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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 |
laura | petrarch |
elizabeth (bennet) | pride and prejudice |
don quixote | cervantes |
tennessee williams | a streetcar named desire |
martha (no last name, play) | albee |
alice (in wonderland) | carroll |
satan | paradise lost |
percy bysshe shelley | ode to the west wind |
lesbian poet laureate of england | duffy |
miguel de cervantes | don quixote |
adam | paradise lost |
james joyce | dubliners |
lucy (lurie) | disgrace |
rosa (burger) | gordimer |
"the second coming" | yeats |
absalom, absalom! | faulkner |
joseph conrad | heart of darkness |
name of the rose | eco |
"a story of san francisco" | norris |
polish boy (tadzio) | death in venice |
milton | paradise lost |
tale of genji | murasaki shikibu |
rebecca (daughter of isaac of york) | ivanhoe |
"ode on a grecian urn" | keats |
lord byron | don juan |
ramsay (family) | to the lighthouse |
anna karenina | tolstoy |
rabbit | updike |
jane austen | emma |
ernest hemingway | the sun also rises |
"b. wordsworth" (miguel street) | naipaul |
(tom) robinson | to kill a mockingbird |
"harlem" | hughes |
tony (buddenbrook) | mann |
canterbury tales | chaucer |
ulysses | joyce |
brother jack | invisible man |
"the library of babel" | borges |
nina | the seagull |
dostoyevsky | crime and punishment |
helen of troy | faustus |
"dulce et decorum est" | owen |
allen ginsberg | howl |
lord darlington (play) | wilde |
anton chekhov | the seagull |
dickinson | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
leo tolstoy | war and peace |
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead | stoppard |
beowulf (irish translation) | heaney |
paul (baumer) | all quiet on the western front |
grendel | beowulf |
"howl" | ginsberg |
"the falcon cannot hear the falconer" | yeats |
"the necklace" | maupassant |
pangloss | candide |
"the road not taken" | frost |
goethe | sturm und drang |
ben (hitman) | the dumbwaiter |
richard (spouse) | mrs dalloway |
"mending wall" | frost |
jean valjean | les miserables |
"do not go gentle into that good night." | thomas |
orgon | tartuffe |
edgar allan poe | the raven |
brave new world | huxley |
things fall apart | achebe |
omar khayyam | rubaiyat |
"rage, rage against the dying of the light" | thomas |
dante | divine comedy |
julia (lover) | winston (smith) |
candide | voltaire |
miss julie | strindberg |
"old age should burn and rave" | thomas |
"ariel" | plath |
okonkwo | achebe |
gus (robber friend) | native son |
john the savage | brave new world |
carl solomon | howl |
| george name | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
"sailing to byzantium" | yeats |
"daddy" | plath |
nick (no last name, play) | albee |
magic mountain | mann |
winston smith | o'brien |
sam (samela) | "master harold"...and the boys |
ophelia | hamlet |
clara (del valle) | allende |
emma | austen |
eliza doolittle | shaw |
eugene onegin | pushkin |
henry higgins | shaw |
sophocles | antigone |
oscar wilde | the picture of dorian gray |
twenty love poems and a song of despair | neruda |
"an occurrence at owl creek bridge" | bierce |
to the lighthouse | woolf |
vladimir nabokov | lolita |
leaves of grass | whitman |
faust | goethe |
turgenev | a sportsman's sketches |
e. m. forster | a passage to india |
o. henry | "conscience in art" |
"the garden of forking paths" | borges |
moby-dick | melville |
john donne | holy sonnets |
ezra pound (translation) | li bai |
i know why the caged bird sings | angelou |
"the weary blues" | langston hughes |
harlem renaissance | langston hughes |
jean-paul sartre | no exit |
jerry (no last name, play) | albee |
gustave flaubert | madame bovary |
the labyrinth of solitude | paz |
"beauty is truth, truth beauty" | keats |
gitanjali | tagore |
"i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" | howl |
della | the gift of the magi |
amina | mahfouz |
euripides | medea |
lysistrata | aristophanes |
"i wandered lonely as a cloud." | wordsworth |
| castle | king |
william of baskerville | the name of the rose |
death in venice | mann |
thomas gray | "elegy written in a country churchyard" |
metamorphoses | ovid |
john steinbeck | of mice and men |
carlos fuentes (country) | mexico |
the crucible | miller |
the human comedy (la comedie humaine) | balzac |
sister carrie | dreiser |
ambrose bierce (country, bierce as a character) | mexico |
ruth (play character, wife of teddy) | pinter |
kurt vonnegut | slaughterhouse-five |
one hundred years of solitude | gabriel garcia marquez |
stage manager | our town |
"ball of fat" | maupassant |
| janice | updike |
canto general | neruda |
| "he sang his didn't he danced his did." | cummings |
| robin hood | scarlet |
| bishop | robinson |
elmire | moliere |
| guy holmes | suicide |
| "captain" | whitman |
| lennie small | of mice and men |
blood wedding | federico garcia lorca |
sherlock holmes (author) | doyle |
| nobel prize in literature | china |
| easter monday | angelou |
sancho panza | don quixote |
"in you everything sank!" | neruda |
| decameron | boccaccio |
"the garden party" (new zealand) | mansfield |
| much ado about nothing | shakespeare |
"good fences make good neighbors" | frost |
| john wheeler | sister carrie |
huckleberry finn | twain |
"nevermore" | the raven |
| midsummer night | oberon |
| oskar matzerath | tin drum |
| carl sandburg | chicago |
| vera | saki |
henry fleming | red badge of courage |
| lord tennyson | lady of |
the maltese falcon | hammett |
| king creon | antigone |
| "titan" | prometheus |
| ivanhoe | scott |
| "a good man is hard to find." | o'connor |
| gessler | schiller |
| raisin in the sun | hansberry |
"slouches towards bethlehem to be born." | yeats |
| siddhartha gautama | hesse |
| krogstad | doll |
| old english | beowulf |
prior walter | angels in america |
cairo trilogy | mahfouz |
humbert humbert | lolita |
| john keats | beauty |
| horace | dulce et decorum est |
henry james | the turn of the screw |
| sylvia | bell jar |
| guildenstern | stoppard |
| younger | raisin in the sun |
| maria | mansfield park |
king duncan | macbeth |
krapp's last tape | beckett |
| myrtle | great gatsby |
| "dubliners" | joyce |
"hell is other people" | sartre |
"the legend of sleepy hollow" | washington irving |
| conradin | heart of darkness |
| christopher marlowe | chapman |
flora | the turn of the screw |
| rudyard kipling | jungle book |
oxford | hardy |
| tweedledum | through the looking glass |
| jorge luis borges | argentina |
| estha | india |
| "in a grove" | akutagawa |
| colonel pickering | shaw |
| virginia woolf | room of one's own |
| gualtieri 's | griselda |
| unbearable lightness of being | kundera |
miles | the turn of the screw |
griselda | the decameron |
| chaucer | canterbury tales |
| "the waste land" | eliot |
"ars poetica" | horace |
lockwood | wuthering heights |
| henrik ibsen | doll's |
| tea cake | hurston |
| e. t. a. hoffmann | hoffmann |
| "rip van winkle" | irving |
| cordelia | lear |
| derek freeman | mead |
| kitty | tolstoy |
| madame bovary | flaubert |
| narrow road to the deep north | matsuo |
| holocaust | schindler's ark |
| bertha | edward |
ray bradbury | fahrenheit 451 |
| daphne | apollo |
"death, be not proud" | donne |
| poe | purloined letter |
| "belle of amherst" | dickinson |
| oresteia | aeschylus |
| eve | milton |
alfred (father) | the tin drum |
| aeschylus | aristophanes |
| abigail | crucible |
| "gatsby" | fitzgerald |
| edward king | milton |
| black iris | chase |
| gabriel conroy | dead |
uncle tom | simon (legree) |
| holy sonnets | donne |
the sorrows of young werther | goethe |
| bald soprano | ionesco |
| the handmaid's tale | atwood |
| "the white man's burden." | kipling |
"still unravish'd bride of quietness" | keats |
| "we real cool" | brooks |
| federal theatre project | anderson |
one thousand and one nights | arabic |
les miserables | hugo |
| emily dickinson | death |
| simon | lord of the flies |
| "death" | hephaestus |
| phillip larkin | this be the verse |
| will ladislaw | middlemarch |
| robert putnam | crucible |
| ravana | sanskrit |
| lydia languish | sheridan |
| cummings | death |
| antoinette cosway | rhys |
| picture of dorian grey | wilde |
| lucius | golden ass |
"what happens to a dream deferred?" | hughes |
general arroyo | the old gringo |
"i, too, sing america." | langston hughes |
| "do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?" | our town |
| post office | tagore |
| "gimpel the fool." | singer |
giovanni boccaccio | decameron |
| davies | pinter |
| jude the obscure | hardy |
| "slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men," | donne |
| robert frost | difference |
lu xun | china |
| don juan | byron |
on the road | kerouac |
| yukio mishima | temple of the golden pavilion |
| hector hyppolite | achilles |
| gabriel garcia marquez | one hundred years of solitude |
| heathcliff | wuthering heights |
"grace" | dubliners |
| janie | mule |
thomas keneally | australia |
| new orleans | confederacy of |
| portrait of the artist | joyce |
| superman | shaw |
| les fleurs | baudelaire |
| ted hughes | plath |
| troy maxson | fences |
| "the emperor of ice-cream." | stevens |
little women | alcott |
| agamemnon | aegisthus |
| hans castorp | mann |
| one of murakami | beatles |
| vanity fair | thackeray |
| finnegans wake | joyce |
| foucault | eco |
arthur jarvis | cry, the beloved country |
| song of hiawatha | longfellow |
| leon | beatrice |
| naguib mahfouz | egypt |
| dream of the red chamber | china |
| mary agnes | testaments |
| sargasso sea | rhys |
"to a skylark" | percy bysshe shelley |
| interpreter of maladies | lahiri |
| "fair lined slippers for the cold" | marlowe |
| pygmalion | shaw |
| harriet | maupassant |
| probably vishnu | turtle |
| tituba | crucible |
| night journey | o'neill |
| "lady lazarus" | plath |
"she walks in beauty" | lord byron |
| house of the spirits | allende |
| edmund | mansfield park |
| to kill a mockingbird | lee |
"rashomon" | akutagawa |
"hog butcher for the world" | chicago |
| nikolai gogol | nose |
| northanger abbey | austen |
"song of myself" | whitman |
| ruth leonard | harry |
| childe harold | byron |
| bellerophon | iobates |
| "the paths of glory lead but to the grave" | gray |
| cherry orchard | chekhov |
| kamala | hesse |
six characters in search of an author | pirandello |
| ted | adichie |
| dresden | slaughterhouse-five |
| gustav von aschenbach | mann |
volpone | jonson |
| harry | snows of |
| gonzolo | artemio |
| evangeline | longfellow |
| colosseum | james |
| "to his coy mistress." | marvell |
| "everything that rises must converge" | o'connor |
| "i was young and easy under apple boughs" | thomas |
| sigmund freud | jung |
| "that is no country for old men" | yeats |
| balzac | zola |
"the tyger" | blake |
| il canzoniere | petrarch |
cunegonde | candide |
| richard wright | native |
| julian | o'connor |
| langston hughes | raisin in the sun |
| "sonnet: to science." | poe |
| ivan | alyosha |
| alyosha | the brothers |
| voltaire | candide |
| cain | grendel |
george hurstwood | dreiser |
| columbus | roth |
| ozymandias | shelley |
| cousin bette | balzac |
| orson welles | detective |
"a swelling of the ground" | because i could not stop for death |
| "a b b a, a b b a" | petrarch |
| in search of lost time | proust |
| "quiet night thought" | li |
| keats | ode |
"ode to a nightingale" | keats |
| "elegy written in a country churchyard" | gray |
| styx | achilles |
"and death shall have no dominion" | thomas |
| peer gynt | ibsen |
| "felt a funeral" | dickinson |
| nettie | color purple |
| imaginary invalid | moliere |
| portnoy | roth |
| society of the tower | goethe |
| ministry of truth | winston |
| chinua achebe | things fall apart |
| up bird chronicle | murakami |
goneril | king lear |
| jaluka | cairo |
| marcus chalfen | smith |
| "the raven." | poe |
| olga tokarczuk | polish |
alan paton | cry, the beloved country |
| hermes | lyre |
| "moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" | rubaiyat |
madame forestier | the necklace |
| murder of gonzago | stoppard |
| billy budd | melville |
| nora helmer | doll's |
| matthew arnold | dover beach |
| zoo story | albee |
| puck | midsummer night's dream |
miss gostrey | the ambassadors |
| hero | beatrice |
| captain robert walton | frankenstein |
| "but at my back i always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near." | "to his coy mistress" |
| native son | wright |
| berenger | rhinoceros |
"a man in black with a meinkampf look." | plath |
| claudio | much ado about |
| jungle book | kipling |
104th (squad) | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| stephen dedalus | joyce |
| eleanor | doll's house |
| old gringo | bierce |
| t. e. lawrence | lady chatterley's lover |
| norris | mansfield park |
| nathanael | hoffmann |
| "tintern abbey." | wordsworth |
| "vanished into the clouds." | murasaki |
patrick white | australia |
| estragon | waiting for |
| buddenbrooks | mann |
| settembrini | magic mountain |
the mysterious island | verne |
| j. d. salinger | glass |
| guy montag | fahrenheit 451 |
| cleopatra | all for love |
| muriel spark | salinger |
| hamlet | polonius |
| haruki murakami | japan |
catherine earnshaw | wuthering heights |
| marylou | denver |
| aston | pinter |
| bell jar | plath |
| dumb waiter | pinter |
| franz | schiller |
| "deaths for all ages and occasions! deaths by suspension, convulsion, consumption, incision, execution, asphyxiation and malnutrition!" | rosencrantz |
| athol fugard | south |
| lizzie | goblin market |
| irina | checkhov |
| nathan zuckerman | roth |
| jonathan swift | lemuel |
| "week of peace" | achebe |
lily briscoe | to the lighthouse |
teddy (play character, husband of ruth) | pinter |
| daisy | ionesco |
mother courage and her children | brecht |
| salman rushdie | midnight's children |
rocinante | don quixote |
| saint sebastian | o'connor |
mary dalton | native son |
a handful of dust | waugh |
grover's corners | our town |
| "vie" | buchenwald |
| other stories | new zealand |
| fra pandolf | browning |
| our town | wilder |
| merope | oedipus |
| aegeus | minotaur |
| magid iqbal | smith |
| twenty thousand leagues under the sea | verne |
| crying of lot | pynchon |
| tyrone slothrop | pynchon |
| vladimir | waiting for |
| maus | spiegelman |
demian | hesse |
| tin drum | grass |
| bobby | lahiri |
| "a madman's diary" | lu |
| invisible man | paint |
| darcy | wickham |
| blanche | streetcar named desire |
| washington irving | sleepy hollow |
| orleanna price | poisonwood bible |
| dog years in the danzig trilogy | grass |
| hally | kite |
| "broken-winged bird / that cannot fly" | dream |
| norman mailer | kennedy |
| war and peace | tolstoy |
| italo calvino | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| bernard rieux | plague |
| middlemarch | eliot |
| imagist | williams |
| carver | esquire |
| beatrice | much ado about |
the god of small things | arundhati roy |
stella (kowalski) | a streetcar named desire |
| kilgore trout | vonnegut |
| pequod | moby-dick |
| "a supermarket in california." | ginsberg |
| jesuit leo naphta | mann |
| pamela | richardson |
| "old man" | hemingway |
jia baoyu | dream of the red chamber |
| borges | argentina |
| sophie | haiti |
| bertie wooster | jeeves |
| endgame | beckett |
| right logic | clouds |
treasure island | stevenson |
| "the red wheelbarrow" | williams |
| lorca | duende |
| gulliver | swift |
| "strike" | fences |
| temple of the golden pavilion | mishima |
| "fern hill." | thomas |
| "they send to eat in the kitchen / when company comes." | hughes |
| "each man kills the thing he loves" | wilde |
| tereza | kundera |
| "burning bright, in the forest of the night" | blake |
| lolita | nabokov |
| cavalier | herrick |
| ludmilla | calvino |
| sea of fertility | mishima |
| "the day of the dead" | dubliners |
| william tell | schiller |
| pedro camacho | vargas |
| "the negro speaks of rivers." | hughes |
| welsh | thomas |
| "little cat feet." | fog |
| monkswell manor | christie |
| portrait of a woman | james |
| steppenwolf | hesse |
| "when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed." | lincoln |
| william faulkner | as i lay dying |
| enkidu | bull |
| addie | as i lay dying |
| mayella ewell | to kill a mockingbird |
| "this is just to say." | williams |
| "half a league" | tennyson |
| linda | house |
| harry hickman | iceman cometh |
| heart of darkness | conrad |
| george orwell | 1984 |
| "we must love one another or die" | auden |
| pearl | scarlet letter |
| paradise | fir |
| "a vast image out of spiritus mundi." | yeats |
| "the lamb" | blake |
| plath | mother |
| "glazed with rain / water" | red wheelbarrow |
| scott | mansfield |
| "annabel lee" | poe |
| scarlet letter | hawthorne |
| "eye-am" | bellerophon |
| melanie isaacs | disgrace |
| of mice | steinbeck |
| wuthering heights | heathcliff |
| "in the penal colony." | kafka |
| catherine morland | austen |
| tessie hutchinson | lottery |
| "the lottery." | jackson |
| algeria | camus |
| peeling the onion | grass |
| brewer | harry |
| celia | middlemarch |
| william h. parker | tiger |
| mick | pinter |
| mixing it up | pirandello |
| robert burns | rose |
| madame pace | six characters in search of an author |
| "what mighty contests rise from trivial things" | rape of the lock |
| eden | milton |
| stradlater | holden |
| "i sing the body electric" | leaves of grass |
| "why i live at the p.o." | welty |
| "stay where you are until our backs are turned" | mending wall |
| the birds | aristophanes |
| sun wukong | journey to the west |
| derek walcott | odyssey |
| yohl | thor |
konstantin levin | anna karenina |
| akaky akakievich | overcoat |
| running man | king |
| under milk wood | thomas |
| cory | wilson |
| "the nose." | gogol |
| dean moriarty | on the road |
| "because i could not stop for death." | dickinson |
| joe louis | all my sons |
| miranda | old gringo |
| mowgli | jungle book |
| jeeves | wodehouse |
| joseph grand | plague |
anna akhmatova | russian |
| pahome | tolstoy |
| peneus | daphne |
| "a far cry from africa" | walcott |
| pushkin | tsar saltan |
| an american tragedy | dreiser |
| hester prynne | scarlet letter |
| montaigne | cyrano de bergerac |
| "monsieur madeleine" | coin |
one day in the life of ivan denisovich | solzhenitsyn |
| ralph waldo emerson | forster |
| dead | stoppard |
| elysian fields | aeneid |
| brothers karamazov | akutagawa |
| richard bachman | king |
| temple of the fire baptized | baldwin |
| konstantin | seagull |
| though neruda | chile |
| bazarov | turgenev |
| "white teeth" | smith |
| "i am." | albee |
| "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" | albee |
| kurtz | heart of darkness |
| rodolphe | madame bovary |
| buck | buck |
| "funny they don't see us." | crane |
| robinson crusoe | defoe |
| baron thunder | candide |
| josef k | kafka |
| dorothea brooke | middlemarch |
| big boy | wright |
| yu tsun | borges |
roy cohn | angels in america |
| bernard shaw | salvation army |
| charlotte | goethe |
| "i'm with you in rockland." | howl |
| kemal | cairo |
edward albee | who's afraid of virginia woolf? |
| umuofia | things fall apart |
| paul laurence dunbar | maya |
| tadzio | mann |
| "the tower" | yeats |
| weimar | schiller |
| eugene o'neill's | rubaiyat |
| judith | night of |
| john dryden | jonson |
| sir arthur conan doyle | sherlock |
| pallas athena | aegis |
| macondo | one hundred years of solitude |
| stephen kumalo | cry, the beloved country |
| doctor zhivago | pasternak |
| stevens | butler |
| kiss of the spider woman | argentina |
| jhumpa lahiri | india |
| perseus | medusa |
| " in " | hopkins |
| bailey | thoreau |
| holderlin | nietzsche |
| g. sebald | sebald |
| "the albatross" | baudelaire |
| milly | waugh |
the catcher in the rye | salinger |
| basil hallward | wilde |
| aime cesaire | caliban |
| beloved country | paton |
| kemmerich | all quiet on the western front |
| david lurie | disgrace |
| remains of the day | butler |
| samuel beckett | waiting for |
| rama | sugriva |
| abel magwitch | great expectations |
| bride | lorca |
| bev shaw | disgrace |
| buenos aires | autobiography of red |
| septimus smith | mrs |
| "the passionate shepherd to his love." | marlowe |
| angels | kushner |
| in the popol vuh | maya |
| nicole | testaments |
| a.e. housman | shropshire lad |
| zeami | mask |
| glengarry glen ross | mamet |
| paula vogel | yiddish |
| susanin | amaterasu |
| regan | lear |
| dracula | stoker |
| desdichado | ivanhoe |
the red badge of courage | crane |
| major barbara | shaw |
| the mousetrap | christie |
| scotsman | kidnapped |
| howards end | forster |
| uncle vanya | chekhov |
| esteban | allende |
| ee-zah-nah-mee | amaterasu |
| dasharatha | ramayana |
| the sea | murdoch |
| pablo neruda | socks |
| new yorkers | auster |
| tess | hardy |
| saleem sinai | midnight's children |
| molina | puig |
| marceline | hamlet |
| "hugh selwyn mauberley," | pound |
| billy pilgrim | slaughterhouse-five |
| "unstuck in time." | slaughterhouse-five |
| sibyl vane | wilde |
the school for wives | moliere |
| octavio paz | mexico |
| basho | deep north |
| in cold blood | capote |
"great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "drinking alone by moonlight" | li |
| "anyone lived in a pretty how town" | cummings |
| death of artemio cruz | fuentes |
| "for whom the bell tolls?" | hemingway |
| johannesburg | cry, the beloved country |
smales | gordimer |
| bean eaters | brooks |
| martine | dinesen |
| "a rapture" | cavalier |
| sam shaw | soma |
| "the rape of the lock." | pope |
| brotherhood | invisible man |
| meursault | camus |
| arabian nights | galland |
| komako | kawabata |
| vivisector | australia |
| sue bridehead | jude the |
| christminster | hardy |
| "stamp" | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "hickey" | iceman cometh |
| yeats | the second coming |
| "j'accuse." | zola |
| madame odintsova | fathers and sons |
| hughes in a washington | harlem |
| toni morrison | song of solomon |
zora neale hurston | their eyes were watching god |
| gregor samsa | kafka |
| chandara | lahiri |
| paterson | williams |
| lara | doctor zhivago |
| mann | buddenbrooks |
| nathan the wise | decameron |
| frieda | kafka |
| "my soul has grown deep like the rivers." | hughes |
| my name | pamuk |
| twilight zone | bierce |
| hofmann | english |
| aunt julia | vargas |
| peyton farquar | bierce |
| nathaniel hawthorne | scarlet letter |
| belinda | pope |
| "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / are sweeter." | ode |
| oprah winfrey | morrison |
| amelia | fielding |
| mathilde loisel | maupassant |
| "miss wonderly" | maltese |
| waffen-ss | grass |
| two of the serpent players | apartheid |
| lucinda | carey |
| paul baumer | all quiet on the western front |
| "the overcoat." | gogol |
| do not say the last name when giving the answer to the first part | alyosha |
| confederacy of dunces | confederacy of |
| "thought they were only mad when baltimore gleamed in supernatural ecstasy." | howl |
| "the arena is full of blood." | escamillo |
"a novel without a hero" | vanity fair |
| " to the title " | canto |
| frederic taillefer | human comedy |
| captain nemo | nautilus |
| "do i wake or do i sleep?" | keats |
| jane eyre | reader, i married him |
their eyes were watching god | hurston |
| "his excellency, general washington" | wheatley |
| basilic | smith |
| alchemist | jonson |
| lady windermere | wilde |
| d'urbervilles | hardy |
| moliere | tartuffe |
| covent garden | eliza |
| "among school children." | yeats |
| yasin | cairo |
| francis nurse | crucible |
| "sylvan historian" | beauty |
| "jana gana mana" | india |
| kai | snow queen |
| miles archer | maltese |
| "live off the fatta the lan" | lennie |
| cujo | king |
| "better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven." | milton |
| "what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" | alice |
| "the gods have their own laws." | metamorphoses |
| "the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced." | yahoo |
| cao xuequin | dream of the red chamber |
| my life | australia |
| new journalist | wolfe |
| septimus hodge | stoppard |
| leopold bloom | ulysses |
| rua | lahiri |
| "the horror! the horror!" | heart of darkness |
| marlow | heart of darkness |
| the power | greene |
| david foster wallace | infinite jest |
| "the night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance" | twenty love poems |
| "do you know the land where the lemon-trees grow?" | goethe |
| robert o'neill | anna christie |
| tate | sheriff |
| "gunga din," | kipling |
| "what the thunder said," | eliot |
| "a better man than i am." | kipling |
| clockwork orange | burgess |
| "two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." | ozymandias |
| "rough beast" | yeats |
| wild swans at coole | yeats |
| walpurgis night | goethe |
| mordred | candle in the |
| dalloway | woolf |
| catherine | farewell to arms |
| "transcendental" | emerson |
| ernst theodor amadeus hoffmann | hoffmann |
| ka | pamuk |
| henry david thoreau | walden |
| "the open boat" | crane |
| "my last duchess," | browning |
| "may i for my own self song's truth reckon, / journey's jargon." | old english |
| sal paradise | on the road |
| peter carey | australia |
| neeth | raisin in the sun |
| antigone | oedipus |
| count vronsky | anna |
| titanic | hardy |
| emmeline | simon |
| charles wilcox | forster |
| "sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on" | fog |
| receiver of memory | giver |
| gravity's rainbow | pynchon |
| the awakening | confederacy of |
| choh | hurston |
| anchises | aeneid |
| glass menagerie | williams |
| "this is the saddest story i have ever heard." | good soldier |
| "what's it going to be then, eh?" | clockwork orange |
| tomas | unbearable lightness of being |
| aesop | tortoise |
| thetis | achilles |
| joseph asagai | raisin in the sun |
| wole soyinka | death and the king's horseman |
| robert brrowning | finnegans wake |
| biff | death of a |
| gretta | dead |
| "give me your hands, if we be friends, and robin shall restore amends." | oberon |
| "to an athlete dying young," | housman |
| floyd | maltese |
| "fallen cold and dead." | o captain! my captain |
| marner | eliot |
| house on mango street | mexican |
| "think as you fight" | escamillo |
| ogilvy | winston |
| appin murder | kidnapped |
| "cherub." | alyosha |
| danvers carew | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| the and crabwalk | grass |
| oran | plague |
| "what is the grass?" | sandburg |
| gordias | south africa |
| "longed to travel or to go back to her convent. she wished at the same time to die and to live in paris." | flaubert |
| sanderling island | poisonwood bible |
| sei shonagon | pillow book |
| pyramus | mulberry |
| sanditon | austen |
| masnavi | rumi |
| "octopussy" | train |
| hotspur | falstaff |
| lorraine hansberry | raisin in the sun |
| bernardo di | hamlet |
| indiana | sand |
maxim gorky | lower depths |
| "studies of manners" | human comedy |
| english by thomas drant | ars |
| "the luck of roaring camp." | harte |
| ralph ellison | invisible man |
| "first fig" | candle |
| colley cibber | pope |
| an essay on criticism | pope |
| doc | cannery row |
| norwegian wood | murakami |
| arkady kirsanov | fathers and sons |
| "death of a traveling salesman" | miller |
| "frost" | mending wall |
| "painted ladies under the gaslamps." | sandberg |
| "very well, then, i contradict myself. / i am large, i contain multitudes." | song of myself |
| don gamalieli | artemio |
| hamiltons | steinbeck |
| esther greenwood | plath |
| iceman cometh | o'neill |
| santa fe | cather |
| "mademoiselle fifi" | maupassant |
emily bronte | wuthering heights |
| pioneer | middlemarch |
| jones very | salem |
| "digging," | heaney |
| "a traveling salesman of wines and spirits," | camus |
| cottard | camus |
| mildred | bradbury |
| a doll's house | ibsen |
| molly | great expectations |
| mechanical hound | fahrenheit 451 |
| yugen | beat |
| "i remember about the rabbits, george." | of mice and men |
| key to all mythologies | eliot |
| "and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils." | wordsworth |
| dukhiram | lahiri |
| skyfall | james |
| "dry up like a raisin in the sun." | dream |
| one of saramago | portugal |
| estella | no exit |
| jonas | giver |
| yeehats | judge |
| groh | ward number 6 |
| one flew over the cuckoo | kesey |
| atlantic monthly | lowell |
| fahmy | mahfouz |
| hesperides | herrick |
| morkan | finnegans wake |
| "rikki-tikki-tavi" | "the white man's burden" |
| master harold | fugard |
| "is not to reason why, theres is but to do and die," | charge of the light brigade |
| george and hazel | harrison bergeron |
| republic of gilead | atwood |
| angelo | tristero |
| pedro tercero | allende |
| walden two | thoreau |
| oliver twist | novel |
| sphinx | oedipus |
| john seward | abraham |
| jack gladney | white |
| darryl van horne | updike |
| seymour glass | bananafish |
| larry | tree |
| "c d e c d e" | petrarch |
| "a gown made of the finest wool" | marlowe |
| messinger | reading dickens |
| no longer at ease | achebe |
| george osborne | thackeray |
| cassy | simon |
| laputa | gulliver's travels |
| charlotte bronte | jane eyre |
| miss watson | douglas |
| "ignorant armies clash by night." | dover beach |
| lotte | goethe |
| gertrude | cry, the beloved country |
| celie | shug |
| gilberte | charles |
| pozzo | waiting for godot |
| proteus | verona |
| coming of age in samoa | mead |
| "lament for the death of a bullfighter." | lorca |
| edmund wilson | simon |
| "we are truly different. and we are truly alone." | paz |
| aomame | murakami |
| "the spider's thread." | akutagawa |
| brideshead revisited | waugh |
| rimbaud | moon |
| "rita" | machado |
| winslow homer | ars |
| dmitri | tolstoy |
| capulet | romeo and juliet |
| america is not the heart | bulosan |
| harper lee | to kill a mockingbird |
| orhan pamuk | istanbul |
| "that's our first principle--no war!" | lysistrata |
| daily telegraph | war correspondent |
| federico garcia lorca | ginsberg |
| alfred douglas | importance of being earnest |
| "it is the hour of departure" | neruda |
| thrushcross grange | wuthering heights |
| bloody chamber | fairy tale |
| clifford | waiting for lefty |
| "seize the day," | horace |
| franz kafka | penal colony |
| ars amatoria | ovid |
| elizabeth bennet in pride | pride and prejudice |
| tofano | decameron |
| "chicago." | sandburg |
| songs of innocence | blake |
| "year of the depend adult undergarment," | wallace |
| rumi | persian |
| irene | bierce |
| "if you will be faithful to me, i'll make you a great man." | xury |
| du fu | li |
| birthday party | pinter |
| valentine michael smith | heinlein |
| salem | crucible |
| "auld lang syne" | burns |
| bts | demian |
| jim o'connor | glass menag |
| "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou" | rubaiyat |
| fredrich | paul |
| mizoguchi | mishima |
| "runaround," | asimov |
| rabindranath tagore | india |
| dark forest | things fall apart |
| hurtle duffield | white |
| maastricht | d'artagnan |
"who threw potato salad at ccny lecturers on dadaism" | howl |
| georg | kafka |
| spanish golden age | lope |
| kitty hawk answer | wright |
| baron | pope |
| roy | aids |
| "anthem for doomed youth" | owen |
| "howl?" | ginsberg |
| gogol | akutagawa |
| agent fred | dick |
| "a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent!" | byron |
| "a sound of thunder." | bradbury |
| jonathan harker | dracula |
| milan kundera | czech |
| james connolly | crabbe |
| phoenix jackson | welty |
| "a valediction: forbidding mourning," | donne |
| tulsi | naipaul |
| arundhati roy | india |
| elective affinities | goethe |
| "what you've come out for then is simply to render him an immense service." | ambassadors |
| good soldier | ford |
| "before the wig and the dress coat there were rivers, arterial rivers." | canto general |
| dead zone | king |
| kafka | trial |
crime and punishment | dostoevsky |
| inferno | divine comedy |
| ser cepparello | decameron |
| colossus | wolverine |
| isle of guernsey | hugo |
| toilers of the sea | hugo |
| empire of blefuscu | lilliput |
| mildendo | lilliput |
| alex | clockwork orange |
| palace walk | cairo |
| "carpe diem," | horace |
"leda and the swan" | yeats |
| "work." | grass |
| kattrin | brecht |
| lady rowena | ivanhoe |
| "ode to joy." | schiller |
| "grass" | tin drum |
| elizabeth costello | coetzee |
| red sammy | o'connor |
| cathay | li |
| "to autumn" | keats |
| "easter, 1916." | yeats |
| maphia | saramago |
| house on eccles street | coetzee |
| aziz | passage to india |
| janie crawford | their eyes were watching god |
| robert louis stevenson | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| isabel archer | james |
| matsuo basho | haiku |
| dorothy | wordsworth |
| pontius pilate | master and margarita |
| "the open window." | saki |
| captain ahab in moby | melville |
| aloysius | brideshead revisited |
| aunt agatha | jeeves |
| cantos | pound |
| luigi | mario |
| mathilde | maupassant |
| mccann | pinter |
| william golding | lord of the flies |
| shirazi | hafez |
| "the panther" | rilke |
| mirgorod | viy |
| "mac flecknoe." | dryden |
| "the old lie." | owen |
| "the gift of the magi." | henry |
| mayor of casterbridge | hardy |
| tyrone | long day's journey into night |
les rougon-macquart | zola |
| erich remarque | all quiet on the western front |
joseph garcin | no exit |
| east of eden | steinbeck |
| dunya | crime and punishment |
| "and did those feet in ancient time / walk upon england's mountains green?" | blake |
| natyashastra | kalidasa |
infinite jest | david foster wallace |
| purgatorio | divine comedy |
"comedies of menace" | pinter |
| o'brien | vietnam |
| dodge | buried child |
| mark hopkins | sonnet |
| passage to india | forster |
| ragin | ward number 6 |
mustapha mond | brave new world |
| modest proposal | swift |
| long goodbye | roth |
| senghor | academie |
under the gaslight | sister carrie |
quo vadis | polish |
| p. lovecraft | lovecraft |
| "the memory of you emerges from the night around me" | neruda |
| coalhouse walker | ragtime |
| sir gawain | knight |
| "just right." | granta |
| "cogwheels" | akutagawa |
the hundred years' war | agincourt |
| "goblin market." | rossetti |
| ayodhya | ramayana |
| mary pereira | rushdie |
germinal | zola |
| lorde | brooks |
| clare quilty | lolita |
| life of pi | tiger |
| "an aged man is but a paltry thing" | yeats |
| sweet home | beloved |
bundrens | faulkner |
| st. lucia | walcott |
| andrew marvell | macleish |
isabel allende | the house of the spirits |
| dua lipa | pachinko |
| john proctor | crucible |
| "light the kettle." | dumb waiter |
| pindar | herodotus |
| "sit in one of the dives on fifty-second street" | auden |
| jack kerouac | road |
| matteo boiardo | chile |
mayday | gilead |
| wisconsin to chicago | dreiser |
| far from the madding crowd | hardy |
| "pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo" | grass |
| llareggub | thomas |
| roland | charlemagne |
| denver | beloved |
| leonora | pirandello |
| "guantanamera." | cuba |
| "hell screen" | akutagawa |
| wikipedia | thoreau |
| caedmon | bede |
| "the mother" | brooks |
| heinrich heine | german |
blake | "the tyger" |
| "sapos" | deities |
| veronal | romeo and juliet |
| algonquin round table | parker |
| eilif | brecht |
| graham greene | spy |
| fernando pessoa | portuguese |
| yoknapatawpha county | faulkner |
| smiths | ionesco |
| rhinoceros | ionesco |
| lost world | doyle |
| criseyde | chaucer |
| glass bead games | hesse |
| winterset | sacco |
the gulag archipelago | solzhenitsyn |
| "don juan in hell" | shaw |
xury | defoe |
| ceyx | chaucer |
| belacqua shuah | beckett |
| "desiree's baby," | chopin |
| velutha | roy |
| negro theatre unit | wilson |
"prince charming" | the picture of dorian gray |
| "blind eyes" | thomas |
| knight of the white moon | cervantes |
disgrace | coetzee |
| ister | river |
| ammu | god of small things |
| book of the duchess | chaucer |
| candy darling | of mice and men |
| simon stimson | choir |
| "pere goriot" | balzac |
| anne bradstreet | fire |
| diana | knight |
| "the discourager of hesitancy." | sword |
| lensky | pushkin |
| millay | candle |
| "carnal embrace." | stoppard |
| anne carson | autobiography of red |
| exeter book | old english |
| briony tallis | atonement |
| wilhelm meister | goethe |
| mademoiselle reisz | chopin |
| "who, if i cried out, would hear me among the angelic hierarchies?" | duino elegies |
| leonard bast | forster |
| karen | andersen |
| "sunday morning" | stevens |
| sentimental education | flaubert |
| ministry of utmost happiness | roy |
| ann deever | all my sons |
| robert herrick | rose |
| adriana | syracuse |
| daniel defoe | plague |
| animal farm | orwell |
| nyx | erebus |
| oedipa maas | pynchon |
| "poems on various subjects," | religious |
| "april is the cruelest month," | eliot |
| pierre arronax | verne |
around the world in eighty days | verne |
| unaccustomed earth | lahiri |
| god of vengeance | yiddish |
| victor frankenstein | william |
| laertes | polonius |
| schwarzgerat | gravity's rainbow |
| "sympathy." | caged bird |
| murder on the orient express | christie |
| harry haller | mozart |
| hestia | apollo |
| dog years | grass |
| roxane | cyrano |
| ludovico | clockwork orange |
| lady of the lake | scott |
| doctor pangloss | candide |
| walter scott | frederick |
| ash wednesday | eliot |
| sugar street | egypt |
| czechia | kundera |
| oceania | 1984 |
| vasudeva | siddhartha |
| the misanthrope | moliere |
| "la belle dame sans merci," | keats |
konstantin treplev | the seagull |
| "what have i got in my pocket?" | bilbo |
| beneatha | raisin in the sun |
| philippics | lottery |
| jose saramago | blindness |
| chimamanda adichie | nigeria |
| olunde | soyinka |
| william riggan | lazarillo de tormes |
children of gebelawi | mahfouz |
| al-jawad | mahfouz |
| angry penguins | australia |
| katherina | taming of the |
| "if-," | kipling |
| "footnote" | ginsberg |
| duke of cornwall | regan |
| tezcatlipoca | quetzalcoatl |
| robert graves | claudius |
| "a thing of beauty is a joy forever." | keats |
gwendolyn brooks | we real cool |
| boris max | native |
| an american pastoral | roth |
| "i have done it again/one year in every ten." | plath |
"mistah kurtz--he dead." | heart of darkness |
| cronos | hestia |
| most of wheatley | religious |
| bigger thomas | native |
| nick bottom | robin |
| sci-fi | mcewan |
| annie | brooks |
| "the robbers" | schiller |
| tita | esperanza |
| josef lada | schweik |
| harry hope | iceman cometh |
| harry angstrom | updike |
| jean marie latour | cather |
| j.r.r. tolkien | beowulf |
"stopping by woods on a snowy evening" | frost |
| "you who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes" | laura |
| "now you will not swell the rout of lads that wore their honors out." | housman |
| midgard serpent | jormungand |
ralph (no last name, protagonist) | lord of the flies |
| henry iv | pirandello |
albertine | in search of lost time |
| dark | bradbury |
| oronte | sonnet |
| armand aubigny | desiree's baby |
| troo | katherina |
| "the minister's black veil" | hawthorne |
| georges bizet | carmen |
| "i could not love thee (dear) so much / love'd i not honor more" | lovelace |
| larissa | perseus |
| jose marti | cuba |
| mictlantecuhtli | underworld |
| baldur | loki |
| francis a. | lampedusa |
| george tesman | ibsen |
| "ennui!" | flowers of evil |
| versos sencillos | marti |
| captain beatty | fahrenheit 451 |
| "no" | eco |
| malaprop | sheridan |
| linton | wuthering heights |
| out of africa | dinesen |
| mehring | gordimer |
| "who are mostly good" | brooks |
| thomas shadwell | jonson |
| death comes for the archbishop | cather |
| in julia ward howe | atlantic |
| slouching towards bethlehem | didion |
| "curfew tolls the knell of parting day." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| echidna | typhon |
| maryse conde | tituba |
| emmanuel goldstein | o'brien |
| yul | korean |
| "camera eye" | dos passos |
| "country" | snow |
| kuchuk hanem | orientalism |
| ganya | parvati |
| seamus heaney | beowulf |
| war of the worlds | radio |
| other ibsen | when we dead awaken |
| il filostrato | boccaccio |
| "swann's way" | in search of lost time |
| dogberry | much ado about nothing |
pyramus and thisbe | a midsummer night's dream |
| betty | crucible |
ebenezer dorset | the ransom of red chief |
| cannery row | steinbeck |
brobdingnag | gulliver's travels |
| pip | great expectations |
| daisy buchanan | fitzgerald |
| angel flores | universal history of infamy |
| "paper war." | fielding |
| roberto marx | on the road |
king hedley ii | wilson |
| "antichrist" | war and peace |
| capote | lee |
"after apple-picking." | frost |
| oliver mellors | lady chatterley's lover |
| "story" | sailor |
| bleak house | dickens |
| "mignon" | goethe |
| "patels" | tiger |
| tagore | gitanjali |
| valentine | mephistopheles |
| "look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" | ozymandias |
| jacob marley | ebenezer |
| hanno | buddenbrooks |
| importance of being earnest | wilde |
| buendia | garcia marquez |
| "by the shores of gitche gumee." | song of hiawatha |
| edna pontellier | awakening |
| mill on the floss | eliot |
| chapter 9 | doubloon |
| east egg | great gatsby |
| white noise | delillo |
| owen meany | baseball |
| trafalmadore | slaughterhouse-five |
miss havisham | great expectations |
| dover beach | arnold |
| frodo | bilbo |
| "a very old man with enormous wings." | garcia marquez |
| hopscotch | cortazar |
| stranger in a strange land | heinlein |
big brother | 1984 |
| ulrich | saki |
| ira aldridge | lord chamberlain |
| tirant lo blanch | don quixote |
| arapesh | three musketeers |
hyperion (novel) | friedrich holderlin |
| "how do you like your blue eyed boy / mister death?" | cummings |
| erlynne | wilde |
| boris pasternak | doctor zhivago |
| ndotsheni | cry, the beloved country |
| the stranger | camus |
| burchell | vicar of wakefield |
| cornudet | german |
| death of a naturalist | heaney |
| isaac asimov | science |
| dulcinea | don quixote |
| apollonian | nietzsche |
| "tonight i can write the saddest lines." | neruda |
| main street | lewis |
"done because we are too menny" | jude the obscure |
| "theater of the absurd" | beckett |
| jekyll | stevenson |
| "ode on a distant prospect of eton college." | gray |
| "bent double, like old beggars under sacks," | owen |
| "to the virgins, to make much of time." | rose |
| cat's cradle | vonnegut |
| pen translation prize | mann |
| tang dynasty | li |
| clarissa | richardson |
| "carol" | oleanna |
| "the river-merchant's wife." | li |
| "relax. concentrate. dispel every other thought." | if on a winter's night |
| "the outcasts of poker flat" | harte |
| haidee | don juan |
| mustafa sa | othello |
| philae | moliere |
| mikhail bulgakov | master and margarita |
| prospect garden | dream of the red chamber |
| "the flea." | donne |
| "holy" | ginsberg |
| thomas hardy | far from the madding |
| constance | jackson |
| gabriel lajeunesse | longfellow |
| "paul revere's ride." | longfellow |
| "a worn path." | welty |
| thomasina coverly | arcadia |
| manuel puig | argentina |
| vicar of wakefield | goldsmith |
| hindley | heathcliff |
| albert camus | france |
| stephen crane | open boat |
| joy luck club | tan |
toru okada | murakami |
| "strange meeting" | owen |
eatonville | their eyes were watching god |
| "god is dead" | nietzsche |
| "once upon a midnight dreary" | raven |
| hymir | jormungand |
| "summoner" | venice |
| esperanza cordero | house on mango street |
| "buffalo bill" | cummings |
| "come live with me and be my love." | marlowe |
| nell | unhappiness |
| caspar goodwood | james |
| sidi | soyinka |
| "spleen and ideal" | baudelaire |
| don caesar | ambitious |
| marius | les |
| top girls | joan |
| jane | bennet |
| "if winter comes, can spring be far behind?" | ode to the west wind |
"the sons of la malinche" | paz |
| "tam o' shanter" | burns |
| melville | moby-dick |
| streetcar named desire | williams |
| coleman barks | rumi |
| adso of melk | name of the rose |
| pilate | song of solomon |
| ruben dario | ocampo |
| r. b. bennett | big brother |
| alquist | czech |
| "so much depends / upon" | red wheelbarrow |
| kingdom hearts | mock turtle |
| "the war years." | sandburg |
| stone raft | saramago |
| kingsley amis | bond |
| bill tanner | bond |
| "miracle" | kingsolver |
| wise blood | o'connor |
spiritual couplets | rumi |
| toby | sterne |
| tristram shandy | sterne |
| nine feet | paint |
| son | giver |
(translated by) edward fitzgerald | rubaiyat |
| algernon swinburne | sappho |
| "crust and sugar over, / like a syrupy sweet?" | harlem renaissance |
| "sredni vashtar" | saki |
| "superman comes to the supermarket." | kennedy |
| charon | dead |
| "what women most desire." | wife of bath |
| yalta | chekhov |
| stephen | joyce |
| "always depended on the kindness of strangers" | streetcar named |
| icarus | daedalus |
| spirit of evil | yiddish |
| henry hudson | irving |
| curly | lennie |
| with fire | polish |
| "die soon." | brooks |
| "jazz june," | brooks |
| margaret atwood | handmaid's tale |
| fury | faulkner |
| chris | anna christie |
| with coleridge | wordsworth |
| shalamar | song of solomon |
the dharma bums | kerouac |
| "one art," | villanelle |
| notes of a native son | baldwin |
| piazza tales | benito |
| goriot | balzac |
| future king | white |
| blind assassin | atwood |
| kan'ami | mask |
| terri | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| sayyid ahmad | mahfouz |
| kristine linde | doll's |
"soul has grown deep" | langston hughes |
| "the litanies of satan." | flower |
| aston villa | gus |
| "shall i compare thee to a summer's day?" | 14 |
| the master and margarita | bulgakov |
| journey to the west | buddha |
| bly | the turn of the |
the grand inquisitor | the brothers karamazov |
| peter quint | turn of the screw |
miss (rebecca) jessel | the turn of the screw |
| henry louis gates | douglass |
| "mother to son." | hughes |
| "true daughter of old time" | poe |
death with interruptions | saramago |
| "angelheaded hipsters" | ginsberg |
| "the conquest and colonialism" | labyrinth of solitude |
| the trial | kafka |
| "besides the white / chickens." | red wheelbarrow |
| solzhenitsyn | gulag |
| confessions of a mask | mishima |
| vegetarian | south korea |
| falstaff | shakespeare |
| "follow the leader" | melville |
| amy kelly | beloved |
| voss | white |
| sacramental melodrama | genet |
| "sexy," | lahiri |
| gerard de nerval | eliot |
| slaughterhouse-five | vonnegut |
| echo | satyr |
| gigi | colette |
| regina | education |
| darkness at noon | koestler |
| samuel taylor coleridge | romanticism |
| "a game of chess" | eliot |
| minnehaha | longfellow |
| "bad taste" | ignatius |
| vaclav havel | czech |
| "i hate and i love." | elegy |
| in the return of the native | hardy |
"sun stone" | paz |
| "to whom i was like to give offense" | walls |
| "art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, and dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell." | death |
| north of boston | frost |
| adelaide fouque | zola |
| marquis | carter |
| san dominick | melville |
| urashima taro | aging |
| "all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" | beauty |
| porthos | three musketeers |
| "the quest for relevance" | africa |
| cosmicomics | calvino |
| battle of roncevaux pass | charlemagne |
| "truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true." | dream of the red chamber |
| four great novels | china |
| quasimodo | esmeralda |
| john anderton | minority report |
the persians | aeschylus |
| "the lake isle of innisfree." | yeats |
| alcyoneus | giants |
| angellica bianca | behn |
| "mighty and dreadful" | donne |
john oakhurst | harte |
| before antony | ambitious |
| holly golightly | breakfast at tiffany's |
| johann wolfgang | schiller |
| carlos daneri | borges |
| elephant of the bastille | argot |
| piano lesson | wilson |
| "new," | comedy |
| salim | naipaul |
| real thing | stoppard |
| shelley levene | mamet |
| pittsburgh cycle | wilson |
| alexanderplatz | berlin |
| tsitsi dangarembga | zimbabwe |
| cathy | read |
| hulot | cousine bette |
| hercule poirot | christie |
| laura sheridan | mansfield |
| middle english | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "strove to resuscitate the dead art/of poetry" | pound |
| charles tansley | to the lighthouse |
| dorine | loyal |
| havre | german |
| central london hatchery | brave new |
| an enrique gonzalez martinez | modernism |
| "newsreel" | dos passos |
| hawk in the rain | plath |
| truman capote | lee |
| "rest," | herbert |
| "babette's feast," | dinesen |
| aphra behn | dryden |
| james weldon johnson | autobiography |
| paquette | esmeralda |
| inklings | tolkien |
| flowers of evil | baudelaire |
| kate | dead |
| richard lovelace | cavalier |
| along with leon damas | senghor |
| "one beauty." | hair |
| marjorie | hair |
| wilfred owen | dulce et decorum est |
| rosaura | esperanza |
| sally hayes | salinger |
| marmee | little women |
| wings | demian |
| hunchback of notre dame | esmeralda |
| kamel daoud | meursault |
| conditioning center | brave new |
| marjane satrapi | persepolis |
| lady chatterley | lawrence |
| haunting of hill house | jackson |
| roy hobbs | baseball player |
| in a sharon olds | body |
| "brazen giant of greek fame." | new colossus |
| "little poems in prose." | lazarus |
| nurse ratched | mental hospital |
| tale of igor | pushkin |
| "hidden carvings and inscriptions." | tolkien |
| valentin | puig |
| tom jones | fielding |
| "durer: innsbruck, 1495." | australia |
| esther | bell jar |
| orangedrink lemondrink man | india |
| nikolai chernyshevsky | dostoyevsky |
snow country | kawabata |
| lord orville | burney |
| dark tower | king |
| vseslav of polotsk | bogatyr |
| "held but just ourselves and immortality." | because i could not stop for death |
| birthday letters | plath |
| "some mute inglorious milton" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
leslie hotson | marlowe |
| harold pinter | doctor |
| "a perfect day for bananafish," | salinger |
| hanuman | ramayana |
| stable | china |
| joe keller | all my sons |
| "spiritual victories." | china |
| "september 1st, 1939" | auden |
| von essen | strindberg |
| alvita | jamaica |
| "boule de suif" | maupassant |
| pelayo | crab |
| shropshire | housman |
| "as slow as the tolling of a death knell" | watch |
| eco | baudolino |
| "thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure" | tagore |
| northrop frye | tyger |
| jenny lind | andersen |
| "storm trooper," | norwegian wood |
| giovanni bononcini | tweedledee |
| trina | paint |
| zadie smith | mouse |
| isaac | things fall apart |
| tanya | gorky |
| "voodoo." | welles |
| "three blind mice" | christie |
| khayyam | jug of wine |
| "twenty-six men and a girl." | gorky |
| terence | self-tormentor |
| strophe | pindar |
| rockwell kent | moby-dick |
| "royal" | underground |
| the dunciad and the | pope |
| silas lapham | howells |
| "hope is a thing with feathers" | dickinson |
| percival | lord of the flies |
| child | six characters in search of an author |
| exemplary novels | cervantes |
| john byrom | tweedledee |
| "to a mouse." | burns |
| in the old east slavic | bogatyr |
| "kindly stopped for me." | because i could not stop for death |
"birches" | frost |
| castle of crossed destinies | calvino |
| age of innocence | wharton |
| neva river | pushkin |
| lucasta | lovelace |
| widow wycherly | heidegger |
| "i'm truly sorry man's dominion / has broken nature's social union" | burns |
| transcendent kingdom | mouse |
| harriet smithson | emma |
| archie jones | smith |
| brecht | distancing |
| "pied beauty." | hopkins |
| laius | jocasta |
| symposium | gilead |
| professor pieixoto | handmaid's tale |
| confessions | augustine |
| thomas dixon | lucky |
| gascoigne | heidegger |
| john suckling | cavalier |
| bernard nightingale | byron |
| vittoria | aunt |
| malvolio | twelfth night |
| brian de bois-gilbert | knight |
| "the story of an hour" | chopin |
| ned land | nautilus |
| mario vargas llosa | julia |
| all god | maya |
| "anna livia plurabelle" | beckett |
| illustrated man | bradbury |
| rover | behn |
| golden key | italy |
| austerlitz | sebald |
| "the eagles" | okigbo |
| frank stockton | sword |
| j. p. morgan's | firemen |
"i rise with my red hair / and i eat men like air," | plath |
| children need traveling shoes | maya |
| columbia university | boas |
| enchanted hunters | lolita |
| jonathan strange | clarke |
| "the gift outright" | frost |
| alison | wife of bath |
| jules verne | nautilus |
| six gallery | howl |
| "i love you" | soseki |
| erika kohut | austria |
| catullus | sappho |
| don segundo sombra | gaucho |
| nine novels | ballard |
| meg | little women |
| the player | rosencrantz |
| rilke | first |
| armand | chopin |
| peter matthiessen | everest |
| "sick" | rose |
| "red, red" | rose |
| "the end and the beginning." | grass |
| sword | polish |
| takehiro | tajomaru |
| frou-frou | vronsky |
| polybus | oedipus |
| anubis | answer |
| john dowell | good soldier |
| "walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across america." | rockland |
| anna livia | finnegans wake |
| andria | terence |
| olivia | twelfth night |
| all my sons | miller |
| aleksandr pushkin | russian |
| norrell | clarke |
hafez | persian |
| "guilt and innocence" | hitler |
| vi of this work | aeneid |
| samuel | color purple |
| "a shape with lion body and the head of a man," | second coming |
| "in memoriam a.h.h." | tennyson |
| atonement | mcewan |
| pnin | nabokov |
| "nymphets" | lolita |
| torvald | doll's |
| hairy ape | provincetown players |
| gentleman with the thistledown hair | clarke |
| hussein mosque | palace |
| valeria luiselli | brodsky |
| todd | waugh |
| fire in the steppe | polish |
| "ode to aphrodite." | sappho |
| biafran war | half of a yellow sun |
| idylls of the king | tennyson |
| "stunning blow upon the back of the neck" | bierce |
| a and darkness | sword in the stone |
| captain cat | thomas |
| beat generation | ginsburg |
| friedrich nicolai | werther |
| okeechobee | hurston |
| fatima | radio |
| mules and men | hurston |
august strindberg (country) | sweden |
| "come buy, come buy." | rossetti |
| rosewater | firemen |
"turning and turning in the widening gyre" | yeats |
| riddle of the sands | thirty-nine steps |
| "why is a raven like a writing desk?" | hatter |
| baby suggs | beloved |
| "things fall apart." | yeats |
| clara del valle | allende |
| "my mother is a fish." | as i lay |
| "sound [his] barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" | whitman |
| "illusion" | japanese |
| "homeric" | hymn |
| "mere oblivions, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." | jaques |
| silappatikaram | tamil |
| lewis carroll | through the looking glass |
| tres marias | allende |
| roger chillingworth | scarlet letter |
makak | walcott |
the cider house rules | john irving |
homer wells | the cider house rules |
| tales of soldiers | bierce |
| lovewit | alchemist |
| alexander search | portuguese |
| charles ryder | waugh |
| dylar | white noise |
| grace ogot | kenya |
good-bye to all that | graves |
| country of the pointed firs | maine |
| one of plautus | soldier |
| go set a watchman | lee |
| amaterasu | tsukuyomi |
"if music be the food of love, play on." | twelfth night |
| pilgrim | general prologue |
| martins | ionesco |
| leatherstocking tales | cooper |
| in luigi pirandello | six characters in search of an author |
| wife of bath | chaucer |
| katrina van tassel | irving |
| "song of great capitulation." | brecht |
| act 5 | ars |
rawdon crawley | vanity fair |
| lyrical ballads | wordsworth |
| lay dying | faulkner |
| headless horseman | irving |
swiss cheese | brecht |
| mersault | stranger |
| corporal lestrade | walcott |
| the custom-house | scarlet letter |
| prospero | tempest |
| "scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115" | cooper |
| ern malley | australia |
| kahnk | things fall apart |
| novalis | german |
| behn | letter |
| "you are sane" | dickinson |
| "go" | rose |
| those who leave | italian |
| "too soon made glad" | browning |
| firs | chekhov |
| "the golden shovel." | brooks |
| cavafy | greek |
the thinkery | the clouds |
| "nature" | emerson |
| "was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?" | helen |
| tevye the milkman | yiddish |
| "clouds" | sleepy hollow |
| prince dakkar | verne |
| jimmy | factorial |
| arturo | brecht |
| while in argentina | autobiography of red |
| abel | antrobus |
| uncle peck | vogel |
| "know that, in a former time, love! sweet love! was thought a crime." | lost |
| maggie | crane |
| charles arrowby | murdoch |
| angel esmeralda | hugo |
| "forethought" | chicken |
| chebutykin | three sisters |
| three sisters | chekhov |
| "the bride comes to yellow sky" | crane |
| brett ashley | the sun also |
| "every angel is terrifying." | duino elegies |
| paul verlaine | rimbaud |
| " for 10 points, name this poet who wrote " | eliot |
| ishtar | bull |
| song | mailer |
| life & k | coetzee |
| "the black plague" | decameron |
| starkfield | ethan frome |
| poisonwood bible | kingsolver |
| elka | singer |
| herbie | detroit |
| troilus | chaucer |
| an angel at my table | mansfield |
| gesta danorum | snorri |
| weston | emma |
| theophile gautier | art for art's sake |
| imoinda | behn |
| easter uprising | yeats |
| eva luna | allende |
| raymonda | stranger |
| tom dacre | chimney |
| "the skin of our teeth" | wilder |
| yonville | madame bovary |
| adolphus cusins | shaw |
| salvation army | shaw |
| reverend edward casaubon | middlemarch |
| panfilo, filostrato | decameron |
| v-2 | pynchon |
| "black as cain, may be refined, and join th' angelic train." | wheatley |
guest (character) | strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde |
| winesburg | anderson |
| andrew undershaft | shaw |
| apprenticeship | goethe |
| consuelo | sand |
| "pirate" | banana |
| saleem | singer |
| w.b. yeats | easter rising |
elegant effendi | istanbul |
| amy tan | joy luck club |
| oregon state penitentiary | mailer |
| nikos kazantzakis | greek |
| newgate prison | defoe |
| "childe roland to the dark tower came." | browning |
| room with a view | forster |
| angelica | orlando |
| thomas pynchon | gravity's rainbow |
| pablo ibbieta | sartre |
| walter pater | marius |
| anatomy of criticism | comedy |
| human stain | roth |
| classics | roth |
| trigorin | checkhov |
| "five summers, with the length / of five long winters" | wordsworth |
| elie wiesel | night |
| "guy" | giants |
| frances | rooney |
| drang | sorrows of |
| jack tanner | shaw |
| gordon | plath |
| seth | winesburg |
| edmond dantes | hero |
| horacio quiroga | uruguay |
| ecgtheow | beowulf |
| "stasis in darkness/then the substanceless blue." | plath |
| coleman silk | roth |
| "only connect." | forster |
| "smith" | john |
| "to be or not to be" | get thee to a |
| "parthenope" | siren |
| "must cultivate our gardens." | candide |
| grimm | tailor |
| bildad | pequod |
| "the plan," | eco |
| london to adelaide | galsworthy |
| manderley | rhododendron |
"before the law" | the trial |
| amaranta | buendia |
| "marks of weakness, marks of woe" | blake |
| xanthias | frogs |
| vidiadhar surajprasad naipaul | naipaul |
trueba | the house of the spirits |
| "the sisters," | dublin |
| "speak through my words and my blood" | machu picchu |
| thornton wilder | our town |
| "bigguns" | samneric |
| dragon king | journey to the west |
| casaubon | eco |
| aunt ester | pittsburgh |
| willy loman | death of a salesman |
| gustave dore | windmill |
| havana harbor | spy |
| eva st | sophie's choice |
| sabina | unbearable lightness of being |
| "had we but world enough and time." | "to his coy mistress" |
| times of michael | coetzee |
| narayana | english |
| "i shall be as dirty as i please: and i like to be dirty, and i will be dirty." | wuthering heights |
| magic theater | hesse |
| jack worthing | wilde |
| "the heights of macchu picchu" | canto general |
| "does it explode?" | dream |
| george willard | anderson |
| my antonia | cather |
| ben gardner | grendel |
| melissa | egypt |
| "beside the white chickens" | wheelbarrow |
| gerda | buddenbrooks |
| sarah orne jewett | maine |
| petruchio | taming of the shrew |
| earl of gloucester | king |
| bessie | native |
| lancelot | divine |
| "decolonizing the mind." | ngugi |
| "nothing will come of nothing." | lear |
| "the battle hymn of the republic," | atlantic |
| paul d | beloved |
| bianca | tutor |
| "horses' heads/ were pointed toward eternity." | dickinson |
vedas | sanskrit |
| one chinese | creation |
| dubois | misanthrope |
| michael furey | dead |
| william dobbin | vanity fair |
| "dear and loving husband." | bradstreet |
| tenth muse lately sprung up in america | bradstreet |
| "wicked" | decameron |
| "better after death" | how do i love thee |
| go tell it on the mountain | baldwin |
| rossetti | carols |
| "endymion," | keats |
| alceste | sonnet |
| george sand | flaubert |
| henry wadsworth longfellow | divine |
| tale of a tub | swift |
| reverend samuel parris | crucible |
| phaedrus | aesop |
| steven spielberg | schindler |
| "you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman." | much ado about nothing |
| ursula | garcia |
| orlick | great expectations |
| "battle royal." | invisible man |
| tatiana | eugene |
| hedda gabler | ibsen |
"someones married their everyones" | cummings |
| friends of the abc | javert |
| john montague | hill house |
"to althea, from prison" | richard lovelace |
| "puddle-wonderful." | cummings |
| romance of the three kingdoms | china |
| mabel loomis todd | letters |
| "sly animals" | rilke |
| "latter-day scarlett o'hara" | gone with the wind |
| weena | time |
| moomins | hitler |
| brer rabbit | johnson |
| fair haven | utopia |
| yasunari kawabata | snow |
| kiyoaki | snow |
| ugo foscolo | napoleon |
| dictionary of the english language | johnson |
| robert browning | dubliners |
| rime of the ancient mariner | coleridge |
| william collins | pride and prejudice |
| all quiet on the western front | remarque |
| apuleius | golden ass |
| shi nai | water margin |
americanah | adichie |
| in jesmyn ward | as i lay dying |
| james boswell | johnson |
| "within the mind of god" | our town |
| "to build a fire," | london |
| areopagitica | milton |
| "when i consider how my light is spent" | milton |
thomas wentworth higginson | emily dickinson |
| lewis theobald | pope |
| carlson | of mice and men |
| "white sickness" | saramago |
| "merrie england," | lucky |
| markus zusak | book thief |
| stella-rondo | welty |
| after albert | goethe |
emily webb | our town |
| three musketeers | dumas |
| macflecknoe | dryden |
| myrna minkoff | confederacy of |
| batman | scooby |
| "hurry up please it's time," | waste land |
| "a love story," | didion |
| charles darnay | tale of two cities |
| sammy | a&p |
| day of the locust | west |
| orlando | woolf |
| parasha | bronze horseman |
| morgiana | arabic |
| chin | woman warrior |
| "the house of nucingen." | eugene |
| "rural trilogy." | lorca |
| abraham cowley | ode |
| glenarvon | lamb |
| "green, how i want you green." | lorca |
| "at five in the afternoon." | lorca |
| travels | swift |
| "jabberwocky." | carroll |
| katy | disgrace |
| sarajevo | black hand |
| shu | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "civil disobedience." | thoreau |
| sally seton at bourton | mrs. dalloway |
savage detectives | bolano |
"in vacant or pensive mood," | wordsworth |
| "nightfall." | science fiction |
| gregor samsa in the metamorphosis | kafka |
| "the hollow men" | eliot |
the birth of tragedy | nietzsche |
| "sun moon stars rain" | cummings |
| study in scarlet | doyle |
| sandra cisneros | mexican |
| "pale kings and princes too." | keats |
| "the murders in the rue morgue." | poe |
| athos | three musketeers |
| joseph knecht | glass bead game |
| d'artagnan first | three musketeers |
| "mute, inglorious." | milton |
| true history of the kelly gang | carey |
| "blow-up." | cortazar |
| "oh dear! oh dear! i shall be too late!" | white |
| "like a dog" | kafka |
| peter walsh | mrs |
| saul bellow | chicago |
| ipek | pamuk |
| "it's not that way, it's over here" | bald soprano |
| "remembrances," | raven |
| johanna | sweeney |
| both raju | narayan |
| "tell me why / this goblin honor which the world adores / should make men atheists and not women whores" | cavalier |
| monterey | steinbeck |
| farmer boldwood | gabriel |
| coast of utopia | stoppard |
| morelli | cortazar |
| call of the wild | london |
| tiurin | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| metamorphosis | kafka |
| han kang | south korea |
| inn | stevenson |
| "shantih shantih shantih" | waste land |
| jew of malta | marlowe |
| martin fierro | argentina |
| mnemosyne | keats |
| "pamper'd swells with one blood made of two." | donne |
| isabella bird | churchill |
| mason city | willie |
| julien sorel | stendhal |
| "why was i allowed to come this far and see sand and trees" | open boat |
| anne frank | russian |
| lieutenant jimmy cross | vietnam |
| "commodore" | oiler |
| swift | a modest |
| "benjamin" | animal farm |
| pinter | birthday party |
| darwish | hebrew |
| book iii of the faerie queene | spenser |
| "on a grecian urn." | ode |
| fitzcarraldo editions | nobel |
| anne of green gables | avonlea |
| polly | magician's nephew |
| "the caballero's way" | henry |
| romantic british | keats |
| white album | murder |
| juno | caliban |
| lyle | blues for mister charlie |
| bathsheba everdene | far from the madding |
| benedick | beatrice |
| madame hortense | zorba the greek |
| nicholas snub | berganza |
| "asphodel, that greeny flower." | williams |
"batter my heart, three person'd god" | donne |
"the plums that were in the icebox" | william carlos williams |
| lazarus | crime and punishment |
| dowson | long day's journey into night |
| p. g. wodehouse | jeeves |
becky sharp | vanity fair |
| karel capek | robot |
| primus | czech |
| paradiso | divine comedy |
| matilda | dahl |
| martian chronicles | bradbury |
| william henry | hammer |
| daisy miller | james |
| "the night dances" | ariel |
| "do i contradict myself?" | song of myself |
| "hot water shop" | the good |
| rasnolnikov | dostoyevsky |
| bologna to rome | stendhal |
| shimamura | kawabata |
the charterhouse of parma | stendhal |
| jake blount | heart is a lonely |
equus | horse |
| cedric | ivanhoe |
| madame loisel | maupassant |
| thanatos | freud |
malone dies | beckett |
| "[one event] in june, corn be heavy soon." | jackson |
| urania | keats |
| alan breck stewart | kidnapped |
| angelo mancuso | ignatius |
| "how cunningly" | tell-tale heart |
| "i bathed in the euphrates when dawns were young." | hughes |
| dreyfus | zola |
| hazel motes | o'connor |
| english patient | ondaatje |
| "red thoughts and his teeth were white." | saki |
"the fall of the house of usher" | poe |
| big sea | hughes |
| vivien | sappho |
| "things fall apart, the center cannot hold" | yeats |
| toru | wind-up bird chronicle |
| "a terrible beauty is born" | yeats |
| "city of the big shoulders" | sandburg |
| "star-cross'd lovers." | romeo and juliet |
| cincinnati | beloved |
| "karawane" | dada |
| "what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" | tyger |
| "tossing their heads in a sprightly dance." | daffodil |
| "wave" | stephen |
| charlotte perkins gilman | the yellow wallpaper |
| "nothing gold can stay" | frost |
| "fond" | kiss |
| "fever" | italy |
| father lorenzo | betrothed |
| mansfield | bliss |
| marco polo | africa |
| father zosima | alyosha |
| "if ever two were one, then surely we. / if ever man were loved by wife, then thee." | loving husband |
| prince korasoff | red and |
"willow of crystal, a poplar of water" | paz |
| "fog" | sandburg |
| "who made thee?" | blake |
| turk | johnson |
| caroline lee hentz | uncle tom's cabin |
| scrooge | fezziwig |
| "sensemaya." | hughes |
| "i heard a fly buzz when i died," | dickinson |
| lenore | raven |
cleante | tartuffe |
| simon legree | uncle tom's cabin |
| duino elegies | rilke |
| edgar | fairy tale |
the house of bernarda alba | federico garcia lorca |
| guitar | song of solomon |
| alejandra pizarnik | argentina |
| anselmo | for whom the bell |
| mario | italy |
| literary club | johnson |
| lakunlerefuses | soyinka |
| offred | handmaid's tale |
| "place of many trees." | kilmer |
| thomas mann | italy |
| mita banerjee | hawthorne |
| dancer | easter, 1916 |
| raphael hythloday | vespucci |
| nelly dean | wuthering heights |
| goldberg | pinter |
| gilbert osmond | portrait of a |
| umberto eco | name of the rose |
| clavdia chauchat | mann |
| "the dancing girl of izu" | kawabata |
| harriet winslow | old gringo |
| caryl churchill | joan |
| gavroche | hugo |
| "save" | fuentes |
| book thief | kite runner |
| "poet of" | palestine |
| memory for forgetfulness | palestine |
| "identity card." | darwish |
| prester john | baudolino |
| "thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no, / nor honeysuckle." | millay |
| "was apparent everywhere," | temple |
| bonus petrovich | the overcoat |
| thechinese | eating people |
| "between the lines" | eating people |
| marcus | mcteague |
| forrest gump | curie |
| kochan | mishima |
| grandmother | o'connor |
| marabar caves | passage to india |
| englishwoman adela quested | passage to india |
| charles condomine | ghost |
| noel coward | ghost |
| "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 |
| "the pool players. seven at the golden shovel." | we real |
| svayambhu | brahma |
| "moirai" | fate |
| "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." | malvolio |
| "clerk's tale" | decameron |
| 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 |
| great seal of england | prince and the |
| "i confess! i confess what i did! i'm guilty! i killed you! sir i confess! i killed you!" | amadeus |
| "show interest in her goodness--for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand." | good person |
| sidney herbert | holy sonnets |
| "ethnic" | ventriloquism |
| "a modest proposal." | irish |
| vinayaka | ganesh |
| ashtavinayaka | ganesh |
| david livesey | treasure island |
| "their color is a diabolic die." | on being brought |
| color purple | walker |
| "after all, tomorrow is another day." | gone with the wind |
| "we need a definition of greatness, and i suppose that would be somebody who...somebody who benefited all mankind." | "master harold"...and |
| tang sanzang | buddha |
| "the don't-knows have lived with that lie so long they just can't see it." | heart is a lonely |
| "i can resist everything except temptation." | lady windermere's |
| chief white halfoat | catch-22 |
| nanny | mule |
| "chivalry" | romance |
