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| Clue | Most Frequent Answer |
|---|---|
shakespeare | macbeth |
charles dickens | great expectations |
jim | gift of the magi |
george (no last name, play) | albee |
elizabeth (bennet) | pride and prejudice |
don quixote | cervantes |
laura | petrarch |
alice (in wonderland) | carroll |
percy bysshe shelley | ode to the west wind |
martha (no last name, play) | albee |
satan | paradise lost |
tennessee williams | a streetcar named desire |
lesbian poet laureate of england | duffy |
james joyce | dubliners |
miguel de cervantes | don quixote |
rosa (burger) | gordimer |
lucy (lurie) | disgrace |
adam | paradise lost |
name of the rose | eco |
polish boy (tadzio) | death in venice |
"a story of san francisco" | norris |
absalom, absalom! | faulkner |
joseph conrad | heart of darkness |
"the second coming" | yeats |
ramsay (family) | to the lighthouse |
tale of genji | murasaki shikibu |
lord byron | don juan |
anna karenina | tolstoy |
milton | paradise lost |
rebecca (daughter of isaac of york) | ivanhoe |
"ode on a grecian urn" | keats |
rabbit | updike |
ernest hemingway | the sun also rises |
jane austen | emma |
"b. wordsworth" (miguel street) | naipaul |
helen of troy | faustus |
brother jack | invisible man |
tony (buddenbrook) | mann |
ulysses | joyce |
dostoyevsky | crime and punishment |
(tom) robinson | to kill a mockingbird |
"the library of babel" | borges |
"harlem" | hughes |
nina | the seagull |
canterbury tales | chaucer |
anton chekhov | the seagull |
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead | stoppard |
grendel | beowulf |
paul (baumer) | all quiet on the western front |
dickinson | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
lord darlington (play) | wilde |
leo tolstoy | war and peace |
"dulce et decorum est" | owen |
beowulf (irish translation) | heaney |
allen ginsberg | howl |
"do not go gentle into that good night." | thomas |
edgar allan poe | the raven |
richard (spouse) | mrs dalloway |
jean valjean | les miserables |
orgon | tartuffe |
"the road not taken" | frost |
"howl" | ginsberg |
goethe | sturm und drang |
"mending wall" | frost |
ben (hitman) | the dumbwaiter |
"the necklace" | maupassant |
pangloss | candide |
"the falcon cannot hear the falconer" | yeats |
gus (robber friend) | native son |
john the savage | brave new world |
"ariel" | plath |
miss julie | strindberg |
julia (lover) | winston (smith) |
"rage, rage against the dying of the light" | thomas |
"old age should burn and rave" | thomas |
| george name | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
brave new world | huxley |
candide | voltaire |
omar khayyam | rubaiyat |
dante | divine comedy |
carl solomon | howl |
things fall apart | achebe |
okonkwo | achebe |
e. m. forster | a passage to india |
winston smith | o'brien |
"an occurrence at owl creek bridge" | bierce |
"sailing to byzantium" | yeats |
sam (samela) | "master harold"...and the boys |
oscar wilde | the picture of dorian gray |
moby-dick | melville |
faust | goethe |
"the garden of forking paths" | borges |
magic mountain | mann |
"daddy" | plath |
o. henry | "conscience in art" |
eugene onegin | pushkin |
john donne | holy sonnets |
emma | austen |
twenty love poems and a song of despair | neruda |
henry higgins | shaw |
clara (del valle) | allende |
to the lighthouse | woolf |
turgenev | a sportsman's sketches |
leaves of grass | whitman |
sophocles | antigone |
eliza doolittle | shaw |
ophelia | hamlet |
vladimir nabokov | lolita |
ezra pound (translation) | li bai |
nick (no last name, play) | albee |
jean-paul sartre | no exit |
"beauty is truth, truth beauty" | keats |
amina | mahfouz |
kurt vonnegut | slaughterhouse-five |
stage manager | our town |
the human comedy (la comedie humaine) | balzac |
della | the gift of the magi |
ambrose bierce (country, bierce as a character) | mexico |
the crucible | miller |
ruth (play character, wife of teddy) | pinter |
carlos fuentes (country) | mexico |
"i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" | howl |
metamorphoses | ovid |
"i wandered lonely as a cloud." | wordsworth |
gitanjali | tagore |
the labyrinth of solitude | paz |
sister carrie | dreiser |
i know why the caged bird sings | angelou |
thomas gray | "elegy written in a country churchyard" |
lysistrata | aristophanes |
death in venice | mann |
william of baskerville | the name of the rose |
gustave flaubert | madame bovary |
jerry (no last name, play) | albee |
john steinbeck | of mice and men |
euripides | medea |
one hundred years of solitude | gabriel garcia marquez |
"the weary blues" | langston hughes |
harlem renaissance | langston hughes |
| castle | king |
| "a good man is hard to find." | o'connor |
| bishop | robinson |
| john wheeler | sister carrie |
| sylvia | bell jar |
| younger | raisin in the sun |
| lennie small | of mice and men |
| much ado about nothing | shakespeare |
"nevermore" | the raven |
| nobel prize in literature | china |
| vera | saki |
| krogstad | doll |
| oskar matzerath | tin drum |
sancho panza | don quixote |
cairo trilogy | mahfouz |
humbert humbert | lolita |
| carl sandburg | chicago |
| guildenstern | stoppard |
"in you everything sank!" | neruda |
| guy holmes | suicide |
| john keats | beauty |
| janice | updike |
| raisin in the sun | hansberry |
"slouches towards bethlehem to be born." | yeats |
| king creon | antigone |
| "captain" | whitman |
| robin hood | scarlet |
canto general | neruda |
"ball of fat" | maupassant |
henry fleming | red badge of courage |
| gessler | schiller |
| maria | mansfield park |
| horace | dulce et decorum est |
"good fences make good neighbors" | frost |
sherlock holmes (author) | doyle |
huckleberry finn | twain |
blood wedding | federico garcia lorca |
henry james | the turn of the screw |
elmire | moliere |
the maltese falcon | hammett |
| "titan" | prometheus |
| siddhartha gautama | hesse |
"the garden party" (new zealand) | mansfield |
| midsummer night | oberon |
| decameron | boccaccio |
| ivanhoe | scott |
| "he sang his didn't he danced his did." | cummings |
king duncan | macbeth |
prior walter | angels in america |
| easter monday | angelou |
| lord tennyson | lady of |
| old english | beowulf |
| edward king | milton |
| henrik ibsen | doll's |
| myrtle | great gatsby |
"hell is other people" | sartre |
| bald soprano | ionesco |
| aeschylus | aristophanes |
uncle tom | simon (legree) |
| kitty | tolstoy |
| holocaust | schindler's ark |
| "rip van winkle" | irving |
| antoinette cosway | rhys |
| christopher marlowe | chapman |
| eve | milton |
| "death" | hephaestus |
"death, be not proud" | donne |
| cummings | death |
| ravana | sanskrit |
general arroyo | the old gringo |
oxford | hardy |
| abigail | crucible |
| robert putnam | crucible |
| e. t. a. hoffmann | hoffmann |
| estha | india |
| cordelia | lear |
| picture of dorian grey | wilde |
the sorrows of young werther | goethe |
| madame bovary | flaubert |
ray bradbury | fahrenheit 451 |
| federal theatre project | anderson |
| phillip larkin | this be the verse |
| chaucer | canterbury tales |
"what happens to a dream deferred?" | hughes |
| will ladislaw | middlemarch |
griselda | the decameron |
miles | the turn of the screw |
flora | the turn of the screw |
"the legend of sleepy hollow" | washington irving |
| "we real cool" | brooks |
| tweedledum | through the looking glass |
| colonel pickering | shaw |
| oresteia | aeschylus |
| poe | purloined letter |
| jorge luis borges | argentina |
les miserables | hugo |
| unbearable lightness of being | kundera |
| holy sonnets | donne |
| "the white man's burden." | kipling |
| conradin | heart of darkness |
| emily dickinson | death |
alfred (father) | the tin drum |
| virginia woolf | room of one's own |
| derek freeman | mead |
| "gatsby" | fitzgerald |
| lydia languish | sheridan |
| daphne | apollo |
| bertha | edward |
lockwood | wuthering heights |
| narrow road to the deep north | matsuo |
| the handmaid's tale | atwood |
| "belle of amherst" | dickinson |
| "in a grove" | akutagawa |
| black iris | chase |
krapp's last tape | beckett |
| gabriel conroy | dead |
"still unravish'd bride of quietness" | keats |
one thousand and one nights | arabic |
| rudyard kipling | jungle book |
| simon | lord of the flies |
| "dubliners" | joyce |
| gualtieri 's | griselda |
| lucius | golden ass |
"ars poetica" | horace |
| tea cake | hurston |
| "the waste land" | eliot |
| janie | mule |
| cherry orchard | chekhov |
thomas keneally | australia |
"the tyger" | blake |
"hog butcher for the world" | chicago |
| "to his coy mistress." | marvell |
| colosseum | james |
| gonzolo | artemio |
| gustav von aschenbach | mann |
| probably vishnu | turtle |
six characters in search of an author | pirandello |
| yukio mishima | temple of the golden pavilion |
| troy maxson | fences |
| one of murakami | beatles |
"rashomon" | akutagawa |
| hector hyppolite | achilles |
"to a skylark" | percy bysshe shelley |
| "do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?" | our town |
| agamemnon | aegisthus |
arthur jarvis | cry, the beloved country |
| don juan | byron |
giovanni boccaccio | decameron |
| gabriel garcia marquez | one hundred years of solitude |
| new orleans | confederacy of |
| langston hughes | raisin in the sun |
volpone | jonson |
| "the paths of glory lead but to the grave" | gray |
| alyosha | the brothers |
| mary agnes | testaments |
| "fair lined slippers for the cold" | marlowe |
cunegonde | candide |
| vanity fair | thackeray |
| naguib mahfouz | egypt |
| ted hughes | plath |
| voltaire | candide |
on the road | kerouac |
little women | alcott |
| "gimpel the fool." | singer |
| les fleurs | baudelaire |
"i, too, sing america." | langston hughes |
| ted | adichie |
| heathcliff | wuthering heights |
| to kill a mockingbird | lee |
| leon | beatrice |
| bellerophon | iobates |
| "slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men," | donne |
| kamala | hesse |
| night journey | o'neill |
| sargasso sea | rhys |
| "the emperor of ice-cream." | stevens |
| cain | grendel |
| finnegans wake | joyce |
| columbus | roth |
| nikolai gogol | nose |
| tituba | crucible |
| robert frost | difference |
| interpreter of maladies | lahiri |
| edmund | mansfield park |
lu xun | china |
| davies | pinter |
"grace" | dubliners |
| balzac | zola |
| "that is no country for old men" | yeats |
| "sonnet: to science." | poe |
| jude the obscure | hardy |
| pygmalion | shaw |
| harriet | maupassant |
| superman | shaw |
| "lady lazarus" | plath |
| house of the spirits | allende |
| dream of the red chamber | china |
| foucault | eco |
| il canzoniere | petrarch |
| ruth leonard | harry |
| evangeline | longfellow |
| "i was young and easy under apple boughs" | thomas |
| sigmund freud | jung |
| "everything that rises must converge" | o'connor |
| julian | o'connor |
| ivan | alyosha |
| song of hiawatha | longfellow |
"song of myself" | whitman |
| northanger abbey | austen |
| richard wright | native |
| childe harold | byron |
"she walks in beauty" | lord byron |
| post office | tagore |
| hans castorp | mann |
| portrait of the artist | joyce |
george hurstwood | dreiser |
| harry | snows of |
| dresden | slaughterhouse-five |
"a man in black with a meinkampf look." | plath |
| lorca | duende |
| jonathan swift | lemuel |
| cousin bette | balzac |
| haruki murakami | japan |
| dog years in the danzig trilogy | grass |
treasure island | stevenson |
| "felt a funeral" | dickinson |
| our town | wilder |
| styx | achilles |
| "deaths for all ages and occasions! deaths by suspension, convulsion, consumption, incision, execution, asphyxiation and malnutrition!" | rosencrantz |
| other stories | new zealand |
| imaginary invalid | moliere |
| "the red wheelbarrow" | williams |
| ozymandias | shelley |
| hero | beatrice |
| peer gynt | ibsen |
"a swelling of the ground" | because i could not stop for death |
| bertie wooster | jeeves |
| borges | argentina |
patrick white | australia |
| kilgore trout | vonnegut |
| up bird chronicle | murakami |
the god of small things | arundhati roy |
| cavalier | herrick |
| "the day of the dead" | dubliners |
demian | hesse |
| marylou | denver |
| orleanna price | poisonwood bible |
| carver | esquire |
| t. e. lawrence | lady chatterley's lover |
| captain robert walton | frankenstein |
a handful of dust | waugh |
| nettie | color purple |
| "but at my back i always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near." | "to his coy mistress" |
| native son | wright |
| invisible man | paint |
alan paton | cry, the beloved country |
goneril | king lear |
| lizzie | goblin market |
| imagist | williams |
| "tintern abbey." | wordsworth |
| "week of peace" | achebe |
| right logic | clouds |
| hermes | lyre |
catherine earnshaw | wuthering heights |
| hamlet | polonius |
lily briscoe | to the lighthouse |
| tereza | kundera |
| muriel spark | salinger |
| pequod | moby-dick |
madame forestier | the necklace |
| nora helmer | doll's |
| eleanor | doll's house |
| settembrini | magic mountain |
| jaluka | cairo |
| aegeus | minotaur |
"and death shall have no dominion" | thomas |
| jesuit leo naphta | mann |
| "each man kills the thing he loves" | wilde |
| "a b b a, a b b a" | petrarch |
| merope | oedipus |
| puck | midsummer night's dream |
| blanche | streetcar named desire |
| guy montag | fahrenheit 451 |
| darcy | wickham |
| "burning bright, in the forest of the night" | blake |
| "the raven." | poe |
| olga tokarczuk | polish |
| "strike" | fences |
| daisy | ionesco |
| claudio | much ado about |
| irina | checkhov |
104th (squad) | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| gulliver | swift |
| ludmilla | calvino |
| buddenbrooks | mann |
| magid iqbal | smith |
| lolita | nabokov |
| billy budd | melville |
| norman mailer | kennedy |
| portnoy | roth |
| sophie | haiti |
| athol fugard | south |
| twenty thousand leagues under the sea | verne |
| tin drum | grass |
grover's corners | our town |
teddy (play character, husband of ruth) | pinter |
| in search of lost time | proust |
| "they send to eat in the kitchen / when company comes." | hughes |
| pamela | richardson |
| endgame | beckett |
| maus | spiegelman |
| bell jar | plath |
| jungle book | kipling |
| fra pandolf | browning |
| marcus chalfen | smith |
| stephen dedalus | joyce |
| washington irving | sleepy hollow |
jia baoyu | dream of the red chamber |
mother courage and her children | brecht |
| "vie" | buchenwald |
| italo calvino | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| middlemarch | eliot |
| vladimir | waiting for |
miss gostrey | the ambassadors |
| "a supermarket in california." | ginsberg |
| pedro camacho | vargas |
| estragon | waiting for |
| saint sebastian | o'connor |
| beatrice | much ado about |
| "vanished into the clouds." | murasaki |
| "elegy written in a country churchyard" | gray |
| murder of gonzago | stoppard |
| bobby | lahiri |
| "a madman's diary" | lu |
| old gringo | bierce |
"ode to a nightingale" | keats |
| society of the tower | goethe |
| chinua achebe | things fall apart |
| ministry of truth | winston |
rocinante | don quixote |
| berenger | rhinoceros |
the mysterious island | verne |
| keats | ode |
| salman rushdie | midnight's children |
stella (kowalski) | a streetcar named desire |
| nathanael | hoffmann |
| j. d. salinger | glass |
