint |
| merchant of venice | shylock |
| "socially distanced" | blindness |
| "round and round the place, with a clasp-knife" | huck |
| camps | plague |
| "at midnight." | frost |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| heo gyun | korean |
| "chweh yung-mee" | me too |
| eliezer | moshe |
| felix | ash |
| brinkley court | jeeves |
| "silver river." | milky way |
| "on fairy-stories" | tolkien |
| "nee voh's" | great gatsby |
| "holistic detective agency." | adams |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "exiles by the falk laws." | 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 |
| "valley" | ash |
| guide to the galaxy | adams |
| small place | kincaid |
| "eternal language" | frost |
| "every city light" | frost |
| gnasher | dogs |
| jacques the fatalist | diderot |
| "a report on a journey" | shanghai |
| hitchhiker | adams |
| "inscape" | wreck of the deutschland |
| john huston | red badge of courage |
| flowers for algernon | mouse |
| "we've started two atomic wars since 1990," | fahrenheit 451 |
| carlo collodi | italy |
| "flakes of rust" | beloved |
| "[fall] away." | beloved |
| homage to catalonia | orwell |
| montmorency | jerome |
| beyond the forest | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| bonnie prince charlie | fielding |
| 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 |
| middle-earth | tolkien |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| cossack ivan mazepa | pushkin |
| fragment on mummies | browne |
| "stockmen in denver suits" | beat |
| corney | bumble |
| juliana bordereau in the aspern papers | venice |
| "a book containing different wisdom than ours." | william |
| acutes | mental hospital |
| "a secondary world which your mind can enter." | tolkien |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "power that crosses the white sea," | antigone |
| "out here in jutland / in the old man-killing parishes / i will feel lost, / unhappy and at home" | heaney |
| plinio designori | castalia |
| hydriotaphia | browne |
| "to believe we can live without taking life is delusional" | kingsolver |
| rise of colored empires | great gatsby |
| "dreamer" | dostoyevsky |
| "white nights," | dostoyevsky |
| chronics | mental hospital |
| "that frozen niche [where] men have put you" | spanish |
| amir khusrow | persian |
| 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 |
| "that's what it says in all the novels that men write." | raisin in the sun |
| "a christmas memory." | capote |
| "the average detective story is no worse than the average novel." | chandler |
| everyman | good deeds |
| gasparo | webster |
| price | kingsolver |
| vilkins | bumble |
| natella | azdak |
| "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 |
| "damned fool -- he ruined the song!" | actor |
| "like the thought of" | heaven |
| "you bring out [this ethnicity] in me." | mexican |
| hildegard von bingen's | morality |
| day of the turbins | stalin |
| chandler | philip |
| "ashamed to have written." | we must love one another or die |
| rifaa | children |
| mysterious flame of queen loana | eco |
| animal, vegetable | kingsolver |
| upton inn | fielding |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| "jolly swagman" | australia |
| judd woldin | raisin in the sun |
| war trash | li |
| true story of ah | china |
| officer dewey | capote |
| "you want me white." | spanish |
| "summer's blood" | heaney |
| willy harris | raisin in the sun |
| "nine jewels" | persian |
| "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 |
| gilbert keith chesterton | chesterton |
| auberon quinn | detective |
| twist | bumble |
| "i married him" | reader |
| "our gustatory pleasure." | lobster |
| kilanga | kingsolver |
| "twist ending," | prison |
| li xingdao | caucasian chalk circle |
| "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 |
| "john wayne: a love song." | slouching towards bethlehem |
| allen mandelbaum | phlegyas |
| in john irving | abortion |
| "the decay of lying." | wilde |
| "striking through the thought of his dear ones" | watch |
| adolf verloc | greenwich observatory |
| "the necessity of atheism." | oxford |
| "mad jacobin" | oxford |
| when mark david chapman | beatles |
| metamorphoses of the vampire | flowers of evil |
| "in a funk." | suicide |
| dirk | screenplay |
| marquise of merteuil | smallpox |
| oedipus at colonus | sophocles |
| ondaatje | canada |
| ernst junger | western front |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| milly theale in the wings of the dove | venice |
| qassem | children |
| stanley fish | milton |
| "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 |
| "last survivor" | old english |
| ingram frizer | marlowe |
| "british artillery park on the ancre" | borges |
| young pioneer | peter |
| "blue flannel suit." | plath |
| "with her red hair" | lady lazarus" |
| "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 |
| in the shadow of young girls in flower | proust |
| anil | ondaatje |
| storm of steel | western front |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "see the object as in itself it really is." | arnold |
| "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 |
| "such a shout is useless" | phlegyas |
| "hit or miss the moon." | frost |
| amenaa | sailor |
| jose zorrilla | don juan |
| tenorio | don juan |
| trabb | pip |
| "barrabas came to us by sea" | allende |
| "the pure gold baby/that melts to a shriek" | lady lazarus" |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| confessions of an english opium eater | de quincey |
| orphanage | cider house rules |
| "nightmare" | abbey |
| sor juana | mexico |
| "plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood" | brooks |
| "whale-road," | old english |
| all saints | don juan |
| wopsle | pip |
| nunkie | hurston |
| "like sticky pearls." | lady lazarus" |
| patty sing | o'connor |
| "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 |
| "peace comes dropping slow" | yeats |
| sterling holloway | peter |
| tartuffe by moliere | don juan |
| hattie | hurston |
| 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 |
| toobad | abbey |
| "the perfect critic," | eliot |
| make mine music | peter |
| natalya sats | peter |
| wiglaf | old english |
| lord of punt | sailor |
| "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 |
| "shadows with the magic hand of chance." | keats |
| "symphonic fairy tale," | peter |
| "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 |
| fences in the pittsburgh cycle | wilson |
| "easter wings." | herbert |
| "sent to the devil somewhat 'ere his time" | byron |
| awashima | hiruko |
| "to saxham" | carew |
| "and the wolf." | peter |
| "thin gin" | brooks |
| "voice like a selected weapon / or a measured injection." | plath |
| queen honeybee | shug |
| "chronicle his own impressions" | wilde |
| "any existence" | wilde |
| function of criticism at the present time | arnold |
| "bed" | in the penal colony |
| cimarron | screenplay |
| "the critic as artist." | wilde |
| vivian | wilde |
| 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 |
| seven gothic tales | dinesen |
| valmorain | allende |
| "as a seashell" | lady lazarus" |
| miss malin | dinesen |
| aulis | euripides |
| "a city of fountains large and small, of parks where music once rang out from the bandstands" | geneva |
| lost guard | pynchon |
| "dies alone" | meursault |
| "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 |
| loveless | moloch |
| ice palace | parker |
| billy bathgate | doctorow |
| carew | donne |
| nikolenka | rostov |
| hugh conway | shangri-la |
| happy loman | death of a |
| "the valiant" | lucy |
| "flowery tale" | keats |
| "that's the way that go!" | gabriel |
| love suicides at sonezaki | chikamatsu |
| stah | cloud |
| in fences | trumpet |
| say roh | hemingway |
| seer | prospero |
| "the pulley" | herbert |
| "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 |
| "nine bean rows" | yeats |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| tar baby | morrison |
| el toboso | dulcinea |
| alexander herzen | stoppard |
| "car-bone" | view from the |
| nawv | brave new |
| clio | adonis |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "a room of one's own" | stephen |
| in roots | kunta |
| modern husband | fielding |
| 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 |
| "believe me, i knew you, though faintly" | brooks |
| "number three." | plath |
| luck | california |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| rose in fences | pittsburgh |
| brooklyn | view from the |
| gustav von | death in venice |
| jose robles | hemingway |
| spy who came | berlin |
| "you foolish men" | mexico |
| steele | sense and sensibility |
| "public transportation." | meursault |
| 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 |
| dill | lee |
| eliza williams | sense and sensibility |
| ernest thayer | baseball player |
| "determines / to immortalize itself in ruin." | mexico |
| go set | lee |
| doc knobb | baseball player |
| "undaunted spirit" | mexico |
| st bernard | pynchon |
| "free radicals" | munro |
| "miss stein instructs" | moveable |
| "in english my name means hope. in spanish it means too many letters." | house on |
| like robert herrick | cavalier |
| bald hills | war and peace |
| kim wilde | persepolis |
| judge lynch | california |
| willie maxwell | lee |
| in stendahl | como |
| "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 |
| gold rush | california |
| 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 |
| stone guest | juan |
| in julius caesar | friends |
| packingtown | jungle |
| modern breakthrough | denmark |
| farquhar | drink |
| secret river | kinnan |
| bug war | starship troopers |
| trumpkin | lucy |
| laurence | piano |
| "semi-morons" | epsilon |
| saratoga trunk | ferber |
| palermo | geneva |
| willie stark | warren |
| ebisu | hiruko |
| "to my friend g. n. from wrest" | carew |
| severo | house of the |
| james hilton | shangri-la |
| shlee | comrade |
| karen blixen | dinesen |
| union army | little women |
| though dos passos | moveable |
| jody baxter | yearling |
| ramchunder | vanity fair |
| bett | munro |
| laszlo jamf | pynchon |
| "will never / pass into nothingness." | beauty |
| "shalt remain" | beauty |
| china grove | welty |
| "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 |
| "dwells with [this concept] that must die." | beauty |
| benjamin bailey | beauty |
| "ash-heels" | california |
| 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 |
| toltec empire | tula |
| "isn't life..." | mansfield |
| "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 |
| name the muse of history | clio |
| here lies | parker |
| "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 |
| royal family | ferber |
| sarah jane hamilton | pitty |
| "contains multitudes." | whitman |
| murray jay siskind | white noise |
| jurgis | comrade |
| eddie carbone | view from the |
| "plain" | darkling |
| "pilot fish" | moveable |
| "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 |
| babamukuru | nervous conditions |
| ferrars | roger |
| northumberland | shrewsbury |
| leni lamiasson | kiss of the spider woman |
| "black hat trimmed with gold daisies" | mansfield |
| godber | mansfield |
| scottish highlands in the journal of a tour to the hebrides | johnson |
| "laus veneris." | rubaiyat |
| imogen | ali smith |
| "everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!" | bishop |
| "the double vision of michael robartes" | yeats |
| june kashpaw | erdrich |
| that erdrich | elvis |
| il milione | travel |
| "illness as metaphor." | sontag |
| yehuda amichai | darwish |
| middlesex | eugenides |
| el trato | algiers |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| trieste | zeno |
| italo svevo | calvino |
| "topography" | algiers |
| dolce stil novo | cavalcanti |
| vera claythorne | nursery rhyme |
| cimbria | country |
| came like swallows | 1918 |
| "unclubbable" | johnson |
| justice wargrave | nursery rhyme |
| "last cigarettes" | zeno |
| virgin suicides | eugenides |
| heid | elvis |
| "notes on camp." | sontag |
| "a lady asks me," | cavalcanti |
| neff | set |
| bob childan | san francisco |
| "at 2 or 3 or 4 a.m." | wolfe |
| chang weiyuan | dream of the red chamber |
| granny bb | calvino |
| zinc cliffs | calvino |
| "imparting some special virtue of its own, as in ... japonicas" | white |
| jardins publiques | mansfield |
| "i like guys to hurt me" | irish |
| "pale horse, pale rider." | 1918 |
| "figurative incarceration" | lawyer |
| "half is enough" | tennyson |
| becka | testaments |
| 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 |
| "to and fro" | brain |
| tobis | kiss of the spider woman |
| "near-total historical amnesia" | sontag |
| tropic of cancer | miller |
| subterraneans | kerouac |
| st. jude | corrections |
| crevel | cousine bette |
| "a bird came down the walk" | dickinson |
| "rather sound judgment with great simplicity of mind," | candide |
| 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 |
| "extravagant." | mansfield |
| "between my finger and my thumb" | irish |
| "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 |
| felicia hemans | casabianca |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "mule talk" | their eyes w |
| "astronomer-poet" | rubaiyat |
| torcello | pinter |
| byzantine emperor hugo | charlemagne |
| "to teach you how to be a wife." | boccaccio |
| anthony sattin | nile |
| "god has pity on kindergarten children." | hebrew |
| "challenge to me, because we write about the same place." | darwish |
| "stalking the billion-footed beast" | wolfe |
| "radical chic" | wolfe |
| "they're called social reformers." | harold |
| 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 |
| noviolet bulawayo | zimbabwe |
| khady | france |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "donna me prega." | cavalcanti |
| anthea | ali smith |
| "of glass." | lawyer |
| "double vision" | michael |
| isis, nut | set |
| le dernier amour | flaubert |
| elisabeth demand | ali smith |
| los banos de | algiers |
| "i have met them at close of day." | easter, 1916 |
| "what's america, but the legend of rock 'n' roll?" | elvis |
| adrift on | nile |
| samara | nile |
| "summer evening by the window with" | psalms |
| nut | shu |
| "bad blood" | season in hell |
| precrime division | minority report |
| karkov | for whom the be |
| "lady of the pearls." | italy |
| mirror for the romantic | dream of the red chamber |
| wilderness | rubaiyat |
| reverend bacon | wolfe |
| maria ruskin | wolfe |
| ruedi | calvino |
| fifteen-syllable | jerusalem delivered |
| silvestra | italy |
| "that dark center where procreation flared." | rilke |
| 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 |
| abel sanchez | unamuno |
| adventures of roderick random | smollett |
| first crusade by torquato tasso | jerusalem delivered |
| "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 |
| alain mabanckou | single sentence |
| fleet debtors prison | peregrine |
| jonathan cape | orwell |
| willie ballroom | fugard |
| "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 |
| rodney has a relapse | milne |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| the generation of '98 | unamuno |
| work team | island |
| my man | wodehouse |
| "civilwarland in bad decline," | saunders |
| "on stupid pills." | james |
| "trampled" | sawdust |
| agha shahid ali | tonight |
| "shake your head and scatter" | sun |
| commodore hawser trunnion | peregrine |
| hodoshe | island |
| clicking of cuthbert | golf |
| "he oxygen, she hydrogen, / their son, a devastating fire." | spoon river anthology |
| "telemachus." | ulysses |
| "story of the three bears." | fairy tale |
| "stubbornly, scrupulously silent" | name of the rose |
| "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 |
| possession | fairy tale |
| holy sinner | italy |
| "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 |
| "three bards" | romantic |
| "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 |
| "victory lap" | tenth of december |
| alfred prufrock | mermaid |
| have sat with | stein |
| clapeau | chef |
| suffering wife | lenz |
| gotz von berlichingen | lenz |
| "mermaids singing, each to each" | eliot |
| "god sobs in my arms" | tonight |
| "drowned lilies dancing" | gautier |
| english for spiritual | couplet |
| "to roosevelt." | dario |
| binh | stein |
| dario cuerda in leopoldina | ocampo |
| "o lithuania, my homeland!" | pan tadeusz |
| soplica | judge |
| niebla | unamuno |
| wives of geniuses | stein |
| "all right we are two nations" | dos passos |
| 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 |
| "ineluctable modality of the visible" | ulysses |
"good girl" (instead of "good woman") | snow country |
| "for life, as it were." | james |
| washington square | james |
| new poems | rilke |
| verbalucetm | james |
| "restaurants with oyster shells." | sawdust |
| sur | ocampo |
| 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 |
| "there is no friend like a sister" | goblin market |
| old commandant | penal colony |
| "jack and the beanstalk." | fairy tale |
| "thing poems," | rilke |
| "archaic torso of apollo" | rilke |
| all the year round | ghost |
| aarne-thompson | fairy tale |
| africae | name of the rose |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| party of marxist unification | for whom the be |
| "have faith and wait" | penal colony |
| " 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 |
| in sartre | spanish civil |
| "singing, each to each," | mermaid |
| "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 |
| bei dao | mist |
| "bony scandalmonger" | hamlet |
| frith | manderley |
| bourton | party |
| "a solitary human voice." | chernobyl |
| "lonely old courage-teacher" | whitman |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "sharp pang of appetite" | mantel |
| prize for fiction | mantel |
| "below there!" | ghost |
| "the hill." | spoon river anthology |
| "stately, plump" | ulysses |
| monique truong | stein |
| lucy ellmann | single sentence |
| arana | basque |
| "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 |
| khlestakov | government inspector |
| sarita | fornes |
| "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 |
| "scar literature" | chinese |
| "child rowland to the dark tower came, / his word was still 'fie, foh, and fum.'" | fairy tale |
| "life is not a walk across a field" | doctor zhivago |
| masuji ono | booker |
| cesaire | tempest |
| valere | marriage |
| sophia parnok | tsvetaeva |
| "well-knit plots" | detective |
| white guard | bulgakov |
| charles brockden brown | ventriloquism |
| "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 |
| "the widow ching - pirate." | universal history of infamy |
| "a triumph." | daube |
| " for 10 points each: this other pinter play was inspired by his own affair with bbc presenter joan bakewell. this nine scene " | betrayal |
| east coast magazine | ferris wheel |
| keiko | beauty and sadness |
| "resume." | parker |
| universal history of infamy | borges |
| sonora | detective |
| "crimson faces," | rhododendron |
| "stood fifty feet high" | rhododendron |
| "something has died. isn't there now." | booker |
| "why we love" | chernobyl |
| maine lobster festival | wallace |
| "give you many / combs and rings" | tsvetaeva |
| "last night i dreamed i went to [this place] again." | manderley |
| happy valley | rhododendron |
| "yes i said yes i will yes." | ulysses |
| deasy | ulysses |
| "call me [this character] of the shchigrovsky district." | hamlet |
| mikhail berlioz | massolit |
| lady lowborough | wildfell |
| "exceptional heroic" | body |
| ota | thousand cranes |
| the girlfriend | tsvetaeva |
| "the glass coffin." | fairy tale |
| bernard gui | name of the rose |
| "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 |
| mountain of needles | akutagawa |
| "swell'st." | donne |
| "many-colored throne" | sappho |
| sidney farber | doctor |
| serebryakov | shoot |
| journey to the center of the earth by jules verne | french |
| "be my ally" | sappho |
| micromegas | french |
| "many-colored mind" | sappho |
| 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 |
| tsvetaeva | hamlet |
| "i am thrown. i am against. i sharp. i color." | parker |
| "greasy black cap" | master |
| griboedov | massolit |
| "less lovely" | party |
| lunatic view | menace |
| baltimore gun club | french |
| pond of blood | akutagawa |
| wieland | ventriloquism |
| jennifer glaser | jew |
| hilliad | pope |
| "earnestly entreateth the hermit to shrieve him" | gloss |
| "vivat, vivat, vivat, vivat." | imaginary invalid |
| tan twan eng | mist |
| christopher smart | pope |
| "what passes for cookery in england is an abomination" | woolf |
| 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 |
| phaon | sappho |
| "blend of chalk and rot." | hamlet |
| aggressive menace | computer |
| anita raja | ferrante |
| meyer landsman | chabon |
| man who mistook his wife for a hat | doctor |
| "put a bullet through his head" | robinson |
| chum frink | babbitt |
| "comical history" | french |
| in satan says | body |
| native companion at the illinois state fair | wallace |
| "thrown against a sharp white background" | hurston |
| "the uncivil teacher of court etiquette kotsuke no suke" | universal history of infamy |
| "affected by sort of a cold shadow of the white man's curiosity" | hawthorne |
| "sylvia's death." | sexton |
| oki toshio | beauty and sadness |
| oki | beauty and sadness |
| "since she whom i loved hath paid her last debt," | donne |
| "i have done what you wanted to do, walt whitman, / allen ginsberg" | body |
| john hill | fielding |
| in an ivan turgenev | hamlet |
| "glaring" | rhododendron |
| in rooney | emma |
| like the master | bulgakov |
| carwin | ventriloquism |
| ". for 10 points each: aeschylus claims that the persians was " | frogs |
| "creature" | heart of darkness |
| franz biberkopf | berlin |
| "buying a fishing rod for my grandfather." | gao |
| guandi | temple |
| "cursed with the brand of slavery." | desiree's baby |
| "arab and african." | othello |
| "the end, just like a harp's sigh, comes light" | night |
| "i'll fergive her!" | street |
| mila | poland |
| adaptive manipulator | computer |
| season of migration to the north | arabic |
| dry white | season |
| kitty duval | time of your life |
| tomb for boris davidovich | kis |
| charles perrault | fairy tales |
| summerland | chabon |
| johnny the priest | anna christie |
| "town" | fish |
| richard marriot | fish |
| "american everygirl who happens to be jewish." | wouk |
| red peter | ape |
| ethan feld | chabon |
| "had not often been disfigured by frowns" | bayou |
| 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 |
| siddhartha mukherjee | doctor |
| "the days of old" | robinson |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| "if i were a rich man" | fiddler on the roof |