| squire john trelawney | treasure island |
| "the gingerbread house" | hansel 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 |
| johnny cade | outsiders |
| hungry joe | catch-22 |
| "where are the songs of spring?" | keats |
| colonel sun | bond |
| "oh shame upon the earth! apollo, apollo!" | cassandra |
| "for gawd's sake git the water!" | gunga din |
| "bragging and laughing that under his wrist, is the pulse." | chicago |
| "gerontion" | eliot |
| jacques lantier | zola |
| "human beast" | zola |
| "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 |
| "what shall i do with this absurdity" | yeats |
| "so sweet / and so cold." | "this is just to say" |
| "ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night." | howl |
| "all this happened, more or less." | slaughterhouse-five |
| resident world controller for western europe | brave new world |
| "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 |
| professor pierre aronnax | nemo |
| rang shim bombo | yeti |
| abbe carlos herrera | human comedy |
| friar laurence | romeo and |
| "the magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with" | lorca |
| "she'll be stiff with you at first, i expect. she's an unusual character, but you mustn't let her worry you." | rebecca |
| "the great moderation." | hippolytus |
| fire chief | bald soprano |
| "bore her away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre [seh-pul-kur] in this kingdom by the sea." | annabel lee |
| captain alexander smollett | treasure island |
| luttrell | wide sargasso sea |
| errour | faerie queene |
| nyalmo | yeti |
| "john laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. john is practical in the extreme." | yellow wallpaper |
| "when first the world from chaos rose, tell me, how did love begin?" | dream of the red |
| earl of greystoke | tarzan |
| "flight" | chopin |
| "the yellow wallpaper" | husband |
| conquistador | canto |
| deaths and entrances | thomas |
| heorot | grendal |
| brother silent | stages on life's way |
| "an unhappy love affair." | stages on life's way |
| "glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens" | williams |
| tomis | ovid |
| peter o'toole | modest proposal |
| "thunder words" | finnegans wake |
| "the angel of the battlefield." | geneva |
| carmichael | cry, the beloved |
| "birds of prey" | marvell |
| "the art of dying well." | lady lazarus |
| ayane | heart of darkness |
| an epic in the war for freedom | tanzania |
| dark lady | love's |
| our strangers | davis |
| "freely, as men strive for right" | how do i love thee |
| "epigram" | russian |
| nicholas rubashov | stalin |
| meletus | serpent |
| frederick winterbourne | italy |
| kaddish | ginsberg |
| parker tyler | vidal |
| western hills | diaries |
| amma | girl, woman, other |
| daniel eisenberg | grossman |
| maeonides | milton |
| cyriacus | cross |
| helene weigel | courage |
| tzesar | solzhenitsyn |
| jodie foster | snow |
| corbenic | grail |
| duke of norfolk | prince and the |
| john ray jr | nabokov |
| pecola | bluest eye |
| stanley kowalski | streetcar named |
| "in my craft or sullen art" | thomas |
| valmiki | ramayana |
| lucina | napoleon |
| hce | finnegans wake |
| hesse | glass bead game |
| robert de boron | grail |
| "redundant. retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable" | lakunle |
| sergey zalygin | novy mir |
| hugo pludek | czech |
| coramantien | behn |
| "white smoke" | ceremony |
| rocky | ceremony |
| sakiel-norn | assassin |
| libation bearers | aegisthus |
| osip mandelstam | stalin |
| renee vivien | sappho |
| "the grecian urn to muse on uncle jim." | cullen |
| "i believe that humans should be plants." | south korea |
| "sit and sew." | dunbar |
| "in that holocaust of hell" | dunbar |
| horace smith | ozymandias |
| silas | frost |
| letter to the reader | stages on life's way |
| "be chaste, except you ravish me." | donne |
| "thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" | stevens |
| joad | steinbeck |
| la traviata | hans |
| gorgo | medusa |
| gopher prairie | main street |
| "half-sick of shadows," | lady of |
| french quarter | confederacy of |
| mina | abraham |
| "more light! more light!" | hecht |
| tococul | breakfast at tiffany's |
| "imperially slim." | richard cory |
| warren | frost |
| "are you nobody too?" | dickinson |
| calcutta ashoke | lahiri |
| miriam chadwick | church |
| hound of the baskervilles | eco |
| "the whole world shares your tears / some for two nights or one / and some for all their years" | seth |
| listless | nightmare abbey |
| connie reid | lady |
| captain flume | catch-22 |
| "listen: billy pilgrim has come unstuck in time." | slaughterhouse-five |
| "all you who sleep tonight." | seth |
| robert coover | hansel and |
| rider haggard | haggard |
| "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county." | twain |
| sohrab | pamuk |
| ferdinando flosky | nightmare abbey |
| reverend larynx | nightmare abbey |
| "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 |
| like clover | moses |
| friar john | mantua |
| jim hawkins | treasure island |
| "could not see to see." | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
| laura trevelyan | white |
| "i am a traveler from an antique land." | ozymandias |
| jamie | long day's journey into night |
| rice | awakening |
| "let all who prate of beauty hold their peace." | millay |
| "had somewhere to get to and calmly sailed on." | icarus |
| "musee des beaux arts," | auden |
| "moves in darkness" | mending wall |
| "thirty years now i have labored / to dredge the silt from your throat. / i am none the wiser." | plath |
| yunioshi | breakfast at tiffany's |
| sarah palin | bering strait |
| "the ballad of reading gaol" | wilde |
| "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," | keats |
| "out, out-" | frost |
| "invitation to the voyage." | baudelaire |
| "gash gold-vermilion." | windhover |
| "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." | walden |
| "fair is foul, and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air." | macbeth |
| "doom of the gods" | ragnarok |
| "has died; they kept hitting him, everyone, even though he does nothing to them." | stone |
| good soldier svejk | czech |
| eugene marchbanks | shaw |
| "accompanying my boy lover frightened by a fox." | basho |
| untold story | ali |
| waiting for godot | beckett |
| action comics | superman |
| dee-oh-nay | boccaccio |
| "irretrievable!" | child |
| me to play | endgame |
| wang lung | the good |
| diary of a young girl | frank |
| we have always lived in the castle | jackson |
| joan didion | murder |
| tragedians | stoppard |
| namesake | lahiri |
| tiresias | serpent |
| pearl s. buck | buck |
| updike | witches of |
| "luxury, peace, and pleasure" | baudelaire |
| wye | wordsworth |
| "i sing of olaf glad and big" | cummings |
| "clean favored" | richard cory |
| "o my chevalier!" | windhover |
| "delicate ship" | icarus |
| "hold fast" | dream |
| arndt | eugene onegin |
| jolly seventeen | main street |
| carol kennicott | main street |
| "i stand mesmerized, wondering how you sing / your notes hold the world spellbound." | yeats |
| jan bronski | grass |
| zorba the greek | kazantzakis |
| shaaban robert | tanzania |
| myth of the movies | vidal |
| "unfortunate lover" | marvell |
| "betwixt the flames and waves," | marvell |
| elene | cross |
| "our age's central thinker" | vidal |
| battle of waterloo | vanity |
| last amazon of dahomey in london | girl, woman, other |
| magic | vidal |
| flannery o'connor's | grandmother |
| jadis | magician's nephew |
| "those other two equal'd with me in fate, so were i equal'd with them in renown." | milton |
| "textually ignorant" | grossman |
| vautrin | human comedy |
| all the king | warren |
| "twenty-six malignant gates," | tan |
| mormons | angels in america |
| duke of buckingham | la rochelle |
| ejcs | hrothgar |
| serafina correa | rose |
| james more | stevenson |
| "hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind." | autumn |
| sir walter raleigh | shepherd |
| "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" | wordsworth |
| "five years have past!" | wordsworth |
| coleridge on lyrical ballads | wordsworth |
| on the geneology of morals | nietzsche |
| "unreal city." | waste land |
| wampanoag | rowlandson |
| jing-mei | tan |
| father paneloux | france |
| "the winning cause pleased the gods, but the losing cause pleased cato." | pharsalia |
| alina reyes | cortazar |
| "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 |
| dennis hasset | church |
| "a world of made is not a world of born." | pity this busy |
| "a monster vile, whom god and man does hate." | faerie queene |
| "north pole" | equiano |
| chicken with plums | satrapi |
| "to you, clerk, literary man, sedentary person, man of fortune, idler, the same advice. up!... out in the morning!" | whitman |
| euphorion | prometheus bound |
| best american | story |
| oliver twiss | dickens |
| camacho | radio |
| thomas kyd | pamuk |
| stephen vincent benet | webster |
| kumiko | murakami |
| "the house of asterion" | borges |
| loved one | waugh |
| lords of xibalba | ball game |
| mistress overdone | vienna |
"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 |
| "avenged in part for lifelong hidings she has had to bear." | hayden |
emma tennant | henry james |
| "prenez garde a tchou-tchin-tchou" | stepdaughter |
| "sitting careless" | autumn |
| "these pretzels are making me thirsty." | kramer |
| hulda | independent people |
| "sesemi," | buddenbrooks |
| people of the valleys | independent people |
| jonathan safran foer | extremely loud and incredibly close |
| another cortazar | idol |
| "and indrajit," | bengali |
| judge irwin | willie |
| "sages standing in god's holy fire" | old |
| maata mahupuku | mansfield |
| "the cold splintering, breaking" | those winter sundays |
| tim walker | enron |
| "a strong buy." | enron |
| prajapati | brahma |
| mournable body | second person |
| dialogues of the gods | lucian |
| guinness world record for longest theatrical run | mousetrap |
| belle epoque paris | sappho |
lord warburton | the portrait of a lady |
| roylott | snake |
| rap on race | mead |
| bartleby the scrivener | melville |
| "drive your plow over the bones of the dead" | blake |
| "adnexa," | elegy |
| the homecoming | pinter |
| molloy | beckett |
| "dream argument." | hughes |
| knights of the round table | lancelot |
| "my little horse must think it queer / to stop without a farmhouse near" | frost |
| sam spade | maltese |
| "the man who would be king," | "the white man's burden" |
| "willingly would make rubbish of the earth." | reader |
| "that taste of opiate wine! lure of the dark valley!" | akhmatova |
| "the violence of beast on beast is read as natural law, but upright man seeks his divinity by inflicting pain." | far cry from africa |
| the 's bastard | jane eyre |
| arnold friend | car |
| "marry me." | gabriel |
| "secret code" | car |
| kat | all quiet on the western front |
| david balfour | kidnapped |
| margaret | wilde |
| "of la mancha." | don quixote |
| hamm | unhappiness |
| pied piper | misty of chincoteague |
| bergotte | in search of lost time |
| another didion | california |
| shaka zulu | negritude |
| james gregory | italy |
| pulitzer prize for drama for the hot wing king | hall |
| "wild" | old |
| william butler yeats | yeats |
| rainer maria rilke | duino elegies |
| new south wales | oscar and |
| fabrizio del dongo | stendhal |
| "blago bung" | ball |
| "egiga goramen." | ball |
| thackeray | barry |
| "what is to be done?" | lenin |
| gabriel oak | far from the madding |
| road to revolution | lenin |
| archer | maltese |
| allen's | catherine |
| "foster-child of silence and slow time." | ode to a grecian |
| panic room | snow |
| holden caulfield | salinger |
| house of hwang | the good |
| view of delft | in search of lost time |
| new york draft riots | melville |
| philip k. dick's | invasion of earth |
| "the kingdom of orangia" | master builder |
| "pants" | commedia |
| felix hoenikker | cat |
| anthology of the new black | senghor |
| malagasy poetry | senghor |
| prime minister in up against it | orton |
| eugene ionesco | absurd |
| bluebeard | world war ii |
| rostam | shahnameh |
| rasheed | thousand |
| "story." | marvell |
| paradox on the comedian | diderot |
| "staircase wit" | diderot |
| michel | immoralist |
| pope of the fools | hunchback of notre-dame |
| ten-tronckh's | pangloss |
| "limpin' lump o' brick-dust." | din |
| "going to nassau." | enormous radio |
| max brod | kafka |
| billy bones | stevenson |
| salamano | camus |
| tom hanks | brown |
| time machine | wells |
| "why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart?" | sonnet--to science |
"is there balm in gilead?" | "the raven" |
| "the fugitive." | proust |
| dylan thomas | do not go gentle into that good night |
| clara wieland | spontaneous combustion |
| thomas traherne | metaphysical |
| "chaka." | negritude |
| "why i write about mexico." | porter |
| "dull" | donne |
| "gray-brown" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "resistance literature." | palestin |
| sunday express | hall |
| "i would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than" | hall |
| "that's how i ought to have written" | in search of lost time |
| "little patch of yellow wall" | in search of lost time |
| dante gabriel | rubaiyat |
| stesichorus | autobiography of red |
| "my long two-pointed ladder's sticking through" | trees |
| "to die for one's country" | horace |
| gibson | ballard |
| men in the sun | palestin |
| "ecstasy of fumbling" | owen |
| madame l'espanaye | poe |
| auguste dupin | purloined letter |
| "the purloined letter" | poe |
| "likes a boggy acre / a floor too cool for corn." | dickinson |
| "whene'er to drink you are inclin'd... remember tam o'shanter's mare." | burns |
| archbishop ruggieri | ugolino |
| boolie werthan | driving |
| dunciad | pope |
| "the sabbath rang slowly / in the pebbles of the holy streams" | fern hill |
| "wants to die." | sexton |
| kantorek | all quiet on the western front |
| "that minx." | confederacy of |
brother juniper | the bridge of san luis rey |
| absalom pro deo | cry, the beloved |
| cixin liu | invasion of earth |
| "all the englishes i grew up with" | tan |
| "there's a little intricate hussy for you!" | malaprop |
| sir anthony | malaprop |
| saint anna | jerusalem delivered |
| groom | lorca |
| aladdin | arabic |
| "june" | chinese |
| hilda wangel | master builder |
| daniel mallory ortberg | rochester |
| "i keep in mind that magic moment" | pushkin |
| anna kern | pushkin |
| m. l. west | prometheus bound |
| "many-tower'd camelot." | lady of |
| fanny price | mansfield park |
| joseito fernandez | marti |
| knowell | humor |
| "mud-luscious" | in just |
| moushumi | namesake |
| rosie | narayan |
| argentina with jenna | freedom |
| "to hear her tender-taken breath, and so live ever - or else swoon to death." | bright star |
| "communal people" | hawk |
| "wild god of the world," | hawk |
| bronte | wuthering |
| worldly wiseman | christian |
| satis house | great expectations |
| "i caught this morning morning's minion," | windhover |
| "he which hath no stomach to this fight" | st. crispin's day |
| "passport made." | st. crispin's day |
| "man who looked / with such a wistful eye / upon that little tent of blue / which prisoners call the sky." | wilde |
| harry wotton | picture of dorian |
| maurice | holden |
| joe gargery | great expectations |
| bolom | walcott |
| "the house-top." | melville |
| nunavit | historical notes |
| virtue rewarded | richardson |
| senex amator | plautus |
| "style is character." | didion |
| zocalo plaza | porter |
| was a country | achebe |
| tad allagash | 80s |
| "the age of time," | fuentes |
| "shall never see a poem lovely as" | trees |
| "gather [these things'] buds while ye may" | rose |
| le horla | maupassant |
| "coma baby" | 80s |
| "art, truth and politics." | pinter |
| "the town is taken by its rats" | melville |
| "supernatural horror in literature." | horla |
| "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." | byron |
| h.g. wells's | invasion of earth |
absalom and achitophel | dryden |
| "world-soul" | seagull |
| season in hell | rimbaud |
| augustus carmichael | to the |
| man with black eye patch | blindness |
| doctor leete | looking backward |
| kondomanolious | zorba the greek |
| herbert pocket | philip |
| tjaden | all quiet on the western front |
| anagnostis | zorba the greek |
| miss lonelyhearts | west |
| "where ignorance is bliss / 'tis folly to be wise" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "the sea is calm tonight / the tide is full, the moon lies fair." | dover beach |
| sula | morrison |
| sagramore | hank |
| vahl | mephistopheles |
| "they eat green salad and drink human blood." | herzog |
| casina | plautus |
| mark mcgurl | writing |
| program era | writing |
| mfa | writing |
| "before, behind, between, above, below." | donne |
| nikolaj | pimento |
| "an expression of calm" | all quiet on the western front |
| "glad the end had come." | all quiet on the western front |
| judge clement | humor |
| johannes kreisler | hoffmann |
| "the sandman," | hoffmann |
| "letter concerning the prison of human life" | agincourt |
| christine de pizan | agincourt |
| christopher unborn | fuentes |
| lysidamus | plautus |
mein kampf | hitler |
| houyhnhnms | lemuel |
| buck mulligan | ulysses |
| doremus jessup | it can't happen here |
| in a paul bowles | joseph |
| "vincent cradeau." | joseph |
| vermont vigilance | it can't happen here |
| darling daintyfoot | our lady of the flowers |
| mahlke | cairo |
| percy shelly | ode to the west wind |
| "lycidas" | milton |
| "the tale of the fuller's wife." | golden ass |
ignatius j. reilly | a confederacy of dunces |
| valley of ashes | myrtle |
yann martel | the life of pi |
| "the dong with the luminous nose." | lear |
| efimova | puppet |
| evidence for the resurrection of jesus christ | butler |
| laughter on the 23rd floor | simon |
| "domestic education." | adams |
| tade thompson | science |
| terasina vidavarri | algren |
| oba waja | death and the king's horseman |
| " for 10 points each: name this poetry collection which contains a poem that describes how " | leaves of grass |
| "defused threat." | saladin |
| tail of the blue bird | maeterlinck |
| "ust-izhma" | ivan |
| "great gromboolian plain" | lear |
| samuel england | saladin |
| "to propitiate the gods." | hell screen |
| "whale rider." | maori |
| duro ladipo | death and the king's horseman |
| nina simonovich | puppet |
| last letters of jacopo ortis | napoleon |
| wormwood trilogy | science |
| "flash upon that inward eye / which is the bliss of solitude." | i wandered lonely as a cloud |
| "stone walls do not a prison make, / nor iron bars a cage" | prison |
| "with up so floating many bells down" | anyone lived in a pretty how town |
| "three visions of judas" | ficciones |
| toyota | harry |
| juan rulfo | mexico |
| ensign beverley | rivals |
| amadis of gaul | quixote |
| "the revolutionist's handbook and pocket companion." | man and superman |
| jenny gabriel | witches of eastwick |
| athena college | coleman |
| jonson | shepherd |
| ferdowsi | shahnameh |
| "depraved" | holmes |
| unamuno | cervantes |
| "the daring spirit" | covey |
| beardsley | rape of the lock |
| "who's the dunce now?" | pope |
| stephen breyer | fourth |
| persiles | greek |
| sigismunda | greek |
| "if you lock them together in a room with no food for a week." | maus |
| art spiegelman | graphic |
| walk by anita rau badami | india |
| 52nd street | september 1, 1939 |
| "this verse" | rape of the lock |
| jackson square | stella |
| in medieval empires | saladin |
| culture of competition | saladin |
| your show of shows | simon |
| claude robichaux | confederacy of |
| dunbar | sing |
| "pipe dreams." | iceman cometh |
| suitable boy | india |
| "sell him to the south" | jim |
| professor welch | lucky |
| summer sun celebration | twilight |
| "no hungry generations tread thee down." | ode to a nightingale |
| giovanelli | james |
| roon | brother |
| hitler studies at the | white |
| road back | all quiet on the western front |
| song of solomon | morrison |
| "wagahai" | i am a cat |
| "ah, how you will enchant the angels!" | dinesen |
| "evil, superstition, and tyranny," | fearful symmetry |
| balla fasseke | griot |
| "heaven cannot hold him / nor earth sustain." | rossetti |
| "glory be to god for dappled things." | hopkins |
| "the monsters and the critics," | beowulf |
| communists to oedipus | unbearable lightness of being |
| "life," | johnson |
| "brute beauty and valour and act." | windhover |
| "tell me it was for the hunger / & nothing less." | vuong |
| vercelli | old english |
| lila | naples |
| "holding darkness within." | hill house |
| "there's no need for red-hot pokers." | hell is other people |
| barbedienne | hell is other people |
| xue baochai | stone |
| "moloch whose mind is pure machinery." | howl |
| satis | philip |
| kah-mel dah-ood | stranger |
| in an adichie | sun |
| "one could do worse than be a swinger of birches," | frost |
| dulness | pope |
| a wedding-guest | albatross |
| "if the sun and moon should doubt, they'd immediately go out." | auguries of innocence |
| "burns at both ends" | candle |
| "will not last the night" | candle |
| "assorted characters of death and blight" | design |
| "queenie" | updike |
| "like the ingredients of a witches' broth." | design |
| "artifices," | ficciones |
| "an ode to himself" | jonson |
| armande bejart | school for wives |
| mamoudou kouyate | griot |
| "walks at midnight" | lincoln |
| black death | decameron |
| henry esmond | thackeray |
| william bradshaw | mrs |
| algic researches | song of hiawatha |
| smilevski | concentration camp |
| "the kentucky derby is decadent and depraved." | horse |
| brainworm | humor |
| "the waking" | world war ii |
| spallanzani | hoffmann |
| "but i have promises to keep, / and miles to go before i sleep" | frost |
| bohemian | marriage |
kanaka joe | the luck of roaring camp |
| urbana | hal 9000 |
| meet | persephone |
| "swallowed" | twenty love poems and a song of despair |
| thiz | midsummer night's |
| demetrius | midsummer night's |
| la paz | hawthorne |
| la times | capote |
| epic of wheat | octopus |
| jabez wilson | red-headed |
| miss van campen | farewell to arms |
| "guantanamera [gwahn-tahn-ah-mair-ah]" | marti |
| professor baglioni | rappaccini's daughter |
| toulon | javert |
| "the mightiest of magicians" | hiawatha |
| "black pitch-water" | hiawatha |
| "seven ages of man" | as you like it |
| "gentleman-callers" | tom |
| "mumu." | sportsman's sketches |
| "bronze atrocity" | hell is other people |
| "a vigorous and sudden snatch" | covey |
| elle | diving bell and the butterfly |
| "thyestes" | seneca |
| "prolonged cries of agony" | octopus |
| alice oswald | iliad |
| daqiqi | shahnameh |
| "wrong" | holmes |
| "set" | prime of miss |
| "dissolving margins." | naples |
| "our god" | rossetti |
| penrod | dog |
| rebeca | one hundred years of solitude |
| bill driscoll | ransom of red |
french pete | the luck of roaring camp |
| henry sweet | higgins |
| "stink like rotten meat / or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet" | dream deferred |
| nadine gordimer | south |
| in the sailor who fell from grace with the sea | cat |
| pandaemonium | paradise lost |
| muhbab ali | kim |
| robert hunter | alger |
| "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times." | tale of two cities |
| lindsay lohan | parent trap |
| emperor jones | o'neill |
| magnus derrick | octopus |
| "to him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms" | thanatopsis |
| maupassant | pierrot |
| "stormy mane of a pony" | funes |
| adventures of augie march | chicago |
| tove jansson | hitler |
| "a circle drawn on a blackboard." | funes |
| "our sewage disposal system." | gulag archipelago |
| tobias | sweeney |
| connie | lady chatterley's lover |
| li'l | driving |
| driving miss daisy | georgia |
| jane johnston | song of hiawatha |
| "severe hysteria" | epilepsy |
| "no more than a machine." | flaubert |
| "you, the reader" | baudelaire |
| "copied out of a loose paper" | burning |
| twelfth night | age |
| lowery field | yossarian |
| "how clumsy this winged voyager! how weak/comic, and ugly!" | fleurs du mal |
| tool | house for mr. biswas |
| "you eat your victuals fast enough." | shropshire lad |
| "lie" | journey to the center |
| tibet | holmes |
| andrew butler | bildungsroman |
| something wicked this way comes | bradbury |
| bringing up baby | albee |
| sketchbook of geofrrey crayon | legend of sleepy hollow |
| the , gent | legend of sleepy hollow |
| ali baba | one thousand and one nights |
| "the veldt" | bradbury |
| "a tale of two gardens" | paz |
"golgotha" | sassoon |
| gahl | banquo |
| "one day anyone died i guess." | cummings |
| jo march | alcott |
"the darkest evening of the year." | stopping by woods on a snowy evening |
| "traveling box" | brobdingnag |
| "clay" | dublin |
| gabriel utterson | jekyll becoming |
| black americans | senghor |
| "sour grapes." | aesop |
| scout | atticus |
| ida's bar | cannery |
the mysteries of udolpho (genre) | gothic |
| antoinettte cosway | bertha |
| francine prose | rosenberg |
| vindications | book |
| silas flannery | calvino |
| hippolyta | penthesilea |
| "drink me" | alice |
| ivan dmitritch gromov | ward number 6 |
| "beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror," | duino elegies |
| "genius" | dryden |
| "break" | frederick |
| joseph addison | thackeray |
| "i could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." | reginald |
| "did not give of bird or bush, like nothing else in tennessee" | anecdote of the jar |
| "the mystery of marie roget," | poe |
| solveig | ibsen |
| bal-yoh-nee | rappaccini's daughter |
| plumfield | jo |
| tuttle | roaring camp |
| hms bellipotent | billy |
| aborigine | serpent |
richard madden | borges |
| "conversation" | stein |
| herbert stencil | pynchon |
| "savage" | brave new world |
| battle of red cliffs | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "beware of him, he bites." | david |
| david copperfield | dickens |
| illiac | hal 9000 |
| beatriz viterbo | borges |
| "tlon, uqbar, orbis tertius" | borges |
| raoul duke | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| "could not stop for" | death |
| edward covey | douglass |
| teddy lloyd | school |
| palace of desire | cairo |
| eldridge cleaver | bigger |
| "no trace... of the martin luther king-type self-effacing love for his oppressors." | 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 |
| "beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze." | daffodi |
| maria truczinski | tin drum |
| gollum | bilbo |
| atlas shrugged | rand |
| "had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars, two valuable horses, and a prominent citizen" | outcasts of |
| "the town of oran, which is merely a large french port on the algerian coast" | plague |
| captain peleg | ahab |
| goce smilevski | concentration camp |
| "my america! my new-found-land" | donne |
| judge banner | natural |
| denys | out of africa |
| 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 |
| "i want you to start immediately for america." | extricating young |
| kingdom of this world | magic |
| "little formless fears" | brutus |
| "split land" | yoknapatawpha |
| ezuelo | things fall apart |
| inspector javert | miserables |
"rude mechanicals" | a midsummer night's dream |
| while at the salem house academy | david |
| "telluric currents" | eco |
| in france | romantic |
| cook | cheshire cat |
| "think like and act as a man." | julie |
| christmas carol | dickens |
| annixter | octopus |
| "mr. fly-off-the-handle" | alex |
| norman culpepper washington | diamond |
| hermod | baldur |
| skadi | feet |
| aegis | medusa |
| "leucosia" | siren |
| "but these are all lies. men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." | rosalind |
| "first came the chasm, and then broad-breasted earth." | theogony |
| baroka | lion and the jewel |
| charles dodgson | carroll |
| "droogs" | burgess |
| tarzan | egypt |
| "the mariners heard the warning bell; and then they knew the perilous rock." | inchcape |
| agnimitra | ring |
| werther | linden |
| "gas-coin" | heidegger |
| "cabaret" | eatonville |
| "god never made a finer woman" | misfi |
| "well-to-do planter" | occurrence at owl creek bridge |
| cassim | ali |
| "yes, you squashed cabbage-leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult to the english language!" | eliza |
| jose arcadia | garcia |
| colonel aureliano of the buendia | garcia |
| halvard solness | architect |
| branom | nadsat |
| "carey" | dr jekyll |
| mr hyde | stevenson |
| "this is the forest primeval [pry-mee-vull]." | evangeline |
| temple of venus | parliament of fowls |
| miss jean brodie | school |
| arandir | kiss |
| the vixen | rosenberg |
| "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 |
| "a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church" | wise blood |
| irie jones | white teeth |
| "all cats die. socrates is dead. therefore socrates is a cat." | rhinoceros |
| "were all westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life" | great gatsby |
| provincial mayor | time machine |
| arafa | children of gebelawi |
| "and with a stronger faith embrace a sword, a horse, a shield." | to lucasta, going to |
| "what made me take this trip to africa?" | henderson the rain |
| mia | camoes |
| ashkenazi jews | yiddish |
| finch hatton | out of africa |
| raymond carver | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| julien pitt | angels in america |
| sulphur creek | to build a fire |
| "flawlessly set in gold so fair" | pearl |
| tez | quetzalcoatl |
| scottish play | macbeth |
| "have you found any places where god would have felt at home?" | william of baskerville |
| "to reform oneself is to live." | rodo |
| "ariel." | rodo |
| man in the high castle | dick |
| plot against america | roth |
| great expectations | australia |
| "waiting for the barbarians" | greek |
| "intimately lives with rain" | tree |
| "with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy." | confederacy of |
| hennessey | naked and the |
| mount sebastian college | things they |
| queen dharini | ring |
| "to quaff at morning, noon, and night" | heidegger |
| shield sheafson | hrothgar |
| shay | hrothgar |
nagg and nell | endgame |
| karl rossmann | kafka |
| mary lyon | mice |
| "temper tantrum kid" | alex |
| riding sleipnir | baldur |
| kawai sora | matsuo |
| anna pavlovna | napoleon |
| "counter-attack" | sassoon |
| "crocodile tongues" | james |
| spiker | james |
| bliss | coward |
| "terence, this is stupid stuff" | shropshire lad |
| pohv | nose |
| "odd bits of old rhyming slang" | nadsat |
| prascovia osipovna | nose |
| dawn | dunbar |
| antarctica with mr | angels in america |
| fahrenkopf | night of |
| edmond rostand | cyrano |
| "pure and holy, which embraces all the charms of all the graces" | frog |
| biff carter | winesburg |
| lunch room | winesburg |
| ness | agamemnon |
| "reformarse es vivir" | rodo |
| mel mcginnis | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| heatholoaf | hrothgar |
| wylfings | hrothgar |
| booth | salvation army |
| "the kettle, you fool!" | dumb waiter |
| "mole-main" | "shooting an elephant" |
| moulmein | "shooting an elephant" |
| "bad fencer, but a sound thinker" | don juan |
| "more sweetly than our rhyme" | grecian urn |
| "as if he were dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality." | capote |
| jorge | laugh |
| "meditation xvii" | for whom the bell |
| "stuttering rifles' rapid rattle" | anthem for doomed |
| edna | caged bird |
| grain of wheat | ngugi |
| vidushaka | ring |
| charite | apuleius |
| harold bloom | paz |
| "fantasy that she's a meaningful member of a family." | hosseini |
| wellesley college | nabokov |
| "had a cat named flo," | porlock |
| "the loser." | mann |
| nelson rodrigues | kiss |
| gullveig | vanir |
| "for god his sake let's get out of this. the place stinks." | candle in the |
| "magic theatre -- entrance not for everybody" | steppenwolf |
| "i had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me." | much ado about |
| mario puzo | balzac |
| ted brown | lysistrata |
| "for it is in london that our scene lies." | it was a dark and stormy night |
| westminster review | eliot |
| "grok" | stranger in a strange |
| "his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come." | all quiet on |
| medical man | time machine |
| mah-aht | ra |
| then | siren |
| "to thine own self be true," | polonius |
| "world state," | john |
| another wallace stevens | 13 |
| "if you can't think on your feet, you ought to keep your mouth shut." | glengarry glen ross |
| "a lamp on earth" | canto general |
| savannah | prince of tides |
| phantom | misty of chincoteague |
| heart of a dog | bulgakov |
| hippolyte | emma |
| "the lorelei" | german |
| fusun | istanbul |
| moll flanders | defoe |
| "porphyria's lover," | browning |
| potter | crane |
| surt | fir |
| an ideal husband | wilde |
| rick deckard | dick |
| "swede" | roth |
| lady bertilak | girdle |
| lavinia | turnus |
| "kindly leave me alone." | alceste |
| "stand on street corners and jeer at europeans" | "shooting an elephant" |
| snowball | pig |
| master builder | ibsen |
| robert faehmel | billiard |
| aline | buddenbrooks |
| "all afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury." | phedre |
| sholem asch | yiddish |
| "i've lost a whole day over" | six |
| "mutilated" | beneatha |
| "stupidity, delusion, selfishness and lust torment our bodies and possess our minds." | flowers of evil |
| maat | ra |
| "if i be waspish, best beware my sting" | taming of the |
| "i have great trouble, and some comfort, to acquaint you with." | pamela |
| filby | time machine |
| "i mean, you're a blank, a cipher, a zero." | who's afraid of |
| mission house in sophiatown | cry, the beloved |
| "life is ever lord of death, and love can never lose its own!" | snow-bound |
| faunus | pan |
| "fair witness" | stranger in a strange |
| luna moth | amazing |
| "grandmother was a warlock" | porlock |
| "he has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face." | minister's black |
| hotel costa verde in mexico | night of |
| "we are living in a place abandoned by god." | william of baskerville |
| "the bible is an antique volume" | dickinson |
| nautilus | verne |
| "american muse," | benet |
| "gloss" | king |
| leni | kafka |
| northern bride | uncle tom's |
| klopstock | sorrows of |
| medbourne | heidegger |
| killigrew | heidegger |
| pete | crane |
| chums of chance | pynchon |
| eleanor robson | enheduanna |
| marta weigle | enheduanna |
| lagoon | new zealand |
| "old pond, frog leaps in, water's sound." | haiku |
| saxo grammaticus | snorri |
| "what two letters of the alphabet...express perfection?" | emma |
| jyoti | mukherjee |
| "everything that has dark sounds." | lorca |
| "among these barren crags" | ulysses |
| alec | hardy |
| veen | glengarry glen ross |
| "suffer'd greatly, both with those/ that loved me, and alone" | ulysses |
| proh | bellerophon |
| "the male who invites" | izanagi |
| pearl blossom | wang |
| in the devil | holocaust |
| hannah stern | holocaust |
| "words had forked no lightning." | do not go gentle into |
| "like rotted meat" | dream deferred |
| king jesus | william |
| "faces along the bar cling to their average day." | september 1, 1939 |
| "empty net, at the advent of autumn" | heights of macchu |
| "shrill, demented choirs" | anthem for doomed |
| ee-jee-un | syracuse |
| "old-timer" | to build a fire |
| "i flatter myself that my present overtures of good will are highly commendable." | collins |
| menelaus | helen |
| "stunning blow" | bierce |
| samuel ratchett | murder on the orient express |
| matthew prichard | mousetrap |
| almayer | conrad |
| "you were right, old hoss; you were right," | to build a fire |
| gunter grass | drum |
| "the poison tree" | blake |
| as you like it | jaques |
| "predators" | season |
| "destroyers" | season |
| talkative man | narayan |
| ishmael | whale |
| "waltzing matilda" | australia |
| "dedication for a plot of ground." | chicken |
| "savage race" | ulysses |
| "hoard, and sleep, and feed, and not know me." | ulysses |
| "you can't do it here, it's not the place!" | america |
| "behind every great fortune there is a crime," | balzac |
| fairhurst | bleak house |
| edmund waller | rose |
| "the invisible worm that flies in the night in the howling storm," | rose |
| h.d | rose |
| stoppard | rosencrantz |
| madwoman in the attic | jane eyre |
| beth | alcott |
| torrens | conrad |
| pedro romero | the sun also |
| mike campbell | the sun also |
| ann whitefield | shaw |
| scratchy wilson | crane |
cancer ward | solzhenitsyn |
| kostoglotov | solzhenitsyn |
| clyde griffiths | dreiser |
| "then - the officer," | marquise of o |
| acquired toilet disease | vogel |
| baltimore waltz | vogel |
| by the waters of babylon | benet |
| "decalage," | senghor |
| "jetlag," | senghor |
| thibault | dumas |
| florinda | behn |
| "the myth of sisyphus?" | camus |
| angel clare | hardy |
| damis | tartuffe |
| montoni | mysteries of udolpho |
| two fair cousins | scholar |
| hellena | behn |
| "all good things must come to an end." | troilus and criseyde |
| "story ends with me still" | row |
| friedrich maximilian klinger | sturm und drang |
| "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 |
| history boys | bennett |
| "a veteran!" | sammy |
| "the fat boy with the happy laugh" | sammy |
| comedy of errors | dromio |
| blackwill | elizabeth i |
| shakbag | elizabeth i |
| "first traces in the world, of life and time / and love, and mortal hope, and vanishing." | ash |
| max beerbohm | oxford |
| von grimelhausen | simplicius simplicissimus |
| vollmer | world war iii |
| archilochus | hedgehog |
| more pricks than kicks | beckett |
| alvaro enrigue | quevedo |
| "cut into joints" | chicken |
| "pies, fruits" | chicken |
| egeon | solinus |
| agnes wickfield | david |
| herman mellema | indonesia |
| sabine hills | marius |
| "in all my dreams before my helpless sight, he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning." | dulce et decorum est |
| "how many dawns, chill from his rippling rest, the seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him?" | bridge |
| "the necks of four bottles." | chicken |
| phileas fogg | verne |
| "big house on the street," | allende |
| "baby igor." | pynchon |
| "music has charms to soothe a savage breast." | mourning bride |
| "you will love again the stranger who was your self" | walcott |
| "love after love." | walcott |
| ugwu | half of a yellow sun |
| kainene | half of a yellow sun |
| ochola | gurnah |
| "we will try to be good neighbors. and that's all we got to say about that." | raisin in the sun |
| katusha | tolstoy |
| incident at vichy | miller |
| negritude | senghor |
| trystero | pynchon |
| frederick griffith | playboy of the western world |
| amherst | dickinson |
| "on influence," | carver |
| cleanth brooks | british museum |
| "women as verbal artists." | enheduanna |
| josiah gilbert holland | bars fight |
| history of western massachusetts | bars fight |
| erlend | undset |
| "i was stamped out like a plymouth fender into this world" | row |
| "what do i remember / that was shaped / as this thing is shaped?" | asphodel, that greeny flower |
| christian diestl | shaw |
| young lions | shaw |
| nick carraway | fitzgerald |
| yee | chang |
| girl of the streets | crane |
| robert lebrun | awakening |
| "it's just so interesting. the colors and all." | world war iii |
| charles bronson | venice |
| "a bedlamite speeds to thy parapets, tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning," | bridge |
| david mccullough | veldt |
| edwidge danticat | decameron |
| "ta-ra-ra-boom-di-ay" | three sisters |
| "if only we knew." | three sisters |
| sudden death | quevedo |
| minke | indonesia |
| norad | france |
| "proem" | bridge |
| countee cullen | harlem renaissance |
| bronze horseman | pushkin |
| madame alvarez | colette |
| gaston | colette |
| "molten phosphorus" | copenhagen |
| "tubingen, january" | holderlin |
| "travels through the whole word without a pass." | dry white season |
| the cure | machiavelli |
| country girls | o'brien |
| henryk sienkiewicz | polish |
| "sing sin," | brooks |
| framton nuttel | saki |
| songs of experience | blake |
| "the man who considers...what good or evil he has done, and what judgement his soul will receive after its passing" | bede |
| "riot club" | stoppard |
| simuvac | white noise |
| jason strugnell | cope |
| "you sockdologizing old man-trap" | lincoln |
| "pallaksch" | holderlin |
| "sometimes meant yes, sometimes no." | holderlin |
| lorenzo savoini | miller |
| "my sweet dear, i send cheer, all the best!" | marot |
| "to a sick damsel," | marot |
| "the freedman's story" | atlantic |
| "the child who became a giant" | dry white season |
| making cocoa for kingsley amis | cope |
| "american realism" | chicago |
| poet laureate of illinois | brooks |
| lake como | julie |
| mathilde von zahnd | physicist |
| world was silent while we died | half of a yellow sun |
| germaine de stael | napoleon |
| sizwe banzi | dead |
| coppet | napoleon |
| "weasels that stole" | chicken |
| anoa | season |
| "repulsive, alarming yellow flowers," | master |
| alicia | colette |
| wood of tenjin | love |
| "defended herself" | chicken |
| "in his mouth / gazing at the clouds." | grass |
| "drama of struggle" | dead |
| "alex, the great alexander." | nash |
| "the sword." | ficciones |
| "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 |
| "imbedded in jelly," | chicken |
| nyai ontosoro | indonesia |
| "the mythos of spring." | comedy |
| wong jiazhi | chang |
| "turns his necessity to glorious gain; / in face of these doth exercise a power / which is our human nature's highest dower." | happy warrior |
| "mapface" | saleem |
| deest | shaw |
| "piece of the moon" | saleem |
| "a wine chronometer," | melville |
| acrasia | 1984 |
| singin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "density" | v-2 |
| "suicide calculated well in advance." | loser |
| "she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the nile." | malaprop |
| audrey luna | fourth |
| unquiet grave | crabbe |
| akira kurosawa | akutagawa |
| ine | no exit |
| "on the pulse of morning" | angelou |
| "death song." | bede |
| ola rotimi | dead |
| germaine | color purple |
| jeanie | goblin market |
| baba brennan | o'brien |
| laura wade | stoppard |
| tom taylor | lincoln |
| letters on tactics | lenin |
| "the fate of unrequited love." | garcia marquez |
| "after every war / someone has to clean up" | grass |
| ayi kwei armah | season |
| kate brady | o'brien |
| pillow book | japanese |
| argalia | angelica |
| lucy honeychurch | forster |
| roth ira | zuckerman |
| "time to gather your arse up off the floor" | banana |
| roberta alden | dreiser |
| do androids dream of electric sheep | dick |
| pardoner | chaucer |
| francesco del cossa | smith |
| "big blonde" | parker |
| carl | raisin in the sun |
| dorimant | fopling |
| "palinurus," | crabbe |
| ahab | doubloon |
| "little girl." | the yellow wallpaper |
| dreissiger | howells |
| roman general ventidius | all for love |
| "heil hitler" | amon goeth |
| "golden age" | spain |
| "song," | rose |
| "memorial" | iliad |
| "one of us." | knausgard |
| mother wolff | hauptmann |
| beaver coat | hauptmann |
| new york drama critics | children's hour |
| wulkow | hauptmann |
| after alexas | all for love |
| naomi | ginsburg |
| eugene de rastignac | balzac |
| "vague, distant, misty country." | symphony in gray major |
| charlie drouet | carrie |
| "corrected" | soseki |
| "the moon is beautiful." | soseki |
| murat sabanovic | andric |
| estupina | fortunata and jacinta |
| ferraguto | angelica |
| "there is a thorn - it looks so old." | don juan |
| stream of love | angelica |
| algernon moncrieff | wilde |
| rudy giuliani | manzoni |
| amerika | kafka |
| roger dean | denver |
| journal of the plague year | defoe |
| air chrysalis | murakami |
| "every woman adores a fascist" | plath |
| mantuan | shepheardes |
| sneaze | soseki |
| soseki | kafka on the shore |
| uncle arhat | red sorghum |
| amin maalouf | rubaiyat |
| "windows looking in upon fiery reality" | tattoo |
| "theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life" | lenin |
| confessional | plath |
| rosenfeld | rooney |
| "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 |
| cassandra | austen |
| correspondence with a child | alcott |
| sebastian flyte | brideshead revisited |
| winnie | waugh |
| "get the guests" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| victor marchetti | our lady of the flowers |
| aisha | mahfouz |
| seafarer | old english |
| horowitz at the mozarteum | loser |
| thomas bernhard | austria |
| "the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living good drinking, and good talk." | melville |
| loveit | fopling |
| masthead | paris review |
| widow wadman | toby |
| brigid hughes | paris review |
| "why do you beckon me with your hand?" | poem without a hero |
| "for one moment of peace / i would give the peace of the tomb." | poem without a hero |
| peter w. barlow | barlow |
| "clever, disappointed man," | thomas's father |
| elizabeth bishop | villanelle |
| kabbalah | foucault's pendulum |
| "fam'd for thy valour, for thy virtues more." | washington |
| bertie stanhope | trollope |
| model kit | hopscotch |
| christian de neuvillette | bergerac |
| "renascence." | millay |
| slope | trollope |
| my struggle | knausgard |
| elizabeth montagu | romeo and |
| kenneth rexroth | ginsburg |
| palamon | knight |
| elsie venner | boston |
| low church | trollope |
| "smoking his pipe" | symphony in gray major |
| "thinking about the beaches" | symphony in gray major |
| shepheardes calender | spenser |
| "rubble literature" | boll |
| vilem | lake |
khaled hosseini (book) | the kite runner |
| turn of the screw | james |
| grose | the turn of the |
| "epic theater." | brecht |
| oryx | atwood |
| crake | atwood |
| lady aoi | tale of |
| jarmila | lake |
| dewey dell | faulkner |
| "self-reliance." | emerson |
| jo | hair |
| manfred | castle |
| marib | radio |
| lucy westenra | castle |
| "laid in the church of the franciscans, on the evening of the day she died." | laura |
| lucinda rosenfeld | rooney |
| "heroines of self-hate," | rooney |
| engelbert humperdinck | hansel and |
| branden jacobs | everyman |
| "glimpse of a dream smouldering in a cave" | okigbo |
| new york review books | bovary |
| "country doctor." | bovary |
| "chaste and lovely form" | laura |
| quintus ennius | dactylic hexameter |
| down syndrome | violent bear it away |
| "the german censors" | heine |
| tony kushner | angels in america |
| "walpurgisnacht" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| bend in the river | naipaul |
| electric kool | wolfe |
| aid acid test | wolfe |
| malvern hills | piers plowman |
| "heartbreak hotel" | handmaid's tale |
| ray smith | dharma bums |
| tender buttons | stein |
| joom | scarlet letter |
| achille | walcott |
| li bai | tang |
| omeros | walcott |
| professor challenger | doyle |
| uss | ariadne |
| "well-known city engineer shot dead. assailants thought to be natives." | arthur |
| mina murray | dracula |
| reizei | tale of genji |
| erskine childers | spy |
| "powhitetrash" | i know why |
| zahd | thousand and |
| "it never troubles the wolf how many sheep there be" | virgil |
| bertolt brecht | joan |
| run to rabbit at rest | updike |
| jean amery | bovary |
| "zhahn ah-may-ree's" | bovary |
| caryl phillips | rhys |
| "the armies of those i love engirth me." | sing |
| gilead | handmaid |
| bellied whale | good soldier svejk |
| wat tyler | vidal |
| cyrano | spain |
| view of the empire at sunset | rhys |
| antistrophe | pindar |
| into the night life | coney island |
| "my net is spread, my net is spread." | lion and the jewel |
| "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds," | candide |
| the brothers | latin |
| typee | melville |
| thirty years war | brecht |
| dapple | don quixote |
| manco capac | inca |
| "remembered" | updike |
| klahn | portrait of the artist |
| duke of illyria | twelfth night |
| howie newsome | grover's corners |
| gary snyder | dharma bums |
| maya angelou | autobiography |
| mikhail bakhtin | rabelais |
| "descend on us." | okigbo |
| "an hour to suffer, a lifetime to live," | land |
| "come back in tears, o memory, hope, love of finished years" | rossetti |
| weary gentlemen | yellow sky |
| sybil carpenter | bananafish |
"a wonder with a gun - a perfect wonder" | the bride comes to yellow sky |
| isle is full of noises | caliban |
| "wide robe" | lack |
| shingo | kawabata |
| "i loved her, and sometimes she loved me too" | saddest |
| "at any gathering i am there, mingling in the laughing and grieving." | reed |
| june rebellion | les |
| "grim demon haunting the marches" | beowulf |
| natty bumppo | cooper |
| "white-trash" | i know why |
| "please, sir, i want some more." | oliver twist |
| michael henchard | mayor of |
| emperor kiritsubo | tale of |
| ray-zay | tale of genji |
| "why do you laugh? is it because you hate the sound of laughing?" | as i lay dying |
| bill | kidnap |
| hortense briggs | american |
| "enoch and the gorilla" | wise blood |
| "should not mean, but" | be |
| "idiots" | heine |
| "ruffling the tawny pelt" | far cry from africa |
| elton | emma |
| norman foster | stranger in a strange |
| "the drunken boat" | rimbaud |
| "something there is that doesn't love" | wall |
| "madison is banquo, jefferson's macduff, and birnam wood is congress on its way to dunsinane [dun-sin-ayn]." | macbeth |
| "i cover all." | grass |
| "all europe contributed to the making of kurtz." | heart of darkness |
| democratic convention in los angeles | esquire |
| in karel hynek macha | lake |
| marty | harry |
| pair | herrick |
| marie tovesky | o pioneers |
| "ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay." | deserted village |
| beginners | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| liked best | film |
| hannah jarvis | arcadia |
| rangoon | around the world in |
| "this is america--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves." | main street |
| roebuck ramsden | man and superman |
| octavius robinson | man and superman |
| rawff | doctor zhivago |
| "parting is such sweet sorrow" | coward |
| talking squids in outer space | atwood |
| krook | spontaneous combustion |
| tess gallagher | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| rinaldi | jerusalem delivered |
| "now come, fire!" | hymn |
| "someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the model t on the american nation." | cannery row |
| black moon | insomnia |
| donald farfrae | mayor of |
| sibyl | picture of dorian |
| "i stand no wiser than before." | heinrich |
| lady fujitsuno | tale of genji |
| fantine | javert |
| grusha | caucasian chalk |
| "twilight" | trixie |
| "funeral blues" | auden |
| sinbad the sailor | scheherazade |
| theodore dreiser | howells |
| fire next time | baldwin |
| "the snows of kilimanjaro" | hemingway |
| arvid falk | strindberg |
| bwah gil-bair | ivanhoe |
| don alonso | quixote |
| knightley | emma |
| "here" | scarlet letter |
| hester | roger |
| goh-gan | "goodbye |
| hugh macdiarmid | drunk |
| wally | cider house rules |
| matthew biggs | insomnia |
| sound of music | god of small things |
| kohler | hitler |
| bharati university | tagore |
| "a rolling stone gathers no moss" | syria |
| hurry harry | bumppo |
| "fake" | genji |
| fernand lotte | human comedy |
| "the art of losing isn't hard to master" | bishop |
| vonda mcintyre | atwood |
| isak dinesen | out of africa |
| clarence thomas | oleanna |
| montgomery | island of doctor moreau |
| alexandre dumas | three musketeers |
| cape technical university | communication |
| mine | daddy |
| "-kahmpf] look." | daddy |
| book of laughter | kundera |
| pisthetaerus | cloud |
| strepsiades | clouds |
| "stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone." | auden |
| catskills | irving |
| "the wall" | sartre |
| dunnet landing | maine |
| mark kelly | giffords |
| extinctathon | atwood |
| lower depths | gorky |
| "sermon" | eugene |
| satine | lower depths |
| "log" | virgil |
| "make me immortal with a kiss." | helen |
| fenway park | updike |
| adamastor | portuguese |
| viola | twelfth night |
| "barbaric act of violence" | doll |
| "so dreadful that not even a sci-fi writer could have made him up." | trujillo |
| polynices | antigone |
| "gentleman from" | bayou |
| alexandrine meter | prose |
| "modern tragedy" | doll |
| adunis | ovid |
| sententiae | syria |
| "cannot rub the strangeness from my sight / i got from looking through a pane of glass." | apple pick |
| byblos | metamorphoses |
| chingachgook | bumppo |
| slawomir mrozek | police |
| "swah-vo-meer m'ro-zhek" | police |
| "with usura" | pound |
| ferdinand de grammont | human comedy |
| jean morris | heart of darkness |
| tawfiq al-hakim | egypt |
| sublet | bayou |
| neapolitan novels | ferrante |
| the works both human and divine | herrick |
| sir epicure mammon | alchemist |
| "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 |
| axolotls | cortazar |
| gospel according to jesus christ | saramago |
komarovsky | doctor zhivago |
| "will you take me home?" | arthur |
| sugriva | ramayana |
| "what does it all mean?" | to the |
| "rule britannia." | wheat |
| "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 |
| annals of the cakchiquels | maya |
| "when shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?" | macbeth |
| "and yet those who picture the world as unlimited forget that the number of possible books is not." | library of babel |
| "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 |
| england in world war | graves |
| manuel cabrera | senor |
| zurich | unbearable lightness of being |
| "sham grandeurs" | scott |
| "sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society." | scott |
| robbie turner at dunkirk | atonement |
| mistress hobbins | scarlet letter |
| russian at wellesley college | nabokov |
| "for bonny sweet robin is all my joy" | ophelia |
| "the ugly duckling." | andersen |
| water margin | golden lotus |
| "two roads diverged in a yellow wood." | frost |
| marguerite | ionesco |
| bob ewell | sheriff |
| shruff end | the sea, the |
| steropes | cyclops |
| arges | cyclops |
| tulla pokriefke | danzig trilogy |
| golden gate | john brown |
| "fiery serpent" | hiawatha |
| rosie probert | under milk wood |
| nine stories | esme |
| peach garden oath | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "alternate lives" | glass bead game |
| "most perfect...for the mathematical destruction of a mortal." | infernal machine |
| de profundis | opium |
| cox | hadleyburg |
| lutie | street |
| "that mighty mighty tribe of johnsons." | street |
| "clad in the beauty of a thousand stars" | helen |
| "covers me like a kind of bark" | italian |
| edward upward | isherwood |
edgar linton | wuthering heights |
| mortmere | isherwood |
| "everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type easter egg." | updike |
| "great soft jelly thing" | i have no mouth, and i must scream |
| big foot | dead |
| william hazlitt | king lear |
| "so thoroughly hateful that we do not even like to repeat their names." | king lear |
| seven star precious sword | cao |
| dong zhuo | cao |
| wei | romance of the three kingdoms |
| life on the mississippi | scott |
| "on being brought from africa to america." | wheatley |
| toreador song | carmen |
| "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains" | odes |
| "when the world screamed," | challenger |
| ruyi jingu bang | sun wukong |
| "take pity on my long misery!" | baudelaire |
| "their hits aren't clustering" | v-2 |
| castle of otranto | gothic |
| robin goodfellow | midsummer night's |
| ukonvasara | thor |
| yiddish policemen | chabon |
| brahn | cyclops |
| flores | borges |
| "my heart under your foot, sister of a stone" | bee |
| "looked better picked than growing." | manderley |
| "throwing-up" | ferris wheel |
| shino | thousand cranes |
| "the curse is finally expiated." | gloss |
| "we bend over them ... taking their breath / soft on our faces, wiping their domed brows." | whitman |
| yun ling | mist |
| george whitefield | man and superman |
| prayer for owen meany | irving |
| garden journal | hill |
| "our sauron, our arawn, our darkseid" | trujillo |
| yunior | trujillo |
| doctor faustus | helen |
| ann goldstein | ferrante |
| georgia o'keeffe | didion |
| "stick" | frog |
| madeline | poe |
| "i celebrate myself and sing myself." | song of myself |
| "man thinking" | emerson |
| carroll d. laverty | poe |
| ramon | sartre |
| "panterheaded ancestors." | mask |
| ralph touchett | james |
| "this is the dead land. this is cactus land." | hollow men |
| keith mathews | outsiders |
| "two-bit" | outsiders |
| "little, sleek, cowering, timorous beast." | mouse |
| sibylline leaves | gloss |
| "dormitive principle" | imaginary invalid |
| "men of death" | mask |
| nocturnes | senghor |
| "literary brownface" | ventriloquism |
| "they call us cotton heads" | mask |
| "great blobs of purple and red emotion" | eatonville |
| fumiko | thousand cranes |
| otoko | beauty and sadness |
| "does it make any difference / what names we call these lips by, if they keep / on yielding, and the kissing never stops?" | tsvetaeva |
| "descent" | avatar |
| in william gass | hitler |
| "vile and inhuman story" | playboy of the western world |
| richard flanagan | narrow road to the deep north |
| "science and pseudo-science" | poe |
| "unrelenting forces" | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "might not be a normal female." | i know why the caged bird sings |
| purple land | gaucho |
| "lurk late" | brooks |
| elena ferrante | little women |
| "a drift of females standing in their shifts." | playboy of the western world |
| "gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed." | god's grandeur |
| "cheeks will be stained with red blood" | moon |
| village voice | off-broadway |
| le voreux | germinal |
| montsou | germinal |
| christy mahon | playboy of the western world |
| joshua | smith |
| "newly awakening sexual appetite," | i know why the caged bird sings |
| bernard | house |
| my brilliant friend | little women |
| "gay falcon treading her wrist." | mother |
| call to arms | china |
| maheu | germinal |
| dorrigo evans | narrow road to the deep north |
| castorp | clavdia |
| earthly paradise in elijah | ariosto |
| futuremouse | smith |
| pow in the pacific | narrow road to the deep north |
| homage to qwert yuiop | burgess |
| enderby | burgess |
| "magical realism in spanish-american fiction." | universal history of infamy |
| "what are you laughing about? you are laughing at yourselves!" | government inspector |
| "point of departure" | universal history of infamy |
| "all the blond ones." | rumi |
| "the lord of those dead who are dressed in red. / the man who is masked in a faceless face" | dario |
| "blond" | rumi |
| madame merle | james |
"be just" | kafka |
| minta doyle | party |
| frederic henry | farewell to arms |
| "wine" | baudelaire |
| elias | naipaul |
| ramses the great | ozymandias |
| "i like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." | o pioneers |
"the deserted village" | goldsmith |
| kornakov | doctor zhivago |
| elesin | soyinka |
| marcel proust | in search of lost time |
| babette | lottery |
| "individuals and things" | basque |
| "interior landscape," | basque |
| frances vane | peregrine |
| zygmunt krasinski | romantic |
| trevor | vietnam |
| "the memoirs of a lady of quality." | peregrine |
| in king lear | fairy tale |
| angela carter | fairy tale |
| hallucinated city | andrade |
| intermediate sex at craiglockhart hospital | regeneration |
| "bright-hearted companions" | rumi |
| edward carpenter | regeneration |
| "combing the white hair of the waves blown back" | mermaid |
| "lingered ... till human voices wake us, and we drown." | mermaid |
| "perfect loveliness" | dunbar |
| "falconress" | mother |
| esquire | kennedy |
| babo | benito |
| obie awards | off-broadway |
| aunt lydia | handmaid's tale |
| "theme for english b," | hughes |
| prince myshkin | dostoyevsky |
| the republic | plato |
| troezen | hippolytus |
| "flame out, like shining from shook foil" | god's grandeur |
| pietro bembo | italian |
| "prudence" | hippolytus |
| astolfo | ariosto |
| aloysius bertrand | prose |
| nicolas azcarate | cuba |
| bagutta prize | manzoni |
| ernest dowson | gone with the wind |
| "birds of the night" | verlaine |
| "immanent will that stirs and urges everything" | hardy |
| "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." | lady windermere's fan |
| danish west indies | rhys |
| golden ass | novel |
| "instead of a preface" | russian |
| pink fairy book | shoemaker |
| enheduanna | poetry |
| "the convergence of the twain," | hardy |
| gonzalo arango | nada |
| andrew lang | shoemaker |
| "living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy" | letters to a young poet |
| audre | fourth |
| tapanhumas | andrade |
| pat barker | sassoon |
| "but where are the snows of yesteryear?" | villon |
| "garish lights, and mincing little fops / and cabarets and songs" | dunbar |
| waverley | scott |
| adela | lorca |
| fay mckelva | optimist's |
| "children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison." | midnight's children |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| tothero | harry |
| hith | utopia |
| "why did i ever know you? why were you so beautiful? is it my fault?" | madame bovary |
| snug | midsummer night's |
| diana barry | anne |
| "marks of wanton hunger" | chicago |
| liverpool | wuthering heights |
| professor woland | master and margarita |
| seashell game | basho |
| emil bergson | o pioneers |
| "when all wells are drawn dry, / i'll drink a tear out of thine eye." | hair |
| "for whom all winds are quiet as the sun, / all waters as the shore" | baudelaire |
| obabakoak | basque |
| snout | midsummer night's |
| "fair folk." | piers plowman |
| "love's the boy stood on the burning deck / trying to recite `the boy stood on the burning deck.'" | casabianca |
| "the lady of shalott." | tennyson |
| "did god in portioning wine and bread / give man his thought or his mere body?" | michael |
| d.j. west | kiss of the spider woman |
| niccolo | tristero |
| "everything comes out of an egg" | metamorphoses |
| jose quadrado | sand |
| "the most obscene of women." | sand |
| robert morison | 1918 |
| harriet beecher stowe | uncle tom's cabin |
| tom thumb | fairy tale |
| briefly gorgeous | vietnam |
| marie ndiaye | france |
| cavalcanti | dante |
| undivine comedy | romantic |
| on earth we | vietnam |
| "they say such different things at school." | michael |
| "refutation" | sand |
| eclogues | virgil |
| "civil peace." | achebe |
| ndiaye | france |
| in watermelon sugar | brautigan |
| midnight's children | rushdie |
| clorinda | tancredi |
| edouard manet | nana |
| max fleischer | superman |
| "especially heinous" | machado |
| detectives benson | machado |
| paul kruger | hauptmann |
| angels and demons | novel |
| geb | nut |
| simon armitage | sir gawain and the green knight |
| lin daiyu | dream of the red chamber |
| lady nijo | party |
| hedwig niemann | nora |
| "oh, this is a sin against myself." | nora |
| stefano | my brilliant friend |
| colonel delmare | sand |
| count steinbock | human comedy |
| "butterflies, off banks of noon" | bird |
| rene descartes | i have no mouth, and i must scream |
| "in a station of the metro." | pound |
| argan | moliere |
| "old yellow pair" | brooks |
| conservationist | gordimer |
| "that some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision, i may burst into jubilant praise" | angel |
| janacek | 1q84 |
| "autumn is desolation in the plot / of a thousand acres." | confederate |
| "captive's tale" | algiers |
| "respectability" | winesburg |
| "there's no question of heroism" | bernard |
| "to my lord fairfax" | marvell |
| "why should of all things man unrul'd / such unproportioned dwellings build?" | marvell |
| harry sinclair | lanny |
| "mass of stupid filth." | leaves of grass |
| "are not torn down, rings and all." | scrooge |
| "with blue - uncertain stumbling buzz - between the light - and me." | fly |
| razor | maugham |
| natalia ginzburg | manzoni |
| "tobacco reading" | cuba |
| "it rains in my heart." | verlaine |
| "trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." | self-reliance |
| cat on a hot tin roof | williams |
| special victims unit | machado |
| la violencia | nada |
| st. louis | maya |
| lawrence ferlinghetti | howl |
| "hypocrite reader." | fleurs du mal |
| through the looking | borges |
| jonathan franzen | new yorker |
| "sinister mate" | hardy |
| fernando gonzales ochoa | nada |
| ebenezer prout | david |
| anneli taube | kiss of the spider woman |
| cal stephanides | metamorphoses |
| miss barrie | metamorphoses |
| "leap plashless as they swim" | bird |
| eilert lovborg | hedda |
| "in exile at sarzana." | cavalcanti |
| "nellie j. banks" | testaments |
| pearl girls | testaments |
| "the most immoral of writers" | sand |
| winter in majorca | sand |
| "my life is the gardener of my body" | hebrew |
| conversations with friends | irish |
| queequeg | white |
| wash williams | winesburg |
| qfwfq | calvino |
| maria antonia garces | algiers |
| if on a winter | calvino |
| kate swift | winesburg |
| "i hate and love. why i do so, perhaps you ask. i know not, but i feel it, and i am in torment." | lesbia |
"miss brill" | mansfield |
| pearl poet | sir gawain and the green knight |
| science fiction world | chinese |
| okamoto | life of pi |
| chiba | life of pi |
| dull gret | party |
| reaching for the moon | bishop |
| macedo soares | bishop |
| su shi | song |
| rusty trawler | holly |
| marcello solara | my brilliant friend |
| lota de | bishop |
| "a matter of common decency." | bernard |
| cluaneesha | virtue rewarded |
| baseball guide | holly |
| dandan | song |
| "naked and beautiful, reaching for the light." | hospital |
| lord of the flies | oe |
| nip the buds | oe |
| shoot the kids | oe |
| "a low, dishonest decade." | september 1, 1939 |
| "the martyr of style." | flaubert |
| grey wall | swastika |
| in jean cocteau | answer |
| "clearly doesn't" | death |
| "hell-hounds." | rowlandson |
| changing places | campus |
| david lodge | campus |
| "rid yourself of all your daily cares." | kafka |
| "must muddle the reader's ideas, not regiment them," | name of the rose |
| juvenal | mother-in-law |
| "in-laws" | race |
| "out-laws" | race |
| rist | centaur |
| "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 |
| beautiful star | mishima |
| english novel | ford |
| captain edward ashburnham | good soldier |
| "red hounds" | death |
| "the right word," | flaubert |
| "most loving and affectionate manner" | queequeg |
| faniaca | virtue rewarded |
| severo del valle | house of the |
| chay | ivanhoe |
| "the smile at the foot of the ladder" | miller |
| casey cep | baseball player |
| johnny | lord of the flies |
| brooklyn dodgers | rickey |
| gretchen | goethe |
| "pallid bust of pallas," | raven |
| "inflections from classical arabic." | library of babel |
| "autumn already!" | season in hell |
| raymon de ramiere | sand |
| "the horla" | maupassant |
| duke of squamuglia | tristero |
| "ex ovo omnia" | metamorphoses |
| monsieur crevel | cousine bette |
| joseph stangerson | study in |
| gregson | study in |
| blore | and then there |
| ettinsmoor | narnia |
| af-roh | hephaestus |
| karl adolph gjellerup | denmark |
| in george bernard shaw | juan |
| "pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling" | dover beach |
| "begin, and cease, and then again begin." | dover beach |
| "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 |
| after john andre | american revolution |
| autobiography of malcolm | haley |
| women in love | lawrence |
| "there is no end to my sickness, no term. one disaster comes to vie with another." | trojan |
| "you are my peace, my solace, my salvation; on you depends my bliss or desolation." | tartuffe |
| "no more to say, and nothing to weep for but the beings in the dream." | kaddish |
| "why you got the white mens driving and the colored lifting?" | fences |
| "old slewfoot" | yearling |
| g. h | native |
| "non-fiction novel" | lee |
| "is the warm smell of bread before you bake it" | house on |
| "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 |
| "i will enjoy thee now, my celia," | carew |
| infernal machine | answer |
| "lying in their blood," | rowlandson |
| celeste albaret | proust |
| clare hollingworth | war correspondent |
| sumerian inanna | enkidu |
| "gossamer thread" | whitman |
| james chettam | middlemarch |
| "le mot juste," | flaubert |
| "on parables," | kafka |
| "if you only followed the parables," | kafka |
| british angry young men | 50 |
| in the postscript | name of the rose |
| late bourgeois world | gordimer |
| "spanish sombrero" | smith |
| gilbert kaplan | minority report |
| miss kenton | butler |
| world of strangers | gordimer |
| "drinks the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of utica." | rockland |
| "lunar race" | behn |
| baliardo | behn |
| "doctor's wife," | blindness |
| dukes of devonshire | pemberley |
| chatsworth | pemberley |
| count of monte cristo | dumas |
| "turn everything off. start new." | veldt |
| "we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." | prospero |
| "chicken george" | roots |
| "those who lawfully may, and those who may not, write such histories as this" | tom |
| rachel | maupassant |
| madame pernelle | tartuffe |
| bret harte | california |
| hans christian andersen | emperor |
| book nine | tom |
| "loose, baggy monsters" | james |
| aethiopia | greek |
| dog in the manger | aesop |
| anna funder | brecht |
| harriet bird | baseball player |
| the 's nest | mental hospital |
| spenserian | sonnet |
| "to understand thoroughly and intuitively" | grok |
| world according to garp | irving |
| "beware the ides of march." | julius |
| "you have only to ask, i will do anything" | cry, the beloved country |
| "the tortoise and the hare." | aesop |
| "epic prose poem about the life of frederick the great" | death in venice |
| el-meer | tartuffe |
| bernard malamud | baseball |
| orvil red feather | orange |
| sherrard | barbarian |
| adolphe | red and |
| tipton grange | middlemarch |
| astronautilia | czech |
| "morning" | drunk |
| merry like christmas | i know why the caged bird sings |
| gettin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "bored by rhetoric and public speaking." | barbarian |
| "set his mind to evil" | byron |
| electra | sartre |
| swingin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| in keeley | barbarian |