| bernard rieux | plague |
| aston | pinter |
| hally | kite |
| orson welles | detective |
| "quiet night thought" | li |
| dumb waiter | pinter |
| cleopatra | all for love |
| norris | mansfield park |
| "broken-winged bird / that cannot fly" | dream |
| sea of fertility | mishima |
| "moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" | rubaiyat |
| zoo story | albee |
| nathan zuckerman | roth |
| tyrone slothrop | pynchon |
| crying of lot | pynchon |
| war and peace | tolstoy |
mary dalton | native son |
| matthew arnold | dover beach |
| franz | schiller |
| temple of the golden pavilion | mishima |
| "old man" | hemingway |
| welsh | thomas |
| "the negro speaks of rivers." | hughes |
| william tell | schiller |
| "fern hill." | thomas |
| joseph grand | plague |
| plath | mother |
| kurtz | heart of darkness |
| stevens | butler |
| montaigne | cyrano de bergerac |
| "a vast image out of spiritus mundi." | yeats |
| regan | lear |
| pearl | scarlet letter |
the catcher in the rye | salinger |
the school for wives | moliere |
| "a rapture" | cavalier |
| peeling the onion | grass |
| sam shaw | soma |
| esteban | allende |
| mick | pinter |
| running man | king |
| joe louis | all my sons |
| "stamp" | i know why the caged bird sings |
| addie | as i lay dying |
| rodolphe | madame bovary |
| "when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed." | lincoln |
| ee-zah-nah-mee | amaterasu |
| molina | puig |
| algeria | camus |
| "a far cry from africa" | walcott |
| komako | kawabata |
| "for whom the bell tolls?" | hemingway |
| wuthering heights | heathcliff |
| septimus smith | mrs |
| pallas athena | aegis |
| richard bachman | king |
| saleem sinai | midnight's children |
| paul laurence dunbar | maya |
| temple of the fire baptized | baldwin |
| hughes in a washington | harlem |
| "half a league" | tennyson |
| kemal | cairo |
| nicole | testaments |
| josef k | kafka |
| charlotte | goethe |
| "why i live at the p.o." | welty |
| dorothea brooke | middlemarch |
| angels | kushner |
| holderlin | nietzsche |
| arabian nights | galland |
| george orwell | 1984 |
| "the nose." | gogol |
| glengarry glen ross | mamet |
| paula vogel | yiddish |
| madame odintsova | fathers and sons |
| scotsman | kidnapped |
| jeeves | wodehouse |
| "unstuck in time." | slaughterhouse-five |
| eden | milton |
| dean moriarty | on the road |
| "the albatross" | baudelaire |
| stradlater | holden |
| big boy | wright |
| jhumpa lahiri | india |
| johannesburg | cry, the beloved country |
| "anyone lived in a pretty how town" | cummings |
| yeats | the second coming |
| baron thunder | candide |
| "because i could not stop for death." | dickinson |
| "eye-am" | bellerophon |
| milly | waugh |
| scarlet letter | hawthorne |
| rama | sugriva |
| beloved country | paton |
"great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| buenos aires | autobiography of red |
| kemmerich | all quiet on the western front |
| dracula | stoker |
| cory | wilson |
| yohl | thor |
| "stay where you are until our backs are turned" | mending wall |
| derek walcott | odyssey |
| bride | lorca |
| in cold blood | capote |
| "funny they don't see us." | crane |
| "in the penal colony." | kafka |
| kiss of the spider woman | argentina |
| aime cesaire | caliban |
| "monsieur madeleine" | coin |
| sibyl vane | wilde |
| basil hallward | wilde |
| "what mighty contests rise from trivial things" | rape of the lock |
one day in the life of ivan denisovich | solzhenitsyn |
| death of artemio cruz | fuentes |
the red badge of courage | crane |
| scott | mansfield |
| hester prynne | scarlet letter |
| an american tragedy | dreiser |
edward albee | who's afraid of virginia woolf? |
| "the tower" | yeats |
| robinson crusoe | defoe |
| konstantin | seagull |
| g. sebald | sebald |
| doctor zhivago | pasternak |
| celia | middlemarch |
smales | gordimer |
| heart of darkness | conrad |
| the sea | murdoch |
| tadzio | mann |
anna akhmatova | russian |
| brewer | harry |
| abel magwitch | great expectations |
| pablo neruda | socks |
| major barbara | shaw |
| "hickey" | iceman cometh |
| in the popol vuh | maya |
| bailey | thoreau |
| desdichado | ivanhoe |
| zeami | mask |
roy cohn | angels in america |
| perseus | medusa |
| robert burns | rose |
| buck | buck |
| of mice | steinbeck |
| "the rape of the lock." | pope |
| steppenwolf | hesse |
| stephen kumalo | cry, the beloved country |
| brothers karamazov | akutagawa |
| brotherhood | invisible man |
| "the lottery." | jackson |
| bev shaw | disgrace |
| yu tsun | borges |
| ralph waldo emerson | forster |
| monkswell manor | christie |
| "white teeth" | smith |
| dead | stoppard |
| marceline | hamlet |
| martine | dinesen |
| macondo | one hundred years of solitude |
| sir arthur conan doyle | sherlock |
| bernard shaw | salvation army |
| "glazed with rain / water" | red wheelbarrow |
| howards end | forster |
| umuofia | things fall apart |
| remains of the day | butler |
| toni morrison | song of solomon |
| "annabel lee" | poe |
| samuel beckett | waiting for |
| meursault | camus |
| david lurie | disgrace |
| "i sing the body electric" | leaves of grass |
| susanin | amaterasu |
| harry hickman | iceman cometh |
| basho | deep north |
| mowgli | jungle book |
| madame pace | six characters in search of an author |
| pahome | tolstoy |
| under milk wood | thomas |
| "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" | albee |
| "i am." | albee |
| the birds | aristophanes |
| a.e. housman | shropshire lad |
| "we must love one another or die" | auden |
| melanie isaacs | disgrace |
| eugene o'neill's | rubaiyat |
| billy pilgrim | slaughterhouse-five |
| judith | night of |
| " in " | hopkins |
| paradise | fir |
| catherine morland | austen |
| bazarov | turgenev |
| christminster | hardy |
| "the passionate shepherd to his love." | marlowe |
| peneus | daphne |
| "hugh selwyn mauberley," | pound |
zora neale hurston | their eyes were watching god |
| sue bridehead | jude the |
| uncle vanya | chekhov |
| "this is just to say." | williams |
| the mousetrap | christie |
| william faulkner | as i lay dying |
| new yorkers | auster |
konstantin levin | anna karenina |
| mixing it up | pirandello |
| bean eaters | brooks |
| sun wukong | journey to the west |
| portrait of a woman | james |
| john dryden | jonson |
| linda | house |
| elysian fields | aeneid |
| william h. parker | tiger |
| though neruda | chile |
| akaky akakievich | overcoat |
| tess | hardy |
| dasharatha | ramayana |
| enkidu | bull |
| "i'm with you in rockland." | howl |
| weimar | schiller |
| miranda | old gringo |
| "little cat feet." | fog |
| "the lamb" | blake |
| mayella ewell | to kill a mockingbird |
| octavio paz | mexico |
| "drinking alone by moonlight" | li |
| pushkin | tsar saltan |
| vivisector | australia |
| tessie hutchinson | lottery |
| "j'accuse." | zola |
| cujo | king |
| "the overcoat." | gogol |
| "i remember about the rabbits, george." | of mice and men |
| "mademoiselle fifi" | maupassant |
| "the luck of roaring camp." | harte |
| "sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on" | fog |
| amelia | fielding |
| "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / are sweeter." | ode |
| chandara | lahiri |
| aomame | murakami |
| atlantic monthly | lowell |
| toilers of the sea | hugo |
| america is not the heart | bulosan |
| phoenix jackson | welty |
| "first fig" | candle |
| dukhiram | lahiri |
| edmund wilson | simon |
| "very well, then, i contradict myself. / i am large, i contain multitudes." | song of myself |
| proteus | verona |
| seymour glass | bananafish |
| george and hazel | harrison bergeron |
| mildendo | lilliput |
"who threw potato salad at ccny lecturers on dadaism" | howl |
| kitty hawk answer | wright |
| iceman cometh | o'neill |
| kai | snow queen |
| federico garcia lorca | ginsberg |
| norwegian wood | murakami |
| don gamalieli | artemio |
| isle of guernsey | hugo |
| "a sound of thunder." | bradbury |
| "painted ladies under the gaslamps." | sandberg |
| "do you know the land where the lemon-trees grow?" | goethe |
| robert o'neill | anna christie |
| "cherub." | alyosha |
| an essay on criticism | pope |
| count vronsky | anna |
maxim gorky | lower depths |
| confederacy of dunces | confederacy of |
| " to the title " | canto |
| one flew over the cuckoo | kesey |
| gretta | dead |
| the power | greene |
| sal paradise | on the road |
| frieda | kafka |
| "my soul has grown deep like the rivers." | hughes |
| paterson | williams |
| jim o'connor | glass menag |
| nathaniel hawthorne | scarlet letter |
| "live off the fatta the lan" | lennie |
| rabindranath tagore | india |
| fredrich | paul |
| colossus | wolverine |
| fahmy | mahfouz |
| "year of the depend adult undergarment," | wallace |
| bts | demian |
| messinger | reading dickens |
| floyd | maltese |
| larry | tree |
| yasin | cairo |
| "to an athlete dying young," | housman |
| yugen | beat |
| key to all mythologies | eliot |
| "among school children." | yeats |
| lorraine hansberry | raisin in the sun |
| ars amatoria | ovid |
| "studies of manners" | human comedy |
| frederic taillefer | human comedy |
| "we are truly different. and we are truly alone." | paz |
| "what's it going to be then, eh?" | clockwork orange |
| elizabeth bennet in pride | pride and prejudice |
| aunt julia | vargas |
| hamiltons | steinbeck |
| "rita" | machado |
| glass menagerie | williams |
| good soldier | ford |
| "this is the saddest story i have ever heard." | good soldier |
| "the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced." | yahoo |
| nathan the wise | decameron |
| choh | hurston |
| ka | pamuk |
| spanish golden age | lope |
| tate | sheriff |
| maastricht | d'artagnan |
| doc | cannery row |
| "fallen cold and dead." | o captain! my captain |
| jack gladney | white |
| "octopussy" | train |
| masnavi | rumi |
| sanditon | austen |
| "what you've come out for then is simply to render him an immense service." | ambassadors |
| danvers carew | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| angelo | tristero |
| dead zone | king |
| hurtle duffield | white |
| rimbaud | moon |
| empire of blefuscu | lilliput |
| alchemist | jonson |
| no longer at ease | achebe |
| jonathan harker | dracula |
| english by thomas drant | ars |
| ralph ellison | invisible man |
| receiver of memory | giver |
| rua | lahiri |
| jonas | giver |
| "longed to travel or to go back to her convent. she wished at the same time to die and to live in paris." | flaubert |
| groh | ward number 6 |
| arundhati roy | india |
| bernardo di | hamlet |
| lara | doctor zhivago |
| gilberte | charles |
| molly | great expectations |
| kafka | trial |
| franz kafka | penal colony |
| "digging," | heaney |
| "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou" | rubaiyat |
| pyramus | mulberry |
| thrushcross grange | wuthering heights |
| "a better man than i am." | kipling |
| valentine michael smith | heinlein |
| "that's our first principle--no war!" | lysistrata |
| "what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" | alice |
| the and crabwalk | grass |
| "auld lang syne" | burns |
| catherine | farewell to arms |
| a doll's house | ibsen |
| jones very | salem |
| du fu | li |
| master harold | fugard |
| titanic | hardy |
| celie | shug |
| mann | buddenbrooks |
| tulsi | naipaul |
| "jana gana mana" | india |
| salem | crucible |
| leopold bloom | ulysses |
| james connolly | crabbe |
| mordred | candle in the |
| moliere | tartuffe |
| capulet | romeo and juliet |
| covent garden | eliza |
| jane eyre | reader, i married him |
| ernst theodor amadeus hoffmann | hoffmann |
| baron | pope |
| daily telegraph | war correspondent |
their eyes were watching god | hurston |
| inferno | divine comedy |
| paul baumer | all quiet on the western front |
| marlow | heart of darkness |
"a novel without a hero" | vanity fair |
| "thought they were only mad when baltimore gleamed in supernatural ecstasy." | howl |
| cottard | camus |
| hotspur | falstaff |
| milan kundera | czech |
| do not say the last name when giving the answer to the first part | alyosha |
| irene | bierce |
| gogol | akutagawa |
| "howl?" | ginsberg |
| basilic | smith |
| estella | no exit |
| tofano | decameron |
| ser cepparello | decameron |
| sei shonagon | pillow book |
| pozzo | waiting for godot |
| tomas | unbearable lightness of being |
| lotte | goethe |
| anchises | aeneid |
| john seward | abraham |
| "seize the day," | horace |
| dalloway | woolf |
| pedro tercero | allende |
| house on mango street | mexican |
| songs of innocence | blake |
| agent fred | dick |
| francis nurse | crucible |
| "if you will be faithful to me, i'll make you a great man." | xury |
| indiana | sand |
| santa fe | cather |
| d'urbervilles | hardy |
| orhan pamuk | istanbul |
| harper lee | to kill a mockingbird |
| charles wilcox | forster |
| gregor samsa | kafka |
| "and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils." | wordsworth |
| "gunga din," | kipling |
| the awakening | confederacy of |
| rumi | persian |
| "a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent!" | byron |
| oliver twist | novel |
| "his excellency, general washington" | wheatley |
| coming of age in samoa | mead |
| septimus hodge | stoppard |
| "two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." | ozymandias |
| yeehats | judge |
| marner | eliot |
| "better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven." | milton |
emily bronte | wuthering heights |
| mechanical hound | fahrenheit 451 |
| two of the serpent players | apartheid |
| colley cibber | pope |
| mildred | bradbury |
| birthday party | pinter |
| miss watson | douglas |
| arkady kirsanov | fathers and sons |
| mathilde loisel | maupassant |
| david foster wallace | infinite jest |
| peyton farquar | bierce |
| robert brrowning | finnegans wake |
| palace walk | cairo |
| "a gown made of the finest wool" | marlowe |
| "anthem for doomed youth" | owen |
| oprah winfrey | morrison |
| emmeline | simon |
| cassy | simon |
| morkan | finnegans wake |
| skyfall | james |
| "is not to reason why, theres is but to do and die," | charge of the light brigade |
| wole soyinka | death and the king's horseman |
| ogilvy | winston |
| miles archer | maltese |
| "miss wonderly" | maltese |
| neeth | raisin in the sun |
| "dry up like a raisin in the sun." | dream |
| clockwork orange | burgess |
| joseph asagai | raisin in the sun |
| "give me your hands, if we be friends, and robin shall restore amends." | oberon |
| biff | death of a |
| peter carey | australia |
| "the open boat" | crane |
| darryl van horne | updike |
| "rikki-tikki-tavi" | "the white man's burden" |
| "ignorant armies clash by night." | dover beach |
| lucinda | carey |
| "may i for my own self song's truth reckon, / journey's jargon." | old english |
| roy | aids |
| lady windermere | wilde |
| charlotte bronte | jane eyre |
| walden two | thoreau |
| captain nemo | nautilus |
| alex | clockwork orange |
| dark forest | things fall apart |
| "the spider's thread." | akutagawa |
| gordias | south africa |
| "what is the grass?" | sandburg |
| "do i wake or do i sleep?" | keats |
| brideshead revisited | waugh |
| "the night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance" | twenty love poems |
| my name | pamuk |
crime and punishment | dostoevsky |