| "tarts" | o'neill |
| kis | joyce |
| "tell me who to kill," | naipaul |
| pale of settlement | fiddler on the roof |
| "states and empires" | french |
| william halsted | doctor |
| oliver sacks | doctor |
| "the voice." | infernal machine |
| "sense of failure that is the source of almost all my anxiety" | italian |
| cam island | chabon |
| "longing for death." | night |
| "death fugue." | holocaust |
| ama ata aidoo | ghost |
| solomon wilberforce | season |
| "deep, sluggish" | bayou |
| isherwood | berlin |
| the dilemma of one | ghost |
| ghana in an akosua busia | season |
| deerslayer | cooper |
| "failed cattle thief" | trujillo |
| devil's row | crane |
| heroides | behn |
| "somewhere behind turkenfeld," | sebald |
| in ellison | ape |
| eed | othello |
| leonard marnham | mcewan |
| "hub fans bid kid adieu." | updike |
| joe dimaggio | old man and the sea |
| alaska in the yiddish policemen | chabon |
| giovanni drogo | buzzati |
| discovery one in arthur clarke | computer |
| ted williams to hamlet | updike |
| homegoing | gyasi |
| nick's | time of your life |
| death in the american novel | fiedler |
| "come back to the raft ag'in, huck honey!" | fiedler |
| young naturalist | diary |
| lamorna ash | fish |
| "bluebeard," | bloody chamber |
| foe | friday |
| poll | friday |
| hugo award | china |
| eulalie | ghost |
| dara mcanulty | diary |
| "state domain" | big man |
| wouk | fiddler on the roof |
| french communist | isherwood |
| prout | babbitt |
| "ascend to heaven" | akutagawa |
| longinus | sappho |
| broken stars | china |
| emperor of all maladies | doctor |
| "she fears him, and will always ask / what fated her to choose him." | robinson |
| blindness by jose saramago | portuguese |
| "baby" | mamet |
| "experiments with the action of magnetism had occupied public attention," | nose |
| "nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die" | salinger |
| 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 |
| michael hamburger | holocaust |
| "the broken wall, the burning roof and tower / and agamemnon dead" | leda |
| "cup" | dice |
| maniac in dario fo | police |
| franz kromer | demian |
| "can fill the unforgiving minute / with sixty seconds' worth of distance run [will] be a man, my son!" | if |
| "blow out your candles" | glass menag |
| jimmy aaron | autobiography |
| "bundles of acute angles" | heart of darkness |
| "as a snake would a bird." | heart of darkness |
| "sentimental and ... trite, reassuringly platitudinous." | fiedler |
| walter kovacs | watchmen |
| oenone to paris | behn |
| robby | mcewan |
| "nothing ever ends, adrian" | watchmen |
| "the end is nigh" | watchmen |
| "white hills, white thighs" | neruda |
| kenya by danish | out of africa |
| emmanuelson | out of africa |
| book three of horace | dulce et decorum est |
| "gas! gas! quick, boys!" | dulce et decorum est |
| rahel | india |
| "what belongs to the day." | sing |
| "the birthday of the infanta," | wilde |
| garry essendine in present laughter | coward |
| "well done, cutty-sark!" | drunk |
| elizabeth temple | bumppo |
| third policeman | ireland |
| 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 |
| "facino cane" | human comedy |
| arab shakespeare trilogy | machine |
| lucas hnath | doll |
| coward | blithe spirit |
| hercules furens | seneca |
| "the ladder sways as the boughs bend." | apple pick |
| "copying a copy of the real." | barthes |
| "sun moon stars." | rain |
| 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 |
| alias grace | atwood |
| oscar hijuelos | pulitzer |
| "some boy's been swinging them." | birches |
| "curse through sludge." | dulce et decorum est |
| 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 |
| harald hjarne | endless |
| mrozek | absurd |
| santiago nasar | die |
| juan carlos etchepare in heartbreak tango | puig |
| "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 |
| "understanding which has made a stranger a brother" | tagore |
| hester eastman | scarlet letter |
| moral letters to lucilius | seneca |
| prince hotaru | fireflies |
| the prairie and the | cooper |
| hagen | pnin |
| sweet sorrow | coward |
| tamakazura | fireflies |
| "the horror and the glory." | autobiography |
| jimmy jimmerino | salinger |
| "hanging face" | dulce et decorum est |
| songs of mihyar | syria |
| "pan-mediterranean muses," | ovid |
| efforts of affection | moore |
| "to left and right" | birches |
| "the presentation of credible experiences and happenings in literature." | realism |
| wild duck | ibsen |
| "dominated by a 'literary'... element conducive to the act of contemplation." | closet |
| nenny in the house on mango street | esperanza |
| wickfield | uriah |
| the st. cloud's orphanage | cider house rules |
| colonel aponte | die |
| stanford creative writing program | one flew over the cuckoo's nest |
| critic laura miller | mcewan |
| "a sudden blow." | leda |
| father amador | die |
| "the cheater's guide to love," | yunior |
| catherine burroughs | closet |
| "imaginary gardens with real toads in them" | moore |
| laura esquivel | recipe |
| "in thy hands, my lord." | endless |
| accidental death of an anarchist | police |
| "strong brown god." | eliot |
| how you lose her | yunior |
| puig | argentina |
| nate silver | howards end |
| "the unknown masterpiece." | human comedy |
| lost children archive | mexico |
| melquiades | die |
| matthew lopez | howards end |
| "of an ex-colored man." | autobiography |
| bus stop | balcony |
| "blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" | lear |
| "misty panes and thick green light." | dulce et decorum est |
| william inge | balcony |
| booper | salinger |
| western biological | cannery row |
| "what krishna meant... when he admonished arjuna / on the field of battle" | eliot |
| "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 |
| "the orchard walls are high and hard to climb" | balcony |
| "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 |
| black boy | autobiography |
| 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 |
| shankuntala | kalidas |
| "on the air" | welles |
| preference | sevastopol |
| eagle in sherwood anderson | willard |
| "to go home singing." | medea |
| "elvis puff." | india |
| sophie mol | india |
| amitav ghosh | india |
| "be drunk!" | spleen |
| lapland | snow queen |
| in like water for chocolate | esperanza |
| heiner muller | ishiguro |
| sergeant pluck | ireland |
| "ozymandias." | shelley |
| machines like me | mcewan |
| "sketches" | sevastopol |
| 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 |
| "happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" | tolstoy |
| "cinnamon shops," | judaism |
| "clumsy" | glass menag |
| great derangement | india |
| "camest thou hither" | balcony |
| "body of a woman," | neruda |
| "mastered all the arts of cowardice" | medea |
| "destroy it and man is destroyed" | cry, the beloved country |
| good deeds | morality |
| path of thunder | okigbo |
| bruno schulz | judaism |
| "all of animated nature" | candle |
| "nemean" | pindar |
| chris ware | graphic novel |
| giovanni malatesta | francesca |
| poligraf poligrafovich in a mikhail bulgakov | dog |
| "there were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle." | neruda |
| adding machine | expressionism |
| "at the hotel de bourgogne between de bergerac and a boeotian" | duel |
| machinal | expressionism |
| ulises | bolano |
| devil in the white city | chicago world's fair |
| d'annunzio | francesca |
| "not fear the devil himself," | land |
| reverend arthur villars | burney |
| at madame vauquer | balzac |
| sandwich islands | dictionary |
| "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 |
| "all that i really love / is the rain that flattens on the bay, / and the eel-grass in the cove." | millay |
| tumblr | callimachus |
| ilujinle | lion and the jewel |
| the ' play | jesus |
| sir pelham grenville wodehouse | wodehouse |
| "her salt tears fell from her, and softened the stones" | tree |
| pinakes | callimachus |
| "i am waiting." | coney island |
| "out flew the web and floated wide" | mirror |
| the lion and the jewel | photographer |
| buddy | willard |
| second shepherds | jesus |
| let him die | okigbo |
| okigbo | adichie |
| elmer rice | expressionism |
| sophie treadwell | expressionism |
| w. s. merwin | neruda |
| "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 |
| "diversely framed." | candle |
| "how much land does a man need?" | tolstoy |
| jay cee for ladies | esther |
| biafra | okigbo |
| stephanie burt | callimachus |
| library of alexandria | callimachus |
| kozeltsof | sevastopol |
| adirondacks | willard |
| hippolyte tautain | club |
| aetia | callimachus |
| art speigelman | graphic novel |
| lafayette theater | harlem |
| sophie von kuhn | hymn |
| biafran war in half of a yellow sun | adichie |
| oresteia of aeschylus | mourning becomes electra |
| torrents of spring | shakespeare |
| "junkman's obbligato" | coney island |
| 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 |
| sauron | ring |
| republic of fiume | d'annunzio |
| passion play | jesus |
| cesarea tinajero in mexico in the savage detectives | bolano |
| coulibri plantation | rhys |
| "stasis in darkness" | plath |
| maria edgeworth | castle |
| condy | castle |
| "the disinherited one" | knight |
| "trahmp la-more" | balzac |
| janacek's sinfonietta | murakami |
| hidimbi | mahabharata |
| "art, like everything else." | plath |
| princess ateh | dictionary |
| "polemic" | 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 |
| evelina | burney |
| campensis | isis |
| 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 |
| westernized lakunle | lion and the jewel |
| okeoma | adichie |
| "isthmian," | pindar |
| "i am a man, i consider nothing human alien to me" | self-tormentor |
| menedamus | self-tormentor |
| "mexico city blues." | keroua |
| "i'm with you" | rockland |
| "scourge of penance" | everyman |
| "with a woman's head" | candle |
| triumph of death | d'annunzio |
| walk together | wilson |
| english by constance garnett | shakespeare |
| "sitting alone and remembering." | old gringo |
| "swaggering soldier." | latin |
| fair in jimmy corrigan | graphic novel |
| "modern fiction" | shakespeare |
| coton mais | chopin |
"the arrow / the dew that flies." | plath |
| otranto | castle |
| "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 |
| "stranger, bear word to the spartans we..." | boll |
| tea obreht | tiger |
| colin clout | shepheardes |
| "play with music" | brecht |
| palmyra | dry |
| "struck and banded which way please them" | tennis ball |
| toole | new orleans |
| "] is found stuffed in a chimney after being murdered by an orangutan. c. auguste dupin [" | poe |
| john kennedy toole | confederacy of dunces |
| serapion | all for love |
| spenser | sidney |
| "pallid" | raven |
| "brahmins." | boston |
| every man | jonson |
| arkham house | lovecraft |
| daniel jose older | lovecraft |
| "the black sluggard." | knight |
| "never known the weariness, the fever, and the fret" | bird |
| "alien corn" | bird |
| " in a poem that urges to " | heart |
| thayers | boston |
| septimus harding | warden |
| elisabeth hauptmann | brecht |
| red channels | blacklist |
| talita | hopscotch |
| poet louise gluck | nobel |
| "the glory that was greece, / and the grandeur that was rome." | helen |
| raveloe | eliot |
| "a man without land is nobody." | montreal |
| "and sons." | father |
| "sly fox" | jonson |
| "the only real horror in most of these fictions is the horror of bad taste and bad art." | lovecraft |
| glenn gould | austria |
| dunstan | raveloe |
| "the sea like a vast silvered mirror reflects the sky like a sheet of zinc." | symphony in gray major |
| granta | nobel |
| jed martin | houellebecq |
| "possibility" | island |
| the barsetshire series | warden |
| " ends by praising " | heart |
| "even and odd." | poe |
| "just above my chamber door" | pallas |
| isles of greece | don juan |
| " for 10 points each: byron addressed a ten-year old " | heart |
| time of the hero | vargas |
| "the deacon's masterpiece." | holmes |
| the children's hour | hellman |
| last gentleman | new orleans |
| valmonde | chopin |
| "the happiest of mortals, for he is above everything he possesses." | candide |
| admiral byng | candide |
| bhishma | mahabharata |
| "dead hands, dead stringencies." | plath |
| "lost his bottle of oil." | hades |
| "rose embower'd in its own green leaves." | bird |
| "hail to thee, blithe spirit!" | bird |
| "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 |
| "child of hope and fear." | dictionary |
| "man's life's as cheap as beast's" | lear |
| "isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?" | akutagawa |
| "unrepentant" | blacklist |
| paradise vendors | confederacy of dunces |
| avalon coldmoon | soseki |
| "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 |
| ti noel | haiti |
| the corrections | oprah |
| with salvatore quasimodo | montale |
| hellman | blacklist |
| trotta | roth |
| concept of the political | schmitt |
| trollope | thackeray |
| "how to write about pakistan." | granta |
| cthulhu | lovecraft |
| andric | turk |
| astrophel | sidney |
| "my master." | soseki |
| stone pits | raveloe |
| l'abri | desiree's |
| "anesthesia" | holmes |
| "boston brahmin." | holmes |
| thomas of celano | latin |
| benediktbeuern abbey | latin |
| "the gilded six bits" | hurston |
a minor apocalypse (language) | polish |
| "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 |
| "kitchenette building." | brooks |
| "blood red thing" | poe |
| otis slemmons | hurston |
| red sorghum | mo |
| " 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 |
| "two-fifths genius, three-fifths sheer fudge" | lowell |
| in hauptmann | fairies |
| sunken bell | fairies |
| hermetic tradition | montale |
| ayad akhtar | trump |
| "to roosevelt" | dario |
| moritz jaeger | hauptmann |
| bosola | tennis ball |
| maid of athens | heart |
| " this thing. byron's poem " | heart |
| "how to write about africa" | granta |
| wild gallant | jonson |
| bridge on the drina | turk |
| "to gun-stones" | tennis ball |
| "queer shoulder to the wheel" | ginsburg |
| delilah for a polish | balzac |
| zandrine | chopin |
| "i have done it again." | plath |
| "don't speak." | mo |
azul (collection) | dario |
| hiram's hospital | warden |
| horatio oliveira | hopscotch |
| "a glimpse of yellow lemons" | montale |
| "thunder their songs" | montale |
| italian hermeticism | montale |
| in flann | joyce |
| our american cousin | lincoln |
| eddie | view from the bridge |
| crisostomo ibarra | rizal |
| madame koto | famished road |
| "the fragrance of the lemon trees" | montale |
| reilly | confederacy of dunces |
| homeland elegies | trump |
| yusuke kafuku | murakami |
| lachlan mackinnon | cope |
| paschal | chrysostom |
| memory of departure | gurnah |
| "plantation tradition" | chestnutt |
| poetic justice | harjo |
| his humour | jonson |
| howard phillips lovecraft | lovecraft |
| "dominant point of reference" | italian |
| screenwriters ring lardner | blacklist |
| " for 10 points each: name this country that byron called a " | greece |
| latin american boom | vargas |
| "elite" | boston |
| "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 |
| "to encourage the others." | candide |
| "spy glass." | hurston |
| "like a pipe for a christmas present, or records" | harlem renaissance |
| "a book that one thumbs / listlessly till slumber comes." | harlem renaissance |
| "mimic rout." | poe |
| rape of the sabine women | saki |
| wilfrid | saki |
| kris kelvin | polish |
| christian lygia | polish |
| sappleton | saki |
| 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 |
| red hook | view from the bridge |
| edna o'brien | joyce |
| pluck | third policeman |
| yellow submarine | beatles |
| "god sees the truth, but waits." | tolstoy |
| simoun | rizal |
| "dean of american letters" | howells |
| beasts and super-beasts | saki |
| purpose of american politics | morgenthau |
| at the whitman | boy, snow, bird |
| stanley koteks | yoyodyne |
| "the goophered grapevine," | chestnutt |
| christian monty kipps | on beauty |
| "sinners in the hands of an angry god." | sermon |
| mongane wally serote | dry white season |
| melanie bruwer | dry white season |
| "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 |
| "mimes, in the form of god on high... / hither and thither fly" | poe |
| "my land has palm trees where the thrush sings." | brazil |
| dalkey archive | joyce |
| tubingen | holderlin |
| dark horse comics | escapist |
| "i woke with this marble head in my hands" | greek |
| 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 |
| richard hannay | thirty-nine steps |
| kingdom of god is within you | tolstoy |
| ambeth ocampo | rizal |
"how can i face such slaughter and be cool?" | a far cry from africa |
| "wrestles with" | gorilla |
| "heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd." | mourning bride |
| country wife | restoration |
| clayton chiclitz | yoyodyne |
| "lady of beauty" | sappho |
| mythistorema | greek |
| nella larsen | passing |
| "fantastic" | fox |
| "delusion notes." | nietzsche |
| boggis | fox |
| jarrow | bede |
| amazing midget radio comics | escapist |
| olanna | half of a yellow sun |
| oyeyemi | fox |
| de selby | third policeman |
| "drive my car," | beatles |
| holy thursday | chrysostom |
| "principle of universal discovery." | physicist |
| mikis theodorakis | greek |
| "exile song" | brazil |
| kipps | united kingdom |
| venetian epigrams | goethe |
| hard day | beatles |
| "postmodern novelist." | delillo |
| "to my husband," | cope |
| thomas bailey aldrich | chestnutt |
| dugal mcadoo | chestnutt |
| friedrich durrenmatt | switzerland |
| "writhes" | poe |
| bunce | fox |
| william congreve | mourning bride |
| mandrake | machiavelli |
| "is it about a bicycle?" | third policeman |
| john buchan | thirty-nine steps |
| "most photographed" | barn |
| liturgy of saint basil | chrysostom |
| 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 |
| knemon | comedy |
| "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 |
| "comedies" | restoration |
| "lupi ad anglos," | sermon |
| "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 |
| mad king sweeney | o'brien |
| pooka mcphillimey | o'brien |
| a 's night | beatles |
| gordon ngubene | dry white season |
| howells | chestnutt |
| belsey | on beauty |
| politics among nations | morgenthau |
| bean in a roald dahl | fox |
| empire comics | escapist |
| ben du toit | dry white season |
| against the jews | chrysostom |
| conjure woman | chestnutt |
| frank novak | boy, snow, bird |
| boeing | yoyodyne |
| yoyodyne | pynchon |
| unlike ungaretti | montale |
| "modern poets" | liverpool |
| chimeras in nerval | desdichado |
| les filles | desdichado |
| political justice | godwin |
| wu jingzi | scholar |
| sally hemings | jefferson |
| lady tortoise | dance of the forests |
| paperbacks | liverpool |
| in the physicists | solomon |
| like yiannis ritsos | cavafy |
| snow white by oyeyemi | boy, snow, bird |
| "six principles of political realism" | morgenthau |
| master of hestviken | undset |
| "furu ike ya." | cutting |
| neuromancer | ballard |
| sheridan le fanu | cyberpunk |
| "every photograph reinforces the aura" | barn |
| "ballad of the ladies of times past" | villon |
| "common attic." | cavafy |
| "the golden trumpets of radiance" | montale |
| flann o'brien | third policeman |
| "waste land limericks" | cope |
| makamisa | rizal |
| ton beau | marot |
| "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 |
| "darkness dread & drear." | blake |
| finn mac cool | o'brien |
| mathers | third policeman |
| "for don m - banned" | dry white season |
| captain stolz | dry white season |
| "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 |
| "to be great is to be misunderstood." | emerson |
| "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 |
| leucothoe | horace |
| "alexandrian stanza" | emerson |
| "retort courteous," | jaques |
| "acrostic" | emerson |
| robert langdon | da vinci code |
| "problem plays." | troilus and criseyde |
| adrian henri | penguin |
| "when he woke up, the dinosaur was still there" | flash |
| "the story of my dovecot." | babel |
| like the monk | gothic |
| "lowlife and high tech" | ballard |
| "you're straightaway dangerous - / and handled with a chain." | dickinson |
| trisolaris | liu |
| mycroft holmes | abdul-jabbar |
| pierre picaud | count of monte cristo |
| aubert | mysteries of udolpho |
| "awful" | row |
| "i have gone out, a possessed witch" | sexton |
| decad | hymn |
| dan brown | da vinci code |
| dodsworth | lewis |
| "a nobleman and his sister." | letter |
| scott in mansfield | horse |
| harriet jacobs | wilson |
| william wells brown | jefferson |
| masaoka shiki | tanka |
| "cybernetic culture" | cyberpunk |
| on isis | plutarch |
| "the hell of impotence" | disappointment |
| cloris | disappointment |
| "godfather" | bukowski |
| "the band sounded louder and gayer" | new zealand |
| the wreath and the wife | undset |
| an awful rowing toward god | sexton |
| pendulum | da vinci code |
| speculum meditantis | gower |
| ahasuerus in jan potocki | wandering jew |
| rene de chateaubriand's | romantic |
| "drink! don't think!" | ship |
| "the management of grief." | mukherjee |
| janet frame | mansfield |
| notes on the state of virginia | jefferson |
| "first known author in world literature." | enheduanna |
| "dream vision" | gower |
| transito soto | house of the spirits |
| "some blessed hope, whereof he knew" | hardy |
| "lean and slipper'd pantaloon" | jaques |
| for nigeria | mask |
| gate | gide |
| "nun's priest's tale" | chaucer |
| great epics | tamil |
| pigments | damas |
| vox clamantis | gower |
| life of alexander | plutarch |
| "modern classics" | liverpool |
| bill buford | bukowski |
| carnal prayer mat | scholar |
| "scholar-beauty" | dream of the red chamber |
| tiina nunnally | undset |
| "let us offer our pinch of dust all to this god" | shakespeare |
| roger avary | los angeles |
| panini's ashtadhyayi | grammar |
| annie adams fields | jewett |
| du shaoqing | scholar |
| bev | clybourne park |
| "acquired more essential history from plutarch than most men could from" | shakespeare |
| the king's horseman, amusa | mask |
| strait | gide |
| allan woodcourt | summerson |
| "the island called god." | row |
| part way back | sexton |
| like sharon olds | confessional |
| belbo | foucault's pendulum |
| "theory and play." | duende |
| earl of rochester | disappointment |
| ferdinand celine in a bukowski | los angeles |
| augusto monterroso | flash |
| tyrannosaurus rex | bradbury |
| adboulaye sadji | damas |
| corsican brothers | dumas |
| eugene sue | wandering jew |
| "the prince of aquitaine, his tower in ruins" | desdichado |
| literary souvenirs | art for art's sake |
| anita | desai |