| "a samoyed-lithuanian dialect of guarani" | library of babel |
| volcacius sedigitus | comedy |
| elizabeth barrett browning | if thou must love me |
| "sexual intercourse began" | lady chatterley's lover |
| book of the dead | osiris |
| "put on the kettle" | dumb waiter |
| ezra chater | byron |
| "there's a double meaning in that." | much ado about nothing |
| cosette | les |
| inger | growth of the soil |
| "a noiseless patient spider." | whitman |
| james wood | auster |
| "shallow graves" | auster |
| "and the beatles' first lp" | lady chatterley's lover |
| "stop calling me a crypto-nazi, or i'll sock you in the face" | debating |
| "the father of five sons, and in them the fathers of sons, and in them the fathers of sons." | i sing the body electric |
| "tra-la" | macneice |
| emperor of the moon | behn |
| susan choi | education |
| fulbert | idol |
| "keep the water white." | lonely londoners |
| on the natural history of destruction | sebald |
| duke of angouleme | julien |
| "torturing faces with the vacancy of wide sunflowers" | end of the party |
| "ploffskin, pluffskin, pelican jee!" | lear |
| "beyond" | bayou |
| bayou folk | chopin |
| king albert | suicide |
| "laws of inevitability" | war and peace |
| "would adore my gifts instead of me." | herbert |
| "brightening" | mask |
| sair | sonnet |
| ee-un | sonnet |
| sexual suspect | world according |
| "purifiers" | borges |
| thornfield hall | jane eyre |
| "dinner is a casual affair." | brooks |
| "not finding yourself at the age of 34 is a disgrace!" | death of a |
| man and superman | juan |
| she stoops to conquer | goldsmith |
| steve | show boat |
| hek-yoo-bah | trojan |
| henrik pontoppidan | denmark |
| "at the bat." | baseball |
| behemoth | master and mar |
| thamyris | milton |
| "you might as well advise me to give up my fortune as my argument." | vicar of |
| "your fortune, i am now sorry to inform you, is almost nothing." | vicar of |
| vanir | mim |
| "will arise and go now." | lake isle of innisfree |
| "if anyone should feel differently, they would feel nothing." | comedy |
| "!mayombe--bombe--mayombe!" | cuba |
| "behold the time of the assassins" | drunk |
| "petals on a wet, black bough." | pound |
| charrington | 1984 |
| pied beauty | dapple |
| historian mark lawrence schrad | jungle |
| governor carter ross | antigone |
| "knowing owl." | swan |
| personal matter | oe |
| "the pelican's chorus." | lear |
| la folle | bayou |
| knut hamsun | norway |
| "the original of" | pemberley |
| "common farmer" | i sing the body electric |
| "the taxis." | macneice |
| "though lovers be lost love shall not." | thomas |
| abbe faria | dumas |
| vincent | cry, the beloved country |
| foer | 2001 |
| j. g. ballard's | ballard |
| sasuke | tanizaki |
| skulker | dogs |
| "the slut you are so bent on becoming." | kincaid |
| "embalmed" | anubis |
| abebooks | jerome |
| everything is illuminated | foer |
| incredibly close | 2001 |
| wreck of the deutschland | hopkins |
| "ancient pond" | haiku |
| "dame peace" | parliament of fowls |
| "permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls." | lamb |
| wilbur wright roll | edison |
| lukashka | cossacks |
| "ennobling thoughts," | conversation |
| dolores haze | nabokov |
| "eat me" | alice |
| "a temporary matter" | lahiri |
| "sink through the sea ... shall rise again" | thomas |
| cypresses believe in god | spanish civil |
| friedrich holderlin | hymn |
| "frost on the ground." | li |
| ana | statue |
| gourd vine | hurston |
| haiti a french | welles |
| "suffering is one very long moment . . . we cannot divide it into seasons." | de profundis |
| "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 |
maria dahvana headley | beowulf (retelling) |
"some cromwell guiltless of his own country's blood" | "elegy written in a country churchyard" |
| walter williams | parker |
| "looking down into the swift water twenty feet below" | peyton |
| under western eyes | india |
| leggatt | conrad |
| "ode to the west wind." | shelley |
| "fluid puddings," | james |
| "and you'll be marching with the band / in step, responding to command" | brecht |
| love in the time of cholera | garcia marquez |
| "muddied people" | styx |
| "tristi fummo." | styx |
| " out of the " | flowers of evil |
| national prize in literature | spanish civil |
| brom bones | irving |
| gunpowder | irving |
| mcteague | paint |
| "do not remember me / as disaster / nor as the keeper of secrets" | lorde |
| "suspended by a handkerchief, and nearly at its last gasp." | dogs |
| extremely loud | 2001 |
| "extricating young gussie." | jeeves |
| scandinavian experimental theater | strindberg |
| "little penis from man island." | sappho |
| the 's campaign | wolves |
| charles stewart | key |
| kerkylas of andros | sappho |
| in the book of the city of ladies | griselda |
| "a stray ghost-walker with a ghostly gun." | brown |
| last witnesses | alexievich |
| mama yaya | tituba |
| "third world woman" | india |
| first mate | conrad |
| charles marlow | heart of darkness |
| "teach us ... what sweet thoughts are thine: / i have never heard." | to a skylark |
| gabriela mistral | chile |
| "turning point" | bleak house |
| "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 |
| "you can't fly kites on rainy days" | south |
| traveller | in the penal colony |
| ted streshinsky in the saturday evening post | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "bro!" | old english |
| parcae | fate |
| fugard | island |
| dangerous liaisons | smallpox |
| "plunged holding his treasure?" | suicide |
| slim | dog |
| mo yan | china |
| "swans" | capote |
| "the new small talk." | shaw |
| ken kesey | mental hospital |
| "picaros, madmen, naifs, and clowns" | unreliable narrator |
| lady rectitude | griselda |
| rick | klara and the sun |
| george henry lewes | spontaneous combustion |
| chief bromden | mental hospital |
| suda | sappho |
| "giving currency to a vulgar error," | spontaneous combustion |
| movement song | lorde |
| frances gage | ain't i a woman |
| "sprung rhythm,' as seen in " | hopkins |
| "the interlopers" | saki |
| "romance at short notice was her specialty." | saki |
| angwin | mantel |
| fludd | mantel |
| "go on living the life of the spirit" | lampedusa |
| torquato tasso | tancredi |
| captain vhd vhd | cosmicomics |
| ruth benedict | mead |
| "oh, what a tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive" | scott |
| "twinned novels" | hulme |
| on the shadow side | hulme |
| "lumps in the throat" | frost |
| "toward expression . . . to fulfillment." | frost |
| karl huysmans | nana |
| don fabrizio | lampedusa |
| "crystal palace" | dostoyevsky |
| joris | nana |
| "hope had grown grey hairs" | wreck of the deutschland |
| "the combs of a smother of sand" | wreck of the deutschland |
| genaro jr | radionovela |
| and the world kept silent | night |
| "as she undoubtedly will be." | nana |
| hwalbindang | korean |
| "whether i pound or am being pounded, / all the same there will be moaning!" | peer gynt |
| "dame patience" | parliament of fowls |
| noah claypole | oliver twist |
| italian hours | venice |
| casa alvisi | venice |
| "heart-broken jester" | lazarus |
| k. chesterton | chesterton |
| "one last poem for richard." | cisneros |
| "enchanted magician" | lazarus |
| randle patrick mcmurphy | mental hospital |
| "response" | reader |
| "talent is nothing but faith in yourself, in your own powers." | actor |
| pater jakobus | castalia |
| flash gordon | mysterious flame of queen loana |
| "fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic." | chandler |
| "please don't smoke in bed, or use candles," | cider house rules |
| "there should be no more than half a dozen people on the roof at any time." | cider house rules |
| "there should be stars for great wars" | cisneros |
| khepri | ra |
| olenin | cossacks |
| maryanka | cossacks |
| "rocks and seas" | conversation |
| "sweet sensations" | conversation |
| kerewin | hulme |
| keri hulme | new zealand |
| abashvili | azdak |
| "command me to follow him." | we must love one another or die |
| "work'us" | oliver twist |
| "process of alienation." | kikuyu |
| lord of the rings | tolkien |
| in book | life of pi |
| meyer wolfsheim | great gatsby |
| an experiment in criticism | reader |
| big sleep | philip |
| "that vast moth-eaten musical brocade / created to pretend we never die." | larkin |
| "the tomb in palestine / is not the porch of spirits lingering." | sunday morning |
| caucasian chalk circle | brecht |
| colonus | antigone |
| raskolnikov in crime | dostoevsky |
| "sticky as bluebeard's." | heaney |
| bonus buzz | lake isle of innisfree |
| bonus let | karst |
| "thanatopsis" | bryant |
| hugo ball | dada |
| miss ivors | dead |
| "we shall rest." | uncle vanya |
| bonus note | machine |
| "could notactually set eyes on" | temple |
| bonus in shinto | fox |
| bonus yoruba | death and the king's horseman |
| "the river is never so high that the eyes of the fish are covered," | death and the king's horseman |
| decay of the angel | mishima |
| honda | mishima |
| "what pipes and timbrels? what wild ecstasy?" | ode on a grecian urn |
| "to a waterfowl." | bryant |
| "the day you won your town the race." | housman |
| schiller | sturm und drang |
| "in medias res." | ars |
| jara cimrman | curie |
| mick jenkins | we real cool |
| cimrman | curie |
| karl moor | schiller |
| kill devil hills | wright |
| "and you, garcia lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?" | ginsberg |
| ellen olenska | wharton |
| stendhal | red and the black |
| amanda | saki |
| in search of our mothers | walker |
| blefuscu | lilliput |
| churning of the ocean | hindu |
| jerry in central park | albee |
| dumas | housman |
| "ode on melancholy" | keats |
| roderick | poe |
| hugh hayden | poet laureate |
| valenod | red and the black |
| sora | roxas |
| de ropp | saki |
| laszlo de almasy | greek |
| "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" | letter from birmingham jail |
| jorge de montemayor's | verona |
| "the case against" | woolf |
| etemenanki | tower of babel |
| "homer nods" | horace |
| jenkins | revolution |
"life for me ain't been no crystal stair" | langston hughes |
| "dream variations" | hughes |
| "key." | simon |
| "night coming tenderly, black like me." | hughes |
| "merely funny" | not bloody likely |
| "arms, and the man i sing." | virgil |
| "oh, whistle, and i'll come to you, my lad," | ghost |
| "there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go" | cummings |
| flask | white |
| captain underpants | pilkey |
| "spice" | dune |
| gone with the wind | mitchell |
| lewis hyde | stevenson |
| may welland | age of innocence |
| newland archer | age of innocence |
| "single man in possession of a good fortune" | darcy |
| wickham | darcy |
| ivor | dentist |
| "then while we live, in love let's so persevere, / that when we live no more, we may live ever." | loving husband |
| fitzcarraldo | tokarczuk |
| "blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay." | thomas |
| "to a haggis." | burns |
| thisman | poe |
| harry domin | robots |
| "great chieftain of the puddin' race!" | burns |
| "what mad nijinsky wrote / about diaghilev." | auden |
| "drowned phoenician sailor" | eliot |
| "eat the cones" | frost |
| woman in the nineteenth century | fuller |
| mathilde de la mole | red and the black |
| cholly | bluest eye |
| death of ivan illyich | tolstoy |
| michael sheen | six characters in search of an author |
| "the stars went out and so did the moon" | hughes |
| "being read to by a boy." | eliot |
| "the wasteland." | eliot |
| "interesting narrative" | equiano |
| intima theater | proscenium |
| esteban trueba | house of the spirits |
| "ain't i a woman?" | truth |
| klara | never let me go |
| craig raine | mars |
| "eat people." | china |
| dick hickock | capote |
| "the parliament of fowls." | chaucer |
| hard times | thurber |
| krypton | superman |
| "listen my children and you shall hear" | longfellow |
| haemon | antigone |
| polyneices | antigone |
| "forget-me-nots of the angels." | longfellow |
| hasanaginica | goethe |
| "coastal shelf." | larkin |
| "acquainted with the night." | frost |
| jerusalem delivered | tancredi |
| kapasi | lahiri |
| "durable" | thomas |
| squire allworthy | fielding |
| roanoke | paul d |
| "misery" | blacksmith |
| cisneros | llorona |
| pancho villa | mexico |
| koran | william |
| "save the children" | china |
| samuel m. johnson's | dictionary |
| mickey mouse | iwerks |
| jenny cameron | fielding |
| bristol | cabot |
| ruby turpin | revelation |
| strindberg | proscenium |
| natchez | welty |
| ricardo reis | pessoa |
| "the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe." | olenska |
| in the leopard | tancredi |
| "mother goose" | cat |
| love suicides of amijima | chikamatsu |
| " wrote " | hopkins |
| "time is tied to the wrist" | mars |
| brief history of seven killings | jamaica |
| " lists " | dapple |
| "classics." | heaney |
| if not | sappho |
| "of the spangled mind." | ode to aphrodite |
| in the signifying monkey | equiano |
| "poisoning" | alice |
| tirso de molina | don juan |
| gustav freytag | falling |
| "arrangement in black and white" | parker |
| gore vidal | los angeles |
| ralph fiennes | english patient |
| "dover beach." | arnold |
| "the third and final continent" | lahiri |
| maureen corrigan | great gatsby |
| cider house rules homer wells | abortion |
| harry fatt | waiting for lefty |
| wilbur larch | abortion |
| jeff | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "merry pranksters," | wolfe |
| jean rhys | jane eyre |
| "the deluge at norderney" | dinesen |
| africa to america | wheat |
| aegisthus in an aeschylus | clytaemnestra |
| "why, phoebus, moves thy car so slow?" | wheat |
| anne rutledge | lincoln |
| on being brought | wheat |
| "the secret life of walter mitty." | thurber |
"the idea of order at key west" | stevens |
| "wild african savage" | paul d |
| oscar madison | odd couple |
| "go home and write / a page tonight" | hughes |
| bill oliver | death of a salesman |
| captain vere | billy budd |
| arthur dimmesdale | scarlet letter |
| mary lamb | shakespeare |
| "adieu, the flow'ry plain" | wheat |
| identified with the bennu | phoenix |
| sinbad | sailor |
| "this hour, this night, my feelings go hard." | li |
| "out of the ash" | lady lazarus" |
| don gonzalo | don juan |
| catholic flyte | brideshead |
| kiran desai | pamuk |
| elfriede jelinek | doll's house |
| felix unger | odd couple |
| aunt alexandra | atticus |
| good person of szechwan | china |
| "mr. w. h." | shakespeare's sonnets |
| hotson | shakespeare's sonnets |
| chronicle of a death foretold | garcia marquez |
| walter savage landor | oxford |
| odette de crecy | charles |
| myra breckinridge | los angeles |
| "jangling journalist" | wolfe |
| "curious incident of the dog in the night-time." | sherlock holmes |
| solitary | wordsworth |
| east river | brooklyn |
| "effect" | distancing |
| "abortions will not let you forget." | brooks |
| stephen albert | borges |
| "like the cat has nine times to die" | lady lazarus" |
| "mid-term break," | heaney |
| street in bronzeville | brooks |
| daniel deronda | eliot |
| claude frollo | esmeralda |
| takashi | oe |
| bird | oe |
| "scatter, wheeling in great broken rings, upon their clamoring wings." | yeats |
| "rain is when the earth is television" | mars |
| "grave men, near death" | thomas |
| "a passion in the desert." | balzac |
| new york trilogy | auster |
| oroonoko | slave |
| shere khan | jungle book |
| if this | 40 |
| "going on a journey" | goethe |
| ossian | goethe |
| "anthem" | rand |
| jessica | shylock |
| antonio | shylock |
| tanizaki | kabuki |
| edward lear | limerick |
| "dramatizing herself." | flapper |
| "everybody's protest novel." | native |
| "blaze like meteors and be gay" | thomas |
| in wodehouse | butler |
| auster | roth |
| "nation language," | english |
| "man hands on misery to man," | this be the verse |
| darlington hall | remains of the day |
| joe shuster | superman |
| christopher reeve | superman |
| antwerp | astraea |
| "amateur" | remains of the day |
| pemberley | fitzwilliam |
| shams of tabriz | rumi |
chichikov | dead souls |
| "yes, call me by my pet-name!" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| naoko | norwegian wood |
| "red shoes." | andersen |
| geoffrey crayon | irving |
| "left school," | brooks |
| "how can we know the dancer from the dance?" | yeats |
| sandra gilbert | julia |
| alfieri | view from the |
| le cid | corneille |
| ryanosuke akutagawa | japan |
| movement | gunn |
| american senator lewis | remains of the day |
| "an art" | lady lazarus" |
| "hoary-headed swain" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "attic shape" | beauty |
| kerma | turtle |
jack burden | all the king's men |
| squire thornhill | vicar of |
| trojan women | cassandra |
| sri lanka in running in the family | ondaatje |
| "placetne, magistra?" | wimsey |
| greek war of independence | byron |
| s. wu | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "i cultivate a white rose" | cuba |
| ferber | parker |
| chronicles of narnia | lewis |
| "eats men like air." | lady lazarus" |
| steller | sebald |
| "the fish is red." | bishop |
| little girl | six characters in search of an author |
| save me the waltz | flapper |
| felix hobain | walcott |
alice b. toklas | stein |
| latin to an oxford | wimsey |
| gaudy night | wimsey |
| "oxymorons and serpentae carminael! ... schlock!" | wolfe |
| vesper lynd | bond |
| red center | handmaid's tale |
| "soldiers' dreams" | matsuo |
| "the months and days are the travelers of eternity" | matsuo |
| rosamond | middlemarch |
| james frazer | fasti |
| "school" | matsuo |
| "to a louse" | burns |
| joy hopewell | o'connor |
| senator jakob | kafka |
| argas | tartuffe |
| evgenii | bronze horseman |
| igraine | arthur |
| kalabis | havel |
| eponine | les |
| "sunstone" | paz |
| buzz windrip | lewis |
| "in the bleak midwinter." | goblin market |
| happen here | lewis |
| "let my country awake." | tagore |
| fountain of youth | heidegger |
"the lawyer of glass" | cervantes |
| smersh | bond |
| "she" | bond |
| benn | remains of the day |
| maurice bendix | greene |
| taming of the shrew | christopher |
| kamau brathwaite | english |
| louise bennett | english |
| "tim'rous beastie" | burns |
| "angel of death." | huck |
| "the village blacksmith" | chestnut tree |
| "no joy in mudville" | baseball player |
| anoosh | persepolis |
| overland monthly | california |
| natasha | rostov |
| thomas carew | cavalier |
| stanley webber | pinter |
| "get out as early as you can, / and don't have any kids yourself." | this be the verse |
| samuel selvon | lonely londoners |
| alfred doblin | berlin |
| "mother died today." | meursault |
| in the jungle | comrade |
| baasie | the burgher's |
| crab | two gentlemen of |
| phedre | racine |
| yeshua ha | master and mar |
| guy de maupassant | german |
| river of the arrow | kim |
| kizuki | norwegian wood |
| "victoria's requiem." | russian |
| song dynasty | water margin |
| john le carre's | berlin |
| harun | meursault |
| clutter | lee |
| "son" | borges |
| deus ex machina | tartuffe |
| "where knowledge is free" | tagore |
| it can | lewis |
| vladek | spiegelman |
| r. p. blackmur | stevens |
| "sweet thing" | williams |
| "nobody." | dickinson |
| "the innocent" | california |
| poema | chile |
| kaikeyi | ramayana |
| rules of the game | six characters in search of an author |
| marcel proust in in search of lost time | french |
| voltaire in candide | french |
| "paradise lost." | milton |
| "season word" | haiku |
| "hopped along the imperial highway." | frog |
| ymca | o'connor |
| sonya | dostoyevsky |
| resources of quinola | balzac |
| "we are no other than a moving row/of magic shadow-shapes that come and go." | rubaiyat |
| "the wine of life keeps oozing drop my drop,/the leaves of life keep falling one by one." | rubaiyat |
| in christina rosetti | frog |
| king of thebes | oedipus |
| loman | miller |
| jean santeuil | proust |
| andrei | war and peace |
| "nine and fifty" | yeats |
| "beyond the genius of the sea." | stevens |
| "knew no haste." | because i could not stop for death |
| "red room" | strindberg |
| lao she | cat |
| poemes | verlaine |
| gellhorn | spanish civil |
| " for 10 points each: when " | thrush |
darl (bundren) | as i lay dying |
| radio panamericana by pedro camacho | julia |
| trujillo | julia |
| "a trivial comedy for serious people," | importance of being earnest |
| grushnitsky | hero |
| alice munro | canada |
"narrow fellow in the grass" | dickinson |
| "debauchee of dew" | dickinson |
| "schartz-metterklume method." | saki |
| tarrou | bernard |
| "ode to the confederate dead" | lowell |
the silent cry | oe |
| vince | buried child |
| bellipotent | john |
| bluest eye | morrison |
| betrayal | pinter |
| laurie anderson | jo |
| and then there were none | miller |
| helen alving | ghosts |
| "the fall of house voticky" | capek |
| "in a kingdom by the sea" | annabel lee |
| djali | esmeralda |
| "friends" | emma |
| philip carey | maugham |
| chernobyl | journalist |
| bacchae | euripides |
| renzo | manzoni |
| marry warren | crucible |
| twelve labors | eurystheus |
| dead souls | gogol |
| "if swans can rain / white rape from heaven, then what is a girl to do?" | erdrich |
| messenger | giver |
| fathers and sons | turgenev |
| "poem without" | hero |
| nights at the circus | carter |
vardaman (bundren) | as i lay dying |
| ben ezra | stoppard |
| artificial paradises | fleurs du mal |
| normal people | irish |
| "the game" | irish |
| evelyn waugh | brideshead revisited |
| godfrey reggio | silas |
| "delirium" | season in hell |
| "write down!" | darwish |
| nervous conditions | zimbabwe |
| garces | don quixote |
| lovborg | hedda |
| the sword and the distaff | uncle tom's cabin |
| hooper | brideshead revisited |
| "wild men" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| tomas rodaja | lawyer |
| bartlett | johnson |
| william gilmore simms | uncle tom's cabin |
| harper | wolfe |
| brief wondrous life of oscar wao | diaz |
| larry darrell | maugham |
| tor house | california |
| city lights bookstore | california |
| jim burden | my |
| "someone else was dreaming" | borges |
| harrow | penal colony |
| elizabeth gaskell | ghost |
| victoria land | ross |
| marie byrd land | ross |
| little america | ross |
| "pah-chay" | six characters in search of an author |
| "drowsy syncopated tune" | hughes |
| "father of american anthropology." | boas |
| jerry siegel | superman |
| donald | tracy |
| four iambic | rubaiyat |
| "can you not trust me as a physician?" | the yellow wallpaper |
| baron hulot | human comedy |
| rastignac in the human comedy | balzac |
| sin | satan |
| tiryns | eurystheus |
| " 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 |
| anjana | ramayana |
| "upon appleton house." | marvell |
| "between my finger and thumb, the squat pen rests. i'll dig with it." | heaney |
| frantz fanon | wretched of the earth |
| camelot | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "the distance of the moon." | calvino |
| ermes marana | calvino |
| georgiana burne | rubaiyat |
| spainard | benito |
| machado de assis | brazil |
| clara bowden | smith |
| swing time | smith |
| "nevsky prospekt," | petersburg |
| brodsky | petersburg |
| bacchus | portuguese |
| ben richards | king |
| holy church of christ without christ | o'connor |
| anacreon | poetry |
| leaf storm | macondo |
| willa cather | my |
| raynell | wilson |
| daniel o'connell | nautilus |
| trout fishing in america | brautigan |
| of human bondage | maugham |
| nicolas guillen | hughes |
| karl bushy | sturm und drang |
| "i know why he beats his wing! / i know why the caged bird sings" | dunbar |
| oldest member | golf |
| mio romagna | sacco |
| round table | lancelot |
| book of salt | stein |
| "ave atque vale," | baudelaire |
| henry fielding | fairy tale |
| christina rossetti | goblin market |
| "nothing puzzles god" | achebe |
| adventures of peregrine pickle | smollett |
| marquis of saluzzo | decameron |
| maxine hong kingston | chinese |
| helen oyeyemi | fairy tale |
| jonathan | achebe |
| algiers | don quixote |
| macunaima | andrade |
| vikentios kornaros | greek |
| armida | jerusalem delivered |
| royal court theatre | island |
| "we cannot make [this thing] / stand still, yet we will make him run." | sun |
| prix goncourt | france |
| millicent boyd | golf |
| mitchell holmes | golf |
| don delillo | kennedy |
| chocolate factory | dahl |
| lincoln in the bardo | saunders |
| "escape from spiderhead." | tenth of december |
| "song of the reed flute." | rumi |
| emmanuel egudu | elizabeth |
| john maxwell coetzee | coetzee |
| a. s. byatt's | fairy tale |
| malory at the isis | archer |
| english by edward fitzgerald | rubaiyat |
| dupin | purloined letter |
| karl ove knausgard | hitler |
| libra | kennedy |
| principe | rubaiyat |
| "from house to house" | larkin |
| "can you describe this?" | russian |
| six inch | lemuel |
| "macdonagh and macbride, and connolly and pearse" | yeats |
| "sweetish sickness" | sartre |
| "are you washed in the blood of the lamb?" | lindsay |
| "good country people" | o'connor |
| "something there is that doesn't love a wall." | frost |
| " for 10 points each, canto general is a work by this nobel prize-winning poet who wrote " | neruda |
on famous women | boccaccio |
| ifemelu | adichie |
| "the cask of amontillado." | seal |
| "the danger of a single story" | adichie |
| the chairs and the | ionesco |
| susan glaspell | provincetown players |
| de quincey | ode to a nightingale |
| in zola | train |
| "caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon." | windhover |
| "believe me, i loved you all." | brooks |
| astrid lindgren | sweden |
| francis bellamy | looking backward |
| korova milk bar | burgess |
| john millington synge | playboy of the western world |
| fleur jaeggy | de quincey |
| "an iron house, without windows or doors" | lu |
| profiles in courage | kennedy |
| "perestroika," | 1980 |
| europa | 1980 |
| daodu | soyinka |
| canopus | lessing |
| "egg-rasher" | achebe |
| at swim | dublin |
| government inspector | gogol |
| connell | rooney |
| althea | prison |
| zosia | pan tadeusz |
| "indiana general" | old gringo |
| vinteuil | in search of lost time |
| isolation | erikson |
| la luna | old gringo |
| pribislav hippe | magic mountain |
| "great white wings/drag beside them like oars" | baudelaire |
| alexievich | monologue |
| bone people | maori |
| daphne du maurier | rebecca |
| vasily vasilych | hamlet |
| ned kelly | carey |
| caliban | tempest |
| "ten thousand tiny bubbles bursting on his skin" | maori |
| ethiopiques | senghor |
| playboy of the western world | ireland |
| evgeny | bronze horseman |
| anne bronte | epistolary |
| "lonely old grubber" | ginsberg |
| virgin | moby-dick |
| "you must change your life" | rilke |
| christmas past | ghost |
| cato the elder | farm |
| "the child's cry / melts in the wall." | mother |
| hermann | queen of spades |
| muriel and afrekete | lorde |
| possible lives | de quincey |
| ocampo | argentina |
| "expendable" | cortazar |
| "axolotl." | cortazar |
| in white teeth | islam |
| "the dream of the rood." | old english |
| half of a yellow sun | adichie |
| regency | clarke |
| witches | dahl |
| "plank in reason" | brain |
| "sonnet 31" | larkin |
| "don't have any kids yourself" | larkin |
| totem | darwin |
| "sad steps" | larkin |
| "who am i? and " | nobody |
| "deathless" | sappho |
| "the poetess." | sappho |
| ricky roma | mamet |
| vivian bearing | donne |
| ann more | donne |
"but all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty" | sappho |
| "the death of the hired man" | frost |
| love story | singer |
| magician of lublin | singer |
| phi beta kappa society | emerson |
| john paul jones | cooper |
| eastern iranian | persian |
| "walks through the valley of the shadow of death." | charge of the light brigade |
| louisa may alcott | little women |
| set at christmastime | doll's |
| robert juet | hudson |
| henry green | hudson |
| cyril figgis | archer |
| third empire | sartre |
| manley pointer | o'connor |
| hulga | o'connor |
| "the gold-bug" | poe |
| robert southey | fairy tale |
| koorma | turtle |
| "out, out damned spot!" | macbeth |
| weird sisters | macbeth |
| tramecksan | lilliput |
| aurora by georges clemenceau | zola |
| acrisius of argos | danae |
| samecksan | lilliput |
| tale of love | israel |
| norris changes trains | isherwood |
| "da" | sanskrit |
| "teach yourself italian." | lahiri |
| junot diaz | brief wondrous life of oscar wao |
| winfried georg sebald | sebald |
| max sebald | sebald |
| pacific street saloon | time of your life |
| "printed at naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529." | castle of otranto |
| "complacencies of the peignoirs, and late coffee and oranges" | stevens |
| "proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side." | wheatley |
| "red in tooth and claw" | tennyson |
| ichabod crane | irving |
| gargantua | rabelais |
| "twas mercy brought me from my pagan land." | wheatley |
| freyja | feather |
| fefu | fornes |
| thousand cranes | tea |
| grassdale manor | wildfell |
william carlos williams | "the red wheelbarrow" |
| fray | feather |
| i. name | constance |
| journey through trees | united kingdom |
| raphael de valentin's | human comedy |
| king of ward | portuguese |
| extraordinary voyages | french |
| william john bankes | daube |
| kitchen god | tan |
| shamela | fielding |
| ancient mariner | dice |
| "black woman" | senghor |
| her friends | fornes |
| jem-mah-tah | dioneo |
| "flowering judas" | porter |
| daken | wolverine |
| x-23 | wolverine |
| "novel which ... depersonalizes a portion of the human race" | achebe |
| puritan boston | scarlet letter |
| crick institute | atwood |
| mircea eliade | ionesco |
| amos oz | israel |
| filomena | ring |
| "the little match girl" | andersen |
| "the lord is my shepherd, i shall not want." | psalms |
| "paradise [to be] regained." | thoreau |
| oslo | norway |
"the diamond as big as the ritz" | fitzgerald |
| "a refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in london" | thomas |
| "the encyclopedia of the dead." | kis |
| wainwright prize | diary |
| "black milk of daybreak" | holocaust |
| "the colomber." | buzzati |
| wildwood: a | united kingdom |
| wilder | yonkers |
| castalia | glass bead game |
| roger deakin | united kingdom |
"one calm summer night" | robinson |
| milkman | song of solomon |
| breakfast at tiffany | capote |
| susan barton | friday |
| marshall mcluhan | finnegans wake |
| jimmie johnson | crane |
| "a very small, brief book of thoughts, maximes," | big man |
| caine mutiny | wouk |
| mademoiselle | nabokov |
| "he seems to me equal to the gods." | sappho |
| from the earth to the moon | french |
| "miniver cheevy" | robinson |
| tartar steppe | buzzati |
| "hanging here on the gallows" | poland |
| tayeb salih | arabic |
| effia | gyasi |
| richard zenith | portuguese |
| dubose | to kill a mockingbird |
| "call the roller of big cigars." | stevens |
| tales of the jazz age | fitzgerald |
| "the chimney sweeper" | blake |
| boo radley | to kill a mockingbird |
| "drink to me only with thine eyes." | to |
| sir alan gardiner | mantel |
| "harrison bergeron" | vonnegut |
| midland city pontiac | vonnegut |
| dwayne hoover in breakfast of champions | vonnegut |
| nidhogg | serpent |
| nagas | serpent |
| morrie | south |
| cormac mccarthy | no country for old |
| martin amis | time's arrow |
| hugoliade | ionesco |
| "whoso must be a man, must be a nonconformist" | emerson |
| hermann broder | singer |
| magneto | wolverine |
| the x-men | wolverine |
| "the seagull." | checkhov |
reverend (arthur) dimmsdale | the scarlet letter |
| diana moon glampers | harrison bergeron |
| cecily | faulkner |
| christopher columbus | irving |
| port ticonderoga | atwood |
| the dial | second coming |
| antoine roquentin | sartre |
124 bluestone road | beloved |
| "elderly maimed tablet." | dream of the red chamber |
| lord henry wotton | wilde |
| "sympathy" | dunbar |
| "we wear the mask" | dunbar |
| santa claus | nicholas |
| kroeber, sapir | boas |
| dark avengers | wolverine |
| laura kinney | wolverine |
| in the fatal attractions | wolverine |
| charlestown | faulkner |
| jean anouilh | antigone |
| "proposing to say, not merely come near it" | cooper |
| "use the right word, not its second cousin." | cooper |
| "dog of tears" | portuguese |
| "elements and an angelic sprite," | holy sonnets |
| "the diary of p." | handmaid |
| "since feeling is first" | death |
| last of the mohicans | cooper |
| andre brink | season |
| "the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses." | cummings |
| schlegel | howards end |
| "to be or not to be, that is the question." | machine |
| remembrance of earth | china |
| "gentleman from sole to crown" | robinson |
| eloise | salinger |
| "the snow queen," | mirror |
| tethys | oceanus |
| "you do not do" | daddy |
"the secret sharer" | conrad |
| charles bovary | flaubert |
| "old egg," | wodehouse |
| deems taylor | millay |
| colombian nobel laureate | garcia marquez |
| "sapphic love" | david |
brenda patimkin | roth |
| "goodbye, columbus" | roth |
| helen schlegel | howards |
| tatyana | eugene |
| "a white heron" | maine |
| "the lady with the dog" | chekhov |
| j.p | carver |
| "going down impassive rivers" | rimbaud |
| on beauty | howards end |
| byron in italy | david |
| "and treat those two imposters just the same." | triumph |
| what we talk about when we talk about love | carver |
| church fathers | david |
| "proper souls." | david |
| ryunosoke akutagawa | rashomon |
| neil klugman | "goodbye |
| "an excuse for putting on weight" | david |
| shen tsien | good person |
| waindell college by dr | pnin |
| "should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" | auld lang syne |
| "that which we call a rose / by any other name would smell as sweet." | balcony |
| alp | finnegans wake |
| "bent / above a sinking fire." | leda |
| "the half-life of love is forever." | yunior |
| "none of them knew the color of the sky." | the open boat |
| uss housatonic | hunley |
| daljit nagra | dover |
| judgement day | violent bear it away |
| richard huelsenbeck | dada |
| "spiteful" | dostoyevsky |
| what is to be done | dostoyevsky |
| "apropos of the wet snow." | dostoyevsky |
| cedric of rotherwood | ivanhoe |
| sound of the mountain | kawabata |
| zverkov | turgenev |
| dioscuri | pollux |
| odale's choice | brathwaite |
| "dying / is an art, like everything else. / i do it exceptionally well," | lazarus |
| swaminatha iyer | tamil |
| u. v | tamil |
| "the english tongue i love" | walcott |
| christopher knowles | separate |
| "a season in hell." | rimbaud |
| marquesas | typee |
| pot of gold | plautus |
| gay talese | esquire |
| shlay | howards |
| raina petkoff | bulgaria |
| gordon lish | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| "young goodman brown." | hawthorne |
| dance of the forests | soyinka |
| bangor | handmaid |
| dally | switchblade |
| valladolid | berganza |
| sutter | wilson |
| mountain interval | frost |
| cottingley fairies | doyle |
| adam mickiewicz | pushkin |
| cacambo | candide |
| "clever" | latin |
| pierre corneille | spain |
| "first expression of american thought as a unity" | chicago world's fair |
| "novels of the rose" | d'annunzio |
| "elegy for alto." | okigbo |
| ray gillette | archer |
| woodhouse | archer |
| birds in cloudcuckooland | aristophanes |
| quasimodo in the hunchback of notre dame | hugo |
| war with the newts | capek |
| fremont | kite |
| sherman alexie | reservation |
| "the jolly corner," | james |
| queens marie | ionesco |
| "can the devil speak true?" | macbeth |
| thane of cawdor | macbeth |
| captain hoseason | david |
| arnold lobel | frog |
| lobel | frog |
| miss ethel lange | south |
| troy to italy | aeneid |
| "i say now these are the soul." | sing |
| ivan yakovlevich | nose |
| "general william booth enters into heaven." | lindsay |
| "fastball special." | wolverine |
| grischa | checkhov |
| "racism in conrad's heart of darkness." | achebe |
| george farr | faulkner |
| margaret powers | faulkner |
| durvasa | kalidas |
| "there shall be no more cakes and ale?" | twelfth night |
| house for mr | naipaul |
| biswas | naipaul |
| ennius | scipio |
| nagra | dover |
| lying life of adults | ferrante |
| "the new dress." | woolf |
| "ow" | tale of genji |
| "how can i turn from africa and live?" | walcott |
| the the abject | death in venice |
| merlin | don quixote |
| "song of the war carts." | tang |
| lamartine | childe harold's pilgrimage |
| the king's henchman | millay |
| "sing about the pleasant summer which has just begun." | kalidas |
| battlefield earth | hubbard |
| du mal | baudelaire |
| isle of skye | to the lighthouse |
| bill sikes | nancy |
| azdak | caucasian chalk |
| when the mad hatter | queen of hearts |
| "the cisco [sis-koh] kid" | kidnap |
| soapy | loiter |
| philip terry | on the road |
| the landlady | dostoyevsky |
| clotho | pelops |
| "the happy prince" | wilde |
| denys finch | out of africa |
| in shahnameh | persian |
| "dear old crumpet." | wodehouse |
| mabel waring | woolf |
| robert gottlieb | confederacy of dunces |
| cuttlefish bones | montale |
| giuseppe ungaretti | montale |
| "krik?" | haiti |
| noah webster | dictionary |
| "male" | dictionary |
| louise | chopin |
| "strange to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes," | ginsburg |
| anse | faulkner |
| misfit | o'connor |
| "the masque of the red death" | poe |
| "that has made all the difference" | frost |
"the cop and the anthem" | o. henry |
| spokane | reservation |
| "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." | be |
| phoebus | ovid |
| "demon-child." | scarlet letter |
| "representative man" | emerson |
| tudor arghezi | ionesco |
| exit the king | ionesco |
| nu | ionesco |
| berenger pines | ionesco |
| kitty pride | wolverine |
| donald mahon | faulkner |
| "o, reason not the need." | lear |
| "more sinn'd against than sinning" | lear |
| "my hope and treasure lies above" | fire |
| "beautiful uncut hair of graves" | grass |
| mother shipton | outcasts of poker |
| in part | goethe |
| university of massachusetts | achebe |
| governor bellingham | scarlet letter |
| george etheredge | fopling |
| in autobiography of red | dickinson |
| "homage" | bradstreet |
| tucson | color purple |
| pride and prejudice | austen |
| death on the nile | shaffer |
| "not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the british guards" | dickens |
| "huddled/camouflage" | dover |
| ddt | carson |
| uhuru | ngugi |
| "the truth about native crime," | cry, the beloved country |
| baron in the trees | calvino |
| george shearing | road |
| robbie turner | atonement |
| juanito | fortunata and jacinta |
| "the paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids." | melville |
| "the people." | sandburg |
| hazel morse | big blonde |
| "why should a dog or horse or rat have life, but not you?" | never |
| daniel gluck | smith |
| post-brexit | autumn |
| work in progress | duffy |
| longfellow | cambridge |
| hetton | handful of dust |
| knausgard | father |
| life-studies | lowell |
| cat and mouse | grass |
| elsa morante | italian |
| svejk | dog |
| barchester towers | trollope |
| valvert | duel |
| mercury theatre | welles |
| saint valentine | parliament of fowls |
| burger's | gordimer |
| amadeus | shaffe |
| "bob southey! you're a poet, poet laureate, / and representative of all the race." | don juan |
| herakles | autobiography of red |
| man without qualities | austria |
| "symphony in gray major" | dario |
| houellebecq | trump |
| spenlow and jorkins | david |
| adventures of three englishmen | verne |
| island beneath the sea | allende |
| the lion d'or | madame bovary |
| cecily cardew | wilde |
| place of the gods | benet |
| "american names." | benet |
| song offerings | bengali |
| harvey stone at the cafe select | the sun also |
| frances clyne | the sun also |
| georgette | the sun also |
| sondra finchley | dreiser |
| metzger | pynchon |
| mason & dixon | pynchon |
| second coming | yeats |
| uriah heap | david |
| "bad moral character" | dickens |
| charley | steinbeck |
| real inspector hound | stoppard |
| kenzaburo oe | personal matter |
| father jerome | castle |
| thady quirk | castle |
| nakata | kafka on the shore |
| herero | yoyodyne |
| "the speckled band." | doyle |
| "the final problem," | doyle |
| "a fable for tomorrow." | carson |
| silent spring | carson |
| finn | grendel |
| party of the poor | famished road |
| "is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature." | morgenthau |
| hae-mi | murakami |
| frank copperwood | dreiser |
| saddler | defoe |
| "crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn," | browning |
| "looks as if she were alive" | browning |
| jake barnes | the sun also |
| "lak of steadfastness" | chaucer |
| "the former age." | chaucer |
| "a man may, in effect, make a whore of his own wife" | defoe |
| all for love | dry |
| godfrey cass | raveloe |
| barsetshire | trollope |
"poem without a hero" | akhmatova |
| gummidge | david |
| rachael rosen | dick |
| vera gangart | solzhenitsyn |
| jennie gerhardt | dreiser |
| "languid lemon tree." | spain |
| "krak!" | haiti |
| harjo | harjo |
| la maga | hopscotch |
| arcite | knight |
| "charioted by bacchus and his pards." | bird |
| desiree | chopin |
| "not born for death" | bird |
| pater | beauty |
| quevedo | spain |
| in platero | jimenez |
| amijima | love |
| "ithaka." | cavafy |
| "the conscience of the nation" | boll |
| wolf hall | mantel |
| "i was the shadow of the waxwing slain" | pale fire |
| viet thanh nguyen | vietnam |
| devil's dictionary | bierce |
| geats | grendel |
| septimus bons | forster |
| little prince | saint-exupery |
| "so much depends," | red wheelbarrow |
| casanova in bolzano | marai |
| father balbi | casanova |
| hetton abbey | waugh |
| kandata | akutagawa |
| "half in love with easeful death." | bird |
| "tithonus poem" | sappho |
| roman marcus vinicius | polish |
| lionel | gordimer |
| our ancestors | calvino |
| fortunata | madrid |
| kurt mondaugen | yoyodyne |
| "if they give you ruled paper, write the other way." | jimenez |
| "master" | basho |
| ephesus | petronius |
| colored man | georgia |
| pan tadeusz | poland |
| yale series of younger poets | auden |
| essays of elia | lamb |
| "power of making words express what he feels," | leavis |
| new critics | new critic |
| sacred wood | new critic |
| djerba | abydos |
| "a civilization of" | george |
| " for 10 points, name this irish poet of " | yeats |
| "essay on phrygian religious customs" | immoralist |
| the king's horseman | soyinka |
| ansley | roman fever |
| "grand style" | leavis |
| lazarillo de tormes | spain |
| lope de vega | fuenteovejuna |
| emil post | cain |
| vampyre | frankenstein |
| algernon | ernest |
| banana trilogy | neruda |
| pheoby watson | hurston |
| lori parks | topdog/underdog |
| pamuk | museum of innocence |
| while in the rusty spoon | yoyodyne |
| "principles" | morgenthau |
| sir topas | twelfth night |
| luis de gongora | spain |
| chikamatsu | puppet |
| "rape." | brooks |
| rochester | jane eyre |
| maitresse erzulie to kiki | on beauty |
| wellington | united kingdom |
| "simulacra" | barn |
| "patmos," | holderlin |
| "generique" | murakami |
| joseph campbell | hero |
| year of living dangerously | koch |
| cesaro | viola |
| "tradition and the individual talent" | new critic |
| proust in german | kiss |
| simplicissimus | brecht |
| "hamlet and his problems" | new critic |
| blood meridian | mccarthy |
| "father, how can i love you or any of my brothers more?" | lost |
| three russians in south africa | verne |
| captain nemo in twenty thousand leagues under the sea | verne |
| toulouse valmorain | allende |
| la senora | allende |
| "i shall not rest quiet at montparnasse" | benet |
| ou-dis-sun | benet |
| eduard | goethe |
| james steerforth | david |
| purple hibiscus | adichie |
| book of fantasy | rizal |
| "only the wind's home," | waste land |
| tete | allende |
| herr huld | kafka |
| karl | kafka |
| pierce inverarity | pynchon |
| "paddle in the cold," | yeats |
| maecenas | horace |
| william wycherley | restoration |
| according to trevor horn | ballard |
| drama pulitzer | nguyen |
| azaro | famished road |
| carlene | on beauty |
| "gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." | cavafy |
| pharillon | cavafy |
| "years" | dickinson |
| "sings the tune without the words" | dickinson |
| freddy eynsford | eliza |
"mother-rival" | eliza doolittle |
| wimpole street | eliza |
| mersey sound | liverpool |
| shadow songs | senghor |
| "i am arturo bandini!" | bukowski |
| chancery | bleak house |
| lavransdatter | kristin |
| undset | kristin |
| "dear loyalty, that could have served and followed him and loved him as a dog loves!" | white heron |
| inheritance of loss | desai |
| kurt von obersdorf | fran |
| elmer gantry | lewis |
| "the darkling thrush." | hardy |
| ask to embla | ash |
| sergeant trotter | mousetrap |
| crucifer | theroux |
| peter pan | sword |
| ramon gris | wall |
| john fante | bukowski |
| the musee des arts et metiers | foucault's pendulum |
| "video killed the radio star." | ballard |
| clelie | scudery |
| "living? our servants will do that for us." | axel |
| john polidori | frankenstein |
| marguerite de navarre | decameron |
| abbey of theleme | rabelais |
| grapes | neruda |
| una | knight |
| outback | australia |
| goodreads | pnin |
| mantel | interloper |
| "transparent eye-ball." | emerson |
| the frogs and the clouds | comedy |
| roger mexico | pynchon |
| "now is the time to drink" | horace |
| "safe in their alabaster chambers" | dickinson |
| tybalt | nurse |
| pantagruel | rabelais |
| heart of the matter | greene |
| "ultrasonic music" | ballard |
| angers fragment | snorri |
| "the beloved" | pale fire |
| "deep solitude." | twenty love poems |
| autobiography of an ex | georgia |
| eugenie grandet | balzac |
| duke of ferrera | browning |
| bill gorton | the sun also |
| montoya hotel | the sun also |
| robert cohn | the sun also |
| "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." | archilochus |
| darconville | theroux |
| history house | roy |
maxim de winter | daphne du maurier |
| "the poetry cloud." | liu |
| little em | david |
| lady cheveley | wilde |
| ashing | benet |
| "strong and diverse," | benet |
| lester kane in chicago | dreiser |
| seymore levov | roth |
| nellie | heart of darkness |
| panulphe | tartuffe |
| "life-force" | don juan |
| babbitt | lewis |
| in death | mask |
| gilukhepa | plutarch |
| led zeppelin | liverpool |
| brian sterling | ballard |
| "and the stoicism of seneca." | shakespeare |
| in the giver | release |
| "then there's a pair of us!" | nobody |
| widows | kushner |
| "invents" | hamlet |
| kobo abe | stick |
| recognition of shakuntala | sanskrit |
| robert creeley | san francisco |
| richard wilbur | tartuffe |
| will marry when | ngugi |
the grasmere journals | (dorothy) wordsworth |
| "fluttering and dancing in the breeze." | wordsworth |
| rutulian | turnus |
| many philip roth | jew |
| percy bysshe | ozymandias |
| "and that has made all the..." | difference |
| "daffodils" | i wandered lonely as |
| menander | comedy |
| paulina salas | death |
| arden of faversham | elizabeth i |
| "dillingham" | gift of the |
| madame sofronie | gift of the |
| "send forth the best ye breed." | kipling |
| "the emperor's new clothes" | andersen |
| "upward to heaven he flings" | caged bird |
posthumous memoirs of bras cubas (country) | brazil |
| cradle will rock | welles |
| amazing adventures of kavalier | chabon |
| pollux | leda |
if beale street could talk | baldwin |
| made knight | candle in the |
"chickamauga" | bierce |
| mary mccarthy | hellman |
| night of the iguana | williams |
| skully's landing | capote |
| maxwell anderson | vanzetti |
| "the sea and the mirror" | tempest |
| huzun | istanbul |
isaac bashevis singer | yiddish |
| john raffles | eliot |
| constantine cavafy | greek |
| mrs crupp | david |
| mr murdstone | david |
| "bury my heart at wounded knee" | benet |
| "john brown's body" | benet |
| "the devil and daniel webster?" | benet |
| ottilie and the captain | goethe |
| "what we talk about when we talk about" | frank |
| lawrence shannon | night of |
| clotel | jefferson |
| pugnax | pynchon |
| "all's changed" | yeats |
| abbey theater | yeats |
| an irish airman foresees his death | yeats |
| "i'm through." | plath |
| delamarche | kafka |
| mr peggotty | david |
| museum of innocence | istanbul |
| matt bonner | mule |
| "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 |
| galta in india | monkey |
| mahfouz | children of gebelawi |
| newark colleges of rutgers university | goodbye |
| "but none, i think, do there embrace." | grave |
| chad newsome | ambassadors |
| epping forest | defoe |
| elizabeth barret | browning |
| hundred years together | solzhenitsyn |
| handbook | shaw |
| little foxes | hellman |
| "they that begin by burning books will end by burning people." | german |
| "demon of experiment" | six |
| dashiell hammett | hellman |
| john cheever | prison |
| luciana [loo--nah | syracuse |
| "intended" | heart of darkness |
| leon dupuis | madame bovary |
| ubtreas | benet |
| work squad | solzhenitsyn |
| rusanov | solzhenitsyn |
| "conjugal lewdness." | defoe |
| "secret" | milady |
| ariel dorfman | chile |
| lyrics of lowly life | dunbar |
| other world | cyrano |
| "where the mind is without fear." | tagore |
| president miguel | the house of the spirits |
| "barbara frietchie" | whitter |
| "snow-bound" | whitter |
| mugo | ngugi |
| "stands on the grave of dreams" | caged bird |
| eliza | uncle tom's |
| laura wingfield | williams |
| erik lonnrot | borges |
| "burning bright." | blake |
| "beardless children" | pearl |
| celimene | alceste |
| quiet american | greene |
| roger casement in matadi | conrad |
| madeline gleason | san francisco |
| rodolphe boulanger | emma |
| vahn | statue |
| sighet | night |
| giant peach | wonka |
| "the summer they electrocuted the rosenbergs" | bell jar |
| nicholas bulstrode | eliot |
| finny | separate |
| alden pyle | quiet |
dom casmurro | brazil |
| "history is about to crack wide open. millennium approaches." | rosenberg |
| my name is red | pamuk |
| jack spicer | san francisco |
| good morning | rhys |
| according to greek | pandora |
| queen of air | sword in the stone |
| "the time you won your town the race, we chaired you through the market-place." | "to an athlete |
| "beauty is twice beauty, and what is good is doubly good." | socks |
| atticus finch | sheriff |
| "i was the more deceived" | get thee to a |
| varieties of religious experience | john |
| "perfect" | child |
| ruth may | poisonwood bible |
| book of days | fasti |
| "dire offense" | rape of the lock |
| "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." | ulysses |
| gathering blue | giver |
| "buck did not read the newspapers." | call of the |
| santa clara valley | judge |
| "that you are losing." | greek |
| "after blenheim" | southey |
| tom wingo | prince of tides |
| ozzie freedman | conversion of the |
| "a fine and private place" | grave |
| michael robartes | easter rising |
| "yeux glauques" | pound |
| theodore | castle |
| "reducing classes" | everything that rises must converge |
| zulema halabi | allende |
| against the day | pynchon |
| "exploits what has been invented" | hamlet |
| "hamlet of the shchigrovsky district" | sportsman's sketches |
| kay-moh-chee | food |
| kill | penthesilea |
| letters to a prime minister | martel |
| "moloko [muh-loh-koh] with knives in it" | clockwork orange |
| tiff | comedy of |
| the generation of '27 | lorca |
| "fester[s] like a sore." | dream |
| "if i love you, beware!" | habanera |
| "with eyes of cold silver" | lorca |
| galahad | grail |
| "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" | misfi |
| "there's a stake through your black heart," | plath |
| "action." | falling |
| "modern sequel" | greek |
| enemy of the people | two minutes hate |
| "o villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this." | dogberry |
| good man is hard to find | o'connor |
| clair | simon |
| thomas bertram | mansfield park |
| "ward number six" | chekhov |
| jan erlone | native |
| "the curse of minerva." | byron |
| elgin | byron |
| other rooms | dill |
| abulafia | eco |
| diotallevi | eco |
| "deferred?" | dream |
| other voices | dill |
| tommy traddles at salem house | david |
| "don juan." | byron |
| grasshopper lies heavy | dick |
| "of our world as it might have been" | dick |
| scanner darkly | dick |
| "born again" | nietzsche |
| "blond beast" | nietzsche |
| south side boys | native |
| "a kind of solution." | greek |
| "since i cannot prove a lover... i am determined to prove a villain" | richard iii |
| "nana" | zola |
| "those that i fight i do not hate/those that i guard i do not love," | yeats |
| bethlehem | yeats |
| samson carrasco | don quixote |
| sir robert chiltern | wilde |
| jabez stone | benet |
| "romance sonambulo." | lorca |
| "dr. heidegger's experiment" | hawthorne |
| "lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree / in the cool of the day," | ash wednesday |
| luna silvestre | paz |
| hero and | chapman |
| leander | chapman |
| "milk with knives in it" | clockwork orange |
| lewis lambert strether | ambassadors |
| "the story of a shipwrecked sailor." | garcia |
| general in his labyrinth | garcia |
| scheherazade | one thousand and one nights |
| "unbound." | prometheus |
| fermina | love in the time of cholera |
| "lyric." | lyre |
| fedallah | pequod |
| blithe spirit | coward |
| howard roark | architect |
| doris kilman | clarissa dalloway |
| mrs dalloway | woolf |
| "malt does more than milton can / to justify god's ways to man." | shropshire lad |
| benny profane | pynchon |
| bokanovsky process | brave new world |
| podsnap | brave new world |
| luis alejandro velasco for the el espectador | garcia |
| jim on the mississippi river | huckleberry |
| man who turned | stick |
inez serrano | no exit |
| number the stars | hammersberg |
| "lioness on a cheese grater." | lysistrata |
| old women | lysistrata |
| new american poetry | san francisco |
| green knight | gawain |
| beli | trujillo |
| "little people" | murakami |
| "mithridates, he died old" | shropshire lad |
| madame arcati | coward |
| "montage" | dream |
| christine | cook |
| s. behrman | octopus |
| ataguitania | calvino |
| confounded husband | moliere |
| cabin | stowe |
| priapus | hestia |
| thiazi | feet |
| "for madmen only" | steppenwolf |
| mary warren | crucible |
| mccarthyism in the crucible | miller |
| august wilson | pittsburgh |
| "three white leopards" | eliot |
ministry of education | "the necklace" |
| "vulcanist" | faust |
| gryphon | mock turtle |
| "lay-air-tees" | polonius |
| great temple of osiris | abydos |
| on the roman calendar | fasti |
| "lord, what fools..." | these |
| "mock their useful toil." | ambition |
| when koroviev | knee |
| rohv | knee |
| "flecknoe" | marvell |
| "i raise my sword-pen" | burgess |
| columbian orator | frederick |
| tronckh | candide |
| simon pilkings | soyinka |
| "just sag, like a heavy load" | dream deferred |
| woland | knee |
| hwaet | beowulf |
| "the story of" | stone |
| emilia | decameron |
| "no bigger than an agate stone" | fairies |
| "memory play." | tom |
| nathan johnson | frederick |
| thus spoke zarathustra | nietzsche |
madame ranevskaya | the cherry orchard |
| world controller | brave new world |
| "beastly, beastly book." | brave new world |
| "rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" | stein |
| emil sinclair | hesse |
| "a hunger artist," | kafka |
| john webster | eliot |
| "narrative." | frederick |
| columbine | pierrot |
| "el aleph" | borges |
| how much land does a man need | tolstoy |
| "the courier's tragedy," | pynchon |
| genghis cohen | pynchon |
| v-2 rockets | pynchon |
| no one writes to the colonel | garcia |
| "strikes it rich" | yiddish |
| starship troopers | heinlein |
| elizabeth drury | world |
| "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 |
| said | salammbo |
| hunter s. thompson | horse |
| estelle rigault | no exit |
| godhighs | everything that rises must converge |
| giles corey | press |
| "all the world's a stage." | seven ages of |
| zhahn val-zhahn | miserables |
| imipolex g | pynchon |
| "death-pale figures" | keats |
| kreutzer sonata | tolstoy |
| pozdnyshev | tolstoy |
| lucie manette | tale of two cities |
| "paralysis" | dublin |
| zeno of elea | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| professor uzzi | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| doc daneeka | catch-22 |
| "a youth to fortune and to fame unknown." | elegy written in a country |
| eugene | duel |
| "the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war" | stowe |
| bleh | lemuel |
| diss | siren |
| ani | yam |
| sholem aleichem | yiddish |
| mel | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| queen of spades | pushkin |
| vladimir lensky | duel |
| deianeira | river |
| louise mallard | chopin |
| john florio | montaigne |
| korova | burgess |
| "for fools rush in..." | where |
| lobster quadrille | mock turtle |
| king arthur in the sword in the stone | merlin |
| instead of paris | yonville |
| gromov | ward number 6 |
| methuselah | poe |
| "dapple-dawn-drawn falcon." | windhover |
| gerard manley hopkins | praise |
| alex, pete, georgie | clockwork orange |
| blooms of dublin | joyce |
| modern languages department | communication |
| lurie | communication |
| leading man | egg |
| radcliffe college | goodbye |
| "giant wings prevent him from walking." | flowers of evil |
| "the land was ours before we were the land's." | frost |
| sambo | simon |
| quimbo | simon |
| "that government is best which governs least." | thoreau |
| penguin books | lady chatterley's lover |
| mead | boas |
| "i am an american, [this city] born." | chicago |
| faber | fahrenheit 451 |
| lheureux | emma |
| "one-shot," | atticus |
| jem finch in to kill a mockingbird | atticus |
| bradstreet | age |
| ukemochi | food |
| things they carried | o'brien |
| john mcclane | die hard |
| sydney carton | tale of two cities |
| sandy | journey to the west |
| cleon for demos | aristophanes |
| ottone | frank |
| "ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of gold fishes" | gray |
| questing beast | once and future king |
| course in general linguistics | saussure |
| hermes to apollo | lyre |
| "a girl i knew," | salinger |
| george chapman | iliad |
| time of gifts | istanbul |
| poirot | istanbul |
| satyricon | petronius |
| fiammetta | decameron |
| lady castlewood | thackeray |
| marquis of steyne | thackeray |
| pigsy | journey to the west |
| hal 9000 | 2001 |
| fonny | if beale street could talk |
| remedios | fold |
| hook of holland | istanbul |
| "can therefore choose between the endings," | hardy |
| story of a new name | naples |
| night sky with exit wounds | vuong |
| "breath of autumn's being." | west wind |
primrose (family) | the vicar of wakefield |
james incandenza | infinite jest |
| thirteen ways of looking | blackbird |
| the devil | irving |
| aloeus | ephialtes |
| pablo honey | magic theater |
| honey | albee |
| rabbi binder | conversion of the |
| coatlicue | feather |
| "childe harold's pilgrimage" | byron |
| mangan | dublin |
| "romance" | aesop |
| perry index | aesop |
| "blitzball." | phineas |
| elizabeth rousset | boule de suif |
| "the canary." | mansfield |
| hikari | oe |
| secretum meum | laura |
| trimalchio | petronius |
| "so!" | beowulf |
| "the most exquisite pairs of ears i have ever seen." | salinger |
| tanagra | corinna |
"the windhover" | hopkins |
| macduff | macbeth |
| "the nutcracker and the mouse king" | hoffmann |
| theodore roethke's | world war ii |
| "foundations" | asimov |
| "dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah," | flowers of evil |
| "errors" | bradstreet |
| regents park | mrs |
| "desert" | nemo |
| clybourne park improvement association | karl |
| catherine barkley | farewell to arms |
| wilkins micawber | uriah |
| burns | kiss |
| sequel to drum | o captain! my captain |
| "the boy who cried wolf" | aesop |
| jack merridew | samneric |
| "desperate men" | ransom of red |
| amelia sedley | thackeray |
| "let it be for nought." | if thou must love me |
| benedict cumberbatch | stoppard |
| "an image of africa" | conrad |
| horus | osiris |
| semele | dionysus |
| rosalind | as you like it |
| sign in sidney | hansberry |
| "early though the laurel grows / it withers quicker than the rose." | shropshire lad |
| clee hill | shropshire lad |
| mercutio | fairies |
| "the most delicious poem about someone dying" | yeats |
| true story | lucian |
| "why so pale and wan, fond lover?" | suckling |
| patrick leigh fermor | istanbul |
| "inevitable overthrow in time" | beowulf |
| soma | brave new world |
| sportsman's sketches | turgenev |
| george wilson | jay gatsby |
| neptune by claus of innsbruck | my last duchess |
| "grow old along with me! / the best is yet to be" | rabbi ben ezra |
john grimes | go tell it on the mountain |
| "ratiocination" | auguste |
| peabody | as i lay dying |
| "locked up in coffins of block." | chimney sweep |
| "a lovely light!" | candle |
| family life | vas deferens |
| nostalgia for death by xavier villaurrutia | labyrinth of solitude |
| periodic table | levi |
| cynthia | bar |
| "the prize we sought is won." | o captain! my captain |
| "party on the right" | saramago |
| "with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life" | how do i love thee |
| "silence invaded the suburbs" | yeats |
| tish | if beale street could talk |
| "water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink" | albatross |
| "300 years" | omeros |
| mount doom | bilbo |
| king theseus | oedipus |
| ismene | oedipus |
| revolution according to raymundo mata | rizal |
| richard adams | watership down |
| hazel | watership down |
| kazuo ishiguro | butler |
| farraday | butler |
| "the train came out of the long tunnel" | snow |
| billy bibbitt | asylum |
| "an afternoon of nurses and rumors." | yeats |
| fable for critics | lowell |
| carpentier | magical realism |
| "brekekekex koax koax." | aristophanes |
| anthony hecht | dover beach |
| aegean | dover beach |
| hobbit | bilbo |
| george caldwell | updike |
| sassoon | sassoon |
| "pisan" | cantos |
| scarlett | mitchell |
| elicio | cervantes |
| seven seas | omeros |
| nws | united kingdom |
| chinese literature | journey to the west |
| "to lucasta going to the warres." | lovelace |
| "brief" | we real cool |
| cobweb | fairies |
| "what immortal hand or eye / could frame thy [this two-word phrase]?" | fearful symmetry |
| fearful symmetry | frye |
| arnolphe | school for wives |
| ottava rima | sailing to byzantium |
| meshach | daniel |
| abednego | daniel |
| isabella thorpe | northanger abbey |
| side of paradise | fitzgerald |
| oliver goldsmith | she stoops to conquer |
| gina apostol | rizal |
| apostol | rizal |
| pontifex | butler |
| craiglockhart hospital | sassoon |
| "hermaphroditism" | sterne |
| "life and opinions." | sterne |
| niketas choniates | baudolino |
| "is rich" | updike |
| twins | awakening |
| juan preciado | mexico |
| "the center was not holding" | didion |
| cathy ames | east of |
| billiards at half | boll |
| faehmel | boll |
| "madness... madness!" | bridge |
| clipton | bridge |
| mnevis bull | ra |
| cather | my |
| "helen being chosen found life flat and dull, and later had much trouble from a fool." | prayer for my daughter |
| "death as nostalgia, rather than as the fruition or end of life, is death as origin" | labyrinth of solitude |
| scales of justice | anubis |
zenocrate | marlowe |
| "about suffering they were never wrong." | auden |
| "the contest of cithaeron and helicon." | corinna |
| corinna | corinna |
| kennebunkport | tarkington |
| "the cliffs of england stand" | dover beach |
| galatea | quixote |
| patty berglund | freedom |
| tell my horse | hurston |
| vachel lindsay | lincoln |
| "an experiment in literary investigation," | gulag archipelago |
| fountainhead | rand |
| "notes" | dostoyevsky |
| "revolt," | flowers of evil |
| "four monarchies," | bradstreet |
| miss marple | lady of shalott |
| antigua | mansfield park |
| theses | luther |
| barsad | tale of two cities |
| new heloise | bovary |
| tsimtsum | pi |
| yevgeny | bronze horseman |
| jacques georges | age |
| sean o'casey | ireland |
| "also a chimney sweep." | carver |
| hoke colburn | driving miss daisy |
| bridge of san luis rey | wilder |
| ras the exhorter | invisible man |
| pumblechook | great expectations |
| sting | bilbo |
| large colour prints | tyger |
| robinson jeffers | hawk |
| late in miss julie | kills |
| "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," | biography |
| mimi c. magsalin | rizal |
| estrella | rizal |
| lawrence rainey | waste land |
| "dreamers." | sassoon |
| "listen my children and you shall hear / the midnight ride of paul revere" | longfellow |
| journeyman years | wilhelm meister |
| best actress | driving miss daisy |
| caroline lamb | byron |
| "on the front porch at frank martin's drying-out facility" | carver |
| ice-9 | cat's cradle |
| ignacio sanchez mejias | lorca |
| bret easton ellis | 80s |
| hassan to amir | thousand |
a thousand splendid suns (country) | afghanistan |
| madame arnoux | flaubert |
| margaret peel | lucky |
| liesel meminger | book thief |
| ganelon | charlemagne |
| "school of resentment" | author |
| blimunda | saramago |
| for anatole | mallarme |
| richard brinsley sheridan | ireland |
| pizan | rose |
| connecticut yankee in king arthur | twain |
william styron | sophie's choice |
| sweet thursday | cannery row |
| charlotte lucas | pride and prejudice |
| sketchbook of geoffrey crayon | irving |
| bel | daniel |
| tabitha | baseball |
| baltasar | saramago |
| " in his poem " | williams |
| cheshire cat in alice | carroll |
| just to say | williams |
| "verses upon the burning of our house" | bradstreet |
| "with a roar" | snow |
| "the lass of aughrim" | dubliners |
| "auguries of innocence," | robin |
| john nefastis | crying of lot 49 |
| game warden | sinatra |
| string of pearls | sweeney |
| frank chin | autobiography |
| my father | autobiography |
| ali baba in the one thousand | arabic |
| "the horse on the mountain." | lorca |
| "could sit and ponder all day" | welty |
| welty | welty |
| coral | red |
| "next tomorrow" | macbeth |
| leonardo felix | lorca |
| coppelius | hoffmann |
| "if ever two were one, then surely we" | bradstreet |
| district commissioner | nigeria |
| princess helene | natasha |
| "tales of passion." | ted |
| hareton | read |
| poaceae | grass |
| kovrin | black monk |
| edward rochester | bertha |
| russell-saunders | tenth of december |
| wayne booth | author |
| roland barthes | author |
| "petersburg tale" | bronze horseman |
the ponder heart | welty |
| well of loneliness | hall |
| secretaire | letter |
| "gather ye rosebuds while ye may" | herrick |
| "lame balloonman" | in just |
| pale king | wallace |
| jocasta | oedipus |
| jose arcadio buendia | one hundred years of solitude |
| "come again... / tho' it were ten thousand mile." | rose |
| adolphe le bon | poe |
| iago | othello |
| johann blumenbach | race |
strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde | stevenson |
| big city | 80s |
| "a little phrase" | in search of lost time |
| "the green door." | green |
| "you are alone." | monologue |
| "verses" | eliot |
| st. elizabeth's | pound |
aleksandr solzhenitsyn | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "there on the sad height," | do not go gentle into that good night |
| a 's own | woolf |
| desdemona | othello |
| "sweet and fitting," | ode |
| "love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds." | shakespeare |
| "the enormous radio" | swimmer |
| isaac cline | larson |
| "impulse was converted into momentary figures." | billiard |
| carol ann duffy | cope |
| troezen to athens | theseus |
| "samiel" | devil |
| "sepulchre there by the sea." | poe |
| "thy firmness makes my circle just," | metaphysical |
| wu song | water margin |
| immoralist | gide |
| "time held me green and dying, though i sang in my chains like the sea." | fern hill |
| benh zeitlin | beasts of the southern wild |
| too late the phalarope | paton |
| roman elegies | goethe |
| "every day you play" | neruda |
godfrey ablewhite | the moonstone |
| "it is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings" | li |
| "a cup of wine, under the flowering trees." | li |
| spanish tragedy | pamuk |
| "to resist the hegemony of the english language." | coetzee |
| "a simple heart." | flaubert |
| frederic moreau | flaubert |
| bright lights | 80s |
| wallis | beasts of the southern wild |
| morgan freeman | driving miss daisy |
| room of one | woolf |
the kite runner (country) | afghanistan |
| pechorin | lermontov |
| pole in spanish | coetzee |
| englishmen | diamond |
| "the castle," | bald soprano |
| "the judgment" | kafka |
| joe crowell | grover's corners |
| baoyu | monk |
| "how terrible and brief was my desire of you!" | song of despair |
| in sonnet | time |
| tsezar | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| henry carr | stoppard |
| "continuous as the stars that shine / and twinkle on the milky way." | i wandered lonely as a cloud |
| clarel | melville |
| "moor of venice?" | othello |
| marco | view from the |
| radius | robot |
| shirley | welty |
| catriona | stevenson |
| baker street | sherlock |
| eugenides | waste land |
| stavrogin in the posessed | dostoevsky |
| "letter from birmingham jail." | king |
| hall's | king |
| fa'alupega | oral |
| like touchstone | all's well that ends well |
| "guttering, choking, drowning," | owen |
| "no man is an island." | donne |
| betty smith | trees |
| "this is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper." | eliot |
| golden shovel | brooks |
| publius | syria |
| "what peaches and what penumbras" | ginsberg |
| "gogo light--bough not break--gogo dead." | waiting for |
| airstrip one | winston |
| arabella donn | jude the |
| hand of ethelberta | hardy |
| in the beauty of the lilies | updike |
| thin man | hammett |
| nadsat | russian |
| air india flight | mukherjee |
| alfred jarry | apartheid |
| rossum | robot |
| "the philosophy of composition," | raven |
| "rare and radiant maiden" | raven |
| astrov | doctor |
| pythian | ode |
| "we can remember it for you wholesale" | invasion of earth |
| arthur donnithorne | adam |
| hayslope | adam |
| pauper | twain |
| "phony." | holden |
| december in stockholm | buck |
| tomas transtromer | buck |
| minister jack eccles | harry |
| carpentered hen | updike |
| sukie | witches of |
| hetty sorrell | adam |
| "wandering steps and slow" | adam |
| "solitary way" | adam |
| golan trevize | asimov |