| "it is the hour of departure" | neruda |
| "before the wig and the dress coat there were rivers, arterial rivers." | canto general |
| george osborne | thackeray |
| my life | australia |
| "lament for the death of a bullfighter." | lorca |
| gravity's rainbow | pynchon |
| georg | kafka |
| "transcendental" | emerson |
| "the horror! the horror!" | heart of darkness |
| "a traveling salesman of wines and spirits," | camus |
| new journalist | wolfe |
| "the arena is full of blood." | escamillo |
| "think as you fight" | escamillo |
| sanderling island | poisonwood bible |
| one of saramago | portugal |
| gertrude | cry, the beloved country |
| laputa | gulliver's travels |
| sphinx | oedipus |
| winslow homer | ars |
| thetis | achilles |
| aesop | tortoise |
| "c d e c d e" | petrarch |
| oran | plague |
| antigone | oedipus |
| clifford | waiting for lefty |
| cao xuequin | dream of the red chamber |
| "the gods have their own laws." | metamorphoses |
| "sylvan historian" | beauty |
| dmitri | tolstoy |
| republic of gilead | atwood |
| "death of a traveling salesman" | miller |
| mizoguchi | mishima |
| "chicago." | sandburg |
| twilight zone | bierce |
| walpurgis night | goethe |
| elective affinities | goethe |
| henry david thoreau | walden |
| "a valediction: forbidding mourning," | donne |
| "frost" | mending wall |
| hofmann | english |
| hesperides | herrick |
| pioneer | middlemarch |
| bloody chamber | fairy tale |
| appin murder | kidnapped |
| "my last duchess," | browning |
| waffen-ss | grass |
| alfred douglas | importance of being earnest |
| belinda | pope |
| "what the thunder said," | eliot |
| "runaround," | asimov |
| wild swans at coole | yeats |
| "rough beast" | yeats |
| esther greenwood | plath |
| elizabeth costello | coetzee |
| "easter, 1916." | yeats |
les rougon-macquart | zola |
| "carpe diem," | horace |
"leda and the swan" | yeats |
| "paul revere's ride." | longfellow |
| janie crawford | their eyes were watching god |
| red sammy | o'connor |
| east egg | great gatsby |
| "grass" | tin drum |
| "and did those feet in ancient time / walk upon england's mountains green?" | blake |
| "once upon a midnight dreary" | raven |
| gabriel lajeunesse | longfellow |
| "miracle" | kingsolver |
| "work." | grass |
"the sons of la malinche" | paz |
infinite jest | david foster wallace |
| robert louis stevenson | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
toru okada | murakami |
| "footnote" | ginsberg |
| boris max | native |
| bigger thomas | native |
| mayor of casterbridge | hardy |
| an american pastoral | roth |
| captain beatty | fahrenheit 451 |
| yalta | chekhov |
| mathilde | maupassant |
| linton | wuthering heights |
| murder on the orient express | christie |
| "desiree's baby," | chopin |
| r. b. bennett | big brother |
| "if-," | kipling |
| animal farm | orwell |
| nick bottom | robin |
| mccann | pinter |
| curly | lennie |
| ash wednesday | eliot |
| laertes | polonius |
| simon stimson | choir |
| annie | brooks |
| fernando pessoa | portuguese |
| toby | sterne |
| velutha | roy |
| ammu | god of small things |
| purgatorio | divine comedy |
| shirazi | hafez |
| dover beach | arnold |
| armand aubigny | desiree's baby |
pyramus and thisbe | a midsummer night's dream |
| "tam o' shanter" | burns |
mayday | gilead |
| veronal | romeo and juliet |
| edna pontellier | awakening |
| in julia ward howe | atlantic |
| kristine linde | doll's |
| with coleridge | wordsworth |
| slouching towards bethlehem | didion |
| dunya | crime and punishment |
| east of eden | steinbeck |
| stone raft | saramago |
| "so much depends / upon" | red wheelbarrow |
| algonquin round table | parker |
| anne carson | autobiography of red |
| glass bead games | hesse |
| jane | bennet |
| death comes for the archbishop | cather |
| sci-fi | mcewan |
| terri | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| valentine | mephistopheles |
| burchell | vicar of wakefield |
disgrace | coetzee |
| "story" | sailor |
| "no" | eco |
| ann deever | all my sons |
"prince charming" | the picture of dorian gray |
| spirit of evil | yiddish |
| leonora | pirandello |
| knight of the white moon | cervantes |
| clare quilty | lolita |
| henry iv | pirandello |
| jean marie latour | cather |
| "i could not love thee (dear) so much / love'd i not honor more" | lovelace |
| erlynne | wilde |
| thomas shadwell | jonson |
| chris | anna christie |
| tagore | gitanjali |
| ceyx | chaucer |
| smiths | ionesco |
| rhinoceros | ionesco |
| charon | dead |
| bleak house | dickens |
| "what women most desire." | wife of bath |
| "the robbers" | schiller |
brobdingnag | gulliver's travels |
| cannery row | steinbeck |
| buendia | garcia marquez |
| daisy buchanan | fitzgerald |
| "just right." | granta |
| millay | candle |
| llareggub | thomas |
| "light the kettle." | dumb waiter |
| white noise | delillo |
| harry hope | iceman cometh |
| "relax. concentrate. dispel every other thought." | if on a winter's night |
| tita | esperanza |
| "an aged man is but a paltry thing" | yeats |
| seamus heaney | beowulf |
| cronos | hestia |
| dua lipa | pachinko |
| "you who hear the sound, in scattered rhymes" | laura |
| j.r.r. tolkien | beowulf |
the hundred years' war | agincourt |
| "the discourager of hesitancy." | sword |
| "the gift of the magi." | henry |
"after apple-picking." | frost |
| john proctor | crucible |
| unaccustomed earth | lahiri |
| matteo boiardo | chile |
| francis a. | lampedusa |
| ganya | parvati |
| "by the shores of gitche gumee." | song of hiawatha |
| william riggan | lazarillo de tormes |
| fury | faulkner |
| book of the duchess | chaucer |
| yoknapatawpha county | faulkner |
bundrens | faulkner |
the gulag archipelago | solzhenitsyn |
| "a worn path." | welty |
| "to autumn" | keats |
| candy darling | of mice and men |
| owen meany | baseball |
| robert graves | claudius |
| st. lucia | walcott |
| ayodhya | ramayana |
| "goblin market." | rossetti |
| echidna | typhon |
| "pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo" | grass |
| god of vengeance | yiddish |
| most of wheatley | religious |
| "poems on various subjects," | religious |
| briony tallis | atonement |
| "carol" | oleanna |
| lost world | doyle |
| jack kerouac | road |
| josef lada | schweik |
| "holy" | ginsberg |
| hestia | apollo |
| kattrin | brecht |
| "blind eyes" | thomas |
| yul | korean |
| hopscotch | cortazar |
| "ode on a distant prospect of eton college." | gray |
| "guantanamera." | cuba |
| czechia | kundera |
| ister | river |
| haidee | don juan |
king hedley ii | wilson |
| roberto marx | on the road |
| war of the worlds | radio |
| "to the virgins, to make much of time." | rose |
eatonville | their eyes were watching god |
| lensky | pushkin |
| anne bradstreet | fire |
| "superman comes to the supermarket." | kennedy |
| "the open window." | saki |
| p. lovecraft | lovecraft |
| life of pi | tiger |
| kan'ami | mask |
| margaret atwood | handmaid's tale |
| "a very old man with enormous wings." | garcia marquez |
| "swann's way" | in search of lost time |
| pindar | herodotus |
| "pere goriot" | balzac |
| negro theatre unit | wilson |
| roland | charlemagne |
| the misanthrope | moliere |
| oronte | sonnet |
| mustafa sa | othello |
| hanno | buddenbrooks |
| caedmon | bede |
| kuchuk hanem | orientalism |
| oliver mellors | lady chatterley's lover |
| jose saramago | blindness |
| exeter book | old english |
| philippics | lottery |
| "the outcasts of poker flat" | harte |
| "hell screen" | akutagawa |
| cornudet | german |
germinal | zola |
| "cogwheels" | akutagawa |
| sayyid ahmad | mahfouz |
| trafalmadore | slaughterhouse-five |
| "patels" | tiger |
| "curfew tolls the knell of parting day." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| maryse conde | tituba |
| larissa | perseus |
| icarus | daedalus |
| main street | lewis |
| manuel puig | argentina |
| thomasina coverly | arcadia |
| aunt agatha | jeeves |
| "mignon" | goethe |
| "come live with me and be my love." | marlowe |
| "buffalo bill" | cummings |
| kingdom hearts | mock turtle |
| "how do you like your blue eyed boy / mister death?" | cummings |
| "always depended on the kindness of strangers" | streetcar named |
| ludovico | clockwork orange |
the dharma bums | kerouac |
| natyashastra | kalidasa |
| "strange meeting" | owen |
| "bent double, like old beggars under sacks," | owen |
| "the old lie." | owen |
| nyx | erebus |
| clarissa | richardson |
| vicar of wakefield | goldsmith |
| albert camus | france |
| "the memory of you emerges from the night around me" | neruda |
| jekyll | stevenson |
| other ibsen | when we dead awaken |
"stopping by woods on a snowy evening" | frost |
| belacqua shuah | beckett |
| "ennui!" | flowers of evil |
| chimamanda adichie | nigeria |
| "mac flecknoe." | dryden |
| george tesman | ibsen |
| doctor pangloss | candide |
| "the minister's black veil" | hawthorne |
| sir gawain | knight |
| diana | knight |
ralph (no last name, protagonist) | lord of the flies |
| ulrich | saki |
| william golding | lord of the flies |
| aloysius | brideshead revisited |
| captain ahab in moby | melville |
| philae | moliere |
| dulcinea | don quixote |
| tezcatlipoca | quetzalcoatl |
| robert herrick | rose |
| sugar street | egypt |
| duke of cornwall | regan |
| emmanuel goldstein | o'brien |
| "what have i got in my pocket?" | bilbo |
| boris pasternak | doctor zhivago |
| mark hopkins | sonnet |
| esperanza cordero | house on mango street |
| "don juan in hell" | shaw |
| "april is the cruelest month," | eliot |
| wilhelm meister | goethe |
under the gaslight | sister carrie |
| "sunday morning" | stevens |
| oceania | 1984 |
| arapesh | three musketeers |
| mehring | gordimer |
joseph garcin | no exit |
| algernon swinburne | sappho |
quo vadis | polish |
| stephen | joyce |
| beneatha | raisin in the sun |
| jose marti | cuba |
| betty | crucible |
gwendolyn brooks | we real cool |
| ira aldridge | lord chamberlain |
| "jazz june," | brooks |
| "sredni vashtar" | saki |
| criseyde | chaucer |
| wisconsin to chicago | dreiser |
xury | defoe |
| blind assassin | atwood |
| coalhouse walker | ragtime |
| "who, if i cried out, would hear me among the angelic hierarchies?" | duino elegies |
| walter scott | frederick |
| lady of the lake | scott |
| pilate | song of solomon |
| pierre arronax | verne |
| hymir | jormungand |
| caspar goodwood | james |
| prospect garden | dream of the red chamber |
| "summoner" | venice |
| dodge | buried child |
| mary pereira | rushdie |
| "now you will not swell the rout of lads that wore their honors out." | housman |
| stranger in a strange land | heinlein |
| streetcar named desire | williams |
| capote | lee |
| ndotsheni | cry, the beloved country |
around the world in eighty days | verne |
"mistah kurtz--he dead." | heart of darkness |
| top girls | joan |
big brother | 1984 |
| troo | katherina |
| lorde | brooks |
| modest proposal | swift |
| midgard serpent | jormungand |
| victor frankenstein | william |
blake | "the tyger" |
| "spleen and ideal" | baudelaire |
| "the flea." | donne |
| bill tanner | bond |
| "the war years." | sandburg |
| kingsley amis | bond |
| "the river-merchant's wife." | li |
| roxane | cyrano |
| nell | unhappiness |
| hindley | heathcliff |
| coleman barks | rumi |
| "sit in one of the dives on fifty-second street" | auden |
spiritual couplets | rumi |
(translated by) edward fitzgerald | rubaiyat |
| tristram shandy | sterne |
"comedies of menace" | pinter |
| dog years | grass |
| stephen crane | open boat |
| mill on the floss | eliot |
| isaac asimov | science |
| "camera eye" | dos passos |
| "god is dead" | nietzsche |
| "tonight i can write the saddest lines." | neruda |
| dark | bradbury |
| harry angstrom | updike |
| frodo | bilbo |
| "die soon." | brooks |
| "crust and sugar over, / like a syrupy sweet?" | harlem renaissance |
| goriot | balzac |
| andrew marvell | macleish |
| senghor | academie |
| mirgorod | viy |
| tirant lo blanch | don quixote |
| dorothy | wordsworth |
| "paper war." | fielding |
| "i have done it again/one year in every ten." | plath |
| "theater of the absurd" | beckett |
| jacob marley | ebenezer |
| erich remarque | all quiet on the western front |
| future king | white |
| henry hudson | irving |
| with fire | polish |
ebenezer dorset | the ransom of red chief |
| far from the madding crowd | hardy |
| schwarzgerat | gravity's rainbow |
| katherina | taming of the |
| mademoiselle reisz | chopin |
| cat's cradle | vonnegut |
| o'brien | vietnam |
| alquist | czech |
| versos sencillos | marti |
| mictlantecuhtli | underworld |
| dogberry | much ado about nothing |
| don caesar | ambitious |
| vasudeva | siddhartha |
| mikhail bulgakov | master and margarita |
| death of a naturalist | heaney |
| "who are mostly good" | brooks |
| angel flores | universal history of infamy |
| ruben dario | ocampo |
| piazza tales | benito |
| melville | moby-dick |
| apollonian | nietzsche |
| the stranger | camus |
| sidi | soyinka |
| olunde | soyinka |
| joy luck club | tan |
| cathay | li |
| adriana | syracuse |
| pen translation prize | mann |
| tang dynasty | li |
| chapter 9 | doubloon |
| "the panther" | rilke |
| marius | les |
| luigi | mario |
| cantos | pound |
| lady rowena | ivanhoe |
| wise blood | o'connor |
| maphia | saramago |
| "ode to joy." | schiller |
| house on eccles street | coetzee |
"done because we are too menny" | jude the obscure |
| shalamar | song of solomon |
| leonard bast | forster |
| "the mother" | brooks |
| passage to india | forster |
mustapha mond | brave new world |
| matsuo basho | haiku |
| pontius pilate | master and margarita |
albertine | in search of lost time |
| sentimental education | flaubert |
| nine feet | paint |
| son | giver |
| "carnal embrace." | stoppard |
| heinrich heine | german |
isabel allende | the house of the spirits |
| long goodbye | roth |
| notes of a native son | baldwin |
| "la belle dame sans merci," | keats |
| "a thing of beauty is a joy forever." | keats |
| isabel archer | james |
| adso of melk | name of the rose |
hyperion (novel) | friedrich holderlin |
| constance | jackson |
| oedipa maas | pynchon |
| georges bizet | carmen |
| harry haller | mozart |
| eilif | brecht |
| al-jawad | mahfouz |
| karen | andersen |
children of gebelawi | mahfouz |
| importance of being earnest | wilde |
miss havisham | great expectations |
| pip | great expectations |
| sweet home | beloved |
| "country" | snow |
| "sapos" | deities |
| daniel defoe | plague |
| graham greene | spy |
| "one art," | villanelle |
| il filostrato | boccaccio |
| baldur | loki |
| aziz | passage to india |
| winterset | sacco |
| "sympathy." | caged bird |
| angry penguins | australia |
| wikipedia | thoreau |
| denver | beloved |
| ministry of utmost happiness | roy |
| "look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" | ozymandias |
konstantin treplev | the seagull |
| thomas hardy | far from the madding |
| malaprop | sheridan |
| tyrone | long day's journey into night |
| "antichrist" | war and peace |
| out of africa | dinesen |
| ragin | ward number 6 |
| "if winter comes, can spring be far behind?" | ode to the west wind |
| aston villa | gus |
| seth | winesburg |
| george willard | anderson |
| winesburg | anderson |
| gerda | buddenbrooks |
| "karawane" | dada |
| "mother to son." | hughes |