| institute for union with nothingness | house of the spirits |
| "lamentable" | nurse |
| "who could frame thy fearful symmetry?" | blake |
| "happy good-night air" | hardy |
| "reply churlish" | jaques |
| "full of strange oaths," | jaques |
| "assent" | dickinson |
| sylvy | white heron |
| "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 |
| cuneiform | sumerian |
| "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 |
| "proof" | comedy |
| "you spoiled the song," | gorky |
| "why the host of 'jeopardy!' matters" | abdul-jabbar |
| tolkappiyam | grammar |
| manuscript found in saragossa | wandering jew |
| "vague des passions" | romantic |
| artist of disappearance | desai |
| "ya," | cutting |
| "follow the brush." | zuihitsu |
| "mattress-grave," | german |
| mei woo | joy luck club |
| malabar caves | forster |
| 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 |
| lucy terry | bars fight |
| william empson | shakespeare |
| weigle | enheduanna |
| colonel ardenti | foucault's pendulum |
| district officer pilkings | mask |
| "duende" | lope de vega |
| "between the streets and the air" | chile |
| "bleeding," | paz |
| "the gold watch" | los angeles |
| jeanne nardal | damas |
| "three fathers" | damas |
| "boston marriage" | jewett |
| "handsome, clever, and rich" | austen |
| "where i'm calling from" | carver |
| james graham ballard | ballard |
russ (stoller) | clybourne park |
| mildred douglas | hairy ape |
| adventures of caleb williams | godwin |
| "affirms something." | cathedral |
| frame | horse |
| bev and russ | lindner |
| an account of my hut | zuihitsu |
| nigeria in death | soyinka |
| "an epitome of bierce's strange doomed and constricted life" | patriotic gore |
| sangam | tamil |
| yande codou | senghor |
| rennepont | wandering jew |
| "american translation." | joy luck club |
| anne de breuil | milady |
| "there are no flies or mosquitoes to sting you," | john |
| "careless indictment" | go set a watchman |
| "humiliated christ" | paz |
| "dirty realism." | bukowski |
| anna waterhouse | abdul-jabbar |
| kannagi | tamil |
| paulette | damas |
| isaac laquedem | wandering jew |
| carmilla | cyberpunk |
| vincent starrett | holmes |
| henry chinaski | bukowski |
| "quip modest," | jaques |
| "i owe everything to that meeting." | babel |
| detective nicky belane | los angeles |
| alan steinberg | abdul-jabbar |
| aunt ester in gem of the ocean | wilson |
| lord ruthven | cyberpunk |
| emperor mata kharibu | dance of the forests |
| revelation motor company | fran |
| gaylen | mailer |
| "worlds scoop their arcs - and firmaments - row - diadems drop." | dickinson |
| lois leveen | nurse |
| "forward, backward, or across." | emerson |
| "envy is ignorance" | emerson |
| "imitation is suicide . . ." | emerson |
| "bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth." | jaques |
| "tangled bine-stems scored the sky / like strings of broken lyres." | hardy |
| "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 |
| asheville | wolfe |
| terence mcnally | kiss |
| "there be no sadness of farewell,/ when i embark;" | crossing the bar |
| hod | balder |
| "when i was one-and-twenty" | 22 |
| look homeward | wolfe |
| "thrones" | pound |
| wych elm tree | forster |
| "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 |
ann radcliffe (work) | the mysteries of udolpho |
blandings castle | wodehouse |
| "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 |
| family idiot | emma |
| "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 |
| "could not cease in the inglorious arts of peace," | cromwell |
| denoalan | tristan |
| greek kronia | saturnalia |
| don dubrow | nickel |
| psmith | john |
| "was round upon the ground" | anecdote of the jar |
| charles shields | go set a watchman |
| "happy as hell" | go set a watchman |
| "for three years, / was out of sync with his time." | pound |
| "nonfiction novel" | mailer |
| almansor | german |
| grand lord | hell |
| "lifts her leafy arms" | pray |
| maganda | philippines |
| "fathered" | san francisco |
| "panegyrick" | cromwell |
| abab | pound |
| "rock drill" | pound |
| "the sons of" | paz |
| "hearts with one purpose alone" | easter rising |
| "art, science, and religion" | john |
| jack abbott | mailer |
| "corambis." | polonius |
| "botched civilization" | pound |
| "borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry" | polonius |
| "voice grew shrill." | easter rising |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| regina hubbard | hellman |
| piet wetjoen | boer |
| prince of tides | conroy |
| congo river | conrad |
| keyarts | heart of darkness |
| "some village-hampden," | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| hippie boy | stick |
| "sadly familiar reductionist tendency." | soyinka |
| "a tawdry cheapness" | pound |
| "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 |
| "tone" | boer |
| "no stir in the air, no stir in the sea, the ship was still as she could be." | inchcape |
| dorfman | kushner |
| "i came here to forgive, but all i can do is take pleasure in your misery." | rosenberg |
| story of a marriage | greer |
| blee | saramago |
| prithvi | sita |
| "monody on queen caroline." | west |
al-sayyid | mahfouz |
"it bites my eyes like a mad dog" | lysistrata |
| sahr | saramago |
| griffin | wells |
| "the inchcape rock" | southey |
| iseult | tristan |
| "anecdote of the jar" | stevens |
| the naked and the dead | mailer |
| 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) |
| mah-jongg | joy luck club |
| "costly thy habit as thy purse can buy" | polonius |
| "faces in the crowd." | pound |
| "changed, changed utterly" | easter rising |
| "magical root" | frederick |
| omega point | everything that rises must converge |
| chestny | everything that rises must converge |
| "can never fail / for it is based upon a rock," | eliot |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| ernie | wright |
| malakas | philippines |
| pat conroy | wolfe |
| much of gravity | world war ii |
| "projective verse" | black mountain |
| rose stanley | school |
| flashman | school |
| true church | eliot |
| "no ... we have nothing to ask him." | candide |
| brau | nickel |
| "the country of the blind" | wells |
| code of the woosters | reginald |
charles olson (movement) | black mountain |
| guido cavalcanti | ash wednesday |
| "a gay fantasia on national themes" | kushner |
| "horatian ode." | cromwell |
| e.l. doctorow's | rosenberg |
| "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 |
"five pennies is a nickel" | welty |
| 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 |
| "horrible hypocrisy" | frederick |
| "safety first," | school |
| "mind's bible" | keats |
| "elementary, my dear." | john |
| gray's elegy | west |
| pierre teilhard | everything that rises must converge |
| "cushion with the stuffing out" | everything that rises must converge |
| "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 |
| wolfram von eschenbach | grail |
| nemean odes | pindar |
| anopopei | naked and the |
| alphonse keyaerts | heart of darkness |
denise levertov (movement) | black mountain |
| valentin arregui | kiss |
| "e-r-o-s" | cupid |
| celebrations of hestia | donkey |
| soolt | tristan |
| "pry" | donkey |
| great santini | conroy |
| "beacon burns" | shropshire lad |
| "pensioners" | fairies |
| chrysogenee | rose |
| simonides | ode |
| "artisans," | praise of folly |
| "to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of god" | burgess |
| kenneth toomey in earthly powers | burgess |
| japan to canada | life of pi |
| raghuvamsa | sita |
| "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 |
| "hamlets" | turgenev |
| "boundless deep." | crossing the bar |
| thomas chatterton | keats |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "what are those blue remembered hills, / what spires, what farms are those?" | shropshire lad |
peter ackroyd | biography |
| carlier | heart of darkness |
| "sons of ben," | suckling |
| vera knoop | rilke |
| "eyes like ripening fruit." | archaic torso of apollo |
| kalinych | sportsman's sketches |
| southwestern trust | train |
| fermor | odes |
| "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 |
| "freckles" | fairies |
| "tithe-pig's tail," | fairies |
| "too cunning to be profound." | auguste |
| "the scapegoat's agony" | waiting for godot |
| "ovid's fragile medusa" | unbearable lightness of being |
| "elegance." | petronius |
| quartilla | petronius |
| esch batiste | as i lay dying |
| "montale's black lucifer" | unbearable lightness of being |
"the grand march" | the unbearable lightness of being |
| mab | fairies |
| "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 |
| "earth stood hard as iron" | in the bleak midwinter |
| "the chambered nautilus" | holmes |
| "forest and steppe." | sportsman's sketches |
| "between my arms." | drown |
| the sundial | hill house |
| "tell me about a" | complicated |
| aulds | covey |
| "frosty wind made moan" | in the bleak midwinter |
| rene gallimard | butterfly |
| song liling | butterfly |
| doych | hopkins |
| cyclops | odyssey |
| w.c. handy | if beale street could talk |
| din attar | simurg |
| vuong | drown |
| "snob" | thackeray |
| "golden hair" | laura |
| "arbiter" | petronius |
| giton | petronius |
| "doggerel verse" | stone |
| salvage the bones | as i lay dying |
| "tried to leave" | tom |
| tigellinus | petronius |
| "fate will unwind as it must," | beowulf |
| claudio gatti | ferrante |
| fernanda | fold |
| "no title" | li |
| "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 |
| "sad" | shepherd |
| "of '98." | generation |
| "same caliber" | tom |
| akim | tom |
| magnificent ambersons | tarkington |
| "let the rose blossom each year" | sonnet |
| zal | simurg |
| spark | nun |
| punch | thackeray |
| "much turning." | complicated |
| "orchard fruits" | rossetti |
| "aye tear her tattered ensign down" | ship |
| khor | sportsman's sketches |
| "slave breaker" | covey |
| "confirmed" | kundera |
| tommaso debenedetti | kundera |
| shelgrim | octopus |
| "i must be my own mamma." | thackeray |
| "let spades be trumps" | rape of the lock |
| "two-edged" | rape of the lock |
| weymouth | butler |
| runaway horses | snow |
| rogozhin | idiot |
| c | poe |
| "whole works" | iliad |
| british christmas | in the bleak midwinter |
| "the autocrat of the breakfast table" | holmes |
| "hapworth 16, 1924." | salinger |
| sandy stranger | nun |
| belgravia | hopkins |
| "scratches its innocent behind on a tree" | auden |
| encolpius | satyricon |
| "there rose a tree. o pure transcendence!" | rilke |
| farid ud | simurg |
| "about as sensitive as a ... toilet seat." | salinger |
| tim o'brien's | vietnam |
| "on earth we're briefly gorgeous" | drown |
| story of europe | octopus |
| "the symbol of a vast power, huge, terrible." | train |
| silence of the girls | iliad |
| "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 |
| "ballade upon a wedding." | suckling |
| pythian odes | corinna |
| "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 |
| "billet-doux" | rape of the lock |
| "mock-heroic" | rape of the lock |
| incidents in the life of a slave girl | harriet |
| germinie lacerteux | goncourt |
| "mere thinker." | emerson |
| notes on chopin | gide |
| "sort of thrilled" | smash |
| eliza draper | sterne |
| de haarlemse toneelschuur | waiting for godot |
| "smart lad" | shropshire lad |
| "old ironsides." | ship |
| ashburnham house | nowell |
| in frank norris | train |
| remedios the beauty | fold |
| "disappeared in the dead of winter" | yeats |
| "diary" | superfluous |
| "handsomest... man in the world" | drown |
| "of '27." | generation |
| 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 |
| in mist | cervantes |
| little eva | tom |
| giovanni's room | baldwin |
| in aunts aren | watson |
| guignol | commedia dell'arte |
| stone diaries | canada |
| sissy | tree grows in brooklyn |
| black national anthem | sing |
| walk on the wild side | algren |
| national book critics choice award | smiley |
| the ' workshop | smiley |
| chicago to paterson | boxer |
| "hurricane" | boxer |
| royal welch fusiliers | world war i |
| good samaritan | parable |
| "runcible spoon" | lear |
| such a long journey | mistry |
| nick joaquin | philippines |
| anna wulf | lessing |
| dove linkhorn | algren |
| "callooh! callay!" | chortle |
| sign of four | watson |
| iowa writers | smiley |
| sissy rommely | tree grows in brooklyn |
| "patient griselda." | decameron |
| "all animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it" | butler |
| homegoing by yaa gyasi | ghana |
| "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 |
| "to the depth and breadth and height / my soul can reach" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "ghazal of dark death" | lorca |
| "midst of stars," | rape of the lock |
| earl mccabe | cat's cradle |
| robert hirst | grangerford |
| satoko | snow |
| ippolit | idiot |
| "a fairy's child" | keats |
| anne ferris | hotel |
| life of pi by the canadian | india |
| "o black and unknown bards" | go down, moses |
| "the owl and the pussycat." | lear |
| box man | sebald |
| "three men" | li |
| "have not grown old" | yeats |
| "i am the enemy you killed my friend." | owen |
| odd couple | simon |
| "instapoet." | kaur |
| walther von | linden |
| "lift every voice and [perform this action] / till earth and heaven ring" | sing |
| frankie machine in nelson algren | drug |
| "aunts of all kinds are damned bad things" | she stoops to conquer |
| aunt dahlia | wooster |
| carol shields | canada |
| "seven tales" | philippines |
| "i'm lonely--i'll make me a world" | johnson |
| "the creation," | johnson |
| sci-fi series | lessing |
| sam craig | our town |
| soviet art | pasternak |
| "aunt agatha takes the count." | wooster |
| camden | deathbed |
| arlecchino | commedia dell'arte |
| "zek" | ivan |
| parable of the ring | decameron |
| nii parkes | ghana |
| algren | boxer |
| "frumious bandersnatch" | carroll |
| wilbur schramm in iowa | writing |
| thousand acres | smiley |
| amusa | market |
| aunt pedigree | she stoops to conquer |
| katie | tree grows in brooklyn |
| lady murasaki shikibu | genji |
| "the unnamed." | betrothed |
| nnedi okorafor | science |
| man with the golden arm | drug |
| rubin carter | boxer |
| elyot | hotel |
| aunt sissy by francie | tree grows in brooklyn |
| "promenade of discoveries" | gide |
| pancho rodriguez | smash |
| iyaloja | market |
| "tropical" | philippines |
| fra cristoforo | betrothed |
| binti | science |
| "profound dull tunnel" | owen |
| "little engine" | rape of the lock |
| albert schweitzer | cat's cradle |
| felix bokonon | cat's cradle |
| "colonel" | grangerford |
| "[flows] down inside" | snow |
| nastasya filippovna | idiot |
| "the bear." | go down, moses |
| "enormous, implacable, and dumb" | idiot |
| "po" | li |
| aubrey beardsley | rape of the lock |
| edgar branch | grangerford |
| "beneath the falls." | snow |
| rugby school | biography |
| "bog in the history department" | who's |
| "bland, intellectual joke" | who's |
| "cannot admit absence." | donne |
| "black smoke" | invasion of earth |
| "grossly mistaken" | praise of folly |
| "lazy laughing languid" | rossetti |
| "c----," | rape of the lock |
| "half past two" | grangerford |
| leonard in the boer war | butler |
| "necessary explanation" | idiot |
| "at the creation, ever heard a theme / nobler than [this spiritual]?" | go down, moses |
| jack twist | visually impaired |
| "brokeback mountain." | visually impaired |
| "squirrel-soul" | sterne |
| joan gilling | asylum |
| "spiritual accountant." | dubliners |
| "the net," | waiting for godot |
| "en-dim-ee-in" | keats |
| "the fire sermon." | waste land |
| other canadian | mistry |
| marathi | mistry |
| vogelweide | linden |
| way of all flesh | bildungsroman |
| interior | maeterlinck |
| melisande | maeterlinck |
| fiver | watership down |
| 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 |
| "a completely beautiful human being" | idiot |
| "personal knowledge." | biography |
| "for god's sake hold your tongue, and let me love." | canonization |
| university of auckland | new zealand |
| cowboys ennis | visually impaired |
| "the decapitated chicken," | uruguay |
| eduardo galeano | uruguay |
| messenio | menaechmi |
| one state in we | brave new world |
| what the butler saw | orton |
| "letter to the god of" | love |
| visitation zones | strugatsky |
| poligraf poligrafovich | bulgakov |
| sasha | orlando |
| "the portent" | brown |
| "mexican book" | mccarthy |
| candace bushnell | mccarthy |
| necklace | maupassant |
| tom kernan | dubliners |
| three hundred poems | li |
| "at sixteen you departed, you went ... by the river of swirling eddies" | li |
| member of parliament | danvers |
| ti-jean | walcott |
| baptist church in san francisco | tan |
| "bad instruction." | fortune cookie |
| jack absolute | pine-apple |
| "van-tuy's" | in search of lost time |
| tales from shakespeare | lamb |
| "we happy few, we band of brothers" | agincourt |
| ubu | poland |
| understanding fiction | warren |
| joyce kilmer | trees |
| "hodge-podge medley of speech" | praise of folly |
| "in the bitter sea" | lorca |
| lindo jong | fortune cookie |
| "yours truly" | camera eye |
| "courtly" | love |
| "the story of the girl who stood up for education," | malala |
| two soviet | strugatsky |
| in ti | aeschylus |
| historical notes | gilead |
| groves of academe | mccarthy |
| "consecrate[d] to fame" | rape of the lock |
| "herr ribbentrop." | butler |
| all too human | sterne |
| open veins of latin america | uruguay |
| "excuse me." | aeschylus |
| non-u.s | haiti |
| commander in the handmaid | atwood |
| "language of love." | hebrew |
| 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 |
| jay mcinerey | 80s |
| mei hsu | fortune cookie |
| "insider baseball" | presidential campaign |
| "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 |
| "augustblistering sun" | camera eye |
| big money | camera eye |
| "if i get hungry, / i eat the flesh of my usurper. / beware... beware... of my hunger, / and of my anger." | palestin |
| great frost | orlando |
| roadside picnic | strugatsky |
| frederick r. waterford | historical notes |
| "donelson." | melville |
| " 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 |
| "you know who." | cat's cradle |
| "pleasantly surprise his boss" | butler |
| "personal god quaquaquaqua." | waiting for godot |
| "lover by lover" | yeats |
| "paddle in the cold / companionable streams" | yeats |
| dinaw mengestu | ethiopia |
| whale rider | new zealand |
| katherine mansfield | garden party |
| "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 |
| "of politeness." | pine-apple |
| yevgeny zamyatin | brave new world |
| "goodbye to all that" | didion |
| jean de meun | rose |
| "hanging from the beam, / slowly swaying." | brown |
| john marr | sailor |
| "mother tongue." | tan |
| "the wide net" | green |
| witi ihimaera | new zealand |
| performances of god of vengeance on broadway | obscenity |
| sex and the city | mccarthy |
| bennington college | tartt |
| wrought urn | canonization |
| letters written to | richardson |
| miles gloriosus | plautus |
| "the very" | pine-apple |
| 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 |
| beautiful things that heaven bears | ethiopia |
| joe gillayley | maori |
| "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 |
| "hundred martyrs to democracy," | cat's cradle |
| papa monzano | cat's cradle |
| "of heaven." | trees |
| "fragrant pines" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "fragrant zone" | keats |
| "smooth as monumental alabaster" | othello |
| "sublunary lovers' love" | donne |
| aurora leigh | elizabeth |
| "monument more lasting than bronze." | ode |
| "long-robed philosophers," | praise of folly |
| "fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea." | rossetti |
| "the world is what it is" | naipaul |
| "erotic" | eight |
| deutscher | bradbury |
| "lame-footed punishment rarely forgets the wicked man" | horace |
| 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 |
| "i am not that young any more" | didion |
| "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 |
| rainbow six | clancy |
| toulou | nottage |
| miss toobad | nightmare abbey |
| raymond queneau | oulipo |
| "conceits" | metaphysical |
| "the weasel, twelve monkeys and the shrub." | presidential campaign |
| 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 |
| parson yorick | sterne |
| "ole missis" | paint |
| right you are | pirandello |
| philip gabriel | murakami |
| colonel sartoris | emily |
| "conform the order of their lives" | bryant |
| "immortal soul" | italy |
| wings of the dove | italy |
| " for 10 points each: the awakening is a novel by this author of the short story " | chopin |
| florence pugh | little women |
| peek | levi-strauss |
| doris lessing | bend in the river |
| muslim dr | passage to india |
| "king without a kingdom" | orestes |
| soselo | stalin |
| "wonderfully and oddly hollow" | wallace |
| jake heke | young adult |
| nazneen | brick lane |
| "sing for the whole world." | independent people |
| misty of chincoteague | penning |
| tofa sauni | oral |
| "terrible" | eight |
| "wandering over withered fields." | death |
| georges perec | oulipo |
| "nothing is funnier than" | unhappiness |
| "look at the dew on the leaves and grass" | death |
| malay annals | epic |
| halldor laxness | iceland |
| "nightmare at 20,000 feet" | matheson |
| "white serpent" | child |
| peacock | shelley |
| emmy hennings | voltaire |
| william f. whyte | corner |
| candylady | nottage |
| "falling is the essence of a flower." | mishima |
| lady gregory | yeats |
| ball | voltaire |
| droogs | burgess |
| "slow and steady" | tortoise |
| marguerite henry | misty of chincoteague |
| 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 |
| "ethiopian." | race |
| "been assured by a very knowing american" | modest proposal |
| oskar schell | extremely loud and incredibly close |
| else lasker | blue |
| grand isle | gulf |
| timothee chalamet | little women |
| stark industries | munitions |
| maureen beebe | misty of chincoteague |
| "society." | corner |
| "i have lived too long in foreign parts" | italy |
| lost highway | wallace |
| empyrean | divine comedy |
| cherry lane theatre | nottage |
| love marriage | ali |
| castle rackrent | countess cathleen |
| scythrop | nightmare abbey |
| alfred wendt | young adult |
| paul berlin | vietnam |
| ted lavender | vietnam |
| sunday school | paint |
| professor woland in mikhail bulgakov | devil |
| "london bridge is falling down." | eliot |
| morten kiil | enemy of the people |
| "languishing" | marvell |
| "garlic-tavern-keepers of bakeries" | lysistrata |
| "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 |
| "gradual regeneration" | raskolnikov |
| haired woman | pamuk |
| judge hathorne | webster |
| "whining and hypochondriacal" | romanticism |