| splendid phoenix | dream of the red chamber |
| sergeant troy | gabriel |
| dolorous stroke | fisher king |
| "in you the wars and the flights accumulated." | song of despair |
| tom stoppard | rosencrantz |
| great mahlke in cat | grass |
| tom canty | prince and the pauper |
| suma | murasaki |
| joseph kell | burgess |
| donne | canonization |
| "n plus seven" | oulipo |
| catronia | kidnapped |
| wilhelm gustloff | grass |
| sonny | welty |
| theophilus msimangu's | cry, the beloved country |
| family values | cope |
| chapter 15 | bonfire of the vanities |
| jose burgos | name of the rose |
| "palm-of-the-hand stories" | kawabata |
| "a tattered coat upon a stick." | old |
| weiss | bonfire of the vanities |
| life of great american cities | corner |
| where jacques | touchstone |
| "domestic fool." | all's well that ends well |
| the devil's elixirs | uncanny |
| those winter sundays | wheatley |
| edgar ramirez | hawai'i |
| "accept" | sunrise |
| david herbert lawrence | lawrence |
| waverly jong | tan |
| "honest abe" | bonfire of the vanities |
| sherman mccoy | bonfire of the vanities |
| csi | sinise |
| "i think we are in rat's alley / where the dead men lost their bones." | waste land |
| james baldwin | mead |
| horacio oliveira | cortazar |
| essays one | davis |
| "christian, i'm not a." | davis |
| florante sanchez | hawai'i |
| tayo | ceremony |
| mary's frankenstein | shelley |
| "for carl solomon," | howl |
| "paterson." | williams |
| mikael blomkvist in the american | craig |
| jake lonergan in cowboys | craig |
| the and as & aliens | craig |
| indiana state auditor chris traeger on parks | lowe |
| the stand | lowe |
| ubu roi | apartheid |
| "a dimpled spider, fat and white, holding up a moth" | frost |
| "riverrun past" | adam |
| academy for young ladies | vanity |
| eastasia | 1984 |
| pencey prep | holden |
| "where did they get/them two fine cars?" | harlem |
| "night funeral" | harlem |
| edinburgh review | romanticism |
"lake poets" | romanticism |
| pharos | cavafy |
| tabrizi | rumi |
| "literary descendant of the confession" | autobiography |
| mccullers | ballad of the |
| orgoglio | faerie queene |
| cyrano de bergerac | rostand |
| "it isn't fair, it isn't right" | jackson |
| merricat | jackson |
| dinah nuthead | adam |
| arrowsmith | lewis |
| heart of midlothian | scott |
| last temptation | jesus |
| moonstone | diamond |
| "destroyer and preserver" | ode to the west wind |
| in saki | wolf |
| akela | wolf |
| pinzada | interpreter of maladies |
| scanlan | thompson |
| "nymph's reply" | marlowe |
| blofeld | james |
| perry smith | murder |
| "tender is the night." | keats |
| zamora linmark | hawai'i |
| the mountaintop | hall |
| "death by drowning," | kafka |
| "i want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees," | neruda |
| marie cordona | camus |
| "piece of string" | maupassant |
| reichenbach falls with moriarty | sherlock |
| ralph steadman | thompson |
| girl with the dragon tattoo | craig |
| sandberg | fog |
| "benito cereno is a work by this novelist who first hit it big with the novel typee. his other works include billy budd and " | melville |
| "the very end of the world" | heart of darkness |
| edmund spenser | willie |
| "weaker" | shaw |
| cope | larkin |
| "meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf" | sea rose |
| elli | age |
| freyr | muspelheim |
| lycia | iobates |
| "among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye" | bird |
| "the thin men of haddam." | bird |
| "american bandstand" | ignatius |
| george washington cable | confederacy of |
| le chiffre | james |
| "would rather be / a pagan suckled in a creed outworn." | wordsworth |
| machiavel | marlowe |
| "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" | cummings |
| "the story of your life," | chiang |
| hillalum | chiang |
| doors of perception | huxley |
| "triple goddesses," | moon |
| d'arthur | galahad |
| "exterminate all the brutes!" | heart of darkness |
| orpheus and eurydice | france |
| andre gide | france |
| "the public and its problems" | james |
| tale heart | poe |
| german industrialist | schindler's ark |
| "outback." | australia |
| corporal himmelstoss | all quiet on the western front |
| "tonight i can" | write |
| "eternal recurrence." | nietzsche |
| stamp paid | beloved |
| miss pinkerton | vanity |
| lexa, jane | witches of |
| red harvest | hammett |
| glass key | hammett |
| in the thin man | nick and nora |
| laurel hand | welty |
| madeleine forestier | maupassant |
| laura miller | mueller report |
| that hecht | dover beach |
| j.m. synge | playboy of the western world |
| "darkling plain" | dover beach |
| "tower of babylon." | chiang |
| le morte | galahad |
| chicana | mexican |
"my kingdom for a horse!" | richard iii |
| "love laws" | god of small things |
| "funes, the memorious." | borges |
| crooks | lennie |
| svidrigailov | crime and punishment |
| bel ami | maupassant |
| "be a man, my son," | kipling |
| lost illusions | lucien |
| "the blessed damozel" | rossetti |
| "making the audience bow their heads as if they had been hit by a blast of wind." | courage |
| noh | zeami |
| matsukaze | zeami |
| gerard de villefort | count of monte cristo |
| "jewel stairs' grievance." | li |
| ludvik jahn | kundera |
| william hale | murder |
| captain shotover | shaw |
| "as is painting, so is poetry" | horace |
| "there will come soft rains," | bradbury |
| zhen | water margin |
| "listen to the reed and the tale it tells" | persian |
| "confessional biography." | naipaul |
| lavache | all's well that ends well |
| "nightingale." | emperor |
| calling out to yeti | stalin |
| "rolls the executions on his tongue like berries" | stalin |
| archibald macleish | be |
| "edge." | child |
| "into the red eye, the cauldron of morning." | ariel |
| ian buruma | naipaul |
| streep | thatcher |
| gutman | maltese |
| lillian hellman | hammett |
| claudia chauchat | magic mountain |
| "2 + 2 = 5." | winston |
| seymour | glass |
| "will v-day be me-day too?" | hughes |
| "what happens to" | dream |
| zillah | wuthering heights |
| invention of love | stoppard |
| moses jackson | stoppard |
| "when i heard the learn'd astronomer," | whitman |
| ohio impromptu | beckett |
| rankeillor | kidnapped |
| bright star | keats |
| old creole days | confederacy of |
| o-lan | the good |
| aunt polly | paint |
| derek hartfield | murakami |
| alfred birnbaum | murakami |
| caroline b. dow | millay |
| john singer | heart is a lonely |
| member of the wedding | mccullers |
| "burning city." | vietnam |
| zenith | wallace |
| "a gypsy's child" | habanera |
| nick andros | lowe |
| stu redman in the stand | sinise |
| "even f may become o, q, y, and perhaps also r." | garden party |
| welcome to the monkey house | vonnegut |
| tobias wolff | vietnam |
| jim smiley | webster |
| ragtime | houdini |
| gerald duval | all quiet on the western front |
| judge mckelva | welty |
| "scud" | nabokov |
| speak, memory | nabokov |
| "rime" | ancient mariner |
| "hold back the edges of your gowns, ladies, we are going through hell." | williams |
| persuasion | austen |
| unnameable | beckett |
| sherry | laureate |
| civilizing process | levi-strauss |
| "fair youth." | four |
| tibullus | elegy |
| "disillusionment of ten o'clock." | stevens |
| "peppered with thorn pricks" | blackberry |
| "froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer" | soldier |
| "game of thrones with footnotes." | mueller report |
| bond girl | dr. no |
| fisher king | grail |
| "gray-beard loon" | ancient mariner |
| little father time | jude the |
| group of noble dames | hardy |
| sam seaborn on the west wing | lowe |
| recreation | lowe |
| "the pit and the pendulum" | poe |
| "what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / slouches towards bethlehem to be born?" | yeats |
| "all i could see from where i stood / was three long mountains and a wood." | renascence |
| in sylvia plath | nazi |
| dust bowl | steinbeck |
| "a psalm of life." | longfellow |
| "white night-gowns," | stevens |
| ashima calcutta | lahiri |
| quantum of solace | craig |
| oklahoma to california in the grapes of wrath | steinbeck |
| porfiry petrovich | crime and punishment |
| "green sea" | owen |
| warren buffett | interest |
| oswald the lucky rabbit | mickey |
| "my wealth has come from a combination of living in america, some lucky genes, and" | interest |
| madness of king george | bennett |
| fair labor standards act | minimum |
| sentimental journey | sterne |
| lieutenant dan in forrest gump | sinise |
| detective mac taylor | sinise |
"optimism is the opium of the people" | kundera |
| communist president | czech |
| "the stillness round my form was like the stillness in the air" | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
| "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" | hughes |
| jim casy | steinbeck |
| pharsalia | petrarch |
| "horror of distance" | odour |
| novy mir | solzhenitsyn |
| "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 |
| brave orchid | hawai'i |
| rolling the r's | hawai'i |
| fa'agogo | oral |
| supposedly fun thing | wallace |
| never do again | wallace |
| "how do i love thee? let me count the ways." | sonnets from the portuguese |
| nizami | persian |
| kate croy | italy |
| "hobby-horse" | sterne |
| prince hal | falstaff |
| "purely, as they turn from praise." | how do i love thee |
| "the conversation of the dogs" | cervantes |
| "did he who made the lamb make thee?" | blake |
| "the ransom of red chief" | henry |
| magister ludi | glass bead game |
| "the man that corrupted hadleyburg" | twain |
| "careers." | stranger |
| "you." | second person |
| merton densher | italy |
| "alterest all things with thy peering eyes." | poe |
| crispin | stevens |
| van helsing | dracula |
| "dying." | dracula |
| pellinore | questing beast |
| full surrogacy now | ferrante |
| "the deceitful marriage," | berganza |
| tonkunstler society | salieri |
| "risorgimento black and gold casket" | lowell |
| "napoleon's at the invalides." | lowell |
| "all-purpose poem for state occasions" | cope |
| "sailing home from rapallo" | lowell |
| martin pearce | desertion |
| tobias smollett | sterne |
| the flies | orestes |
| lampito | lysistrata |
| four quartets | eliot |
| ash'ari | possession |
| weir mitchell | husband |
| cloud messenger | sanskrit |
| grossman | love in the time of cholera |
| vercelli codex | cross |
| "you are caught in the drift." | sea rose |
| rehana | desertion |
| "someone had blundered" | charge of the light brigade |
| national steinbeck center | salinas |
| earwicker | finnegans wake |
| ts'ui pen | garden of forking paths |
| "cabin of clay and wattles." | lake isle of innisfree |
| adrian leverkuhn | mann |
| three tall women | albee |
| javert | drown |
| "today we all know very well that a may be often b as well as a" | garden party |
| sean connery | dr. no |
| honey ryder | dr. no |
| craig | dr. no |
"on silent haunches" | "fog" |
| david mamet | united states |
| joseph of arimathea | grail |
| drones club | jeeves |
| yusef | diamond |
| in pharaoh | vietnam |
| koo-lohm | siren |
| ponyboy curtis | outsiders |
| eric | finnegans wake |
| thomas stockmann | enemy of the people |
"time's winged chariot" | to his coy mistress |
| vulture peak | buddha |
| "conception of the primal horde," | darwin |
| house of the seven gables | hawthorne |
| serena joy | handmaid's tale |
| edith wharton | age of innocence |
| shui ta | good person |
| jay rubin | murakami |
| poole | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| major scobie | diamond |
| barnstable | cape cod |
| in john | dirt |
| catholic mass | nicene |
| gar-san | no exit |
| stages on life | either/or |
| national league rookie of the year | rickey |
| no child left behind act | education |
| race to the top | education |
marilla cuthbert | anne of green gables |
| conseil | verne |
| "dear bosie" | wilde |
| "hamlet." | doctor zhivago |
| yuri | doctor zhivago |
| smerdyakov | karamazov |
| "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 |
| "the metamorphosis." | kafka |
| lives of animals | coetzee |
| heinrich von ofterdingen | flower |
| "two gentlemen of" | verona |
| gao xingjian | mountain |
| "have helen in their hearts" | williams |
| "trilogy" | polish |
| enmerkar | tower of babel |
| lord of aratta | tower of babel |
| "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" | eliot |
| "i sang in my chains like the sea" | thomas |
| "like the quarry-slave at night, scourged to his dungeon" | bryant |
| "an old man in a dry month" | eliot |
| bonus british | peter |
| diedrich knickerbocker | irving |
| sometimes a great notion | kesey |
| caverns | kesey |
| vassar | millay |
| moon is a harsh mistress | heinlein |
| "like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies." | she walks in beauty |
| "where am i going to?" | car |
| "slow-chapped power" | marvell |
| "deserts of vast eternity" | marvell |
| ronny heaslop | passage to india |
| parul sehgal | woolf |
| titus andronicus | philomel |
| "boum" | passage to india |
| "fur fla bis fle" | ghost |
| "after such knowledge, what forgiveness?" | eliot |
| logan killicks | their eyes were watching god |
| luis de | portuguese |
| thomas russell sullivan | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| melchizedek analogizes | decameron |
| duchess of malfi | webster |
| chinatown | tristero |
| "hills like white elephants." | abortion |
| thomas love peacock | abbey |
| "mother of exiles" | new colossus |
| "woman hollering creek" | llorona |
| adham, gabal | children |
| my lovely | philip |
| "beowulf: the monsters and the critics." | tolkien |
| "pretend i'm chaste," | spanish |
| almustafa | prophet |
| agatha christie | train |
| hilaire belloc | chesterton |
| ngugi wa thiong'o | kenya |
| betrayed by rita hayworth | puig |
| poprishchin | diary of a madman |
| "ode to psyche" | keats |
| spring snow | mishima |
| maud gonne | yeats |
| "crawled under a lorry." | gus |
| "wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight" | thomas |
| el escorial | fuentes |
| "sound poems." | dada |
| hamza | muhammad |
| bingley | darcy |
| new life | sonnet |
| carmen maria machado | husband |
| nancy | good soldier |
| "rappaccini's daughter," | hawthorne |
| "persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." | tom |
| axel | roxas |
| "sunflower sutra." | ginsberg |
| baseball hall of fame | cooper |
| "there is a middle ground in things." | horace |
| "dragged diana from her car" | poe |
| razmann | schiller |
| "archetype," | jung |
| "introvert," | jung |
| "what's wrong with someone laughing as they tell the truth?" | horace |
| "the tell-tale heart." | poe |
psychology of the unconscious | jung |
| "extrovert." | jung |
| schweizer, roller | schiller |
| "perceiving functions," | jung |
| licinius | horace |
| "the haunted palace," | poe |
| "it's me, hi, i'm the problem it's me." | swift |
| "powerful western fallen star." | whitman |
| "the long train of ages glides away." | bryant |
| "show you fear in a handful of dust" | eliot |
| "do i dare disturb the universe?" | eliot |
| "great wings beating still above the staggering girl" | yeats |
| shigekuni honda | mishima |
| isao | mishima |
"shovel them under" | sandburg |
| seth handaside | irving |
| "[this event] will not be televised." | revolution |
| jamie lloyd | descriptions of |
| "two and forty hours." | descriptions of |
| "wherefore art thou" | descriptions of |
| "fair verona" | descriptions of |
| "beautiful spark of the gods." | schiller |
| "judging functions," | jung |
| "collective unconscious." | jung |
| gunnr | valkyrie |
| baloo | jungle book |
| "hush'd be the camps." | whitman |
| "bleeding drops of red." | whitman |
| balulu | ur |
| dante's purgatorio | descriptions of |
| tom dillion tiktok | infinite jest |
| "no more time's dark events, charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky" | whitman |
| "harp with a woman'shead" | millay |
| "philosophical chapters." | war and peace |
| pendulumandthe name of the rose | eco |
| "horny feet" | emperor of ice-cream |
| "as i was going down impassive rivers / i no longer felt myself guided byhaulers." | drunken boat |
| harold carnes | american psycho |
| patrick bateman | american psycho |
| norn skuld | valkyrie |
| "an unjust law is no law at all." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "white moderate" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "compelled to carry the gospel of freedom" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "we lay our scene" | verona |
| "two households, both alike in dignity" | verona |
| "our symbols." | palestine |
| body sweats | dada |
| elsa von freytag-loringhoven | dada |
| elijah bailey | earth |
| daneel olivaw | earth |
| professor otto lidenbrock | earth |
| "icicle of moon." | lorca |
| "body laid out" | lorca |
| "wait" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "legal" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "a negative peace which is the absence of tension." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "never give an inch!" | kesey |
| "coaxed" | flower |
| "whose wings are dull realities." | tell-tale heart |
| "wind in the chimney," | tell-tale heart |
| "a mouse crossing the floor," | tell-tale heart |
| shingo ogata in a kawabata | mountain |
| "please shut off the telephone" | williams |
| "danse russe" | williams |
| foundation's edge | earth |
| "the spilled blood" | lorca |
| "piercing familiarity." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "fellow clergymen." | letter from birmingham jail |
| seven books of the diana | verona |
| silvia | verona |
| "beware, beware of my hunger" | palestine |
| lygia | polish |
| "spacer" | earth |
| "flesh," | lorca |
| "branches." | lorca |
| "rings in the ear" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "willing to face hungry lions." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend." | verona |
| girls of slender means | scotland |
| "a normal life among normal people." | mountain |
| "lured" | flower |
| "vulture eye." | tell-tale heart |
| "object there was none. passion there was none" | tell-tale heart |
| amir | kite runner |
| "forgive me" | williams |
| "great map" | saramago |
| "p-h," | saramago |
| jack vance | earth |
| "soul" | mountain |
| "green and wooden" | williams |
| "mazirian the magician." | earth |
| "whipper-snappers of boys" | dead |
| "west briton" | dead |
| "kissambushed" | dada |
| "creature that bulged" | island |
| "we are going to have fun" | island |
| "twisty things" | island |
| "a great ape...sitting asleep with its head between its knees" | island |
| "expanding like a balloon" | island |
| "i'm the reason why it's no go" | island |
| "of evil" | flower |
| "live with" | fuentes |
| "a cricket which has made a single chirp." | tell-tale heart |
| "enveloped in cotton." | tell-tale heart |
| "sever." | kiss |
| lydia bennet | wickham |
| rushdie | midnight's children |
| "old age should burn and rage at close of day." | thomas |
| cat's eye and oryx and crake | atwood |
| "beyond sandy hook," | hughes |
| "who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" | pope |
| "the proper study of mankind is man." | pope |
| "the shaughraun." | age of innocence |
| sillerton jackson | age of innocence |
| lawrence lefferts | age of innocence |
| summer of love | kilmer |
| "a poem should not mean / but be" | macleish |
| "in the ghoul-haunted woodland of weir." | ulalume |
| "heavy judger of men." | moloch |
| "is at hand." | the second coming |
| property man | six characters in search of an author |
| shug avery | walker |
| wangero | walker |
| tashi | walker |
| penelopiad | greek |
| "chronicle of the nineteenth century." | red and the black |
| nuttel | saki |
| good person of szechuan | brecht |
| "reply" | williams |
| fifth season | earth |
| "i want to trade my horse for her house, my saddle for her mirror, my knife for her blanket" | lorca |
| "up above the water" | lorca |
| "sleepwalking ballad." | lorca |
| "two honest confessions" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "if you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it." | alchemist |
| "ten times worse when they repent." | pope |
| "jolifanto bambla" | dada |
| "anti-art" | dada |
| "littluns" | island |
| "suns" | flower |
| "sin," | flower |
| "avarice" | flower |
| mexico in the old gringo | fuentes |
| "the smell of coffee" | palestine |
| mahmoud darwish | palestine |
| tuqan | palestine |
| petronius | polish |
| black gaiety | dead |
| trappist | dead |
| "wolves" | kesey |
| henry stamper | kesey |
| beatriz | coetzee |
| "three classics" | yiddish |
| "leaping and creeping" | lilliput |
| "as chiron was to achilles, i am to cupid" | ovid |
| "i took all...my dreams...and i buried them inside you," | fences |
| "you say i take and don't give!" | fences |
| "good old dog" | fences |
| "longing inspired by the law of gravity." | palestine |
| "you killed me...and i forgot, like you, to die" | palestine |
"epistle to dr. arbuthnot" | pope |
| "can't appreciate these quilts" | walker |
"everyday use" | walker |
| dee | walker |
| "pack of pariah dogs" | saki |
| "life and lies" | brecht |
| "each time you happen to me all over again" | age of innocence |
| christine nilsson | age of innocence |
| "an intense horror of superstition." | husband |
| "rest cure" | husband |
| "sighs on which i fed my heart" | sonnet |
| giacomo da lentini | sonnet |
| "the most fantastic parking-lot attendant in the world." | on the road |
| sergeant lituma | radio |
| remedia amoris | ovid |
| "i give you my sweat and my blood," | fences |
| "practical in the extreme" | husband |
| "freedom has a price" | marjane |
| reza | marjane |
| "to live life to the end is not a childish task." | doctor zhivago |
| "dark london" | west |
| marin county | west |
| nadia | west |
| constance garnett | karamazov |
| paulo coelho | alchemist |
| "roar aloud, 'subscribe, subscribe'" | pope |
| possessing the secret of joy | walker |
| celie in the color purple | walker |
| st. lucian | greek |
| "put thousands together less bad, but the cage less gay," | red and the black |
| abbe pirard | red and the black |
| vergy | red and the black |
| "ancient walls" | palestine |
| mingotts | age of innocence |
| "locksley hall," | spring |
| "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." | spring |
rootabaga stories | sandburg |
| roethke | villanelle |
| art of love | ovid |
| "i'm the man who sailed those early seas" | hughes |
| "atelier" | six characters in search of an author |
| johnny carson | walker |
| gardens | walker |
| michael ondaatje | greek |
| "dashing and not very respectable," | saki |
| "tobermory." | saki |
| houdan | saki |
| milkman dead iii | song of solomon |
| "who said the free? ... surely not me?" | hughes |
| "i've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset" | hughes |
montage of a dream deferred | langston hughes |
| "fools" | pope |
| "drop into thyself, and be a fool" | pope |
| "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" | pope |
| "to err is human; to forgive, divine." | pope |
| anna lundberg | six characters in search of an author |
| "every man his own" | bond |
| on her majesty | bond |
| "where are the songs of" | spring |
| "hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads, and freight handler to the nation." | chicago |
becky thatcher | tom sawyer |
| "the sunny pavement of greenwich village." | kaddis |
| xion | roxas |
| ismael | moby-dick |
| "cocoons" | passage to india |
| "i like mysteries but i rather dislike muddles," | passage to india |
| cyril fielding | passage to india |
| "how much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow." | darcy |
| "tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt me," | darcy |
| john fuegi | brecht |
| "distancing effect" | brecht |
| "mates in eight moves." | bond |
| "tell st. peter to open the gates" | fences |
| "no, not yet." | passage to india |
| graz | marjane |
| forest brotherhood | doctor zhivago |
| "broad brushstrokes" | africa |
| "rudimentary souls" | africa |
| james strand | verne |
| "c.3.3." | wilde |
| "blows a small fortune" | yiddish |
| "hear it ring!" | fences |
| panamericana in mario vargas llosa | radio |
| "peace be upon you" | yiddish |
| "perhaps...my writings will not be given to the lethe's waters," | ovid |
| "poem and an error" | ovid |
| "blast a hole into forever." | fences |
| "death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner." | fences |
| "flamboyant pattern." | husband |
| la vita nuova | sonnet |
| a. s. kline's | sonnet |
| "dostioffski," | on the road |
| "-orooni" | on the road |
| slim gaillard | on the road |
| remi boncoeur | on the road |
| mexico city by dean moriarty | on the road |
| bulter mansion | song of solomon |
"into the valley of death / rode the six hundred" | the charge of the light brigade |
| "narrative structures" | bond |
| "in new york." | bond |
| ernst stavro blofeld | bond |
"poems are made by fools like me, but only god can make a tree." | kilmer |
| "ah, sunflower!" | ginsberg |
| "whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen" | moloch |
| the van daans | frank |
| "suspension of disbelief" | ancient mariner |
| biographia literaria | ancient mariner |
| "skin...white as leprosy" | ancient mariner |
| gussie fink | jeeves |
| "mentally negligible" | jeeves |
| "the coward does it with a kiss, / the brave man with a sword" | wilde |
| vulgate cycle | grail |
| "so much depends upon the red wheelbarrow." | williams |
| "a splash quite unnoticed" | williams |
| "terrence, this is stupid stuff," | housman |
| sons of jacob | gilead |
| "a dill pickle." | mansfield |
| stephano | caliban |
| frank osbaldistone | rob roy |
| miep gies | frank |
| evgraf | doctor zhivago |
| liberius | doctor zhivago |
| enormous room | cummings |
| "40 meters and a pipe." | west |
| saeed | west |
| mykonos | west |
| "heart's abhorrence" | spain |
| "creep over" | husband |
| kyot the provencal | grail |
| "don't you remember?" | emperor |
| "beautiful colors" | emperor |
| uncle anoosh | marjane |
| "everything is lawful." | karamazov |
| s | husband |
| vittoria da colonna | sonnet |
| nikolai | doctor zhivago |
| original of laura | nabokov |
| "ridiculus sum" | bovary |
| "taboo subjects" | africa |
| "antithesis of the thames." | africa |
| joe wilson | verne |
| dick kennedy | verne |
| "with sin / in the secret house of shame." | wilde |
| "who looked / so wistfully at the day." | wilde |
| we do not part | south korea |
| "cremated, just as i would like to be" | frank |
| "secret annex." | frank |
| e. i. lonoff | frank |
| dussel | frank |
| "bright-eyed" | ancient mariner |
| "glittering eye." | ancient mariner |
| "sonny boy" | jeeves |
| "night-mare" | ancient mariner |
| "the psychology of the individual," | jeeves |
| carry on | jeeves |
| "a pluralistic universe" | james |
| "the will to believe," | james |
| "meditation upon death." | thanatopsis |
| jeanie deans | scott |
| scottish highlands | rob roy |
| flegetanis | grail |
| gwendolen harleth | eliot |
| "exquisite pattern." | emperor |
| "but he hasn't got anything on!" | emperor |
| "new clothes" | emperor |
| ghost writer | frank |
| cady's life | frank |
| mouschi | frank |
| "royal blood." | grail |
| "lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." | eliot |
| variations on the death of trotsky | united states |
| "monstrous vermin." | samsa |
| larry mccaslin | god of small things |
| "anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes" | nineteen eighty-four |
| "under the spreading chestnut tree." | nineteen eighty-four |
| gorgias | helen |
| "ordinary domestic scenes." | africa |
| "farewell to english." | africa |
| "an image of" | africa |
| samuel ferguson | verne |
| "snare / strangled into a scream" | wilde |
| "for the colour of his hair." | wilde |
| "the moor, i know his trumpet" | long day's journey into night |
| old gaspard | long day's journey into night |
| silberberg | frank |
| "stony eye-balls" | ancient mariner |
| "life-blood seemed to sip" | ancient mariner |
| "feudal spirit," | jeeves |
| right ho | jeeves |
| nottle | jeeves |
| charlotte haze | nabokov |
| "discovering home" | africa |
| "young sinner" | wilde |
| "we are such stuff as manure is made on, so let's drink up and forget it," | long day's journey into night |
| "the mad scene. enter ophelia!" | long day's journey into night |
| perceval | grail |
| "silly novels by lady novelists." | eliot |
| "slow-stepped verse," | sanskrit |
| "leads." | united states |
| human acts | south korea |
| "darkness" | stoppard |
| "the smell of rot fills the country" | grapes of wrath |
| "the men sat still - thinking - figuring" | grapes of wrath |
| dorn | seagull |
| sorin | seagull |
| "all the world to nothing! ha!" | richard iii |
| "capers nimbly...to the lascivious pleasing of a lute," | richard iii |
| "rudely stamp'd" | richard iii |
| "a pair" | south korea |
| la belle dame | keats |
| "two gin-scented tears." | nineteen eighty-four |
| "a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up up up" | nineteen eighty-four |
| sex league | nineteen eighty-four |
| theoclymenus | helen |
| "half-men," | russian |
| "seventeen months." | russian |
| "would you like a cup of tea?" | jackson |
| "pack of crazy fools" | jackson |
| "dewdrop world." | haiku |
| in emma cline | murder |
| peters | murder |
| "celestial" | keats |
| gregor | samsa |
| rhodes scholar chacko | god of small things |
| "what is that tree?" | seagull |
| "chloe liked olivia." | room of one's own |
| "not shaped for sportive tricks." | richard iii |
| "i'll shake the sky / like a hundred violins" | mexican |
| gloria anzaldua | mexican |
| oskar matzerath in the tin drum | grass |
| "the sons of adam are limbs of each other" | farsi |
| jabez branderham | wuthering heights |
| "laughing cockroaches" | russian |
| "astronomy, relativity, geography" | room of one's own |
| "the great art of making money," | room of one's own |
| "shall i live in hope?" | richard iii |
| "all men i hope live so." | richard iii |
| "likes looking at the walls" | mexican |
| "tame a wild tongue" | mexican |
| "scuttling" | grass |
| glasgow cathedral | rob roy |
| "like the months of the year" | ionesco |
| "angelfood" | ionesco |
| "long live the emperor" | ionesco |
| martins with the fire chief | ionesco |
| junior anti | nineteen eighty-four |
| thought police | nineteen eighty-four |
| "no foreign sky protected me, / no stranger's wing shielded my face" | russian |
| old man warner | jackson |
| spring of my life | haiku |
| david grann | murder |
| "what men or gods are these?" | keats |
| "his happy good-night air/some blessed hope, whereof he knew/and i was unaware." | darkling thrush |
| prince genji | murasaki |
| camus | plague |
| huntsman eric | snow |
| "was ever woman in this humour won?" | richard iii |
| "linoleum roses on the floor." | mexican |
| "you must keep writing." | mexican |
| "sad red" | mexican |
| borderlands | mexican |
| "cemetery of reconciliation." | grass |
| "vinegar-faced" | wuthering heights |
| uncle julian | jackson |
| "decadent rubbish." | seagull |
| boris trigorin | seagull |
| "little fish" | room of one's own |
| "i'll have her, but i will not keep her long." | richard iii |
| "says goodbye sometimes." | mexican |
| call of the toad | grass |
| merricat blackwood | jackson |
| "knot it" | murder |
| "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." | second coming |
| two minutes hate | nineteen eighty-four |
| "it is an equal error...to blame the praiseworthy and to praise the blameworthy" | helen |
| eurotas | helen |
| "one whistles, another meows, a third snivels." | russian |
| "there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. there's just stuff people do" | grapes of wrath |
| tom joad | grapes of wrath |
| olga knipper | seagull |
| elise pachen | murder |
| "wi'-gi-e" | murder |
| evie | murder |
| "buzz when [she] died." | flies |
| max gottlieb | lewis |
| leora | lewis |
| "aedh wishes for the cloths of heaven" | yeats |
| diana vernon | rob roy |
| paul pokriefke | grass |
| "presumptive fathers" | grass |
| "crying sound" | farsi |
| "awake!" | farsi |
| "thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess" | wuthering heights |
| "i'd lost my way on the moor!" | wuthering heights |
| "melody gloucester pegasus" | jackson |
| "spring is passing" | haiku |
| "i shan't be gone long - you come too." | frost |
| "would have the rabbit out of hiding" | frost |
| "i sold you and you sold me," | nineteen eighty-four |
| "this same flower that smiles today / tomorrow will be dying" | herrick |
| ebling mis | asimov |
| hari seldon | asimov |
| galactic empire | asimov |
| "never to stoop." | duchess |
| berenice charles | wilson |
| "well worth reading about." | mississippi |
| jeff atman | venice |
| geoff dyer | venice |
| "proverbs of hell." | blake |
| four zoas | blake |
| marriage of heaven | blake |
| "i'm going out to fetch the little calf" | frost |
| "not to blame for his key" | frost |
| "nenny," | house on mango street |
| "zeze the x" | house on mango street |
| thefoundationseries | asimov |
| "just this / or that in you disgusts me," | duchess |
| claus of innsbruck | duchess |
| "my last." | duchess |
| "she walks in [this word]." | beauty |
| helter skelter | murder |
| manson family | murder |
| "it is best to be prepared" | god of small things |
| "prophetic book" | blake |
| "and did those feet in ancient time." | blake |
| albion | blake |
| lord morena | apartheid |
| ethel lange in blood knot | apartheid |
| "the beast?" | beauty |
| "old times" | mississippi |
| "life on" | mississippi |
| "a minor bird," | frost |
| "but here there are no cows" | frost |
| "liquefaction" | herrick |
| "a wild civility" | herrick |
| "careless shoe-string" | herrick |
| terrance hayes | brooks |
| "do you think that the soul first shows itself by a gnashing of teeth?" | robot |
| "happy and careless" | six characters |
| "i've lost a whole day over [this group]!" | six characters |
| "this great war" | uncle tom's cabin |
| keeler to loomis | house on mango street |
| "taming a sea-horse" | duchess |
| "all that's best of dark and bright" | beauty |
| "gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name," | duchess |
| "a heart...too soon made glad." | duchess |
| uncle doaker | wilson |
| dick allbright | mississippi |
| two fathoms | mississippi |
| merci | keats |
| chris hemsworth | snow |
| "for thine is the kingdom" | eliot |
| "spot of joy" | duchess |
| "whose love is innocent." | beauty |
| "soft soul of america" | blake |
| jane taylor | apartheid |
| "all-fray zhah-ree's" | apartheid |
| "when art / is too precise in every part." | herrick |
| madame de thoux | uncle tom's cabin |
| three lawsof robotics | asimov |
| "superb three-mast" | maupassant |
| busman | robot |
| ultimus | robot |
| the zek shukhov | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "in a green bay." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| professor kuckuck | mann |
| "nothing new in the west." | all quiet on the western front |
| rolls-royce | myrtle |
| "what the hell are you talking about?" | stoppard |
| plastic people of the universe | stoppard |
| esme | stoppard |
| "alienated windy corner, perhaps forever," | forster |
| adela quested in the marabar | forster |
| "rented back room" | brooks |
| "strike straight." | brooks |
| "vile" | six characters |
| "thin like brook water" | pound |
| "oh-bay-ah" | jane eyre |
| married him | jane eyre |
| coulibi | jane eyre |
| "the limper." | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| god with alyosha the baptist in gang | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "before i knocked." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "the hollow round of my skull" | eliot |
| "julia poems" | herrick |
| "delight in disorder." | herrick |
| harlem shadows | mckay |
| "oppresses like the weight of cathedral tunes," | there's a certain slant of light |
| "when it comes the landscape listens, / shadows hold their breaths." | there's a certain slant of light |
| "and men / go often awry." | to a mouse |
| "would i might rouse the lincoln in you all!" | lindsay |
| "thanks to the human heart by which we live" | ode: intimations of immortality |
| jose norberto allende | cortazar |
| "still-born" | pound |
| "aunt cora's patchwork" | jane eyre |
| "how can you ask a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?" | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "sang the sun in flight." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| grunlich | mann |
| river arno | forster |
| "only pleasure" | six characters |
| "cream gilded cabin." | pound |
| "irritating cleverness" | do not go gentle into that good night |
| confessions of felix krull | mann |
| schubal | kafka |
| "both incline / their drowsy faces...on either side of [this poet's] enormous grave" | eliot |
| avrahm yarmolinsky | stoppard |
| rock 'n' roll and travesties | stoppard |
| "cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes." | brooks |
| levy pants company | confederacy of |
| tadzio in death in venice | mann |
| jacob's room | woolf |
| blake poem | tyger |
| "redbreast in a cage / puts all heaven in a rage." | robin |
| "near me on the grass lies glanvil's book." | scholar-gipsy |
| a man's a man a' that | burns |
| "english rubaiyat" | pound |
| the sea-wolf | london |
| "let us go then, you and i/when the evening is spread out against the sky/like a patient etherized upon a table." | eliot |
| little gidding | eliot |
| macondo in one hundred years of solitude | garcia marquez |
| fireside | lowell |
| "on indolence," | ode |
| "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 |
| addie bundren | mississippi |
| lay dying by william faulkner | mississippi |
| skeetah | mississippi |
| "if at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it," | seagull |
| "unobstructed world." | rilke |
| "cramped circles." | rilke |
| "no world" | rilke |
| "constantly passing bars" | rilke |
| "keen tremor" | awakening |
| "allez vous-en!" | awakening |
| victor sings | awakening |
| "granite carapace" | bronze horseman |
| "break a window to the west." | bronze horseman |
| "chill corpse" | bronze horseman |
| "marble pair of guardian lions" | bronze horseman |
| "in pious times, ere priest-craft did begin." | dryden |
| new french review | gide |
| east coker | eliot |
| john fowles | magical realism |
| griffin in the invisible man | wells |
| neon bible | toole |
| lin chong | water margin |
| pondicherry | pi |
| "tied...down" | godot |
| "in search of an author." | six characters |
| "cramp." | robot |
| "kah-rel cha-pek" | robot |
| but your land is beautiful | paton |
| "lincoln." | lindsay |
| "apparell'd in celestial light." | ode: intimations of immortality |
| wwi in a german | paul |
| "suck'd me first and, now sucks thee." | flea |
| tomas arroyo | mexico |
| "proud young city" | bronze horseman |
| "force its own reception" | dryden |
| "some peaceful province" | dryden |
| liza dalby | murasaki |
| "wild little plant" | murasaki |
| cicada | murasaki |
| "set traps for freedom" | rilke |
| li po | pound |
| "china," | cantos |
| "leopoldine," | cantos |
| "an apparition of these faces in the crowd; / petals on a wet, black bough." | in a station at the metro |
| arab in the stranger | camus |
| while at grand isle | awakening |
| "the only person worth playing for." | awakening |
| pedro paramo | mexico |
| "whistles far and wee," | in just |
| "bettyandisabel." | in just |
| sha wujing | journey to the west |
| song jiang | water margin |
| gao qiu | water margin |
| last tycoon | fitzgerald |
| tommy barban | dick |
| "revisit[ed] the banks of the wye during a tour." | tintern |
| klaus mann | mephistopheles |
| "would always wish evil, and always works the good." | mephistopheles |
| auerbach | mephistopheles |
| "ugly - babbling old - witch!" | menagerie |
| serpent club | cortazar |
| nick carraway in the great gatsby | fitzgerald |
| rosemary hoyt | dick |
| "on my first sonne" | jonson |
| mister fitzwilliam darcy | pride and prejudice |
| henry tilney | northanger abbey |
| we the living | rand |
| joe trace | jazz |
| "sir gawain and the green knight," | kiss |
| magwitch | philip |
| stephen daedalus | joyce |
| "with blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz / between the light and me / and then the windows failed, and then / i could not see." | dickinson |
| freedom or death and the | kazantzakis |
| in fathers | rand |
| "poised against the sunset, / crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog / and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye--." | sunflower sutra |
| "thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" | ode to a nightingale |
| scrivener | melville |
| margaret schlegel | howards |
| thea kronborg | cather |
| greek passion | kazantzakis |
| "faces of beasts" | rilke |
| "ritual dance" | rilke |
| "wild beast's fur" | rilke |
| wingfield | menagerie |
| hugo the strong | charlemagne |
| macalister | to the |
| newnham college | room of one's own |
| girton college | room of one's own |
| "a legendary head / with eyes like ripening fruit." | rilke |
| standover man | book thief |
| hans huberman | book thief |
| "innumerable centers of culture." | author |
| "intent" | author |
| "living phantom." | murasaki |
| "shining prince" | murasaki |
| fujitsobo | murasaki |
| western canon | author |
| shining by stephen king | author |
| w. k. wimsatt | author |
| isaac luria | pi |
| su tong | red |
| "whips" | godot |
| "zampa." | awakening |
| quvenzhane wallis | hushpuppy |
| barbara grizzuti harrison | didion |
| "surely tomorrow." | godot |
| "disagreeable little woman" | awakening |
| "si tu savais." | awakening |
| impromptu | awakening |
| "torture one poor word ten thousand ways." | dryden |
| salvage the bones by jesmyn ward | mississippi |
| "always wears mourning... to match my life." | seagull |
| "bones are picked clean" | and death shall have no dominion |
| jewish max vanderburg | book thief |
| hendrik hofgen | mephistopheles |
| "hired assassin" | menagerie |
| "old-fashioned what-not" | menagerie |
| "pilgrimage." | charlemagne |
| "minuscule." | charlemagne |
| joyeuse | charlemagne |
| "in the opposite house / as lately as today" | death |
| "winter afternoons," | there's a certain slant of light |
| travels with charley | steinbeck |
| "the best laid schemes of" | to a mouse |
| esmerelda | hunchback of notre-dame |
| shadow and act | ellison |
| paquette in candide | pangloss |
| "mourn'd--and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "iron railing" | bronze horseman |
| "frail cottage" | bronze horseman |
| ben jonson | dryden |
| bois sauvage | mississippi |
| "all is void, void, void" | seagull |
| "implied" | author |
| edward seidensticker | murasaki |
| "plunges into the heart and is gone" | rilke |
| "nine worthies." | charlemagne |
| "the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth." | pi |
| ministry of transport | pi |
| "neurasthenic cher" | didion |
| "only disconnect." | didion |
| "to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow" | didion |
| deirdre bair | godot |
| comala | mexico |
| msimangu | stephen |
| "a time when meadow, grove, and stream" | ode: intimations of immortality |
| "laugh[ed] at the archer." | albatross |
| "slimy things...upon the shiny sea" | albatross |
| james mccune smith | douglass |
| "utter loneliness" | douglass |
| "lectures on liberation." | douglass |
| back bay | silas |
| hushpuppy | beasts of the southern wild |
| wilfrid sellars | pragmatism |
| morlocks | time |
| robert frost medal | we real cool |
| zhu bajie | journey to the west |
| year of the death | ricardo reis |
| curley | of mice and |
| "sophocles long ago / heard it on the aegean," | dover beach |
| touchett | james |
| station eleven | lear |
| "exiled" | albatross |
| "prince of cloud and sky" | albatross |
| "representative american man." | douglass |
| "chapter 25" | douglass |
| angela davis | douglass |
| "she will rise again" | saramago |
| cai jing | water margin |
| "outcasts always mourn" | ballad of reading |
| "eddieandbill" | in just |
| "swaying mass" | o captain! my captain |
| "the people all exulting" | o captain! my captain |
| "the stables are the real centre of the household" | shaw |
| "historical, satirical, philosophical, ... or straight" | dahl |
| lantern yard | silas |
| " and the speaker states, " | emperor of ice cream |
| "pallid bust of pallas just above [the speaker's] chamber door." | raven |
| eloi | time |
| edward prendick | island of doctor moreau |
| lowland | lahiri |
| much of lahiri | india |
| vikram seth | india |
| group portrait with lady | boll |
| "haunted by humans." | book thief |
| seagull | chekhov |
| "the bathtub" | hushpuppy |
the dry salvages | t.s. eliot |
| pearl-feather | song of hiawatha |
| biglow papers | lowell |
| "a study of provincial life." | middlemarch |
| " for 10 points each: name this poem that contrasts the hedonism of the title character working in the kitchen with the death of a poor woman. " | emperor of ice cream |
| hank morgan | connecticut yankee in |
| owl eyes | funeral |
| erastro in la galatea | cervantes |
| camilla | to the |
| mister george knightly | emma |
| kat, muller, kropp | all quiet on the western front |
| alice manfred | jazz |
| st. olaf's | jay gatsby |
| "painted on the wall." | my last duchess |
| "engaged" | becky |
| "six feet." | how much land does a man need |
| mack | cannery row |
| bobby thomson | baseball |
| "shot heard 'round the world," | baseball |
| second vatican council | john xxiii |
| pacem in terris | john xxiii |
| "once so beautiful" | albatross |
| "in just-." | cummings |
| princess celestia | twilight |
| julian west | looking backward |
| rip | wolf |
| pictures | williams |
| "was it a vision, or a waking dream?" | ode to a nightingale |
| hara in gone with the wind | mitchell |
| "take their case." | soyinka |
| belinda in an alexander pope | lock |
| "his own idiosyncratic voice" | o captain! my captain |
| other flammable objects | irani |
| reading lolita in tehran | irani |
| william dean howells | silas |
| ma kilman | omeros |
| "crack your cheeks" | lear |
| "so funny and ugly." | albatross |
| "sank like lead" | albatross |
| "gone, gone, sold and gone" | douglass |
| milton rogers | silas |
| "rags to riches" | silas |
| "universal alphabet" | higgins |
| banquo | macbeth |
| birnam wood | malcolm |
| henry sugar | dahl |
| gpt | dahl |
| katharine peabody loring | james |
| olive chancellor | james |
| gardencourt | james |
| paul scofield | lear |
| peter brook | lear |
| "the wren goes to't" | lear |
| "walk? not bloody likely!" | shaw |
| florence with mrs | james |
| "hoots and jeers" | albatross |
| james greenleaf whittier | douglass |
| tom corey | silas |
| "weaver of raveloe" | silas |
| evelyn | bar |
| "the great automatic grammatizator." | dahl |
| henry gatz | funeral |
| when klipspringer | funeral |
| "holiday" | soma |
| "all the advantages of christianity and alcohol, and none of the defects." | soma |
| savage reservation | brave new world |
| point counterpoint | huxley |
| daoud | brother |
| crome yellow | huxley |
| olstead | bar |
| "shot down over libya." | dahl |
| going solo | dahl |
| pratchett | dahl |
| cadbury | dahl |
| aumsa | soyinka |
| kongi's harvest | soyinka |
| "all the trophies of his former loves" | lock |
| "without fear of wind or vertigo" | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "leaning from the steep slope." | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "swart growth of hair" | jekyll becoming |
| "little cuss" | prospector |
| helen vendler | o captain! my captain |
| "on the deck" | o captain! my captain |
| lady utterword | shaw |
| azar nafisi | irani |
| oakhurst | hamlet |
| frank poole | hal 9000 |
| lennie in of mice | steinbeck |
| bin-yee | desiree |
| "whose mind is pure machinery" | moloch |
| yosh | ivan |
| fetyukov | ivan |
| "every thinking activity implies mirrors" | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| george selby | simon |
| earth by the river styx | hades |
| kuut | south africa |
| chant of jimmie blacksmith | australia |
| sailor who fell | mishima |
| "glad and big" | olaf |
| "my dear fellow" | jo |
| "melancholy air and intellectual abstraction" | hamlet |
| "statistics lie" | olaf |
| "more brave than me, more blonde than you." | olaf |
| demi | meg |
| hortensio | tutor |
| "shocking" | chopin |
| "bashed open skulls" | moloch |
| "ate up brains and imagination" | moloch |
| baptist alyoshka | ivan |
| "creeping like a snail unwillingly to school." | seven ages of |
| jaques | as you like it |
| yahoo in the land of the houyhnhnms | lemuel |
| "an abyss where vice is triumphant" | misanthrope |
| "one may enjoy the freedom of being an honest man" | misanthrope |
| fleance | banquo |
| goodman grey | minister's |
| "maggie and milly and molly and may" | cummings |
| koot | underworld |
| mohan | house for mr. biswas |
| fooz | egypt |
| vincent spaulding | red-headed |
| major major major major | milton |
| "spleen and ideal." | fleurs du mal |
| "delicate monster" | reader |
| "my likeness! my brother!" | reader |
| alessandro tassoni | lock |
| "mounted to the lunar sphere" | lock |
| "glittering" | lock |
| "bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths" | o captain! my captain |
| "eager faces turning" | o captain! my captain |
| "oh-fee-on" | creation |
| borachio | much ado about nothing |
| farwell to arms | hemingway |
| "sidereal eagle, misty vine." | machu picchu |
| "rise up in birth with me." | machu picchu |
| "heights" | machu picchu |
| "still throbs in the old, old scars" | bird |
| "its blood is red on the cruel bars." | bird |
| "tote" | boule de suif |
| nair | river |
| potamoi | river |
| "pleasures" | opium |
| "pains" | opium |
| thomas de quincey | opium |
| "c'est moi" | emma |
| "gnomon," | dublin |
| "simony," | dublin |
| "snow falling faintly" | dublin |
| "emerging from the jungle." | machu picchu |
| strand | holmes |
| "i am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor!" | nemo |
| "a veritable peace-maker" | dublin |
| father flynn | dublin |
| "a pain" | bird |
| hastie lanyon | jekyll becoming |
| klondike gold rush | prospector |
| oxford street | opium |
| volodin | the first circle |
| clytemnestra in aeschylus | electra |
| virgil thomson | stein |
| four saints in three acts | stein |
| "lost generation." | stein |
| "sacred emily" | stein |
| 27 rue de fleurus | stein |
| meiringen | holmes |
| the b. toklas | stein |
| "black gold" | journey to the west |
| "absolute simplicity" | catch-22 |
| perpetual orgy | emma |
| "say mwah" | emma |
| "no monument stands." | russian |
| "we read no more that day," | divine |
| "midway upon the journey of our life / i found myself within a forest dark" | divine |
| "abandon all hope, ye who enter here." | divine |
| "the one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience" | atticus |
| "all he had, a tear" | elegy written in a country |
| "perhaps gracious, perhaps mocking" | hesse |
| before lsd | hesse |
| "song of the thousand voices." | hesse |
| gnostic | hesse |
| autobiography of alice | stein |
| "thanatopsis club" | lewis |
| jabez | red-headed |
| yossarian | catch-22 |
| "the north wind and the sun," | aesop |
| lotaria | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "horror of the spirit" | jekyll becoming |
| regent's | jekyll becoming |
| pierre menard | borges |
| "rapture on the lonely shore" | childe harold's |
| bridge of sighs | venice |
| "a palace and a prison on each hand." | venice |
| "the gunman kill and go free to kill again" | chicago |
| kwaht | feather |
| "a simple man am i" | marti |
| enrique flores | cuba |
| monsieur le blanc | marie |
| "floats downstream till the current ends" | bird |
| "sings of freedom" | bird |
| jean de la fontaine | aesop |
| snoopy | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "drowning man is said to cling to a straw." | prospector |
| "man-o'war jack" | prospector |
| "respectful whistle." | catch-22 |
| "failed to love a tree in each person" | machu picchu |
| "real courage" | atticus |
| "god of death." | electra |
| timothy leary | hesse |
| nautilus in twenty thousand leagues under the sea | nemo |
| "ladies of sorrow" | opium |
| "if [this character] had not read all those novels...[this character]'s fate might have been different" | emma |
| julian barnes | emma |
| "make miniature valhalla of my heart" | bird |
| according to the hymiskvidha | tyr |
| grace with the sea | mishima |
| prince gremin | eugene |
| joseph moody | minister's |
| john brooke | meg |
| josy | meg |
| north fork river | roaring camp |
| thomas luck | roaring camp |
| "delete the adjectives and...have the facts" | atticus |
| miss dubose | atticus |
| jean prouvaire | javert |
| frij | midas |
| "-sih-dus]." | milton |
| lohl | paz |
| flay | banquo |
| "ancient as the world and older than the flow of blood in human veins" | hughes |
| abraxas | hesse |
| "when this you see remember me" | stein |
| "the napoleon of crime." | holmes |
| "mobilis in mobili" | nemo |
| five civil war | nemo |
| professor aronnax on the abraham lincoln | nemo |
| "draws the world" | borges |
| "forges decrees" | russian |
| "he is the god of love" | ibsen |
| herbert quain | borges |
| nils runeberg | borges |
| "storm in the sky in the evening" | russian |
| dante tours | divine |
| "when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway" | atticus |
| "all he wished, a friend." | elegy written in a country |
| "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" | elegy written in a country |
| "post data" | paz |
| "with mournful tread" | o captain! my captain |
| "lovely and soothing" | when lilacs last in |
| "nansen kills a kitten" | mishima |
| "are apt to forget to remember." | anyone lived in a pretty |
| kirkes in new york | jo |
| gem of the ocean | pittsburgh |
| grishkin | eliot |
| "prosperous in proper sense" | bird |
| "a light and diplomatic" | bird |
| "foretopman" | billy |
| "daisy bell" | hal 9000 |
| celine varens | edward |
| samneric | lord of the flies |
| glum | brobdingnag |
| glumdalclitch | brobdingnag |
| jay-kez | as you like it |
| "a stage where every man must play a part" | merchant of |
| "thoroughgoing racist" | conrad |
| enjolras | javert |
| eurynome | creation |
| hermia | lysander |
| "boz" | dickens |
| "pleasure in the pathless woods" | childe harold's |
| in a free state | egypt |
| brustein | hansberry |
| rue pavee | seine |
| tortilla flat | california |
| encyclopedia britannica | red-headed |
| suburban bank | sherlock |
| "the world no longer let me love. my hope and treasure lie above." | burning |
| west wind | nokomis |
| lee goodwin | yoknapatawpha |
| "mile" | compson |
| ma rainey | wilson |
| black bottom | wilson |
| mikt | underworld |
| calpurnia | cook |
| galbis | cuba |
| alejo carpentier | magic |
| "you never really understand a person...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." | atticus |
| kree | tutor |
| dora flood | cannery |
| madame valmonde | desiree |
| "sphinx of cement and aluminum" | moloch |
| castle of wolfenbach | catherine |
| vuh-loh-din | the first circle |
| "shall be the hero of [his] own life" | david |
| learned what | pittsburgh |
| radio golf | pittsburgh |
| "the chair she sat in, like a burnished throne" | eliot |
| "we meet at the final crossroads" | ibsen |
| "the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence." | kafka |
| "a voice of gladness, and a smile, and eloquence of beauty" | thanatopsis |
| english socialist party | big brother |
| "son of phlegm, grandchild to water" | age |
| in an alejandra pizarnik | stone |
| "each is another and no other: / crossing and vanishing." | stone |
| "family size" | eco |
| "olympian mixture" | claudius |
| "play the fool" | claudius |
| alaska by michael chabon | yiddish |
| "a little fable" | kafka |
| armanoush | istanbul |
| "always" | coward |
| hay fever | coward |
| "i, too" | dream |
| "like a syrupy sweet" | dream |
| "river that goes curving, / advances and retreats." | stone |
| pirates of the caribbean | eco |
| "old king log" | claudius |
| "withers quicker than the rose" | shropshire lad |
| joe dimaggio in the old man | hemingway |
| battle of caporetto | switzerland |
| potato face blind man | rootabaga |
| tlee | feather |
| geeb | egypt |
| "cigar-girl" | marie |
| pullman porter | brutus |
| "strong foundation of proud babel" | bradstreet |
| "good morning, daddy! ain't you heard?" | dream |
| "crust[s] and sugar[s] over" | dream |
| "does it stink like rotten meat?" | dream |
| "the wood's in trouble" | shropshire lad |
| "american wood." | pequod |
| "the dove and the leopard fought" | lorca |
| kirill eskov | tolkien |
| "legendarium." | tolkien |
| "what angel is hidden in your cheek?" | lorca |
| book of lost tales | tolkien |
| black speech | tolkien |
| john woodbridge | bradstreet |
| "dear mother, fairest queen." | bradstreet |
| "whole mines of gold" | bradstreet |
| "all the riches the east doth hold" | bradstreet |
| "barren field" | dream |
| osip bazdeyev | mason |
| "i, [this man]." | claudius |
| dolphin hotel | murakami |
| asya | istanbul |
| button molder | ibsen |
| "the one cock in the basket" | ibsen |
| "the most wonderful thing of all?" | ibsen |
| peleg | pequod |
| wenonah | nokomis |
| charles thomas wooldridge | ballad of |
| after valjean | drown |
| mead hall | hrothgar |
| duke of gloucester | edgar |
| "poly-deck-tees" | perseus |
| meek | dead |
| fitz-norman | forrest |
| "a fantasy world more real than reality." | eco |
| "poor uncle" | claudius |
| "the stammerer." | claudius |
| "calcutec." | murakami |
| "rat." | murakami |
| isaac singer | yiddish |
| "the whole world is growing smaller every day" | kafka |
| "you only need to change your direction" | kafka |
| jackie croyton | coward |
| love's whirlwind | coward |
| "keeper" | dream |
| laurel | shropshire lad |
| "the bad light is near and nothing is real." | stone |
| "pillars of magic" | stone |
| "corridors of a dissolving autumn." | stone |
| "audio-animatronics" | eco |
| kagu-tsuchi | fir |
| "ever the stars above look down / on thy stars below in" | frederick |
| juturna | turnus |
| "portrait plays" | ibsen |
"the congo" | vachel lindsay |
| orwell | coolie |
| though reverend shannon | episcopal |
| "pink elephants," | john barleycorn |
| spielvogel | alex |
| alexander portnoy | roth |
| tawv | holocaust |
| "liver cancer" | aids |
| "the tenderness of patient minds" | anthem for doomed |
| "children...that old lie" | owen |
| "o thou my lovely boy" | sonnet |
| "when in disgrace with fortune" | sonnet |
| university of leeds | ngugi |
| "that which bites you is in your own clothing." | ngugi |
| kihika | ngugi |
| "into that blackness" | pequod |
| "material counterpart" | pequod |
| poet in new york | lorca |
| "rule them all." | tolkien |
| haladdin | tolkien |
| goddess | wheatley |
| "on the death of george whitefield" | elegy |
the good earth | pearl s. buck |
| nathan zuckerman in the human stain | roth |
| operation shylock | jew |
| footnote to history | samoa |
| kabir | tagore |
| ogre of endless tears | ngugi |
| "people don't do such things!" | ibsen |
| "the god" | claudius |
| "will soon be engaged," | collins |
| gallery of prospero | rodo |
| history of a troubled life | uruguay |
| "what we talk about when we talk about anne frank" | new yorker |
| yord | feet |
| mephistopheles, faust | goethe |
| "i don't want to be a tree, i want to be its meaning." | istanbul |
| "bastard of [this city]." | istanbul |
| stool pigeon | pittsburgh |
| canewell | pittsburgh |
| "a feline smell," | eliot |
| "saw the skull beneath the skin." | eliot |
| "existing monuments" | eliot |
| "unreal city under the brown fog of a winter dawn." | eliot |
| petals of blood | ngugi |
| warigia | ngugi |
| ilmorog | ngugi |
| "thank god!" | waugh |
| julia flyte | waugh |
| "red hell" | pequod |
| "initiation," | hero |
| "with a thousand faces." | hero |
| going to the territory | ellison |
| bliss hickman | adam |
| heinrich boll | billiard |
| tom foster | winesburg |
| curtis hartman | kate |
| "a perfect day for" | bananafish |
| "come on and kiss me." | taming of the shrew |
| "ruler of the minds of all people" | tagore |
| sophie zawitowska | holocaust |
| cliffs of dover | peach |
| marshals of france | alceste |
| yomi | izanagi |
| rosencrantz and guildenstern | gilbert |
| "up the the ladder of the earth...through the awful tangles of lost forests" | heights of macchu |
| "the liberators" | canto general |
| "the earth's name is juan" | canto general |
| "my pleasant things in ashes lie." | bradstreet |
| "there'll be time enough for sleep" | shropshire lad |
| "i go among your body as among the world" | stone |
| "how to travel with a salmon." | eco |
| knights templar | eco |
| "a boy brought the white sheet." | lorca |
| "music of creation." | tolkien |
| "the road goes ever on" | tolkien |
| artifices | borges |
| devil on the cross | ngugi |
| aegidius tschudi | tell |
| "mopping and mowing" | goblin |
| "i am taking this only so that you do not think you have failed to do anything." | trial |
| "gave me eyes, gave me ears; / and humble cares, and delicate fears." | wordsworth |
| "steep woods and lofty cliffs" | wordsworth |
| river wye | wordsworth |
| william halloway | something wicked |
| phineas fletcher | uncle tom's |
| dolokhov | mason |
| "abyss" | hero |
| "return." | hero |
| gloomy | hero |
| "immortal hand or eye." | blake |
| "lacking a common memory" | borges |
| "wive it wealthily in padua" | taming of the shrew |
| "god is within us." | tagore |
| "into a single current" | tagore |
| "musee de beaux-arts [myoo-zay day boh-zart] arts" | auden |
| "sick-or-axe" | tempest |
| "an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato" | ebenezer |
| "god bless us every one." | tim |
| green town | something wicked |
| "the eyes of the panther." | bierce |
| "[his] foe outstretched" | blake |
| "beasts of england" | pig |
| "human war" | ginsberg |
| sea witch | andersen |
| "memory and desire." | bananafish |
| "eclipse himself" | cyrano |
| "thrust home!" | cyrano |
| "gold coin from quito" | pequod |
| "open his soul beyond terror" | hero |
| "atonement with the father." | hero |
| "the hapless soldiers sigh" | blake |
| "ragnarok." | borges |
| "death and the compass" | borges |
| "black into white" | pig |
| "four legs good, two legs bad." | pig |
| tiberinus | janus |
| "brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" | aristophanes |
| lothar | clara |
| helen white | winesburg |
| j.b | macleish |
| "the best dream that ever i had in my life" | taming of the shrew |
| "fie fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow" | taming of the shrew |
| "monomaniac soul." | pequod |
| "sex is fun -- or hell" | bananafish |
| el pweeg | prison |
| polyeidos | athena |
| tragic episode | gilbert |
| major kovalev | nose |
| "concerned with a rather strictly defined, clinical version of truth" | pisces |
| slothrop | pisces |
| "an extravagance of laughter," | ellison |
| "you prob'ly must have heard of" | bell jar |
| day magazine in new york | bell jar |
| "a duck-sized horse." | caged bird |
| madame lebrun | caged bird |
| old major | pig |
| "five o'clock." | spain |
| "brother square-toes" | kipling |
| masago | akutagawa |
| bob cratchit | tim |
| "the god of my youth, the object, all my life long, of love and veneration" | mozart |
| phillis | elegy |
| everything that rises must | o'connor |
| man and | shaw |
| wiesel | buchenwald |
| "colored queen who wears a kimono and plucks his eyebrows" | god |
| "a woman who cries with determination behind her closed door" | god |
| "solely to avoid looking a fool" | "shooting an elephant" |
"shooting an elephant" | orwell |
| t | night of |
| fordyce | collins |
| "moments of great tension." | william of baskerville |
| rodo | uruguay |
| mictlan, quetzalcoatl | blood |
| "when old age shall this generation waste" | grecian urn |
| kurt | waugh |
| "rat's pace" | goblin |
| "assigned only to you. i'm going now to close it" | trial |
| "lowliest gatekeeper." | trial |
| meme | buendia |
| "dear, dear sister" | wordsworth |
| george 's | salvation army |
| stanley webber in the birthday party | pinter |
| "ignacio's blood in the ring." | spain |
| "gone without corsets & eyes" | ginsberg |
| "bedazzled with the sun" | taming of the shrew |
| "more obedient" | taming of the shrew |
| "how to answer" | tagore |
| "you sit there smiling." | tagore |
| "flow to a sea of silence." | tagore |
| munira | ngugi |
| "skilled in circumvention of the law." | bierce |
| "the sect of the phoenix." | borges |
| "thigh with a horn in it" | spain |
| "when it comes to slaughter / you will do your work on water" | kipling |
| "america two dollars and twentyseven cents." | ginsberg |
| call of the wild in the yukon | london |
| macomb | dill |
| "and the maiden," | death |
| "we must not look at" | goblin |
| "apples and quinces, lemons and oranges." | goblin |
| "market" | goblin |
| "man-hating half-woman" | miss julie |
| thirty best short stories of the year | bell jar |
| "i know why [what animal] sings?" | caged bird |
| "there never was a body that [gave] the undertaker a tip" | o'connor |
| " examples of these people often have a hamartia, or fatal flaw, that leads to their downfall. morally gray characters are called the " | hero |
"hit a world at every plunge" | funeral ("i felt a funeral, in my brain") |
| "what all schoolchildren learn / those to whom evil is done / do evil in return" | september 1, 1939 |
| "weak and degenerate brain." | miss julie |
| "so gay ever glancing ever changing" | wordsworth |
| "impress / thoughts of more deep seclusion." | wordsworth |
| lenny shepherd | bell jar |
| district officer robson | ngugi |
| "stood, / like a lily in a flood" | goblin |
| cohn | ethel |
| "man delights not me; no, nor woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so." | what a piece of work is |
| three tabloids | gilbert |
| "my friend" | heights of macchu |
| when rabbit | marty tothero |
| ras the destroyer | invisible man |
| "two folds of crepe" | veil |
| "if i can stop one heart from breaking, i shall not live in vain." | dickinson |
| "organization for modern theft and robbery" | ngugi |
| kihika in the mau mau rebellion | ngugi |
| karanja | ngugi |
| gikuyu | ngugi |
| maurice bavaud | tell |
| baron of attinghausen | tell |
| "i promise to stand still" | tell |
| "would not open lip from lip" | goblin |
| susanna clarke | mab |
| ladies of grace adieu | mab |
| "starts and wakes... swears a prayer or two and sleeps again." | mab |
| "the angel of the central committee" | neruda |
| "final act of betrayal by a ruling class that has failed its people" | roy |
| "ageless," | du maurier |
| "monte verita" | du maurier |
| transcendental wild oats | alcott |
| "the mongoose," | naipaul |
| "light, hope, and life." | axel |
| "tulips" | ariel |
| "war is god." | holden |
| judge holden | blood meridian |
| peyton thomas | alcott |
| fruitlands | alcott |
| captain fox | mab |
| in mel | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| nathan englander | frank |
| john hersey | new yorker |
| warning for fair women | elizabeth i |
| four prentices of london | heywood |
| woman killed with kindness | heywood |
| his odes | horace |
| great railway bazaar | theroux |
| johnny corkscrew | sword |
| mary arden | shakespeare |
| as you like it in the forest of arden | shakespeare |
| "war is sweet to them who know it not." | pindar |
| "once he liked humans; / how long ago this was!" | naipaul |
| professional foul | stoppard |
| rescue in malaysia | conrad |
| galsworthy | stevenson |
| "the kid" | blood meridian |
| kleist | romantic |
| lyca | lost |
| vogel | indecent |
| fairy melusine | ash |
| de scudery | moliere |
| bollinger club | oxford |
| "the lady, or the tiger?" | stockton |
| jolyon | galsworthy |
| heinrich von kleist | marquise of o |
| "bush poets" | australia |
| mortimer cropper | ash |
| great ventriloquist | ash |
| paul pennyfeather | oxford |
| "stomach kind of fell as i felt how hard the world was going to be." | a&p |
| "munich mannequins." | ariel |
| "gold upon [her] head" | goblin |
| "mossy glen" | goblin |
| "cat's face" | goblin |
| "morning and evening" | goblin |
| "the shawl." | ozick |
| in ozick | concentration camp |
| "the classics can console. but not enough." | naipaul |
| sara de maupers | axel |
| "old roses" | roy |
| jeanette winterson | frankenstein |
| cornelius agrippa | frankenstein |
| villa diodati | frankenstein |
| felix de lacey | frankenstein |
| "don't look now" | du maurier |
| ridiculous precieuses | moliere |
| hans jakob christoffel | simplicius simplicissimus |
| "fairies' midwife" | mab |
| mercutio in romeo | mab |
| "billingsgates" | rabelais |
| "do what thou wilt." | rabelais |
| oracle of the golden bottle | rabelais |
| "from air to air, as through an empty net" | neruda |
| "disappeared among the reeds and willows" | chopin |
| adrienne | chopin |
| fairie queene | knight |
| archimago | knight |
| "i will not give up berlin!" | george |
| "economy" | walden |
| venetia moore | mab |
| "philosophical poem" | mab |
| "plaits the manes of horses." | mab |
| "little atomies" | mab |
| "three girls in nothing but bathing suits" | a&p |
| "found" | songs of innocence and |
| "the little black boy" | songs of innocence and |
| james blackadder | possession |
| christabel lamotte | possession |
| "mr. sludge, 'the medium'" | browning |
| herta muller | bread |
| maubert isabeau | bread |
| "hangs over every american typewriter." | fitzgerald |
| like fitzgerald | dick |
| "whatever shares the eternal reciprocity of tears." | insensibility |
| "faux-sicilian cyclops" | quevedo |
| "farts sing like sirens." | quevedo |
| el buscon | spain |
| his dark materials | pullman |
| pramoedya ananta toer | indonesia |
| "the words on the page" | leavis |
| "human moments in world war iii" | delillo |
| "unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend, and of the curveship lend a myth to god." | bridge |
| neo-gothic bridge | brooklyn |
| buru quartet | indonesia |
| jill bryant | koch |
| delphin slade | roman fever |
| "the girls in their summer dresses." | shaw |
| cropper | possession |
| george murchison | beneatha |
| artamene | scudery |
| "the misfit." | sammy |
| duke of ephesus | solinus |
| egeon of syracuse | solinus |
| "alienation effects in chinese theatre" | brecht |
| frank raymond leavis | leavis |
| "dictation," | concentration camp |
| auguste villiers | axel |
| de l'isle-adam | axel |
| an outcast of the islands | conrad |
| james mcauley | malley |
| learned to drive | vogel |
| roland michell | possession |
| maud bailey | possession |