"soul has grown deep" | langston hughes |
| "red thoughts and his teeth were white." | saki |
| english patient | ondaatje |
death with interruptions | saramago |
| "city of the big shoulders" | sandburg |
| "fog" | sandburg |
| big sea | hughes |
| "i bathed in the euphrates when dawns were young." | hughes |
| "star-cross'd lovers." | romeo and juliet |
| "the litanies of satan." | flower |
| adelaide fouque | zola |
| literary club | johnson |
| mnemosyne | keats |
| tale of a tub | swift |
| voss | white |
| "[one event] in june, corn be heavy soon." | jackson |
| d'artagnan first | three musketeers |
| porthos | three musketeers |
| trigorin | checkhov |
| bathsheba everdene | far from the madding |
| thomas mann | italy |
| widow wycherly | heidegger |
| gascoigne | heidegger |
| san dominick | melville |
| "endymion," | keats |
| han kang | south korea |
| vegetarian | south korea |
| metamorphosis | kafka |
| "commodore" | oiler |
| swift | a modest |
| dragon king | journey to the west |
| "horses' heads/ were pointed toward eternity." | dickinson |
| white album | murder |
| charles darnay | tale of two cities |
| andria | terence |
| "place of many trees." | kilmer |
| "shall i compare thee to a summer's day?" | 14 |
| "i hate and i love." | elegy |
| thomas dixon | lucky |
| eco | baudolino |
| "thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure" | tagore |
| dancer | easter, 1916 |
| urania | keats |
| juno | caliban |
| novalis | german |
| "the black plague" | decameron |
| gesta danorum | snorri |
| song | mailer |
| weston | emma |
| tres marias | allende |
| in luigi pirandello | six characters in search of an author |
elegant effendi | istanbul |
| raphael hythloday | vespucci |
| clavdia chauchat | mann |
| "only connect." | forster |
| w.b. yeats | easter rising |
| pnin | nabokov |
"if music be the food of love, play on." | twelfth night |
| "mere oblivions, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." | jaques |
| atonement | mcewan |
| holly golightly | breakfast at tiffany's |
| go set a watchman | lee |
| "my mother is a fish." | as i lay |
| lovewit | alchemist |
| oregon state penitentiary | mailer |
| amy tan | joy luck club |
| " for 10 points, name this poet who wrote " | eliot |
| anselmo | for whom the bell |
| "besides the white / chickens." | red wheelbarrow |
| haunting of hill house | jackson |
| kamel daoud | meursault |
| "newsreel" | dos passos |
| before antony | ambitious |
| "rest," | herbert |
| "sun moon stars rain" | cummings |
| cathy | read |
| goldberg | pinter |
| "strove to resuscitate the dead art/of poetry" | pound |
| nelly dean | wuthering heights |
| "bigguns" | samneric |
| leatherstocking tales | cooper |
| hedda gabler | ibsen |
| lakunlerefuses | soyinka |
| offred | handmaid's tale |
| "stunning blow upon the back of the neck" | bierce |
good-bye to all that | graves |
| "homeric" | hymn |
| amaterasu | tsukuyomi |
| one chinese | creation |
| "you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman." | much ado about nothing |
| "boule de suif" | maupassant |
| kate | dead |
| harriet winslow | old gringo |
| isaac | things fall apart |
the cider house rules | john irving |
homer wells | the cider house rules |
| firs | chekhov |
| country of the pointed firs | maine |
| clara del valle | allende |
| "scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115" | cooper |
| theophile gautier | art for art's sake |
| "the dancing girl of izu" | kawabata |
snow country | kawabata |
| charles tansley | to the lighthouse |
| alexander search | portuguese |
| kahnk | things fall apart |
| pittsburgh cycle | wilson |
| piano lesson | wilson |
| grace ogot | kenya |
| lyle | blues for mister charlie |
| truman capote | lee |
| rockwell kent | moby-dick |
| "storm trooper," | norwegian wood |
| trina | paint |
| roy hobbs | baseball player |
| illustrated man | bradbury |
| imoinda | behn |
| behn | letter |
| tales of soldiers | bierce |
| fire in the steppe | polish |
| idylls of the king | tennyson |
| "in memoriam a.h.h." | tennyson |
| captain cat | thomas |
| a and darkness | sword in the stone |
| quasimodo | esmeralda |
| hunchback of notre dame | esmeralda |
| an angel at my table | mansfield |
| "you are sane" | dickinson |
| cavafy | greek |
| lewis carroll | through the looking glass |
| silappatikaram | tamil |
the thinkery | the clouds |
the birth of tragedy | nietzsche |
| the dunciad and the | pope |
| "royal" | underground |
| lady chatterley | lawrence |
| laura sheridan | mansfield |
cleante | tartuffe |
| "sensemaya." | hughes |
| paquette | esmeralda |
| real thing | stoppard |
| the custom-house | scarlet letter |
| prospero | tempest |
| "i shall be as dirty as i please: and i like to be dirty, and i will be dirty." | wuthering heights |
| melissa | egypt |
| "why is a raven like a writing desk?" | hatter |
| vittoria | aunt |
| "three blind mice" | christie |
| catullus | sappho |
| an enrique gonzalez martinez | modernism |
| "the sisters," | dublin |
| "the golden shovel." | brooks |
| "nature" | emerson |
| biafran war | half of a yellow sun |
| george sand | flaubert |
| reverend samuel parris | crucible |
| ishtar | bull |
| "parthenope" | siren |
| in the old east slavic | bogatyr |
| tale of igor | pushkin |
| vseslav of polotsk | bogatyr |
| dylar | white noise |
| sword | polish |
| "ode to aphrodite." | sappho |
| giovanni bononcini | tweedledee |
| john byrom | tweedledee |
| "new," | comedy |
| salim | naipaul |
| khayyam | jug of wine |
| "to be or not to be" | get thee to a |
| poisonwood bible | kingsolver |
| my antonia | cather |
| willy loman | death of a salesman |
| "must cultivate our gardens." | candide |
| william dobbin | vanity fair |
| "smith" | john |
| starkfield | ethan frome |
| narayana | english |
| ben gardner | grendel |
| steven spielberg | schindler |
hafez | persian |
| meg | little women |
| phaedrus | aesop |
| bianca | tutor |
"birches" | frost |
| lenore | raven |
"someones married their everyones" | cummings |
| henry wadsworth longfellow | divine |
| von essen | strindberg |
august strindberg (country) | sweden |
| brian de bois-gilbert | knight |
| mules and men | hurston |
| okeechobee | hurston |
| fatima | radio |
| erika kohut | austria |
| takehiro | tajomaru |
| rosewater | firemen |
| j. p. morgan's | firemen |
| tatiana | eugene |
| p. g. wodehouse | jeeves |
| johann wolfgang | schiller |
| alvita | jamaica |
| percival | lord of the flies |
| alceste | sonnet |
| corporal lestrade | walcott |
| riddle of the sands | thirty-nine steps |
| shropshire | housman |
| flowers of evil | baudelaire |
| "some mute inglorious milton" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| jew of malta | marlowe |
| "fond" | kiss |
| solzhenitsyn | gulag |
| cedric | ivanhoe |
| mansfield | bliss |
| amy kelly | beloved |
| "like a dog" | kafka |
| gregor samsa in the metamorphosis | kafka |
| friends of the abc | javert |
| malvolio | twelfth night |
| ecgtheow | beowulf |
| "hope is a thing with feathers" | dickinson |
| "i heard a fly buzz when i died," | dickinson |
john oakhurst | harte |
| central london hatchery | brave new |
| conditioning center | brave new |
| havre | german |
| batman | scooby |
| martin fierro | argentina |
| "had we but world enough and time." | "to his coy mistress" |
| grimm | tailor |
| aunt ester | pittsburgh |
| olivia | twelfth night |
| todd | waugh |
| earl of gloucester | king |
| "sick" | rose |
| hussein mosque | palace |
| "nothing will come of nothing." | lear |
| carlson | of mice and men |
| strophe | pindar |
| terence | self-tormentor |
| "the gift outright" | frost |
| "voodoo." | welles |
| bernard nightingale | byron |
| columbia university | boas |
| carlos daneri | borges |
| john suckling | cavalier |
| lucasta | lovelace |
| nine novels | ballard |
| paul d | beloved |
| samuel | color purple |
| dubois | misanthrope |
| all quiet on the western front | remarque |
| beat generation | ginsburg |
| "i love you" | soseki |
"i rise with my red hair / and i eat men like air," | plath |
vedas | sanskrit |
| "to build a fire," | london |
| "speak through my words and my blood" | machu picchu |
| "within the mind of god" | our town |
| thornton wilder | our town |
| "the lake isle of innisfree." | yeats |
leslie hotson | marlowe |
| pelayo | crab |
| "held but just ourselves and immortality." | because i could not stop for death |
| professor pieixoto | handmaid's tale |
| six gallery | howl |
| "the story of an hour" | chopin |
| armand | chopin |
| archie jones | smith |
| "guilt and innocence" | hitler |
| all my sons | miller |
| "wicked" | decameron |
| "better after death" | how do i love thee |
| times of michael | coetzee |
| life & k | coetzee |
| "illusion" | japanese |
| william collins | pride and prejudice |
| day of the locust | west |
| hairy ape | provincetown players |
| lord orville | burney |
| "babette's feast," | dinesen |
| valeria luiselli | brodsky |
| "twenty-six men and a girl." | gorky |
| tanya | gorky |
| charles ryder | waugh |
| frank stockton | sword |
"turning and turning in the widening gyre" | yeats |
rawdon crawley | vanity fair |
swiss cheese | brecht |
makak | walcott |
| symposium | gilead |
| rime of the ancient mariner | coleridge |
| "kindly stopped for me." | because i could not stop for death |
| dark tower | king |
| "sound [his] barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" | whitman |
| "red, red" | rose |
| "come buy, come buy." | rossetti |
| "the end and the beginning." | grass |
| peter matthiessen | everest |
| friedrich nicolai | werther |
| don segundo sombra | gaucho |
| joe keller | all my sons |
| gentleman with the thistledown hair | clarke |
| farmer boldwood | gabriel |
| three musketeers | dumas |
| "hurry up please it's time," | waste land |
| both raju | narayan |
| rover | behn |
| "merrie england," | lucky |
| "nymphets" | lolita |
| exemplary novels | cervantes |
| child | six characters in search of an author |
| "the battle hymn of the republic," | atlantic |
| apuleius | golden ass |
| polybus | oedipus |
| "white sickness" | saramago |
| austerlitz | sebald |
| silas lapham | howells |
| jonathan strange | clarke |
| norrell | clarke |
| "pied beauty." | hopkins |
| confessions | augustine |
| "latter-day scarlett o'hara" | gone with the wind |
| "a love story," | didion |
| frou-frou | vronsky |
| reverend edward casaubon | middlemarch |
| "go" | rose |
| john montague | hill house |
| in jesmyn ward | as i lay dying |
| act 5 | ars |
| casaubon | eco |
| dorine | loyal |
| the player | rosencrantz |
"to althea, from prison" | richard lovelace |
| "puddle-wonderful." | cummings |
| herbie | detroit |
| while in argentina | autobiography of red |
| go tell it on the mountain | baldwin |
| shu | romance of the three kingdoms |
| jimmy | factorial |
| torvald | doll's |
| elka | singer |
| enchanted hunters | lolita |
| baby suggs | beloved |
| mersault | stranger |
| "things fall apart." | yeats |
| parasha | bronze horseman |
| "too soon made glad" | browning |
| sabina | unbearable lightness of being |
| rossetti | carols |
| katy | disgrace |
| yasunari kawabata | snow |
| esther | bell jar |
| nikolai chernyshevsky | dostoyevsky |
| aleksandr pushkin | russian |
| orangedrink lemondrink man | india |
| magic theater | hesse |
| paul verlaine | rimbaud |
| "clouds" | sleepy hollow |
| sarajevo | black hand |
| one of plautus | soldier |
| "song of great capitulation." | brecht |
| "was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?" | helen |
| "the plan," | eco |
| "nightfall." | science fiction |
| after albert | goethe |
| inn | stevenson |
| "tell me why / this goblin honor which the world adores / should make men atheists and not women whores" | cavalier |
| hulot | cousine bette |
| john anderton | minority report |
| hercule poirot | christie |
| marjane satrapi | persepolis |
| "one beauty." | hair |
| marjorie | hair |
| marmee | little women |
| wilfred owen | dulce et decorum est |
| james weldon johnson | autobiography |
| alison | wife of bath |
| "the eagles" | okigbo |
| orlick | great expectations |
| macflecknoe | dryden |
| travels | swift |
| romance of the three kingdoms | china |
| myrna minkoff | confederacy of |
| lyrical ballads | wordsworth |
| "a shape with lion body and the head of a man," | second coming |
| markus zusak | book thief |
| shi nai | water margin |
| father zosima | alyosha |
| thanatos | freud |
| charlotte perkins gilman | the yellow wallpaper |
| "asphodel, that greeny flower." | williams |
| rasnolnikov | dostoyevsky |
| lazarus | crime and punishment |
| "as slow as the tolling of a death knell" | watch |
| rosaura | esperanza |
| call of the wild | london |
"in vacant or pensive mood," | wordsworth |
| tiurin | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| vi of this work | aeneid |
| "beside the white chickens" | wheelbarrow |
| "black as cain, may be refined, and join th' angelic train." | wheatley |
| drang | sorrows of |
| kiyoaki | snow |
| troilus | chaucer |
| wings | demian |
| "a perfect day for bananafish," | salinger |
| stable | china |
| hanuman | ramayana |
emily webb | our town |
| weena | time |
| monterey | steinbeck |
| james boswell | johnson |
| dictionary of the english language | johnson |
| glenarvon | lamb |
| "green, how i want you green." | lorca |
| michael furey | dead |
| tevye the milkman | yiddish |
| "does it explode?" | dream |
| martins | ionesco |
| "i'm truly sorry man's dominion / has broken nature's social union" | burns |
| richard lovelace | cavalier |
| hawk in the rain | plath |
| birthday letters | plath |
| ern malley | australia |
| nikos kazantzakis | greek |
| consuelo | sand |
| robert browning | dubliners |
| "sly animals" | rilke |
| "blow-up." | cortazar |
| roger chillingworth | scarlet letter |
| "mute, inglorious." | milton |
| "the caballero's way" | henry |
| "wave" | stephen |
| castle of crossed destinies | calvino |
| "little poems in prose." | lazarus |
| wife of bath | chaucer |
| lay dying | faulkner |
| morelli | cortazar |
| newgate prison | defoe |
| katrina van tassel | irving |
| headless horseman | irving |
| jules verne | nautilus |
| brecht | distancing |
| angelica | orlando |
| inklings | tolkien |
| age of innocence | wharton |
| urashima taro | aging |
| "all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" | beauty |
| romantic british | keats |
| north of boston | frost |
| madame loisel | maupassant |
| pinter | birthday party |
| ugo foscolo | napoleon |
| fair haven | utopia |
| brer rabbit | johnson |
| those who leave | italian |
| "pirate" | banana |
| thomas pynchon | gravity's rainbow |
| arturo | brecht |
the persians | aeschylus |
| battle of roncevaux pass | charlemagne |
| "to a mouse." | burns |
| "when i consider how my light is spent" | milton |
| "battle royal." | invisible man |
| "the house of nucingen." | eugene |
| eva st | sophie's choice |
| gustave dore | windmill |
| ned land | nautilus |
| alexanderplatz | berlin |
| pilgrim | general prologue |
| marquis | carter |
| benedick | beatrice |
| falstaff | shakespeare |
| stella-rondo | welty |
| "sexy," | lahiri |
| "on a grecian urn." | ode |
| "pale kings and princes too." | keats |
| athos | three musketeers |
| book iii of the faerie queene | spenser |
| alcyoneus | giants |
| aphra behn | dryden |
| sally hayes | salinger |