| clym yeobright | diamond |
| allan quatermain | diamond |
| escape to life | erika |
| chanu | brick lane |
| savage mind | levi-strauss |
| fujiwara no teishi | death |
| "death ship," | matheson |
| marionetta | nightmare abbey |
| enderby quartet | four |
| "will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." | modest proposal |
| "caucasian" | race |
| "talent and destiny are apt to feud" | vietnam |
| nonni | independent people |
| scythrop in nightmare abbey | shelley |
| "model plays" | eight |
| origin of table manners | levi-strauss |
| eastern shore | misty of chincoteague |
| saltwater cowboys | penning |
| "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 |
| "new story" | raskolnikov |
| leaves of the banyan tree | young adult |
| once were warriors | young adult |
| senator burrows | munitions |
| chincoteague bay | assateague |
| hoodoo love | nottage |
| in nightmare abbey | childe harold's pilgrimage |
| goodman fielder wattie award | young adult |
| "great white defendant" | bonfire of the vanities |
| splinter cell | clancy |
| "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 |
| "white christmas" | vietnam |
| rod serling | bet |
| "god si love," | passage to india |
| countess of roussillon | all's well that ends well |
| joe sangster | ali |
| summerhouses | independent people |
| "benediction upon the audience." | kalidasa |
| armitage | laureate |
| tristes tropiques | levi-strauss |
| mythologiques | levi-strauss |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| alms of alcippe | yourcenar |
| ann yamanaka | woman warrior |
| badal sarkar | bengali |
| amal | bengali |
| leslie marmon silko | ceremony |
| "sink" | kitchen |
| "grief" | pine |
| noirtier | count of monte cristo |
| the chateau d''s | dantes |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| sara teasdale | bradbury |
| the drapier's letters | irish |
| "a forest hymn" | bryant |
| "lady of midnight." | paz |
| "semi-moonman" | stalin |
| coliseum | italy |
| "i thought once how theocritus had sung" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| too loud a solitude | czech |
| cornelius van baerle's | dumas |
| mareech sambad | mukherjee |
| 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 |
| " referencing ariel's line " | tempest |
| "dome of a vast sepulchre" | ode to the west wind |
| fa mu lan | hawai'i |
| shehan karunatilaka | almeida |
| " describes how " | tempest |
| grace frick | yourcenar |
| spider | christie |
| in christie | hastings |
| " and described " | wheatley |
| bollingen prize | fitzgerald |
| "the curse is come upon me" | lady of shalott |
| bolton | lady chatterley's lover |
| "sky and branches" | mrs |
| sateen dura luxe | world war ii |
| simon girty | webster |
| francis jeffrey | romanticism |
| "caught fire" | bald soprano |
| egdon heath | diamond |
| laguna pueblo | ceremony |
| terra nostra | fuentes |
| "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 |
| shaila bhave | mukherjee |
| "odour of chrysanthemums" | lawrence |
| marlene | kitchen |
| "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 |
| if in alexandre dumas | dantes |
| zycron | assassin |
| "a fantasia in the russian manner on english themes." | shaw |
| "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 |
| dominique bauby | diving bell and the butterfly |
| 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 |
| how to get filthy rich in rising asia | hamid |
| heliodorus | ethiopia |
| bauby | count of monte cristo |
| " is by robert hayden, who also wrote a poem framed as a letter by this poet. this poet wrote " | wheatley |
| "the uncanny" | sandman |
| "redux," | astraea |
| exit west | hamid |
| swedish royal dramatic theater | anna christie |
| alex thomas | assassin |
| ygnirod | assassin |
| julie otsuka | woman warrior |
| blackmore | lawrence |
| vivien in the pure | colette |
| "hadleyburg" | stranger |
| sir claud amory | hastings |
| pope joan | churchill |
| curt lemon | vietnam |
| "number 44" | stranger |
| witness for the prosecution | christie |
| "little blue men" | pearl |
| serious money | churchill |
| gilbert durand | idol |
| black coffee | hastings |
| "ruth, rachel, esther, and bathsheba" | lakunle |
| "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 |
| "flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil" | heart of darkness |
| benno von archimboldi | mexico |
| "let itself be snuffed out by an article." | don juan |
| dolph pillsbury | willie |
| "d'artagnan romances" | dumas |
| mordaunt | dumas |
| "very fiery particle" | don juan |
| "i want a hero: an uncommon want." | don juan |
| sadie burke | willie |
| black virgin | france |
| "raised no cry. i wonder why." | scottsboro |
| national theatre | girl, woman, other |
| "91 revere street." | lowell |
| margarete steffin | brecht |
| "parable play" | brecht |
| scyros | orestes |
| famous barbecue | grandmother |
| felton | dumas |
| jair | orthrus |
| "versions" | cheng |
| elizabeth siddal | rossetti |
| "they also serve who only stand and wait." | patience |
| monsieur pain | bolano |
ningguo house | dream of the red chamber |
| singaporean ling jishi | diaries |
| "our almost-instinct" | larkin |
| edgar atkins teagarden | grandmother |
| "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 |
| "worth its song." | scottsboro |
| abdulrazak gurnah | tanzania |
| "mwendo" | swahili |
| princess of france | love's |
| "the diary of miss sophie," | communist |
| a metrical foot | ovid |
| tilita | bradbury |
| "raphel mai amecche zabi almi" | divine comedy |
| "on a day i already remember," | stone |
| orthrus | nemean |
| "like lightning dart into the nation's heart," | scottsboro |
| story of the stone | jade |
| "cleanness" | patience |
| five metrical feet | elegy |
| cesar vallejo | bolano |
| "make a poet black, and bid him sing" | cullen |
| amores | ovid |
| "indo-chinese" | truong |
| "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 |
| cynewulf | cross |
| "through forests of symbols" | flowers of evil |
razumikhin | crime and punishment |
| "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 |
| "what will survive of us is love." | larkin |
| "a penny for your thoughts, schopenhauer" | lowell |
| "stunted" | sea rose |
| according to hesiod | nemean |
| "yet do i marvel." | cullen |
| "at spring-time" | keats |
| "from the gold bar of heaven." | the blessed |
| elieshi lema | swahili |
| zhiyanzhai | dream of the red chamber |
| "that there were flowers also in hell." | imagism |
| "still can push the vision splendid to a birth." | keats |
| bernardine evaristo | girl, woman, other |
| achebe | haiti |
| gurnah | desertion |
| "black wires" | dark lady |
| rightist movement | communist |
| "that fool weakling keith," | bradbury |
| haydee | don juan |
| "old leather-face," | willie |
| ivan karamazov | devil |
| "annihilates all that's made to a green thought, in a green shade" | marvell |
| thomas fairfax | marvell |
| trilce | surrealism |
| "i did not write it. god wrote it. i merely did his dictation." | beecher |
| sarah waters | picaresque |
| "tobacco shop." | campos |
| in the city | los angeles |
| the 1911 revolution | ah q |
| "mr. bleaney" | larkin |
| ignatius dullfeet | brecht |
| cerinthus | sulpicia |
| great birnam | dunsinane |
| aubrey burl | love's |
| yunje | diaries |
| david lloyd george | skunk hour |
| tipping the velvet | picaresque |
salve deus rex judaeorum | emilia lanier |
| "i appear iridescent; my form is shining now" | cross |
| "a tear more rare than pearl" | hair |
| in hanif kureishi | jungle book |
| otis | ghost |
| "where the rocking billows rise and sink / on the chafed ocean side." | bryant |
| "and other extremes." | paz |
| the 's skin | stalin |
| "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 |
| arthur shelby | george |
| bernardo soares in the book of disquiet | heteronym |
| "groves," | bryant |
| "the innumerable caravan, who moves to that mysterious realm" | bryant |
| sections | paz |
| "philebus." | orestes |
| pylades | orestes |
| featherstone | bradbury |
| "build that shed out in the garden" | pinter |
| a quadrillion kilometers | devil |
| "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 |
| chambers | pudd'nhead wilson |
| 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 |
| "lady jane." | lady chatterley's lover |
| "hypocrite reader! my double! my brother!" | flowers of evil |
| maria verlaine | city and the pillar |
| linda hammerick | truong |
| holy sonnet ten | donne |
| now it can be told | breakfast of |
| kawl | crime and |
| "is all that we see or seem." | dream within |
| reek | salome |
| new york cafe | heart is a lonely |
| "at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning" | wise |
| madrigal | imagism |
| "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 |
| another of pessoa | campos |
| count mosca | stendhal |
| aubrey buffing | bonfire of the vanities |
| "man passes" | flowers of evil |
| "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 |
| brangwen | rainbow |
| abraham van brunt | brom |
| helmet of awe | fafnir |
| on love | stendhal |
| heartbreak house | shaw |
| "suppression of savage customs" | heart of darkness |
| prospero in the tempest | ariel |
| old capital | kawabata |
| la scienza nuova | finnegans wake |
| braing | rainbow |
| something happened | heller |
| in catch | chuck |
| oreads | satyr |
| nikodim fomich | police |
| city of the beasts | allende |
| "appalling" | howards end |
| tibetan buddhism | bon |
| "thou art more lovely and more..." | temperate |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "lemon tarts" | bonfire of the vanities |
| "the garden" | marvell |
| "from zone to zone," | bryant |
| "awaken me" | paz |
| "e unibus pluram." | wallace |
| wheelchair assassins | wallace |
| homer barron | emily |
| "datta. dayadhvam. damyata" | eliot |
| "the son of evening sun." | their eyes were watching god |
| "last night i dreamed i went to manderley again." | rebecca |
| "stared at the pacific" | cortes |
| sodapop | outsiders |
| absolon | miller |
| helium | john |
| "climb from a fried fish shop down by the mint" | shaw |
| belmonte | bullfighter |
| "hieronymo's mad againe" | eliot |
| burgos | laugh |
| "the man with bandaged hands." | david |
| tsotsi | fugard |
| "radicalize their consciousness to challenge patriarchy." | harjo |
| which of the fates | clotho |
| his romantic | holderlin |
| "came down and settled over me" | millay |
| "in the palm of your hand" | millay |
| "in their hundred voices, 'no, not yet.'" | passage to india |
| "certain flight." | bryant |
| knight in the panther | stalin |
| "number one," | stalin |
| "hours." | italy |
| comparison of the two languages | persian |
| "shines out with its honor unstained." | horace |
| "through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument." | emily |
| seven beauties | persian |
| "a man with guts" | bradbury |
| 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 |
| when rebecca | danvers |
| muriel the white goat | animal farm |
| "drill" | malthus |
| an artist of the floating world | ishiguro |
| spite of himself | doctor |
| sih-mee-ahn-shen | four |
| barsoom | burroughs |
| rusty-james | rumble fish |
| filippo chirazzi | bonfire of the vanities |
| suyuan woo | tan |
| "like reeds," | ariel |
| 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 |
| "everlasting fields of clover" | moses |
| nobel laureate elfriede jelinek | rhine |
| "their tax-bills." | thoreau |
| raceteenth | nigeria |
| "unstoried, artless, unenhanced, / such as she was, such as she would become" | frost |
| "solitary traveler" | mrs |
| "conversion." | mrs |
| abraham liscov | hoffmann |
| alyona ivanova | raskolnikov |
| killall | webster |
| "not pygmalion likely!" | not bloody likely |
| francisco de quevedo | gongora |
| noboru wataya | murakami |
| 50-pound | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| "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 |
| petey the cat | dog man |
| "anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy." | catch-22 |
| dwayne hoover | breakfast of |
| "hansel and gretel" | grimm |
| nih-kawff | crime and |
| simianshen | four |
| heart is a lonely hunter | mccullers |
| sydney to bellingen | church |
| "the turn of the screw." | ghost |
| "or does it" | explode |
| "sonnets on pink silk handkerchiefs." | milan |
| lata mehra | seth |
| in crime | police |
| without a summer | darkness |
| fill | food |
| v | thin man |
| "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 |
| "we / left school. we / lurk late. we / strike straight. we / sing sin. we / thin gin. we / jazz june. we / die soon." | we real |
| one of wilde | salome |
| nora charles | thin man |
| tahng sahn-zahng | sun wukong |
| 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 |
| s. e. hinton | rumble fish |
| pale fire | nabokov |
| "it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea." | annabel lee |
| dakkar in the mysterious island | nemo |
| "pity this busy monster, manunkind" | cummings |
| tsoht | fugard |
| herland | perkins |
| "the miller's tale" | tub |
| cousin lymon | ballad of the |
| joel cairo | falcon |
| casper gutman | falcon |
| 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 |
| "yogeybogeybox" | joyce |
| 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 |
| humphrey chimpden earwicker | finnegans wake |
| "sausage" | joyce |
| in a marvell | garden |
| boris the manskinner by lieutenant mamiya | murakami |
| ellen sewell | thoreau |
| "whose woods these are i think i know." | frost |
| john berryman | bradstreet |
| "gradual initiation into a new unknown life" | raskolnikov |
| sugarcandy mountain | moses |
| ilya petrovich | police |
| 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 |
| baudolino | picaresque |
| petit gervais | coin |
| koo-lee-bree | wide sargasso sea |
| meade | ring |
| "a false sorceress" | duessa |
| edward tudor | prince and the |
| annie ernaux | nobel |
| "i'm leaving them there." | boot |
| amazon antiope | theseus |
| 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 |
| "peaceable revolution" | thoreau |
| briareus | windmill |
| "dark satanic mills." | jerusalem |
| inspector bertozzo | fo |
| satrapi's persepolis | comic |
| "talos." | willie |
| malaciah | willie |
| "two kinds." | tan |
| "misty halo." | heart of darkness |
| biskra | france |
| an untamed state | adichie |
| "poor relation" | mansfield park |
| "for a beaker full of the warm south" | keats |
| mount purgatory | divine comedy |
| assault by harry mulisch | dutch |
| "the dunwich horror." | necronomicon |
| am malala | autobiography |
| "it's a wonder i haven't abandoned all my ideals." | dutch |
| "rihaku" | li |
| "here at the furthest verge of earth." | prometheus bound |
| many romantic | byron |
| "annihilate[s] all that's made" | garden |
| edward lloyd | dickens |
| the and satantango | hungarian |
| "where you're madder than i am" | rockland |
| le ly hayslip | autobiography |
| "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 |
| encyclopedie with jean | diderot |
| mount mccabe | bokonon |
| nickelas nicklebery | dickens |
| "where you imitate the shade of my mother." | rockland |
| "angel-headed" | hipster |
| when heaven | autobiography |
| "ideas worth spreading." | ted |
| "hang on to the innocence and turbulence and capacity for wonder" | journalism |
| bokonon | cat |
| martin guzzlewit | dickens |
| irena | when we dead awaken |
| "the marvelous real." | hoffmann |
| "bring me my bow of burning gold; bring me my arrows of desire" | jerusalem |
| "hands off the mask!" | fo |
| bad feminist | adichie |
| sandstone | jaipur |
| "deep and dark unity." | flowers of evil |
| 52-stanza | bradstreet |
| "proportion" | mrs |
| "ah, ah!" | hoffmann |
| marie stahlbaum | hoffmann |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| "guides through the boundless sky" | bryant |
| "life and death are reconciled" | paz |
| "turn back think again" | stalin |
| gruzhnitsky | lermontov |
| "you and i can make mistakes--but not the party." | darkness at noon |
| shoba | interpreter of maladies |
| "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 |
| six early stories | mann |
| greatest unread novelist | australia |
| silver star | vietnam |
| "a key that wouldn't unlock anything" | paint |
| "confessions of a bad feminist" | adichie |
| "picasso without paint" | sinatra |
| manly health | whitman |
| "rahm-owe's" | diderot |
| hawa mahal | jaipur |
| thar | jaipur |
| fatelessness | hungarian |
| "devour" | time |
| seven moral tales | translation |
| both your houses | pennsylvania |
| earth changed places | autobiography |
| miles franklin | australia |
| arnold rubek | when we dead awaken |
| german by daphne hardy | darkness at noon |
| shukumar | interpreter of maladies |
| "did you leave because of my attic wife." | rochester |
| "sentiments... are repressed entirely" | salammbo |
| clelia | stendhal |
| patriotic gore | simon |
| visceral realists | mexico |
| "andromache, i think of you!" | flowers of evil |
| kadife | pamuk |
| things they carried by tim | vietnam |
| "ding-dong-dong" | paint |
| "mad poet" | necronomicon |
| dennis tedlock | popol vuh |
| len rix | hungarian |
| mary crawford | fanny |
| anoosh in persepolis | satrapi |
| "the galoshes of fortune." | andersen |
| " the narrator apologizes for eating these fruits, which were " | plum |
| an humorous day | chapman |
| "thumbing my nose at you know who" | bokonon |
| in war | natasha |
| ybon | naipaul |
| "you're not allowed to have arrows." | jerusalem |
| father ximenez | popol vuh |
| eloise wengler | salinger |
| adele varens | rochester |
| "jesus saviour pilot me / over life's tempestuous sea." | hayden |
| "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 |
| wilbur whateley | necronomicon |
| am a martinican woman | fanon |
| andre braugher | brooklyn nine-nine |
| "scenes of parisian life," | human comedy |
| rouse up | oe |
| "the daughters of the late colonel" | mansfield |
| black book | pamuk |
| "bigger thomas... is afraid, terribly afraid. but afraid of what? of himself." | fanon |
| "greasepaint" | heloise |
| "literary coffeehouses" | austria |
| "anatomy" | world |
| the heart | georgia |
| pimento | brooklyn nine-nine |
| hans gruber | die hard |
| "frailty and the decay" | world |
| "saw eternity the other night, like a great ring of pure and endless light." | world |
| "designed to shock the whites out of their apathy" | bigger |
| "like a frenchman" | webster |
| michael herr | vietnam |
| "would you like to have a bag of candy and a nice ride?" | ransom of red |
| poker flat | four |
| "from every angle of the universe" | aleph |
| mayotte capecia | fanon |
| jason mantzoukas | pimento |
| "the forgetting" | concentration camp |
| 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 |
| drosselmeier | hoffmann |
| butterfly, stork | pamuk |
| "don't let them tell you what to do!" | pinter |
| otto katz | czech |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| blind beggar of alexandria | chapman |
| george hsu | queen mother |
| villa villekulla | pippi |
alfred uhry | driving miss daisy |
| lonely hunter | georgia |
| white book | han |
| "monty." | pinter |
| "pauses" | pinter |
| doctor gonzo | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| edge of the wild | warg |
| "archipelago" | gulag |
| keating | fountainhead |
| rosa diaz | pimento |
| andy samberg | brooklyn nine-nine |
| peralta | die hard |
| "everybody has won." | dodo |
| 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 |
| " 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 |
| "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 |
| captain raymond holt | brooklyn nine-nine |
| kater murr | hoffmann |
| "unacknowledged legislators of the world." | romanticism |
| eustacia vye | diamond |
| "we were somewhere around barstow... when the drugs began to take hold." | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| 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 |
| "frog," | heian |
| "return of words," | heloise |
| peter fallow | bonfire of the vanities |
| "the negro and language." | fanon |
| elizabeth hobbs keckley | lincoln |
| "bronzed, lank man" | lincoln |
intimate apparel | nottage |
| "slave of history" | captive mind |
| mady | herzog |
| "they tell me you are wicked and i believe them." | chicago |
| 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 |
| "evangelical teaching: dr. cumming," | eliot |
| czeslaw milosz | captive mind |
| valentine gersbach | herzog |
| "kawazu," | heian |
| nakatomi plaza | die hard |
| " for ten points each: in " | plum |
| "to his mistress going to bed." | donne |
| "a little world made cunningly." | holy sonnets |
| this indo-trinidadian | naipaul |
| jeff peters | conscience in |
| austrian emperor albert | william tell |
| dinesen | gothic |
| "moralist" | captive mind |
| journey to the center of the earth | verne |
| "a harmless drudge," | dictionary |
| "watcher of the skies" | chapman |
| young men of the new age | oe |
| 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 |
| in a henry vaughan | world |
| gene | separate |
| 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 |
| briony tallis in atonement | robinson crusoe |
| porlock | coleridge |
| "thoughts about the person from porlock." | smith |
| anne catherick | woman in white |
| "posthumous memoir" | brazil |
| "kubla khan." | coleridge |
| ethel rosenberg | angels in america |
min jin lee | pachinko |
| grapes of wrath | steinbeck |
| "the day is ours, the bloody dog is dead." | richmond |
| cash | as i lay dying |
| "spent in jail," | thoreau |
| "too far from town to learn baseball" | frost |
wallenstein trilogy | schiller |
| the and 's mirth | chapman |
| "two friends." | franco-prussian |
| elias lonnrot | kalevala |
| andy tucker | conscience in |
| "handed in his checks on the 7th december, 1850" | outcasts of |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| pell | ladon |
| "she sang beyond the genius of the sea" | key west |
| heraclidae | euripides |
| 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 |
| golden house | rushdie |
| "a terribly strange bed" | collins |
| laura fairlie | woman in white |
| bright room called day | kushner |
| "i'm not capitulating." | rhinoceros |
| "what passing-bells for these who die as [blank]?" | cattle |
| keek | shield of heracles |
| "no stone left unturned," | euripides |
| lady ashton | bride of |
sunja | pachinko |
| to be young | hansberry |
| man with two left feet | wodehouse |
| paris spleen | baudelaire |
| henderson the rain king | bellow |
| nickel boys | whitehead |
| hettie cohen | baraka |
| ruby dee | hansberry |
| amalia | schiller |
| red barber | thurber |
| "casual flock of pigeons" | stevens |
| kimiko | kawabata |
| "the flawed bell" | baudelaire |
| "under his eye." | handmaid |