| "newly sprung in june" | rose |
| "produces vibrations." | ernest |
| "bunburyist" | ernest |
| chasuble | ernest |
| dusters | tin drum |
| "life is a pure" | flame |
| "and we live by an invisible sun within us." | flame |
| tender | dick |
| "in town and jack in the country" | ernest |
| "the importance of being" | ernest |
| "shot to rags" | bierce |
| colt .44 | bierce |
| house of busyrane | knight |
| house of pride | knight |
| "redcrosse" | knight |
| "in deserts, where no men abide," | rose |
| elizabeth on an arctic | frankenstein |
| "sexless" | du maurier |
| nat hocken | du maurier |
| john matteson | alcott |
| "christmas won't be christmas without any presents," | alcott |
| amy march in little women | alcott |
| "confrontation is largely metaphysical" | death and the king's horseman |
| "you seem to be displaying signs of triviality." | ernest |
| ananta toor | indonesia |
| "women never forgive failures." | konstantin |
| in urn burial | flame |
| sound of music by the orangedrink lemondrink man | roy |
| "sad trash." | frankenstein |
| turkishwoman safie | frankenstein |
| "year without a summer." | frankenstein |
| letters by captain walton | frankenstein |
| "go, lovely" | rose |
| "eater of left-overs." | death and the king's horseman |
| cecily and gwendolen | ernest |
| word book | bierce |
| bower of bliss | knight |
| duessa | knight |
| "humiliate the host" | george |
| martha in edward albee | george |
| "whip of cricket's bone" | mab |
| panurge | rabelais |
| "will never know... his mother." | chopin |
| "body and soul free" | chopin |
| "the end of imagination." | roy |
| "one thing" | decameron |
| "in a gentlemanly manner" | alcott |
| "must have uncommended died" | rose |
| athenian new comedy | menander |
| dyskolos | menander |
| love in a fallen city | chang |
| "vision of" | hartford |
| "mariner who first unfurl'd an eastern banner over the western world" | hartford |
| max morden | banville |
| r. leavis | leavis |
| "happy are men who yet before they are killed can let their veins run cold." | insensibility |
| "r is for ruth, to tell you the truth, there's just no more to be said, just r is for ruth." | nash |
| the prince de ligne | casanova |
| under the net | murdoch |
| sovereignty of good | murdoch |
| "the character of the happy warrior" | nelson |
| c. s. forester's | nelson |
| hornblower | nelson |
| "like a buttercup / upon its branching stem." | asphodel, that greeny flower |
| "lawful wife" | chekhov |
| "mistress." | chekhov |
| "hard, gemlike" | flame |
| "is success in life." | flame |
| "line-up for yesterday" | nash |
| "i think that i shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree." | kilmer |
| matter and memory | bergson |
| the histoire de ma vie | casanova |
| john crowe ransom | leavis |
| "by choice... made themselves immune" | insensibility |
| "human moments" | world war iii |
| colorado command | world war iii |
| loiseau | chicken |
| earth of mankind | indonesia |
| baby kochamma | roy |
| prozorov | three sisters |
| willie mink | nun |
| lyra belacqua | pullman |
| mood | indonesia |
| max havelaar | indonesia |
| billy kwan | koch |
| cookie | koch |
| lilly sabina | antrobus |
| "our town." | wilder |
| frenchman alec therien | walden |
| ellery channing | walden |
| "breaches, ambuscadoes, spanish blades" | mab |
| "drums in [a soldier's] ear," | mab |
| "folk laughter." | rabelais |
| "carnivalesque" | rabelais |
| "arise to birth with me, my brother." | neruda |
| "lilacs," | chopin |
| "beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs" | bierce |
| william benton | bierce |
| "not too bold," | knight |
| radigund | knight |
| "brute neighbors" | walden |
| iris murdoch | ireland |
| john banville | ireland |
| "he / whom every man in arms should wish to be." | happy warrior |
| "strange blight" | carson |
| reeds in the wind | italian |
| "homelessness." | forster |
| "the celestial omnibus" | forster |
| "that never dreams" | paz |
| "clash of cultures." | death and the king's horseman |
| praise singer | death and the king's horseman |
| "has a music of its own" | ernest |
| "has been through it" | saint-exupery |
| wadi el natrun | saint-exupery |
| flight to arras | saint-exupery |
| gitanjali by rabindranath tagore | bengali |
| hall heorot | grendel |
| shieldings | grendel |
| "more like a tavern or a brothel," | lear's daughters |
| "tis his own blame... and must needs taste his folly," | lear's daughters |
| embers | marai |
| volcano lover | sontag |
against interpretation | sontag |
| quiet city | shaw |
| "dandy, but liquor is quicker." | candy |
| melanie klein | ring |
| "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 |
| "wits" | barlow |
| "author's note" | cry, the beloved country |
| "was begun in trondheim and finished in san francisco" | cry, the beloved country |
| "a lovely road that runs from ixopo into the hills." | cry, the beloved country |
| "hurled from a considerable height" | forster |
| cecil vyse | forster |
| vashti | forster |
| "weighty openings" | horace |
| "saltmother" | paz |
| elaine castillo | bulosan |
| lu ling | tan |
| "abandon" | margarita |
| "what happened to" | gordimer |
| "complaint book," | calvino |
| "old broken-down pier" | road |
| the and the home and the world | bengali |
| "our own heart exceeds us" | duino elegies |
| tartarus of maids | massachusetts |
| briony | atonement |
| "argumentum fistulatorium." | toby |
| "wives" | fortunata and jacinta |
| sadiku | baroka |
| "beautiful dream" | blanche |
| "cold-wetness" | seafarer |
| robert musil | austria |
| "the monkey," | singer |
| "beautiful riverbank" | blanche |
| "erect" | riddle |
| "hairy" | riddle |
| freedom from want | bulosan |
| vi to viii of don juan | malaprop |
| marquis of londonderry | malaprop |
| "paradise of bachelors" | massachusetts |
| "could not speak english" | malaprop |
| "hothouse on the roof" | banana |
| achtung | tyrone |
| varts | gravity's rainbow |
"00000" | gravity's rainbow |
"furioso" | orlando |
| the village | crabbe |
| "the fall of rome." | auden |
| alexei ivanovich in a dostoyevsky | gambling |
| hermann in a pushkin | gambling |
| "what have poets, in any case, to do with sin?" | poem without a hero |
| "hateful things" | pillow book |
| "things of beauty." | pillow book |
| rigleys | chrysanthemum |
| peter kien | canetti |
| "after homer and before" | stein |
| in enemies of promise | crabbe |
| in perez galdos | blind |
| "animal" | lion and the jewel |
| paris review | plimpton |
| "pensive prisoner's prayer" | priestley |
| "a crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine" | washington |
| "celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light." | washington |
| man of mode | fopling |
| "daughter of fire, spirit of fire." | paz |
| "this is the royal bed." | rose |
| apartment no | margarita |
| "fifth dimension." | margarita |
| "smiling, lifeless man" | road |
| "a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again" | harper's |
| "innamorato." | orlando |
| "humanism" | ariosto |
| bureau of fisheries | carson |
| grazia deledda | italian |
| "the machine stops" | forster |
| "purple patches" | horace |
| "madrid, 1937" | paz |
| "salamander." | paz |
| nineteen ways of looking at wang wei | paz |
| "i have lit my treasured candles, / one by one, to hallow this night" | poem without a hero |
| brick lane | bengali |
| "had an accident. so may you all" | grendel |
| "the grieving for linos" | duino elegies |
| "if one were to suddenly / take me to its heart, i would vanish into its / stronger existence" | duino elegies |
| "penal and correctional institutions." | cry, the beloved country |
| arthur jarvis by absalom | cry, the beloved country |
| "meaning of so tiny a being as the [...] sea lace." | carson |
| national book award for the sea around us | carson |
| john betjeman | wyatt |
| eliot weinberger | paz |
| latunsky | margarita |
| "little round hole in the red-earth wall" | things fall apart |
| "the pacification of the primitive tribes," | things fall apart |
| "what the book is about" | gordimer |
| old bull lee | road |
| wind, sand | saint-exupery |
| lola | atonement |
| confession of a white widowed male | humbert |
| siege of namur | toby |
| "lillibullero," | toby |
| "i knew him... a fellow of infinite jest." | alas, poor yorick |
| benito perez galdos | fortunata and jacinta |
| detroit lions | plimpton |
| birling | priestley |
| "dreams and hopes for the future" | saint-exupery |
| broken nest | bengali |
| "the howl of the loser, the lament of the hell-serf." | grendel |
| "monstrous hell-bride" | grendel |
| hrothgar | grendel |
| "our court" | lear's daughters |
| "serpent's tooth" | lear's daughters |
| "think of the hands / how they rest without weight." | duino elegies |
| "perhaps your men can help us." | things fall apart |
| "would not go to war" | things fall apart |
| "perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph" | things fall apart |
| ezeudu | things fall apart |
| katya bagnelli in nice | gordimer |
| bernard chabalier | gordimer |
| pickup | gordimer |
| "holy goof." | road |
| george plimpton | roth |
| death in the afternoon | bull |
| ursus | bull |
| anna barbauld | priestley |
| "the mouse's petition" | priestley |
| "diary of a country mouse" | wyatt |
| dulcinea del toboso | don quixote |
| madam tofana | margarita |
| malabar | rocking-horse winner |
| constant reader | parker |
| "amen." | seafarer |
| "the town-ho's story" | harper's |
| ian mcewan | atonement |
| jake | madrid |
| nigerian nobel | soyinka |
| "participatory novels," | plimpton |
| "trifling" | overcoat |
| petrovich 150 rubles | overcoat |
| ardua hall holograph | gilead |
| "jezebel's." | gilead |
| love medicine | reservation |
| "peter quint--you devil!" | james |
| harry houdini | doyle |
| "silent scream" | brecht |
| "the only secret people keep / is immortality." | dickinson |
| ancash | dickinson |
| "i know that i shall meet my fate" | death |
| "benign indifference of the universe" | camus |
| "crowd of spectators." | camus |
| captain segura | spy |
| "alienation effect" | brecht |
| "the rhodora" | be |
| etheredge | gambling |
| my country | duffy |
| lorin stein | paris review |
| paper lion | plimpton |
| exit ghost | roth |
| death valley | mcteague |
| sheppey | maugham |
| mirabell | congreve |
| "the emotion / that almost dismays us, / when a joyful thing falls." | duino elegies |
| carisbrooke | cry, the beloved country |
| dorothy freeman | carson |
| "white granular powder" | carson |
| "a word once sent abroad can never return." | horace |
| "a difficult interval for a poet." | stein |
| "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" | congreve |
| millamant in the way of the world | congreve |
| "partial magic" | don quixote |
| "third sally." | don quixote |
| marie celeste | doyle |
| "beauteous" | isle |
| "waste no compassion on these separate dead!" | walcott |
| "stranger-god." | death in venice |
| "howls of execration" | camus |
| toby esterhase | spy |
| pyrgopolynices | soldier |
| philocomasium | soldier |
| labrax | rope |
| "i am the master of my fate; i am the captain of my soul." | invictus |
| julie charles | lake |
| gomorrah | naples |
| piers plowman | passus |
| m.r | james |
| lingk | ricky |
| "shiva handed him a million dollars." | patel |
| graziella | naples |
| "what is" | grass |
| "i heard he was lying helpless, and so i came up--took my chance." | russia |
| happars | typee |
| alvaro | rose |
| "the hearth and" | salamander |
| "mortal coil" | be |
| "runner" | kite |
| "blues." | reservation |
| tonto fistfight in heaven | reservation |
| reardan | reservation |
| "second part," | don quixote |
"invictus" | henley |
| "frank sinatra has a cold." | esquire |
| "strictness, strictness, and always strictness!" | overcoat |
| "for you, a thousand times over!" | kite |
| louise erdrich | reservation |
| absolutely true diary | reservation |
| lone ranger | reservation |
| cide hamete benengeli | don quixote |
| "the giant rat of sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared," | doyle |
| "beauty is its own excuse for" | be |
| "cried his grief" | anyone |
| onnie jay holy | wise blood |
| raymond sintes | camus |
| "lamplighter" | spy |
| "studied to be a pastor of souls" | brecht |
| "i could be a good woman if i had five thousand a year." | becky |
| william makepeace thackeray | becky |
| "rather exaggerated" | overcoat |
| piney woods | outcasts of poker |
| titanomachy | oceanus |
| leader of the home rule league | parnell |
| "just take his head off outside." | queen of hearts |
| james fitz | lady of the lake |
| "hail to the chief" | lady of the lake |
| hutter | deerslayer |
| uncle reed | red room |
| james wormold | spy |
| "came in from the cold," | spy |
| "three hundred" | tang |
| "rumble and roll" | tang |
| "thousand twangling instruments," | isle |
| moustique | walcott |
| alistair crowley | yeats |
| in a carl sandburg | grass |
| "trainor, the druggist" | spoon river anthology |
| roberto saviano | naples |
| william langland | piers plowman |
| hyde park gates news | woolf |
| hansbach | journey to the center |
| center of the earth | verne |
| stumpy | thomas |
| matzerath | three |
| "with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other" | hatter |
| "the seven voyages of sinbad the sailor" | thousand and |
| marbodius | penguin island |
| in jewett | maine |
| "accomplish[ing] nothing and arriv[ing] in air." | deerslayer |
| nick adams | hemingway |
| "shoot straight" | brooks |
| alec scudder | maurice |
| marius pontmercy | cosette |
| tay-nard-yayz | cosette |
| tommo | whale |
| desolation peak | dharma bums |
| rick telander | basketball |
| "the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven" | alexie |
| plin | manticore |
| henchard | mayor of |
| "the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns." | be |
| person of consequence | overcoat |
| "baby nicole." | gilead |
| ada | gilead |
| colonies | gilead |
| saifo | kite |
| spencer brydon | james |
| no name in the street | baldwin |
| tigre | walcott |
| "decrepit age that has been tied to me / as to a dog's tail." | yeats |
| "fastened to a dying animal." | yeats |
| "pro rege nostro," | henley |
| "under the bludgeonings of chance / my head is" | bloody, but unbowed |
| james lingk | ricky |
| aaronow | patel |
| langland | pearl |
| "fifteen apparitions have i seen; the worst a coat upon a coat-hanger." | yeats |
| "the growing stone" | camus |
| george smiley | spy |
| "finale of seem." | be |
| "how many flowers have fallen" | tang |
| "four paragons" | tang |
| "he would be king on it." | isle |
| "full of noises, / sounds and sweet airs." | isle |
| "dread[s] being awakened from the happiest dream" | emma |
| "one of the few people who could see faults" | emma |
| "captured" | petrarch |
| "sun's ray / was darkened." | petrarch |
| "complete" | tang |
| "worm, colonel of carrion" | walcott |
| "sirocco." | death in venice |
| hermetic order of the golden dawn | yeats |
| thenardiers | cosette |
| rose tattoo | williams |
| japhy ryder | dharma bums |
| desolation angels | dharma bums |
| anse bundren | as i lay |
| boon hogganbeck | reivers |
| miss corrie | reivers |
| menaechmi | plautus |
| "no longer felt [itself] guided by haulers." | rimbaud |
| "die in peaceful harbor," | petrarch |
| "vain hope and vain sadness," | petrarch |
| "the world's delight is a brief dream." | petrarch |
| "prayer to the virgin" | petrarch |
| "lovely eyes" | petrarch |
| quincy morris | helsing |
| "grey-haired" | chekhov |
| "radiantly beautiful" | helsing |
| "the hardest, the most complicated part was only just beginning." | chekhov |
| von dideritz | chekhov |
| blanca | allende |
| "crimson lacquer," | rashomon |
| "the lice searchers." | rimbaud |
| "black velvety jacket of brilliant flies" | rimbaud |
| "accursed poets." | rimbaud |
| teth | oceanus |
| susan henchard | elizabeth-jane |
| newark public library | "goodbye |
| "one gray toe / big as a frisco seal." | daddy |
| "tell whoso hath sorrow / grief never shall last" | scheherazade |
| "inexperience" | kundera |
| "sixty-three words." | kundera |
| "war on kitsch" | kundera |
| journey | verne |
| "of fred" | handmaid's tale |
| "i am large. i contain" | multitudes |
| "streak of bad luck" | outcasts of poker |
| "mending" | wall |
| "she should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word." | to-morrow, and |
| brooklyn in heaven | basketball |
| teucer | ajax |
| "good spirits" | helsing |
| "md, d.ph., d.lit., etc., etc." | helsing |
| huberto naranjo | allende |
| "forehead itching red torments" | rimbaud |
| "vowels." | rimbaud |
| "if my stay / was vain, let my vanishing, at least, be virtuous." | petrarch |
| "maimed," | dream of the red chamber |
| "nights of insult let you pass / watched by every human love" | auden |
| "bloofer lady" | helsing |
| "the lower race," | chekhov |
| jean de satigny | allende |
| "three dull things" | emma |
| "a world in decay," | rashomon |
| penguin classics | rashomon |
| "a black, e white, i red, u green, o blue" | rimbaud |
| "was indifferent to all crews" | rimbaud |
| artful dodger | handkerchief |
| "laughed his joy" | anyone |
| "is no parenthesis." | death |
| lay dying in mississippi | faulkner |
| ned mccaslin to memphis | reivers |
| act i of 's othello | venice |
| "very bad novel" | uncle tom's |
| playground | basketball |
| lopakhin by madame ranevskaya | chekhov |
| "two words," | allende |
| mad hatter in alice | carroll |
| pygmalion and arms | shaw |
| "ali baba and the forty thieves" | thousand and |
| "die-dough" | virgil |
| "that things cannot be otherwise than as they are" | pangloss |
| "floating tom" | deerslayer |
| "after the first death, there is no other." | thomas |
| gaskell | elizabeth |
| david hawkes | dream of the red chamber |
| "rest your sleeping head, my love, / human on my faithless arm." | auden |
| "of eros and of dust" | auden |
| "children afraid of the night." | auden |
| book of disquiet | portuguese |
| art of the novel | kundera |
| vaska | lower depths |
| kostilyoff | lower depths |
| "tonight i can write [these compositions]" | saddest lines |
| kansas city to new york | american |
| jeremy | alchemist |
| "in bright array they seek the work of war." | wheatley |
| "one does not always marry when insane," | bierce |
| therese fowler's | fitzgerald |
| raina | bulgaria |
| "aladdin's wonderful lamp" | thousand and |
| juan dahlmann | south |
| anatole france | penguin island |
| pierpont mauler | joan |
| "debt we pay to human guile" | dunbar |
| charley bates | handkerchief |
| clive durham | maurice |
| "prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone" | auden |
| "heteronyms." | portuguese |
| "the planet of inexperience" | kundera |
| "-ology," | dream of the red chamber |
| "cuckoo land?" | cloud |
| "aryan [" | daddy |
| "-yun] eye" | daddy |
| in arms | bulgaria |
| "yew-uhl" | to kill a mockingbird |
| margaret hale | elizabeth |
| "i shall but love thee better after death." | elizabeth |
| john adolphus etzler | thoreau |
| "must enter again... the synagogue of the ear of corn" | thomas |
| signor brunoni | elizabeth |
| captain brown | elizabeth |
| romney in florence | elizabeth |
| pulitzer prize for fiction for the amazing adventures of kavalier | chabon |
| pish | immortal |
| "like oars" | albatross |
| golden bough | frazer |
| "the course of true love never did run smooth" | lysander |
| nee bohk--choh | decameron |
| gottfried lessing | ring |
| "the curious case of benjamin button" | fitzgerald |
| "terrible change for the worse." | helsing |
| alden pyle in vietnam | quiet american |
| "[this body part] and ideal" | spleen |
| marcos jimenez in the autumn of the patriarch | garcia |
| "get thee to a nunnery" | ophelia |
| olympia press | golden lotus |
| tees | our man in |
| our man | greene |
| "lost letters" | kundera |
| "much trouble," | cloud |
| "goddesses for the lazy" | cloud |
| "looking up at the stars" | auden |
| "if equal affection cannot be, / let the more loving one be me." | auden |
| "ebony horse" | scheherazade |
| antoine galland | scheherazade |
| "soul wail." | helsing |
| "play for voices" | under milk wood |
| cry, the | paton |
| "out, vile jelly" | blind |
| "what must be said" | israel |
| "faithless harlot" | against the day |
| "many thousands gone" | bigger |
| mosquito inlet light | open |
| anton chigurh | no country for old |
| rachel brown | inherit the wind |
| "great measure responsible" | scott |
| goshawk | peregrine |
| sergeant x | esme |
| yashmeen harlot | against the day |
| bella kurnitz in a neil simon | yonkers |
| "little tragedies" | mozart |
| "every gentleman in the south a major or colonel" | scott |
| "not as a god, but as a god might be." | stevens |
| colonel sonriente | senor |
| polonius | ophelia |
| "i know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows" | oberon |
| "i, too, dislike it." | poetry |
| land of mist | doyle |
| henry drummond | inherit the wind |
| bertram cates | inherit the wind |
| avram brankovich | dictionary |
| "received ideas." | dictionary |
| "devil's" | dictionary |
| "tis better to have loved and lost // than to never have loved at all." | tennyson |
| "so, ye three ghosts, adieu!" | odes |
| "eastward i go only by force; but westward i go free" | thoreau |
| "sort of gaming" | thoreau |
| "supple and turbulent, a ring of men" | stevens |
| "all voting" | thoreau |
| "let the boys bring flowers in last month's newspapers" | stevens |
| "cease, gentle muse!" | wheatley |
| "muse! bow propitious while my pen relates" | wheatley |
| "it's between the two of us now!" | balzac |
| golden dancer | inherit the wind |
| scott's waverley | cooper |
| absalom kumalo | paton |
| "on which she embroidered fantails once." | stevens |
| "s.m.a." | wheatley |
| hildegarde moncrief | fitzgerald |
| "amazons." | elizabeth |
| cranford | elizabeth |
| "portrait of the artist as a young dog." | thomas |
| "the woods decay.." | tennyson |
| love, ambition | odes |
| sohn-ree-en-tay | senor |
| guatemalan nobel | asturias |
| edward malone to south america | challenger |
| john watson in doyle | sherlock |
| "the khazars." | dictionary |
| "cynics," | dictionary |
| merriam-webster | dictionary |
| michael caine | thomas |
| ahn-wee | spleen |
| lucky jim | amis |
| london fields | amis |
| tahn | midsummer night's |
| tih | midsummer night's |
| kaht | decameron |
| gemmata | dioneo |
| angel face | senor |
| a. m. barnard | little women |
| "man from the south." | dahl |
| great glass elevator | dahl |
| grandpa joe | dahl |
| "a girl gets sick of a rose" | brooks |
| yusuf masudi | dictionary |
| "a temporary insanity curable by marriage," | dictionary |
| interstellar | thomas |
| "who is the potter, pray, and who the pot?" | rubaiyat |
| "wilderness were paradise enow" | rubaiyat |
| "hardness and the brightness and the plain" | larkin |
| "far-reaching singleness" | larkin |
| philip sidney | larkin |
| "i work all day, and get half-drunk at night." | larkin |
| "boots of lead... lift a box / and creak across my soul" | brain |
| after a batavian | lisbon |
| white goddess | frazer |
| el senor presidente | asturias |
| "from her fair and unpolluted flesh." | violet |
| "the steadfast tin soldier" | andersen |
| mulk raj anand | bloomsbury |
| "when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter" | dream of the red chamber |
| nicholas branch | kennedy |
| "hit" | kennedy |
| long walk to freedom | mandela |
| dorothy wordsworth | united kingdom |
| the once and | peregrine |
| "i love you more than words can wield the matter." | king lear |
| "for esme - with love and squalor" | bananafish |
| llewelyn moss | no country for old |
| mary hartley fitch | the sea, the |
| corner in westminster | owen |
| leah, felix | nw |
| awol in rome | john |
| korn | john |
| infinite city | san francisco |
| "a small, good thing," | car |
| new spelling of my name | lorde |
| count of st | queen of spades |
| la lison | train |
| "buckdancer's choice." | dickey |
| part of speech | brodsky |
| george cram cook | provincetown players |
| don parritt | iceman cometh |
| "listen!" | beowulf |
| "the airborne toxic event." | white noise |
| in orlando furioso | ruggiero |
| bradamante | ruggiero |
| helen macdonald | united kingdom |
| slow learner | pynchon |
| blindness | saramago |
| "the black unicorn" | lorde |
| chemical essays | roderick |
| synge | ireland |
| vernon halliday | amsterdam |
| "into nine levels" | dickey |
| "after many a summer dies a swan." | tennyson |
| poesy | odes |
| "moonlight before his bed" | li bai |
| "married at fourteen" | li bai |
| "all good things are wild and free" | thoreau |
| milorad pavic | dictionary |
| the pilot | cooper |
| paton | mandela |
| "raceteenth," | adichie |
| "black night / white snow" | russian |
| "the twelve," | russian |
| overlords | clarke |
| "i shall not die of a cough." | seal |
| waverly novels | scott |
| square theatre | iceman cometh |
| edoras | tolkien |
| pierre bayle | lisbon |
| jacques the anabaptist | lisbon |
| in the damask drum | mask |
| "i've stayed in the front yard all my life." | brooks |
| story of a crime | sweden |
| stieg larsson | sweden |
| "played in the snow" | adichie |
| "yes, there's a problem with gender... and we must fix it," | adichie |
| anwar in a mahfouz | assassination |
| aravind adiga | assassination |
| "there was nothing either above or below" | kurtz |
| "had kicked himself loose of the earth." | kurtz |
| "it would have been too dark--too dark altogether" | kurtz |
| "the author to her book" | brain |
| "mourners to and fro" | brain |
| "a drum / kept beating" | brain |
| charles anthony bruno | train |
| guy haines | train |
| saigyo | narrow road to the deep north |
| "sound of water" | frog |
| unlimited dream company | ballard |
| "throb of heart divine" | poe |
| "sentience of all vegetable things" | roderick |
| county mayo | ireland |
| "we should all be feminists" | adichie |
| obinze | adichie |
| "today i have much to do: i must kill off memory." | russian |
| lady pole | clarke |
| "the sentinel," | clarke |
| "i was probably the only person... that [this man] had not made a pass at" | kennedy |
| "existential hero" | kennedy |
| "one thing at least is certain, light has weight," | rubaiyat |
| bucket | dahl |
| "forest" | ionesco |
| broadside press | brooks |
| "if i poisoned the beginnings of your breaths, / believe that even in my deliberateness i was not deliberate." | brooks |
| "wasp." | sweden |
| "kicked the hornet's nest." | sweden |
| "pippi longstocking" | sweden |
| roseanna | sweden |
| jack clitheroe | plough and the stars |
| clive linley | amsterdam |
| sylvia plath to frieda hughes | mother |
| deliverance | dickey |
| "knew to my veins and glands as a child." | petersburg |
| plumfield academy | little women |
| geraldine brooks | little women |
| formula 86 | dahl |
| ariosto | orlando |
| "only once" | aarfy |
| "of course all life is a process of breaking down" | fitzgerald |
| camoes | lusiads |
| zami | lorde |
| "kong yiji" | china |
| sara coleridge | ode to a nightingale |
| eureka | poe |
| "two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication" | seal |
| "the black cat" | seal |
| nora ephron | kennedy |
| ted sorensen | kennedy |
| "air of the dream" | house |
| willy loman in an arthur miller | house |
| "plain as a wardrobe" | larkin |
| "between the end of the chatterley ban / and the beatles' first lp." | larkin |
| "mizu no oto" | frog |
| ludovico technique | clockwork orange |
| mary maloney | dahl |
| huchette theater | ionesco |
| bobby watsons | ionesco |
| "always wears her hair in the same style." | ionesco |
| "night, street, lamp, drugstore" | russian |
| silver age | russian |
| "generations have trod, have trod, have trod," | god's grandeur |
| the crack-up | fitzgerald |
| camoes prize | saramago |
| "the true story of ah q." | lu |
| la bete | train |
| in a patricia highsmith | train |
| humaine | train |
| this haibun travelogue | narrow road to the deep north |
| "tamam shud" | rubaiyat |
| "the strength and the pain / of being young." | larkin |
| "where now the horse and the rider?" | tolkien |
| dieter | hitler |
| the-college | white noise |
| cathcart | john |
| ricardo guiraldes | gaucho |
| payadas | gaucho |
| brautigan | big sur |
| cambyuskan | squire |
| new weird | machado |
posthumous memoirs of bras cubas (author) | joaquim maria machado de assis |
| miracle worker | keller |
| sarah woodruff | fowles |
| "desire to preserve tradition" | streetcar named desire |
| suddenly last summer | lobotomy |
| keisha | nw |
| marxist naphta | hans |
| berghof | hans |
| "nature is never spent." | god's grandeur |
| "god's grandeur" | hopkins |
| venable | lobotomy |
| "resignedly beneath the sky / the melancholy waters lie." | city in the sea |
| jack duluoz | big sur |
| elwan | assassination |
| randa | assassination |
| torquilstone castle | ivanhoe |
| brother lawrence | spain |
| "elegy to john donne." | brodsky |
| cape cod to greenwich village | provincetown players |
| "hwaet!" | beowulf |
| magid | islam |
| "wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him." | kurtz |
| "wider than the sky." | brain |
| "feeble" | brain |
| "what is, is right." | lisbon |
| "not respecting universal reason." | lisbon |
| don issachar | lisbon |
| bessie burgess | plough and the stars |
| irish citizen army | plough and the stars |
| "thousand injuries of fortunato." | seal |
| "two beautiful elm trees" | house |
| "have a thing in the ground" | house |
| "the intended." | kurtz |
| greta gerwig | little women |
| merry's museum | little women |
| chaim soutine | dahl |
| "know that thy sorrow is thy ecstasy!" | hap |
| collected works | fleurs du mal |
| life of jesse james | my |
| lewis page mercier | nautilus |
| "limbo" | fleurs du mal |
| shimerda | my |
| lisbeth salander in the girl with the dragon tattoo | sweden |
| camara laye | adichie |
| "yes, for the love of god!" | seal |
| "midnight mass of the dying year" | longfellow |
| french lieutenant | fowles |
| in the betrothed | plague |
| yale repertory theatre | wilson |
| "go down swinging." | wilson |
| "o time thy pyramids" | borges |
| "the circular ruins," | borges |
| "condemned." | fleurs du mal |
| catharine | lobotomy |
| "flung roses, roses riotously with the throng." | gone with the wind |
| arthur symons | city in the sea |
| "the viol, the violet, and the vine" | city in the sea |
| cleveland wrecking company | brautigan |
| "blast of misogynist rage and public humiliation" | diaz |
| saturnine poems | verlaine |
| "into the furious lashing of the tides" | drunken boat |
| wick cutter | my |
| anton cuzak | my |
| yentl | singer |
| "to whom it may concern" | maya |
| uncle willie | maya |
| freddy malins | dead |
| "heretical" | importance of being earnest |
| "the scriptwriter?" | julia |
| sonnets to orpheus | rilke |
| the ladies' anti | fourth |
| first series of essays | self-reliance |
| "womanless man" | wilson |
| "archangel of hatred" | nautilus |
| "the lesbians." | fleurs du mal |
| "lethe" | fleurs du mal |
| "dreams of scaffolds" | fleurs du mal |
| balthazar | spanish tragedy |
| explosion in a cathedral | carpentier |
| viktor shklovsky | distancing |
| lucia in the betrothed | manzoni |
| lucia in the lazzaretto of milan | plague |
| "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." | cynic |
| atsumori | heike |
| franz xaver kappus | letters to a young poet |
| nadaismo | colombia |
| "the elves and the shoemaker" | grimm |
| household tales | grimm |
| 465th | fly |
| "seraphs swing their snowy hats - / and saints - to windows run." | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| letters to a young poet | rilke |
| slavery society in rochester | fourth |
| covey | douglass |
| cecil graham in act iii | cynic |
| hokku | renga |
| "the god with the lyre" | rilke |
| balthus | rilke |
| "a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." | fourth |
| project | works progress administration |
| hieronimo | spanish tragedy |
| bembo | italian |
| sparknotes of moby | dylan's nobel |
| harold ross | new yorker |
| "defamiliarization" | distancing |
| "every spirit upon earth seemed fervourless as i" | darkling thrush |
| "his soul upon the growing gloom." | darkling thrush |
| "some vengeful god" | hap |
| "purblind doomsters had as readily strown blisses... as pain." | hap |
| ghost of christmas past | fezziwig |
| cynara | gone with the wind |
| pierre choderlos | dangerous liaisons |
| the vicomte de valmont | dangerous liaisons |
| "guy de maupassant." | babel |
| "silence dogood" | franklin |
| la bonne chanson | verlaine |
| margaret canby | keller |
| "the frost king." | keller |
| lady truth | petrarch |
| on illustrious men | petrarch |
| "adamantine chains" | petrarch |
| "penitential psalms" | petrarch |
| north london in a zadie smith | wife of bath |
| jankyn | wife of bath |
| "attraction to what is going to destroy tradition" | streetcar named desire |
| "mendacity" | big daddy |
| leah napolin | singer |
| "the spinoza of market street" | singer |
| star trek | rushdie |
| daily express | dead |
| "screwed" | dead |
| san francisco renaissance | california |
| "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 |
| "duck-shaped woman" | as i lay dying |
| accidie | petrarch |
| "fairy power," | wife of bath |
| lloyd richards | wilson |
| negro leagues | wilson |
| farragut | nautilus |
| "in the pale glimmer" | fleurs du mal |
| "my twin, my brother" | fleurs du mal |
| black dobbe | singer |
| frost fairies | keller |
| "the death of the old year." | longfellow |
| "songs are unlike literature." | dylan's nobel |
| charles smithson | fowles |
| "too many... mopey suburbanites." | new yorker |
| james thurber | new yorker |
with kurt weill wrote the threepenny opera | brecht |
| "scipio's dream." | petrarch |
| "the masterpiece of nature." | friend |
| benya krik | babel |
| odessa tales | babel |
| kerouac | big sur |
| "the cook's tale," | chaucer |
quincas borba (author) | joaquim maria machado de assis |
| jorge amado | brazil |
| "yelping redskins." | drunken boat |
| simon darcourt | canada |
| magnalia christi americana | mather |
| cotton | mather |
| shaun | finnegans wake |
| martha gellhorn | war correspondent |
| "the most visible point of his island," | robinson |
| "library plus blind man can only equal" | jorge |
| world war ii japan in an artist of the floating world | ishiguro |
| fugitive | proust |
| poum | spanish civil |
| "fished from obscurity," | stevens |
| "princox" | stevens |
| silver age of russian | pasternak |
| my sister | pasternak |
| curse of the starving class | shepard |
| sound of waves | mishima |
| sargon of akkad | poetry |
| "melic" | poetry |
| "sapiential books" | wisdom |
| romance, the , and the inheritors | ford |
| pechorin in a mikhail lermontov | hero |
| rebel angels | canada |
| goodness of god | rowlandson |
| "dante... bruno. vico... joyce." | beckett |
| "no one now sees fairies any more" | wife of bath |
| science museum of minnesota | wilson |
| prince andrei bolkonsky | napoleon |
| manzoni | napoleon |
| "deathbed" | leaves of grass |
| "i greet you at the beginning of a great career" | emerson |
| letters to a young painter | rilke |
| ghost of don andrea | spanish tragedy |
| sofia | julia |
| cara | julia |
| frampol | singer |
| "ready to carve a flock of geese" | dead |
| "shine, perishing republic." | california |
| "notes of a dirty old man." | california |
| "what little [that character's creator] didn't say." | julia |
| "coronation oration" | petrarch |
| "beam me up" | rushdie |
| "chekov and zulu" | rushdie |
| "in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire" | california |
| charles bukowski | california |
| "will we walk all night through solitary streets?" | california |
| algernon montcrieff | importance of being earnest |
| how the garcia girls lost their accents | julia |
| rufino | julia |
| time regained | proust |
| margaret bourke | war correspondent |
| "mere scutcheon." | falstaff |
| bardolph at the boar | falstaff |
| head tavern | falstaff |
| "with big nails, to keep off the devil." | huck |
| judge thatcher | huck |
| in my father | singer |
| "don't ye love sperm?" | moby-dick |
| ford madox ford | good soldier |
| "the plot against the giant" | stevens |
| nikolai punin | akhmatova |
| lev gumilyov | akhmatova |
| timofey pavlovich pnin | campus |
| mary rowlandson | captivity |
| shem | finnegans wake |
| "women in lifeboats" | war correspondent |
| ss strathallan | war correspondent |
| "logically inevitable" | robinson |
| an alan sillitoe | race |
| essex borstal | bakeries |
| "all the clocks in the city" | as i walked out one evening |
| plowed under | paper |
| yojo | queequeg |
| "heavenly labials in a world of gutturals." | stevens |
| buried child | shepard |
| waindell | campus |
| red brick university | lucky jim |
| urquhart mcvarish | canada |
| her the sovereignty | rowlandson |
| alfred peron | beckett |
| the prisoner | proust |
| "how south african censorship works." | gordimer |
| "till china and africa meet," | as i walked out one evening |
| lost in the stars with kurt weill | anderson |
| epistemology of the closet | john |
| "different in his essential nature than the normal men around him." | john |
| " in a hardy poem that opens " | thrush |
| nature of a crime | ford |
| "fubbed." | stevens |
| "kick'd and knock'd" | goblin market |
| "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 |
| decorum est | world war i |
| sostrata | mother-in-law |
| hecyra | terence |
| the self-tormentor | terence |
| "royal anthology" | matsuo |
| straw raincoat | matsuo |
| monkey | matsuo |
| loneliness of the long distance runner | 50 |
| postscript to the name of the rose | jorge |
| "there is no such thing as the state" | september 1, 1939 |
| "you cannot conquer time." | as i walked out one evening |
| bouvard et pecuchet | flaubert |
| "all that remains" | matsuo |
| "banana tree," | matsuo |
| "paddle his own canoe." | biswas |
| shama at the hanuman house with the tulsi | biswas |
| "when the stars threw down their spears / and water'd heaven with their tears." | tyger |
| "what dread hand? and what dread feet?" | tyger |
| lewis milestone | all quiet |
| detering | all quiet |
| "escape" | biswas |
"a terrible mistake" | the tyger |
| "my pretty rose tree." | tyger |
| "stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought." | fahrenheit 451 |
| white clown | fahrenheit 451 |
| "we've started two atomic wars since 1990," | fahrenheit 451 |
| "will be superfluous even to ourselves." | all quiet |
| earl miner | matsuo |
| "what can i give him, poor as i am?" | goblin market |
| philumena | mother-in-law |
| borthrop trumbull | middlemarch |
mary garth | middlemarch |
| edward causabon | middlemarch |
"drunk with the joy of singing i forget myself and call thee friend" | tagore |
| "let me not forget." | tagore |
| "the same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world." | tagore |
| robert sempill | burns |
| "finest writing since shakespeare" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "wide as all the world." | snows of kilimanjaro |
| ensure in yaa gyasi | mouse |
| donnegan | mouse |
| millat | mouse |
| "false samaritan" | blindness |
| "girl with dark glasses" | blindness |
| "on turning her up in her nest, with the plough." | burns |
| "let thy mouth / be heir to those who are now exanimate. / gather the north flowers to complete the south." | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "future" | mouse |
| flowers for algernon | mouse |
| "white evil." | blindness |
manilov | dead souls |
colonel killigrew | "dr. heidegger's experiment" |
| vincy | middlemarch |
| channel firing | world war i |
| theydulce | world war i |
battle of shrewsbury (henry iv) | falstaff |
| "round and round the place, with a clasp-knife" | huck |
| widow douglas | huck |
| "what fearful pranks ensue" | burns |
| "halloween." | burns |
| "oh, would some power give us the gift / to see ourselves as others see us!" | burns |
| triple-a | paper |
| santo domingo | time of the hero |
| "black little god" | queequeg |
| eve sedgwick | john |
| spinner of years | hardy |
| immanent will | hardy |
| " which made a ship sink in " | hardy |
| " for 10 points each: hardy's " | world war i |
| "where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way" | tagore |
| "deserving destitutes" | biswas |
| sentinel | biswas |
| "sixth sense" | all quiet |
| "summer grass" | matsuo |
| record of a travel | matsuo |
| "upward and upward" | falstaff |
| "cold as any stone." | falstaff |
| daniel keyes | mouse |
| "before us the future looms dark, and that we can scarcely..." | dead souls |
| captain kopeikin | dead souls |
| "let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours" | tagore |
| geoffrey keynes | tyger |
| worn satchel | matsuo |
| "banish all the world," | falstaff |
| "i do; i will." | falstaff |
| surinam | slave |
| effie | just-so |
| "by the turkey who lives on the hill," | runcible |
| "mince, and slices of quince" | runcible |
| "the offshore pirate," | flapper |
| "under the spreading" | chestnut tree |
| "potato-faced" | snows of kilimanjaro |
| "julian," | snows of kilimanjaro |
| "nothing more wonderful than the murder of a mouse in an air pump." | heidegger |
| no pain cafe | walcott |
| sense of movement | gunn |
| brathwaite | dante |
| de vulgari eloquentia | dante |
| letters from | auden |
| lensmand geissler | growth of the soil |
| kunta kinte | slave |
| paul auster | red badge of courage |
| "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men / gang aft agley." | burns |
| "dried and frozen carcass of a leopard" | snows of kilimanjaro |
| plastic box company | mouse |
| professor nemur | mouse |
| "socially distanced" | blindness |
| "poshlost" | dead souls |
khlobuyev | dead souls |
| discreet escorts | south africa |
| "solved the problem of sex rather well." | south africa |
| "solid men of boston" | paint |
| "the devil can cite scripture for his purpose." | shylock |
| sleeping woman | norwegian wood |
| toru watanabe | norwegian wood |
| uriah heep | andersen |
| ahmad abd | egypt |
| "the story of a girl who stood up for [this activity] and was shot by the taliban." | education |
| "the dynamo and the virgin," | adams |
| hunger of memory | rodriguez |
| moses aloetta | lonely londoners |
| macneice | auden |
| "the stars are dead. the animals will not look" | spanish civil war |
| john huston | red badge of courage |
| scaly city | south africa |
| james whitcomb riley | english |
| growth of the soil | norway |
| "a warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations." | hitler |
| orve knausgaard | hitler |
| "invisible gentlemen" | japan |
| jacques roumain | vo |
| "in the position of a kind of jeremiah" | debating |
| "the american dream is at the expense of the american negro" | debating |
| minou | sand |
| "with a ring at the end of his nose." | lear |
| ardita | flapper |
| flappers | bernice |
| isak | growth of the soil |
| christiania | norway |
| "the end of the party" | greene |
| wormsley common gang | greene |
| "kirghiz eyes," | clawdia |
| "loafe and invite" | soul |
| "it's no go the yogi-man, it's no go blavatsky / all we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi." | macneice |
| "come and see the blood in the streets" | spanish civil war |
| "i explain a few things," | spanish civil war |
| "how the tiger got his stripes." | jungle book |
| primo levi | 40 |
| republic of pemberley | austen |
| mysouff | dumas |
| nonsense songs | lear |
| alcee arobin | awakening |
| "the man with night sweats." | gunn |
| fighting terms | gunn |
| malala yousafzai | education |
| lonely londoners | english |
| joachim ziemssen | hans |
"forbear!" | "dr. heidegger's experiment" |
| "venerable friends" | heidegger |
| tertius lydgate | middlemarch |
| in sebald | 40 |
| black mathilde | head |
| "large, handsome, stone building" | pemberley |
| "natural beauty." | pemberley |
| adventures with my pets | dumas |
| "non-poisonous" | paint |
| "elegiac duodecimal scale" | andersen |
| "a slow process of annihilation" | egypt |
| "the happy life home." | veldt |
| cooger and dark's | something wicked this way comes |
| stories, botany and alphabets | lear |
| "there once was a man from decatur . . ." | limerick |
| pussycat | runcible |
| tina | lahiri |
| "liked to hear of how japan was conquering china." | native |
| "something that was all his own" | native |
| hoja | pamuk |
| "repaired" | doll's house |
| edmund curll | pope |
| astrid | south africa |
| promise | south africa |
| fredric wertham | native |
| bigger thomas by richard wright | native |
| "little squirrel" | doll's house |
"dread empire" | pope |
| "history" | irving |
| "field of miracles" | italy |
| raymond rambert | plague |
| camps | plague |
| sarah miles in world war ii | greene |
| exit one | ghosts |
| "how the whale got his throat," | just-so |
| another of the just so stories | hedgehog |
| "one big thing." | hedgehog |
| lambton | pemberley |
| consuelo in minou | sand |
| "see with blinding sight." | thomas |
| "firefly." | norwegian wood |
| reiko | norwegian wood |
| "as a novelist." | andersen |
| hidden face of eve | egypt |
| woman at point zero | egypt |
| "you can now eat and shoot... that's all you want to do." | red badge of courage |
| jim conklin | red badge of courage |
| lillian ross | red badge of courage |
| rubber soul | norwegian wood |
| midori | norwegian wood |
| firdaus | egypt |
| lucius brockway | paint |
| "the quality of mercy is not strain'd / it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven." | shylock |
| "if you poison us, do we not die?" | shylock |
| "if you prick us, do we not bleed?" | shylock |
| merchant of venice | shylock |
| montmorency | jerome |
| guide to the galaxy | adams |
| dirk gently | adams |
| "it's more real to me here than if i went up." | olenska |
| strega prize | italian |
| solitude of prime numbers | italian |
| "cannot contain their urine" | shylock |
| laban | shylock |
| "the ice palace." | flapper |
| "the beauty of the dark" | tanizaki |
| homage to catalonia | orwell |
| dialogue with death | koestler |
| jacques the fatalist | diderot |
| amy waldman | 2001 |
| "a report on a journey" | shanghai |
| kingston to oxford | jerome |
| hitchhiker | adams |
| "fall into degradation" | doll's house |
| prince of dullness | pope |
| bracebridge hall | irving |
| wouter van twiller | irving |
| green fisherman | italy |
| catchfools by the fox | italy |
| talking cricket | italy |
| and quiet flows the don | cossacks |
| cossack ivan mazepa | pushkin |
| prisoner of the caucasus | byron |
| "a portrait of shunkin." | tanizaki |
| gnasher | dogs |
| "he has not sinned at all" | peer gynt |
| peer | button-moulder |
| "vivian darkbloom" | nabokov |
| "chweh yung-mee" | me too |
| eliezer | moshe |
| "fears in solitude" | conversation |
| "the lovely shapes and sounds intelligible" | frost |
| "eternal language" | frost |
| "every city light" | frost |
| "exiles by the falk laws." | wreck of the deutschland |
| "inscape" | wreck of the deutschland |
| burning boy | red badge of courage |
| sir tomato | italy |
| prince lemon | italy |
| haired fairy | italy |
| "this blessed house." | lahiri |
| sado island | milky way |
| "fact." | cosmicomics |
| quentin durward | scott |
| ko un | me too |
| small place | kincaid |
| jews of sighet | moshe |
| "at midnight." | frost |
| simon gillayley | hulme |
| georges hugon | nana |
| "curtal" | sonnet |
| don federico | rat |
| "holistic detective agency." | adams |
| paolo giordano | italian |
| tanabata | milky way |
| "chase his mate." | parliament of fowls |
| alfred noyes | highwayman |
| heo gyun | korean |
| story of hong gildong | korean |
| ten thousand lives | ko |
| "universal darkness buries all." | pope |
| "exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference." | irving |
| "dog man" | south africa |
| brinkley court | jeeves |
| "silver river." | milky way |
| manyoshu | milky way |
| mensagem | pessoa |
| "that great scroll" | diderot |
| "there is more to admire in humans than there is to scorn." | plague |
| "only goodness." | lahiri |
| "an unconscious determinant" | native |
| "admits the possibility of his being subhuman" | native |
| "what i killed for, i am" | native |
| nights of plague | pamuk |
| pillars of society | doll's house |
| "great anarch" | pope |
| "bulletin debate," | australia |
| "up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred" | australia |
| "waited till his billy boiled," | australia |
| willy harris | raisin in the sun |
| carlo collodi | italy |
| pinocchio | italy |
| laura marris | plague |
| "a vivid figure of the union of opposites." | thomas |
"one for whom bread food is not enough" | a raisin in the sun |
| nastenka | dostoyevsky |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "foundling" | fielding |
| diary of an old man | kabuki |
| some prefer nettles | chikamatsu |
| p. v. glob's | heaney |
| bonnie prince charlie | fielding |
| arabella hunt | fielding |
| partridge | fielding |
| blifil | fielding |
| "bush ballads" | australia |
| russian messenger | cossacks |
| "[fall] away." | beloved |
| "monster" | me too |
| catherine robbe | me too |
| kincaid | letter |
| c.k. stead | new zealand |
| "by contraries" | west-running brook |
| in the great gatsby | ash |
| "fat prince" | azdak |
| amir khusrow | persian |
| amerigo vespucci | rushdie |
| hydriotaphia | browne |
| "your followers have swallowed you like mummia, and being sick ... vomit you up" | webster |
| gasparo | webster |
| "our gustatory pleasure." | lobster |
| "trash" | we must love one another or die |
| conversation poems | coleridge |
| running brook | gold |
| "valley" | ash |
| felix | ash |
| "double, double, toil and trouble" | weird sisters |
| "panacea" | browne |
| "whistling dick's christmas stockings" | prison |
| vilkins | bumble |
| matsushima | deep north |
| "landlord's daughter" | highwayman |
| once paul | beloved |
| "flakes of rust" | beloved |
| "robe gree-yay" | me too |
| alain | me too |
| jamaica kincaid | lucy |
| in night | moshe |
| lafargue | native |
| maureen freely | pamuk |
| "my father's suitcase," | pamuk |
| "headscarf girls." | pamuk |
| bonkowski | pamuk |
| white king | through the looking glass |
| in the shadow of no towers | spiegelman |
| falconieri | tancredi |
| "out here in jutland / in the old man-killing parishes / i will feel lost, / unhappy and at home" | heaney |
| bog people | heaney |
| "a four-foot box, a foot for every year." | heaney |
| "the aztec love of war" | mexican |
| "mummy, maw and gulf." | weird sisters |
| fragment on mummies | browne |
| white devil | webster |
| price | kingsolver |
| "if it's hoarfrost on the ground" | li |
| yr with deborah blau | mental hospital |
| "a man is destined sometimes to have his head cut off." | china |
| true story of ah | china |
| "sub-creator" | tolkien |
| "a secondary world which your mind can enter." | tolkien |
| "i'm going to hide behind language" | spanish |
| "nee voh's" | great gatsby |
| sook | capote |
| "on fairy-stories" | tolkien |
| numenor | tolkien |
| extracting the stone of madness | spanish |
| nghi vo | great gatsby |
| michael pekarofski | great gatsby |
| "power that crosses the white sea," | antigone |
| war trash | li |
| "twist ending," | prison |
| sowerberry | oliver twist |
| natella | azdak |
| li xingdao | caucasian chalk circle |
| "nine jewels" | persian |
| bsharri | gibran |
| stanley fish | milton |
| chandler | philip |
| judd woldin | raisin in the sun |
"with feminine vengeance" | a raisin in the sun |
| "abmaphid." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| beyond the forest | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "summer's blood" | heaney |
| waters | fielding |
| "i had often cowled in the slumbrous heavy air" | australia |
| thomas gerald clancy | australia |
| "dreamer" | dostoyevsky |
| "white nights," | dostoyevsky |
| liza | dostoyevsky |
| mike nichols | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| upton inn | fielding |
| "up the country" | australia |
| "jolly swagman" | australia |
| "camped by a billabong." | australia |
| animal, vegetable | kingsolver |
| kilanga | kingsolver |
| "stockmen in denver suits" | beat |
| badroulbadour | heaven |
| "hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police . . ." | we must love one another or die |
| "looked over" | shield of achilles |
| unwin | bumble |
| "mad elephant" | rushdie |
| "like the thought of" | heaven |
| "ashamed to have written." | we must love one another or die |
| "metaphysical" | detective |
| barnet in london | oliver twist |
| "parish boy's progress." | oliver twist |
| twist | bumble |
| corney | bumble |
| "to believe we can live without taking life is delusional" | kingsolver |
| "annus mirabilis." | dryden |
| juliana bordereau in the aspern papers | venice |
| riva degli schiavoni | james |
| rifaa | children |
| qassem | children |
| "bible of infidels" | william |
| auberon quinn | detective |
| beppo | detective |
| hildegard von bingen's | morality |
| day of the turbins | stalin |
| weimar germany with adrian leverkuhn | doktor faustus |
| "i married him" | reader |
| father brown | chesterton |
| "huddled masses" | breathe free |
| "damned fool -- he ruined the song!" | actor |
| plinio designori | castalia |
| "a book containing different wisdom than ours." | william |
| surprised by sin | paradise lost |
| "the simple art of murder," | chandler |
| "the average detective story is no worse than the average novel." | chandler |
| in the long goodbye | mexico |
| gilbert keith chesterton | chesterton |
| borgias in a sherlock holmes | detective |
| everyman | good deeds |
| "cindy, oh cindy" | raisin in the sun |
| "that's what it says in all the novels that men write." | raisin in the sun |
answered prayers | capote |
| "a christmas memory." | capote |
| officer dewey | capote |
| "the corner" | capote |
| milly theale in the wings of the dove | venice |
| mysterious flame of queen loana | eco |
| middle-earth | tolkien |
"the earth will be a soft cradle" | mistral |
| "that frozen niche [where] men have put you" | spanish |
| "the critic as artist." | wilde |
| robert zwelinzima | sizwe bansi is dead |
| "just to let the air in" | abortion |
| vile bodies | waugh |
| "the decay of lying." | wilde |
| silmarillion | tolkien |
| "you want me white." | spanish |
| sonnets of death | spanish |
| "one of the first graphic novel moments" | great gatsby |
| rise of colored empires | great gatsby |
| "wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man." | antigone |
| "steps are already quite white with dew" | li |
| republic of wine | china |
| marquise of merteuil | smallpox |
| justine | sade |
| flosky | abbey |
| "spring to her feet and stretch her young body" | grete |
| "the wind, tens of thousands of miles long" | li |
| "lower[s] his head and think[s] of home." | li |
| acutes | mental hospital |
| chronics | mental hospital |
| "the mariachi trumpets of the blood" | mexican |
| "you bring out [this ethnicity] in me." | mexican |
| "two-faced year, mother of change and fate." | lazarus |
| "forsake" | good deeds |
| "a world without collisions." | hally |
| ocean view orchards | cider house rules |
| orphanage | cider house rules |
| the de laclos | dangerous liaisons |
| "voice like a selected weapon / or a measured injection." | plath |
| "blue flannel suit." | plath |
| "number three." | plath |
| tenorio | don juan |
| "the shape of the letters on my father's [tombstone] gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man." | pip |
| "muck," | hurston |
| nunkie | hurston |
| "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses" | parker |
| "does exceptionally well." | lady lazarus" |
| "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 |
| "midnight's all a glimmer" | yeats |
| patty sing | o'connor |
| middle kingdom egyptian | sailor |
| tartuffe by moliere | don juan |
| wopsle | pip |
| lucy potts | hurston |
| "do not know the secret of the poet's heart." | shaw |
| "she shall have a hump on each shoulder ... [and] skin like a mummy." | sheridan |
| o'trigger | sheridan |
| "as a seashell" | lady lazarus" |
| "a smiling woman" | lady lazarus" |
| vivian | wilde |
| "see the object as in itself it really is." | arnold |
| "the secret agent," | greenwich observatory |
| anil | ondaatje |
| storm of steel | western front |
| "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 |
| ingram frizer | marlowe |
| "the pure gold baby/that melts to a shriek" | lady lazarus" |
| "what shall i give my children? who are poor" | brooks |
| "plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood" | brooks |
| we real cool | brooks |
| "spelt by [the] unletter'd muse." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "made all the difference." | frost |
| "peace comes dropping slow" | yeats |
| county sligo | yeats |
| "the perfect critic," | eliot |
| adolf verloc | greenwich observatory |
| jose zorrilla | don juan |
| hattie | hurston |
| "shorthand and french." | grete |
| sor juana | mexico |
| "illiterate him quite from your memory" | sheridan |
| "barrabas came to us by sea" | allende |
| "the most exquisite moment of her whole life." | mrs. dalloway |
| "now you are caught, foul soul" | phlegyas |
| allen mandelbaum | phlegyas |
| confessions of an english opium eater | de quincey |
| freemason pierre choderlos | dangerous liaisons |
| toobad | abbey |
| "chronicle his own impressions" | wilde |
| function of criticism at the present time | arnold |
| "such a shout is useless" | phlegyas |
| "the necessity of atheism." | oxford |
| "all quiet on" | western front |
| "john wayne: a love song." | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "striking through the thought of his dear ones" | watch |
| alchemy of sorrow | hermes |
| " form of this god makes the speaker " | hermes |
| to the reader | hermes |
| " for 10 points each: in a poem from les fleurs du mal called " | hermes |
| selina | screenplay |
| dirk | screenplay |
| filippo argenti | styx |
| in the shadow of young girls in flower | proust |
| oedipus at colonus | sophocles |
| dance of the happy shades | canada |
| sir percy blakeney | guillotined |
| "bed" | in the penal colony |
| jitney | wilson |
| "mad jacobin" | oxford |
| in the skin of a lion | canada |
| ondaatje | canada |
| ernst junger | western front |
| madame defarge | pross |
| metamorphoses of the vampire | flowers of evil |
| "sighs," | de quincey |
| queen honeybee | shug |
| st. cloud's | cider house rules |
| in john irving | abortion |
| when mark david chapman | beatles |
| "the sacred and profane memories of charles ryder." | brideshead |
| "nightmare" | abbey |
| "any existence" | wilde |
| make mine music | peter |
| "it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors," | picture of dorian gray |
| "heaven-candle," | old english |
| "whale-road," | old english |
| "do not fear, do not turn pale" | sailor |
| "what a trash / to annihilate each decade" | plath |
| "the vampire who said he was you / and drank my blood for a year," | plath |
| "blithe spirit." | to a skylark |
| natalya sats | peter |
| young pioneer | peter |
| "tread softly because you tread on my dreams." | yeats |
| "all art is quite useless." | picture of dorian gray |
| "ghost-custodian" | old english |
| "last survivor" | old english |
| wiglaf | old english |
| lord of punt | sailor |
| "name" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "when i have fears that i may cease to be," | keats |
| "flowery tale" | keats |
| "in a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?" | borges |
| "british artillery park on the ancre" | borges |
| susan gubar | jane eyre |
| "a plantation and two hundred slaves." | o'connor |
| "believe me, i knew you, though faintly" | brooks |
| stephen to johannesburg | theophilus |
| charles hamilton in gone with the wind | pitty |
| "a sillier old lady i never met in all my life." | pitty |
| "contains multitudes." | whitman |
| "they had to call and call" | lady lazarus" |
| kasparson | dinesen |
| maud brown | brooks |
| "grandeur" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| " satan is called " | hermes |
| deptford | marlowe |
| william hatcliffe | shakespeare's sonnets |
| "the rival poet." | shakespeare's sonnets |
| "in a funk." | suicide |
| cimarron | screenplay |
| city of dis | styx |
| nikolenka | rostov |
| "shadows with the magic hand of chance." | keats |
| "nine bean rows" | yeats |
| "thin gin" | brooks |
| sterling holloway | peter |
| "symphonic fairy tale," | peter |
| "and the wolf." | peter |
| "modern" | old english |
| amenaa | sailor |
| packingtown | jungle |
| shlee | comrade |
| "sent to the devil somewhat 'ere his time" | byron |
| "strip of blue between the boards" | dinesen |
| seven gothic tales | dinesen |
| kamante | dinesen |
| "a street in bronzeville'', is based on her childhood in segregated chicago and she wrote of a group of pool players who " | brooks |
| "hit or miss the moon." | frost |
| "the pulley" | herbert |
| "which way does your beard point tonight?" | whitman |
| "lend me your ears" | friends |
| dan-ay-ee | polydectes |
| bug war | starship troopers |
| nellie on the thames | heart of darkness |
| happy loman | death of a |
| "car-bone" | view from the |
| all saints | don juan |
| "the sourest-natured dog that lives" | two gentlemen of |
| smay | july's people |
| robert heinlein | starship troopers |
| stah | cloud |
| hugh conway | shangri-la |
| princess marya | war and peace |
| sarah jane hamilton | pitty |
| laszlo jamf | pynchon |
| "dwells with [this concept] that must die." | beauty |
| "will never / pass into nothingness." | beauty |
| china grove | welty |
| "good god! what is the meaning of this?" | sense and sensibility |
| barton park | sense and sensibility |
| edward ferrars | sense and sensibility |
| elinor | sense and sensibility |
| willie stark | warren |
| ebisu | hiruko |
| in roots | kunta |
| tonia perez | cisco kid |
| tar baby | morrison |
| el toboso | dulcinea |
| furious hours | lee |
| st bernard | pynchon |
| "miss stein instructs" | moveable |
| trumpkin | lucy |
| name the muse of history | clio |
| iphigenia in tauris | euripides |
| aulis | euripides |
| jody baxter | yearling |
| "a city of fountains large and small, of parks where music once rang out from the bandstands" | geneva |
| "the blue hotel" | swede |
| "stone guest." | don juan |
| trabb | pip |
| school for scandal | sheridan |
| "plain" | darkling |
| karen blixen | dinesen |
| gustav von | death in venice |
| union army | little women |
| though dos passos | moveable |
| "to my friend g. n. from wrest" | carew |
| "determines / to immortalize itself in ruin." | mexico |
| "a thais / in her you court, but a lucretia / when you've possessed her" | mexico |
| "injecting blood into the veins of society." | persepolis |
| sandy bar | california |
| holcomb | lee |
| monroeville | lee |
| "seizing" | beauty |
| billy bathgate | doctorow |
| like robert herrick | cavalier |
| "an elegy upon the death of the dean of paul's" | donne |
| carew | donne |
| modern husband | fielding |
| in tom jones | partridge |
| allworthy | partridge |
| "to saxham" | carew |
| aldonza lorenzo | dulcinea |
| "free radicals" | munro |
| aslan | narnia |
| "the valiant" | lucy |
| in stendahl | como |
| royal family | ferber |
| ice palace | parker |
| here lies | parker |
| "dies alone" | meursault |
| mercedes | baseball player |
| "lay the guilt on women" | mexico |
| traps of faith | mexico |
| valmorain | allende |
| "like sticky pearls." | lady lazarus" |
| "bright as a nazi lampshade" | lady lazarus" |
| miss malin | dinesen |
| in julius caesar | friends |
| jean racine | corneille |
| "i wander through each chartered street." | london |
| ramchunder | vanity fair |
| kurtz in africa | heart of darkness |
| jurgis | comrade |
| eddie carbone | view from the |
| brooklyn | view from the |
| "apart-aid" | the burgher's |
| andromaque | racine |
| bald hills | war and peace |
| "that's the way that go!" | gabriel |
| trickster of seville | juan |
| stone guest | juan |
| "the altar" | herbert |
| love suicides at sonezaki | chikamatsu |
| new york editions | james |
| alexander herzen | stoppard |
| melanie wilkes | pitty |
| rose in fences | pittsburgh |
| fences in the pittsburgh cycle | wilson |
| "easter wings." | herbert |
| murray jay siskind | white noise |
| "as if he were anxious to attach himself to [the title character's] windpipe without delay." | oliver twist |
| benjamin bailey | beauty |
| curtain of green | welty |
| whitaker | welty |
| colonel brandon | sense and sensibility |
| marianne dashwood | sense and sensibility |
| "undaunted spirit" | mexico |
| "first dream" | mexico |
| anushka | master and mar |
| shirley-t.'s | welty |
| willoughby | sense and sensibility |
| alec leamas | berlin |
| spy who came | berlin |
| christopher isherwood | berlin |
| "envoy." | meursault |
| doc knobb | baseball player |
| ernest thayer | baseball player |
| "a foil to europe" | image of africa |
| eliza williams | sense and sensibility |
| steele | sense and sensibility |
| sally bowles | berlin |
| "public transportation." | meursault |
| "pyramidal, funereal, earth-born" | mexico |
| "you foolish men" | mexico |
| "a thing of [this concept] is a joy forever." | beauty |
| nawv | brave new |
| bokanovsky | brave new |
| "semi-morons" | epsilon |
| judge lynch | california |
| go set | lee |
| the reverend | lee |
| "shalt remain" | beauty |
| papa-daddy's | welty |
| modern breakthrough | denmark |
| "strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes, while i walk on the sunny pavement of greenwich village." | kaddish |
| bett | munro |
| u.s.a | dos passos |
| jose robles | hemingway |
| "pilot fish" | moveable |
| "declaring that any civilian caught interfering with the railroad, its bridges, tunnels or trains will be summarily hanged" | occurrence at |
| farquhar | drink |
| "whether he is or not, i still have nothing to eat." | candide |
| sears roebuck | their eyes w |
| "i like guys to hurt me" | irish |
| kim wilde | persepolis |
| "the story of a childhood," | persepolis |
| "ash-heels" | california |
| roaring camp | california |
| gold rush | california |
| granny bb | calvino |
| "matter was uniformly scattered in space." | calvino |
| ruedi | calvino |
| matter of france | charlemagne |
| baligant | charlemagne |
| "they're called social reformers." | harold |
| "social leper" | brideshead revisited |
| "imparting some special virtue of its own, as in ... japonicas" | white |
| james hilton | shangri-la |
| loveless | moloch |
| laurence | piano |
| in fences | trumpet |
| say roh | hemingway |
| clio | adonis |
| secret river | kinnan |
| saratoga trunk | ferber |
| yearling | kinnan |
| little house on the prairie | ingalls |
| "in english my name means hope. in spanish it means too many letters." | house on |
| palermo | geneva |
| awashima | hiruko |
| "women and fiction" | room of |
| "a room of one's own" | stephen |
| seer | prospero |
| starbuck | white |
| jardins publiques | mansfield |
| godber | mansfield |
| "to teach you how to be a wife." | boccaccio |
| "between my finger and my thumb" | irish |
| sally rooney | irish |
| "the tentmaker" | rubaiyat |
| wilderness | rubaiyat |
| leni lamiasson | kiss of the spider woman |
| virgin suicides | eugenides |
| zinc cliffs | calvino |
| twelve peers | charlemagne |
| "magnitude," | harold |
| anthony blanche | brideshead revisited |
| "vague, nameless horror" | white |
| "gams." | white |
| clodia metelli | lesbia |
| le dernier amour | flaubert |
| st. jude | corrections |
| "the minority report" | dick |
| bilskirnir | 540 |
| "seen [this thing] - go round - / they might as wise have lodged a bird." | brain |
| northumberland | shrewsbury |
| "last cigarettes" | zeno |
| luck | california |
| willie maxwell | lee |
| dill | lee |
| lost guard | pynchon |
| severo | house of the |
| isis, nut | set |
| tropic of capricorn | miller |
| "the book of the grotesque" | carpenter |
| amichai | psalms |
| nhamo | nervous conditions |
| antonio de sosa | algiers |
| ricote | don quixote |
| "gentleman of shalott" | tennyson |
| "what's america, but the legend of rock 'n' roll?" | elvis |
| il milione | travel |
| adrift on | nile |
| los banos de | algiers |
| "the phases of the moon" | michael |
| "i have met them at close of day." | easter, 1916 |
| heid | elvis |
| samara | nile |
| katherine anne porter | 1918 |
| "a lady asks me," | cavalcanti |
| "summer evening by the window with" | psalms |
| precrime division | minority report |
| cimbria | country |
| invisible cities | calvino |
| "came down the walk." | bird |
| " 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 |
| italo svevo | calvino |
| tobis | kiss of the spider woman |
| "a screaming comes across the sky." | v-2 |
| "an authentic ghost story." | uncle tom's cabin |
| reverend bacon | wolfe |
| "radical chic" | wolfe |
| maria ruskin | wolfe |
| chang weiyuan | dream of the red chamber |
| pyramid of quetzalcoatl | tula |
| "bad blood" | season in hell |
| "mr. difficult" | gaddis |
| "usually in lonely rustic septic tank rural settings" | wolfe |
| mirror for the romantic | dream of the red chamber |
| "monstrous apparition." | sir gawain and the green knight |
| combray | proust |
| the recognitions | gaddis |
| bob childan | san francisco |
| crevel | cousine bette |
| ferrars | roger |
| antichrist by an anabaptist | candide |
| "rather sound judgment with great simplicity of mind," | candide |
| "mule talk" | their eyes w |
| janie crawford by zora neale hurston | their eyes w |
| "black hat trimmed with gold daisies" | mansfield |
| "extravagant." | mansfield |
| "isn't life..." | mansfield |
| "astronomer-poet" | rubaiyat |
| subterraneans | kerouac |
| lesbia | catullus |
| "strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood." | white |
| daggoo | white |
| "thought she heard someone crying" | mansfield |
| "milk in a bottle / corked sloppily with paper" | irish |
| emir of babylon | charlemagne |
| "get up and give history a kick up the backside and get it going again," | harold |
| came like swallows | 1918 |
| "pale horse, pale rider." | 1918 |
| "notes on camp." | sontag |
| justice wargrave | nursery rhyme |
| "god has pity on kindergarten children." | hebrew |
| "before the great wars" | psalms |
| nut | shu |
| tropic of cancer | miller |
| renaud | charlemagne |
| "unclubbable" | johnson |
| "it is better to live rich, than to die rich" | johnson |
| scottish highlands in the journal of a tour to the hebrides | johnson |
| george shelby | uncle tom's cabin |
| woodcraft | uncle tom's cabin |
| "aghlich mayster," | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "the mother of all axes" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| becka | testaments |