| angellica bianca | behn |
| moomins | hitler |
| saul bellow | chicago |
| darwish | hebrew |
| "the murders in the rue morgue." | poe |
| "at five in the afternoon." | lorca |
| "rural trilogy." | lorca |
| "every angel is terrifying." | duino elegies |
| morgiana | arabic |
| "the bride comes to yellow sky" | crane |
| brett ashley | the sun also |
| andrew undershaft | shaw |
| salvation army | shaw |
| "dear and loving husband." | bradstreet |
| "forethought" | chicken |
| chebutykin | three sisters |
| walter pater | marius |
| "the hollow men" | eliot |
| true history of the kelly gang | carey |
| rilke | first |
| john dowell | good soldier |
| "mighty and dreadful" | donne |
| harold pinter | doctor |
| maggie | crane |
| "childe roland to the dark tower came." | browning |
| bologna to rome | stendhal |
| julien sorel | stendhal |
the charterhouse of parma | stendhal |
| elie wiesel | night |
| bildad | pequod |
| "decolonizing the mind." | ngugi |
| tenth muse lately sprung up in america | bradstreet |
| orlando | woolf |
savage detectives | bolano |
| "civil disobedience." | thoreau |
| saleem | singer |
| anatomy of criticism | comedy |
| room with a view | forster |
| "remembrances," | raven |
| abraham cowley | ode |
| charles arrowby | murdoch |
| gordon | plath |
| eva luna | allende |
| jack worthing | wilde |
| areopagitica | milton |
| zadie smith | mouse |
| transcendent kingdom | mouse |
| gilbert osmond | portrait of a |
| four great novels | china |
| study in scarlet | doyle |
| v-2 | pynchon |
| coast of utopia | stoppard |
| jack tanner | shaw |
| adolphus cusins | shaw |
| "oh dear! oh dear! i shall be too late!" | white |
| "jabberwocky." | carroll |
| sandra cisneros | mexican |
guest (character) | strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde |
| jenny lind | andersen |
| cosmicomics | calvino |
| middle english | sir gawain and the green knight |
trueba | the house of the spirits |
| easter uprising | yeats |
| alan breck stewart | kidnapped |
| pablo ibbieta | sartre |
| "the skin of our teeth" | wilder |
| "the night dances" | ariel |
| three sisters | chekhov |
| havana harbor | spy |
| peter walsh | mrs |
| sally seton at bourton | mrs. dalloway |
americanah | adichie |
| ipek | pamuk |
| mario vargas llosa | julia |
| simon legree | uncle tom's cabin |
| "truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true." | dream of the red chamber |
| "stasis in darkness/then the substanceless blue." | plath |
| in a sharon olds | body |
| caryl churchill | joan |
| duino elegies | rilke |
| gavroche | hugo |
| apprenticeship | goethe |
malone dies | beckett |
| children need traveling shoes | maya |
| anna livia | finnegans wake |
| "anna livia plurabelle" | beckett |
| all god | maya |
| guitar | song of solomon |
| anubis | answer |
| "nothing gold can stay" | frost |
| "pamper'd swells with one blood made of two." | donne |
| toru | wind-up bird chronicle |
| elephant of the bastille | argot |
| yonville | madame bovary |
becky sharp | vanity fair |
| "hot water shop" | the good |
| prince dakkar | verne |
| harriet smithson | emma |
| johanna | sweeney |
| chin | woman warrior |
| shimamura | kawabata |
| william henry | hammer |
| xanthias | frogs |
| "september 1st, 1939" | auden |
| "angelheaded hipsters" | ginsberg |
| turk | johnson |
| caroline lee hentz | uncle tom's cabin |
| mason city | willie |
| paradiso | divine comedy |
| "it's not that way, it's over here" | bald soprano |
| in the return of the native | hardy |
| lieutenant jimmy cross | vietnam |
| lancelot | divine |
| "walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across america." | rockland |
| northrop frye | tyger |
| laius | jocasta |
| sammy | a&p |
| joseph knecht | glass bead game |
| lewis theobald | pope |
| mabel loomis todd | letters |
thomas wentworth higginson | emily dickinson |
| anne frank | russian |
| angel esmeralda | hugo |
| vivien | sappho |
| "why was i allowed to come this far and see sand and trees" | open boat |
| isabella bird | churchill |
| gigi | colette |
the house of bernarda alba | federico garcia lorca |
| shelley levene | mamet |
| along with leon damas | senghor |
| alejandra pizarnik | argentina |
"batter my heart, three person'd god" | donne |
| "brazen giant of greek fame." | new colossus |
| nurse ratched | mental hospital |
| "spiritual victories." | china |
| samuel taylor coleridge | romanticism |
| primus | czech |
| manderley | rhododendron |
| vidiadhar surajprasad naipaul | naipaul |
| "fever" | italy |
| matilda | dahl |
| martian chronicles | bradbury |
| "if ever two were one, then surely we. / if ever man were loved by wife, then thee." | loving husband |
| prince korasoff | red and |
| "the heights of macchu picchu" | canto general |
| classics | roth |
| "benjamin" | animal farm |
| bessie | native |
| scrooge | fezziwig |
| frances | rooney |
| raymonda | stranger |
| london to adelaide | galsworthy |
| regina | education |
| mario | italy |
| mita banerjee | hawthorne |
| angelo mancuso | ignatius |
| "bad taste" | ignatius |
| coleman silk | roth |
| human stain | roth |
| "do i contradict myself?" | song of myself |
| ursula | garcia |
| petruchio | taming of the shrew |
| fitzcarraldo editions | nobel |
| "know that, in a former time, love! sweet love! was thought a crime." | lost |
| darkness at noon | koestler |
| uncle peck | vogel |
| karel capek | robot |
| tom dacre | chimney |
| abel | antrobus |
| dreyfus | zola |
"the fall of the house of usher" | poe |
| hazel motes | o'connor |
| "things fall apart, the center cannot hold" | yeats |
| confessions of a mask | mishima |
| "a game of chess" | eliot |
| "a terrible beauty is born" | yeats |
| umberto eco | name of the rose |
| "who made thee?" | blake |
| "what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?" | tyger |
| minnehaha | longfellow |
| "how cunningly" | tell-tale heart |
| valentin | puig |
| "hidden carvings and inscriptions." | tolkien |
| "true daughter of old time" | poe |
| cincinnati | beloved |
| amaranta | buendia |
| horacio quiroga | uruguay |
| slaughterhouse-five | vonnegut |
"sun stone" | paz |
| "guy" | giants |
| the trial | kafka |
"the plums that were in the icebox" | william carlos williams |
| "tossing their heads in a sprightly dance." | daffodil |
| vaclav havel | czech |
| father lorenzo | betrothed |
"willow of crystal, a poplar of water" | paz |
| anne of green gables | avonlea |
| daisy miller | james |
| bly | the turn of the |
| "five summers, with the length / of five long winters" | wordsworth |
"before the law" | the trial |
| "art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, and dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell." | death |
| panfilo, filostrato | decameron |
| dowson | long day's journey into night |
| "the conquest and colonialism" | labyrinth of solitude |
| "shantih shantih shantih" | waste land |
| marco polo | africa |
| "the quest for relevance" | africa |
| madame hortense | zorba the greek |
| jake blount | heart is a lonely |
| peter quint | turn of the screw |
miss (rebecca) jessel | the turn of the screw |
| "to whom i was like to give offense" | walls |
| journey to the west | buddha |
| gerard de nerval | eliot |
| henry louis gates | douglass |
| polly | magician's nephew |
| neva river | pushkin |
| "marks of weakness, marks of woe" | blake |
| edmond dantes | hero |
| sarah orne jewett | maine |
the grand inquisitor | the brothers karamazov |
| the master and margarita | bulgakov |
| echo | satyr |
equus | horse |
| edgar | fairy tale |
| tsitsi dangarembga | zimbabwe |
| "follow the leader" | melville |
| sacramental melodrama | genet |
| nicholas snub | berganza |
| golden key | italy |
| "durer: innsbruck, 1495." | australia |
| tom jones | fielding |
| miss ivors | dead |
| "thanatopsis" | bryant |
| karl moor | schiller |
| "save" | fuentes |
| jara cimrman | curie |
| forrest gump | curie |
| caucasian chalk circle | brecht |
| "in medias res." | ars |
| "between the lines" | eating people |
| "work'us" | oliver twist |
| noah claypole | oliver twist |
| "that vast moth-eaten musical brocade / created to pretend we never die." | larkin |
| casa alvisi | venice |
| italian hours | venice |
| abashvili | azdak |
| "sticky as bluebeard's." | heaney |
| karl huysmans | nana |
| chief bromden | mental hospital |
| "the new small talk." | shaw |
| "sit and sew." | dunbar |
| "i believe that humans should be plants." | south korea |
| letter to the reader | stages on life's way |
| brother silent | stages on life's way |
| "an unhappy love affair." | stages on life's way |
| joris | nana |
| "hope had grown grey hairs" | wreck of the deutschland |
| "the combs of a smother of sand" | wreck of the deutschland |
| kerewin | hulme |
| olenin | cossacks |
| keri hulme | new zealand |
| "lumps in the throat" | frost |
| "toward expression . . . to fulfillment." | frost |
| "you can't fly kites on rainy days" | south |
| fugard | island |
| maryanka | cossacks |
| lukashka | cossacks |
| genaro jr | radionovela |
| "the tomb in palestine / is not the porch of spirits lingering." | sunday morning |
| "command me to follow him." | we must love one another or die |
| "as she undoubtedly will be." | nana |
| amanda | saki |
| "ode on melancholy" | keats |
| conquistador | canto |
| "ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night." | howl |
| colonel sun | bond |
| memory for forgetfulness | palestine |
| "identity card." | darwish |
| "there should be no more than half a dozen people on the roof at any time." | cider house rules |
| "mole-main" | "shooting an elephant" |
| "stand on street corners and jeer at europeans" | "shooting an elephant" |
| moulmein | "shooting an elephant" |
| charles condomine | ghost |
| aline | buddenbrooks |
| booth | salvation army |
| "faces along the bar cling to their average day." | september 1, 1939 |
| "the bible is an antique volume" | dickinson |
| "all this happened, more or less." | slaughterhouse-five |
| "i confess! i confess what i did! i'm guilty! i killed you! sir i confess! i killed you!" | amadeus |
| "we need a definition of greatness, and i suppose that would be somebody who...somebody who benefited all mankind." | "master harold"...and |
| noel coward | ghost |
| resident world controller for western europe | brave new world |
| king jesus | william |
| fahrenkopf | night of |
| "the kettle, you fool!" | dumb waiter |
| marabar caves | passage to india |
| "doom of the gods" | ragnarok |
| "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 |
| sidney herbert | holy sonnets |
| englishwoman adela quested | passage to india |
| "chivalry" | romance |
| "a creature, like himself, full of mettle and mischief" | brom |
| captain alexander smollett | treasure island |
| professor pierre aronnax | nemo |
| jadis | magician's nephew |
| "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." | walden |
| "birds of prey" | marvell |
| "do the worst you can, my troubles'll be over soon; but, if ye don't repent, yours won't never end!" | uncle tom's |
| "fair is foul, and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air." | macbeth |
| "has died; they kept hitting him, everyone, even though he does nothing to them." | stone |
| myth of the movies | vidal |
| magic | vidal |
| an epic in the war for freedom | tanzania |
| parker tyler | vidal |
| ayane | heart of darkness |
| dark lady | love's |
| battle of waterloo | vanity |
| western hills | diaries |
| "have you found any places where god would have felt at home?" | william of baskerville |
| "we are living in a place abandoned by god." | william of baskerville |
| jorge | laugh |
| "ethnic" | ventriloquism |
| "you were right, old hoss; you were right," | to build a fire |
| "old-timer" | to build a fire |
| sulphur creek | to build a fire |
| "as if he were dreamily contemplating some outrage against conventional morality." | capote |
| "reformarse es vivir" | rodo |
| "to reform oneself is to live." | rodo |
| "ariel." | rodo |
| blackwill | elizabeth i |
| shakbag | elizabeth i |
| hotel costa verde in mexico | night of |
| madwoman in the attic | jane eyre |
| "i flatter myself that my present overtures of good will are highly commendable." | collins |
| ness | agamemnon |
| "listen: billy pilgrim has come unstuck in time." | slaughterhouse-five |
| tang sanzang | buddha |
| mel mcginnis | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| raymond carver | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| "the art of dying well." | lady lazarus |
| helene weigel | courage |
| "epigram" | russian |
| church of the new revelation | stranger in a strange |
| john clayton ii | tarzan |
| earl of greystoke | tarzan |
| "after all, tomorrow is another day." | gone with the wind |
| vinayaka | ganesh |
| "when first the world from chaos rose, tell me, how did love begin?" | dream of the red |
| "show interest in her goodness--for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand." | good person |
| "i can resist everything except temptation." | lady windermere's |
| lunch room | winesburg |
| "stunning blow" | bierce |
| ashtavinayaka | ganesh |
| "a monster vile, whom god and man does hate." | faerie queene |
| errour | faerie queene |
| "north pole" | equiano |
| "the pool players. seven at the golden shovel." | we real |
| "the don't-knows have lived with that lie so long they just can't see it." | heart is a lonely |
| cyriacus | cross |
| kaddish | ginsberg |
| libation bearers | aegisthus |
| snowball | pig |
| "empty net, at the advent of autumn" | heights of macchu |
| "flawlessly set in gold so fair" | pearl |
| "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 |
| biff carter | winesburg |
| frederick winterbourne | italy |
| shaaban robert | tanzania |
| amma | girl, woman, other |
| "our age's central thinker" | vidal |
| "textually ignorant" | grossman |
| "those other two equal'd with me in fate, so were i equal'd with them in renown." | milton |
| maeonides | milton |
| elene | cross |
| "bore her away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre [seh-pul-kur] in this kingdom by the sea." | annabel lee |
| "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." | malvolio |
| svayambhu | brahma |
| "moirai" | fate |
| menelaus | helen |
| lavinia | turnus |
| halvard solness | architect |
| master builder | ibsen |
| samuel ratchett | murder on the orient express |
| paradox on the comedian | diderot |
| "staircase wit" | diderot |
| felix hoenikker | cat |
| "unfortunate lover" | marvell |
| kumiko | murakami |
| "john laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. john is practical in the extreme." | yellow wallpaper |
| "a world of made is not a world of born." | pity this busy |
| dialogues of the gods | lucian |
| osip mandelstam | stalin |
| almayer | conrad |
| torrens | conrad |
| "the winning cause pleased the gods, but the losing cause pleased cato." | pharsalia |
| stoppard | rosencrantz |
| edwidge danticat | decameron |
| matthew prichard | mousetrap |
| "there was no door that he would not heave off its hinges, or break it by running at it with his head." | miller |
| abbe carlos herrera | human comedy |
| vautrin | human comedy |
| daniel eisenberg | grossman |
| coramantien | behn |
| "the grecian urn to muse on uncle jim." | cullen |