| don manuel | schiller |
| armgart | schiller |
| eugene vidocq | vautrin |
| "cheat-death" | vautrin |
| "we shall never be younger." | christopher |
| walter hartright | woman in white |
| clarence | richard iii |
| lois lane | superman |
| "to every middlesex village and farm." | longfellow |
| "daughter of elysium." | schiller |
| house for mr biswas | naipaul |
| jaroslav hasek | czech |
| after hasek | brecht |
| "stately pleasure-dome" | porlock |
| chika unigwe | adichie |
| "my kingdom for" | horse |
| peloponnese | ladon |
| john valentine | indiana |
| jack maggs | australia |
| mercy lewis | abigail |
| "on the outskirts of bikanir." | book |
| christmas yet to come | ebenezer |
| "the canterville ghost" | wilde |
| "loved chivalry, truth and honor, freedom and courtesy" | knight |
| in nordic | urd |
| asa hawks | wise blood |
| "let the rain kiss you" | hughes |
| "dear parents' head on a pillow" | abigail |
| "echoes down the corridor," | abigail |
| communist red wolf | calvino |
| "the approach to al'mutasim." | book |
| combed thunderclap | book |
| hastings | richard iii |
| enlace | calvino |
| bellow | ravelstein |
| von finkenstein | svejk |
| richelieu | pen |
| stories of vladimir nabokov | signs and symbols |
| "an aging couple... at a loss about what to do about their institutionalized son." | signs and symbols |
| "the slaughterer" | singer |
| "parting at morning" | browning |
| miss bodwin | beloved |
| gabriel syme | thursday |
| "i am hungry to be interrupted" | smith |
| victorine | vautrin |
| gaht | kenya |
| ben-ren-zhay | rhinoceros |
| stanislaus in all quiet on the western front | kat |
| master of ravenswood | bride of |
| bridge of the requiter | chinvat |
| crimes of the heart | 1980 |
| "the jealous extremaduran" | cervantes |
| golden helmet of mambrino | cervantes |
| manichaeism to the christianity | augustine |
| "o death, my captain, it is time! let us raise the anchor!" | flowers of evil |
| sabbath lily | wise blood |
| "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 |
| harry perowne | robinson crusoe |
| since nabokov | pnin |
| smyerdakov | dostoyevsky |
| le chiffre in casino royale | bond |
| "creep-o" | rocky |
| bill watterson | calvin |
| tim tebow | tom |
| "the american scholar" | emerson |
| "heartfelt story of a hapless antihero" | pnin |
| friday to christianity | robinson |
| "strange white flowers" | time machine |
| savile | wilde |
| nick and honey | who's afraid of |
| antilochus | memnon |
| kali yuga | kalki |
| "when love with unconfined..." | wings |
| whittier | maud |
| cora to the valentine | underground |
| "feel right around there and see how soft it is." | curley |
| cycnus | shield of heracles |
| 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 |
| "reflecting gems" | richard iii |
| "the god abandons antony" | greek |
| "old indian chief" | sleepy hollow |
| rebecca taichman | yiddish |
| i. l. peretz | yiddish |
| "deputy governor" | abigail |
| leonora ashburnham | good soldier |
| qasim | children of gebelawi |
| "the best place to hide a leaf is in a forest" | book |
| 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 |
| culver creek preparatory high school | green |
| till | memnon |
| ee-poh-leet | phedre |
| general fink | svejk |
| balram | narayan |
| la cousine bette | balzac |
| "a basket with ten different fruit jellies in ten little jars." | signs and symbols |
the path to the nest of spiders | calvino |
| duke frederick | as you like it |
| the , the intuitionist | whitehead |
| "queer, sultry summer" | rosenberg |
| dorus | sidney |
| bulwer-lytton | euripides |
| puzo | pere goriot |
| maman | samedi |
| virginia otis | wilde |
| jill boardman | water |
| according to vergil | aristaeus |
| layla | persian |
| "hitch-hiking" | key west |
| fall of the city of mahagonny | brecht |
| "is mightier than the sword." | pen |
| "yes and his heart was going like mad and yes i said yes i will yes." | marion |
| fault in our stars | green |
| niels | copenhagen |
| "unripe peach" | banana |
| "disgusting" | banana |
| everest | satanic verses |
| "find pleasure in the spilling of blood" | dostoyevsky |
| "the host of the beast" | boll |
| change of world | auden |
| margarita in a mikhail bulgakov | master |
| "most blameless" | ulysses |
| " 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 |
| "lying in a hammock" | rich |
| de stael's | stendhal |
| "how dull it is to pause / to make an end." | ulysses |
| farishta | satanic verses |
| colonel manly | contrast |
| countess of pembroke | sidney |
| "that's a fine death!" | napoleon |
| maria van rough | contrast |
| dimple | contrast |
| claudine in school | colette |
| america with grushenka | dmitri |
| victoria noorthoorn | yeats |
| battle of waterloo in the charterhouse of parma | stendhal |
| valeria | lolita |
| manly pointer | o'connor |
| gifted and black | hansberry |
| in the book of the heavenly cow | hathor |
| civilians | bierce |
| george this | albee |
| mahj | persian |
| majnun | persian |
| "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 |
| everest vilas | satanic verses |
| "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 |
| queen yaruga | pale fire |
| minister of the left | japanese |
| ten-square-foot | japanese |
| mercy otis warren | american revolution |
| royall tyler | contrast |
| comedy in the contrast | sheridan |
| anita loos | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| lorelei lee | gentlemen prefer blondes |
jimenez | donkey |
| "wait-and-get" | photo |
| "people ride a hundred miles to see." | abigail |
| "a farewell to tobacco" | lamb |
| "silvergrass." | banana |
| "has overgrown causes and effects" | grass |
| john vanbrugh | shakespeare |
| margrethe bohr | copenhagen |
| "but why?" | copenhagen |
| "eternal union" | dostoyevsky |
| horner | shakespeare |
| "carrying...a book of myths in which our names do not appear." | auden |
| "prince of tyre" | pericles |
| "lot's wife." | szymborska |
| into thin air | everest |
| karamazov | dmitri |
| past nine | boll |
| "idiotic" | interloper |
| "mouldy tale" | jonson |
| "lift every voice and sing." | johnson |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| macon dead iii | fly |
| man who loved love by iharu seikaku | floating world |
| "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 |
| mathilde de morny | paris |
| "diamonds are a girl's best friend." | gentlemen prefer blondes |
michael frayn | copenhagen |
| "beautiful word" | interloper |
| rich white gentleman | johnson |
"crossing the bar" | tennyson |
| szymborska | poland |
| holy city | jerusalem |
| "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 |
"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 |
| "tool maker," | chicago |
| "hessian trooper" | sleepy hollow |
| "the sceptre and the isle." | ulysses |
| goop cruise | mccarthy |
| "the terror of their neighbors, before the white men came" | achebe |
| "insignificant creature." | napoleon |
| "swagman," | australia |
| axaxaxas mlo | book |
| buckingham | richard iii |
| amalia von edelreich | schiller |
| "thatched hut lacks all color" | du |
| "say it!" | no ideas but in things |
| "house of god." | leopard |
| allie cone | satanic verses |
| "[this city] delivered." | jerusalem |
| st. anthony's abbey | boll |
| assassination of margaret thatcher | mantel |
| rotimi | photo |
| beth henley | 1980 |
| wetstein | werther |
| "shining." | japanese |
| cornhuskers | chicago |
| smoke and steel | chicago |
| "perverted moral judgment" | eliot |
| life of jesus | eliot |
| "mister" | color purple |
| "the remedy." | drug |
| in a heine | doppelganger |
| lying life of adults to english | italian |
| in nguyen | drug |
| gas heart | tzara |
| saddest story | world war i |
| frank lentricchia | close |
| big man | naipaul |
| colette | paris |
| "old time is still a-flying." | donkey |
| shipping out | wallace |
| "of migration to the north." | season |
| "horses neighing and snorting" | du |
| lea | colette |
| sonezaki by chikamatsu monzaemon | love |
| english review | ford |
| gladiator | vronsky |
| "the terrible burden of destiny" | chicago |
| "as a young man laughs," | chicago |
| countess czerlaski | eliot |
| feuerbach | eliot |
| nanmu | du |
| "what is [this substance]?" | grass |
| "malapropisms" | sheridan |
| "jealous nature" | karenina |
| elizabeth peabody | buddhism |
| tod hackett | los angeles |
| "melange" | drug |
| american gods | gaiman |
| mason tarwater | violent bear it away |
| japhy rider | buddhism |
| "music of the spheres." | scipio |
| "whoso list to hunt, i know where is an hind." | wyatt |
| "golden comb." | heine |
| kriesler | hoffmann |
| "it has not arrived" | dickens |
| "destroy the love she shares with count vronsky - and head for the train tracks." | karenina |
| "a case for reparations." | atlantic |
| golyadkin | doppelganger |
| aldo leopold | sand county almanac |
| "a moment's monument" | pre-raphaelite |
| house of life | pre-raphaelite |
| crossroads | franzen |
| "land ethic" | sand county almanac |
| atta troll | midsummer night's dream |
| "moon's / spotlight, banking on the miracle of sun" | lawrence |
| western flyer | steinbeck |
| sea of cortez | steinbeck |
| "a spider, trying to hide" | twenty love poems |
john shade | pale fire |
| giovanna | aunt |
| "thou." | jug of wine |
| whodunnit | shaffer |
| avignon on good friday in an italian | laura |
| "was a damaged person who deserved nothing." | rooney |
| heine | midsummer night's dream |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley" | sleepy hollow |
| "yellow dress" | color purple |
| "red sox beat yanks 5-4 on chapman's homer" | pale fire |
| "the fairest of maidens" | heine |
| clack the rattlebug | gaiman |
| "on random sheets of waste paper" | hoffmann |
| beautiful world | rooney |
| "so various, so beautiful, so new" | dover |
| "beach" | dover |
| "sister's choice" | color purple |
| georgia to god | color purple |
| 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 |
| farther away | franzen |
| " 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 |
| "beds of" | rose |
| "gay castles" | sleepy hollow |
| "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 |
| "god will give him blood to drink." | house of the seven |
| helen carey | of human bondage |
| antigone in ghana | brathwaite |
| "men," | chorus |
| "old women." | chorus |
| volsung and hljod | sigmund |
| "break, blow, burn, and make me new." | holy sonnets |
| "lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind." | rose |
matthew maule | the house of the seven gables |
| eurymedon | iapetus |
| when izanami | yomi |
| fay | texas |
| "the middle way is safest" | phaethon |
| blind billy blue | odyssey |
| myrrhine | lack |
| emma lazarus | colossus |
| "the battle of the ants." | walden |
| miss inamura | crane |
| thomas schell | 9/11 |
| "oh tee-tay, too-tay, tah-tee, ti-bee tahn-tah, tee-rahn-eh, too-list-ee" | alliteration |
| "love shall be our token, / love be yours and love be mine." | carols |
| francis villon | ballad |
| "sycorax video style" | brathwaite |
| born to slow horses | brathwaite |
| reverend amos barton | eliot |
| "the atlas of your body." | twenty love poems |
| charles kinbote | pale fire |
| "exquisite music" | greek |
| tarry town | sleepy hollow |
| "harder it is to answer," | lady or the tiger |
| mihailov | vronsky |
| "faces of women and children" | chicago |
| raymond chandler | philip |
| marie arouet | voltaire |
| reform club in london | around the world in |
| antiope | amazon |
| myantonia | cather |
| lord marchmain | waugh |
| corinne | color purple |
| "unscrupulosity of statement" | eliot |
| cheh | maya |
| second witch | something wicked |
annie proulx | the shipping news |
| grim | geirrod |
"schemes of mice and men" | burns |
| "go oft awry" | best-laid |
| lord chancellor | more |
| first lady eva peron | argentina |
| "while ye may." | rose |
| "like a foggy mist" | faustus |
| "the dark girl of long alley." | calvino |
| "never lost a battle" | chicago |
| "nolite te bastardes carborundorum" | handmaid |
| on the use of the chorus in tragedy | schiller |
| council room of the continental principalities | 1980 |
| "wart" | arthur |
| when joel chandler harris | remus |
| mount judge | pennsylvania |
| bani adam for a nowruz | translation |
| "are coming today" | greek |
miguel street | naipaul |
| "millennium approaches" | 1980 |
| "conceptism." | spain |
| "human heart." | lady or the tiger |
| "we are not a school of painters." | imagist |
| "and death i think is no parenthesis." | since feeling is firs |
| alexandra bergson | carl |
| the boys | syracuse |
| "perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries" | library of babel |
| dahish | city of brass |
| sally athelny | of human bondage |
"kisses are a better fate than wisdom" | cummings |
| experience showing the two contrary states of the human soul | songs of innocence |
| "to make much of time" | virgin |
| poseidon impregnated medusa | chrysaor |
| dmitri ivanovich nekhlyudov | tolstoy |
| "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 |
| "on turning her up in her nest with the plough, november, 1785" | mouse |
| tobias oates | australia |
| wycliffe bible | book |
| floyd barton | wilson |
| "the a.b. memoirs," | handmaid |
| "have made this crying sound" | reed |
| "it's best to cut conversation short, say good-bye, and leave." | reed |
| kinesias | lack |
| the trial and the castle | kafka |
| 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 |
| "herr god, herr lucifer." | lazarus |
| lissoy | deserted village |
| cristoph martin wieland | dario |
| "the fisherman and the genie" | one thousand and one nights |
| paul sheldon in misery | king |
| jack torrance in the shining | king |
| "are gone to praise god and his priest and king who make up a heaven of our misery" | chimney |
| pike | welty |
| vanita | wee willie winkie |
unoka | things fall apart |
| "hay-uh-rot" | beowulf |
| sunshine | shipping news |
| quoyle | shipping news |
| no country for old men by cormac mccarthy | texas |
| island with fugard | kani |
| "crouch" | lioness |
| makhotin | vronsky |
| "jumbuck" | australia |
| "a scandal in bohemia" | sherlock holmes |
| chartist movement | disraeli |
| world only spins forward | 1980 |
| amy lowell | imagist |
| mawl | geirrod |
| congo jake | manhattan transfer |
| ulgine barrows | thurber |
| "i will write it out in a verse, --macdonagh and macbride, connolly and pearse" | yeats |
| lou albano | mario |
| pauline | mario |
| second reform act | disraeli |
| "iron horse" | things fall apart |
| psychlos | hubbard |
| schweizer | schiller |
| sword in the stone | arthur |
| "corinna's going a maying" | herrick |
| bud korpenning | manhattan transfer |
| nek-hul-yoo-dawff | tolstoy |
| "in the darbies" | billy budd |
| "skunk hour" | lowell |
| salamis | herodotus |
| "unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster." | raven |
| in walcott | odyssey |
| mount salus | optimist's |
| une tempete | caliban |
| "the wazir and the sage duban" | genies |
| "one next himself in power, and next in crime." | beelzebub |
| "ay-may sez-ehr's" | caliban |
| arrivants | brathwaite |
| t. e. hulme | imagist |
| magrath sisters | 1980 |
| rex mottram | waugh |
| celie addresses | color purple |
| "the more we reflect upon," | lady or the tiger |
| kitty shcherbatsky | vronsky |
| dobbin | piano |
| five great epics | three |
| town in an amos tutuola | three |
| nepommuck | shaw |
| "where are the days of tobias" | angel |
| "back-us" | dionysus |
| "the ribs and terrors in the whale" | melville |
| "some of these days" | nausea |
| rickshaw boy | cat |
| kuh-poh-tee | breakfast at tiffany |
| james gibbons huneker | slam |
| "i can receive nothing from a stranger." | nora |
| "the oozy weeds about me twist." | billy budd |
| the 's window | hansberry |
| moderato cantabile | duras |
| tengo kawana | 1q84 |
| franz kafka prize | murakami |
| "quarrel" | ivan |
| squire booby | fielding |
| colonel shaw | lowell |
| j. b. leishman's | duino elegies |
| roscius | lord chamberlain |
| edward malone | doyle |
| "aj srishti shukher ullashe" | nazrul |
| shuidiao getou | song |
| "what's to become of me?" | shaw |
| "some realms i owned, two rivers, a continent" | bishop |
| mickey goldmill | rocky |
| sylvester stallone | rocky |
| "smartest man in the morgue" | rorshach |
| "life is too much like a pathless wood" | frost |
| "get away from earth awhile." | frost |
| "indited to dinner." | nell |
| al-masalla | heliopolis |
| in the color purple | shug |
| george reeves | superman |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| "we will not anticipate the past" | sheridan |
| matthew cuthbert | anne |
| thomas melvill | leaves |
| "big boy leaves home" | uncle tom's children |
| lulamae barnes | holly |
| "love rectangle" | eliot |
| spooner | pinter |
| irene adler | sherlock holmes |
| "reverberated across the roof of the world." | slam |
| pauline pfeiffer hemingway | key west |
| oroonoko in a thomas southerne | behn |
| temple of my familiar | walker |
| "the great lawsuit" | fuller |
| "starry" | billy budd |
| the lover | duras |
| "three loved houses" | key west |
master of go | kawabata |
| reverend smith | things fall apart |
| ambrose bierce in the mexican revolution | old gringo |
| hans castorp by thomas mann | magic mountain |
| "schoolboy" | wilson |
| aglaya | dostoyevsky |
| monica | augustine |
| "the bitch is dead." | bond |
| tamaki | softball |
| "with the beatles" | akutagawa |
| vinteuil with odette | proust |
| soares | robinson |
| when pi | banana |
| "savage as wild beasts," | odyssey |
| "christ follows dionysus" | pound |
| massolit | master and margarita |
| ennead | heliopolis |
| "into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country [this word]." | awake |
| "the song of destruction" | nazrul |
| essays and poems | fuller |
| in the plague | beach |
| "the viy" | ivan |
| joseph andrews | fielding |
| "for the union dead." | lowell |
| for colored girls | public theater |
| topdog/underdog | public theater |
| "riverside city" | moon |
| "plunge and expire." | leaves |
| "yield their names to the element" | confederate |
| louise crane | key west |
| stephen spender | duino elegies |
| geb and nut | shu |
| junior in the absolutely true diary of a part | alexie |
| "wagnerian" | swan |
| pilgrimage to john hobhouse | byron |
| bertha flowers | not speak |
| kala | haggard |
| motivos de son | hughes |
| "what [this author] doesn't know about modern architecture." | wolfe |
| george barris | college |
| "loyal subjects," | cap |
| jane porter | haggard |
| "spherical fruits" | library of babel |
| ikem | anthills of the savannah |
| " 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 |
| momma | not speak |
| reservation blues | alexie |
| "part or particle of god." | transcendental |
| the matchmaker | wilder |
| time indian | alexie |
| germinal in the rougon | zola |
| harriet vane | wimsey |
| murder must advertise | wimsey |
| "the other tartuffe." | figaro |
| "glorious rays and light" | swan |
| 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 |
| diary of a superfluous man | ivan |
| "you and i would have to be so changed" | nora |
| aunts at rachel | handmaid |
| "there are no rules." | calvin |
| "anacreon in heaven" | key |
| "passed the school, where children strove at recess, in the ring" | because i could not stop for death |
| independence day | welty |
| "a little stillness dancer," | heaney |
| "it was a hard blow" | heaney |
| u-33 | haggard |
| jurgis rudkus by upton sinclair | jungle |
| 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 |
| nazi germany in dragon | lanny |
| "when i want." | marriage |
| "i am [this sort of] man." | sincere |
| garland, polokov | czech |
| right stuff | wolfe |
| ed roth | college |
| in carter | world war i |
| la mere | figaro |
| femi osofisan | antigone |
| "the bloody chamber." | carter |
| "the lady, or [this animal]?" | tiger |
| 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 |
| kindred | time travel |
| "the company of wolves." | carter |
| anthills of the savannah | achebe |
| odewale in ola rotimi | oedipus |
| tony loneman | orange |
| "just because you are a great nobleman, you think you are a great genius" | figaro |
| dreams from my father | president |
| hobhouse | don juan |
| big oakland powwow | orange |
| "alejandro nebuchadnezzar." | president |
| "and the city." | prague |
| "of things past." | prague |
| red queen in through the looking | alice |
| whose body | wimsey |
| "a mere-copy book." | lamb |
| "say goodbye to her, to" | antony |
| l'argent and l'assommoir | rougon |
| "kandy kolored" | college |
| coupable | figaro |
| edgar rice burroughs | haggard |
| thebaid | statius |
| "the lady of the house of love," | world war i |
| "marriage a la mode" | mansfield |
| sylvain bemba | black |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| virginia clemm | annabel lee |
| "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 |
| dolorous guard | lancelot |
| "effeminate," | things fall apart |
| reconsiderations | augustine |
| wife of willesden | jamaica |
| windhoveri | hopkins |
| equiano | douglass |
| "philippine temptation" | twain |
| "over the river and through the woods." | child |
| lord munodi | lemuel |
| "let's go exploring!" | calvin |
| "junkie, strung out in heavens high, hitting an all time low." | tom |
| walter gilkyson | oil |
| "lessons in living." | not speak |
| falconsprung | stress |
| romelio ureta | death |
| jobling | spontaneous combustion |
| headley | heaney |
| hilary mantel | wolf hall |
| michael verancius | wedding |
| "i have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?" | ain't i a woman |
| "the quadrooms" | child |
| "from the castle walls, but from counting houses." | mantel |
| rhetoric of fiction | unreliable narrator |
| josey wales | jamaica |
| "the oral history of a nuclear disaster." | chernobyl |
| ylla | mars |
| "superfluous man" | hero of our time |
| volkh | bogatyr |
| josie | klara and the sun |
| class of americans called africans | child |
| giving up the ghost | mantel |
| "alyson from bath into alvita from willesden" | chauce |
| " for 10 points each: hopkins' phrase " | stress |
| "menippean" | satire |
| never let me go | ishiguro |
| "cogito ergo sum." | descartes |
| eshuoro | soyinka |
| elstir | in search of lost time |
| "yermolay and the miller's wife" | turgenev |
| joseph k. the trial | kafka |
| "usher ii" | mars |
| with august falck | proscenium |
| falconthe windhover | hopkins |
| "when the warrior returns" | key |
| 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 |
| mirah lapidoth | eliot |
| mike tyson | mario |
| "who? who?" | disraeli |
| "big shoulders" | chicago |
| seven guitars | wilson |
| isaac butler | 1980 |
| goldeneye estate | bond |
| "the living daylights" | bond |