| june kashpaw | erdrich |
| that erdrich | elvis |
| anis zani | nile |
| "donna me prega." | cavalcanti |
| dolce stil novo | cavalcanti |
| "smoke-heap of cinders and ash" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| uzzi-tuzii | calvino |
| imogen | ali smith |
| "topography" | algiers |
| "figurative incarceration" | lawyer |
| "of glass." | lawyer |
| "everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!" | bishop |
| "half is enough" | tennyson |
| "plunged in the battery-smoke" | tennyson |
| "the double vision of michael robartes" | yeats |
| "sore must be the storm / that could abash" | bird |
| "a bird came down the walk" | dickinson |
| "a plank in reason, broke." | brain |
| hal at shrewsbury | hotspur |
| trieste | zeno |
| oscar fenichel | mother |
| girl meets boy | ali smith |
| anthea | ali smith |
| washington square | james |
| silvestra | italy |
| pilar | for whom the be |
| "scar literature" | chinese |
| "story of the three bears." | fairy tale |
| aarne-thompson | fairy tale |
| "naturally, a manuscript." | name of the rose |
| africae | name of the rose |
| her real glory | kiss of the spider woman |
| "sophisticated fun" | tristero |
| middlesex | eugenides |
| elisabeth demand | ali smith |
| el trato | algiers |
| felicia hemans | casabianca |
| "casabianca" | bishop |
| "victory filled up / the little rented boat" | bishop |
| vera claythorne | nursery rhyme |
| "challenge to me, because we write about the same place." | darwish |
| babamukuru | nervous conditions |
| noviolet bulawayo | zimbabwe |
| neff | set |
| toltec empire | tula |
| "hide-run" | goat |
| "to and fro" | brain |
| "at daybreak" | calvino |
| "nice" | pinter |
| torcello | pinter |
| byzantine emperor hugo | charlemagne |
| four sons of aymon | charlemagne |
| "scalar" | harold |
| "man of magnitude." | harold |
| "the real thing." | brideshead revisited |
| clicking of cuthbert | golf |
| "there is no friend like a sister" | goblin market |
| despite laura | goblin market |
| "and she was loved!" | song of solomon |
| beyond black | mantel |
| "so now get up," | mantel |
| "in the garden room" | ghost |
| "below there!" | ghost |
| wives of geniuses | stein |
| "our very sorrows weep, / that joys so ripe, so little keep." | hair |
| "shake your head and scatter" | sun |
| clapeau | chef |
| arana | basque |
| jonathan cape | orwell |
| blood knot | fugard |
| hodoshe | island |
| anthony sattin | nile |
| "near-total historical amnesia" | sontag |
| "illness as metaphor." | sontag |
| yehuda amichai | darwish |
| "three bards" | romantic |
| francis ford coppola | film |
| apocalypse now | film |
| monique truong | stein |
| "laus veneris." | rubaiyat |
| whitley stokes | rubaiyat |
| "k-mart realists" | wolfe |
| "at 2 or 3 or 4 a.m." | wolfe |
| "stalking the billion-footed beast" | wolfe |
| "master of the universe" | wolfe |
| "double vision" | michael |
| owen aherne | michael |
| "free bird" | angelou |
| "dares to claim the sky." | angelou |
| "mermaids singing, each to each" | eliot |
| english for spiritual | couplet |
| "god sobs in my arms" | tonight |
| agha shahid ali | tonight |
| "the thought-fox" | coetzee |
| "missing one thing: god!" | dario |
| fanta | france |
| khady | france |
| lucy ellmann | single sentence |
| inimitable | wodehouse |
| "victory lap" | tenth of december |
| verbalucetm | james |
| "sad bad glad mad brother's name" | villon |
| "drowned lilies dancing" | gautier |
| my man | wodehouse |
| anthropophagic manifesto | andrade |
| "i mean, i can fly / like a bird in the sky" | giovanni |
| alfred prufrock | mermaid |
| louchebem | argot |
| "the intestine of the leviathan." | paris sewer |
| "you open me like a flower," | ocampo |
| have sat with | stein |
| "telemachus." | ulysses |
"good girl" (instead of "good woman") | snow country |
| "hobbling down the glen," | goblin market |
| "heavy knotted rope." | penal colony |
| old commandant | penal colony |
| red azalea | chinese |
| "child rowland to the dark tower came, / his word was still 'fie, foh, and fum.'" | fairy tale |
| "for life, as it were." | james |
| rodney has a relapse | milne |
| first crusade by torquato tasso | jerusalem delivered |
| fifteen-syllable | jerusalem delivered |
| "all right we are two nations" | dos passos |
| erotokritos | jerusalem delivered |
| both gods of the lightning | sacco |
| "letter to the icamiabas" | lusiads |
| willie lincoln | saunders |
| comedie | single sentence |
| "nivolas" | unamuno |
| abel sanchez | unamuno |
| txillardegi | unamuno |
| niebla | unamuno |
| in sartre | spanish civil |
| adventures of roderick random | smollett |
| peter smollett | orwell |
| fleet debtors prison | peregrine |
| willie ballroom | fugard |
| work team | island |
| " 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 |
| "o lithuania, my homeland!" | pan tadeusz |
| binh | stein |
| alain mabanckou | single sentence |
| broken glass | single sentence |
| victoria ocampo | argentina |
| tadeusz | judge |
| soplica | judge |
| "spicy nest" | hair |
| "so for your arrogance / and your ruthlessness / i am swept back / where dead lichens drip / dead cinders upon moss of ash." | asphodel |
| three strong women | france |
| the generation of '98 | unamuno |
| commodore hawser trunnion | peregrine |
| fezziwig | ghost |
| "where are the clown, the boozer, the fighter... where is old fiddler jones?" | spoon river anthology |
| "ineluctable modality of the visible" | ulysses |
| "watch-tower of a town which an earthquake shatters down" | goblin market |
| "pleasure past and anguish past, is it death or is it life?" | goblin market |
| alice ruth moore | dunbar |
| "ego tripping." | giovanni |
| "restaurants with oyster shells." | sawdust |
| holy sinner | italy |
| "ritual dance around a circle / in which a mighty will stands paralyzed." | rilke |
| "a thousand bars" | rilke |
| "thing poems," | rilke |
| new poems | rilke |
| "archaic torso of apollo" | rilke |
| "fly." | song of solomon |
| prize for fiction | mantel |
| "talk-stories" | chinese |
| woman warrior | chinese |
| possession | fairy tale |
| boy, snow, bird | fairy tale |
| sloper | james |
| "stubbornly, scrupulously silent" | name of the rose |
| salvatore | name of the rose |
| "lady of the pearls." | italy |
| in saunders | james |
| siegfried sassoon | owen |
| "the ballade of the ladies of bygone days." | villon |
| bernard gui | name of the rose |
| "all of you" | achebe |
| "under the ridge." | for whom the be |
| "little rabbit" | for whom the be |
| "have faith and wait" | penal colony |
| "last night i dreamed i went to [this place] again." | manderley |
| happy valley | rhododendron |
| "i am thrown. i am against. i sharp. i color." | parker |
| "the widow ching - pirate." | universal history of infamy |
| sonora | detective |
| like the master | bulgakov |
| mikhail berlioz | massolit |
| carwin | ventriloquism |
| "trampled" | sawdust |
| prufrock | sawdust |
| marcel schwob | argot |
| dario cuerda in leopoldina | ocampo |
| "stride is wilderness of freedom" | coetzee |
| georges guieysse | argot |
| "to roosevelt." | dario |
| sur | ocampo |
| ghost road | regeneration |
| "prince of all ballad-makers." | villon |
| virginia tech | giovanni |
| "nikki-rosa." | giovanni |
| "singing, each to each," | mermaid |
| "i do not think that they will sing to me." | mermaid |
| "preludes" | sawdust |
| "faint stale smells of beer" | sawdust |
| "listen to the song of" | rumi |
| "civilwarland in bad decline," | saunders |
| eber | tenth of december |
| "on stupid pills." | james |
| suffering wife | lenz |
| gotz von berlichingen | lenz |
| lenz | lenz |
| eye in the door | regeneration |
| peter neumeyer | penal colony |
| edwin muir | penal colony |
| willa | penal colony |
| "ghosts." | chinese |
| "the glass coffin." | fairy tale |
| "jack and the beanstalk." | fairy tale |
| "affected by sort of a cold shadow of the white man's curiosity" | hawthorne |
| "sylvia's death." | sexton |
| "put me on to edenville. aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one." | ulysses |
| "shout in the street" | ulysses |
| "from the stairwell bearing a bowl of lather," | ulysses |
| "good woman" | kawabata |
| japanese nobel | kawabata |
| "dwindled and grew grey, then fell with the first snow" | goblin market |
| party of marxist unification | for whom the be |
| karkov | for whom the be |
| mercy hospital | song of solomon |
| "reminds him that it is time for a second breakfast." | mantel |
| columella | farm |
| perses | farm |
| "i would have been as great as george eliot" | spoon river anthology |
| john slack | spoon river anthology |
| "babbles of the fish-frys of long ago... of what abe lincoln said / one time at springfield." | spoon river anthology |
| edgar lee masters | spoon river anthology |
| "bee sequence" | plath |
| khlestakov | government inspector |
| "a triumph." | daube |
| "great stuffer of bags" | eatonville |
| "the uncivil teacher of court etiquette kotsuke no suke" | universal history of infamy |
| belano | detective |
| "sugarman" | song of solomon |
| "your day has come" | song of solomon |
| universal history of infamy | borges |
| "well-knit plots" | detective |
| "greasy black cap" | master |
| white guard | bulgakov |
| griboedov | massolit |
| charles brockden brown | ventriloquism |
| wieland | ventriloquism |
| jennifer glaser | jew |
| "consider the lobster" | wallace |
| ota | thousand cranes |
| oki toshio | beauty and sadness |
| oki | beauty and sadness |
| the girlfriend | tsvetaeva |
| "glaring" | rhododendron |
| "resume." | parker |
| in rooney | emma |
| in satan says | body |
| native companion at the illinois state fair | wallace |
| keiko | beauty and sadness |
| hilliad | pope |
| "blend of chalk and rot." | hamlet |
| "life is not a walk across a field" | doctor zhivago |
| "the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe." | whitman |
| phyllis | marriage |
| "something has died. isn't there now." | booker |
| master of ceremonies | mask |
| " for 10 points each: name this concept which a critic calls a " | menace |
| " for 10 points each: this other pinter play was inspired by his own affair with bbc presenter joan bakewell. this nine scene " | betrayal |
| "great empire crumbled and fell apart." | chernobyl |
| william boot | journalist |
| "to teach, by his own example, love and reverence to all things." | gloss |
| lady lowborough | wildfell |
| "the hill." | spoon river anthology |
| "stately, plump" | ulysses |
| "yes i said yes i will yes." | ulysses |
| deasy | ulysses |
| "upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots." | goblin market |
| in stephen mitchell | rilke |
| "that dark center where procreation flared." | rilke |
| "paces in cramped circles" | rilke |
| all the year round | ghost |
| "the signal-man." | ghost |
| "may god strike you dead, you two-faced scorpion! you thorn in my flesh!" | lorca |
| pepe el romano | lorca |
| angustias | lorca |
| "you would not believe, would you, / that i came from good welsh stock?" | spoon river anthology |
| "he oxygen, she hydrogen, / their son, a devastating fire." | spoon river anthology |
| margaret fuller | spoon river anthology |
| "brilliance" | rilke |
| "we cannot know his legendary head" | rilke |
| "trumpets for the sky itself to hear" | song of solomon |
| "bag of gold" | song of solomon |
| "sharp pang of appetite" | mantel |
| "muses of pieria" | farm |
| five ages of man | farm |
| geoponici | farm |
| masuji ono | booker |
| "less lovely" | party |
| bourton | party |
| "what passes for cookery in england is an abomination" | woolf |
| lunatic view | menace |
| "a solitary human voice." | chernobyl |
| "prayer to masks" | senghor |
| cesaire | tempest |
| "vivat, vivat, vivat, vivat." | imaginary invalid |
| valere | marriage |
| tan twan eng | mist |
| bei dao | mist |
| cruelty special to our species | korean |
| maine lobster festival | wallace |
| christopher smart | pope |
| sophia parnok | tsvetaeva |
| "stood fifty feet high" | rhododendron |
| "thrown against a sharp white background" | hurston |
| "how it feels to be colored me." | hurston |
| "i feel most colored when i am thrown against a sharp white background." | parker |
| "sylvia, sylvia / where did you go / after you wrote me / from devonshire / about raising potatoes / and keeping bees?" | sexton |
| claire zachanassian | visit |
| "why we love" | chernobyl |
| jack halford | epistolary |
| "king of the zipper" | ferris wheel |
| "ticket to the fair." | wallace |
| memoirs of a woman of pleasure | hill |
| john hill | fielding |
| in an ivan turgenev | hamlet |
| "call me [this character] of the shchigrovsky district." | hamlet |
| frith | manderley |
| "crimson faces," | rhododendron |
| sarita | fornes |
| "earnestly entreateth the hermit to shrieve him" | gloss |
| tenant of wildfell hall | epistolary |
| "lonely old courage-teacher" | whitman |
| "i have done what you wanted to do, walt whitman, / allen ginsberg" | body |
| "exceptional heroic" | body |
| east coast magazine | ferris wheel |
| "regional eroto-political contrast" | ferris wheel |
| "baby" | mamet |
| carol in oleanna | mamet |
| mitch | mamet |
| "as a snake would a bird." | heart of darkness |
| oenone to paris | behn |
| robby | mcewan |
| homegoing | gyasi |
| solomon wilberforce | season |
| pond of blood | akutagawa |
| "clashed swords with [him] twenty strokes" | akutagawa |
| "since she whom i loved hath paid her last debt," | donne |
| "poppy or charms can make us sleep as well" | donne |
| izaak walton | donne |
| wit | donne |
| "ode to jealousy" | sappho |
| "many-colored mind" | sappho |
| good citizen | babbitt |
| mountain of needles | akutagawa |
| "swell'st." | donne |
| "all is to be dared" | sappho |
| "many-colored throne" | sappho |
| "weaves wiles" | sappho |
| phaon | sappho |
| "talking about it" | mamet |
| "give you many / combs and rings" | tsvetaeva |
| "bony scandalmonger" | hamlet |
| tsvetaeva | hamlet |
| adaptive manipulator | computer |
| in ellison | ape |
| "creature" | heart of darkness |
| serebryakov | shoot |
| seneca doane | babbitt |
| mt. stromboli | french |
| michel tournier | friday |
| benamuckee | friday |
| poll | friday |
| body problem | china |
| yu hua | china |
| elia kazan | streetcar named desire |
| sidney farber | doctor |
| "in the middle of the road / like roland's ghost winding a silent horn" | robinson |
| "eros turannos" | robinson |
| "mr. flood's party" | robinson |
| "born too late." | robinson |
| "richard cory." | robinson |
| bear | shoot |
| monarch | babbitt |
| "states and empires" | french |
| "i'll fergive her!" | street |
| charles perrault | fairy tales |
| ". for 10 points each: aeschylus claims that the persians was " | frogs |
| "moon river." | tlon |
| speranza | friday |
| kind of alaska | doctor |
| "biography" | doctor |
| emil grubbe | doctor |
| kitty duval | time of your life |
| nick's | time of your life |
| "nothing ever ends, adrian" | watchmen |
| walter kovacs | watchmen |
| "the end is nigh" | watchmen |
| tomb for boris davidovich | kis |
| michael hamburger | holocaust |
| giovanni drogo | buzzati |
| franz biberkopf | berlin |
| isherwood | berlin |
| ted williams to hamlet | updike |
| summerland | chabon |
| "buying a fishing rod for my grandfather." | gao |
| eulalie | ghost |
| the dilemma of one | ghost |
| "cursed with the brand of slavery." | desiree's baby |
| "tell me who to kill," | naipaul |
| pale of settlement | fiddler on the roof |
| aggressive menace | computer |
| red peter | ape |
| "bundles of acute angles" | heart of darkness |
| heroides | behn |
| anita raja | ferrante |
| french communist | isherwood |
| meyer landsman | chabon |
| "the end, just like a harp's sigh, comes light" | night |
| guandi | temple |
| "the voice." | infernal machine |
| "tarts" | o'neill |
| johnny the priest | anna christie |
| "had not often been disfigured by frowns" | bayou |
| "state domain" | big man |
| siddhartha mukherjee | doctor |
| "she fears him, and will always ask / what fated her to choose him." | robinson |
| mila | poland |
| season of migration to the north | arabic |
| "arab and african." | othello |
| "sense of failure that is the source of almost all my anxiety" | italian |
| leonard marnham | mcewan |
| ethan feld | chabon |
| blindness by jose saramago | portuguese |
| calicut | portuguese |
| "speaking about it as an idea" | mamet |
| "hub fans bid kid adieu." | updike |
| joe dimaggio | old man and the sea |
| cam island | chabon |
| alaska in the yiddish policemen | chabon |
| "longing for death." | night |
| "ascend to heaven" | akutagawa |
| margaret edson | donne |
| "this is my play's last scene" | donne |
| in a franz grillparzer | sappho |
| longinus | sappho |
| "old potter's tale" | akutagawa |
| "be my ally" | sappho |
| domenico scarlatti | portuguese |
| eed | othello |
| "put a bullet through his head" | robinson |
| "i have been slipping downhill long enough" | shoot |
| prince albert tobacco | babbitt |
| "the zip city - zeal, zest and zowie" | babbitt |
| prout | babbitt |
| "comical history" | french |
| micromegas | french |
| deerslayer | cooper |
| "failed cattle thief" | trujillo |
| kis | joyce |
| dara mcanulty | diary |
| "town" | fish |
| "somewhere behind turkenfeld," | sebald |
| devil's row | crane |
| discovery one in arthur clarke | computer |
| biography of cancer | doctor |
| "tradition, touching all he sees / beguiles and reassures" | robinson |
| chum frink | babbitt |
| sinclair lewis | babbitt |
| myra | babbitt |
| baltimore gun club | french |
| journey to the center of the earth by jules verne | french |
| foe | friday |
| how you lose her | yunior |
| "white hills, white thighs" | neruda |
| w. s. merwin | neruda |
| broken stars | china |
| leslie jamison | doctor |
| william halsted | doctor |
| oliver sacks | doctor |
| emperor of all maladies | doctor |
| lamorna ash | fish |
| richard marriot | fish |
| "death fugue." | holocaust |
| "bluebeard," | bloody chamber |
| "american everygirl who happens to be jewish." | wouk |
| "if i were a rich man" | fiddler on the roof |
| wouk | fiddler on the roof |
| "the cheater's guide to love," | yunior |
| ama ata aidoo | ghost |
| ghana in an akosua busia | season |
| dry white | season |
| "deep, sluggish" | bayou |
| "sentimental and ... trite, reassuringly platitudinous." | fiedler |
| death in the american novel | fiedler |
| "come back to the raft ag'in, huck honey!" | fiedler |
| young naturalist | diary |
| the st. cloud's orphanage | cider house rules |
| colonel aponte | die |
| juan carlos etchepare in heartbreak tango | puig |
| coward | blithe spirit |
| puig | argentina |
| "sun moon stars." | rain |
| garry essendine in present laughter | coward |
| "ozymandias." | shelley |
| "the ladder sways as the boughs bend." | apple pick |
| "copying a copy of the real." | barthes |
| in like water for chocolate | esperanza |
| "in thy hands, my lord." | endless |
| "a sudden blow." | leda |
| "be drunk!" | spleen |
| mrozek | absurd |
| third policeman | ireland |
| "well done, cutty-sark!" | drunk |
| "to left and right" | birches |
| laura esquivel | recipe |
| heiner muller | ishiguro |
| "what krishna meant... when he admonished arjuna / on the field of battle" | eliot |
| songs of mihyar | syria |
| hercules furens | seneca |
| matthew lopez | howards end |
| frontiers of science | china |
| chronicle of a blood merchant | china |
| hugo award | china |
| empathy exams | doctor |
| man who mistook his wife for a hat | doctor |
| "the days of old" | robinson |
| lucas hnath | doll |
| "imaginary gardens with real toads in them" | moore |
| william inge | balcony |
| "camest thou hither" | balcony |
| elma | balcony |
| "the darker brother" | sing |
| "a newly fried pancake." | nose |
| "there were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle." | neruda |
| oscar hijuelos | pulitzer |
| wild duck | ibsen |
| "in my barren land you are the final rose" | neruda |
| "miss spiritual tramp of 1948" | salinger |
| booper | salinger |
| "kentucky straight bourbon" | glass menag |
| "clumsy" | glass menag |
| chinese pidgin english in sea of poppies | india |
| sophie mol | india |
| rahel | india |
| amanda wingfield | glass menag |
| "elvis puff." | india |
| amitav ghosh | india |
| jane pittman | autobiography |
| black boy | autobiography |
| "too" | sing |
| "the body electric?" | sing |
| kovalyov | nose |
| "strong brown god." | eliot |
| catherine burroughs | closet |
| moral letters to lucilius | seneca |
| "some boy's been swinging them." | birches |
| "facino cane" | human comedy |
| harald hjarne | endless |
| "the broken wall, the burning roof and tower / and agamemnon dead" | leda |
| "you're one times one! you're blue roses!" | glass menag |
| "mastered all the arts of cowardice" | medea |
| "the unborn child that's inheritor of our fear." | cry, the beloved country |
| "destroy it and man is destroyed" | cry, the beloved country |
| "lovely road that runs" | cry, the beloved country |
| tixo | cry, the beloved country |
| "funny little dwarf" | wilde |
| "notes from an immigrant's handbook," | out of africa |
| ngong hills | out of africa |
| maniac in dario fo | police |
| accidental death of an anarchist | police |
| franz kromer | demian |
| eau claire | hair |
| "squatters" | out of africa |
| "cuckoo" | japanese |
| "cutting word." | japanese |
| issa | japanese |
| nenny in the house on mango street | esperanza |
| lost children archive | mexico |
| "understanding which has made a stranger a brother" | tagore |
| the prairie and the | cooper |
| arab shakespeare trilogy | machine |
| elizabeth temple | bumppo |
| wickfield | uriah |
| "cup" | dice |
| "dominated by a 'literary'... element conducive to the act of contemplation." | closet |
| "pan-mediterranean muses," | ovid |
| nate silver | howards end |
| efforts of affection | moore |
| prince hotaru | fireflies |
| tamakazura | fireflies |
| "the unknown masterpiece." | human comedy |
| "the presentation of credible experiences and happenings in literature." | realism |
| second shepherds | jesus |
| path of thunder | okigbo |
| reverend arthur villars | burney |
| elmer rice | expressionism |
| adding machine | expressionism |
| sir pelham grenville wodehouse | wodehouse |
| "all that i really love / is the rain that flattens on the bay, / and the eel-grass in the cove." | millay |
| sauron | ring |
| sweet sorrow | coward |
| lapland | snow queen |
| western biological | cannery row |
| westernized lakunle | lion and the jewel |
| ilujinle | lion and the jewel |
| preference | sevastopol |
| eagle in sherwood anderson | willard |
| buddy | willard |
| critic laura miller | mcewan |
| machines like me | mcewan |
| hagen | pnin |
| sergeant pluck | ireland |
| hester eastman | scarlet letter |
| father amador | die |
| santiago nasar | die |
| melquiades | die |
| "for the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts" | wilde |
| "hanging face" | dulce et decorum est |
| "misty panes and thick green light." | dulce et decorum est |
| "curse through sludge." | dulce et decorum est |
| book three of horace | dulce et decorum est |
| "can fill the unforgiving minute / with sixty seconds' worth of distance run [will] be a man, my son!" | if |
| stanford creative writing program | one flew over the cuckoo's nest |
| alias grace | atwood |
| "my name, dear saint, is... is hateful to myself" | balcony |
| "the orchard walls are high and hard to climb" | balcony |
| "what belongs to him or her and to none else" | sing |
| "what belongs to the day." | sing |
| "the universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion" | sing |
"ah you who are silent!" | neruda |
| sophie treadwell | expressionism |
| bruno schulz | judaism |
| "o romeo, romeo! wherefore art thou romeo?" | balcony |
| "experiments with the action of magnetism had occupied public attention," | nose |
| "body of a woman," | neruda |
| "nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die" | salinger |
| jimmy jimmerino | salinger |
| "blow out your candles" | glass menag |
| "the horror and the glory." | autobiography |
| bus stop | balcony |
| passion play | jesus |
| the ' play | jesus |
| let him die | okigbo |
| biafra | okigbo |
| evelina | burney |
| jimmy aaron | autobiography |
| "of an ex-colored man." | autobiography |
| "my ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongue's utterance." | balcony |
| "sitting alone and remembering." | old gringo |
| sophie von kuhn | hymn |
| the lion and the jewel | photographer |
| "how much land does a man need?" | tolstoy |
| "sketches" | sevastopol |
| jay cee for ladies | esther |
| "scourge of penance" | everyman |
| good deeds | morality |
| sydney pollack | out of africa |
| kenya by danish | out of africa |
| emmanuelson | out of africa |
| hatton | out of africa |
| "but slowly, slowly!," | japanese |
| shiki | japanese |
| "to go home singing." | medea |
| "the tragedy is not that things are broken. the tragedy is that things are not mended again." | cry, the beloved country |
| shadows on the grass | out of africa |
| "moth machine" | out of africa |
| "even greeks look down on other greeks, too clever to see the good in them." | medea |
| "the birthday of the infanta," | wilde |
| "is not private, but not final." | dulce et decorum est |
| "cataracts and hurricanoes" | lear |
| "rumble thy bellyful" | lear |
| "blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" | lear |
| "i am waiting." | coney island |
| "mexico city blues." | keroua |
| "i'm with you" | rockland |
| "nemean" | pindar |
| library of alexandria | callimachus |
| pinakes | callimachus |
| "at the hotel de bourgogne between de bergerac and a boeotian" | duel |
| torrents of spring | shakespeare |
| "her salt tears fell from her, and softened the stones" | tree |
| "isthmian," | pindar |
| stephanie burt | callimachus |
| "i am a man, i consider nothing human alien to me" | self-tormentor |
| art speigelman | graphic novel |
| triumph of death | d'annunzio |
| lafayette theater | harlem |
| campensis | isis |
| janacek's sinfonietta | murakami |
| admiral byng | candide |
| malta kano | murakami |
| "the thieving magpie." | murakami |
| hidimbi | mahabharata |
| "art, like everything else." | plath |
| "raise up thy thoughts above the sky / that dunghill mists away may fly." | fire |
| condy | castle |
| cesarea tinajero in mexico in the savage detectives | bolano |
| coulibri plantation | rhys |
| "out flew the web and floated wide" | mirror |
| tumblr | callimachus |
| fair in jimmy corrigan | graphic novel |
| chris ware | graphic novel |
| "the happiest of mortals, for he is above everything he possesses." | candide |
| lieutenant mamiya | murakami |
| biafran war in half of a yellow sun | adichie |
| okigbo | adichie |
| oresteia of aeschylus | mourning becomes electra |
| "cinnamon shops," | judaism |
| hippolyte tautain | club |
| "with a woman's head" | candle |
| "all of animated nature" | candle |
| "diversely framed." | candle |
| dedicated to jessie pope | dulce et decorum est |
| "gas! gas! quick, boys!" | dulce et decorum est |
| along with francois rabelais | dostoyevsky |
| great derangement | india |
| poligraf poligrafovich in a mikhail bulgakov | dog |
| "happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" | tolstoy |
| kozeltsof | sevastopol |
| adirondacks | willard |
| "modern fiction" | shakespeare |
| english by constance garnett | shakespeare |
| " for 10 points each: name this country that byron called a " | greece |
| " ends by praising " | heart |
| "how to write about africa" | granta |
| "elite" | boston |
| thayers | boston |
| every man | jonson |
| machinal | expressionism |
| shankuntala | kalidas |
| ulises | bolano |
| aetia | callimachus |
| "swaggering soldier." | latin |
| menedamus | self-tormentor |
| devil in the white city | chicago world's fair |
| republic of fiume | d'annunzio |
| "wild to do something for father" | hair |
| d'annunzio | francesca |
| giovanni malatesta | francesca |
| "on the air" | welles |
| walk together | wilson |
| "junkman's obbligato" | coney island |
| "not fear the devil himself," | land |
| okeoma | adichie |
| "lost his bottle of oil." | hades |
| bhishma | mahabharata |
| "dead hands, dead stringencies." | plath |
| "in silent night when rest i took," | fire |
| "adieu, adieu, all's vanity" | fire |
| sir murtaugh | castle |
| "shall break into a hundred thousand flaws" | lear |
| "never, never, never, never, never" | lear |
| "yoo-zhan day rahs-tin-yahc" | balzac |
| "child of hope and fear." | dictionary |
| "canvas-covered wagon" | chopin |
| "lying in the shadow of the big stone pillar" | chopin |
| wild gallant | jonson |
| "sly fox" | jonson |
| bridge on the drina | turk |
| with salvatore quasimodo | montale |
| "the black sluggard." | knight |
| "our sincerest laughter with some pain is drought" | bird |
| "never known the weariness, the fever, and the fret" | bird |
| "hail to thee, blithe spirit!" | bird |
| "even and odd." | poe |
| "] features in many stories by, for 10 points, what author of " | poe |
| "i've given you all and now i'm nothing." | ginsburg |
| "trahmp la-more" | balzac |
| serapion | all for love |
| palmyra | dry |
| jacques lacan | poe |
| "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 |
| at madame vauquer | balzac |
| valmonde | chopin |
| "the only real horror in most of these fictions is the horror of bad taste and bad art." | lovecraft |
| " in a poem that urges to " | heart |
| " this thing. byron's poem " | heart |
| horatio oliveira | hopscotch |
| "two-fifths genius, three-fifths sheer fudge" | lowell |
| "the deacon's masterpiece." | holmes |
| moritz jaeger | hauptmann |
| "play with music" | brecht |
| otranto | castle |
| "explode his inward air" | hades |
| "single" | pushkin |
| "great stage of fools." | lear |
| "the disinherited one" | knight |
| wamba | knight |
| jed martin | houellebecq |
| "possibility" | island |
| ascent to heaven | mahabharata |
| "stasis in darkness" | plath |
| "so it feels like hell" | plath |
| "i have done it again." | plath |
| "you cannot fold a flood-- / ... because the winds would find it out-- / and tell your cedar floor." | fire |
| "here stood that trunk, and there that chest." | fire |
| sir patrick | castle |
| maria edgeworth | castle |
| homeland elegies | trump |
| "a man without land is nobody." | montreal |
| toole | new orleans |
| spenser | sidney |
| "just above my chamber door" | pallas |
| red sorghum | mo |
"the arrow / the dew that flies." | plath |
| "man's life's as cheap as beast's" | lear |
| "struck and banded which way please them" | tennis ball |
| bosola | tennis ball |
| "the fragrance of the lemon trees" | montale |
| reilly | confederacy of dunces |
| colin clout | shepheardes |
| astrophel | sidney |
| "my master." | soseki |
| "the glory that was greece, / and the grandeur that was rome." | helen |
| "what sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls?" | ginsburg |
| "vough-care" | balzac |
| "vough-trahn" | balzac |
| simon winchester in the meaning of everything | dictionary |
| father gassalasca jape | dictionary |
| sandwich islands | dictionary |
| coton mais | chopin |
| brently mallard | chopin |
| septimus harding | warden |
| the barsetshire series | warden |
| trollope | thackeray |
| "and sons." | father |
| isles of greece | don juan |
| poetic justice | harjo |
| "] is found stuffed in a chimney after being murdered by an orangutan. c. auguste dupin [" | poe |
| "the key is in the sunlight at the window." | ginsburg |
| time of the hero | vargas |
| "how to write about pakistan." | granta |
| poet louise gluck | nobel |
| "anesthesia" | holmes |
| "boston brahmin." | holmes |
| in hauptmann | fairies |
| sunken bell | fairies |
| arkham house | lovecraft |
| "the sea like a vast silvered mirror reflects the sky like a sheet of zinc." | symphony in gray major |
| hiram's hospital | warden |
| l'abri | desiree's |
| " 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 |
| " for 10 points each: byron addressed a ten-year old " | heart |
| maid of athens | heart |
| talita | hopscotch |
| latin american boom | vargas |
| trotta | roth |
| "pallid" | raven |
| "don't speak." | mo |
| ayad akhtar | trump |
| dunstan | raveloe |
| "to roosevelt" | dario |
| andric | turk |
| tea obreht | tiger |
| ti noel | haiti |
| the corrections | oprah |
| hermetic tradition | montale |
| the children's hour | hellman |
| hellman | blacklist |
| "to gun-stones" | tennis ball |
| last gentleman | new orleans |
| glenn gould | austria |
| "brahmins." | boston |
| elisabeth hauptmann | brecht |
| his humour | jonson |
| howard phillips lovecraft | lovecraft |
| daniel jose older | lovecraft |
| cthulhu | lovecraft |
| "stranger, bear word to the spartans we..." | boll |
| "dominant point of reference" | italian |
| "isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?" | akutagawa |
| "queer shoulder to the wheel" | ginsburg |
| delilah for a polish | balzac |
| princess ateh | dictionary |
| "polemic" | dictionary |
| zandrine | chopin |
| "to encourage the others." | candide |
| granta | nobel |
| "create a sensation" | poe |
| kris kelvin | polish |
| christian lygia | polish |
| "brothers poem" | sappho |
| janice avery | bridge to terabithia |
| katherine paterson | bridge to terabithia |
| twinkies | bridge to terabithia |
| easter mass | bridge to terabithia |
| flann o'brien | third policeman |
| pluck | third policeman |
| "drive my car," | beatles |
| "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 |
| "lady of beauty" | sappho |
| "mimes, in the form of god on high... / hither and thither fly" | poe |
| "blood red thing" | poe |
| "mimic rout." | poe |
azul (collection) | dario |
| concept of the political | schmitt |
| clayton chiclitz | yoyodyne |
| "my land has palm trees where the thrush sings." | brazil |
| "the golden trumpets of radiance" | montale |
| unlike ungaretti | montale |
| "sinners in the hands of an angry god." | sermon |
| dalkey archive | joyce |
| red channels | blacklist |
| "unrepentant" | blacklist |
| screenwriters ring lardner | blacklist |
| paradise vendors | confederacy of dunces |
| john kennedy toole | confederacy of dunces |
| avalon coldmoon | soseki |
| stone pits | raveloe |
| raveloe | eliot |
| captain stolz | dry white season |
| ben du toit | dry white season |
| "waste land limericks" | cope |
| liturgy of saint basil | chrysostom |
| against the jews | chrysostom |
| "god sees the truth, but waits." | tolstoy |
| makamisa | rizal |
| simoun | rizal |
| red hook | view from the bridge |
| "ballad of the ladies of times past" | villon |
| "dean of american letters" | howells |
| dugal mcadoo | chestnutt |
| "plantation tradition" | chestnutt |
| "principle of universal discovery." | physicist |
| friedrich durrenmatt | switzerland |
| oyeyemi | fox |
| hard day | beatles |
| yellow submarine | beatles |
| dark horse comics | escapist |
| empire comics | escapist |
| mongane wally serote | dry white season |
| melanie bruwer | dry white season |
| "to my husband," | cope |
| paschal | chrysostom |
| "rose embower'd in its own green leaves." | bird |
| "alien corn" | bird |
| "poet hidden in the light of thought" | bird |
| "half the gladness that thy brain must know." | bird |
| edna o'brien | joyce |
| "is it about a bicycle?" | third policeman |
| de selby | third policeman |
| "delusion notes." | nietzsche |
| "heritage" | harlem renaissance |
| wilfrid | saki |
| beasts and super-beasts | saki |
| sappleton | saki |
| otis slemmons | hurston |
| "bessie, bop, bach." | harlem renaissance |
| "wispy... 'kilroy-is-here' announcements;" | brooks |
| grace poole | bertha |
| "god'll damn you to hell when you die" | bridge to terabithia |
| "wandering scholars" | latin |
| "day of wrath." | latin |
| mrs quabarl | saki |
| missie may | hurston |
| "the shadow of the empire state building" | hurston |
| "the gilded six bits" | hurston |
| "turkish pavilion." | julie |
| mythistorema | greek |
| politics among nations | morgenthau |
| nella larsen | passing |
| snow white by oyeyemi | boy, snow, bird |
| frank novak | boy, snow, bird |
| lesbos | sappho |
| "writhes" | poe |
| may belle | bridge to terabithia |
| ton beau | marot |
| conjure woman | chestnutt |
"how can i face such slaughter and be cool?" | a far cry from africa |
| in the physicists | solomon |
| olanna | half of a yellow sun |
| like yiannis ritsos | cavafy |
| mikis theodorakis | greek |
| "i woke with this marble head in my hands" | greek |
| "envious age has been flying," | horace |
| carmina | horace |
| "currents of the universal being" | emerson |
| benediktbeuern abbey | latin |
| archpoet | latin |
| rape of the sabine women | saki |
| "a book that one thumbs / listlessly till slumber comes." | harlem renaissance |
| "monstrous and empty," | latin |
| "a glimpse of yellow lemons" | montale |
| "thunder their songs" | montale |
| italian hermeticism | montale |
| jarrow | bede |
| "lupi ad anglos," | sermon |
| finn mac cool | o'brien |
| "for whom do you bind your golden hair" | horace |
| "faithless" | horace |
| mad king sweeney | o'brien |
| pooka mcphillimey | o'brien |
| in flann | joyce |
| mathers | third policeman |
| tubingen | holderlin |
| a 's night | beatles |
| amazing midget radio comics | escapist |
| john buchan | thirty-nine steps |
| bunce | fox |
| william congreve | mourning bride |
| stanley koteks | yoyodyne |
| boeing | yoyodyne |
| yoyodyne | pynchon |
| venetian epigrams | goethe |
| "exile song" | brazil |
| mandrake | machiavelli |
| purpose of american politics | morgenthau |
| bean in a roald dahl | fox |
| "heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd." | mourning bride |
| holy thursday | chrysostom |
| memory of departure | gurnah |
| ambeth ocampo | rizal |
| crisostomo ibarra | rizal |
| thomas bailey aldrich | chestnutt |
| lachlan mackinnon | cope |
| kingdom of god is within you | tolstoy |
| eddie | view from the bridge |
| "the goophered grapevine," | chestnutt |
| howells | chestnutt |
| christian monty kipps | on beauty |
| belsey | on beauty |
| "wrestles with" | gorilla |
| our american cousin | lincoln |
| yusuke kafuku | murakami |
| richard hannay | thirty-nine steps |
| "for don m - banned" | dry white season |
| "most photographed" | barn |
| "postmodern novelist." | delillo |
| gordon ngubene | dry white season |
| "every photograph reinforces the aura" | barn |
| thomas of celano | latin |
| "spy glass." | hurston |
| "crazy again tonight! absolutely crazy!" | julie |
| "like a pipe for a christmas present, or records" | harlem renaissance |
| "we are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan" | brooks |
| "kitchenette building." | brooks |
a minor apocalypse (language) | polish |
| "deathless child of zeus" | sappho |
| leucothoe | horace |
| "acrostic" | emerson |
| "alexandrian stanza" | emerson |
| "conformity" | emerson |
| "opinion" | comedy |
| "proof" | comedy |
| antiphanes | comedy |
| "mondaugen's story." | pynchon |
| "you're straightaway dangerous - / and handled with a chain." | dickinson |
| "much madness is divinest sense," | dickinson |
| "middle" | comedy |
| pyrgopolynices in roman | comedy |
| knemon | comedy |
| the secret postal service | pynchon |
| "break this heavy chain / that does freeze my bones around!" | blake |
| "darkness dread & drear." | blake |
| country wife | restoration |
| "where i'm calling from" | carver |
| "affirms something." | cathedral |
| "retort courteous," | jaques |
| "reply churlish" | jaques |
| "full of strange oaths," | jaques |
| "bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth." | jaques |
| "it's no sin to sin in confidence" | tartuffe |
| kipps | united kingdom |
| madame koto | famished road |
| "common attic." | cavafy |
| "six principles of political realism" | morgenthau |
| at the whitman | boy, snow, bird |
| "fantastic" | fox |
| boggis | fox |
| "comedies" | restoration |
| "first known author in world literature." | enheduanna |
| cuneiform | sumerian |
| vincent starrett | holmes |
| pendulum | da vinci code |
| district officer pilkings | mask |
| "problem plays." | troilus and criseyde |
| "an epitome of bierce's strange doomed and constricted life" | patriotic gore |
| "duende" | lope de vega |
| harriet jacobs | wilson |
| notes on the state of virginia | jefferson |
| carmilla | cyberpunk |
| bev and russ | lindner |
| "follow the brush." | zuihitsu |
| "awful" | row |
| "i have gone out, a possessed witch" | sexton |
| william empson | shakespeare |
| nigeria in death | soyinka |
| the king's horseman, amusa | mask |
| "theory and play." | duende |
| allan woodcourt | summerson |
| janet frame | mansfield |
| frame | horse |
| the wreath and the wife | undset |
| lucy terry | bars fight |
| "all that remained for me of catholicism was its smell" | drum |
| "and what shoulder, and what art, / could twist the sinews of thy heart? " | blake |
| "earth's answer" | blake |
| an account of my hut | zuihitsu |
| like sharon olds | confessional |
| decad | hymn |
| colonel ardenti | foucault's pendulum |
| lady tortoise | dance of the forests |
| transito soto | house of the spirits |
| "barabbas came to us by sea," | house of the spirits |
| "there would still have been milton and the universal alphabet." | eliza |
| "pythagoras, thucydides, / herodotus, and homer ... burnt brightlier towards their setting-day." | hardy |
| "tangled bine-stems scored the sky / like strings of broken lyres." | hardy |
| "how did you find the quarrel on the seventh cause?" | jaques |
| paperbacks | liverpool |
| trisolaris | liu |
| "imitation is suicide . . ." | emerson |
| niels klim | latin |
| helen waddell | latin |
| "happy good-night air" | hardy |
| "moment of unkindness." | tartuffe |
| "each age" | dickinson |
| "demur," | dickinson |
| "woeful" | nurse |
| sylvy | white heron |
| isaac laquedem | wandering jew |
| rennepont | wandering jew |
| "vague des passions" | romantic |
| like the monk | gothic |
| adventures of caleb williams | godwin |
| carnal prayer mat | scholar |
| "heed the false calculations of chaldean" | horace |
| adrian henri | penguin |
| "when he woke up, the dinosaur was still there" | flash |
| tyrannosaurus rex | bradbury |
| "a nobleman and his sister." | letter |
| "the hell of impotence" | disappointment |
| cloris | disappointment |
| "i owe everything to that meeting." | babel |
| "godfather" | bukowski |
| neuromancer | ballard |
| "cybernetic culture" | cyberpunk |
| bev | clybourne park |
russ (stoller) | clybourne park |
| "the island called god." | row |
| "acquired more essential history from plutarch than most men could from" | shakespeare |
| belbo | foucault's pendulum |
| strait | gide |
ann radcliffe (work) | the mysteries of udolpho |
| du shaoqing | scholar |
| scott in mansfield | horse |
| master of hestviken | undset |
| william wells brown | jefferson |
| sally hemings | jefferson |
| "furu ike ya." | cutting |
| masaoka shiki | tanka |
| sangam | tamil |
| panini's ashtadhyayi | grammar |
| yande codou | senghor |
| jeanne nardal | damas |
| "three fathers" | damas |
| "handsome, clever, and rich" | austen |
| pierre picaud | count of monte cristo |
| literary souvenirs | art for art's sake |
| augusto monterroso | flash |
| "the story of my dovecot." | babel |
| henry chinaski | bukowski |
| detective nicky belane | los angeles |
| "the gold watch" | los angeles |
| roger avary | los angeles |
| alan steinberg | abdul-jabbar |
| mycroft holmes | abdul-jabbar |
| "sferics" | pynchon |
| jan | drum |
| "sunned" | blake |
| "with smiles / and with soft deceitful wiles," | blake |
| "forward, backward, or across." | emerson |
| "envy is ignorance" | emerson |
| "to be great is to be misunderstood." | emerson |
| "part and parcel with god" | emerson |
| "assent" | dickinson |
| "crescent above" | dickinson |
| "worlds scoop their arcs - and firmaments - row - diadems drop." | dickinson |
| "the poets light but lamps," | dickinson |
| "perches in the soul." | dickinson |
| lois leveen | nurse |
| "there's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all are perjur'd / all foresworn, all naught, all dissemblers." | nurse |
| "lamentable" | nurse |
| earl of rochester | disappointment |
| bill buford | bukowski |
| "dirty realism." | bukowski |
| ferdinand celine in a bukowski | los angeles |
| anna waterhouse | abdul-jabbar |
| great epics | tamil |
| adboulaye sadji | damas |
| "lens / disseminating their circumference." | dickinson |
| gate | gide |
| speculum meditantis | gower |
| vox clamantis | gower |
| "dream vision" | gower |
| on isis | plutarch |
| "modern poets" | liverpool |
| "modern classics" | liverpool |
| revelation motor company | fran |
| dan brown | da vinci code |
| robert langdon | da vinci code |
| emperor mata kharibu | dance of the forests |
| for nigeria | mask |
| "nun's priest's tale" | chaucer |
| wu jingzi | scholar |
| life of alexander | plutarch |
| dodsworth | lewis |
| james graham ballard | ballard |
| "lowlife and high tech" | ballard |
| sheridan le fanu | cyberpunk |
| lord ruthven | cyberpunk |
| an awful rowing toward god | sexton |
| part way back | sexton |
| "let us offer our pinch of dust all to this god" | shakespeare |
| weigle | enheduanna |
| les filles | desdichado |
| "the prince of aquitaine, his tower in ruins" | desdichado |
| "drink! don't think!" | ship |
| political justice | godwin |
| "the band sounded louder and gayer" | new zealand |
| tiina nunnally | undset |
| aunt ester in gem of the ocean | wilson |
| "ya," | cutting |
| "who could frame thy fearful symmetry?" | blake |
| pigments | damas |
| "boston marriage" | jewett |
| annie adams fields | jewett |
| corsican brothers | dumas |
| eugene sue | wandering jew |
| ahasuerus in jan potocki | wandering jew |
| chimeras in nerval | desdichado |
| "the land's features" | hardy |
| "corpse outleant." | hardy |
| "quip modest," | jaques |
| "lean and slipper'd pantaloon" | jaques |
| "all the world" | jaques |
| "gentlemen" | hardy |
| "some blessed hope, whereof he knew" | hardy |
| duke senior | jaques |
| "if excess of love / bewildered them till they died?" | easter rising |
| fleur-de-lis | milady |
| "there are no flies or mosquitoes to sting you," | john |
| last party | mailer |
| "nonfiction novel" | mailer |
| almansor | german |
| institute for union with nothingness | house of the spirits |
| red lantern | house of the spirits |
| aubert | mysteries of udolpho |
| "old bitch gone in the teeth." | pound |
| "rock drill" | pound |
| "baffling hermeticism" | paz |
| "the sons of" | paz |
| "calm course of a star," | paz |
| "poplar of water" | paz |
| "sixteen men were shot?" | easter rising |
| "you spoiled the song," | gorky |
| "why the host of 'jeopardy!' matters" | abdul-jabbar |
| kannagi | tamil |
| tolkappiyam | grammar |
| paulette | damas |
| manuscript found in saragossa | wandering jew |
| rene de chateaubriand's | romantic |
| mildred douglas | hairy ape |
| charles shields | go set a watchman |
| "careless indictment" | go set a watchman |
| "happy as hell" | go set a watchman |
| "puckish," | six |
| "the stepchild," | six |
| "brevity is the soul of wit." | polonius |
| "bud" | chile |
| abab | pound |
| "in the midst of it all" | easter rising |
| "voice grew shrill." | easter rising |
| enishte | istanbul |
| lord sudley | milady |
| anne de breuil | milady |
| gaylen | mailer |
| "mattress-grave," | german |
| "will the despotism of the earthly never cease?" | german |
| "i came here to forgive, but all i can do is take pleasure in your misery." | rosenberg |
| grand lord | hell |
| "e-r-o-s" | cupid |
| "stud" | chile |
| "between the streets and the air" | chile |
| "for three years, / was out of sync with his time." | pound |
| "faces in the crowd." | pound |
| "bleeding," | paz |
| "scholar-beauty" | dream of the red chamber |
| "the management of grief." | mukherjee |
| artist of disappearance | desai |
| anita | desai |
| alphonse keyaerts | heart of darkness |
| "fathered" | san francisco |
| "panegyrick" | cromwell |
| gray's elegy | west |
| "her nights in argument" | easter rising |
| templemar | milady |
| imitation of christ | john |
| helmholtz watson | john |
| tonja carter | go set a watchman |
| "malicious," | six |
| "nimble little maidservant" | six |
| pentimento | hellman |
| "the apparel oft proclaims the man." | polonius |
| "borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry" | polonius |
| "my blessing season in thee." | polonius |
| "lifts her leafy arms" | pray |
| celebrations of hestia | donkey |
| "elementary, my dear." | john |
| piet wetjoen | boer |
| "drunken, vainglorious lout" | easter rising |
| in the belly of the beast | mailer |
| adele morales | mailer |
| hymns to the night | german |
| "american translation." | joy luck club |
| don abbondio | six |
| regina hubbard | hellman |
| "corambis." | polonius |
| "costly thy habit as thy purse can buy" | polonius |
| malabar caves | forster |
| "but who can talk of give and take" | easter rising |
| "hearts with one purpose alone" | easter rising |
| "changed, changed utterly" | easter rising |
| "rid of them centuries ago" | john |
| girl of mataski | john |
| "art, science, and religion" | john |
| jack abbott | mailer |
| "first notes of song" | duino elegies |
| "threnodic essence" | soyinka |
| "restock to the earth." | maupassant |
| "useless beauty" | maupassant |
| "queen mother of the western skies," | joy luck club |
| mei woo | joy luck club |
| popo | joy luck club |
| mah-jongg | joy luck club |
| e.l. doctorow's | rosenberg |
| denoalan | tristan |
| maganda | philippines |
| "when i was one-and-twenty" | 22 |
| omega point | everything that rises must converge |
| "the eternal feminine draws us on." | faust |
| thomas chatterton | keats |
| "the greatest." | duino elegies |
| homais | emma |
| monica in munich | forster |
| japan to canada | life of pi |
| raghuvamsa | sita |
| "projective verse" | black mountain |
| valentin arregui | kiss |
| "a gay fantasia on national themes" | kushner |
| "could not cease in the inglorious arts of peace," | cromwell |
| "noble son is mad." | polonius |
| "like an empty net" | chile |
| "the hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse" | chile |
| "a tawdry cheapness" | pound |
| "the sage heraclitus" | pound |
| "botched civilization" | pound |
| disjunctions | paz |
| family idiot | emma |
| m'choakumchild | school |
| flashman | school |
| king charles ix | montaigne |
| "of liars" | montaigne |
| chestny | everything that rises must converge |
| thales | faust |
| true church | eliot |
| "can never fail / for it is based upon a rock," | eliot |
| carlier | heart of darkness |
charles olson (movement) | black mountain |
| terence mcnally | kiss |
| dorfman | kushner |
| "monody on queen caroline." | west |
| "sex strike" | lysistrata |
| "goodness, truth, and beauty, come first." | school |
| rose stanley | school |
| "was round upon the ground" | anecdote of the jar |
| anopopei | naked and the |
| the naked and the dead | mailer |
| "tone" | boer |
| prince of tides | conroy |
| great santini | conroy |
| congo river | conrad |
| keyarts | heart of darkness |
| "every word [this author] writes is a lie" | hellman |
| "oh, i am slain," | polonius |
| "shall reign throughout our days," | pound |
| "all things are are a-flowing." | pound |
| "thrones" | pound |
| "humiliated christ" | paz |
| "more polished than the ivory of dieppe" | emma |
| wych elm tree | forster |
| "sadly familiar reductionist tendency." | soyinka |
| "not hate progress, only its nature / which makes all roofs and faces look the same" | soyinka |
| "rests on his belly in the mud." | eliot |
| " he used the sanskrit words shantih, shantih, shantih to close a poem that begins " | eliot |
| "paste." | maupassant |
| lester mead | banana |
| miguel asturias | banana |
| "dweller in truth." | egypt |
| greek kronia | saturnalia |
| nemean odes | pindar |
| brau | nickel |
| "neptunist" | faust |
| "a vale of soul-making." | keats |
| "the man of achievement" | keats |
| "secret thesis" | duino elegies |
| "read the poet gaspara stampa sufficiently yet?" | duino elegies |
| "the man who lived underground," | wright |
| detective britten | wright |
| eight men | wright |
| wolfram von eschenbach | grail |
| soolt | tristan |
| iseult | tristan |
| malakas | philippines |
| hod | balder |
| "broad-backed hippopotamus" | eliot |
| " and which opens " | eliot |
| " after converting to anglicanism, this author wrote " | eliot |
| "no ... we have nothing to ask him." | candide |
| "milk-plus," | burgess |
| anna murray | frederick |
| bitzer | school |
| "attempts." | montaigne |
| sandy jenkins | frederick |
| calonice | lysistrata |
| "safety first," | school |
| "quadruped graminivorous," | school |
| "we have bastardized ... to please our corrupt taste" | montaigne |
| "but hold! they do not wear trousers" | montaigne |
| "of ancient customs" | montaigne |
| kitchen shack with the communist jan erlone | wright |
| "i fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, and weep the more because i weep in vain." | west |
| "hamlets" | turgenev |
| hauchecome | maupassant |
strong wind | banana (trilogy) |
al-sayyid | mahfouz |
| "to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of god" | burgess |
| kenneth toomey in earthly powers | burgess |
| "an enemy of all religion," | frederick |
| look homeward | wolfe |
| much of gravity | world war ii |
| prithvi | sita |
denise levertov (movement) | black mountain |
| "because i do not hope to turn again" | ash wednesday |
| guido cavalcanti | ash wednesday |
| "horatian ode." | cromwell |
| "some village-hampden," | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| lawrence durrell | egypt |
| ilish | egypt |
| "magical root" | frederick |
| "the country of the blind" | wells |
| psmith | john |
| "anecdote of the jar" | stevens |
| "no stir in the air, no stir in the sea, the ship was still as she could be." | inchcape |
| pat conroy | wolfe |
| marguerite mason | duino elegies |
| "most painful event" | duino elegies |
| "barren numbness." | duino elegies |
| " another of his speakers is asked a question by the smyrna merchant " | eliot |
| nowell codex | beowulf |
| "more faithful than he intended to be." | tom |
| "dick steele" | thackeray |
| "beacon burns" | shropshire lad |
| sissy jupe | school |
| tom brown | school |
| "of cannibals," | montaigne |
| ernie | wright |
| "mind's bible" | keats |
| john gibson lockhart | keats |
| "it is better to be a starving apothecary than a starving poet" | keats |
| "will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us." | keats |
| don dubrow | nickel |
| sahr | saramago |
| blee | saramago |
| griffin | wells |
| "common people" | egypt |
| carlo campanati | burgess |
| "horrible hypocrisy" | frederick |
"it bites my eyes like a mad dog" | lysistrata |
| drexel | wright |
| pierre teilhard | everything that rises must converge |
| "cushion with the stuffing out" | everything that rises must converge |
| story of a marriage | greer |
| hippie boy | stick |
| "there be no sadness of farewell,/ when i embark;" | crossing the bar |
| "boundless deep." | crossing the bar |
| "pry" | donkey |
| "snob" | thackeray |
| silence of the girls | iliad |
| sund | beowulf |
| "tried to leave" | tom |
| "the land of lost content." | shropshire lad |
| "townsman of a stiller town," | shropshire lad |
| "smart lad" | shropshire lad |
| "betimes away" | shropshire lad |
| "fate will unwind as it must," | beowulf |
| code of the woosters | reginald |
blandings castle | wodehouse |
| "the inchcape rock" | southey |
| asheville | wolfe |
| "diary" | superfluous |
| "handsomest... man in the world" | drown |
| vuong | drown |
| "sinister design" | auguste |
| "precious jade." | stone |
| ciappelletto | decameron |
| filocolo | decameron |
| esch batiste | as i lay dying |
| "away from all that is base" | laura |
| "arbiter" | petronius |
| giton | petronius |
| "fifty years to-night / that god saved the queen." | shropshire lad |
| "is my team ploughing?" | shropshire lad |
| six memos for the new millennium | unbearable lightness of being |
| "es muss sein!" | unbearable lightness of being |
| tereza by milan kundera | unbearable lightness of being |
| "bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs," | fairies |
| "team of little atomi." | fairies |
| "bed and company" | fairies |
| "tell me about a" | complicated |
| "of '98." | generation |
| in mist | cervantes |
| "slave breaker" | covey |
| aulds | covey |
| germinie lacerteux | goncourt |
| giovanni's room | baldwin |
| "frosty wind made moan" | in the bleak midwinter |
| "there rose a tree. o pure transcendence!" | rilke |
| "let the rose blossom each year" | sonnet |
| zal | simurg |
| "disappeared in the dead of winter" | yeats |
| khor | sportsman's sketches |
| "between my arms." | drown |
| punch | thackeray |
| the sundial | hill house |
| tigellinus | petronius |
| "building blocks" | beowulf |
| "much turning." | complicated |
| "of '27." | generation |
| incidents in the life of a slave girl | harriet |
| "same caliber" | tom |
| little eva | tom |
| "earth stood hard as iron" | in the bleak midwinter |
"the grand march" | the unbearable lightness of being |
| "tithe-pig's tail," | fairies |
| mab | fairies |
| "too cunning to be profound." | auguste |
| "doggerel verse" | stone |
| "sprightly words" | decameron |
| salvage the bones | as i lay dying |
| "highest excellence o'er power" | laura |
| "sestet," | laura |
| "flood timber" | beowulf |
| "with a hostile world" | beowulf |
| in frank norris | train |
| "i must be my own mamma." | thackeray |
| cyclops | odyssey |
| fermor | odes |
| belgravia | hopkins |
| "what are those blue remembered hills, / what spires, what farms are those?" | shropshire lad |
| "i cheer a dead man's sweetheart, / never ask me whose" | shropshire lad |
| "montale's black lucifer" | unbearable lightness of being |
| "einmal ist keinmal." | unbearable lightness of being |
| "freckles" | fairies |
| mustardseed | fairies |
| reverend whitfield | as i lay dying |
| macgowan | as i lay dying |
| spark | nun |
| "forest and steppe." | sportsman's sketches |
| shelgrim | octopus |
| "elegance." | petronius |
| quartilla | petronius |
| "emissary from the world of reality" | tom |
| english humorists of the eighteenth century | thackeray |
| "before the curtain," | thackeray |
| magnificent ambersons | tarkington |
| "sons of ben," | suckling |
| "eyes like ripening fruit." | archaic torso of apollo |
| farid ud | simurg |
| "the autocrat of the breakfast table" | holmes |
| "aye tear her tattered ensign down" | ship |
| encolpius | satyricon |
| "about as sensitive as a ... toilet seat." | salinger |
| "i think he died for me." | dubliners |
| "no title" | li |
| de haarlemse toneelschuur | waiting for godot |
| "the net," | waiting for godot |
| "ovid's fragile medusa" | unbearable lightness of being |
| "pensioners" | fairies |
| titania in william shakespeare | fairies |
| peaseblossom | fairies |
| "on earth we're briefly gorgeous" | drown |
| nastasya filippovna | idiot |
| ippolit | idiot |
| all too human | sterne |
| "squirrel-soul" | sterne |
| joan gilling | asylum |
| father purdon | dubliners |
| "spiritual accountant." | dubliners |
| "scratches its innocent behind on a tree" | auden |
| sandy stranger | nun |
| rene gallimard | butterfly |
| song liling | butterfly |
| pythian odes | corinna |
| doych | hopkins |
| kalinych | sportsman's sketches |
| tim o'brien's | vietnam |
| akim | tom |
| "confirmed" | kundera |
| tommaso debenedetti | kundera |
| fernanda | fold |
| "ballade upon a wedding." | suckling |
| vera knoop | rilke |
| "the chambered nautilus" | holmes |
| "mere thinker." | emerson |
| "personal god quaquaquaqua." | waiting for godot |
| "consecrate[d] to fame" | rape of the lock |
| "little engine" | rape of the lock |
| "you know who." | cat's cradle |
| "hundred martyrs to democracy," | cat's cradle |
| papa monzano | cat's cradle |
| books of bokonon | cat's cradle |
| felix bokonon | cat's cradle |
| "old ironsides." | ship |
| "hapworth 16, 1924." | salinger |
| "here we go round the mulberry bush" | who's |
| randle p | asylum |
| three hundred poems | li |
| "three men" | li |
| "the hard stool," | waiting for godot |
| "think!" | waiting for godot |
| "whole works" | iliad |
| claudio gatti | ferrante |
| w.c. handy | if beale street could talk |
| "orchard fruits" | rossetti |
| british christmas | in the bleak midwinter |
| remedios the beauty | fold |
| "sad" | shepherd |
| din attar | simurg |
| illusory land of the great void | stone |
| lisabetta | decameron |
| "answered the hardest question right." | as i lay dying |
| "golden hair" | laura |
| ashburnham house | nowell |
| story of europe | octopus |
| southwestern trust | train |
| "the symbol of a vast power, huge, terrible." | train |
| national book critics choice award | smiley |
| thousand acres | smiley |
| "all animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it" | butler |
| "at the creation, ever heard a theme / nobler than [this spiritual]?" | go down, moses |
| black national anthem | sing |
| "lift every voice and [perform this action] / till earth and heaven ring" | sing |
| fra cristoforo | betrothed |
| nii parkes | ghana |
| "promenade of discoveries" | gide |
| nick joaquin | philippines |
| man with the golden arm | drug |
| rubin carter | boxer |
| "frumious bandersnatch" | carroll |
| guignol | commedia dell'arte |
| wilbur schramm in iowa | writing |
| iowa writers | smiley |
| "sort of thrilled" | smash |
| good samaritan | parable |
| parable of the ring | decameron |
| lady murasaki shikibu | genji |
| odd couple | simon |
| elyot | hotel |
| royal welch fusiliers | world war i |
| soviet art | pasternak |
| "colonel" | grangerford |
| "herr ribbentrop." | butler |
| "[flows] down inside" | snow |
| satoko | snow |
| box man | sebald |
| "instapoet." | kaur |
| sam craig | our town |
| aunt sissy by francie | tree grows in brooklyn |
| "ode to stephen dowling bots" | grangerford |
| "enormous, implacable, and dumb" | idiot |
| rogozhin | idiot |
| slop | sterne |
| "personal knowledge." | biography |
| the rambler | biography |
| walther von | linden |
| sissy | tree grows in brooklyn |
| wymark | asylum |
| tom kernan | dubliners |
| "at sixteen you departed, you went ... by the river of swirling eddies" | li |
| "bai" | li |
| aubrey beardsley | rape of the lock |
| "billet-doux" | rape of the lock |
| john caryll | rape of the lock |
| earl mccabe | cat's cradle |
| life of pi by the canadian | india |
| such a long journey | mistry |
| "necessary explanation" | idiot |
| "a completely beautiful human being" | idiot |
| in human | sterne |
peter ackroyd | biography |
| rugby school | biography |
| "bog in the history department" | who's |
| anna wulf | lessing |
| sci-fi series | lessing |
| "aunts of all kinds are damned bad things" | she stoops to conquer |
| aunt pedigree | she stoops to conquer |
| in aunts aren | watson |
| sign of four | watson |
| carol shields | canada |
| "the fire sermon." | waste land |
| vogelweide | linden |
| sissy rommely | tree grows in brooklyn |
| katie | tree grows in brooklyn |
| way of all flesh | bildungsroman |
| "o black and unknown bards" | go down, moses |
| "the bear." | go down, moses |
| "the unnamed." | betrothed |
| nnedi okorafor | science |
| aunt dahlia | wooster |
| arlecchino | commedia dell'arte |
| camden | deathbed |
| stone diaries | canada |
| anne ferris | hotel |
| "zek" | ivan |
| other canadian | mistry |
| marathi | mistry |
| binti | science |
| homegoing by yaa gyasi | ghana |
| dove linkhorn | algren |
| frankie machine in nelson algren | drug |
| "hurricane" | boxer |
| algren | boxer |
| "the owl and the pussycat." | lear |
| amusa | market |
| notes on chopin | gide |
| "tropical" | philippines |
| "seven tales" | philippines |
| fiver | watership down |
| pancho rodriguez | smash |
| "patient griselda." | decameron |
| "i'm lonely--i'll make me a world" | johnson |
| "the creation," | johnson |
| "the scapegoat's agony" | waiting for godot |
"five pennies is a nickel" | welty |
| "you are a great artist." | rape of the lock |
| "c----," | rape of the lock |
| "you are not my hero." | cat's cradle |
| edgar branch | grangerford |
| "half past two" | grangerford |
| "brotherly-love" | grangerford |
| eliza draper | sterne |
| "some bookworm." | who's |
| "bland, intellectual joke" | who's |
| mcmurphy | asylum |
| ladies' day | asylum |
| bartell d'arcy's | dubliners |
| "po" | li |
| "women don't have prostates." | waiting for godot |
| the ' workshop | smiley |
| witi ihimaera | new zealand |
| tales from shakespeare | lamb |
| harney | grangerford |
| "pleasantly surprise his boss" | butler |
| weymouth | butler |
| "beneath the falls." | snow |
| "the freest writer." | sterne |
| walk on the wild side | algren |
| chicago to paterson | boxer |
| "runcible spoon" | lear |
| "callooh! callay!" | chortle |
| iyaloja | market |
| "aunt agatha takes the count." | wooster |
| interior | maeterlinck |
| melisande | maeterlinck |
| "insider baseball" | presidential campaign |
| beautiful things that heaven bears | ethiopia |
| "if i get hungry, / i eat the flesh of my usurper. / beware... beware... of my hunger, / and of my anger." | palestin |
| great frost | orlando |
| "the portent" | brown |
| sex and the city | mccarthy |
| "the story of the girl who stood up for education," | malala |
| what the butler saw | orton |
| commander in the handmaid | atwood |
| historical notes | gilead |
| "hanging from the beam, / slowly swaying." | brown |
| necklace | maupassant |
| bennington college | tartt |
| "conceits" | metaphysical |
| "for god's sake hold your tongue, and let me love." | canonization |
| mei hsu | fortune cookie |
| after dr jekyll | danvers |
| one state in we | brave new world |
| "excuse me." | aeschylus |
| farming of bones | haiti |
| joe gillayley | maori |
| whale rider | new zealand |
| eduardo galeano | uruguay |
| ti-jean | walcott |
| leonard in the boer war | butler |
| runaway horses | snow |
| best american short stories | visually impaired |
| cowboys ennis | visually impaired |
| jack twist | visually impaired |
| open veins of latin america | uruguay |
| messenio | menaechmi |
| big money | camera eye |
| "mock-heroic" | rape of the lock |
| albert schweitzer | cat's cradle |
| robert hirst | grangerford |
| "brokeback mountain." | visually impaired |
| "the decapitated chicken," | uruguay |
| miles gloriosus | plautus |
| "augustblistering sun" | camera eye |
| "whirl of sugarboom prices." | camera eye |
| "come and kiss me. / never mind my bruises, / hug me, kiss me, suck my juices." | rossetti |
"jenny" | dante gabriel rossetti |
| "breath of my chant" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "perfume." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "the tale of the three apples" | arabic |
| "midst of stars," | rape of the lock |
| "let spades be trumps" | rape of the lock |
| "two-edged" | rape of the lock |
| chantilly | poe |
| aurora leigh | elizabeth |
| "monument more lasting than bronze." | ode |
| "victory" | ode |
| "kindness and mercy" | invasion of earth |
| "sophons" | invasion of earth |
| "long-robed philosophers," | praise of folly |
| "fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea." | rossetti |
| jimmy porter | look back in anger |
| jay mcinerey | 80s |
| letters written to | richardson |
| university of auckland | new zealand |
| katherine mansfield | garden party |
| "sublunary lovers' love" | donne |
| "any man's death diminishes [him]" | donne |
"same [one of these objects] that smiles today / to-morrow will be dying." | rose |
| "profound dull tunnel" | owen |
| "i am the enemy you killed my friend." | owen |
| "smooth as monumental alabaster" | othello |
| "the green eyed monster" | othello |
| "the wide net" | green |
| ubu | poland |
| "language of love." | hebrew |
| "donelson." | melville |
| "black smoke" | invasion of earth |
| quail | invasion of earth |
| "hodge-podge medley of speech" | praise of folly |
| "nature's dumb creatures." | praise of folly |
| "artisans," | praise of folly |
| "lazy laughing languid" | rossetti |
| gypsy ballads | lorca |
| "a fairy's child" | keats |
| frederick r. waterford | historical notes |
| wrought urn | canonization |
| lindo jong | fortune cookie |
| "bad instruction." | fortune cookie |
| "i am not that young any more" | didion |
| "the weasel, twelve monkeys and the shrub." | presidential campaign |
| "to the queen of sheba." | elegies |
| "ghazal of dark death" | lorca |
| "of politeness." | pine-apple |
| "we happy few, we band of brothers" | agincourt |
| "courtly" | love |
| two soviet | strugatsky |
| "stalkers" | strugatsky |
| roadside picnic | strugatsky |
| yevgeny zamyatin | brave new world |
| non-u.s | haiti |
| "industry" | praise of folly |
| self-love | praise of folly |
| william michael | rossetti |
| "bashful and tender" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "cedars" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| joyce kilmer | trees |
| c | poe |
| "to the depth and breadth and height / my soul can reach" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "western orb sailing the heaven." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "sleep the sleep of the apples." | lorca |
| "in the bitter sea" | lorca |
| "room iridescent with agony" | lorca |
| "fragrant zone" | keats |
| "at every jolt, the blood / come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs." | owen |
| nemean, isthmian | ode |
| "inimitable combs" | praise of folly |
| visitation zones | strugatsky |
| poligraf poligrafovich | bulgakov |
| in ti | aeschylus |
| performances of god of vengeance on broadway | obscenity |
| "grossly mistaken" | praise of folly |
| "sea-winds blown from east and west" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "call" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "fragrant pines" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| understanding fiction | warren |
| "goodbye to all that" | didion |
| "yours truly" | camera eye |
| jack absolute | pine-apple |
| "the very" | pine-apple |
| jean de meun | rose |
| "letter to the god of" | love |
| member of parliament | danvers |
| "society." | corner |
| nazruddin | naipaul |
| oskar schell | extremely loud and incredibly close |
| "terrible" | eight |
| "a modest defense of publick stews," | mandeville |
| "slow and steady" | tortoise |
| " for 10 points each: name this novel whose protagonist, in the final chapter, becomes a " | awakening |
| " for 10 points each: the awakening is a novel by this author of the short story " | chopin |
| baptist church in san francisco | tan |
| dinaw mengestu | ethiopia |
| georges perec | oulipo |
| "been assured by a very knowing american" | modest proposal |
| senator burrows | munitions |
| tristes tropiques | levi-strauss |
| misty of chincoteague | penning |