| guinness world record for longest theatrical run | mousetrap |
| mournable body | second person |
| meletus | serpent |
| last amazon of dahomey in london | girl, woman, other |
| daniel mallory ortberg | rochester |
| hound of the baskervilles | eco |
| dennis hasset | church |
| stephen vincent benet | webster |
| "the magic power of a poem consists in it always being filled with" | lorca |
| great seal of england | prince and the |
| "a veteran!" | sammy |
| max beerbohm | oxford |
| robert lebrun | awakening |
| 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 |
| "then - the officer," | marquise of o |
| "first traces in the world, of life and time / and love, and mortal hope, and vanishing." | ash |
| nicholas rubashov | stalin |
| calhoun | insomnia |
| "a strong buy." | enron |
| flannery o'connor's | grandmother |
| good soldier svejk | czech |
| acquired toilet disease | vogel |
| baltimore waltz | vogel |
| history boys | bennett |
| "the fat boy with the happy laugh" | sammy |
| robert faehmel | billiard |
| "pure and holy, which embraces all the charms of all the graces" | frog |
| lady bertilak | girdle |
| edna | caged bird |
| archilochus | hedgehog |
| grain of wheat | ngugi |
| beth | alcott |
| zuleika dobson | oxford |
| belle epoque paris | sappho |
| prajapati | brahma |
| alina reyes | cortazar |
| tim walker | enron |
| "freely, as men strive for right" | how do i love thee |
| "a bedlamite speeds to thy parapets, tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning," | bridge |
| "twenty-six malignant gates," | tan |
| vollmer | world war iii |
| "white smoke" | ceremony |
| rocky | ceremony |
| duke of buckingham | la rochelle |
| eugene marchbanks | shaw |
| "and indrajit," | bengali |
| our strangers | davis |
| another cortazar | idol |
| renee vivien | sappho |
| bluebeard | world war ii |
| "i keep in mind that magic moment" | pushkin |
| anna kern | pushkin |
| rider haggard | haggard |
| fire chief | bald soprano |
| eugene ionesco | absurd |
| david mccullough | veldt |
| sergey zalygin | novy mir |
| "he's not the finest character that ever lived. but he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. so attention must be paid." | death of a |
| "brahms, for all his grumbling and grizzling, had never guessed what it felt like to be suspected of stealing an umbrella." | howards end |
| miriam chadwick | church |
| "the whole world shares your tears / some for two nights or one / and some for all their years" | seth |
| "all you who sleep tonight." | seth |
| "betwixt the flames and waves," | marvell |
| "story." | marvell |
| "the waking" | world war ii |
| surt | fir |
| ee-jee-un | syracuse |
| william bradshaw | mrs |
| m. l. west | prometheus bound |
| euphorion | prometheus bound |
| "pants" | commedia |
| acrasia | 1984 |
| "wild" | old |
| "odd bits of old rhyming slang" | nadsat |
| branom | nadsat |
| prascovia osipovna | nose |
| pohv | nose |
| proh | bellerophon |
| "the male who invites" | izanagi |
| edmond rostand | cyrano |
| "kindly leave me alone." | alceste |
| "how many dawns, chill from his rippling rest, the seagull's wings shall dip and pivot him?" | bridge |
| alvaro enrigue | quevedo |
| sudden death | quevedo |
| joseito fernandez | marti |
| judge clement | humor |
| "to you, clerk, literary man, sedentary person, man of fortune, idler, the same advice. up!... out in the morning!" | whitman |
| anthology of the new black | senghor |
| malagasy poetry | senghor |
| norad | france |
| "proem" | bridge |
| singin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| egeon | solinus |
| comedy of errors | dromio |
| von grimelhausen | simplicius simplicissimus |
| "in all my dreams before my helpless sight, he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning." | dulce et decorum est |
| "it's just so interesting. the colors and all." | world war iii |
| camacho | radio |
| "the kingdom of orangia" | master builder |
| hilda wangel | master builder |
| rostam | shahnameh |
| sohrab | pamuk |
| thomas kyd | pamuk |
| oliver twiss | dickens |
| chicken with plums | satrapi |
| ferdinando flosky | nightmare abbey |
| reverend larynx | nightmare abbey |
| listless | nightmare abbey |
| dawn | dunbar |
| "carey" | dr jekyll |
| mr hyde | stevenson |
| saint anna | jerusalem delivered |
| best american | story |
| father paneloux | france |
| maata mahupuku | mansfield |
| "the cold splintering, breaking" | those winter sundays |
| "blago bung" | ball |
| "egiga goramen." | ball |
| "redundant. retrogressive, remarkable, unpalatable" | lakunle |
| sakiel-norn | assassin |
| hugo pludek | czech |
| untold story | ali |
| "sesemi," | buddenbrooks |
| "accompanying my boy lover frightened by a fox." | basho |
| hamm | unhappiness |
| jonathan safran foer | extremely loud and incredibly close |
| wampanoag | rowlandson |
| rainer maria rilke | duino elegies |
| new south wales | oscar and |
| pulitzer prize for drama for the hot wing king | hall |
| jing-mei | tan |
| ejcs | hrothgar |
| serafina correa | rose |
| judge irwin | willie |
| all the king | warren |
| "cut into joints" | chicken |
| another didion | california |
| nick carraway | fitzgerald |
| "alex, the great alexander." | nash |
| "imbedded in jelly," | chicken |
| "pies, fruits" | chicken |
| "the necks of four bottles." | chicken |
| herman mellema | indonesia |
| minke | indonesia |
| more pricks than kicks | beckett |
| deest | shaw |
| young lions | shaw |
| sabine hills | marius |
| "sages standing in god's holy fire" | old |
| william butler yeats | yeats |
| nyai ontosoro | indonesia |
| "ta-ra-ra-boom-di-ay" | three sisters |
| "if only we knew." | three sisters |
| "the sandman," | hoffmann |
| "but i have promises to keep, / and miles to go before i sleep" | frost |
| "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county." | twain |
| johannes kreisler | hoffmann |
| "irretrievable!" | child |
| people of the valleys | independent people |
| hulda | independent people |
| christian diestl | shaw |
| "crocodile tongues" | james |
| spiker | james |
| "bad fencer, but a sound thinker" | don juan |
| antarctica with mr | angels in america |
| "meditation xvii" | for whom the bell |
| in the devil | holocaust |
| hannah stern | holocaust |
| "temper tantrum kid" | alex |
| gibson | ballard |
| driving miss daisy | georgia |
| jane johnston | song of hiawatha |
| "an expression of calm" | all quiet on the western front |
| spallanzani | hoffmann |
| "shrill, demented choirs" | anthem for doomed |
| "stuttering rifles' rapid rattle" | anthem for doomed |
| "counter-attack" | sassoon |
| fabrizio del dongo | stendhal |
| mormons | angels in america |
| me to play | endgame |
| waiting for godot | beckett |
| "dull" | donne |
| "ecstasy of fumbling" | owen |
| james gregory | italy |
| dee-oh-nay | boccaccio |
| "all the englishes i grew up with" | tan |
| "that's how i ought to have written" | in search of lost time |
| "little patch of yellow wall" | in search of lost time |
| view of delft | in search of lost time |
| action comics | superman |
| bergotte | in search of lost time |
| thomas traherne | metaphysical |
| "style is character." | didion |
| "evil, superstition, and tyranny," | fearful symmetry |
| tobias | sweeney |
| "walks at midnight" | lincoln |
| "stormy mane of a pony" | funes |
| fanny price | mansfield park |
| armande bejart | school for wives |
| knowell | humor |
| brainworm | humor |
| "chaka." | negritude |
| roger dean | denver |
| smilevski | concentration camp |
| algic researches | song of hiawatha |
| "severe hysteria" | epilepsy |
| "a circle drawn on a blackboard." | funes |
| balla fasseke | griot |
| "ah, how you will enchant the angels!" | dinesen |
| seafarer | old english |
| "the mythos of spring." | comedy |
| wong jiazhi | chang |
| yee | chang |
| "yet dearly i love you, and would be lov'd fain, but am betroth'd unto your enemy." | batter my heart, three person'd god |
| "what do i remember / that was shaped / as this thing is shaped?" | asphodel, that greeny flower |
| "the sword." | ficciones |
| shaka zulu | negritude |
| "mr. fly-off-the-handle" | alex |
| pied piper | misty of chincoteague |
| horowitz at the mozarteum | loser |
| "mapface" | saleem |
| "piece of the moon" | saleem |
| madame l'espanaye | poe |
| charles bronson | venice |
| "turns his necessity to glorious gain; / in face of these doth exercise a power / which is our human nature's highest dower." | happy warrior |
| "gather [these things'] buds while ye may" | rose |
| prime minister in up against it | orton |
| zocalo plaza | porter |
| "why i write about mexico." | porter |
| sir anthony | malaprop |
| cixin liu | invasion of earth |
| bolom | walcott |
| "the age of time," | fuentes |
| h.g. wells's | invasion of earth |
| "supernatural horror in literature." | horla |
| le horla | maupassant |
| rasheed | thousand |
| was a country | achebe |
| "coma baby" | 80s |
| tad allagash | 80s |
| "to die for one's country" | horace |
| "the town is taken by its rats" | melville |
| new york draft riots | melville |
| "the house-top." | melville |
| "resistance literature." | palestin |
| nunavit | historical notes |
| dante gabriel | rubaiyat |
| "june" | chinese |
| philip k. dick's | invasion of earth |
| mamoudou kouyate | griot |
| li'l | driving |
| rudy giuliani | manzoni |
| peter w. barlow | barlow |
| lucy honeychurch | forster |
| sunday express | hall |
| "i would rather give a healthy boy or a healthy girl a phial of prussic acid than" | hall |
| men in the sun | palestin |
| "the kentucky derby is decadent and depraved." | horse |
| raoul duke | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| "many-tower'd camelot." | lady of |
| "no more than a machine." | flaubert |
| goce smilevski | concentration camp |
| "shall never see a poem lovely as" | trees |
| "my long two-pointed ladder's sticking through" | trees |
| duro ladipo | death and the king's horseman |
| "our sewage disposal system." | gulag archipelago |
| gollum | bilbo |
| "my america! my new-found-land" | donne |
| "they eat green salad and drink human blood." | herzog |
| connie | lady chatterley's lover |
| eldridge cleaver | bigger |
| "before, behind, between, above, below." | donne |
| nikolaj | pimento |
| "the purloined letter" | poe |
| mary lyon | mice |
| in france | romantic |
| riding sleipnir | baldur |
| "glad the end had come." | all quiet on the western front |
| "wagahai" | i am a cat |
| adventures of augie march | chicago |
| tove jansson | hitler |
| christopher unborn | fuentes |
| aladdin | arabic |
| "letter concerning the prison of human life" | agincourt |
| christine de pizan | agincourt |
| "there's a little intricate hussy for you!" | malaprop |
| stesichorus | autobiography of red |
| groom | lorca |
| auguste dupin | purloined letter |
| terasina vidavarri | algren |
| tade thompson | science |
| wormwood trilogy | science |
| tail of the blue bird | maeterlinck |
| last letters of jacopo ortis | napoleon |
| in medieval empires | saladin |
| culture of competition | saladin |
| samuel england | saladin |
| "suicide calculated well in advance." | loser |
| thomas bernhard | austria |
| "there is a thorn - it looks so old." | don juan |
| "she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the nile." | malaprop |
| audrey luna | fourth |
| "little girl." | the yellow wallpaper |
| "great gromboolian plain" | lear |
| "the dong with the luminous nose." | lear |
| program era | writing |
| mfa | writing |
| nina simonovich | puppet |
| efimova | puppet |
| "time to gather your arse up off the floor" | banana |
| "a wine chronometer," | melville |
| "the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living good drinking, and good talk." | melville |
| stream of love | angelica |
| oba waja | death and the king's horseman |
| virtue rewarded | richardson |
| "whale rider." | maori |
| beardsley | rape of the lock |
| stephen breyer | fourth |
| argalia | angelica |
| ferraguto | angelica |
| mark mcgurl | writing |
| anna pavlovna | napoleon |
| "gas-coin" | heidegger |
| bliss | coward |
| cook | cheshire cat |
| medbourne | heidegger |
| killigrew | heidegger |
| " for 10 points each: name this poetry collection which contains a poem that describes how " | leaves of grass |
| "ust-izhma" | ivan |
| "cabaret" | eatonville |
| "god never made a finer woman" | misfi |
| "to quaff at morning, noon, and night" | heidegger |
| "no trace... of the martin luther king-type self-effacing love for his oppressors." | bigger |
| klopstock | sorrows of |
| werther | linden |
| pearl blossom | wang |
| hermod | baldur |
| jackson square | stella |
| "this verse" | rape of the lock |
| "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." | byron |
| "art, truth and politics." | pinter |
| mah-aht | ra |
| gullveig | vanir |
| "for god his sake let's get out of this. the place stinks." | candle in the |
| finch hatton | out of africa |
| "defused threat." | saladin |
| "to propitiate the gods." | hell screen |
| evidence for the resurrection of jesus christ | butler |
| "gray-brown" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| senex amator | plautus |
| lysidamus | plautus |
| casina | plautus |
| "life," | johnson |
| sholem asch | yiddish |
| "fair witness" | stranger in a strange |
| "grok" | stranger in a strange |
| "magic theatre -- entrance not for everybody" | steppenwolf |
| vindications | book |
| silas flannery | calvino |
| maat | ra |
| "i want you to start immediately for america." | extricating young |
| "had lately suffered the loss of several thousand dollars, two valuable horses, and a prominent citizen" | outcasts of |
| "the town of oran, which is merely a large french port on the algerian coast" | plague |
| "were all westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life" | great gatsby |
| ishmael | whale |
| captain peleg | ahab |
| "at five o'clock that morning reveille [reh-vuh-lee] was sounded, as usual, by the blows of a hammer on a length of rail hanging up near the staff quarters." | one day in the life of |
| "beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze." | daffodi |
| atlas shrugged | rand |
| brigid hughes | paris review |
| masthead | paris review |
| estupina | fortunata and jacinta |
| great expectations | australia |
| "waiting for the barbarians" | greek |
| 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 |
| "if i be waspish, best beware my sting" | taming of the |
| "if you lock them together in a room with no food for a week." | maus |
| art spiegelman | graphic |
| dorimant | fopling |
| loveit | fopling |
| carl | raisin in the sun |
| "domestic education." | adams |
| "palinurus," | crabbe |
| "fam'd for thy valour, for thy virtues more." | washington |
| alice oswald | iliad |
| elle | diving bell and the butterfly |
| "dissolving margins." | naples |
| "the daring spirit" | covey |
| "an ode to himself" | jonson |
| jonson | shepherd |
| "set" | prime of miss |
| persiles | greek |
| walk by anita rau badami | india |
| your show of shows | simon |
| laughter on the 23rd floor | simon |
| 52nd street | september 1, 1939 |
| "a vigorous and sudden snatch" | covey |
| "glory be to god for dappled things." | hopkins |
| unamuno | cervantes |
| barbedienne | hell is other people |
| "who's the dunce now?" | pope |
| "big blonde" | parker |
| francesco del cossa | smith |