| "a carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers." | zami |
| 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 |
| " after stating, " | dapple |
| russian golden age | hero of our time |
| " was written by this southern gothic author of stories like " | o'connor |
| "the last days of john brown." | thoreau |
| klamm | castle |
| falck | maeterlinck |
| voices of utopia | alexievich |
| guppy | spontaneous combustion |
| "biomythography" | zami |
| carlos bulosan | great depression |
| roughing it | twain |
| "hasped and hooped and hirpling," | heaney |
| sulpicia | satire |
| "diamonds and toads" | perrault |
| theofraste | wife of bath |
| in zadie smith | jamaica |
| international booker | english |
| belarusian nobel | alexievich |
| 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 |
| el llano en llamas | rulfo |
| johan van heemskerk | arcadia |
| "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 |
| esther summerson | bleak house |
| 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 |
| "very scary" | calvin |
| tracer bullet | calvin |
| "yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again." | sandburg |
| good lord bird | mcbride |
| an appeal in favor | child |
| mrs lovett | sweeney |
| land of green plums | muller |
| tamara | invisible cities |
| "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 |
| "little onion" | mcbride |
| "af" | klara and the sun |
| "cousin bridget" | lamb |
| " for 10 points each: this other whitman poem begins " | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| "old foolosopher," | iceman cometh |
| "papers want to know what shirts he wears" | tom |
| jermaine | tom |
| "each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." | raven |
| "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." | lorde |
| saint-cyr | racine |
| athalie | racine |
| "naif" | holden |
| jenny erpenbeck | english |
| "the singer" | jamaica |
| "arch." | proscenium |
| "soul is marching on." | brown |
| kurt tucholsky | castle |
| "thund'ring noise" | burn |
| sister outsider | lorde |
| "to die is to rest" | philippines |
| heaneywulf in a london | heaney |
| ambroise phillips | ode to aphrodite |
| martinique | three musketeers |
| "colloquial flow" | chauce |
| " 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 |
| "tease us out of thought," | keats |
| elise and cleante | miser |
| "the changeling" | lamb |
| harpagon | miser |
| ratatosk | eagle |
| clarence in the tower of london | richard iii |
| "determined to prove a villain" | richard iii |
| xquic | hero twins |
| "no trespassing" | citizen kane |
| girl with a watering can | renoir |
| "of the progress of the soul." | donne |
| "the ship is anchor'd safe" | lincoln |
| " and a poem that celebrates a " | leaves of grass |
| ode for the birthday of queen anne | handel |
| rutabaga stories | sandburg |
| 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 |
| geometry | descartes |
| metal gear solid | mario |
| irs in operation snow white | hubbard |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| zadok the priest | handel |
| "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 |
| " for 10 points each: name this collection which includes " | leaves of grass |
| larry slade | iceman cometh |
| hun hanahpu | hero twins |
| 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 |
| black man | scarlet letter |
| 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 |
| ") [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 |
| forbidden city the | grand canal |
| "anybody interested in grabbing a couple of burgers and hittin' the cemetery?" | royal tenenbaums |
| spoon river anthology | lincoln |
| "great star" | lincoln |
| "they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning." | lincoln |
| organ | tartuffe |
| "beneath the myrtle shade." | maecenas |
| "supperless to bed ... must retire." | keats |
| jim leland | citizen kane |
| timon of athens | shakespeare |
| "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 |
| "merry war" | beatrice |
| "thou hast committed fornication: but that was in another country" | portrait of a lady |
| owen warland | hawthorne |
| "bitch" | bond |
| gettler | bond |
| flight of the conchords | tom |
| " for 10 points, name this jesuit poet of " | hopkins |
| "iron youth" | all quiet on the western front |
| keneally | schindler |
| "the vorpal blade went snicker-snack." | jabberwock |
| bill singleman | death of a salesman |
| churning of the milky ocean | vishnu |
| antananarivo | madagascar |
| ralph in lord of the flies | pig |
| "the jungle is dark, but full of diamonds," | death of a salesman |
| "the lady of shallot" | tennyson |
| eve of st | keats |
| "a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it." | citizen kane |
| mistress higgins | scarlet letter |
| "down under" | australia |
| spirit of reason | inferno |
| "the father of science fiction" | welles |
| "suicide in the trenches." | sassoon |
| jones in animal farm | pig |
| art as experience | dewey |
| after job | boil |
| ironshirts | brecht |
| chekov | gun |
| before elihu | eliphaz |
| neal cassady | dean |
| permanent income hypothesis | friedman |
| good person of schezuan | brecht |
| 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 |
| "the bow and the lyre." | paz |
| killing joke | moore |
| "dappled things" | hopkins |
| "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 |
| tom in the glass menagerie | amanda |
| in through the looking glass | walrus |
| saint vaivaswata | vishnu |
| "my self-possession gutters" | portrait of a lady |
| "betray'd to endless night," | holy sonnets |
| margaret garner | morrison |
| cleanser of the altars | pig |
| ned rosier | portrait of a lady |
| pavel kirsanov | fathers and sons |
| ejlert lovberg | hedda |
| the and the memorandum | havel |
| north american plate | aleutian |
| frank boas | mead |
| "in the crowding darkness, not a word did they say" | brooks |
| meleagant | lancelot |
| cappy | mario |
| "time passes" | to the lighthouse |
| "alive and coarse and strong and cunning." | chicago |
| "lilith" | magic mountain |
| "old soldier watching from his tent." | baudelaire |
| "football in the first year of man'en" | oe |
| second company | all quiet on the western front |
| 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 |
| snake woman | quetzalcoatl |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| caucasus mountains | south ossetia |
| death god | quetzalcoatl |
| egyptians in the book of exodus | boil |
| job | eliphaz |
| "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 |
| "roof was scarcely visible, the cornice but a mound," | because i could not stop for death |
| japhy ryder in the dharma bums | kerouac |
| accelerating inflation rate of unemployment | friedman |
| "ianthe," | byron |
| noble prize in medicine | pavlov |
| "song offering." | gitanjali |
| chanticleer | the canterbury tales |
| georgi abalishi | brecht |
| 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 |
| leah centers | handmaid |
| "the virtuoso's collection," | hawthorne |
| "astronomer-poet of persia" | khayyam |
| hetty sorrel | eliot |
| "belhomme's beast" | maupassant |
gus (hitman) | the dumbwaiter |
| de almeida | haiku |
| bezdomny | master and margarita |
| cat in the hat | seuss |
| jim bayliss | miller |
| newcomes | thackeray |
| murder of roger ackroyd | christie |
| "poet of the soul." | song of myself |
| "what do i know?" | emerson |
| communist hugo | sartre |
| "april rain song." | hughes |
| "a host of golden daffodils." | wordsworth |
| doctor hinkfuss | pirandello |
| big endians | lemuel |
| leslie knope | bridge to terabithia |
| beardsley school for girls | lolita |
| journey to parnassus | cervantes |
| late mattia pascal | pirandello |
| kirilov | dostoyevsky |
| "[the title animals] and death" | sartre |
| in treatise on demonstration of problems in algebra | khayyam |
| "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 |
| "and yet, god has not said a word!" | browning |
| "a poet could not but be gay, / in such a jocund company." | wordsworth |
"under this dark sycamore," | tintern abbey |
| nastassya | dostoyevsky |
| measure of the soul | augustine |
| city of god | augustine |
| kingsley amis in colonel sun | bond |
| bud collyer | superman |
| "sorry he could not travel both" | frost |
| "petrified man" | welty |
| "i will arise and go now, and go to innisfree..." | yeats |
| "you ever ate a chicken that was two days old?" | o'connor |
| "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 |
| "the rain set in early tonight" | browning |
| licensing order | milton |
| "look homeward, angel" | milton |
| zac efron | lorax |
| cedar mountains | humbaba |
| defoe | moll flanders |
| steve deever | miller |
| "mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you" | lindsay |
| "faultless painter" | browning |
| "schoolteacher" | beloved |
| "on the morning of christ's nativity." | milton |
| andrew falk | miller |
| cloudcuckooland | birds |
| howard wagner in death of a salesman | miller |
| professor willard | grover's corners |
| land of nod | enoch |
| utoya | breivik |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "speaks for the trees" | lorax |
| national book award | singer |
| "the eagle that is forgotten." | lindsay |
| "sullen wind" | browning |
| "tore the elm-tops down for spite" | browning |
| "roofs of the world." | song of myself |
dirty hands | sartre |
| "down on lennox avenue," | hughes |
| green eggs | seuss |
| "and sullen molloch" | milton |
| "peor and baalim forsake their temples dim" | milton |
| david beeves | miller |
| man who had all the luck | miller |
| danny devito | lorax |
| jared lee loughner | giffords |
| skittles | trayvon |
| sampson carrasco | cervantes |
| georg bendemann | kafka |
| jaggers | great expectations |
| prince prospero | poe |
| tonight we improvise | pirandello |
| shawshank redemption | king |
| rietze the candle | singer |
| meso | aztec |
| "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 |
| "was the common property of the human race" | paine |
| the slave and the | singer |
| chadwick newsome | ambassadors |
| "when at the races with a lady, brush dust off her gown. if there is no dust, brush it nonetheless." | ars amatoria |
| in candide | el |
| julia roberts | mirror |
| lewis strether | ambassadors |
| "ghost caught in individualism's blind alley" | china |
| "how all occasions do inform against me." | soliloquies |
| " despite his previous love for rosaline. in this play, one character kills his wife" | romeo and juliet |
| "the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape" | soliloquies |
| people of the cave | arabic |
| glubbdubdrib | gulliver's |
| "what a rogue and peasant slave am i!" | soliloquies |
| night!s | romeo and juliet |
| "father of tragedy" | aeschylus |
| la henriade | voltaire |
| bella in the twilight | stewart |
| "great shift" | saussure |
| red hare | china |
| age of enlightenment | voltaire |
| in skepticism | in medias res |
| "conscience does make cowards of us all" | soliloquies |
| "give thanks to the lord, for he is good." | psalms |
| madame marie | ambassadors |
| elemental odes | neruda |
gayev | the cherry orchard |
| whole sick crew | pynchon |
"the bet" | chekhov |
| randolph driblette | pynchon |
| "what good is it, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?" | james |
| "all god's chillun got wings" | o'neill |
| lily collins | mirror |
| napoleon, grimm | mirror |
| "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 |
| zero suit | samus |
| "poo-tee-weet?" | slaughterhouse-five |
| "o that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!" | soliloquies |
| "did my heart love ,,til now? forswear it, sight! / for i ne" | romeo and juliet |
| "might i but moor / to-night with thee," | wild nights |
| "our luxury." | wild nights |
| "give crowns and pounds and guineas / but not your heart away." | when i was one-and-twenty |
| bierce | devil's dictionary |
| kimbro | paint |
| "this is my letter to the world," | dickinson |
| "roman fever" | daisy miller |
| "unweeded garden," | soliloquies |
| "what is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?" | soliloquies |
| seven sleepers | arabic |
| dartmoor with sir henry | hound of the |
| "anna christie" | o'neill |
| half-pint | mirror |
| de vionnet | ambassadors |
| count paris | romeo and juliet |
| yucatan peninsula | maya |
| "with thee," | wild nights |
| "open sesame." | ali |
| drapier | swift |
| happy death | camus |
| "a melody sweetly play'd in tune." | rose |
| "drink and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim." | ode to a |
| ted mosby | how i met your mother |
| sitka | roth |
| cousin pons | human comedy |
| matthew broderick | ferris bueller's day off |
| "just one more thing." | detective |
| "not all the vats upon the rhine/ yield such an alcohol" | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| "quaint and curious volumes" | raven |
| t.h. white | once and future king |
| "second greatest love story" | how i met your mother |
| neil patrick harris | how i met your mother |
| tiger mother | chinese |
| collegehumor | django unchained |
| calvin candide | django unchained |
| "there's a certain slant of light" | dickinson |
| weimar classicism | sturm und drang |
| natalie teeger | detective |
| christopher nolan | dark knight rises |
| black hat guy | xkcd |
| tony shalhoub | detective |
| "say good bye to miss lara" | django unchained |
| christoph waltz | django unchained |
| pearl louie brandt | chinese |
| jason clarke | zero dark thirty |
| usa network | detective |
| pig bodine | pynchon |
| "i have so many enemies" | psalms |
| "oh my brothers" | clockwork orange |
| "your humble narrator." | clockwork orange |
| broomhilda | django unchained |
| "lovely ludwig van" | clockwork orange |
| abe froman | ferris bueller's day off |
| miranda tate | dark knight rises |
| de laceys | frankenstein |
| "storm and drive." | sturm und drang |
| what if | xkcd |
| sloane | ferris bueller's day off |
| kathryn bigelow | zero dark thirty |
| randall munroe | xkcd |
| bane | dark knight rises |
| jaimie foxx | django unchained |
| "imperial affliction / sent us of the air" | dickinson |
| "get thee back into the tempest and night's plutonian shore!" | raven |
| locksley | ivanhoe |
| tom walker | irving |
| henry clerval | frankenstein |
| principal ed rooney | ferris bueller's day off |
| jessica chastain | zero dark thirty |
| "surcease" | raven |
| waiting for the barbarians the magistrate | coetzee |
| "sweet-ass." | xkcd |
| kate beckett | detective |
| "two weeks" | how i met your mother |
| robin sherbatsky | how i met your mother |
| ferrari | ferris bueller's day off |
| elementary and sherlock | detective |
| miss lara | django unchained |
| freddy hill | pygmalion |
| margaret saville | frankenstein |
| "twist and shout" | ferris bueller's day off |
| franz moor | schiller |
| biology department | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "we're not going to go there." | django unchained |
| "shall but drink the more." | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| "vanished" | clouds |
| besancon | red and the black |
| "milky way falling from the ninth heaven" | li bai |
| "by the tumtum tree" | carroll |
| rudolphe | flaubert |
| arabella wilmot | vicar of wakefield |
| orca | jaws |
| "pondered weak and weary," | raven |
| sobek | horus |
| "a song of ice and fire" | game of thrones |
| "of mans first disobedience, and the fruit of" | paradise lost |
| england by van helsing in a bram stoker | vampire |
| peeta melark | hunger games |
| madame de renal | red and the black |
| "nearly all young criminals have had lying mothers," | doll |
| jose ybarra | breakfast at tiffany's |
| lady | hunger games |
| richard castle | detective |
| price is right | how i met your mother |
| barney stinson | how i met your mother |
| philistine dalila | samson agonistes |
| langston | hughes |
| cool million | west |
| "for three years" | pound |
| coast guard | jaws |
| clint | how i met your mother |
| il commendatore | don giovanni |
| catwoman | dark knight rises |
| "mousy" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| leon panetta | zero dark thirty |
| sharona fleming | detective |
| waverly | chinese |
| james gandolfini | zero dark thirty |
| "lied in every word." | browning |
"fra lippo lippi" | robert browning |
| the french war | greene |
mathilde aubain | flaubert |
| "for the rest," | to his coy mistress |
| nan st | wharton |
"the blizzard" | pushkin |
| seneca crane | hunger games |
| "the moonlight glistens in front of my bed / as if there is frost on the ground" | li bai |
| sani abacha | nigeria |
| " for 10 points each: this american modernist poet of " | stevens |
| " he also wrote " | stevens |
| "[stretching] in vain to reach the prize," | gray |
| ginnungagap | ymir |
| sickness unto death | kierkegaard |
| lady narborough | picture of dorian gray |
| mayor larry vaughan | jaws |
| "grow vaster than empires" | to his coy mistress |
| undine spragg in the custom of the country | wharton |
| tomsky | pushkin |
| "little yellow book" | picture of dorian gray |
| sergius saranoff | shaw |
| "fulcrum of violence" | hughes |
| "down through the narrows of the river kiang" | li bai |
| forbidden tree | paradise lost |
| elmer moffatt | wharton |
| julian sorel | red and the black |
| ragged dick | alger |
| "brimming pools of ecstasy." | eye |
| kiyoagi matsugae | mishima |
| christine linde | doll |
| broom of the system | wallace |
| "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 |
| tallon iv | samus |
| morph ball | samus |
| pensey | holden |
| "pilot of the galilean lake." | milton |
| delly cartwright | hunger games |
| "you need not clap your torches to my face," | browning |
| 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 |
| father pirard | red and the black |
lopakhin | the cherry orchard |
| "are nothing like the sun" | eye |
| kate hardcastle | maid |
| captain quint | jaws |
| gene forrester | separate peace |
| "the grave's a fine and private place." | to his coy mistress |
| burmin | pushkin |
| les propheties | nostradamus |
| "vegetable love" | to his coy mistress |
| mark the match boy | alger |
| kashiwagi | mishima |
| history of little goody | goldsmith |
| " for 10 points each: stevens described this animal that " | blackbird |
| "not all that glisters [is] gold." | gray |
| raymond de chelles | wharton |
| ben okri | nigeria |
| penistone crags | wuthering heights |
| "truth as subjectivity" | kierkegaard |
| mookherjee | kim |
| "purple smoke rising from the mountains" | li bai |
| "the dismantling of lemuel pitkin," | west |
| tassel with brom bones | irving |
| " and whose eye is " | blackbird |
| "withered leaves to quicken a new birth." | west wind |
the grass harp | truman capote |
| gale hawthorne | hunger games |
| arms and the man | shaw |
| croisenois | red and the black |
| "waterfall of lushan mountain" | li bai |
"the hunting of the snark" | carroll |
"poor yorick!" | hamlet |
| "losing theirs" | kipling |
| buttercup | hunger games |
| "agony in eight fits," | carroll |
boojum | carroll |
| "uffish thought" | carroll |
| "stoops" | maid |
| enfield tennis academy | infinite jest |
hal (incandenza) | infinite jest |
men and women | robert browning |
| "drie[s] up / like a raisin in the sun" | hughes |
| "two small people, without dislike or suspicion" | li bai |
| father dosen | mishima |
rosanette | flaubert |
| uss indianapolis | jaws |
sun quan | romance of the three kingdoms |
| il penseroso | milton |
| justice of the ten pound court | irving |
| baratheon | game of thrones |
| "always coming on / the always rising of the night." | to his coy mistress |
| "keep [his] head when all about" | kipling |
| foxface | hunger games |
| bodger | shaw |
| felicite | flaubert |
| devon prep | phineas |
| lord saxmundham | shaw |
| fenrir with angrboda | loki |
| "best is yet to be" | browning |
| "hoary cripple, with malicious eye" | browning |
| "hangs still;" | hughes |
| "galumphing back" | carroll |
| "how swift how secretly / the shadow of the night comes on." | macleish |
| dambreuse | flaubert |
"it is difficult / to get the news from poems" | william carlos williams |
judge honda | mishima |
| chrissie watkins | jaws |
| chao gai | water margin |
| duke of tintagel | wharton |
| "toomai of the elephants" | jungle book |
| president snow | hunger games |
| district 12 | hunger games |
"to adore each breast" | "to his coy mistress" |
| mattie silver | wharton |
| ushant | wharton |
| katniss everdeen | hunger games |
| "sweating with blood" | picture of dorian gray |
bluntschli | shaw |
dimitri gurov | "the lady with the dog" |
| "what i tell you three times is true," | carroll |
| 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 |
| captains courageous | kipling |
| my soul | finlandia |
| ajax the greater | achilles |
| "macavity" | cat |
tamburlaine the great | marlowe |
| alicorn amulet | trixie |
| pilenz | grass |
| eloisa to abelard | pope |
| "art of this," | poem |
| "govern in a thing so small." | design |
| "but, will you be my preceptor, mr. higginson?" | letters |
| "dick, joe, ned and jack" | chimney sweep |
| knock | marlowe |
| "on a hot tin roof." | cat |
| "long sleep, or just some human sleep." | woodchuck |
| "a prayer for my daughter" | sailing to byzantium |
| brinker hadley | separate peace |
| disillusionment of ten | stevens |
| "rollin' 'round the bend," | cash |
| "deal[ing] with lesser boy - to prove ability." | god |
| miles standish | god |
| harvey cheyne | kipling |
| "coward holding a baby-killer in his manly arms," | no exit |
| june carter | cash |
| "rise up, for you the flag is flung, for you the bugle trills," | lincoln |
| "i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow." | villanelle |
| "i keep a close watch on this heart of mine." | cash |
| "prince of cats," | romeo and juliet |
| in kafka on the shore | cat |
benvolio | romeo and juliet |
| komatsu | 84 |
| "cutie marks" | my little pony |
| "poet of the american revolution" | freneau |
| "old possum's book of practical" | cat |
| edna ferber | chicago |
"tell how a man, though, could possibly thread the lyre's narrow modes?" | sonnets to orpheus |
| "bronies." | my little pony |
| "a distant - stately lover." | god |
| big brother in a george orwell | 84 |
| puff | sheridan |
queen mab | romeo and juliet |
mycetes | marlowe |
| hate week | 84 |
| be still | finlandia |
| "gods are able" | sonnets to orpheus |
| "bustopher jones" | cat |
| "sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal it knows not what it is." | sailing to byzantium |
| "the lone and level sands stretch far away," | ozymandias |
| clongowes college | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| davin | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down" | cash |