| saltwater cowboys | penning |
| sasha | orlando |
| john marr | sailor |
| " 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 |
| "mexican book" | mccarthy |
| groves of academe | mccarthy |
| candace bushnell | mccarthy |
| "van-tuy's" | in search of lost time |
| "mother tongue." | tan |
| "have not grown old" | yeats |
| "en-dim-ee-in" | keats |
| "whiter...than snow" | othello |
| "cannot admit absence." | donne |
| "in blood of innocence" | donne |
| chrysogenee | rose |
| simonides | ode |
| "wallbreakers" | invasion of earth |
| aubrey buffing | bonfire of the vanities |
| "great white defendant" | bonfire of the vanities |
| "lover by lover" | yeats |
| "paddle in the cold / companionable streams" | yeats |
| "the nineteenth autumn has come upon me / since i first made my count." | yeats |
| "encumbered sleeper" | owen |
| "of heaven." | trees |
| am legend | matheson |
| "nightmare at 20,000 feet" | matheson |
| "death ship," | matheson |
| "hearts have not" | old |
| on love | stendhal |
| count mosca | stendhal |
| gina | stendhal |
| old capital | kawabata |
| pierre de ronsard | old |
| splinter cell | clancy |
| rainbow six | clancy |
| eastern shore | misty of chincoteague |
| chincoteague bay | assateague |
| "ethiopian." | race |
| doris lessing | bend in the river |
| joe sangster | ali |
| nazneen | brick lane |
| grand isle | gulf |
| armitage | laureate |
| florence pugh | little women |
| timothee chalamet | little women |
| in marvel comics | munitions |
| stark industries | munitions |
| origin of table manners | levi-strauss |
| peek | levi-strauss |
| "lemon tarts" | bonfire of the vanities |
| filippo chirazzi | bonfire of the vanities |
| peter fallow | bonfire of the vanities |
| black tulip | dumas |
| mordaunt | dumas |
| felton | dumas |
| "the butcher cumberland" | don juan |
| "the boss," | willie |
| aleksandr tvardovsky | novy mir |
| bollingen prize | fitzgerald |
| "open-ey'd conspiracy his time doth take" | ariel |
| "hell is empty, and all the devils are here!" | ariel |
| "full fathom five thy father lies" | ariel |
| black virgin | france |
| "a mere child" | kawabata |
| "how love fled... and hid his face amid a crowd of stars" | old |
| "falling is the essence of a flower." | mishima |
| yasmin ghorami | ali |
| love marriage | ali |
| castle rackrent | countess cathleen |
| house of boxes | pearl |
| " and described " | wheatley |
| " describes how " | tempest |
| "ruth, rachel, esther, and bathsheba" | lakunle |
| marionetta | nightmare abbey |
| else lasker | blue |
| nebula awards | bend in the river |
| countess of roussillon | all's well that ends well |
| cherry lane theatre | nottage |
| toulou | nottage |
| candylady | nottage |
| "wandering over withered fields." | death |
| alms of alcippe | yourcenar |
| grace frick | yourcenar |
| varieties of disturbance | davis |
| "number 44" | stranger |
| "redux," | astraea |
| exit west | hamid |
| heliodorus | ethiopia |
| "shines" | sweden |
| scythrop in nightmare abbey | shelley |
| "little blue men" | pearl |
| an address to the atheist | wheatley |
| " referencing ariel's line " | tempest |
| ann yamanaka | woman warrior |
| julie otsuka | woman warrior |
| amal | bengali |
| celestina | fuentes |
| laguna pueblo | ceremony |
| "the uncanny" | sandman |
| "odour of chrysanthemums" | lawrence |
| "chac mool" | fuentes |
| terra nostra | fuentes |
| "white serpent" | child |
| miss toobad | nightmare abbey |
| scythrop | nightmare abbey |
| huey long | willie |
| "a horse leaping over a high fence." | open boat |
| "like reeds," | ariel |
| prospero in the tempest | ariel |
| "crystallization" | stendhal |
| clelia | stendhal |
| blu | woman warrior |
| mareech sambad | mukherjee |
| "talos." | willie |
| suyuan woo | tan |
| "lies within the shell of a cracked nut," | heart of darkness |
| michel houellebecq | france |
| moktir | france |
| "that is no country for," | old |
| "social x-rays," | bonfire of the vanities |
| farnese tower | stendhal |
| mohammed ben | france |
| biskra | france |
| "d'artagnan romances" | dumas |
| cornelius van baerle's | dumas |
| "let itself be snuffed out by an article." | don juan |
| "for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction." | don juan |
| "i want a hero: an uncommon want." | don juan |
| proud flesh | willie |
| augustan | vates |
| "happy age" | astraea |
| how to get filthy rich in rising asia | hamid |
| shehan karunatilaka | almeida |
| "just like you" | sweden |
| in christie | hastings |
| "misty halo." | heart of darkness |
| "flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil" | heart of darkness |
| bauby | count of monte cristo |
| if in alexandre dumas | dantes |
| "yet do i marvel." | cullen |
| "at spring-time" | keats |
| story of the stone | jade |
| "a tear more rare than pearl" | hair |
| "is indignant that scotland has so few trees." | johnson |
| mary richards | hadleyburg |
| "from the gold bar of heaven." | the blessed |
| national theatre | girl, woman, other |
| "man-cub" | jungle book |
| tipping the velvet | picaresque |
| bernardo soares in the book of disquiet | heteronym |
| another of pessoa | campos |
| "to feel everything in every way" | campos |
| gurnah | desertion |
| "mr. bleaney" | larkin |
| "our almost-instinct" | larkin |
| ignatius dullfeet | brecht |
| "make a poet black, and bid him sing" | cullen |
| "still can push the vision splendid to a birth." | keats |
| "worth its song." | scottsboro |
ningguo house | dream of the red chamber |
rongguo house | dream of the red chamber |
| sarah waters | picaresque |
| elieshi lema | swahili |
| "mwendo" | swahili |
| in the city | los angeles |
| aubrey burl | love's |
| singaporean ling jishi | diaries |
| ding ling | communist |
| rightist movement | communist |
| janiculum | stendhal |
| black coffee | hastings |
| sir claud amory | hastings |
| dominique bauby | diving bell and the butterfly |
| noirtier | count of monte cristo |
| the chateau d''s | dantes |
| bernardine evaristo | girl, woman, other |
| buddha of suburbia | jungle book |
| kurtz in the congo by joseph conrad | heart of darkness |
| "where the bee sucks, there suck i." | ariel |
| vernon | don juan |
| dolph pillsbury | willie |
| sadie burke | willie |
| malaciah | willie |
| "pleading child" | tan |
| "two kinds." | tan |
| auguste maquet | dumas |
| "very fiery particle" | don juan |
| leila in saint petersburg | don juan |
| haydee | don juan |
| "old leather-face," | willie |
| "half by expectation, half by inattention" | tan |
| ted jordan | tan |
| "suppression of savage customs" | heart of darkness |
| arthur shelby | george |
| "what will survive of us is love." | larkin |
| "that there were flowers also in hell." | imagism |
| rastignac | lucien |
| "a fantasia in the russian manner on english themes." | shaw |
| "noble fountain" | horace |
| "lame-footed punishment rarely forgets the wicked man" | horace |
| "shines out with its honor unstained." | horace |
| bob ford | city and the pillar |
| "the diary of miss sophie," | communist |
| madrigal | imagism |
| "god doth not need either man's work or his own gifts." | milton |
| "they also serve who only stand and wait." | patience |
| "cleanness" | patience |
| "on a day i already remember," | stone |
| "on a thursday, as today is, in autumn." | stone |
| "i recognize an ancient flame" | divine comedy |
| "raphel mai amecche zabi almi" | divine comedy |
| too loud a solitude | czech |
| reverend james morrell | shaw |
| heartbreak house | shaw |
| bandusian | horace |
| sara teasdale | bradbury |
| featherstone | bradbury |
| marguerite henry | misty of chincoteague |
| "caucasian" | race |
| william f. whyte | corner |
| "move to the right!" | thatcher |
| "the world is what it is" | naipaul |
| "icy waters" | horace |
| "a man with guts" | bradbury |
| tilita | bradbury |
| enderby quartet | four |
| raymond queneau | oulipo |
| "benediction upon the audience." | kalidasa |
| "erotic" | eight |
| "i have no children by which i can ... get a single penny." | modest proposal |
| "will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." | modest proposal |
| savage mind | levi-strauss |
| mythologiques | levi-strauss |
| jeremiah de saint-amour | love in the time of cholera |
| "i appear iridescent; my form is shining now" | cross |
| "black stone on a white stone" | bolano |
| monsieur pain | bolano |
| trilce | surrealism |
| "at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning" | wise |
| orthrus | nemean |
| droogs | burgess |
| "e unibus pluram." | wallace |
| "i thought once how theocritus had sung" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| empyrean | divine comedy |
| "build that shed out in the garden" | pinter |
| "don't let them tell you what to do!" | pinter |
| "pauses" | pinter |
| otto katz | czech |
| "big black valise that looked like the head of a hippopotamus" | grandmother |
| emmy hennings | voltaire |
| ball | voltaire |
| tofa sauni | oral |
| alfred wendt | young adult |
| leaves of the banyan tree | young adult |
| jake heke | young adult |
| "orbs of liquid grey" | italy |
| coliseum | italy |
| "look at the dew on the leaves and grass" | death |
| lady gregory | yeats |
| malay annals | epic |
| "talent and destiny are apt to feud" | vietnam |
| "white christmas" | vietnam |
| nonni | independent people |
| summerhouses | independent people |
| halldor laxness | iceland |
| "monty." | pinter |
| edgar atkins teagarden | grandmother |
| famous barbecue | grandmother |
| "nothing is funnier than" | unhappiness |
| "model plays" | eight |
| maureen beebe | misty of chincoteague |
| "a hundred and fifty different ways" | touchstone |
| in foer | holocaust |
| shaila bhave | mukherjee |
| blackmore | lawrence |
| serious money | churchill |
| pope joan | churchill |
| marlene | kitchen |
| "fox." | lakunle |
| zycron | assassin |
| richard griffen | chase |
| "speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold. for 10 points each: " | wheatley |
| " is by robert hayden, who also wrote a poem framed as a letter by this poet. this poet wrote " | wheatley |
| alex thomas | assassin |
| ygnirod | assassin |
| "sunk in sleep." | donne |
| fa mu lan | hawai'i |
| when the emperor was divine | woman warrior |
| badal sarkar | bengali |
| jon the bailiff | independent people |
| laxness | saga |
| rod serling | bet |
| "coiled" | child |
| in nightmare abbey | childe harold's pilgrimage |
| peacock | shelley |
| goodman fielder wattie award | young adult |
| once were warriors | young adult |
| hesione hushabye | shaw |
| lucius calpurnius piso | horace |
| "it is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland," | horace |
| hoodoo love | nottage |
| escape to life | erika |
| fujiwara no teishi | death |
| chanu | brick lane |
| "sing for the whole world." | independent people |
| "philebus." | orestes |
| pylades | orestes |
| "semi-moonman" | stalin |
| reluctant fundamentalist | hamid |
| "seven moons" | almeida |
| spider | christie |
| "grief" | pine |
| "like lightning dart into the nation's heart," | scottsboro |
| "immortal soul" | italy |
| wings of the dove | italy |
| "roughly 37" | wallace |
| wheelchair assassins | wallace |
| "smelfungus," | sterne |
| seven beauties | persian |
| "that fool weakling keith," | bradbury |
| deutscher | bradbury |
| gilbert durand | idol |
| vivien in the pure | colette |
| renee vivien prize | yourcenar |
| "hadleyburg" | stranger |
| "number one," | stalin |
| comparison of the two languages | persian |
| robert conquest | stalin |
| the 's skin | stalin |
| "the -eenth of marchember" | donne |
| "the triple fool" | donne |
| "sing, o muse, of the rage of achilles." | homer |
| filipino hawaiians | woman warrior |
| leslie marmon silko | ceremony |
| "offering." | sunrise |
| lucy prebble | enron |
| "sink" | kitchen |
| soselo | stalin |
| "hours." | italy |
| "i have lived too long in foreign parts" | italy |
| lost highway | wallace |
| "wonderfully and oddly hollow" | wallace |
| parson yorick | sterne |
| scyros | orestes |
| knight in the panther | stalin |
| "languishing" | marvell |
| "from zone to zone," | bryant |
| "awaken me" | paz |
| "daybreak is the face of the sun" | paz |
| "life and death are reconciled" | paz |
| "king without a kingdom" | orestes |
| "turn back think again" | stalin |
| "breaker of nations" | stalin |
| elizabeth siddal | rossetti |
| in hanif kureishi | jungle book |
| teen sensations | blume |
| "tobacco shop." | campos |
| achebe | haiti |
| narratives of empire | vidal |
| "black wires" | dark lady |
salve deus rex judaeorum | emilia lanier |
| "index entry" | davis |
| laura in il canzoniere | petrarch |
| dialogues of the courtesans | comedy |
| swedish royal dramatic theater | anna christie |
| witness for the prosecution | christie |
| "raised no cry. i wonder why." | scottsboro |
| zhiyanzhai | dream of the red chamber |
| "versions" | cheng |
| according to hesiod | nemean |
| tatwine | cross |
| five metrical feet | elegy |
| amores | ovid |
| linda hammerick | truong |
| holy sonnet ten | donne |
| "last night i dreamed i went to manderley again." | rebecca |
| "on first looking into chapman's homer" | cortes |
| a metrical foot | ovid |
| cerinthus | sulpicia |
| "indo-chinese" | truong |
| cesar vallejo | bolano |
| "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 |
| "i did not write it. god wrote it. i merely did his dictation." | beecher |
| great birnam | dunsinane |
| jair | orthrus |
| david lloyd george | skunk hour |
| margarete steffin | brecht |
| "parable play" | brecht |
| "stunted" | sea rose |
| "flung on the sand." | sea rose |
| "drip such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf." | sea rose |
| "cyriack, this three years day," | milton |
| cynewulf | cross |
| the 1911 revolution | ah q |
| "mr. strugnell" | larkin |
| "a penny for your thoughts, schopenhauer" | lowell |
| abdulrazak gurnah | tanzania |
| maria verlaine | city and the pillar |
| princess of france | love's |
| yunje | diaries |
| "91 revere street." | lowell |
| "and other extremes." | paz |
| "begotten by despair, upon impossibility," | marvell |
| thomas fairfax | marvell |
| "the definition of love" | marvell |
| "hansel and gretel" | grimm |
| in crime | police |
| nikodim fomich | police |
| petit gervais | coin |
| cinesias | lysistrata |
| myrrhine, calonice | lysistrata |
| "god si love," | passage to india |
| "in their hundred voices, 'no, not yet.'" | passage to india |
| muslim dr | passage to india |
| "god's first temples." | bryant |
| "guides through the boundless sky" | bryant |
| "whole being is sheer negative impulse, a tangle of contradictions," | paz |
| monkey king | buddha |
| levi matvei | devil |
| ivan karamazov | devil |
| "thousand sister calyxes arching" | their eyes were watching god |
| "the strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." | enemy of the people |
| morten kiil | enemy of the people |
| "the conjunction of the mind, and opposition of the stars." | marvell |
| "garlic-tavern-keepers of bakeries" | lysistrata |
| braing | rainbow |
| something happened | heller |
| in catch | chuck |
| now it can be told | breakfast of |
| sugarcandy mountain | moses |
| oreads | satyr |
| helmet of awe | fafnir |
| h. b | emily |
| canterville chase | ghost |
| otis | ghost |
| the drapier's letters | irish |
| "noone stooped to kiss his face" | cummings |
| "familiar human subjects." | goethe |
| "high english social values." | shaw |
| belmonte | bullfighter |
| when rebecca | danvers |
| sections | paz |
| "quitting... animosities" | irish |
| "when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, / the single secret will still be man." | cummings |
| "pity poor flesh and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this fine specimen of hypermagical ultraomnipotence." | cummings |
| "busy monster." | cummings |
| colonel sartoris | emily |
| professor woland in mikhail bulgakov | devil |
| a quadrillion kilometers | devil |
| helium | john |
| v | thin man |
| "appalling" | howards end |
| petey the cat | dog man |
| "radicalize their consciousness to challenge patriarchy." | harjo |
| his romantic | holderlin |
| "gate of our being" | paz |
| "lady of midnight." | paz |
| "delicious" | cold |
| city of the beasts | allende |
| "we / left school. we / lurk late. we / strike straight. we / sing sin. we / thin gin. we / jazz june. we / die soon." | we real |
| which of the fates | clotho |
| fill | food |
| tsoht | fugard |
| daiyu | flowe |
| one of wilde | salome |
| "groves," | bryant |
| "a forest hymn" | bryant |
| "certain flight." | bryant |
| "whither... dost thou pursue thy solitary way?" | bryant |
| "the innumerable caravan, who moves to that mysterious realm" | bryant |
| leafy | their eyes were watching god |
| "the garden" | marvell |
| "why can't we be friends?" | passage to india |
| "history has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues" | eliot |
| "hieronymo's mad againe" | eliot |
| "london bridge is falling down." | eliot |
| "too busy feeling grief," | their eyes were watching god |
| "the people's messenger" | enemy of the people |
| "annihilates all that's made to a green thought, in a green shade" | marvell |
| "vendors of grain-eggs-pulse-and-vegetables" | lysistrata |
| "conform the order of their lives" | bryant |
| "everlasting fields of clover" | moses |
| muriel the white goat | animal farm |
| tahng sahn-zahng | sun wukong |
| kawl | crime and |
| nih-kawff | crime and |
| koo-lee-bree | wide sargasso sea |
| meade | ring |
| "the turn of the screw." | ghost |
| abominable snowman | yeti |
| tibetan buddhism | bon |
| "thou still unravished bride of quietness, thou foster-child of silence and slow time." | grecian urn |
| "stared at the pacific" | cortes |
| brangwen | rainbow |
| sodapop | outsiders |
| "anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy." | catch-22 |
| dwayne hoover | breakfast of |
| golden cicada | buddha |
| "datta. dayadhvam. damyata" | eliot |
| "the son of evening sun." | their eyes were watching god |
| william wood | irish |
| lindalino | irish |
| "through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument." | emily |
| "a rose for" | emily |
| "not pygmalion likely!" | not bloody likely |
| annie ernaux | nobel |
| nobel laureate elfriede jelinek | rhine |
| "the sea-blooms and the oozy woods... tremble and despoil themselves." | ode to the west wind |
| "devoured alive by a rat," | irish |
| "manunkind" | cummings |
| "he was not a marrying man." | emily |
| homer barron | emily |
| "nine nines." | buddha |
| cousin lymon | ballad of the |
| joel cairo | falcon |
| nora charles | thin man |
| edward tudor | prince and the |
| adventures of ook | pilkey |
| sydney to bellingen | church |
| man group | booker |
| "bread and wine" | holderlin |
| "where the rocking billows rise and sink / on the chafed ocean side." | bryant |
| spite of himself | doctor |
| "the man with bandaged hands." | david |
| tsotsi | fugard |
| absolon | miller |
| "the miller's tale" | tub |
| new york cafe | heart is a lonely |
| heart is a lonely hunter | mccullers |
| curt lemon | vietnam |
| sunday school | paint |
| "play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do" | paint |
| no one | pirandello |
| noboru wataya | murakami |
| cavendish palace | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| utterson | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| "drive" | ode to the west wind |
| "is all that we see or seem." | dream within |
| francis jeffrey | romanticism |
| "unacknowledged legislators of the world." | romanticism |
| "at last on the cloudy river of the sky" | li |
| doctor mackenzie | bald soprano |
| "caught fire" | bald soprano |
| norman bowker | vietnam |
| paul berlin | vietnam |
| ilya petrovich | police |
| coulibri | wide sargasso sea |
| "a false sorceress" | duessa |
| "thou art more lovely and more..." | temperate |
| without a summer | darkness |
| simianshen | four |
| sih-mee-ahn-shen | four |
| "it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea." | annabel lee |
| "climb from a fried fish shop down by the mint" | shaw |
| "lament for the death of" | bullfighter |
| francisco de quevedo | gongora |
| "yogeybogeybox" | joyce |
| dakkar in the mysterious island | nemo |
| abraham lincoln in twenty thousand leagues under the seas | farragut |
| abraham van brunt | brom |
| burgos | laugh |
| lady frola | pirandello |
| "dome of a vast sepulchre" | ode to the west wind |
| "black rain, and fire, and hail will burst." | ode to the west wind |
| terza rima | ode to the west wind |
| alyona ivanova | raskolnikov |
razumikhin | crime and punishment |
| shekure | pamuk |
| judge hathorne | webster |
| "i'm leaving them there." | boot |
| amazon antiope | theseus |
| michaelis | lady |
| s. e. hinton | rumble fish |
| rusty-james | rumble fish |
| silver star | vietnam |
| going after cacciato | vietnam |
| things they carried by tim | vietnam |
| dejah thoris | john |
| casper gutman | falcon |
| lata mehra | seth |
| "has gone to be a soldier in the army of the lord." | john brown |
| "three long mountains and a wood" | infinity |
| humphrey chimpden earwicker | finnegans wake |
| la scienza nuova | finnegans wake |
| "sausage" | joyce |
| "dead thoughts over the universe." | ode to the west wind |
| "ding-dong-dong" | paint |
| ben rogers | paint |
| if you think you are | pirandello |
| boris the manskinner by lieutenant mamiya | murakami |
| richard mansfield | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| herland | perkins |
| barsoom | burroughs |
| "rahm-owe's" | diderot |
| "thumbing my nose at you know who" | bokonon |
| mount purgatory | divine comedy |
| arnold rubek | when we dead awaken |
| "the marvelous real." | hoffmann |
| "you and i can make mistakes--but not the party." | darkness at noon |
| le ly hayslip | autobiography |
| ybon | naipaul |
| in the barsoom | john |
| "i am sorry then you have so lost a father that you must lose a husband" | burgundy |
| tom driscoll | pudd'nhead wilson |
| chambers | pudd'nhead wilson |
| both oscar | booker |
| baudolino | picaresque |
| "came down and settled over me" | millay |
| "in the palm of your hand" | millay |
| "or does it" | explode |
| pale fire | nabokov |
| "sonnets on pink silk handkerchiefs." | milan |
| redcrosse knight | duessa |
| "i had a dream, which was not all a dream." | darkness |
| an artist of the floating world | ishiguro |
| "pity this busy monster, manunkind" | cummings |
| reek | salome |
| "whining and hypochondriacal" | romanticism |
| "the four ages of poetry" | romanticism |
| "rihaku" | li |
| "the stone," | bald soprano |
| clym yeobright | diamond |
| eustacia vye | diamond |
| rachel verinder | diamond |
| "drill" | malthus |
| "gradual initiation into a new unknown life" | raskolnikov |
| "gradual regeneration" | raskolnikov |
| "new story" | raskolnikov |
| "head-scarf girls." | pamuk |
| simon girty | webster |
| new hampshirite jabez stone | webster |
| "man speaking to men." | romanticism |
| esperanca in the heart of the matter | diamond |
| "ole missis" | paint |
| "genge" | pirandello |
| right you are | pirandello |
| ponza | pirandello |
| philip gabriel | murakami |
| wind/pinball | murakami |
| 50-pound | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| lanyon | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| "hang on to the innocence and turbulence and capacity for wonder" | journalism |
| hawa mahal | jaipur |
| sandstone | jaipur |
| thar | jaipur |
| "for a beaker full of the warm south" | keats |
| "mad poet" | necronomicon |
| "dreaded" | necronomicon |
| six early stories | mann |
| assault by harry mulisch | dutch |
| shukumar | 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 |
| "bring me my bow of burning gold; bring me my arrows of desire" | jerusalem |
| "ideas worth spreading." | ted |
| "confessions of a bad feminist" | adichie |
| bad feminist | adichie |
| "picasso without paint" | sinatra |
| haired woman | pamuk |
| butterfly, stork | pamuk |
| olive | pamuk |
| kadife | pamuk |
| "like a frenchman" | webster |
| killall | webster |
| "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," | romanticism |
| egdon heath | diamond |
| "hands off the mask!" | fo |
| an untamed state | adichie |
| "here at the furthest verge of earth." | prometheus bound |
| amber fort | jaipur |
| mary crawford | fanny |
| "poor relation" | mansfield park |
| manly health | whitman |
| old ones | necronomicon |
| death of the poet | lermontov |
| gruzhnitsky | lermontov |
| martin guzzlewit | dickens |
| 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 |
| "where you're madder than i am" | rockland |
| irena | when we dead awaken |
| earth changed places | autobiography |
| "are forever" | diamond |
| "a phenomenon... well known to naturalists" | ode to the west wind |
| "the trumpet of a prophecy." | ode to the west wind |
| len rix | hungarian |
| fatelessness | hungarian |
| "devour" | time |
| "industrious bee / computes its time as well as we." | garden |
| eloise wengler | salinger |
| bokonon | cat |
| in war | natasha |
| edward lloyd | dickens |
| greatest unread novelist | australia |
| miles franklin | australia |
| "where you imitate the shade of my mother." | rockland |
| "angel-headed" | hipster |
| when heaven | autobiography |
| "dark satanic mills." | jerusalem |
| many romantic | byron |
| wilbur whateley | necronomicon |
| katalin street | hungarian |
| melancholy of resistance | hungarian |
| the and satantango | hungarian |
| "annihilate[s] all that's made" | garden |
| mount mccabe | bokonon |
| encyclopedie with jean | diderot |
| seven moral tales | translation |
| nickelas nicklebery | dickens |
| both your houses | pennsylvania |
| german by daphne hardy | darkness at noon |
| "it's a wonder i haven't abandoned all my ideals." | dutch |
| "did you leave because of my attic wife." | rochester |
| "you're not allowed to have arrows." | jerusalem |
| allan quatermain | diamond |
| michael herr | vietnam |
| rat kiley | vietnam |
| ted lavender | vietnam |
| "a key that wouldn't unlock anything" | paint |
| dore bible | paint |
| "in july as in january / for the sincere friend / who gives me his hand frankly." | i cultivate a white rose |
| in a marvell | garden |
| "andromache, i think of you!" | flowers of evil |
| "all may judge" | bradstreet |
| "ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain." | bradstreet |
| john berryman | bradstreet |
| abraham liscov | hoffmann |
| "pretty eyes, pretty eyes!" | hoffmann |
| miesmies | hoffmann |
| drosselmeier | hoffmann |
| sotherton | mansfield park |
| "all voting a sort of gaming" | thoreau |
| "preston the wise" | windmill |
| visceral realists | mexico |
| bolton | lady chatterley's lover |
| zoe | nigeria |
| "through forests of symbols" | flowers of evil |
| "perfumes, colors, and sounds" | flowers of evil |
| "the dunwich horror." | necronomicon |
| dennis tedlock | popol vuh |
| father ximenez | popol vuh |
| an humorous day | chapman |
| "scenes of parisian life," | human comedy |
| rouse up | oe |
| "bronzed, lank man" | lincoln |
| "from every angle of the universe" | aleph |
| am malala | autobiography |
| shoba | interpreter of maladies |
| adele varens | rochester |
| "jesus saviour pilot me / over life's tempestuous sea." | hayden |
| inspector bertozzo | fo |
| anoosh in persepolis | satrapi |
| satrapi's persepolis | comic |
| in persepolis | god |
| "four gray walls, and four gray towers, / overlook a space of flowers" | lady of shalott |
| ellen sewell | thoreau |
| "their tax-bills." | thoreau |
| "lady jane." | lady chatterley's lover |
| "ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically." | lady chatterley's lover |
| "ceiling" | nigeria |
| "primitive tribes" | nigeria |
| raceteenth | nigeria |
| peralta | die hard |
| " for ten points each: in " | plum |
| "anatomy" | world |
| "everybody has won." | dodo |
| in the hobbit | warg |
| jeff peters | conscience in |
| heather badcock | lady of shalott |
| "burn'd like one burning flame together." | lady of shalott |
| mayotte capecia | fanon |
| am a martinican woman | fanon |
| "kawazu," | heian |
| "frog," | heian |
| "the forgetting" | concentration camp |
| "greasepaint" | heloise |
| doctor gonzo | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| jason mantzoukas | pimento |
| "ketman" | captive mind |
| czeslaw milosz | captive mind |
| "moralist" | captive mind |
| "slave of history" | captive mind |
| valentine gersbach | herzog |
| "the daughters of the late colonel" | mansfield |
| elias lonnrot | kalevala |
| "bigger thomas... is afraid, terribly afraid. but afraid of what? of himself." | fanon |
| "saw eternity the other night, like a great ring of pure and endless light." | world |
| "away in brutish london, for a hollow crown" | bradstreet |
| "solitary traveler" | mrs |
| rabo karabekian | world war ii |
| edgar derby | world war ii |
| "deep and dark unity." | flowers of evil |
| "too far from town to learn baseball" | frost |
| "simon will listen while you read a song." | bradstreet |
| "return of words," | heloise |
| rosa diaz | pimento |
| jimmy figgis | pimento |
| andre braugher | brooklyn nine-nine |
| andy samberg | brooklyn nine-nine |
| " for ten points each: name this poem, which describes breaking someone's leg while dancing in a parody by kenneth koch. this poem describes items " | this is just to say |
| " the narrator apologizes for eating these fruits, which were " | plum |
| "to his mistress going to bed." | donne |
| professor abraham van helsing | stoker |
| keating | fountainhead |
| every man in his humor with every man out of his humor | jonson |
| the and 's mirth | chapman |
| villa villekulla | pippi |
| "two friends." | franco-prussian |
| natsume soseki | i am a cat |
| black book | pamuk |
| "man passes" | flowers of evil |
| "hypocrite reader! my double! my brother!" | flowers of evil |
| "whose woods these are i think i know." | frost |
| "proportioned, spiritless poems" | bradstreet |
| "conversion." | mrs |
| sateen dura luxe | world war ii |
wallenstein trilogy | schiller |
| "archipelago" | gulag |
| mady | herzog |
| "they tell me you are wicked and i believe them." | chicago |
| "who become lost" | mexico |
| "native new england." | simon |
| "devilish" | simon |
| "helmet and the helmet-feather" | lady of shalott |
| sam staples | thoreau |
| "peaceable revolution" | thoreau |
| young men of the new age | oe |
| george hsu | queen mother |
| ge'ez | kebra nagast |
| dinesen | gothic |
intimate apparel | nottage |
| evenings at medan | franco-prussian |
| "watcher of the skies" | chapman |
| elizabeth hobbs keckley | lincoln |
| "harsh humanity" | simon |
| "i thought it would" | cheshire cat |
| edge of the wild | warg |
| andy tucker | conscience in |
| "may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm" | robot |
| gloria weston | robbie |
| "handed in his checks on the 7th december, 1850" | outcasts of |
| blind beggar of alexandria | chapman |
| 52-stanza | bradstreet |
| "sky and branches" | mrs |
| "proportion" | mrs |
| "ah, ah!" | hoffmann |
| marie stahlbaum | hoffmann |
| princess pirlipat | hoffmann |
| kater murr | hoffmann |
| patriotic gore | simon |
| "the negro and language." | fanon |
| "literary coffeehouses" | austria |
| captain raymond holt | brooklyn nine-nine |
| detective jake peralta | brooklyn nine-nine |
| pimento | brooklyn nine-nine |
| hans gruber | die hard |
| "frailty and the decay" | world |
| in a henry vaughan | world |
| "would you like to have a bag of candy and a nice ride?" | ransom of red |
| "must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law." | robot |
| poker flat | four |
| lonely hunter | georgia |
| the heart | georgia |
| white book | han |
| "the galoshes of fortune." | andersen |
| "designed to shock the whites out of their apathy" | bigger |
| journey to the center of the earth | verne |
| "a harmless drudge," | dictionary |
| "sentiments... are repressed entirely" | salammbo |
| matho | salammbo |
| "we were somewhere around barstow... when the drugs began to take hold." | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| detective peralta | die hard |
| nakatomi plaza | die hard |
| " for ten points each: koch described spraying hollycocks with lye in a parody of this author's poem " | williams |
| "spent in jail," | thoreau |
| briareus | windmill |
| benno von archimboldi | mexico |
| "pacification" | nigeria |
| "now am i free to be poetical?" | frost |
| "such heaps of broken glass... you'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen." | frost |
| "unstoried, artless, unenhanced, / such as she was, such as she would become" | frost |
alfred uhry | driving miss daisy |
| "reaping early" | lady of shalott |
| "the curse is come upon me" | lady of shalott |
| "bold sir lancelot." | lady of shalott |
| asa hawks | wise blood |
| sabbath lily | wise blood |
| "i'm not capitulating." | rhinoceros |
| stanislaus in all quiet on the western front | kat |
| nick and honey | who's afraid of |
| "small goatee" | two minutes hate |
| "deputy governor" | abigail |
| "people ride a hundred miles to see." | abigail |
| "indians smashed" | abigail |
the path to the nest of spiders | calvino |
| "reflecting gems" | richard iii |
| clarence | richard iii |
| "such depravity" | simon |
| civilians | bierce |
| according to vergil | aristaeus |
| "poppet" | abigail |
| enlace | calvino |
| wycliffe bible | book |
| "like a foggy mist" | faustus |
| i. l. peretz | yiddish |
| "b-b! ... b-b!" | two minutes hate |
| austrian emperor albert | william tell |
| "a terribly strange bed" | collins |
| walter hartright | woman in white |
| laura fairlie | woman in white |
| bright room called day | kushner |
| "o death, my captain, it is time! let us raise the anchor!" | flowers of evil |
| in the book of the heavenly cow | hathor |
| savile | wilde |
| "perverted moral judgment" | eliot |
| countess czerlaski | eliot |
| life of jesus | eliot |
scenes of clerical life | george eliot |
| "exquisite music" | greek |
| "say goodbye" | greek |
| "the god abandons antony" | greek |
| "stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley" | sleepy hollow |
| boiberik | yiddish |
| fiction department | two minutes hate |
| "on the outskirts of bikanir." | book |
| "the approach to al'mutasim." | book |
| axaxaxas mlo | book |
| "novel" | romance |
| buckingham | richard iii |
| hastings | richard iii |
| "we shall never be younger." | christopher |
| anne catherick | woman in white |
| "my kingdom for" | horse |
| maman | samedi |
| man with two left feet | wodehouse |
| paris spleen | baudelaire |
| virginia otis | wilde |
| in nordic | urd |
| george this | albee |
| "everyone had always said that john would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father." | go tell it on the |
| antilochus | memnon |
| kali yuga | kalki |
| lucilius | seneca |
| layla | persian |
| keek | shield of heracles |
| henderson the rain king | bellow |
| edward bulwer | pen |
| wen jiabao in an aravind adiga | narayan |
| balram | narayan |
| la cousine bette | balzac |
| eugene vidocq | vautrin |
| "cheat-death" | vautrin |
| "i'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" | pere goriot |
| "heartfelt story of a hapless antihero" | pnin |
| "no stone left unturned," | euripides |
| our man in havana | tiger |
| victorine | vautrin |
| since nabokov | pnin |
| "posthumous memoir" | brazil |
| after hasek | brecht |
| "kubla khan." | coleridge |
| porlock | coleridge |
| john valentine | indiana |
| harry perowne | robinson crusoe |
| general fink | svejk |
| von finkenstein | svejk |
| "i am hungry to be interrupted" | smith |
| "thoughts about the person from porlock." | smith |
| countess of pembroke | sidney |
| "is mightier than the sword." | pen |
| tappan zee | sleepy hollow |
| "jumbuck" | australia |
| "a noise that set one's teeth on edge" | two minutes hate |
| "echoes down the corridor," | abigail |
| till | memnon |
| mahj | persian |
| "when love with unconfined..." | wings |
| whittier | maud |
| "nameless battle during the revolutionary war" | sleepy hollow |
| tobias oates | australia |
| "tucker bag" | australia |
| "the reward of sin is death," | faustus |
| mephistophilis | faustus |
| "b-text" | faustus |
| rebecca taichman | yiddish |
| lady ashton | bride of |
| "invisible procession" | greek |
| castle of indolence | sleepy hollow |
| "powwows" | sleepy hollow |
| "hessian trooper" | sleepy hollow |
| uss scorpion | australia |
| "swagman," | australia |
| jack maggs | australia |
| "evangelical teaching: dr. cumming," | eliot |
| christmas yet to come | ebenezer |
| gene | separate |
| jill boardman | water |
| ben-ren-zhay | rhinoceros |
| "the best place to hide a leaf is in a forest" | book |
| combed thunderclap | book |
| "unscrupulosity of statement" | eliot |
| feuerbach | eliot |
| "a basket with ten different fruit jellies in ten little jars." | signs and symbols |
| grapes of wrath | steinbeck |
| gifted and black | hansberry |
| "the day is ours, the bloody dog is dead." | richmond |
| friday to christianity | robinson |
| cash | as i lay dying |
| "strange white flowers" | time machine |
| gaht | kenya |
| nickel boys | whitehead |
| "for of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'it might have been!" | maud |
| the , the intuitionist | whitehead |
| gabriel syme | thursday |
| briony tallis in atonement | robinson crusoe |
| "hitch-hiking" | key west |
| "she sang beyond the genius of the sea" | key west |
| fall of the city of mahagonny | brecht |
| ee-poh-leet | phedre |
| qasim | children of gebelawi |
| house for mr biswas | naipaul |
| duke frederick | as you like it |
| bridge of the requiter | chinvat |
| peloponnese | ladon |
| cycnus | shield of heracles |
| cora to the valentine | underground |
| "feel right around there and see how soft it is." | curley |
| to be young | hansberry |
| "yes and his heart was going like mad and yes i said yes i will yes." | marion |
| "the canterville ghost" | wilde |
| culver creek preparatory high school | green |
| fault in our stars | green |
| "loved chivalry, truth and honor, freedom and courtesy" | knight |
| leonora ashburnham | good soldier |
| master of ravenswood | bride of |
| "what passing-bells for these who die as [blank]?" | cattle |
| aunt florence | letter |
| majnun | persian |
| pell | ladon |
| king dahfu | henderson the rain |
| bellow | ravelstein |
| "what, but the mystery which it obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crepe so awful?" | minister's black |
| mercy lewis | abigail |
| communist red wolf | calvino |
| "the dark girl of long alley." | calvino |
| jaroslav hasek | czech |
| ruby dee | hansberry |
| "stately pleasure-dome" | porlock |
| "queer, sultry summer" | rosenberg |
| dorus | sidney |
| "old indian chief" | sleepy hollow |
| tarry town | sleepy hollow |
| nevil shute | australia |
| "sandy-haired woman" | two minutes hate |
| "opening and shutting like that of a landed fish." | two minutes hate |
| "long thin nose" | two minutes hate |
| "shovelboard" | abigail |
| "dear parents' head on a pillow" | abigail |
| hettie cohen | baraka |
| smoke and steel | chicago |
| reverend amos barton | eliot |
| essence of christianity | eliot |
| "are coming today" | greek |
| alexis zorba | greek |
| "gay castles" | sleepy hollow |
| "forever flushing round a summer sky," | sleepy hollow |
| ethel rosenberg | angels in america |
min jin lee | pachinko |
sunja | pachinko |
| richelieu | pen |
| bulwer-lytton | euripides |
| heraclidae | euripides |
| stories of vladimir nabokov | signs and symbols |
| "an aging couple... at a loss about what to do about their institutionalized son." | signs and symbols |
| ten-square-foot | japanese |
| "the terrible burden of destiny" | chicago |
| "faces of women and children" | chicago |
| "tool maker," | chicago |
| cornhuskers | chicago |
| america with grushenka | dmitri |
| "the function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle." | yeats |
| st. anthony's abbey | boll |
| "burying lamps" | twenty love poems |
| sea garden | rose |
| jakob gradus | pale fire |
| "human heart." | lady or the tiger |
| "cushioned parapet" | lady or the tiger |
| "anguished deliberation." | lady or the tiger |
| mihailov | vronsky |
| "shining." | japanese |
| "insignificant creature." | napoleon |
| "unripe peach" | banana |
| "thatched hut lacks all color" | du |
| rich white gentleman | johnson |
| "eternal union" | dostoyevsky |
| "stacker of wheat," | chicago |
| god bless you | firemen |
| model-t | firemen |
| chika unigwe | adichie |
| puzo | pere goriot |
| "beautiful word" | interloper |
| "of migration to the north." | season |
| "the terror of their neighbors, before the white men came" | achebe |
| change of world | auden |
| "carrying...a book of myths in which our names do not appear." | auden |
| "prince of tyre" | pericles |
| "bread and circuses" | juvenal |
| "has overgrown causes and effects" | grass |
| szymborska | poland |
| allie cone | satanic verses |
| colonel manly | contrast |
| maria van rough | contrast |
| "[this city] delivered." | jerusalem |
| claudine in school | colette |
| into thin air | everest |
| everest vilas | satanic verses |
| lea | colette |
| mathilde de morny | paris |
| "diamonds are a girl's best friend." | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| macon dead iii | fly |
michael frayn | copenhagen |
| "but why?" | copenhagen |
| yaa gyasi | homegoing |
| margarita in a mikhail bulgakov | master |
| "mouldy tale" | jonson |
| "silvergrass." | banana |
| "say it!" | no ideas but in things |
| "most blameless" | ulysses |
| "the sceptre and the isle." | ulysses |
"crossing the bar" | tennyson |
| "realist with wings." | atwood |
| "wait-and-get" | photo |
| de stael's | stendhal |
| "horses neighing and snorting" | du |
| "find pleasure in the spilling of blood" | dostoyevsky |
| karamazov | dmitri |
| past nine | boll |
| "linguistic and moral destruction." | grass |
| "as a weapon i may be of some use. but as a man, i'm a wreck," | vronsky |
| makhotin | vronsky |
| gladiator | vronsky |
| "idiotic" | interloper |
| "lying in a hammock" | rich |
| rotimi | photo |
| "a farewell to tobacco" | lamb |
| "that's a fine death!" | napoleon |
| queen yaruga | pale fire |
| "harder it is to answer," | lady or the tiger |
| rex mottram | waugh |
| wetstein | werther |
| "hysterical pregnancy" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "conceptism." | spain |
| corinne | color purple |
| "deputation of five strangers" | lady or the tiger |
| assassination of margaret thatcher | mantel |
| "younger men... and children... women... birds." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| pedro calderon | spain |
| de la barca | spain |
| "sister's choice" | color purple |
| georgia to god | color purple |
| "crosses of fire" | twenty love poems |
| "bed of crimson joy." | rose |
| niels | copenhagen |
| "by the pricking of my thumbs" | something wicked this way comes |
| "who watches the watchmen?" | juvenal |
| " but is better known as " | wallace |
| goop cruise | mccarthy |
| "going to" | america |
| victoria noorthoorn | yeats |
| "the host of the beast" | boll |
| "a spider, trying to hide" | twenty love poems |
| "one who wastes her time and me." | rose |
| "red sox beat yanks 5-4 on chapman's homer" | pale fire |
john shade | pale fire |
| "the more we reflect upon," | lady or the tiger |
| "semi-barbaric" | lady or the tiger |
| kitty shcherbatsky | vronsky |
| "the flowing river never stops, and yet the water never stays the same." | japanese |
| "how dull it is to pause / to make an end." | ulysses |
| "pined away." | goblin market |
| minister of the left | japanese |
| "embarrassing things" | japanese |
| "pleasant things." | japanese |
| "crowd of hungarians" | chicago |
| "brutal" | chicago |
| e. l. doctorow's ragtime | firemen |
| royall tyler | contrast |
| dimple | contrast |
| "malapropisms" | sheridan |
| colette | paris |
| anita loos | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| sonezaki by chikamatsu monzaemon | love |
| margrethe bohr | copenhagen |
| "lift every voice and sing." | johnson |
| life of napoleon | stendhal |
| battle of waterloo in the charterhouse of parma | stendhal |
| "disgusting" | banana |
| nanmu | du |
| "lot's wife." | szymborska |
| farishta | satanic verses |
| horner | shakespeare |
| mercy otis warren | american revolution |
| gas heart | tzara |
| "so various, so beautiful, so new" | dover |
| " 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 |
| saddest story | world war i |
| kriesler | hoffmann |
| frank lentricchia | close |
| aldo leopold | sand county almanac |
| "the battle of the ants." | walden |
| "[this object] of the sea," | donkey |
| "you could give back [this thing] to [this thing]." | donkey |
| western flyer | steinbeck |
| sea of cortez | steinbeck |
| tod hackett | los angeles |
| in nguyen | drug |
| "o tite tute, tati tibi tanta tyranne tulisti" | alliteration |
| "oh tee-tay, too-tay, tah-tee, ti-bee tahn-tah, tee-rahn-eh, too-list-ee" | alliteration |
| comedy in the contrast | sheridan |
| holy city | jerusalem |
| lorelei lee | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| man who loved love by iharu seikaku | floating world |
| "old time is still a-flying." | donkey |
jimenez | donkey |
| " in a 2023 harper's essay about going on a goop cruise. for 10 points each: name this author whose own harper's essay on the cruise industry was originally published as " | wallace |
| shipping out | wallace |
| "keg of beer and an accordion" | chicago |
| "as a young man laughs," | chicago |
| lord marchmain | waugh |
| "what is [this substance]?" | grass |
| "house of god." | leopard |
| in jon krakauer | everest |
| everest | satanic verses |
| john vanbrugh | shakespeare |
| "tangling shadows" | twenty love poems |
| "the atlas of your body." | twenty love poems |
| "lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind." | rose |
| "beds of" | rose |
| "while ye may." | rose |
| charles kinbote | pale fire |
| "devious mazes of passion" | lady or the tiger |
| whodunnit | shaffer |
| "a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community." | sand county almanac |
| "cultured" | spain |
| mayor of zalamea | spain |
| araucaniad | spain |
| "yellow dress" | color purple |
| celie addresses | color purple |
| "bergin and water." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "mister" | color purple |
| elizabeth peabody | buddhism |
| "melange" | drug |
| "the fairest of maidens" | heine |
| "golden comb." | heine |
| "beach" | dover |
| crossroads | franzen |
| english review | ford |
| " 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 |
| giovanna | aunt |
| miss inamura | crane |
| "it has not arrived" | dickens |
| "whoso list to hunt, i know where is an hind." | wyatt |
| where are you | rooney |
| thomas schell | 9/11 |
| "destroy the love she shares with count vronsky - and head for the train tracks." | karenina |
| "a case for reparations." | atlantic |
| dan kois | 1980 |
| "millennium approaches" | 1980 |
| big man | naipaul |
| this indo-trinidadian | naipaul |
| magrath sisters | 1980 |
| crimes of the heart | 1980 |
| "oral history" | 1980 |
| babe | 1980 |
| "land ethic" | sand county almanac |
| lying life of adults to english | italian |
| beautiful world | rooney |
"like adamant draw mine iron heart." | holy sonnets |
| "betray'd to endless night," | holy sonnets |
miguel street | naipaul |
| beth henley | 1980 |
| isaac butler | 1980 |
| clack the rattlebug | gaiman |
| american gods | gaiman |
| "thou." | jug of wine |
| "a moment's monument" | pre-raphaelite |
| house of life | pre-raphaelite |
| "moon's / spotlight, banking on the miracle of sun" | lawrence |
| farther away | franzen |
| "on random sheets of waste paper" | hoffmann |
| avignon on good friday in an italian | laura |
| "was a damaged person who deserved nothing." | rooney |
| my year of rest | 9/11 |
| "jealous nature" | karenina |
| "the remedy." | drug |
| in a heine | doppelganger |
| golyadkin | doppelganger |
| heine | midsummer night's dream |
| cristoph martin wieland | dario |
| first lady eva peron | argentina |
| "the wazir and the sage duban" | genies |
| "the fisherman and the genie" | one thousand and one nights |
| "crouch" | lioness |
| "men," | chorus |
| town in an amos tutuola | three |
| francis villon | ballad |
| "my name is not nobody!... learn, you bloody tyrants, that men can still think." | odyssey |
| arrivants | brathwaite |
| island with fugard | kani |
| "herr god, herr lucifer." | lazarus |
| "you are pithy and historical as the roman forum." | colossus |
| "the new [this figure]." | colossus |
| five great epics | three |
| blind billy blue | odyssey |
| une tempete | caliban |
| antigone in ghana | brathwaite |
| "sycorax video style" | brathwaite |
| dahish | city of brass |
| "have made this crying sound" | reed |
| kinesias | lack |
| "old women." | chorus |
| "ay-may sez-ehr's" | caliban |
| "m, o, a, i." | twelfth night |
| english for the dial | buddhism |
| japhy rider | buddhism |
| atta troll | midsummer night's dream |
| "music of the spheres." | scipio |
| mason tarwater | violent bear it away |
| violent bear it away | o'connor |
| "love shall be our token, / love be yours and love be mine." | carols |
| armgart | schiller |
| bride of messina | schiller |
| amalia von edelreich | schiller |
| sunshine | shipping news |
| quoyle | shipping news |
| when izanami | yomi |
| grim | geirrod |
| alexandra bergson | carl |
| johnny goodboy tyler | hubbard |
| hans castorp by thomas mann | magic mountain |
| "the flawed bell" | baudelaire |
| boy willietries | wilson |
| seven guitars | wilson |
| "under his eye." | handmaid |
| aunts at rachel | handmaid |
| "no hopeful verse" | hawthorne |
| t. e. hulme | imagist |
| antiope | amazon |
| helen carey | of human bondage |
| second witch | something wicked |
annie proulx | the shipping news |
| "iron horse" | things fall apart |
| ojiugo | things fall apart |
| "big shoulders" | chicago |
| in walcott | odyssey |
| born to slow horses | brathwaite |
| bani adam for a nowruz | translation |
| "it's best to cut conversation short, say good-bye, and leave." | reed |
| myrrhine | lack |
unoka | things fall apart |
| reform club in london | around the world in |
| "one next himself in power, and next in crime." | beelzebub |
| ambrose bierce in the mexican revolution | old gringo |
| irs in operation snow white | hubbard |
| psychlos | hubbard |
| "schoolboy" | wilson |
| wandering jew | hawthorne |
| owen warland | hawthorne |
| "the artist of the beautiful" | hawthorne |
| "battle police." | farewell to arms |
| elstir | in search of lost time |
| "who? who?" | disraeli |
| second reform act | disraeli |
| sybil | disraeli |
| reverend smith | things fall apart |
| "yermolay and the miller's wife" | turgenev |
| arkadiy | turgenev |
| "it's us" | old gringo |
| paul sheldon in misery | king |
| jack torrance in the shining | king |
| "on turning her up in her nest with the plough, november, 1785" | mouse |
matthew maule | the house of the seven gables |
| amy lowell | imagist |
| sally athelny | of human bondage |
| experience showing the two contrary states of the human soul | songs of innocence |
| sword in the stone | arthur |
| lissoy | deserted village |
| mount salus | optimist's |
| no country for old men by cormac mccarthy | texas |
| bud korpenning | manhattan transfer |
| "the middle way is safest" | phaethon |
| nek-hul-yoo-dawff | tolstoy |
| "perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries" | library of babel |
| emma lazarus | colossus |
| "break, blow, burn, and make me new." | holy sonnets |
| council room of the continental principalities | 1980 |
| eshuoro | soyinka |
| "alive and coarse and strong and cunning." | chicago |
| "lilith" | magic mountain |
| naphta | magic mountain |
| "old soldier watching from his tent." | baudelaire |
| leah centers | handmaid |
| floyd barton | wilson |
| sidley park | stoppard |
| "the a.b. memoirs," | handmaid |
| "nolite te bastardes carborundorum" | handmaid |
| on the use of the chorus in tragedy | schiller |
| father huismans | naipaul |
| world only spins forward | 1980 |
| "a little world made cunningly." | holy sonnets |
| mount judge | pennsylvania |
| raymond chandler | philip |
| the trial and the castle | kafka |
| "hay-uh-rot" | beowulf |
| "god will give him blood to drink." | house of the seven |
| "we are not a school of painters." | imagist |
| volsung and hljod | sigmund |
| eurymedon | iapetus |
| "hope is both the earliest and most indispensible virtue inherent in the state of being alive" | erikson |
| cheh | maya |
"kisses are a better fate than wisdom" | cummings |
| when joel chandler harris | remus |
| "to make much of time" | virgin |
| vanita | wee willie winkie |
| dmitri ivanovich nekhlyudov | tolstoy |
| dobbin | piano |
| guenevere | lancelot |
| irene adler | sherlock holmes |
| twin snakes | mario |
| cappy | mario |
| bezdomny | master and margarita |
| kongi's | soyinka |
| stagnationand intimacy | erikson |
| "identity crisis." | erikson |
| marie arouet | voltaire |
| "are gone to praise god and his priest and king who make up a heaven of our misery" | chimney |
| "wart" | arthur |
| "and death i think is no parenthesis." | since feeling is firs |
| "corinna's going a maying" | herrick |
| lord chancellor | more |
| the boys | syracuse |
| brazil by guilherme | haiku |
| "never lost a battle" | chicago |
| mawl | geirrod |
| myantonia | cather |
| fay | texas |
| congo jake | manhattan transfer |
| poseidon impregnated medusa | chrysaor |
"schemes of mice and men" | burns |
| "go oft awry" | best-laid |
| "the virtuoso's collection," | hawthorne |
| don manuel | schiller |
| roller | schiller |
| schweizer | schiller |
| chartist movement | disraeli |
master of go | kawabata |
| "effeminate," | things fall apart |
| "stormy, husky, brawling" | chicago |
| "love rectangle" | eliot |
| hetty sorrel | eliot |
| joseph anton | rushdie |
| 400-acre | gordimer |
| "a little stillness dancer," | heaney |
| big jim evans | heaney |
| "astronomer-poet of persia" | khayyam |
| "iron youth" | all quiet on the western front |
| "plunge and expire." | leaves |
| "some realms i owned, two rivers, a continent" | bishop |
| "three loved houses" | key west |
| oroonoko in a thomas southerne | behn |
| "we will not anticipate the past" | sheridan |
| ennead | heliopolis |
| "the song of destruction" | nazrul |
| james gibbons huneker | slam |
| "you and i would have to be so changed" | nora |
| "i can receive nothing from a stranger." | nora |
| for colored girls | public theater |
| topdog/underdog | public theater |
| shuidiao getou | song |
| "riverside city" | moon |
| in the plague | beach |
| vinteuil with odette | proust |
| "time passes" | to the lighthouse |
| "the pomegranate" | kawabata |
| kimiko | kawabata |
| shusai | kawabata |
| when pi | banana |
| "aj srishti shukher ullashe" | nazrul |
| "big boy leaves home" | uncle tom's children |
| lulamae barnes | holly |
| "the great lawsuit" | fuller |
| essays and poems | fuller |
| "starry" | billy budd |
| "the ribs and terrors in the whale" | melville |
| squire booby | fielding |
| "for the union dead." | lowell |
| "skunk hour" | lowell |
| thomas melvill | leaves |
| "what's to become of me?" | shaw |
| louise crane | key west |
| pauline pfeiffer hemingway | key west |
| stephen spender | duino elegies |
| al-masalla | heliopolis |
| tengo kawana | 1q84 |
| franz kafka prize | murakami |
| temple of my familiar | walker |
| "reverberated across the roof of the world." | slam |
| "part or particle of god." | transcendental |
| "the oozy weeds about me twist." | billy budd |
| the 's window | hansberry |
| moderato cantabile | duras |
| the lover | duras |
| joseph andrews | fielding |
| "yield their names to the element" | confederate |
| "savage as wild beasts," | odyssey |
| "it's eating my head" | maupassant |
| dolorous guard | lancelot |
| "i remember you dead" | pinter |
gus (hitman) | the dumbwaiter |
| spooner | pinter |
| lou albano | mario |
| pauline | mario |
| "shut her up in a sepulchre." | annabel lee |
| letter concerning toleration | locke |
| "it was a hard blow" | heaney |
| "in the crowding darkness, not a word did they say" | brooks |
| "with the beatles" | akutagawa |
| "some of these days" | nausea |
| "the viy" | ivan |
| "quarrel" | ivan |
| "the catbird seat" | thurber |
| "death is the mother of beauty," | stevens |
| "picker-up of learning's crumbs" | browning |
| "sex and temperament in three primitive societies." | mead |
| "the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth" | mead |
| "be ashamed that i, too, am, america." | hughes |
| "winged seraphs of heaven" | annabel lee |
| "a wind blew out of a cloud" | annabel lee |
| tamaki | softball |
| kuh-poh-tee | breakfast at tiffany |
| matthew cuthbert | anne |
| in the color purple | shug |
| "in the darbies" | billy budd |
| "hardly a man is now alive who remembers." | longfellow |
| grandeurthe windhover | hopkins |
| erwin martin | thurber |
| nepommuck | shaw |
| "where are the days of tobias" | angel |
| j. b. leishman's | duino elegies |
| roscius | lord chamberlain |
| "indited to dinner." | nell |
| "back-us" | dionysus |
| geb and nut | shu |
| "into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country [this word]." | awake |
| "passed the school, where children strove at recess, in the ring" | because i could not stop for death |
| "life is too much like a pathless wood" | frost |
| "each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." | raven |
| "thou mastering me god! giver of breath and bread," | hopkins |
| ulgine barrows | thurber |
| lady carlotta | saki |
| independence day | welty |
| "karshish, the arab physician" | browning |
| right stuff | wolfe |
| "tangerine flake" | college |
| "small electric" | moon |
| "you have to be always drunk." | spleen |
| in carter | world war i |
| wandering stars | orange |
| tony loneman | orange |
| massolit | master and margarita |
| "spherical fruits" | library of babel |
| photos by ara guler | prague |
| "and the city." | prague |
| "of things past." | prague |
| germinal in the rougon | zola |
| garland, polokov | czech |
| 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 |
| diary of a superfluous man | ivan |
| colonel shaw | lowell |
| soares | robinson |
| rickshaw boy | cat |
| jane porter | haggard |
| "say goodbye to her, to" | antony |
| kindred | time travel |
| lauren | time travel |
| "alejandro nebuchadnezzar." | president |
| dreams from my father | president |
| hobhouse | don juan |
| "lessons in living." | not speak |
| "marriage a la mode" | mansfield |
| in octavia butler | time travel |
| "far finer language than spanish." | borges |
| the matchmaker | wilder |
| gods are not to blame | oedipus |
| ojuola | oedipus |
| "the company of wolves." | carter |
| "the lady of the house of love," | world war i |
| big oakland powwow | orange |
| junior in the absolutely true diary of a part | alexie |
| time indian | alexie |
| la mere | figaro |
| ngugi wa mirii | marriage |
| caprona in the land that time forgot | haggard |
| edgar rice burroughs | haggard |
| u-33 | haggard |
| thebaid | statius |
| "i am [this sort of] man." | sincere |
| anthills of the savannah | achebe |
| "what [this author] doesn't know about modern architecture." | wolfe |
| "hoary cripple." | browning |
| "i will arise and go now, and go to innisfree..." | yeats |
| harriet vane | wimsey |
| whose body | wimsey |
| "just because you are a great nobleman, you think you are a great genius" | figaro |
| jurgis rudkus by upton sinclair | jungle |
| momma | not speak |
| "when i want." | marriage |
| "cogito ergo sum." | descartes |
| geometry | descartes |
| "a scandal in bohemia" | sherlock holmes |
| metal gear solid | mario |
| l'argent and l'assommoir | rougon |
| motivos de son | hughes |
| "kandy kolored" | college |
| george barris | college |
| the flies and nausea | sartre |
| "the old marrieds" | brooks |
| second company | all quiet on the western front |
| himmelstoss | all quiet on the western front |
| eumaeus | odyssey |
| "belhomme's beast" | maupassant |
| copper knight | lancelot |
| "christ follows dionysus" | pound |
| bertha flowers | not speak |
| edward malone | doyle |
| kala | haggard |
| "unlimited but periodic" | library of babel |
| "honoured sir." | locke |
| "tabula rasa." | locke |
| golden house | rushdie |
| "[the title animals] and death" | sartre |
| ed roth | college |
| odewale in ola rotimi | oedipus |
| sylvain bemba | black |
| reservation blues | alexie |
| murder must advertise | wimsey |
| "wagnerian" | swan |
| pilgrimage to john hobhouse | byron |
| walter gilkyson | oil |
| "the blackbird of glanmore" | heaney |
| in treatise on demonstration of problems in algebra | khayyam |
| mirah lapidoth | eliot |
| recluse | wordsworth |
| joyous guard | lancelot |
| meleagant | lancelot |
| "his true penelope was flaubert" | pound |
| mike tyson | mario |
| "the oral history of a nuclear disaster." | chernobyl |
| frank boas | mead |
| "places with no carpet on the floor" | hughes |
| "i was a child and she was a child" | annabel lee |
| virginia clemm | annabel lee |
| "i will write it out in a verse, --macdonagh and macbride, connolly and pearse" | yeats |
| "phoebus." | esmeralda |
| "football in the first year of man'en" | oe |
| nazi germany in dragon | lanny |
| bunny ross | oil |
| "loyal subjects," | cap |
| in zadie smith | jamaica |
| josey wales | jamaica |
| "alyson from bath into alvita from willesden" | chauce |
| windhoveri | hopkins |
| unwomanly face | alexievich |
| femi osofisan | antigone |
| red queen in through the looking | alice |
| "the bloody chamber." | carter |
| "the lady, or [this animal]?" | tiger |
| "the other tartuffe." | figaro |
| coupable | figaro |
| "glorious rays and light" | swan |
| "a mere-copy book." | lamb |
| russian golden age | hero of our time |
| volkh | bogatyr |
| " was written by this southern gothic author of stories like " | o'connor |
| "go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog" | revelation |
| "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." | lorde |
| "philippine temptation" | twain |
| roughing it | twain |
| "the squat pen rests" | beowulf |
| theofraste | wife of bath |
| "the singer" | jamaica |
| "arch." | proscenium |
| " after stating, " | dapple |
| " exemplifies his " | stress |
| "usher ii" | mars |
| ylla | mars |
| johan van heemskerk | arcadia |
| "diamonds and toads" | perrault |
| "the last days of john brown." | thoreau |
| kathy | never let me go |
| el llano en llamas | rulfo |
| yo boing | puerto rico |
| "over the river and through the woods." | child |
| "from the castle walls, but from counting houses." | mantel |
| hunger angel | muller |
| de almeida | haiku |
| equiano | douglass |
| ilya muromets | bogatyr |
| "biomythography" | zami |
| carlos bulosan | great depression |
| "hasped and hooped and hirpling," | heaney |
| heaneywulf in a london | heaney |
| sulpicia | satire |
| "there lives the dearest freshness deep down things," | hopkins |
| " for 10 points, name this jesuit poet of " | hopkins |
| "green freedom of the cockatoo upon a rug." | stevens |
| "i taste a liquor never brewed." | dickinson |
| roger | lord of the flies |
| kurt tucholsky | castle |
| wife of willesden | jamaica |
| with august falck | proscenium |
| "will be at the table/when company comes" | hughes |
| room 101 | 1984 |
| "love that was more than love" | annabel lee |
| court of miracles | esmeralda |
| "lovely stars" | longfellow |
| "roof was scarcely visible, the cornice but a mound," | because i could not stop for death |
| "get away from earth awhile." | frost |
| "be embraced, millions!" | schiller |
| cootings machine | klara and the sun |
| hailsham | never let me go |
| an appeal in favor | child |
| "naif" | holden |
| international booker | english |
| "inebriate of air" | dickinson |
| democrat cornudet | maupassant |
| "where there ain't no light." | hughes |
| irina dumitrescu | heaney |
| headley | heaney |
| "soul is marching on." | brown |
| henry shackleford | mcbride |
| "little onion" | mcbride |
| earth grocery store | mcbride |
| de maintenon | three musketeers |
| "af" | klara and the sun |
| " for 10 points each: hopkins' phrase " | stress |
| tamara | invisible cities |
| "thund'ring noise" | burn |
| jobling | spontaneous combustion |
| esther summerson | bleak house |
| sister outsider | lorde |
| ambroise phillips | ode to aphrodite |
| "menippean" | satire |
| mrs lovett | sweeney |
| michael verancius | wedding |
| "phony" | holden |
| jenny erpenbeck | english |
| klamm | castle |
| land of green plums | muller |
| "colloquial flow" | chauce |
| falck | maeterlinck |
| "a carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers." | zami |
| "to die is to rest" | philippines |
| good lord bird | mcbride |
| athalie | racine |
| josie | klara and the sun |
| class of americans called africans | child |
| giving up the ghost | mantel |
| hilary mantel | wolf hall |
| falconthe windhover | hopkins |
| falconsprung | stress |
| belarusian nobel | alexievich |
| voices of utopia | alexievich |
| romelio ureta | death |
| classic slave narratives | douglass |
| "superfluous man" | hero of our time |
| guppy | spontaneous combustion |
| "complacencies of the peignoir." | stevens |
| "petrified man" | welty |
| pike | welty |
| petrie | welty |
| timon of athens | shakespeare |
| ") [10e] this author wrote " | wheat |
| zadok the priest | handel |
| ode for the birthday of queen anne | handel |
| lois lane | superman |
| "to every middlesex village and farm." | longfellow |
| "sorry he could not travel both" | frost |
| "unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster." | raven |
| "daughter of elysium." | schiller |
| amalia | schiller |
| red barber | thurber |
| "casual flock of pigeons" | stevens |
| "picaro" | lazarillo de tormes |
| "sitting in a tin can" | tom |
| "tell my wife i love her very much- she knows!" | tom |
| "ready to kill" | sandburg |
| "when the warrior returns" | key |
| "anacreon in heaven" | key |
| hms tonnant | key |
| bud collyer | superman |
| saint-cyr | racine |
| martinique | three musketeers |
| never let me go | ishiguro |
| ciudad seva | puerto rico |
| "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 |
| "demon barber of fleet street" | sweeney |
| rhetoric of fiction | unreliable narrator |
| "tease us out of thought," | keats |
| countess cathleen | yeats |
| "the ceremony of innocence is drowned." | yeats |
| aleel | yeats |
| "a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it." | citizen kane |
| harpagon | miser |
| ratatosk | eagle |
| mistress higgins | scarlet letter |
| "people of israel, listen to all the laws that i am giving you today." | deuteronomy |
| "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 |
| "cruel and sudden" | donne |
| "kill my style/and you break pavlowa's legs/and you blind ty cobb's batting eye." | sandburg |
| "....seen your painted women and the gas lamps luring the farm boys." | sandburg |
| " and includes a description of the " | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| forbidden city the | grand canal |
| "determined to prove a villain" | richard iii |
| mose porter | iceman cometh |
| news on the march | citizen kane |
| jerry thompson | citizen kane |
| elise and cleante | miser |
| black man | scarlet letter |
| "the sailor uncle" | lamb |
| "the changeling" | lamb |
| hannibal hamlin | madison |
| girl with a watering can | renoir |
| "i saved latin. what did you ever do?" | rushmore |
| "of the progress of the soul." | donne |
| "prairie years" | sandburg |
| " for 10 points each: name this collection which includes " | leaves of grass |
| " for 10 points each: this american poet wrote the collection leaves of grass, which also includes " | whitman |
| "bottled spider." | richard iii |
| "now is the winter of our discontent / made glorious summer by the son of york." | richard iii |
| "bound with garlands of her own" | keats |
| "supperless to bed ... must retire." | keats |
| eve of st | keats |
| "bedrock bar, the end of the line cafe...the last harbor." | iceman cometh |
| larry slade | iceman cometh |
| "no trespassing" | citizen kane |
| jim leland | citizen kane |
| "merry war" | beatrice |
| rutabaga stories | sandburg |
| "western sky in the night." | lincoln |
| "the ship is anchor'd safe" | lincoln |
| "they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning." | lincoln |
| " and a poem that celebrates a " | leaves of grass |
| " titled " | leaves of grass |
| " for 10 points each: this other whitman poem begins " | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| "dull rhymes" | keats |
| organ | tartuffe |
| hun hanahpu | hero twins |
| xquic | hero twins |
| lusiads | portugal |
| "beneath the myrtle shade." | maecenas |
| first sinojapanese war | shimonoseki |
| "he never did a thing so very bad / he don't know why he isn't quite as good / as anyone. he won't be made ashamed / to please his brother, worthless though he is." | death of the hired man |
| "he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across / and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, 'good fences make good neighbors.'" | mending wall |
| "cousin bridget" | lamb |
| "] (the poem is " | wheat |
| "anybody interested in grabbing a couple of burgers and hittin' the cemetery?" | royal tenenbaums |
| spoon river anthology | lincoln |
| "great star" | lincoln |
| clarence in the tower of london | richard iii |
| "old foolosopher," | iceman cometh |
| joe mott | iceman cometh |
| kingsley amis in colonel sun | bond |
| mickey goldmill | rocky |
| "do it! do it!" | rorshach |
| "let's go exploring!" | calvin |
| tracer bullet | calvin |
| flight of the conchords | tom |
| tim tebow | tom |
| "the bow and the lyre." | paz |
| late mattia pascal | pirandello |
| doctor hinkfuss | pirandello |
| tonight we improvise | pirandello |
| addio | pirandello |
| manly pointer | o'connor |
| lord munodi | lemuel |
| kirilov | dostoyevsky |
| measure of the soul | augustine |
| "what passing bells for doomed youth? / only the monstrous anger of the guns" | owen |
| "suicide in the trenches." | sassoon |
| keneally | schindler |
| "thou hast committed fornication: but that was in another country" | portrait of a lady |
| "man of steel." | superman |
| "down on lennox avenue," | hughes |
| valeria | lolita |
| journey to parnassus | cervantes |
| "down under" | australia |
| "my self-possession gutters" | portrait of a lady |
| pavel kirsanov | fathers and sons |
| killing joke | moore |
| "the vorpal blade went snicker-snack." | jabberwock |
| tyger | symmetry |
| bill singleman | death of a salesman |
| "would prefer not to," | melville |
| after job | boil |
| egyptians in the book of exodus | boil |