khaled hosseini (book) | the kite runner |
| "density" | v-2 |
| professor challenger | doyle |
| "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 |
| "i have great trouble, and some comfort, to acquaint you with." | pamela |
| "i had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me." | much ado about |
| roth ira | zuckerman |
| ahab | doubloon |
| widow wadman | toby |
| unquiet grave | crabbe |
| "heaven cannot hold him / nor earth sustain." | rossetti |
| lila | naples |
| "all afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury." | phedre |
| arafa | children of gebelawi |
| "his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come." | all quiet on |
| "i mean, you're a blank, a cipher, a zero." | who's afraid of |
| "waltzing matilda" | australia |
| "he has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face." | minister's black |
| "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 |
| "wrong" | holmes |
| "life is ever lord of death, and love can never lose its own!" | snow-bound |
| "first came the chasm, and then broad-breasted earth." | theogony |
| "what made me take this trip to africa?" | henderson the rain |
| "and with a stronger faith embrace a sword, a horse, a shield." | to lucasta, going to |
| "but these are all lies. men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." | rosalind |
| medical man | time machine |
| provincial mayor | time machine |
| faunus | pan |
| mia | camoes |
| ashkenazi jews | yiddish |
| denys | out of africa |
| filby | time machine |
| maria truczinski | tin drum |
| "stupidity, delusion, selfishness and lust torment our bodies and possess our minds." | flowers of evil |
| judge banner | natural |
| mission house in sophiatown | cry, the beloved |
| sigismunda | greek |
| "thyestes" | seneca |
| communists to oedipus | unbearable lightness of being |
| penrod | dog |
| rebeca | one hundred years of solitude |
| "our god" | rossetti |
| "telluric currents" | eco |
| "terence, this is stupid stuff" | shropshire lad |
| "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 |
| luna moth | amazing |
| "words had forked no lightning." | do not go gentle into |
| norman culpepper washington | diamond |
| skadi | feet |
| kawai sora | matsuo |
| electric kool | wolfe |
| dapple | don quixote |
| "drama of struggle" | dead |
| ola rotimi | dead |
| sizwe banzi | dead |
| anoa | season |
| "like rotted meat" | dream deferred |
| northern bride | uncle tom's |
| thirty years war | brecht |
| "epic theater." | brecht |
| elizabeth bishop | villanelle |
| kabbalah | foucault's pendulum |
| grose | the turn of the |
| jarmila | lake |
| vilem | lake |
| democratic convention in los angeles | esquire |
| "depraved" | holmes |
| daqiqi | shahnameh |
| ferdowsi | shahnameh |
| in karel hynek macha | lake |
| black death | decameron |
| "the mystery of marie roget," | poe |
| xue baochai | stone |
| aid acid test | wolfe |
| vercelli | old english |
| "weasels that stole" | chicken |
| "defended herself" | chicken |
| "dedication for a plot of ground." | chicken |
| "fantasy that she's a meaningful member of a family." | hosseini |
| "for it is in london that our scene lies." | it was a dark and stormy night |
| ted brown | lysistrata |
| "grandmother was a warlock" | porlock |
| "should not mean, but" | be |
| joseph addison | thackeray |
| "the mariners heard the warning bell; and then they knew the perilous rock." | inchcape |
| savannah | prince of tides |
| "mumu." | sportsman's sketches |
| "holding darkness within." | hill house |
| "bronze atrocity" | hell is other people |
| "there's no need for red-hot pokers." | hell is other people |
| turn of the screw | james |
| tender buttons | stein |
| "clever, disappointed man," | thomas's father |
| "gentleman-callers" | tom |
| "with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy." | confederacy of |
| mount sebastian college | things they |
| "brute beauty and valour and act." | windhover |
| malvern hills | piers plowman |
| scottish play | macbeth |
| aegis | medusa |
| "more sweetly than our rhyme" | grecian urn |
| christmas carol | dickens |
| wellesley college | nabokov |
| mario puzo | balzac |
| "behind every great fortune there is a crime," | balzac |
| talkative man | narayan |
| madame alvarez | colette |
| alicia | colette |
| gaston | colette |
| "the fate of unrequited love." | garcia marquez |
| engelbert humperdinck | hansel and |
| "after every war / someone has to clean up" | grass |
| "in his mouth / gazing at the clouds." | grass |
| "savage race" | ulysses |
| achille | walcott |
| omeros | walcott |
| bill | kidnap |
| "something there is that doesn't love" | wall |
| jeanie | goblin market |
| "destroyers" | season |
| ayi kwei armah | season |
| pillow book | japanese |
| coppet | napoleon |
| "repulsive, alarming yellow flowers," | master |
| "prolonged cries of agony" | octopus |
| "tell me it was for the hunger / & nothing less." | vuong |
| "the monsters and the critics," | beowulf |
| "did not give of bird or bush, like nothing else in tennessee" | anecdote of the jar |
| another wallace stevens | 13 |
| hennessey | naked and the |
| "had a cat named flo," | porlock |
| "you can't do it here, it's not the place!" | america |
| westminster review | eliot |
| "american realism" | chicago |
| "predators" | season |
| edmund waller | rose |
| "the invisible worm that flies in the night in the howling storm," | rose |
| germaine de stael | napoleon |
| bronze horseman | pushkin |
| "laid in the church of the franciscans, on the evening of the day she died." | laura |
| lucinda rosenfeld | rooney |
| shay | hrothgar |
| heatholoaf | hrothgar |
| wylfings | hrothgar |
| toulon | javert |
| inspector javert | miserables |
| reizei | tale of genji |
| ray-zay | tale of genji |
| fantine | javert |
| "all europe contributed to the making of kurtz." | heart of darkness |
| gary snyder | dharma bums |
| sibyl | picture of dorian |
| "i stand no wiser than before." | heinrich |
| lady fujitsuno | tale of genji |
| "the drunken boat" | rimbaud |
| edward covey | douglass |
| "break" | frederick |
| temple of venus | parliament of fowls |
| ray smith | dharma bums |
| typee | melville |
| "ruffling the tawny pelt" | far cry from africa |
| li bai | tang |
| "hoard, and sleep, and feed, and not know me." | ulysses |
| wood of tenjin | love |
| h.d | rose |
| "song," | rose |
| "i cover all." | grass |
| "why do you laugh? is it because you hate the sound of laughing?" | as i lay dying |
| "heartbreak hotel" | handmaid's tale |
| "idiots" | heine |
| "molten phosphorus" | copenhagen |
| "heroines of self-hate," | rooney |
| quintus ennius | dactylic hexameter |
| down syndrome | violent bear it away |
| "the german censors" | heine |
| "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 |
| rosenfeld | rooney |
| correspondence with a child | alcott |
| phantom | misty of chincoteague |
| "i could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." | reginald |
| tarzan | egypt |
| henry esmond | thackeray |
| sebastian flyte | brideshead revisited |
| "windows looking in upon fiery reality" | tattoo |
| "theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life" | lenin |
| germaine | color purple |
| "gloss" | king |
| letters on tactics | lenin |
| winnie | waugh |
| emperor kiritsubo | tale of |
| lady aoi | tale of |
| erskine childers | spy |
| heart of a dog | bulgakov |
| "a lamp on earth" | canto general |
| shield sheafson | hrothgar |
| "seven ages of man" | as you like it |
| tez | quetzalcoatl |
| "the mightiest of magicians" | hiawatha |
| "black pitch-water" | hiawatha |
| "how clumsy this winged voyager! how weak/comic, and ugly!" | fleurs du mal |
| ezuelo | things fall apart |
| julien pitt | angels in america |
| twelfth night | age |
| lowery field | yossarian |
| aisha | mahfouz |
| "golden age" | spain |
| "walpurgisnacht" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "get the guests" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| epic of wheat | octopus |
| magnus derrick | octopus |
| hester | roger |
| goh-gan | "goodbye |
| uss | ariadne |
| klahn | portrait of the artist |
| donald farfrae | mayor of |
| "droogs" | burgess |
| keith mathews | outsiders |
| "two-bit" | outsiders |
| "remembered" | updike |
| run to rabbit at rest | updike |
| mine | daddy |
| "-kahmpf] look." | daddy |
| "well-known city engineer shot dead. assailants thought to be natives." | arthur |
| michael henchard | mayor of |
| "log" | virgil |
| "here" | scarlet letter |
| "chaste and lovely form" | laura |
| victor marchetti | our lady of the flowers |
| cassandra | austen |
| palace of desire | cairo |
| bwah gil-bair | ivanhoe |
| zahd | thousand and |
| mina murray | dracula |
| hippolyta | penthesilea |
| tony kushner | angels in america |
| elias | naipaul |
| "wine" | baudelaire |
| viola | twelfth night |
| june rebellion | les |
| gilead | handmaid |
| "at any gathering i am there, mingling in the laughing and grieving." | reed |
| "wide robe" | lack |
| "intimately lives with rain" | tree |
| david copperfield | dickens |
| amin maalouf | rubaiyat |
| isle is full of noises | caliban |
"a wonder with a gun - a perfect wonder" | the bride comes to yellow sky |
| weary gentlemen | yellow sky |
| "come back in tears, o memory, hope, love of finished years" | rossetti |
| bend in the river | naipaul |
| "madison is banquo, jefferson's macduff, and birnam wood is congress on its way to dunsinane [dun-sin-ayn]." | macbeth |
| joom | scarlet letter |
| then | siren |
| "leucosia" | siren |
| baroka | lion and the jewel |
| "beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror," | duino elegies |
| teddy lloyd | school |
| miss jean brodie | school |
| annixter | octopus |
| "to him who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms" | thanatopsis |
| "copied out of a loose paper" | burning |
| "little formless fears" | brutus |
| emperor jones | o'neill |
| jabez wilson | red-headed |
| kingdom of this world | magic |
| tool | house for mr. biswas |
| knightley | emma |
| "genius" | dryden |
| norman foster | stranger in a strange |
| rawff | doctor zhivago |
komarovsky | doctor zhivago |
| gretchen | goethe |
| "pull down thy vanity, it is not man-made courage, or made order, or made grace. pull down thy vanity, i say pull down." | cantos |
| rangoon | around the world in |
| bertolt brecht | joan |
| "please, sir, i want some more." | oliver twist |
| natty bumppo | cooper |
| "the snows of kilimanjaro" | hemingway |
| "powhitetrash" | i know why |
| grusha | caucasian chalk |
| dunnet landing | maine |
| elton | emma |
| scout | atticus |
| while at the salem house academy | david |
| "beware of him, he bites." | david |
| "if you can't think on your feet, you ought to keep your mouth shut." | glengarry glen ross |
| "drink me" | alice |
| charles dodgson | carroll |
| "white-trash" | i know why |
| "to thine own self be true," | polonius |
| "rule britannia." | wheat |
| "split land" | yoknapatawpha |
| solveig | ibsen |
| "think like and act as a man." | julie |
| "guantanamera [gwahn-tahn-ah-mair-ah]" | marti |
| "conversation" | stein |
| miss van campen | farewell to arms |
| "marks of wanton hunger" | chicago |
| "will you take me home?" | arthur |
| elesin | soyinka |
| marcel proust | in search of lost time |
| marie tovesky | o pioneers |
| emil bergson | o pioneers |
| the works both human and divine | herrick |
| hith | utopia |
| "when shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?" | macbeth |
| ivan dmitritch gromov | ward number 6 |
| hippolyte | emma |
| "i've lost a whole day over" | six |
| chiba | life of pi |
| snout | midsummer night's |
| snug | midsummer night's |
| "why did i ever know you? why were you so beautiful? is it my fault?" | madame bovary |
| "i loved her, and sometimes she loved me too" | saddest |
| pair | herrick |
| frederic henry | farewell to arms |
| rinaldi | jerusalem delivered |
| "twilight" | trixie |
| "it never troubles the wolf how many sheep there be" | virgil |
| "this is the forest primeval [pry-mee-vull]." | evangeline |
| "could not stop for" | death |
| harold bloom | paz |
| axolotls | cortazar |
| "little, sleek, cowering, timorous beast." | mouse |
| ramses the great | ozymandias |
| "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 |
| hannah jarvis | arcadia |
| shingo | kawabata |
| "grim demon haunting the marches" | beowulf |
| "i like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." | o pioneers |
| "stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone." | auden |
| "funeral blues" | auden |
| don alonso | quixote |
| "in a station of the metro." | pound |
| su shi | song |
| dandan | song |
| kornakov | doctor zhivago |
| "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 |
| bob ewell | sheriff |
| sinbad the sailor | scheherazade |
| book of laughter | kundera |
| hortense briggs | american |
| theodore dreiser | howells |
| "enoch and the gorilla" | wise blood |
| arvid falk | strindberg |
| "sermon" | eugene |
| veen | glengarry glen ross |
| two fair cousins | scholar |
| jyoti | mukherjee |
| "world state," | john |
| charite | apuleius |
| queen dharini | ring |
| zurich | unbearable lightness of being |
| "fiery serpent" | hiawatha |
| "what does it all mean?" | to the |
| seashell game | basho |
| annals of the cakchiquels | maya |
| sugriva | ramayana |
| "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 |
| marty | harry |
| tothero | harry |
| "and yet those who picture the world as unlimited forget that the number of possible books is not." | library of babel |
| nelson rodrigues | kiss |
| arandir | kiss |
| "among these barren crags" | ulysses |
| "suffer'd greatly, both with those/ that loved me, and alone" | ulysses |
| yiddish policemen | chabon |
| angel clare | hardy |
| alec | hardy |
| "everything that has dark sounds." | lorca |
| fusun | istanbul |
| "what two letters of the alphabet...express perfection?" | emma |
| francine prose | rosenberg |
| "the lorelei" | german |
| vidushaka | ring |
| agnimitra | ring |
| the vixen | rosenberg |
| "the loser." | mann |
| baseball guide | holly |
| rusty trawler | holly |
| janacek | 1q84 |
| satine | lower depths |
| lower depths | gorky |
| montoni | mysteries of udolpho |
| thibault | dumas |
| saxo grammaticus | snorri |
| gospel according to jesus christ | saramago |
| "children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison." | midnight's children |
| sir epicure mammon | alchemist |
| "ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay." | deserted village |
"the deserted village" | goldsmith |
| fay mckelva | optimist's |
| "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 |
| rachel | maupassant |
| harry sinclair | lanny |
| stefano | my brilliant friend |
| diana barry | anne |
| hedwig niemann | nora |
| "oh, this is a sin against myself." | nora |
| "inflections from classical arabic." | library of babel |
| astronautilia | czech |
| "!mayombe--bombe--mayombe!" | cuba |
| roebuck ramsden | man and superman |
| octavius robinson | man and superman |
| okamoto | life of pi |
| liverpool | wuthering heights |
| "old yellow pair" | brooks |
| professor woland | master and margarita |
| "to my lord fairfax" | marvell |
| "why should of all things man unrul'd / such unproportioned dwellings build?" | marvell |