| "i wasted my time when i would try, try, try." | cash |
| joaquin phoenix | cash |
| "should be palpable and mute," | poem |
| so big | chicago |
| bengalsky | cat |
| "heaven has no rage like love turned to hatred, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" | congreve |
| three comrades | remarque |
| reuven malter | potok |
| daniel sauters | potok |
| thunder-ten-tronckh | cunegonde |
| vampire hunter in a seth grahame | lincoln |
| "two chinamen, behind them a third, / are carved in [the title stone]." | lapis lazuli |
| "genuflection." | warsaw |
| "was told that it was disgraceful." | whitman |
| "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed." | ozymandias |
| "the indian burying ground" | freneau |
| sneerwell | school for scandal |
| lauretta | o mio |
| great depression in the adventures of augie march | bellow |
| asher lev | potok |
| war years | lincoln |
| "if fame belonged to me, i could not escape her," | letters |
| "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 |
| daniel dravot | kipling |
| peachy carnahan | kipling |
"the wild honey suckle" | freneau |
| rosalie murray | agnes grey |
| twilight sparkle | my little pony |
| "solitary the thrush, the hermit withdrawn to himself," | lincoln |
| ursa major | trixie |
| pro football hall of fame | ohio |
| goma | cat |
| "this sleep of mine" | woodchuck |
| "what powerful but unrecorded race/ once dwelt in that annihilated place." | ozymandias |
| charles surface | school for scandal |
| "paris of the west," | san |
| "little we see in nature that is ours." | world is too much with us |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "when you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold" | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "turbid ebb and flow / of human misery," | dover beach |
| henry george | rent |
| "essay on the principle of population" | malthus |
| gianni schicchi | o mio |
| trilogy of the rat | murakami |
| loved me | fleming |
| rinuccio | o mio |
| "much have i travell'd in the realms of gold" | on first looking into chapman's homer |
| jane gallagher | holden |
| rokovoko | queequeg |
| pudd'nhead wilson | twain |
| way of the world | congreve |
| station at the horizon | remarque |
| "somewhere in the clouds above" | yeats |
| amis | bond |
| alden pyle in the quiet american | greene |
| black obelisk | remarque |
| "nothinghead," | welcome to the monkey house |
| james hall | bounty |
| fanny brawne | to autumn |
| georgetown | freedom |
| "faithful hound" | antisthenes |
| "infant sorrow," | songs of innocence and |
| "crooked rose" | thomas |
| "ethical birth control" | welcome to the monkey house |
| jean genet | our lady of the flowers |
| jack favell | rebecca |
| port-au-prince | haiti |
| bram stoker | vampire |
| "smiling preacher." | osteen |
| jane smart | witches of eastwick |
| gerald du maurier | peter |
| thorsten fehr | plasticity |
| felixmarte de hyrcania | quixote |
| strange wine | ellison |
| witches of eastwick | updike |
| amiri baraka | september 11 |
| fortune of love | quixote |
| while lovelace | prison |
| "infant joy" | songs of innocence and |
| miskatonic university in arkham | lovecraft |
| from russia with love | fleming |
| casino royale | bond |
| "stout cortez, when with eagle eyes / he stared at the pacific." | on first looking into chapman's homer |
| the chosen | potok |
| maurice bendrix in the end of the affair | greene |
| mathilde moisel | necklace |
| "...airman forsees his death" | yeats |
| alexandra spofford | witches of eastwick |
| 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 |
| cranly | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "sort of mournful cosmic last resort." | dover beach |
| "naked shingles of the world," | dover beach |
| billy the poet | welcome to the monkey house |
| "i'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than" | hawk |
| ridley | 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 |
| "'gadzooks!' quoth i, 'but here's a saucy bawd!'" | libertine |
| oryza | sativa |
| "our helper... amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing." | mighty fortress |
| "der sandmann." | the tales of hoffman |
| david lean | bridge |
| sophie caco | breath, eyes, memory |
| "he is all pine and i am apple orchard," | mending wall |
| ambassador to mexico | lindbergh |
| breath, eyes, memory | haiti |
| huxtable | architecture |
| daisy armstrong | orient express |
| "corpo" | it can't happen here |
| bridge on the river kwai | world war ii |
| p450scc | cholesterol |
| charles nordhoff | bounty |
| winds of war | wouk |
| roger byam | bounty |
| christopher tietjens | ford |
| "spiritual dislocation" | success |
| "a tree that may in summer wear / a nest of robins in her hair" | kilmer |
| "two roads diverged in a wood, and i, / i took the one less traveled by, / and that has made all the difference." | frost |
| port said | arabic |
| "lover's tomb." | thomas |
| "cultivated." | sativa |
| "piping down the valleys wild / piping songs of pleasant glee / on a cloud i saw a child." | songs of innocence and |
| "great old ones" | lovecraft |
| daybreak | gay science |
| faunia farley | coleman |
| lakewood | osteen |
| divine | our lady of the flowers |
| thomas mallory | morte d'arthur |
| wave of the future | lindbergh |
| shirley jackson | lottery |
| avis everhard | iron heel |
| paul proteus | vonnegut |
| captain queeg | wouk |
| lady oisille | marguerite |
| why people believe weird things | skeptic |
| black bess | highwayman |
| "the catastrophe of success" | streetcar named desire |
| "hath neither joy, nor love, nor light." | dover beach |
| michael shermer | skeptic |
| dick turpin | highwayman |
| "the ballad of reading gaol (redding jail)." | wilde |
| hurston | boas |
| guelphs | shelley |
| ethical suicide parlor | welcome to the monkey house |
| "spooks" | coleman |
| wemmick | great expectations |
| "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 |
| hawk tower | california |
| "somebody blew up america," | september 11 |
| jean shepherd | libertine |
| duke of alba | goethe |
| "the adventure of the empty house" | sherlock |
| great dane | scooby |
| long john silver | stevenson |
| kidnapped | stevenson |
| suitable boy in english | seth |
| "contrary states" | songs of innocence and |
| "a stone's throw from the equator, with a bottomless historical chasm separating the two" | arabic |
| polk county | hurston |
| sukie rougemont | witches of eastwick |
| "campensis." | isis |
| valperga | shelley |
| ilium | vonnegut |
| "in october 1914" | arabic |
| captain hook | peter |
| the and war and remembrance | wouk |
| parlemente | marguerite |
| "4000 israeli workers" | september 11 |
| joey | september 11 |
| prince amerigo | james |
| "varney," | vampire |
| "hypocrite, my likeness, my brother" | reader |
| love in a cold climate | mitford |
| moshe the beadle | night |
| gateway of the sun in tiwanaku | staff |
| complete works of william shakespeare | football |
| oates | henry |
| "natural depravity." | claggart |
| "the tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere." | fenimore cooper's literary offenses |
| celestial city | christian |
| marcus in death valley | dentist |
| joe bonham | trumbo |
"rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing." | the windhover |
| toph | eggers |
| the st. crispin's | shakespeare |
| in a harte | chinese |
| facundo | dictator novel |
| hareton earnshaw | read |
| painter of signs | english |
| "oligarchy" | iron heel |
| "dapple-dawn-drawn" | alliteration |
| "hold their manhoods cheap." | st. crispin's day |
| jerry dingleman | richler |
| neddy | swimmer |
| josue | fuentes |
| chozo on zebes | samus |
| danzig | grass |
| medicago | sativa |
| ratchett | orient express |
| at balder | dwarf |
| imm by star | cholesterol |
| "i must kill a man!" | maupassant |
| your best life now | osteen |
| troy flavin | welty |
| "it is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist" | wilde |
| "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 |
| "apprenticeship," | wilhelm |
| pincher martin | lord of the flies |
| 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 |
julius excluded from heaven | erasmus |
| telipinu | bee |
| uncle billy | outcasts of poker flat |
| "plain language from truthful james," | chinese |
| "garbage city" | cairo |
| dark age ahead | jacobs |
| duddy kravitz | richler |
| "not brave enough." | reader |
| "verse shall stand, / praising thy worth, despite" | time |
| fanny robin | child |
| "nick shadow," | devil |
| "samiel," | bullet |
"the hunger had more power than even sorrow over me. (ugolino)" | inferno |
oleanna | mamet |
| "the true blue protestant poet" | shadwell |
| george jean nathan | american mercury |
| "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" | cummings |
| "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 |
| "canvas of our pitiable desires" | reader |
| "the king of poets" | season in hell |
| gabe | brother |
alfred uhry (trilogy) | atlanta |
| cook islands | staff |
jack stapleton | the hound of the baskervilles |
| tijuana | richler |
| lucy poems | wordsworth |
| walter younger | raisin in the sun |
| "distinctive design that constitutes individual identity." | inscape |
| book iv of virgil | bee |
| mokattam hills | cairo |
| book of jude | enoch |
| "in the bardo." | lincoln |
| "the swimmer," | new yorker |
| eustace tilley | new yorker |
the education of a christian prince | erasmus |
| irene westcott | enormous radio |
| isaac's storm | larson |
| last night of ballyhoo | atlanta |
| "clubman" | periphetes |
| "he didn't even have time to kick off his seaboots" | pincher |
| prince heinrich hotel | billiard |
| neddy merrill | swimmer |
| "the last great prophet of tautology" | shadwell |
| according to coase | club |
| "they're hanging [the title character] in the mornin'." | danny deever |
| modestine | stevenson |
| "the aged p," | great expectations |
| baptiste clamence | camus |
| amber | scooby |
| dabney | welty |
| "fantastic baroque machine," | devil |
| antoine macquart | spontaneous combustion |
| the death and | jacobs |
| "cruel hand." | time |
| "a tip-toe" | st. crispin's day |
| destiny and desire | fuentes |
| "city of the dead." | cairo |
| great flood | enoch |
| italian jewish | levi |
| viracocha at ollantaytambo | inca |
| "wonderland quartet" | oates |
| "i knew it wouldn't be much of a poem / but i love the title." | cope |
| domingo sarmiento | dictator novel |
| fair in chicago | larson |
| reading | nottage |
in a mikhail lermontov | heroes |
| harlem globetrotters | scooby |
| pew | stevenson |
| ubermensch | nietzsche |
| maitre holbroque | maupassant |
| dubula | cry, the beloved country |
| hoseason | stevenson |
| "fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / within his bending sickle's compass come." | time |
| in suzan | brother |
| adulateur | warren |
| "the night's plutonian shore." | raven |
| paths of glory | graveyard |
| "a dollar and a half." | hughes |
| "consultant in poetry to the library of congress." | poet laureate |
| imaginary prisons | prison |
| hero twins to xibalba | ball game |
"fear and loathing" (city) | las vegas |
| joyboy | cemeteries |
| "first chapters" | you |
"a sadder and a wiser man" | the rime of the ancient mariner |
| shraddhadeva manu | fish |
jack potter | crane |
| "take this cup from me." | hamlet |
| michael richards | kramer |
| "down on lenox avenue." | hughes |
| "the adventure of silver blaze." | haddon |
| sisyphos | thanatos |
| "boy wonder" | richler |
| happier hunting ground | cemeteries |
| "show about nothing." | kramer |
| "silken, sad, uncertain rustling" | raven |
| "those winter sundays." | hayden |
| "he is the very pine-apple of politeness" | malaprop |
| "chartism." | carlyle |
| augusto roa bastos | dictator novel |
| pursuit of love | mitford |
| american way of death | mitford |
| in august wilson | brother |
| uhry | atlanta |
| an akhmatova | heroes |
bill nye (ah sin) | harte |
| jim hawkin | stevenson |
| "knowledge by description." | russell |
| gines de pasamonter | don quixote |
| manus in growing up in new guinea | mead |
| uncle ebenezer | stevenson |
| delta wedding | welty |
| shaggy | scooby |
| euphorion with helen | goethe |
| "hail and farewell" | elegy |
| "epistolary psychogram" | wheatley |
| enrico iv | pirandello |
"song of the bleeding throat" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "judge-penitent" | camus |
| abe slaney | sherlock |
| lithebe | cry, the beloved country |
| scrappy | scooby |
| "test the reality of misty fields" | bird |
| "a small part of the pantomime" | bird |
| tracy smith | poet laureate |
| "a letter from [this author]." | wheatley |
| "specialty" | romance at short notice |
| bertha mason in the caribbean | rhys |
| in the loved one | cemeteries |
| "melancholy mark'd...for her own" | graveyard |
| blues for mister charlie | baldwin |
| "bland motions" | bird |
| injun joe | graveyard |
| "hard times," | hughes |
| "i understand." | stepdaughter |
| george costanza | seinfeld |
| mystery of edwin drood | raven |
| "carried through many nations and over many seas, i arrive" | elegy |
| okefenokee | swamp |
| "are one," | bird |
| "the fox and the grapes" | aesop |
| drum-taps | lincoln |
| pantanal | swamp |
| lady bracknell | importance of being earnest |
| along with seascape | albee |
| boreas | aesop |
| duino castle | elegy |
| "the whipping," | hayden |
| "let's take off this little frock" | stepdaughter |
| "my affluence over my niece is very small." | malaprop |
| "the wound-dresser." | drum-taps |
| "they'll see how beautiful i am." | hughes |
| "couplet" | elegy |
| "dr. tony" | bourdain |
| ron jones at a palo alto | third wave |
| "fine clothes" | hughes |
| "we sat and wept" | babylon |
| "forefathers of the hamlet sleep?" | graveyard |
| pier with chains | prison |
| "close bosom-friend of the maturing sun." | autumn |
| "belle isle, 1949." | detroit |
| "but tell me, who are they, these wanderers?" | elegy |
| "principal enemy of moral progress in the world." | russell |
| plaszow | amon goeth |
| "sequel to" | drum-taps |
| "some visitor... only this and nothing more." | raven |
| simone simonini | graveyard |
| "downward to darkness." | bird |
| "a different drama is underway." | hamlet |
| "what work is" | detroit |
| temperament in three primitive societies | mead |
| "zoinks!" | scooby |
| "reference" | russell |
| mambrino | don quixote |
| "the just judges" | camus |
| "jinkies!" | scooby |
| coolsville | scooby |
| egmont | goethe |
| at utgard | age |
| gelonus | herodotus |
| history of the dividing line | swamp |
| "retire" | robot |
| "irma's injection." | freud |
| barabas | marlowe |
| sussex downs | sherlock |
| inspector lestrade | sherlock |
| gp | albee |
| "en vain pour eviter" | carmen |
| persian wars in thehistories | herodotus |
| great dismal | swamp |
| "misunderstanding" | importance of being earnest |
| "skrymir" | utgard-loki |
| "moxon's master" | robot |
| chilote | imbunche |
| get jiro | bourdain |
| hungry ghosts for dc comics | bourdain |
| walrus | carpenter |
| babrius | aesop |
| no reservations | bourdain |
| in lewis carroll | carpenter |
| eckels | bradbury |
| "i am, george" | albee |
| when cabot | venice |
| elpenor | circe |
| canens | circe |
| himavant | mountain |
| much of the fenian | oisin |
| journal of a tour to the hebrides | boswell |
| avoid boring people | watson |
| marsh chapel experiment | leary |
| yo gabba gabba | bourdain |
| parts unknown | bourdain |
| "walks, and will not rest" | lincoln |
| micaela | carmen |
| hugi | thjalfi |
| church lees | scarlet |
| bone in the throat | bourdain |
| sudd in south sudan | swamp |
| theban plays | sophocles |
| guy fieri | bourdain |
| "a man and a woman and" | bird |
| "here are presented the results of the enquiry." | herodotus |
| kitchen | bourdain |
| "might rouse [this man] in you all!" | lincoln |
| duke orsino | twelfth night |
| besides the women of trachis | sophocles |
| evander in the aeneid | cacus |
| lopa de vega's | aesop |
| oechalia | sophocles |
| "decorated" | bradbury |
| shockand shroud in thomas pynchon | robot |
| pheidippides | herodotus |
| gwendolen fairfax | importance of being earnest |
| norse cosmology | yggdrasil |
| "triple-faced." | moon |
| "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 |
| "patent" | troll |
| "shows," | uncle tom's cabin |
| avrion mitchison | watson |
| tocapo | viracocha |
| hirudotherapy | leech |
| "euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant" | huxley |
| panchala | draupadi |
| snufkin | troll |
| pachamama | inti |
| england to north america | cabot |
| in nonnus | sinew |
| lachesis | eris |
| at the cavendish laboratory at cambridge | watson |
| titan coeus | phoebe |
| agastya | mountain |
| "it so happens i am sick of being a man." | walk |
| "[i]n you everything sank!" | twenty love poems and a song of despair |
| charon the golden bough | cumaean sibyl |
| coricancha | inti |
| heptapod | chiang |
| sarras | galahad |
| gandalf in the hobbit | troll |
| veblen | pecuniary |
| imahmana | viracocha |
| inthepoem | freud |
| shiva of the knees | indian independence |
| "man passes there through forests of symbols." | correspondences |
| cornelii | ecce |
| ozobranchus | leech |
| "home burial" | north of boston |
| "shall not sleep, though poppies grow." | soldier |
| "saddest of all possible words." | baseball |
| "suppose truth is a woman, what then?" | nietzsche |
| raise the wage act | 15 |
| "stop[s], wounded by the wandering scent." | neruda |
| "in flanders fields." | soldier |
| bioy casares | borges |
| "catalogue of catalogues." | borges |
| "needs ourlove." | freud |
| "important jew" | freud |
| tintagel | morgan |
| logris | galahad |
| "terra firma," | leto |
| titaness | phoebe |
| mountain king | troll |
| thousand-yard | kafka |
| "ccny lecturers on dadaism" | potato salad |
| "there is so much graciousness in cunning" | nietzsche |
| "as two stiff compasses are two" | donne |
| gitche gumee | longfellow |
| cold spring harbor laboratory | watson |
| atropos | eris |
| dame brusen | galahad |
| snork maiden in tove jansson | troll |
| meru | mountain |
| arthur to avalon | morgan |
| "i will drink / life to the lees," | tennyson |
| "deutches requiem." | borges |
| sensei | suicide |
| "since then - 'tis centuries - and yet" | dickinson |
| "a world of happiness" | helen |
| "the loss of the titanic." | boat |
| "kamikaze man," | plath |
| "there's some corner of a foreign field / that is forever england." | soldier |
| "tintinnabulation" | helen |
| "sprung" | hopkins |
| tincan | sunflower sutra |
| "working week and [his] sunday rest." | auden |
| "better than thy stroke." | death |
| hard hours | hecht |
| "behold," | ecce |
| "choric song" | tennyson |
| "philosopher of clothing" | carlyle |
| hero-worship | carlyle |
| fundamental beliefs | seventh-day adventist |
| "pigeons|just|like|that." | cummings |
| "the colossus." | plath |
| "was not an important failure." | icarus |
| "victory odes" | greek |
| willem | kafka |
| john stanhope | dickinson |
| "five franciscan nuns," | boat |
| " for 10 points each: moloch appears in this ginsberg poem, in which the narrator " | howl |
| "green valley" | auden |
| "as i walked out one evening" | auden |
| "say yes to life." | nietzsche |
| amor fati | nietzsche |
| morning star | mulberry |
| "introvert," | jung |
| kiyaoki | mishima |
| "magnetic curses" | sandburg |
| hendrick hudson | irving |
| salmagundi | irving |
| "penman of the american revolution." | dickinson |
| "what maidens loth?" | keats |
| "less traveled by." | frost |
| "the tender grace of a day that is dead / will never come back to me." | tennyson |
| "the lotos eaters" | tennyson |
| nine lyric poets | greek |
| "what a thrill." | plath |
| blysspluss | atwood |
| "cor meum" | ecce |
| "lives in the shadow of passaic falls." | williams |
"baghdad-on-the-subway" | o. henry |
| "a dust whom england bore, shaped, made aware" | soldier |
| "the aleph." | borges |
| "upon the burning of [her] house." | verse |
| " and closes with a " | sunflower sutra |
| "cut off the telephone" | auden |
| "why i am a fatality" | ecce |
| "how one becomes what one is." | ecce |
| rupert brooke | soldier |
| "the sailor lad" | tennyson |
| "this be" | verse |
| "come buy our orchard fruits / come buy, come buy." | frost |
| "babushka" | plath |
| "jill goes down on her back." | auden |
| "fugue" | death |
| sartor resartus | carlyle |
| edward estlin cummings | cummings |
| " was written by this poet. in another poem, he describes a " | ginsberg |
| " which he refers to as " | ginsberg |
| "saboteur," | plath |
| scrabble with the commander | atwood |
| offred in the handmaid | atwood |
| breakfast of champions | vonnegut |
| edwin arlington robinson | richard cory |
| "i mete and dole / unequal laws unto a savage race," | tennyson |
| "incident" | suicide |
| "the band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light" | baseball |
| "you ain't gonna be able to say a word / if i land my fist on you." | landlord |
| "in fairly good translation," | sophocles |
| moira at jezebel | atwood |
| "merely told the unhappy present to recite the past like a poetry lesson." | freud |
| you know me al | baseball |
| winter by canadian | greek |
| kokoro by natsume soseki | suicide |
| saadat hasan manto | indian independence |
| "listens close to your sweet speaking / and lovely laughing" | greek |
| "where the beggars raffle the banknotes" | auden |
| "the entertainment," | infinite jest |
| shao hao | mulberry |
| geoscience research institute at loma linda university | seventh-day adventist |
| uqbar | borges |
"wish fulfillment" | freud |
| salinas valley | steinbeck |
| "dragged diana from her car" | poe |
psychology of the unconscious | jung |
| "archetype," | jung |
| "sextus molestus," | ecce |
| "dare you see a soul at the white heat?" | dickinson |
| "o, well for the fisherman's boy" | tennyson |
| dionysian in the birth of tragedy | nietzsche |
| battista | calvino |
| in on heroes | carlyle |
| ricarimpex | leech |
| under ariel roth | seventh-day adventist |
| "all humanity is now involved in a great controversy between christ and satan regarding the character of god." | seventh-day adventist |
| "like air." | lady lazarus |
| "not god but a swastika" | nazi |
| joel harrison knox | other voices, other rooms |
| "ride a watersmooth-silver stallion" | cummings |
| "ulysses." | tennyson |
| jack keefe | baseball |
| "gives / immortal youth to mortal maids." | verse |
| "blank" | verse |
| "a thousand screams the heavens smote; / and every scream tore through my throat." | renascence |
| fauchelevent | les miserables |
| frisco | sunflower sutra |
| blake.saw | howl |
| "ballad" | landlord |
| "drowned" | concentration camp |
| "where is god now?" | concentration camp |