| before elihu | eliphaz |
| japhy ryder in the dharma bums | kerouac |
| bocaccio | decameron |
| permanent income hypothesis | friedman |
| caucasus mountains | south ossetia |
| abkhazia | south ossetia |
| in through the looking glass | walrus |
| "the jungle is dark, but full of diamonds," | death of a salesman |
| ned rosier | portrait of a lady |
| "the lady of shallot" | tennyson |
| tom in the glass menagerie | amanda |
| cleanser of the altars | pig |
| ralph in lord of the flies | pig |
| "the father of science fiction" | welles |
| jones in animal farm | pig |
| spirit of reason | inferno |
| mad hatter in wonderland | alice |
| "i knew a simple soldier boy / who grinned at life in empty joy" | sassoon |
| pansy | portrait of a lady |
| margaret garner | morrison |
| saint vaivaswata | vishnu |
| churning of the milky ocean | vishnu |
| north american plate | aleutian |
| judge brack | hedda |
| "no one shall sleep" | nessun dorma |
| "dappled things" | hopkins |
| ejlert lovberg | hedda |
| lucy sacheverell | lovelace |
| the and the memorandum | havel |
| antananarivo | madagascar |
| new frontiersman | rorshach |
| alan moore | rorshach |
| "there are no rules." | calvin |
| "junkie, strung out in heavens high, hitting an all time low." | tom |
| "ashes to ashes" | tom |
| "the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth," | sandburg |
| "on the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep." | key |
| halicarnassus | herodotus |
| big endians | lemuel |
| shatov | dostoyevsky |
| reconsiderations | augustine |
| monica | augustine |
| goldeneye estate | bond |
| gettler | bond |
| onion | decameron |
| "dog carcass in alley... tire tread on burst stomach." | rorshach |
| chekov | gun |
| beat | on the road |
| democracy and education | dewey |
| art as experience | dewey |
| godot | beckett |
| noble prize in medicine | pavlov |
| "song offering." | gitanjali |
| joseph k. the trial | kafka |
| death god | quetzalcoatl |
| neal cassady | dean |
| accelerating inflation rate of unemployment | friedman |
| georgi abalishi | brecht |
| good person of schezuan | brecht |
| snake woman | quetzalcoatl |
| "be my mirror, my sword and shield" | viva la vida |
| "reflex from a distance." | pavlov |
| "papers want to know what shirts he wears" | tom |
| "space oddity." | tom |
| jermaine | tom |
| mystery garage | tracy |
| jenna maroney | tracy |
| grizz | tracy |
| "to the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng" | key |
| "custom is king of all." | herodotus |
| manichaeism to the christianity | augustine |
| "the bitch is dead." | bond |
| tony gazzo | rocky |
| sylvester stallone | rocky |
| watchmen | rorshach |
| spaceman spiff | calvin |
| peter schilling | tom |
| "coming home" | tom |
| "ianthe," | byron |
| akutagawa prize | japan |
| "i used to rule the world." | viva la vida |
| happy days | beckett |
| "who" | lemuel |
| nyms | lemuel |
| aglaya | dostoyevsky |
| smyerdakov | dostoyevsky |
| " for 10 points each: stein is credited with coining this term for the generation that came of age during world war i. writers considered to be part of this " | lost |
| chanticleer | the canterbury tales |
| kara sea to the kazakh steppes | ural |
| "floodtide below me!" | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| "you furnish your parts towards eternity." | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| job | eliphaz |
| polly peachum | brecht |
| ironshirts | brecht |
| "faultless painter" | browning |
| "a host of golden daffodils." | wordsworth |
dirty hands | sartre |
| "schoolteacher" | beloved |
| "the jealous extremaduran" | cervantes |
| georg bendemann | kafka |
| nastassya | dostoyevsky |
| city of god | augustine |
| salamis | herodotus |
| george reeves | superman |
| compeyson | great expectations |
| jaggers | great expectations |
| "let the rain kiss you" | hughes |
| sampson carrasco | cervantes |
| "meeting at night" | browning |
| "and yet, god has not said a word!" | browning |
| "creep-o" | rocky |
| "gonna fly now" | rocky |
| "yo, adrian!" | rocky |
| "i am pagliacci." | rorshach |
| "smartest man in the morgue" | rorshach |
| "very scary" | calvin |
| bill watterson | calvin |
| "yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again." | sandburg |
| "april rain song." | hughes |
| beardsley school for girls | lolita |
| golden helmet of mambrino | cervantes |
| shawshank redemption | king |
| "bitch" | bond |
| "the living daylights" | bond |
| le chiffre in casino royale | bond |
| leslie knope | bridge to terabithia |
| "look homeward, angel" | milton |
| man who had all the luck | miller |
| "unscrew the locks from the doors! / unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" | song of myself |
| "poet of the soul." | song of myself |
| "i stop somewhere waiting for you" | song of myself |
| "roofs of the world." | song of myself |
| "may be from below," | emerson |
| "what do i know?" | emerson |
| steve deever | miller |
| cloudcuckooland | birds |
| land of nod | enoch |
| zac efron | lorax |
| "speaks for the trees" | lorax |
| cat in the hat | seuss |
| "on the morning of christ's nativity." | milton |
| licensing order | milton |
| "you ever ate a chicken that was two days old?" | o'connor |
"under this dark sycamore," | tintern abbey |
| communist hugo | sartre |
| oberlin college | beloved |
| "mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you" | lindsay |
| "creeping through the black / cutting through the jungle with a golden track." | lindsay |
| "and sullen molloch" | milton |
| andrew falk | miller |
| "seas of bright juice suffuse heaven" | song of myself |
| "the poet of the body" | song of myself |
| "barbaric yawp" | song of myself |
| crown of feathers | singer |
| yasha mazur | singer |
| shabbatai zevi | singer |
| "strive to do, and agonize to do, and fail in doing" | browning |
| "tore the elm-tops down for spite" | browning |
| prince prospero | poe |
| "reposes" | wordsworth |
| "a poet could not but be gay, / in such a jocund company." | wordsworth |
| "was the common property of the human race" | paine |
| "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." | emerson |
| "the american scholar" | emerson |
| national book award | singer |
| rietze the candle | singer |
| howard wagner in death of a salesman | miller |
| newcomes | thackeray |
| "common sense." | paine |
| "if i am the devil's child, i will live then from the devil." | emerson |
| "the slaughterer" | singer |
| the slave and the | singer |
| "the eagle that is forgotten." | lindsay |
| "sullen wind" | browning |
| green eggs | seuss |
| skittles | trayvon |
| "peor and baalim forsake their temples dim" | milton |
| defoe | moll flanders |
| david beeves | miller |
| murder of roger ackroyd | christie |
| meso | aztec |
| jim bayliss | miller |
| satan in goray | singer |
| "to live in mankind is far more than to live in a name" | lindsay |
| "the sword of washington would have been wielded in vain." | paine |
| "twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle." | second coming |
| "ledaean body bent above a sinking fire" | yeats |
| hoederer | sartre |
| miss bodwin | beloved |
| danny devito | lorax |
| people of the cave | arabic |
| night!s | romeo and juliet |
| whole sick crew | pynchon |
"the bet" | chekhov |
| randolph driblette | pynchon |
| "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 |
| happy death | camus |
| de vionnet | ambassadors |
| "when at the races with a lady, brush dust off her gown. if there is no dust, brush it nonetheless." | ars amatoria |
| bierce | devil's dictionary |
| "what good is it, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?" | james |
| "what is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?" | soliloquies |
| "the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape" | soliloquies |
| "what a rogue and peasant slave am i!" | soliloquies |
| la henriade | voltaire |
| drapier | swift |
| bella in the twilight | stewart |
| lily collins | mirror |
| chadwick newsome | ambassadors |
| madame marie | ambassadors |
| elemental odes | neruda |
| "open sesame." | ali |
| "parting at morning" | browning |
| "the rain set in early tonight" | browning |
| professor willard | grover's corners |
| jared lee loughner | giffords |
| utoya | breivik |
| cedar mountains | humbaba |
| dartmoor with sir henry | hound of the |
| "father of tragedy" | aeschylus |
| "conscience does make cowards of us all" | soliloquies |
| "did my heart love ,,til now? forswear it, sight! / for i ne" | romeo and juliet |
| " despite his previous love for rosaline. in this play, one character kills his wife" | romeo and juliet |
| "with thee," | wild nights |
| "i have so many enemies" | psalms |
| "give thanks to the lord, for he is good." | psalms |
| freddy hill | pygmalion |
| tom walker | irving |
| count paris | romeo and juliet |
| "this is my letter to the world," | dickinson |
| seven sleepers | arabic |
| age of enlightenment | voltaire |
| "anna christie" | o'neill |
| in skepticism | in medias res |
| yucatan peninsula | maya |
| red hare | china |
| "roman fever" | daisy miller |
| "a melody sweetly play'd in tune." | rose |
| kimbro | paint |
| "great shift" | saussure |
| "ghost caught in individualism's blind alley" | china |
| "how all occasions do inform against me." | soliloquies |
| "unweeded garden," | soliloquies |
| "o that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!" | soliloquies |
| "drink and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim." | ode to a |
| in candide | el |
| glubbdubdrib | gulliver's |
| "all god's chillun got wings" | o'neill |
| julia roberts | mirror |
| napoleon, grimm | mirror |
| half-pint | mirror |
| lewis strether | ambassadors |
| chozo on zebes | samus |
gayev | the cherry orchard |
| pig bodine | pynchon |
| "we're not going to go there." | django unchained |
| miss lara | django unchained |
| jaimie foxx | django unchained |
| clint | how i met your mother |
| abe froman | ferris bueller's day off |
| jessica chastain | zero dark thirty |
| natalie teeger | detective |
| collegehumor | django unchained |
| guy montag in fahrenheit | bradbury |
| jerry cruncher | tale of two cities |
| carton | tale of two cities |
| pikachu in the subspace emissary | samus |
| parasite queen | samus |
| margaret saville | frankenstein |
| "your humble narrator." | clockwork orange |
| "twist and shout" | ferris bueller's day off |
| waverly | chinese |
| franz moor | schiller |
| "storm and drive." | sturm und drang |
| miranda tate | dark knight rises |
| leon panetta | zero dark thirty |
| de laceys | frankenstein |
| henry clerval | frankenstein |
| "oh my brothers" | clockwork orange |
| principal ed rooney | ferris bueller's day off |
| pearl louie brandt | chinese |
| weimar classicism | sturm und drang |
| christopher nolan | dark knight rises |
| t.h. white | once and future king |
| "there's a certain slant of light" | dickinson |
| "shall but drink the more." | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| "get thee back into the tempest and night's plutonian shore!" | raven |
| "not all the vats upon the rhine/ yield such an alcohol" | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| il commendatore | don giovanni |
| sitka | roth |
| cousin pons | human comedy |
| locksley | ivanhoe |
| black hat guy | xkcd |
| randall munroe | xkcd |
| tony shalhoub | detective |
| richard castle | detective |
| "say good bye to miss lara" | django unchained |
| calvin candide | django unchained |
| robin sherbatsky | how i met your mother |
| "imperial affliction / sent us of the air" | dickinson |
| "two weeks" | how i met your mother |
| "second greatest love story" | how i met your mother |
| price is right | how i met your mother |
| neil patrick harris | how i met your mother |
| barney stinson | how i met your mother |
| james gandolfini | zero dark thirty |
| kathryn bigelow | zero dark thirty |
| "sweet-ass." | xkcd |
| sloane | ferris bueller's day off |
| waiting for the barbarians the magistrate | coetzee |
| bane | dark knight rises |
| biology department | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| jason clarke | zero dark thirty |
| what if | xkcd |
| usa network | detective |
| christoph waltz | django unchained |
| president snow | hunger games |
| katniss everdeen | hunger games |
| buttercup | hunger games |
| lady narborough | picture of dorian gray |
| arms and the man | shaw |
| father pirard | red and the black |
| besancon | red and the black |
| "hoary cripple, with malicious eye" | browning |
| "for the rest," | to his coy mistress |
| "vegetable love" | to his coy mistress |
| duke of tintagel | wharton |
| mattie silver | wharton |
| jose ybarra | breakfast at tiffany's |
"the blizzard" | pushkin |
| tomsky | pushkin |
| "losing theirs" | kipling |
| "just one more thing." | detective |
| kate beckett | detective |
| elementary and sherlock | detective |
| broomhilda | django unchained |
| ted mosby | how i met your mother |
| "quaint and curious volumes" | raven |
| "surcease" | raven |
| sickness unto death | kierkegaard |
| "vanished" | clouds |
| "lovely ludwig van" | clockwork orange |
| matthew broderick | ferris bueller's day off |
| ferrari | ferris bueller's day off |
| tiger mother | chinese |
| catwoman | dark knight rises |
| "mousy" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| sharona fleming | detective |
| nan st | wharton |
| raymond de chelles | wharton |
| undine spragg in the custom of the country | wharton |
| england by van helsing in a bram stoker | vampire |
| burmin | pushkin |
| mookherjee | kim |
| delly cartwright | hunger games |
| foxface | hunger games |
| orca | jaws |
| brinker hadley | separate peace |
| baratheon | game of thrones |
| " for 10 points each: stevens described this animal that " | blackbird |
| "not all that glisters [is] gold." | gray |
| ginnungagap | ymir |
| "grow vaster than empires" | to his coy mistress |
| "of mans first disobedience, and the fruit of" | paradise lost |
| mark the match boy | alger |
| "the dismantling of lemuel pitkin," | west |
| "how swift how secretly / the shadow of the night comes on." | macleish |
| arabella wilmot | vicar of wakefield |
| "stoops" | maid |
| enfield tennis academy | infinite jest |
hal (incandenza) | infinite jest |
| justice of the ten pound court | irving |
| "lied in every word." | browning |
| "fra lippo lippi" | browning |
| "hangs still;" | hughes |
| "milky way falling from the ninth heaven" | li bai |
| "agony in eight fits," | carroll |
boojum | carroll |
| "uffish thought" | carroll |
| ragged dick | alger |
| penistone crags | wuthering heights |
"to adore each breast" | "to his coy mistress" |
| forbidden tree | paradise lost |
| il penseroso | milton |
| elmer moffatt | wharton |
| ushant | wharton |
| peeta melark | hunger games |
| lady | hunger games |
| sani abacha | nigeria |
sun quan | romance of the three kingdoms |
| " for 10 points each: this american modernist poet of " | stevens |
| " he also wrote " | stevens |
| " and whose eye is " | blackbird |
| "[stretching] in vain to reach the prize," | gray |
| "withered leaves to quicken a new birth." | west wind |
| "pondered weak and weary," | raven |
| "waterfall of lushan mountain" | li bai |
| "two small people, without dislike or suspicion" | li bai |
| "down through the narrows of the river kiang" | li bai |
| "galumphing back" | carroll |
| father dosen | mishima |
| "nearly all young criminals have had lying mothers," | doll |
| tassel with brom bones | irving |
| ben okri | nigeria |
| "little yellow book" | picture of dorian gray |
| bodger | shaw |
| madame de renal | red and the black |
| "you need not clap your torches to my face," | browning |
| men and women | browning |
| "fulcrum of violence" | hughes |
| "drie[s] up / like a raisin in the sun" | hughes |
| "purple smoke rising from the mountains" | li bai |
| mayor larry vaughan | jaws |
| captain quint | jaws |
| gene forrester | separate peace |
| chao gai | water margin |
| sobek | horus |
| "truth as subjectivity" | kierkegaard |
| "always coming on / the always rising of the night." | to his coy mistress |
| "the grave's a fine and private place." | to his coy mistress |
rosanette | flaubert |
| dambreuse | flaubert |
| rudolphe | flaubert |
| history of little goody | goldsmith |
| kate hardcastle | maid |
| christine linde | doll |
| broom of the system | wallace |
| chrissie watkins | jaws |
dimitri gurov | "the lady with the dog" |
| les propheties | nostradamus |
| "by the tumtum tree" | carroll |
| "brimming pools of ecstasy." | eye |
"it is difficult / to get the news from poems" | william carlos williams |
judge honda | mishima |
| kiyoagi matsugae | mishima |
| kashiwagi | mishima |
| district 12 | hunger games |
| "sweating with blood" | picture of dorian gray |
| lord saxmundham | shaw |
| sergius saranoff | shaw |
bluntschli | shaw |
| julian sorel | red and the black |
| "best is yet to be" | browning |
| the french war | greene |
moocow | a portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "naked shingles of the world," | dover beach |
| "turbid ebb and flow / of human misery," | dover beach |
| cool million | west |
| "are nothing like the sun" | eye |
| "for three years" | pound |
mathilde aubain | flaubert |
| felicite | flaubert |
| "dirty picture" | slaughterhouse-five |
| golden day | invisible man |
| danzig | grass |
| "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind," | pope |
| arkenstone | bilbo |
| "i could say " | frost |
| " to him, / but it's not elves exactly, and i'd rather / he said it for himself." | frost |
| emma clery | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| langston | hughes |
| "the moonlight glistens in front of my bed / as if there is frost on the ground" | li bai |
lopakhin | the cherry orchard |
| "what i tell you three times is true," | carroll |
"the hunting of the snark" | carroll |
jim nightshade | bradbury |
| miss pross | tale of two cities |
| ridley | samus |
| philistine dalila | samson agonistes |
the grass harp | truman capote |
| "toomai of the elephants" | jungle book |
| "keep [his] head when all about" | kipling |
| gale hawthorne | hunger games |
| seneca crane | hunger games |
| croisenois | red and the black |
| fenrir with angrboda | loki |
| "paris of the west," | san |
| ajax the greater | achilles |
| bengalsky | cat |
| "art of this," | poem |
| "was told that it was disgraceful." | whitman |
| miles standish | god |
| "a distant - stately lover." | god |
| knock | marlowe |
queen mab | romeo and juliet |
| so big | chicago |
| "but, will you be my preceptor, mr. higginson?" | letters |
| "a prayer for my daughter" | sailing to byzantium |
| "dick, joe, ned and jack" | chimney sweep |
| harvey cheyne | kipling |
mycetes | marlowe |
| hate week | 84 |
| "coward holding a baby-killer in his manly arms," | no exit |
| "everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down" | cash |
| "i wasted my time when i would try, try, try." | cash |
| "i keep a close watch on this heart of mine." | cash |
| in kafka on the shore | cat |
| "bustopher jones" | cat |
| goma | cat |
| "should be palpable and mute," | poem |
"poor yorick!" | hamlet |
| coast guard | jaws |
| uss indianapolis | jaws |
| devon prep | phineas |
| "a song of ice and fire" | game of thrones |
| disillusionment of ten | stevens |
| "solitary the thrush, the hermit withdrawn to himself," | lincoln |
| "rise up, for you the flag is flung, for you the bugle trills," | lincoln |
| "when you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold" | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| clongowes college | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| davin | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "the sea is calm tonight." | dover beach |
| "if fame belonged to me, i could not escape her," | letters |
| "deal[ing] with lesser boy - to prove ability." | god |
| daniel dravot | kipling |
| "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed." | ozymandias |
| iron cross | grass |
| "what dire offence from am'rous causes springs" | pope |
| "derive nothing from" | smith |
| "pilot of the galilean lake." | milton |
| "malt does more than" | milton |
| "spring is the mischief in me" | frost |
| "from what i've tasted of desire" | frost |
"a&p" | updike |
| "macavity" | cat |
| "old possum's book of practical" | cat |
benvolio | romeo and juliet |
| "govern in a thing so small." | design |
| "this sleep of mine" | woodchuck |
| "poo-tee-weet?" | slaughterhouse-five |
| jane gallagher | holden |
| "world of merriment their melody foretells" | poe |
tamburlaine the great | marlowe |
| "what powerful but unrecorded race/ once dwelt in that annihilated place." | ozymandias |
| "the indian burying ground" | freneau |
| sneerwell | school for scandal |
| "gods are able" | sonnets to orpheus |
"tell how a man, though, could possibly thread the lyre's narrow modes?" | sonnets to orpheus |
| alicorn amulet | trixie |
| "rollin' 'round the bend," | cash |
| twilight sparkle | my little pony |
| "cutie marks" | my little pony |
| "little we see in nature that is ours." | world is too much with us |
| loved me | fleming |
| amis | bond |
| maurice bendrix in the end of the affair | greene |
| alden pyle in the quiet american | greene |
| "genuflection." | warsaw |
| "sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal it knows not what it is." | sailing to byzantium |
| peachy carnahan | kipling |
| captains courageous | kipling |
| "the lone and level sands stretch far away," | ozymandias |
| komatsu | 84 |
| "poet of the american revolution" | freneau |
| be still | finlandia |
| my soul | finlandia |
| pro football hall of fame | ohio |
| joaquin phoenix | cash |
| june carter | cash |
| "on a hot tin roof." | cat |
| "prince of cats," | romeo and juliet |
| edna ferber | chicago |
| "long sleep, or just some human sleep." | woodchuck |
| "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 |
| big brother in a george orwell | 84 |
"the wild honey suckle" | freneau |
| puff | sheridan |
| charles surface | school for scandal |
| rosalie murray | agnes grey |
| "bronies." | my little pony |
| ursa major | trixie |
| "i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow." | villanelle |
| mathilde moisel | necklace |
| trilogy of the rat | murakami |
| station at the horizon | remarque |
| "somewhere in the clouds above" | yeats |
| "essay on the principle of population" | malthus |
| "infant joy" | songs of innocence and |
| "a tree that may in summer wear / a nest of robins in her hair" | kilmer |
| "he is all pine and i am apple orchard," | mending wall |
| "heaven has no rage like love turned to hatred, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" | congreve |
| pudd'nhead wilson | twain |
| three comrades | remarque |
| daniel sauters | potok |
| the chosen | potok |
| "...airman forsees his death" | yeats |
| "stout cortez, when with eagle eyes / he stared at the pacific." | on first looking into chapman's homer |
| way of the world | congreve |
| black obelisk | remarque |
| great depression in the adventures of augie march | bellow |
| asher lev | potok |
| reuven malter | potok |
| war years | lincoln |
| vampire hunter in a seth grahame | lincoln |
| gianni schicchi | o mio |
| thunder-ten-tronckh | cunegonde |
| lauretta | o mio |
| rinuccio | o mio |
| "much have i travell'd in the realms of gold" | on first looking into chapman's homer |
| rokovoko | queequeg |
| from russia with love | fleming |
| casino royale | bond |
| henry george | rent |
| "two chinamen, behind them a third, / are carved in [the title stone]." | lapis lazuli |
| wave of the future | lindbergh |
| sukie rougemont | witches of eastwick |
| "campensis." | isis |
| daybreak | gay science |
| ilium | vonnegut |
| faunia farley | coleman |
| lady oisille | marguerite |
| parlemente | marguerite |
| "contrary states" | songs of innocence and |
| "a stone's throw from the equator, with a bottomless historical chasm separating the two" | arabic |
| "in october 1914" | arabic |
| polk county | hurston |
| bridge on the river kwai | world war ii |
| "great old ones" | lovecraft |
| jean genet | our lady of the flowers |
| ambassador to mexico | lindbergh |
| thorsten fehr | plasticity |
| valperga | shelley |
| billy the poet | welcome to the monkey house |
| "nothinghead," | welcome to the monkey house |
| charles nordhoff | bounty |
| james hall | bounty |
| roger byam | bounty |
| "spooks" | coleman |
| "two roads diverged in a wood, and i, / i took the one less traveled by, / and that has made all the difference." | frost |
| at balder | dwarf |
| david lean | bridge |
| divine | our lady of the flowers |
| thomas mallory | morte d'arthur |
| jack favell | rebecca |
| gerald du maurier | peter |
| imm by star | cholesterol |
| morph ball | samus |
| space pirates | samus |
| zero suit | samus |
| wemmick | great expectations |
| lakewood | osteen |
| medicago | sativa |
| ratchett | orient express |
| painter of signs | english |
| "we are here as on a darkling plain," | dover beach |
| will halloway | bradbury |
| metroid | samus |
| cooger | bradbury |
| adam malkovich in the galactic federation | samus |
| tallon iv | samus |
| power suits | samus |
| charge beam | samus |
| "smiling preacher." | osteen |
| "earth's the right place for love" | frost |
| "knowing how way leads onto way," | frost |
| rhode island in the witches of eastwick | updike |
| charles parnell | 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 |
| "hath neither joy, nor love, nor light." | dover beach |
| hawk tower | california |
| "somebody blew up america," | september 11 |
| sophie caco | breath, eyes, memory |
| fortune of love | quixote |
| bram stoker | vampire |
| "the ballad of reading gaol (redding jail)." | wilde |
| "spiritual dislocation" | success |
| "the catastrophe of success" | streetcar named desire |
| eliot rosewater | slaughterhouse-five |
| "so it goes" | slaughterhouse-five |
| pilenz | grass |
| lord petre | pope |
| "beauty which the appearance of utility bestows" | smith |
"invisible hand" | smith |
| "sisters of the sacred well" | milton |
| "justify the ways of god to man" | milton |
| jane smart | witches of eastwick |
| ethical suicide parlor | welcome to the monkey house |
| "ethical birth control" | welcome to the monkey house |
| "except the pleasure of seeing it." | smith |
| "not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion." | smith |
| "look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth" | milton |
| "run" | updike |
| dante riordan | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "infant sorrow," | songs of innocence and |
| "piping down the valleys wild / piping songs of pleasant glee / on a cloud i saw a child." | songs of innocence and |
| "der sandmann." | the tales of hoffman |
| port said | arabic |
| "crooked rose" | thomas |
| "lover's tomb." | thomas |
| hurston | boas |
| alexandra spofford | witches of eastwick |
| "our helper... amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing." | mighty fortress |
| "i'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than" | hawk |
| fanny brawne | to autumn |
| dick turpin | highwayman |
| jean shepherd | libertine |
| your best life now | osteen |
| hareton earnshaw | read |
| "oligarchy" | iron heel |
| avis everhard | iron heel |
| while lovelace | prison |
| georgetown | freedom |
| joey | september 11 |
| port-au-prince | haiti |
| "faithful hound" | antisthenes |
| shirley jackson | lottery |
| black bess | highwayman |
| "4000 israeli workers" | september 11 |
| breath, eyes, memory | haiti |
| prince amerigo | james |
| felixmarte de hyrcania | quixote |
| "varney," | vampire |
| "i must kill a man!" | maupassant |
| huxtable | architecture |
| "corpo" | it can't happen here |
| guelphs | shelley |
| captain queeg | wouk |
| winds of war | wouk |
| the and war and remembrance | wouk |
| why people believe weird things | skeptic |
| michael shermer | skeptic |
| christopher tietjens | ford |
| amiri baraka | september 11 |
| "attercop, attercop, won't you stop, stop your spinning and look for me?" | bilbo |
| shire | bilbo |
| paul proteus | vonnegut |
| miskatonic university in arkham | lovecraft |
| strange wine | ellison |
| witches of eastwick | updike |
| captain hook | peter |
| p450scc | cholesterol |
| "keeping time, time, time, / in a sort of runic rhyme." | poe |
| "hope springs eternal in the human breast" | pope |
| eloisa to abelard | pope |
| last night of ballyhoo | atlanta |
| uhry | atlanta |
| an akhmatova | heroes |
| toph | eggers |
| italian jewish | levi |
"rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing." | the windhover |
| "reference" | russell |
| gines de pasamonter | don quixote |
| mambrino | don quixote |
| roland weary | slaughterhouse-five |
| rinehart | invisible man |
| d.b | holden |
| pensey | holden |
| "they're hanging [the title character] in the mornin'." | danny deever |
alfred uhry (trilogy) | atlanta |
in a mikhail lermontov | heroes |
| viracocha at ollantaytambo | inca |
| "clubman" | periphetes |
| fanny robin | child |
| celestial city | christian |
| american way of death | mitford |
| "'gadzooks!' quoth i, 'but here's a saucy bawd!'" | libertine |
| "cultivated." | sativa |
| oryza | sativa |
| daisy armstrong | orient express |
| suitable boy in english | seth |
| pursuit of love | mitford |
| reading | nottage |
| according to coase | club |
| cumean sibyl | waste land |
| dubula | cry, the beloved country |
| amber | scooby |
| coolsville | scooby |
| shaggy | scooby |
| pew | stevenson |
| troy flavin | welty |
| dabney | welty |
| in a harte | chinese |
| "the aged p," | great expectations |
| barabas | marlowe |
| "she dwelt among the untrodden ways," | wordsworth |
| "it is the hour of departure. oh abandoned one!" | neruda |
| "judge-penitent" | camus |
| sussex downs | sherlock |
| inspector lestrade | sherlock |
| "boy wonder" | richler |
| "the true blue protestant poet" | shadwell |
| "i knew it wouldn't be much of a poem / but i love the title." | cope |
julius excluded from heaven | erasmus |
the education of a christian prince | erasmus |
| irene westcott | enormous radio |
| domingo sarmiento | dictator novel |
| "hypocrite, my likeness, my brother" | reader |
| the st. crispin's | shakespeare |
| marcus in death valley | dentist |
| "wonderland quartet" | oates |
| "fantastic baroque machine," | devil |
jack stapleton | the hound of the baskervilles |
oleanna | mamet |
| "he didn't even have time to kick off his seaboots" | pincher |
| "apprenticeship," | wilhelm |
| "hold their manhoods cheap." | st. crispin's day |
| "the just judges" | camus |
| king of bohemia | sherlock |
| abe slaney | sherlock |
| "jinkies!" | scooby |
| uncle ebenezer | stevenson |
| kidnapped | stevenson |
| delta wedding | welty |
| facundo | dictator novel |
| in suzan | brother |
| in august wilson | brother |
| gabe | brother |
| "distinctive design that constitutes individual identity." | inscape |
| gateway of the sun in tiwanaku | staff |
| cook islands | staff |
| "a tip-toe" | st. crispin's day |
"the hunger had more power than even sorrow over me. (ugolino)" | inferno |
| "the adventure of silver blaze." | haddon |
| tijuana | richler |
| prince heinrich hotel | billiard |
| "cruel hand." | time |
| neddy merrill | swimmer |
| destiny and desire | fuentes |
| augusto roa bastos | dictator novel |
| duke of alba | goethe |
bill nye (ah sin) | harte |
| "city of the dead." | cairo |
| complete works of william shakespeare | football |
| oates | henry |
| "nick shadow," | devil |
| antoine macquart | spontaneous combustion |
| "the tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere." | fenimore cooper's literary offenses |
| dark age ahead | jacobs |
| the death and | jacobs |
| pincher martin | lord of the flies |
| duddy kravitz | richler |
| jerry dingleman | richler |
| "the last great prophet of tautology" | shadwell |
| george jean nathan | american mercury |
| "chartism." | carlyle |
| love in a cold climate | mitford |
| walter younger | raisin in the sun |
| "dapple-dawn-drawn" | alliteration |
| moshe the beadle | night |
| telipinu | bee |
| uncle billy | outcasts of poker flat |
| "plain language from truthful james," | chinese |
| "samiel," | bullet |
| "in the bardo." | lincoln |
| sisyphos | thanatos |
| joe bonham | trumbo |
| "fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / within his bending sickle's compass come." | time |
| "verse shall stand, / praising thy worth, despite" | time |
| eustace tilley | new yorker |
| "canvas of our pitiable desires" | reader |
| "the king of poets" | season in hell |
| fairchilds | welty |
| "knowledge by acquaintance" | russell |
| book iv of virgil | bee |
| mokattam hills | cairo |
| "garbage city" | cairo |
| "natural depravity." | claggart |
| book of jude | enoch |
| great flood | enoch |
| hoseason | stevenson |
| egmont | goethe |
| "principal enemy of moral progress in the world." | russell |
| am not | russell |
| "it is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist" | wilde |
| amaranta ursula | one hundred years of solitude |
| "the world is too much with us." | wordsworth |
| "why i write such good books" | nietzsche |
| in the loved one | cemeteries |
| "belle isle, 1949." | detroit |
| ron jones at a palo alto | third wave |
| "show about nothing." | kramer |
| harlem globetrotters | scooby |
| "zoinks!" | scooby |
| great dane | scooby |
| travels with a donkey | stevenson |
| "a letter from [this author]." | wheatley |
| pier with chains | prison |
| imaginary prisons | prison |
| shraddhadeva manu | fish |
jack potter | crane |
| "we sat and wept" | babylon |
| "take this cup from me." | hamlet |
| "my affluence over my niece is very small." | malaprop |
| neddy | swimmer |
| "the swimmer," | new yorker |
| josue | fuentes |
| "not brave enough." | reader |
| fair in chicago | larson |
| isaac's storm | larson |
| tracy smith | poet laureate |
| "epistolary psychogram" | wheatley |
| "sequel to" | drum-taps |
| "those winter sundays." | hayden |
"fear and loathing" (city) | las vegas |
| "he is the very pine-apple of politeness" | malaprop |
| blues for mister charlie | baldwin |
| happier hunting ground | cemeteries |
| "first chapters" | you |
| plaszow | amon goeth |
| "the whipping," | hayden |
| "consultant in poetry to the library of congress." | poet laureate |
| "specialty" | romance at short notice |
| bertha mason in the caribbean | rhys |
| "let's take off this little frock" | stepdaughter |
| enrico iv | pirandello |
| hero twins to xibalba | ball game |
| joyboy | cemeteries |
| "down on lenox avenue." | hughes |
| "couplet" | elegy |
| "test the reality of misty fields" | bird |
| "the night's plutonian shore." | raven |
| "a dollar and a half." | hughes |
| "hard times," | hughes |
| "carried through many nations and over many seas, i arrive" | elegy |
| "but tell me, who are they, these wanderers?" | elegy |
| "a different drama is underway." | hamlet |
| "i understand." | stepdaughter |
| adulateur | warren |
| "what work is" | detroit |
| "the wound-dresser." | drum-taps |
| "silken, sad, uncertain rustling" | raven |
| simone simonini | graveyard |
| "melancholy mark'd...for her own" | graveyard |
| jim hawkin | stevenson |
| long john silver | stevenson |
| modestine | stevenson |
| euphorion with helen | goethe |
| "knowledge by description." | russell |
| "sense" | russell |
| "a small part of the pantomime" | bird |
| "fine clothes" | hughes |
| "fire" | sherlock |
| "the adventure of the empty house" | sherlock |
| cannon street hotel by the smyrna | waste land |
| manus in growing up in new guinea | mead |
| carmicael | cry, the beloved country |
| lithebe | cry, the beloved country |
| scrappy | scooby |
| "proot" | stevenson |
| paths of glory | graveyard |
| "close bosom-friend of the maturing sun." | autumn |
| "they'll see how beautiful i am." | hughes |
| "hail and farewell" | elegy |
| duino castle | elegy |
| "downward to darkness." | bird |
| "bland motions" | bird |
| "i like for you to be still." | neruda |
"a sadder and a wiser man" | the rime of the ancient mariner |
"song of the bleeding throat" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| george costanza | seinfeld |
| michael richards | kramer |
| "some visitor... only this and nothing more." | raven |
| "forefathers of the hamlet sleep?" | graveyard |
| mystery of edwin drood | raven |
| injun joe | graveyard |
| shockand shroud in thomas pynchon | robot |
| "here are presented the results of the enquiry." | herodotus |
| gelonus | herodotus |
| "dr. tony" | bourdain |
| "might rouse [this man] in you all!" | lincoln |
| history of the dividing line | swamp |
| pantanal | swamp |
| micaela | carmen |
| in lewis carroll | carpenter |
| walrus | carpenter |
| gwendolen fairfax | importance of being earnest |
| "i am, george" | albee |
| chilote | imbunche |
| at utgard | age |
| gp | albee |
| "moxon's master" | robot |
| "misunderstanding" | importance of being earnest |
| lady bracknell | importance of being earnest |
| pheidippides | herodotus |
| babrius | aesop |
| hungry ghosts for dc comics | bourdain |
| no reservations | bourdain |
| sudd in south sudan | swamp |
| "en vain pour eviter" | carmen |
| "a man and a woman and" | bird |
| boreas | aesop |
| lopa de vega's | aesop |
| oechalia | sophocles |
| theban plays | sophocles |
| bone in the throat | bourdain |
| guy fieri | bourdain |
| drum-taps | lincoln |
| "shows," | uncle tom's cabin |
| avrion mitchison | watson |
| england to north america | cabot |
| avoid boring people | watson |
| at the cavendish laboratory at cambridge | watson |
| coricancha | inti |
| sarras | galahad |
| titan coeus | phoebe |
| church lees | scarlet |
| along with seascape | albee |
| "skrymir" | utgard-loki |
| hugi | thjalfi |
| evander in the aeneid | cacus |
| when cabot | venice |
| veblen | pecuniary |
| agastya | mountain |
| kitchen | bourdain |
| "walks, and will not rest" | lincoln |
| great dismal | swamp |
| okefenokee | swamp |
| "decorated" | bradbury |
| eckels | bradbury |
| duke orsino | twelfth night |
| "retire" | robot |
| "are one," | bird |
| persian wars in thehistories | herodotus |
| "the fox and the grapes" | aesop |
| norse cosmology | yggdrasil |
| besides the women of trachis | sophocles |
| get jiro | bourdain |
| yo gabba gabba | bourdain |
| parts unknown | bourdain |
| lucy poems | wordsworth |
| "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" | cummings |
| ubermensch | nietzsche |
| panchala | draupadi |
| snork maiden in tove jansson | troll |
| "patent" | troll |
| "[i]n you everything sank!" | twenty love poems and a song of despair |
| himavant | mountain |
| pachamama | inti |
| heptapod | chiang |
| "euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant" | huxley |
| ecce homo | nietzsche |
| baptiste clamence | camus |
| maitre holbroque | maupassant |
| manus in new lives for old | mead |
| temperament in three primitive societies | mead |
| mountain king | troll |
| snufkin | troll |
| "triple-faced." | moon |
| journal of a tour to the hebrides | boswell |
| cold spring harbor laboratory | watson |
| atropos | eris |
| elpenor | circe |
| imahmana | viracocha |
| titaness | phoebe |
| marsh chapel experiment | leary |
| much of the fenian | oisin |
| canens | circe |
| in nonnus | sinew |
| arthur to avalon | morgan |
| hirudotherapy | leech |
| gandalf in the hobbit | troll |
| "tintinnabulation" | helen |
| "sprung" | hopkins |
| " flower with a " | sunflower sutra |
| " it opens " | sunflower sutra |
| "where the beggars raffle the banknotes" | auden |
| "the clocks had ceased their chiming, / and the deep river ran on" | auden |
| "working week and [his] sunday rest." | auden |
| "judge gives negro 90 days in county jail." | landlord |
| sonezaki | suicide |
| shiva of the knees | indian independence |
| "put away / my labor and my leisure too / for his civility." | dickinson |
| "since then - 'tis centuries - and yet" | dickinson |
| "listens close to your sweet speaking / and lovely laughing" | greek |
| "victory odes" | greek |
| willem | kafka |
| "blank" | verse |
| "it so happens i am sick of being a man." | walk |
| "dare you see a soul at the white heat?" | dickinson |
| "stop[s], wounded by the wandering scent." | neruda |
| "pigeons|just|like|that." | cummings |
| "fire and ice." | frost |
| "o, well for the fisherman's boy" | tennyson |
| "the aleph." | borges |
| kokoro by natsume soseki | suicide |
| meru | mountain |
| lachesis | eris |
| charon the golden bough | cumaean sibyl |
| tocapo | viracocha |
| dame brusen | galahad |
| logris | galahad |
| "terra firma," | leto |
| tintagel | morgan |
| thousand-yard | kafka |
| titorelli | kafka |
| "i have been happy - and i love the theme" | poe |
| "a world of happiness" | helen |
| "so musically wells." | helen |
| "the loss of the titanic." | boat |
| " and closes with a " | sunflower sutra |
| tincan | sunflower sutra |
| sensei | suicide |
| "fauna of the night," | freud |
| inthepoem | freud |
| saadat hasan manto | indian independence |
| "sad lexicon," | baseball |
| "tapping at my chamber door" | poe |
| "temple in which living pillars / sometimes give voice to confused words," | correspondences |
| nine lyric poets | greek |
| "home burial" | north of boston |
| "i shall never get you put together entirely" | plath |
| "the colossus." | plath |
| rupert brooke | soldier |
| "the tender grace of a day that is dead / will never come back to me." | tennyson |
| "i will drink / life to the lees," | tennyson |
| "the lotos eaters" | tennyson |
| "deutches requiem." | borges |
| "why swell'st thou then?" | death |
| hard hours | hecht |
| offred in the handmaid | atwood |
| "where is god now?" | concentration camp |
| "ccny lecturers on dadaism" | potato salad |
| elisabeth forster | nietzsche |
| edwin arlington robinson | richard cory |
| "the entertainment," | infinite jest |
| "timshel." | steinbeck |
| rose-of-sharon | steinbeck |
| "zoophagous maniac." | dracula |
| geoscience research institute at loma linda university | seventh-day adventist |
| joel harrison knox | other voices, other rooms |
| raise the wage act | 15 |
| "behold," | ecce |
| m. bechade | leech |
"baghdad-on-the-subway" | o. henry |
| georges duroy | maupassant |
| "is all pine" | frost |
| "life is real! life is earnest!" | longfellow |
| "the courtship of miles standish," | longfellow |
| luzhin | crime and punishment |
| lizaveta | crime and punishment |
| "fort-da" | freud |
| "every profound spirit needs a mask." | nietzsche |
| "say yes to life." | nietzsche |
| "suppose truth is a woman, what then?" | nietzsche |
| humbaba in the cedar forest | gilgamesh |
| "sextus molestus," | ecce |
| "why i am a fatality" | ecce |
| cornelii | ecce |
| "the city in the sea" | poe |
| " for 10 points each: moloch appears in this ginsberg poem, in which the narrator " | howl |
| "babushka" | plath |
| "what a thrill." | plath |
| "as i walked out one evening" | auden |
| "ballad" | landlord |
| "heard [the eternal note of sadness] on the aegean." | sophocles |
| blysspluss | atwood |
| "drowned" | concentration camp |
| pacification of the primitive tribes of the lower niger | things fall apart |
| nwoye | things fall apart |
| siberia by sonya | crime and punishment |
| "irma's injection." | freud |
| whitby | dracula |
| blake.saw | howl |
| "jill goes down on her back." | auden |
| "walking down bristol street." | auden |
| room ballads | kipling |
| "you're a better man than i am, gunga din!" | kipling |
| barrack | kipling |
| "as two stiff compasses are two" | donne |
| "the jewish cemetery at newport," | longfellow |
| gitche gumee | longfellow |
priscilla (poetry) | longfellow |
| "what maidens loth?" | keats |
| "needs ourlove." | freud |
| the widow | indian independence |
| "saddest of all possible words." | baseball |
| jack keefe | baseball |
| "gives / immortal youth to mortal maids." | verse |
| "this be" | verse |
| "five franciscan nuns," | boat |
| frisco | sunflower sutra |
| dhanvantari | leech |
| in a christmas | henry |
| "there's some corner of a foreign field / that is forever england." | soldier |
| "shall not sleep, though poppies grow." | soldier |
| "there is sweet music here that softer falls / than petals from blown roses on the grass." | tennyson |
| "ulysses." | tennyson |
| uqbar | borges |
| "was not an important failure." | icarus |
| bioy casares | borges |
| "catalogue of catalogues." | borges |
| "incident" | suicide |
| "important jew" | freud |
| "merely told the unhappy present to recite the past like a poetry lesson." | freud |
| you know me al | baseball |
| "the band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light" | baseball |
| john stanhope | dickinson |
| "ride a watersmooth-silver stallion" | cummings |
| "like air." | lady lazarus |
| "not god but a swastika" | nazi |
| "a dust whom england bore, shaped, made aware" | soldier |
| "in flanders fields." | soldier |
| "the sailor lad" | tennyson |
| "choric song" | tennyson |
| "i mete and dole / unequal laws unto a savage race," | tennyson |
| in on heroes | carlyle |
| "philosopher of clothing" | carlyle |
| hero-worship | carlyle |
| "cor meum" | ecce |
| under ariel roth | seventh-day adventist |
| fundamental beliefs | seventh-day adventist |
| "all humanity is now involved in a great controversy between christ and satan regarding the character of god." | seventh-day adventist |
| edward estlin cummings | cummings |
| "you ain't gonna be able to say a word / if i land my fist on you." | landlord |
| "fugue" | death |
| "there is so much graciousness in cunning" | nietzsche |
| dionysian in the birth of tragedy | nietzsche |
| amor fati | nietzsche |
| battista | calvino |
| shao hao | mulberry |
| morning star | mulberry |
| "revaluation of all values," | nietzsche |
| breakfast of champions | vonnegut |
| pegeen mike | playboy of the western world |
| sartor resartus | carlyle |
| "how one becomes what one is." | ecce |
| "romani" | ecce |
| ricarimpex | leech |
| ozobranchus | leech |
| "so there stood matthew arnold and this girl." | hecht |
| "in fairly good translation," | sophocles |
| gullinbursti | boar |
| fauchelevent | les miserables |
| year of the flood | atwood |
| moira at jezebel | atwood |
| scrabble with the commander | atwood |
| we were in auschwitz | concentration camp |
| " which he refers to as " | ginsberg |
| "saboteur," | plath |
| "kamikaze man," | plath |
| "green valley" | auden |
| "put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves" | auden |
| "cut off the telephone" | auden |
| "come as a master from deutschland." | death |
| "better than thy stroke." | death |
| "man passes there through forests of symbols." | correspondences |
| winter by canadian | greek |
| "a message from the emperor." | kafka |
| "that fearful sound of 'fire' and 'fire'," | verse |
| "upon the burning of [her] house." | verse |
| "come buy our orchard fruits / come buy, come buy." | frost |
| "a thousand screams the heavens smote; / and every scream tore through my throat." | renascence |
| " was written by this poet. in another poem, he describes a " | ginsberg |
| "mighty" | baseball |
| you don | harley |
| "after that hunky wayne guy." | harley |
| "emancipation." | harley |
| "holy writ." | borges |
| "the book of sand" | borges |
| "the labyrinth." | borges |
| william of malmesbury | arthur |
| kaws | mickey |
| when charlemagne | carloman |
| pool of blood | akutagawa |
| "in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." | yeats |
| "thruster holding me tight" | song of mysel |
| "the world as the world's not." | housman |
| "let us sleep now," | owen |
| "never giggled or planned or cried" | brooks |
| lesley gore | harley |
| black mask | harley |
| margot robbie | harley |
| bud | harley |
| in richard johnson | merlin |
| vortigern | merlin |
| textus receptus | erasmus |
| "interpreting" | rumi |
| "principal conclusions" | mueller report |
| "no vulgar assassin" | bierce |
| "i sought a theme, and sought for it in vain," | yeats |
| "it is a fatal mistake ever to offer resistance to people who are stronger than ourselves." | maupassant |
| "i witness and wait," | song of mysel |
| "real or fancied indifference of some man or woman i love." | song of mysel |
| "dead smile" | owen |
| "tan man." | brooks |
| "on moonlit heath and lonesome bank." | housman |
| shrewsbury | housman |
| "drawing-down of blinds" | owen |
| "no mockeries... no prayers nor bells." | owen |
| "think of sweet and chocolate" | brooks |
| own me in belle reve penitentiary | harley |
| after cassandra cain | harley |
| lou | harley |
| joker | harley |
| oisin | aging |
| yvain | knights of the round table |
| increase and cotton | mather |
| james hargreaves | spinning jenny |
| "the horseman in the sky" | bierce |
| "the fury and the mire of human veins" | yeats |
| "liberty, cherished liberty, fight thou on the side of thy defenders." | maupassant |
| "the cow, the old cow, she is dead," | housman |
| "what passing-bells for those who die as cattle?" | owen |
| "who have lived their day" | brooks |
| john wheelwright | baseball |
| wonderboy | baseball |
| renee montoya | harley |
| ace chemicals | harley |
| victor zsasz | harley |
| in the time of the butterflies | alvarez |
| longer ending | erasmus |
| greek new testament | erasmus |
| president of liberia | johnson |
| "from which gentlemen are not excluded." | bierce |
| winding stair | yeats |
| "an aged man is but a paltry thing / a tattered coat upon a stick," | yeats |
| "i loafe and invite my soul, / i lean and loafe at my ease." | song of mysel |
| "the only moving thing / was the eye of" | stevens |
| sandy williams | hughes |
| jesse b. semple | hughes |
| "no ideas but in things," | williams |
| "have done with childish days- the lightly proffered laurel, the easy, ungrudged praise." | kipling |
| "wise young woman" | mandrake |
| "thirty pairs of yapping hounds." | questing beast |
| hart's | questing beast |
| john alden | longfellow |
| "less traveled by." | frost |
| mikolka | crime and punishment |
| marmeladov | crime and punishment |
"wish fulfillment" | freud |
| salinas valley | steinbeck |
| 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 |
| companion | mickey |
| "jammed up against the blades" | hedgehog |
| paris metro | dumas |
| "a lump of food that my children chewed without stopping" | ferrante |
| days of abandonment | ferrante |
| peter shaffer | horse |
| "the mower." | hedgehog |
| "know one important thing" | hedgehog |
| peter in central park | albee |
| crimson hexagon | borges |
| dragon palace | aging |
| "coming of age in the usa." | alvarez |
| bryansk forest | ilya |
| svyatogor | ilya |
| el culebron | snake |
| "this is what you cannot understand." | rumi |
| grammar school | history boys |
| janan | new life |
| "man at war with the hostile world." | monsters and the critics |
| "hostile" | dragon |
| william le queux | invasion |
| breyten breytenbach | afrikaans |
| true confessions of an albino terrorist | afrikaans |
| aku-nna | married |
| story of the lost child | ferrante |
| milos forman | salieri |
| "balloon syndrome." | hedgehog |
| innana | aphrodite |
| carol rosen | balcony |
| cursed bunny | booker |
| "all of you might be tricked as" | mandrake |
| alice dunbar nelson | cage |
| through king pellam | joseph |
| "with a profound appeal" | dragon |
| when william came | invasion |
| dertigers | afrikaans |
| rocinante in don quixote | cervantes |
| the theater of cruelty | genet |
| "dark side of the human soul." | balcony |
| madame irma | balcony |
| "grins and lies...hides our cheeks and shades our eyes." | dunbar |
| malindy | sing |
| charles ryder in brideshead revisited | oxford |
| "i'm a jew. i'm small. i'm a homosexual. and i live in sheffield." | history boys |
| tweede asem | afrikaans |
| blixen | kenya |
| buchi emecheta | married |
| invention of morel | argentina |
| pennsylvania farmer | dickinson |
| "penman of the american revolution." | dickinson |
| "mezzo cammin" | longfellow |
| "the comedian as the letter c." | stevens |
| "lives in the shadow of passaic falls." | williams |
| "victor eremita." | kierkegaard |
| "deeds, not words" | denmark |
| testimony of a thousand witnesses | grimke |
| reinhold niebuhr | realism |
| "in vino veritas," | stages on life's way |
| "grassy and wanted wear" | frost |
| obierka | things fall apart |
| beyond the pleasure principle | freud |
| trasks | steinbeck |
| when lucy | dracula |
| "fabius." | dickinson |
| cutlers | history boys |
| british christianity | joseph |
| "must ever call" | dragon |
| ingrid jonker | afrikaans |
| "the child is not dead" | afrikaans |
| sestigers | afrikaans |
| katherine cornell in a rudolf breiser | browning |
| flush at the casa guidi | browning |
| kenneth waltz | realism |
| eye view | yi |
| yi sang prize | booker |
| bora chung | booker |
| callimaco | mandrake |
| "of poppy and cold mandrake juice" | jew of malta |
| "but oh, the clay is vile, beneath our feet, and long the mile." | sing |
| "quit" | sing |
| wes mckinney | panda |
| world wrestling federation | panda |
| the flamingo's smile | panda |
| ned rise | park |
| niger river | park |
| drop city | alaska |
| "three [of these things] for muster mark," | quark |
| "hero's journey," | monomyth |
| "bind up your loins like a man." | job |
| "comforters" | job |
| segou | park |
| brian epstein | liverpool |
| judith martin | manners |
| nicene creed in english | visible and |
| fritjof capra | physic |
| "i'll never do that again, i promise!" | job |
| it is | grimke |
| oswald mosley | mitford |
| "aesthetic" | either/or |
| celestial master zhang | 108 |
| marshal hong | 108 |
| walter klemmer in an elfriede jelinek | piano |
| "i believe in one god." | nicene |
| "riverrun, past eve and adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay." | finnegans wake |
| lord redesdale | mitford |
| "hilarius bookbinder" | kierkegaard |
| muktika upanishad | 108 |
| gopis of vrindavan | 108 |
| detlev spinell | piano |
| oahu in hawaii | pearl harbor |
| "dialectic of inward deepening" | stages on life's way |
| amleth in the gesta | denmark |
| world war ii in a markus zusak | book |
| rhimes | bridgerton |
| spike jonze | adaptation |
| "loved a thunderbird instead" | plath |
| "barely daring to breathe or achoo" | plath |
| "lonesome man in kansas." | ginsberg |
| "feet beating out" | dream |
| "the bliss of what?" | daffodil |
| "sung me moon-struck." | plath |
| "poking among the meats" | ginsberg |
| "listen closely" | dream |
| "absent soul," | lorca |
| "what makes you look so white?" | kipling |
| "dream of baboons and periwinkles." | stevens |
| "the single artificer of the world" | stevens |
| "never get across" | tree |
| "shut up and calculate!" | physic |
| "the ultimate boon." | monomyth |
| in eugene peterson | job |
| edward l. greenstein | job |
| "yclept" | spenser |
| sage | koestler |
| " for 10 points each: henry wadsworth longfellow started his poem about this person with the line " | revere |
| cincinnati bengals | brown |
| "for what did knees have to receive me? for what were the breasts that i sucked?" | job |
| charles grosvenor osgood | spenser |
| act of creation | koestler |
| chris packham | panda |
| "evolutionary cul-de-sacs" | panda |
| pulitzer for tales of the south pacific | michener |
| "hand-switching" | manners |
| "i believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things..." | visible and |
| "who killed the pork chops?" | ginsberg |
| rockland | ginsberg |
| "happy beat." | dream |
| carlos danieri | borges |
| "goatskin water-bag" | kipling |
| "out-did the sparkling waves in glee" | daffodil |
| "ten thousand" | daffodil |
| "beauty of innuendoes" | stevens |
| "spare us yet, lest we forget--lest we forget!" | kipling |
| "recessional" | kipling |
| "crusoe in england." | daffodil |
| grassmann's law | sanskrit |
| jean page | bridgerton |
| orchid thief | adaptation |
| "the stars go waltzing out in blue and red" | plath |
| "(i think i made you up inside my head.)" | plath |
| "a barren field frozen with snow" | dream |
| "like rotten meat" | dream |
| "all things are watching her and she cannot see them" | lorca |
| "sad breeze through the olive trees" | lorca |
| "i will not see it!" | lorca |
| "time" | borges |
| the sharper's cards | borges |
| judge of the nations | kipling |
| "jocund company," | daffodil |
| "beauty of inflections" | stevens |
| "imagine golden birds." | stevens |
| oceanographic institution | woods hole |
| julia quinn | bridgerton |
| susan orlean in adaptation | streep |
| in the devil wears prada | streep |
| "wichita vortex sutra," | ginsberg |
| james dillingham young | henry |
| "betrothed unto your enemy," | donne |
| "big boy doing a man's work" | frost |
tales of a wayside inn | longfellow |
| "what mad pursuit?" | keats |
| "wailing shells" | owen |
| "holy glimmers of goodbyes." | owen |
| "artificial wilderness," | auden |
| "a report to an academy." | kafka |
| olive branch petition | dickinson |
| carlisle | dickinson |
| "purple with green rings," | stevens |
| "the only emperor is" | stevens |
| not without laughter | hughes |
| lenox avenue | hughes |
| "jerusalem / in england's green and pleasant land." | blake |
| times square on new years | burns |
| "vulture-like" | poe |
| "heroine whom no one but [the author] will like" | emma |
| "novelsof manners" | austen |
| "and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise." | if |
| "the parable of the old man and the young" | owen |
| "blood-shod," | owen |
| "put his head to the window." | blake |
| "among twenty snowy mountains" | stevens |
| "toward heaven still." | tree |
| "i am prepared to die" | rivonia |
| fair pay act | mcdaniel |
| "ayckbourn" | alan |
| "dignity" | butler |
| kilmarnock volume | burns |
| "suppers" | burns |
| thenarrator | poe |
| "revolutionary act" | midnight's children |
| "ram of pride" | owen |
| "half the seed of europe" | owen |
| "die as cattle" | owen |
| "sweet city" | arnold |
| "thyrsis" | arnold |
| "i will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!" | george iii |
| "white legs disappearing into the green" | auden |
| "brueghel's icarus" | auden |
| "pressing lidless eyes" | eliot |
| "did he smile his work to see?" | blake |
| "what the hammer? what the chain, in what furnace was thy brain?" | blake |
| "what [she has] suffered and why [she is] calling out." | deities |
| "invocation" | deities |
| absurd person singular | alan |
| thais by menander | corinth |
| "of the knees" | midnight's children |
| sundarban | midnight's children |
| capek | capek |
| sensibilityandprideandprejudice | austen |
| "drunk with fatigue" | owen |
| "orisons" | owen |
| "sky like lead," | auden |
| larry kramer | auden |
| "thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." | eliot |
| "equal to [these beings]." | deities |
| "time, not corydon, hath conquer'd" | arnold |
| "dreaming spires." | arnold |
| "eternal note of sadness" | arnold |
| when the loam | butler |
| stevens in kazuo ishiguro | butler |
| saint frideswide | chest |
| elizabeth-jane | wife selling |
| six characters | rules of the game |
| "opensesame." | scheherazade |
| ablackwoman | o'connor |
| eli lilly | insulin |
| britishschoolboys | lord of the flies |
| thorn birds | outback |
| lots of goto | basic |
| anjum | roy |
| "from dawn to dark" | audubon |
| lafayette ronald hubbard | hubbard |
| silia | rules of the game |
| bonus genentech | insulin |
| identity card | darwish |
| "children throwing rocks at israeli tanks / seconds before becoming [these things]" | flowers |
| "marble, well-governed cities." | auden |
| "the stars threw down their spears" | blake |
| celexa | serotonin |
| research in the southern | ross |
| i. keynes | liquid |
| seven books on the structure of the human body | vesalius |
| captain flint | chest |
| legrand | chest |
| willis | george iii |
| "hatter" | mad |
| admirable crichton | butler |
| j. m. barrie's | butler |
| "nice seeing your honest, chubby face" | burns |
| jane fairfax | knightley |
| "abram," | owen |
| "not worldly." | mrs. dalloway |
| chestney | o'connor |
| "pile the bodies high," | sandburg |
| "magnetic curses" | sandburg |
| etgar keret | israel |
| blue nights | didion |
| "don't tread on me." | gadsden |
| "the father of the green revolution." | norwegian |
| "spaghetti code" | basic |
| "you knew, didn't you? i'm part of you," | lord of the flies |
| meggie cleary | outback |
| "s.c." | outback |
| travelsacross | outback |
| ying chan | mishima |
| macquart | zola |
| rotpeter | kafka |
| "dr[ies] up, like a raisin in the sun?" | hughes |
| apollo stars | hubbard |
| teri | hubbard |
| "i've lost a whole day over these people!" | six characters in search of an author |
| pirandello | rules of the game |
| cassimafter | scheherazade |
| no smoking | o'connor |
| "greenleaf" | o'connor |
| themisfit | o'connor |
| ralph de bricassart | outback |
| svoss | outback |
| modernhebrew | israel |
| like nicolaus copernicus | padua |
| lane company | chest |
| prairie madness | norwegian |
| giants in the earth | norwegian |
| birds of america | audubon |
| frenchprofessor | nabokov |
| thisauthor | burns |
| "carrots." | anne of green gables |
| "you love me yet!" | john |
| bonus have | nadsat |
| pecola breedlove | bluest eye |
| "powhatan's daughter." | brooklyn |
| aunt sissy | brooklyn |
| "bowing my head, i think of home." | li |
| "how choose/between [this place] and the englishtongue i love?" | africa |
| constantinconstantius | kierkegaard |
| orandfear | kierkegaard |
| thisthinker | kierkegaard |
| "far and wee." | cummings |
| "defunct" | cummings |
| intintern abbey | river |
| maginot line | bluest eye |
| aunt jimmy | bluest eye |
| dick | bluest eye |
| botany of desire | pollan |
| "continuity of parks." | cortazar |
| peer gyntsuite | morning mood |
| williamshakespeare | england |
| "friendshipandpleasure" | li |
| " for 10 points each: name these animals, one of which represented winfield scott's plan to " | snake |
| barry mcstay | bats |
| vespertilio | bats |
| inthe libationbearers | clytemnestra |
| percival wemys madison | lord of the flies |
| noor hindi | flowers |
| "one day, i'll write about [these things] like we own them." | flowers |
| year of magical thinking | didion |
| "a pool of moon bright" | li |
| alisonbechdel | fun home |
| johannes de silentio | kierkegaard |
| lasttemptation of christ | kazantzakis |
| danny | brooklyn |
| bridge | brooklyn |
| andrea in cortazar | paris |
| "letter to a young lady in" | paris |
| soaphead church | bluest eye |
| "men, forgive him, for he knows not what he has done." | jesus |
| gospelaccordingto jesus christ | saramago |
| "how many dawns, chill from his rippling rest" | brooklyn |
| "flood-tidebelow me!" | brooklyn |
| "dazzling red glare" | meursault |
| killsan | meursault |
| "but still i face westward with a dreary moan." | li |
| russian at waindell college | nabokov |
| charleskinbote | nabokov |
| hisgeorgics | vergilius |
| "meek." | wife of bath |
| "when chapman billies leave the street," | burns |
| rachel lynde | anne of green gables |
| kitsune | inari |
| dim andbillyboy | nadsat |
| reuven | brooklyn |
| "cries of hate" | meursault |
| "singing wildly" | li |
| "bring in the wine" | li |
| "how can i turn from [this place] and live?" | africa |
| simonpilkings | soyinka |
| messengerand baal | india |
| kahani | india |
| "bee-loud glade," | lake isle of innisfree |
| "wee,sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie." | burns |
| "my love is like a red red rose." | burns |
| "to amouse" | burns |
| missstacy | anne of green gables |
| "the fairy queen." | anne of green gables |
| "bosom friend" | anne of green gables |
| in shinto | white |
| cheever | john |
| "there's a remedy for everything exceptdeath" | sancho |
| twobenedictine | sancho |
| "adrift in the void" | death and the king's horseman |
| "i carry your heart with me" | cummings |
| satanicverses | india |
| gibreel | india |
| "a soft inland murmur." | river |
| "heart with pleasure fills / and dances with" | daffodil |
| pale firewho | nabokov |
| "lusty bachelor," | wife of bath |
| avonlea on prince edward island | anne of green gables |
| lucy maud montgomery | anne of green gables |
| "a lump of vanity" | john |
| "aye, naked! and the wind, god's icy wind, will blow!" | john |
| haleasks | john |
| arab in albert camus | meursault |
| "we will drown away the woes of ten thousand generations." | li |
| "quiet nightthought" | li |
| "discover thesecond face hidden behind the one you see" | kierkegaard |
| "don't panic!" | hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy |
| "here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud" | cummings |
| butt the hoopoe | india |
| sea of storiesafterwriting | india |
| hendrick hudson | irving |
| salmagundi | irving |
| "darkly painted on the crimson sky." | bryant |
| benjamin bunny | peter |
| sunay zaim | snow |
| "awful weight" | renascence |
| persian emperorthat | marlowe |
| anna scherer | war and peace |
| "puts out moresexual vibes than" | flo |
| "measured out my life with coffee spoons" | eliot |
| enoch emery | o'connor |
| kiyaoki | mishima |
| "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation" | sandburg |
| "naturalist," | zola |
| "i'se been a-climbin' on, and reachin' ladders, and turning corners" | hughes |
| james kirke paulding | irving |
| adam trask | east of eden |
| "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." | song of myself |
| "do i contradictmyself" | song of myself |
| "waffles" | uncle vanya |
| serebrakov | uncle vanya |
| vaugoubert | in search of lost time |
| "musical prodigy" | williams |
| "famous clairvoyante" | sosostris |
| "they'll come for wool and go back shorn" | sancho |
| "caballero de la triste figura" | sancho |
| georgie | nadsat |
| orgonhides | moliere |
| thelighthouse | painter |
| "an affirming flame." | auden |
| age of anxietyand | auden |
| "the shieldofachilles" | auden |
| inanother | marlowe |
| "exchange [these people] and eat them." | child |
| huey lewis | american psycho |
| sword of honorand | waugh |
| inbrideshead revisited | painter |
| "she looked over his shoulder" | auden |
| "ironic pointsof light" | auden |
| piskarev | nevsky prospekt |
| "no-neck monsters" | williams |
| maggieand brickfeud with big daddy | williams |
| stephanie courtney | flo |
| "honor your superior!" | machine |
| mopsy | peter |
| "bingen on the rhine" | the open boat |
| "winter solstice?" | snow |
| "i count religion but a childish toy." | marlowe |
| ostnorsk | bokmal |
| "there is nowhere finer than" | nevsky prospekt |
| "the procreant urge of the world." | song of myself |
| "twenty-eight young men" | song of myself |
| "i am large, i contain multitudes" | song of myself |
| playa | chekhov |
| "acreation of the devil." | bell |
| "inverts," | in search of lost time |
| "hell," | naraka |
| "the city and the dogs" | vargas llosa |
| wolf cub village | eating people |
| "this is notan exit." | american psycho |
| bagheera | jungle book |
| into | painter |
| "who wouldnot live long." | auden |
| "blind skyscrapers" | auden |
| sonia | uncle vanya |
| three sistersandthe cherry orchard | chekhov |
| charles morel | in search of lost time |
| vinteuil sonata | in search of lost time |
| "for a long time, i went to bed early" | in search of lost time |
| miss jelkes | williams |
| "the burial of the dead," | waste land |
| akawabata | snow |
| "kill all yuppies" | american psycho |
| "shield maidens" | valkyrie |
| "the white seal" | jungle book |
| yohr | human |
| roomandgo tell it on the mountain | baldwin |
| handfulof dustwrotebrideshead revisited | waugh |
| "new norwegian" | bokmal |
| "twenty-eight years of womanlylife." | song of myself |
| flopsy | peter |
| "my fatherland or my headscarf," | snow |
| necip | snow |
| alp arslan | anatolia |
| "the ballad of the harp weaver." | millay |
| "theantichrist" | war and peace |
| kyot | eco |
| theabidharma-kosadescribes | naraka |
| castorand | swans |
| marriesin | east of eden |
| "there are millions of suns left," | song of myself |
| archaic greek | kouroi |
| balbec | in search of lost time |
| "this is the way the world ends / not with a bang but with awhimper" | eliot |
| geico | flo |
| "dies like a dog" | trial |
| "the negro is your brother" | birmingham |
| "does the set of all those sets that do not contain themselves [pause] contain itself?" | paradox |
| jamie hood | bird |
| tridentine mass | christie |
| max mallowan | christie |
| slop in tristram shandy | obstetrics |
| oliver effingham | cooper |
| gil scott | revolution |
| natty bumppo in the last of the mohicans | cooper |
| japanese ministry of transport | richard parker |
| thirsty | richard parker |
| "exult o shores, and ring o bells!" | whitman |
| "elephant in the room" | revolution |
| american birth control league | higgins |
| the panic of 1907 | interstate commerce |
| elulu | ur |
| aleksandr vershinin | three sisters |
| chamberlen | obstetrics |
| rural hours | cooper |
judge marmaduke temple | cooper |
| holy spirit in acts | tower of babel |
| tony marston | christie |
| abner doubleday | cooper |
| "literary offenses" | cooper |
| "take the wings of morning, pierce the barcan wilderness." | bryant |
| "along that pathless coast" | bryant |
| "will lead my steps aright." | bryant |
| "the lone survivors of the shipwreck" | swift |
| "if you're anything like me." | swift |
| "you're not dylan thomas, i'm not patti smith" | swift |
| shema | love |
| "halcyon days" | bird |
| post-fourier | infinite jest |
| "hipster." | mailer |
| "thy neighbor as thyself." | love |
| "i come, my sweet, to sing to you" | williams |
| "who shall say i am not / the happy genius of my household?" | williams |
| portuguese nobel laureate | saramago |
| janov pelorat | earth |
| "stillness" | earth |
| otsego hall | cooper |
| "descriptive tale" | cooper |
| "go pick out a white dress" | swift |
| "monster on the hill... slowly lurching toward your favorite city" | swift |
| tortured poets | swift |
| "doctorates in political economy from harvard" | infinite jest |
| "a vape shop up the street." | infinite jest |
| "notes and errata" | infinite jest |
| william bowery | swift |
| "i think i've seen this film before and i didn't like the ending." | swift |
| "with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." | love |
| sehgal | woolf |
| trauma plot | bird |
| tereus and philomela | bird |
| kenneth branagh | christie |
| "lovesick major" | three sisters |
| "young authors" | chicago |
| castalian order | hesse |
| "listen to the river." | hesse |
| "one for all and all for one." | three musketeers |
| grimaud | three musketeers |
| when martin luther king | birmingham |
| "a plague on both your houses." | descriptions of |
| "my temple, my mural, my sky." | swift |
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