| "every profound spirit needs a mask." | nietzsche |
| humbaba in the cedar forest | gilgamesh |
| dhanvantari | leech |
| "a message from the emperor." | kafka |
| "i have been happy - and i love the theme" | poe |
| " flower with a " | sunflower sutra |
| "romani" | ecce |
| "fauna of the night," | freud |
| "put away / my labor and my leisure too / for his civility." | dickinson |
| titorelli | kafka |
| "so musically wells." | helen |
| 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 |
| "sad lexicon," | baseball |
| "tapping at my chamber door" | poe |
| "temple in which living pillars / sometimes give voice to confused words," | correspondences |
| " it opens " | sunflower sutra |
| "the clocks had ceased their chiming, / and the deep river ran on" | auden |
| "put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves" | auden |
| when lucy | dracula |
| whitby | dracula |
| "revaluation of all values," | nietzsche |
| pegeen mike | playboy of the western world |
| m. bechade | leech |
| "principal conclusions" | mueller report |
| "fire and ice." | frost |
| in a christmas | henry |
| "i shall never get you put together entirely" | plath |
| the widow | indian independence |
| "there is sweet music here that softer falls / than petals from blown roses on the grass." | tennyson |
| sonezaki | suicide |
| "that fearful sound of 'fire' and 'fire'," | verse |
| "walking down bristol street." | auden |
| "come as a master from deutschland." | death |
| gullinbursti | boar |
| year of the flood | atwood |
| we were in auschwitz | concentration camp |
| oisin | aging |
| increase and cotton | mather |
| wonderboy | baseball |
| own me in belle reve penitentiary | harley |
| victor zsasz | harley |
| crimson hexagon | borges |
| "this is what you cannot understand." | rumi |
| "real or fancied indifference of some man or woman i love." | song of mysel |
| president of liberia | johnson |
| "i loafe and invite my soul, / i lean and loafe at my ease." | song of mysel |
| svyatogor | ilya |
| "from which gentlemen are not excluded." | bierce |
| "an aged man is but a paltry thing / a tattered coat upon a stick," | yeats |
| "the cow, the old cow, she is dead," | housman |
| "what passing-bells for those who die as cattle?" | owen |
| john wheelwright | baseball |
| "it is a fatal mistake ever to offer resistance to people who are stronger than ourselves." | maupassant |
| "let us sleep now," | owen |
| lesley gore | harley |
| after cassandra cain | harley |
| margot robbie | harley |
| kaws | mickey |
| when charlemagne | carloman |
| james hargreaves | spinning jenny |
| "judge gives negro 90 days in county jail." | landlord |
| "why swell'st thou then?" | death |
| "so there stood matthew arnold and this girl." | hecht |
| "heard [the eternal note of sadness] on the aegean." | sophocles |
| elisabeth forster | nietzsche |
| renee montoya | harley |
| "after that hunky wayne guy." | harley |
| william of malmesbury | arthur |
| "mighty" | baseball |
| ace chemicals | harley |
| "the horseman in the sky" | bierce |
| "no mockeries... no prayers nor bells." | owen |
| joker | harley |
| vortigern | merlin |
| shrewsbury | housman |
| peter in central park | albee |
| "the fury and the mire of human veins" | yeats |
| winding stair | yeats |
| companion | mickey |
| "no vulgar assassin" | bierce |
| "i sought a theme, and sought for it in vain," | yeats |
| "i witness and wait," | song of mysel |
| black mask | harley |
| "the world as the world's not." | housman |
| you don | harley |
| lou | harley |
| bryansk forest | ilya |
| el culebron | snake |
| yvain | knights of the round table |
| "thruster holding me tight" | song of mysel |
| "never giggled or planned or cried" | brooks |
| in the time of the butterflies | alvarez |
| "on moonlit heath and lonesome bank." | housman |
| "drawing-down of blinds" | owen |
| "coming of age in the usa." | alvarez |
| "tan man." | brooks |
| "emancipation." | harley |
| textus receptus | erasmus |
| "interpreting" | rumi |
| "think of sweet and chocolate" | brooks |
| "fabius." | dickinson |
| "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 |
| "quit" | sing |
| grammar school | history boys |
| breyten breytenbach | afrikaans |
| janan | new life |
| "man at war with the hostile world." | monsters and the critics |
| "with a profound appeal" | dragon |
| "zoophagous maniac." | dracula |
| rotpeter | kafka |
| "the labyrinth." | borges |
| "in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." | yeats |
| "liberty, cherished liberty, fight thou on the side of thy defenders." | maupassant |
| "dead smile" | owen |
| in richard johnson | merlin |
| milos forman | salieri |
| madame irma | balcony |
| "all of you might be tricked as" | mandrake |
| dragon palace | aging |
| longer ending | erasmus |
| greek new testament | erasmus |
| pool of blood | akutagawa |
| "who have lived their day" | brooks |
| bud | harley |
| "holy writ." | borges |
| "the book of sand" | borges |
| british christianity | joseph |
| reinhold niebuhr | realism |
| "a lump of food that my children chewed without stopping" | ferrante |
| story of the lost child | ferrante |
| rocinante in don quixote | cervantes |
| "of poppy and cold mandrake juice" | jew of malta |
| "but oh, the clay is vile, beneath our feet, and long the mile." | sing |
| sestigers | afrikaans |
| buchi emecheta | married |
| the theater of cruelty | genet |
| when william came | invasion |
| days of abandonment | ferrante |
| paris metro | dumas |
| malindy | sing |
| dertigers | afrikaans |
| "dark side of the human soul." | balcony |
| eye view | yi |
| charles ryder in brideshead revisited | oxford |
| william le queux | invasion |
| "balloon syndrome." | hedgehog |
| "the mower." | hedgehog |
| "know one important thing" | hedgehog |
| "grins and lies...hides our cheeks and shades our eyes." | dunbar |
| hart's | questing beast |
| "grassy and wanted wear" | frost |
| ingrid jonker | afrikaans |
| flush at the casa guidi | browning |
| kenneth waltz | realism |
| callimaco | mandrake |
| alice dunbar nelson | cage |
| "must ever call" | dragon |
| innana | aphrodite |
| walter klemmer in an elfriede jelinek | piano |
| lenox avenue | hughes |
| jesse b. semple | hughes |
| room ballads | kipling |
| pacification of the primitive tribes of the lower niger | things fall apart |
| nwoye | things fall apart |
| "what's wrong with someone laughing as they tell the truth?" | horace |
| "the haunted palace," | poe |
| "wise young woman" | mandrake |
| tweede asem | afrikaans |
| peter shaffer | horse |
| oswald mosley | mitford |
| lord redesdale | mitford |
| "dialectic of inward deepening" | stages on life's way |
| oahu in hawaii | pearl harbor |
| it is | grimke |
| "the child is not dead" | afrikaans |
| aku-nna | married |
| carol rosen | balcony |
| yi sang prize | booker |
| bora chung | booker |
| cutlers | history boys |
| true confessions of an albino terrorist | afrikaans |
| katherine cornell in a rudolf breiser | browning |
| cursed bunny | booker |
| through king pellam | joseph |
| blixen | kenya |
| "jammed up against the blades" | hedgehog |
| "thirty pairs of yapping hounds." | questing beast |
| invention of morel | argentina |
| "i'm a jew. i'm small. i'm a homosexual. and i live in sheffield." | history boys |
| "hostile" | dragon |
| in the devil wears prada | streep |
| "sad breeze through the olive trees" | lorca |
| "i am prepared to die" | rivonia |
| "i believe in one god." | nicene |
| "hero's journey," | monomyth |
| "the ultimate boon." | monomyth |
| niger river | park |
| drop city | alaska |
| "aesthetic" | either/or |
| rockland | ginsberg |
| "spare us yet, lest we forget--lest we forget!" | kipling |
| "shut up and calculate!" | physic |
| "for what did knees have to receive me? for what were the breasts that i sucked?" | job |
| sage | koestler |
| "evolutionary cul-de-sacs" | panda |
| the flamingo's smile | panda |
| testimony of a thousand witnesses | grimke |
| "victor eremita." | kierkegaard |
| "deeds, not words" | denmark |
| celestial master zhang | 108 |
| muktika upanishad | 108 |
| "in vino veritas," | stages on life's way |
| "hilarius bookbinder" | kierkegaard |
| marshal hong | 108 |
| 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 |
| gopis of vrindavan | 108 |
| detlev spinell | piano |
| amleth in the gesta | denmark |
| "feet beating out" | dream |
| judge of the nations | kipling |
| "among twenty snowy mountains" | stevens |
| "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 |
| "comforters" | job |
| chris packham | panda |
| ned rise | park |
| "a barren field frozen with snow" | dream |
| "time" | borges |
| fritjof capra | physic |
| "i'll never do that again, i promise!" | job |
| "yclept" | spenser |
| world wrestling federation | panda |
| "poking among the meats" | ginsberg |
| charles grosvenor osgood | spenser |
| pulitzer for tales of the south pacific | michener |
| julia quinn | bridgerton |
| "(i think i made you up inside my head.)" | plath |
| "recessional" | kipling |
| "ten thousand" | daffodil |
| fair pay act | mcdaniel |
| edward l. greenstein | job |
| judith martin | manners |
| "loved a thunderbird instead" | plath |
| "barely daring to breathe or achoo" | plath |
| "beauty of inflections" | stevens |
| "i believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things..." | visible and |
| spike jonze | adaptation |
| "listen closely" | dream |
| the sharper's cards | borges |
| brian epstein | liverpool |
| "hand-switching" | manners |
| orchid thief | adaptation |
| " for 10 points each: henry wadsworth longfellow started his poem about this person with the line " | revere |
| susan orlean in adaptation | streep |
| "who killed the pork chops?" | ginsberg |
| "absent soul," | lorca |
| "toward heaven still." | tree |
| "dream of baboons and periwinkles." | stevens |
| "imagine golden birds." | stevens |
| nicene creed in english | visible and |
| in eugene peterson | job |
| "sung me moon-struck." | plath |
| "i will not see it!" | lorca |
| "what makes you look so white?" | kipling |
| segou | park |
| carlos danieri | borges |
| "out-did the sparkling waves in glee" | daffodil |
| jean page | bridgerton |
| "wichita vortex sutra," | ginsberg |
| "like rotten meat" | dream |
| "goatskin water-bag" | kipling |
| oceanographic institution | woods hole |
| "jocund company," | daffodil |
| rhimes | bridgerton |
| "beauty of innuendoes" | stevens |
| "three [of these things] for muster mark," | quark |
| act of creation | koestler |
| grassmann's law | sanskrit |
| "the stars go waltzing out in blue and red" | plath |
| "happy beat." | dream |
| "all things are watching her and she cannot see them" | lorca |
| "eternal note of sadness" | arnold |
| "ayckbourn" | alan |
| jane fairfax | knightley |
| "artificial wilderness," | auden |
| when the loam | butler |
| stevens in kazuo ishiguro | butler |
| "suppers" | burns |
| "revolutionary act" | midnight's children |
| "blood-shod," | owen |
| "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 |
| "thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." | eliot |
| "equal to [these beings]." | deities |
| "sweet city" | arnold |
| "hatter" | mad |
| "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 |
| cincinnati bengals | brown |
| "crusoe in england." | daffodil |
| world war ii in a markus zusak | book |
| wes mckinney | panda |
| "lonesome man in kansas." | ginsberg |
| "the bliss of what?" | daffodil |
| "the single artificer of the world" | stevens |
| "ram of pride" | owen |
| "time, not corydon, hath conquer'd" | arnold |
| thais by menander | corinth |
| "and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise." | if |
| "sky like lead," | auden |
| admirable crichton | butler |
| thenarrator | poe |
| "of the knees" | midnight's children |
| sensibilityandprideandprejudice | austen |
| "thyrsis" | arnold |
| "dignity" | butler |
| kilmarnock volume | burns |
| times square on new years | burns |
| "vulture-like" | poe |
| "heroine whom no one but [the author] will like" | emma |
| "marble, well-governed cities." | auden |
| larry kramer | auden |
| "the stars threw down their spears" | blake |
| "the parable of the old man and the young" | owen |
| "white legs disappearing into the green" | auden |
| "did he smile his work to see?" | blake |
| j. m. barrie's | butler |
| "nice seeing your honest, chubby face" | burns |
| research in the southern | ross |
| "wailing shells" | owen |
| sundarban | midnight's children |
| "half the seed of europe" | owen |
| "drunk with fatigue" | owen |
| "orisons" | owen |
| "brueghel's icarus" | auden |
| "pressing lidless eyes" | eliot |
| "invocation" | deities |
| absurd person singular | alan |
| olive branch petition | dickinson |
| "purple with green rings," | stevens |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| "one day, i'll write about [these things] like we own them." | flowers |
| year of magical thinking | didion |
| captain flint | chest |
| silia | rules of the game |
| seven books on the structure of the human body | vesalius |
| legrand | chest |
| "the comedian as the letter c." | stevens |
| georges duroy | maupassant |
| "what [she has] suffered and why [she is] calling out." | deities |
| saint frideswide | chest |
| "the father of the green revolution." | norwegian |
| teri | hubbard |
| six characters | rules of the game |
| apollo stars | hubbard |
| identity card | darwish |
| etgar keret | israel |
| britishschoolboys | lord of the flies |
| modernhebrew | israel |
| lane company | chest |
| "opensesame." | scheherazade |
| thorn birds | outback |
| "s.c." | outback |
| noor hindi | flowers |
| blue nights | didion |
| svoss | outback |
| like nicolaus copernicus | padua |
| prairie madness | norwegian |
| birds of america | audubon |
| pirandello | rules of the game |
| themisfit | o'connor |
| "you knew, didn't you? i'm part of you," | lord of the flies |
| ablackwoman | o'connor |
| cassimafter | scheherazade |
| ralph de bricassart | outback |
| "children throwing rocks at israeli tanks / seconds before becoming [these things]" | flowers |
| "don't tread on me." | gadsden |
| giants in the earth | norwegian |
| no smoking | o'connor |
| "i've lost a whole day over these people!" | six characters in search of an author |
| eli lilly | insulin |
| barry mcstay | bats |
| vespertilio | bats |
| bonus genentech | insulin |
| inthe libationbearers | clytemnestra |
| lots of goto | basic |
| "spaghetti code" | basic |
| " for 10 points each: name these animals, one of which represented winfield scott's plan to " | snake |
| "from dawn to dark" | audubon |
| "friendshipandpleasure" | li |
| russian at waindell college | nabokov |
| charleskinbote | nabokov |
| "bee-loud glade," | lake isle of innisfree |
| "meek." | wife of bath |
| "when chapman billies leave the street," | burns |
| rachel lynde | anne of green gables |
| aunt jimmy | bluest eye |
| "bring in the wine" | li |
| alisonbechdel | fun home |
| "don't panic!" | hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy |
| satanicverses | india |
| gibreel | india |
| "my love is like a red red rose." | burns |
| haleasks | john |
| pecola breedlove | bluest eye |
| "powhatan's daughter." | brooklyn |
| "dazzling red glare" | meursault |
| "quiet nightthought" | li |
| lucy maud montgomery | anne of green gables |
| kitsune | inari |
| soaphead church | bluest eye |
| "men, forgive him, for he knows not what he has done." | jesus |
| killsan | meursault |
| anjum | roy |
| "greenleaf" | o'connor |
| meggie cleary | outback |
| travelsacross | outback |
| i. keynes | liquid |
| elizabeth-jane | wife selling |
| lafayette ronald hubbard | hubbard |
| percival wemys madison | lord of the flies |
| in shinto | white |
| "how many dawns, chill from his rippling rest" | brooklyn |
| danny | brooklyn |
| "letter to a young lady in" | paris |
| "a pool of moon bright" | li |
| "discover thesecond face hidden behind the one you see" | kierkegaard |
| "lusty bachelor," | wife of bath |
| maginot line | bluest eye |
| "a soft inland murmur." | river |
| "there's a remedy for everything exceptdeath" | sancho |
| peer gyntsuite | morning mood |
| "bowing my head, i think of home." | li |
| pale firewho | nabokov |
| "flood-tidebelow me!" | brooklyn |
| missstacy | anne of green gables |
| "bosom friend" | anne of green gables |
| andrea in cortazar | paris |
| orandfear | kierkegaard |
| butt the hoopoe | india |
| kahani | india |
| "aye, naked! and the wind, god's icy wind, will blow!" | john |
| "caballero de la triste figura" | sancho |
| williamshakespeare | england |
| "heart with pleasure fills / and dances with" | daffodil |
| bridge | brooklyn |
| "singing wildly" | li |
| constantinconstantius | kierkegaard |
| "far and wee." | cummings |
| "defunct" | cummings |
| intintern abbey | river |
| avonlea on prince edward island | anne of green gables |
| bonus have | nadsat |
| "here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud" | cummings |
| "wee,sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie." | burns |
| georgie | nadsat |
| "cries of hate" | meursault |
| "how can i turn from [this place] and live?" | africa |
| simonpilkings | soyinka |
| frenchprofessor | nabokov |
| "to amouse" | burns |
| hisgeorgics | vergilius |
| "they'll come for wool and go back shorn" | sancho |
| orgonhides | moliere |
| arab in albert camus | meursault |
| "adrift in the void" | death and the king's horseman |
| "carrots." | anne of green gables |
| "a lump of vanity" | john |
| reuven | brooklyn |
| cheever | john |
| dim andbillyboy | nadsat |
| 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 |
| botany of desire | pollan |
| "continuity of parks." | cortazar |
| thisthinker | kierkegaard |
| dick | bluest eye |
| "how choose/between [this place] and the englishtongue i love?" | africa |
| thisauthor | burns |
| "the fairy queen." | anne of green gables |
| "you love me yet!" | john |
| "hell," | naraka |
| adam trask | east of eden |
| akawabata | snow |
| bagheera | jungle book |
| "bingen on the rhine" | the open boat |
| "i count religion but a childish toy." | marlowe |
| kyot | eco |
| handfulof dustwrotebrideshead revisited | waugh |
| "twenty-eight young men" | song of myself |
| playa | chekhov |
| maggieand brickfeud with big daddy | williams |
| "my fatherland or my headscarf," | snow |
| "kill all yuppies" | american psycho |
| "the shieldofachilles" | auden |
| "new norwegian" | bokmal |
| "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." | song of myself |
| "philosophical chapters." | war and peace |
| "exchange [these people] and eat them." | child |
| "the white seal" | jungle book |
| yohr | human |
| "an affirming flame." | auden |
| "ironic pointsof light" | auden |
| piskarev | nevsky prospekt |
| castorand | swans |
| aunt sissy | brooklyn |
| "we will drown away the woes of ten thousand generations." | li |
| messengerand baal | india |
| twobenedictine | sancho |
| "for a long time, i went to bed early" | in search of lost time |
| flopsy | peter |
| necip | snow |
| "theantichrist" | war and peace |
| alp arslan | anatolia |
| sword of honorand | waugh |
| "who wouldnot live long." | auden |
| ostnorsk | bokmal |
| "there is nowhere finer than" | nevsky prospekt |
| "i am large, i contain multitudes" | song of myself |
| "inverts," | in search of lost time |
| balbec | in search of lost time |
| "the procreant urge of the world." | song of myself |
| "twenty-eight years of womanlylife." | song of myself |
| "no-neck monsters" | williams |
| "honor your superior!" | machine |
| "the ballad of the harp weaver." | millay |
| "this is notan exit." | american psycho |
| serebrakov | uncle vanya |
| archaic greek | kouroi |
| norn skuld | valkyrie |
| thelighthouse | painter |
| "puts out moresexual vibes than" | flo |
| persian emperorthat | marlowe |
| anna scherer | war and peace |
| huey lewis | american psycho |
| harold carnes | american psycho |
| "blind skyscrapers" | auden |
| "waffles" | uncle vanya |
| sonia | uncle vanya |
| charles morel | in search of lost time |
| vinteuil sonata | in search of lost time |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| gunnr | valkyrie |
| geico | flo |
| "dies like a dog" | trial |
| theabidharma-kosadescribes | naraka |
| licinius | horace |
| "along that pathless coast" | bryant |
| "i'se been a-climbin' on, and reachin' ladders, and turning corners" | hughes |
| carlisle | dickinson |
| "the only moving thing / was the eye of" | stevens |
| mopsy | peter |
| three sistersandthe cherry orchard | chekhov |
| "famous clairvoyante" | sosostris |
| inanother | marlowe |
| "the city and the dogs" | vargas llosa |
| wolf cub village | eating people |
| roomandgo tell it on the mountain | baldwin |
| age of anxietyand | auden |
| "winter solstice?" | snow |
| inbrideshead revisited | painter |
| marriesin | east of eden |
| "musical prodigy" | williams |
| 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 |
| balulu | ur |
| otsego hall | cooper |
| castalian order | hesse |
| "a vape shop up the street." | infinite jest |
| japanese ministry of transport | richard parker |
| "doctorates in political economy from harvard" | infinite jest |
| jamie hood | bird |
| tridentine mass | christie |
| trauma plot | bird |
| abner doubleday | cooper |
| "elephant in the room" | revolution |
| 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 |
| sehgal | woolf |
| "listen to the river." | hesse |
| "one for all and all for one." | three musketeers |
| when martin luther king | birmingham |
| "my temple, my mural, my sky." | swift |
| william bowery | swift |
| "exult o shores, and ring o bells!" | whitman |
| the panic of 1907 | interstate commerce |
| "the negro is your brother" | birmingham |
| "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 |
| tom dillion tiktok | infinite jest |
| tereus and philomela | bird |
| "young authors" | chicago |
| "twisty things" | island |
| "whose wings are dull realities." | tell-tale heart |
| "vulture eye." | tell-tale heart |
| girls of slender means | scotland |
| "a normal life among normal people." | mountain |
| "forgive me" | williams |
| "white moderate" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "beware, beware of my hunger" | palestine |
| "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 |
| "up above the water" | lorca |
| "sleepwalking ballad." | lorca |
| "the smell of coffee" | palestine |
| slop in tristram shandy | obstetrics |
| "powerful western fallen star." | whitman |
| "go pick out a white dress" | swift |
| "monster on the hill... slowly lurching toward your favorite city" | swift |
| aleksandr vershinin | three sisters |
| baseball hall of fame | cooper |
| gil scott | revolution |
| grimaud | three musketeers |
| chamberlen | obstetrics |
| "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 |
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