| fire next time | baldwin |
| ruyi jingu bang | sun wukong |
| "mutilated" | beneatha |
| pisthetaerus | cloud |
| strepsiades | clouds |
| ida's bar | cannery |
| "this is america--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves." | main street |
| "this is the dead land. this is cactus land." | hollow men |
| as you like it | jaques |
| robbie turner at dunkirk | atonement |
| brahn | cyclops |
| steropes | cyclops |
| arges | cyclops |
| russian at wellesley college | nabokov |
| ukonvasara | thor |
| duke of illyria | twelfth night |
| hellena | behn |
| "decalage," | senghor |
| "jetlag," | senghor |
| lagoon | new zealand |
| "on influence," | carver |
| fairhurst | bleak house |
| "old pond, frog leaps in, water's sound." | haiku |
| erlend | undset |
| eleanor robson | enheduanna |
| "i was stamped out like a plymouth fender into this world" | row |
| "story ends with me still" | row |
| damis | tartuffe |
| "we will try to be good neighbors. and that's all we got to say about that." | raisin in the sun |
| amherst | dickinson |
| marta weigle | enheduanna |
| florinda | behn |
| antoinettte cosway | bertha |
| maupassant | pierrot |
the mysteries of udolpho (genre) | gothic |
| "the myth of sisyphus?" | camus |
| "all good things must come to an end." | troilus and criseyde |
| "on being brought from africa to america." | wheatley |
| "women as verbal artists." | enheduanna |
| cleanth brooks | british museum |
| "petals on a wet, black bough." | pound |
| marcello solara | my brilliant friend |
| thiz | midsummer night's |
"rude mechanicals" | a midsummer night's dream |
| demetrius | midsummer night's |
| andrew butler | bildungsroman |
| tibet | holmes |
| bohemian | marriage |
| "there's no question of heroism" | bernard |
| "a matter of common decency." | bernard |
| shoot the kids | oe |
| lady nijo | party |
| argan | moliere |
| madame pernelle | tartuffe |
| "if anyone should feel differently, they would feel nothing." | comedy |
| "bored by rhetoric and public speaking." | barbarian |
| governor carter ross | antigone |
| dull gret | party |
| reaching for the moon | bishop |
| "autumn is desolation in the plot / of a thousand acres." | confederate |
| lord of the flies | oe |
| nip the buds | oe |
| cluaneesha | virtue rewarded |
| faniaca | virtue rewarded |
| trystero | pynchon |
| frederick griffith | playboy of the western world |
| "music has charms to soothe a savage breast." | mourning bride |
| robin goodfellow | midsummer night's |
| "take pity on my long misery!" | baudelaire |
| shruff end | the sea, the |
| "for bonny sweet robin is all my joy" | ophelia |
| "morning" | drunk |
| "the poison tree" | blake |
| songs of experience | blake |
| gunter grass | drum |
| negritude | senghor |
| "sham grandeurs" | scott |
| "sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society." | scott |
| water margin | golden lotus |
| "when the world screamed," | challenger |
| "alternate lives" | glass bead game |
| "pallaksch" | holderlin |
| "sometimes meant yes, sometimes no." | holderlin |
| "riot club" | stoppard |
| laura wade | stoppard |
| tom taylor | lincoln |
| jason strugnell | cope |
| making cocoa for kingsley amis | cope |
| golden gate | john brown |
| william hazlitt | king lear |
| "so thoroughly hateful that we do not even like to repeat their names." | king lear |
| georgia o'keeffe | didion |
| josiah gilbert holland | bars fight |
| history of western massachusetts | bars fight |
| "my heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains" | odes |
| toreador song | carmen |
| "my sweet dear, i send cheer, all the best!" | marot |
| "to a sick damsel," | marot |
| "the freedman's story" | atlantic |
| rosie probert | under milk wood |
| tulla pokriefke | danzig trilogy |
| nine stories | esme |
| lorenzo savoini | miller |
| incident at vichy | miller |
| sherrard | barbarian |
| "a samoyed-lithuanian dialect of guarani" | library of babel |
| "the ugly duckling." | andersen |
| manuel cabrera | senor |
| england in world war | graves |
| life on the mississippi | scott |
| ochola | gurnah |
| katusha | tolstoy |
| orvil red feather | orange |
| "behold the time of the assassins" | drunk |
| merry like christmas | i know why the caged bird sings |
| swingin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| gettin | i know why the caged bird sings |
| charrington | 1984 |
| "the horla" | maupassant |
| ugwu | half of a yellow sun |
| conservationist | gordimer |
| volcacius sedigitus | comedy |
| "set his mind to evil" | byron |
| historian mark lawrence schrad | jungle |
| electra | sartre |
| personal matter | oe |
| in keeley | barbarian |
| "knowing owl." | swan |
| "sing sin," | brooks |
| framton nuttel | saki |
| la times | capote |
| "clay" | dublin |
| science fiction world | chinese |
| macedo soares | bishop |
| lota de | bishop |
| "that some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision, i may burst into jubilant praise" | angel |
| simuvac | white noise |
| countee cullen | harlem renaissance |
| "you sockdologizing old man-trap" | lincoln |
| "tubingen, january" | holderlin |
| kainene | half of a yellow sun |
| mathilde von zahnd | physicist |
| world was silent while we died | half of a yellow sun |
| poet laureate of illinois | brooks |
| illiac | hal 9000 |
| urbana | hal 9000 |
| bill driscoll | ransom of red |
| "sour grapes." | aesop |
| plumfield | jo |
| jo march | alcott |
| "pallid bust of pallas," | raven |
| black americans | senghor |
| suda | sappho |
| tuttle | roaring camp |
kanaka joe | the luck of roaring camp |
| hms bellipotent | billy |
french pete | the luck of roaring camp |
| "one day anyone died i guess." | cummings |
| professor baglioni | rappaccini's daughter |
| bal-yoh-nee | rappaccini's daughter |
| dong zhuo | cao |
| peach garden oath | romance of the three kingdoms |
| wei | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "their hits aren't clustering" | v-2 |
| call to arms | china |
| "the child who became a giant" | dry white season |
| "travels through the whole word without a pass." | dry white season |
| "lurk late" | brooks |
| "you will love again the stranger who was your self" | walcott |
| "love after love." | walcott |
| charlie drouet | carrie |
| ine | no exit |
| "stick" | frog |
| golden ass | novel |
| "on the pulse of morning" | angelou |
| seven star precious sword | cao |
| in the book of the city of ladies | griselda |
| lady rectitude | griselda |
| kerkylas of andros | sappho |
| "little penis from man island." | sappho |
| george henry lewes | spontaneous combustion |
| "giving currency to a vulgar error," | spontaneous combustion |
| "do not remember me / as disaster / nor as the keeper of secrets" | lorde |
| movement song | lorde |
| henry sweet | higgins |
"golgotha" | sassoon |
| pied beauty | dapple |
| scandinavian experimental theater | strindberg |
| "sprung rhythm,' as seen in " | hopkins |
| wreck of the deutschland | hopkins |
| johnny | lord of the flies |
| last witnesses | alexievich |
| new york drama critics | children's hour |
| lake como | julie |
| the cure | machiavelli |
| henryk sienkiewicz | polish |
| kate brady | o'brien |
| baba brennan | o'brien |
| country girls | o'brien |
| gabriel utterson | jekyll becoming |
| castle of otranto | gothic |
| "the moon is beautiful." | soseki |
| sneaze | soseki |
| soseki | kafka on the shore |
| mantuan | shepheardes |
| shepheardes calender | spenser |
| "corrected" | soseki |
| akira kurosawa | akutagawa |
| uncle arhat | red sorghum |
| book of the dead | osiris |
| cosette | les |
| meet | persephone |
| "the interlopers" | saki |
| "romance at short notice was her specialty." | saki |
| brooklyn dodgers | rickey |
| the 's campaign | wolves |
| richard flanagan | narrow road to the deep north |
| dorrigo evans | narrow road to the deep north |
| pow in the pacific | narrow road to the deep north |
| le voreux | germinal |
| montsou | germinal |
| "smoking his pipe" | symphony in gray major |
| "thinking about the beaches" | symphony in gray major |
| "vague, distant, misty country." | symphony in gray major |
| maheu | germinal |
| "science and pseudo-science" | poe |
| carroll d. laverty | poe |
| "vile and inhuman story" | playboy of the western world |
| homage to qwert yuiop | burgess |
| enderby | burgess |
| elena ferrante | little women |
| my brilliant friend | little women |
| "the man who considers...what good or evil he has done, and what judgement his soul will receive after its passing" | bede |
| "death song." | bede |
| "falconress" | mother |
| "gay falcon treading her wrist." | mother |
| "a drift of females standing in their shifts." | playboy of the western world |
| christy mahon | playboy of the western world |
| naomi | ginsburg |
| kenneth rexroth | ginsburg |
| road back | all quiet on the western front |
| frances gage | ain't i a woman |
| rick | klara and the sun |
| "picaros, madmen, naifs, and clowns" | unreliable narrator |
| "permitted the use of their fathers' libraries at a much earlier age than girls." | lamb |
| angwin | mantel |
| ruth benedict | mead |
| "a stray ghost-walker with a ghostly gun." | brown |
| eugene de rastignac | balzac |
| murat sabanovic | andric |
| "rubble literature" | boll |
| roman general ventidius | all for love |
| palamon | knight |
| wulkow | hauptmann |
| dreissiger | howells |
| "moloch whose mind is pure machinery." | howl |
| "you, the reader" | baudelaire |
| bellied whale | good soldier svejk |
| into the night life | coney island |
| marib | radio |
| elizabeth montagu | romeo and |
| "one of us." | knausgard |
| "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds," | candide |
| air chrysalis | murakami |
| in the sailor who fell from grace with the sea | cat |
"the darkest evening of the year." | stopping by woods on a snowy evening |
| "swallowed" | twenty love poems and a song of despair |
| "stink like rotten meat / or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet" | dream deferred |
| la paz | hawthorne |
| dunbar | sing |
| nadine gordimer | south |
| aborigine | serpent |
| "traveling box" | brobdingnag |
| "eat me" | alice |
| wilbur wright roll | edison |
| "there's a double meaning in that." | much ado about nothing |
| herbert pocket | philip |
| satis | philip |
| vahl | mephistopheles |
| kah-mel dah-ood | stranger |
| confessional | plath |
| my struggle | knausgard |
| bertie stanhope | trollope |
| low church | trollope |
| slope | trollope |
| a wedding-guest | albatross |
| giovanelli | james |
| "lie" | journey to the center |
| "cheeks will be stained with red blood" | moon |
| "heil hitler" | amon goeth |
| manfred | castle |
| the brothers | latin |
| christian de neuvillette | bergerac |
| model kit | hopscotch |
| lucy westenra | castle |
| "every woman adores a fascist" | plath |
| max fleischer | superman |
| fludd | mantel |
| ezra chater | byron |
| charles stewart | key |
| after alexas | all for love |
| "memorial" | iliad |
| cyrano | spain |
| esquire | kennedy |
| earthly paradise in elijah | ariosto |
| bernard | house |
| miss lonelyhearts | west |
| augustus carmichael | to the |
| "a noiseless patient spider." | whitman |
| "put on the kettle" | dumb waiter |
| "pipe dreams." | iceman cometh |
| "gossamer thread" | whitman |
| caryl phillips | rhys |
| isak dinesen | out of africa |
| jo | hair |
| alexandre dumas | three musketeers |
| "renascence." | millay |
| new york review books | bovary |
| jean amery | bovary |
| in william gass | hitler |
| aunt lydia | handmaid's tale |
| mother wolff | hauptmann |
| beaver coat | hauptmann |
| elsie venner | boston |
| "zhahn ah-may-ree's" | bovary |
| "country doctor." | bovary |
| wat tyler | vidal |
| antistrophe | pindar |
| gahl | banquo |
| "a tale of two gardens" | paz |
| tjaden | all quiet on the western front |
| roon | brother |
| song of solomon | morrison |
| sula | morrison |
| sagramore | hank |
| prince myshkin | dostoyevsky |
| purple land | gaucho |
| view of the empire at sunset | rhys |
| "instead of a preface" | russian |
yann martel | the life of pi |
| season in hell | rimbaud |
| angels and demons | novel |
| babo | benito |
| "the wall" | sartre |
| "now come, fire!" | hymn |
| "my net is spread, my net is spread." | lion and the jewel |
| "flame out, like shining from shook foil" | god's grandeur |
| "gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil crushed." | god's grandeur |
| castorp | clavdia |
| "unrelenting forces" | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "newly awakening sexual appetite," | i know why the caged bird sings |
| "might not be a normal female." | i know why the caged bird sings |
| paul kruger | hauptmann |
| "sell him to the south" | jim |
| professor welch | lucky |
| village voice | off-broadway |
| obie awards | off-broadway |
| futuremouse | smith |
| branden jacobs | everyman |
| "an hour to suffer, a lifetime to live," | land |
| sumerian inanna | enkidu |
| anagnostis | zorba the greek |
| hitler studies at the | white |
| the republic | plato |
| kondomanolious | zorba the greek |
| summer sun celebration | twilight |
| "stone walls do not a prison make, / nor iron bars a cage" | prison |
| dolores haze | nabokov |
| cape technical university | communication |
| sound of music | god of small things |
| clarence thomas | oleanna |
| montgomery | island of doctor moreau |
mein kampf | hitler |
| "self-reliance." | emerson |
absalom and achitophel | dryden |
ignatius j. reilly | a confederacy of dunces |
| joshua | smith |
| beginners | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| liked best | film |
| "someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the model t on the american nation." | cannery row |
| vonda mcintyre | atwood |
| talking squids in outer space | atwood |
| "parting is such sweet sorrow" | coward |
| kohler | hitler |
| suitable boy | india |
| madeline | poe |
| "theme for english b," | hughes |
| "two roads diverged in a yellow wood." | frost |
| toyota | harry |
| ramon | sartre |
| astolfo | ariosto |
| aloysius bertrand | prose |
| harry wotton | picture of dorian |
| "mud-luscious" | in just |
| "no hungry generations tread thee down." | ode to a nightingale |
| man with black eye patch | blindness |
| doctor leete | looking backward |
| "with up so floating many bells down" | anyone lived in a pretty how town |
| bronte | wuthering |
| juan rulfo | mexico |
| mistress hobbins | scarlet letter |
| manco capac | inca |
| time machine | wells |
| moushumi | namesake |
| "the fugitive." | proust |
brother juniper | the bridge of san luis rey |
| "why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart?" | sonnet--to science |
"is there balm in gilead?" | "the raven" |
| "especially heinous" | machado |
| detectives benson | machado |
| tess gallagher | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| in watermelon sugar | brautigan |
| ernest dowson | gone with the wind |
| "trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." | self-reliance |
| ten-tronckh's | pangloss |
| "flash upon that inward eye / which is the bliss of solitude." | i wandered lonely as a cloud |
| through the looking | borges |
| rist | centaur |
| ebenezer prout | david |
| "birds of the night" | verlaine |
| "it rains in my heart." | verlaine |
| "hypocrite reader." | fleurs du mal |
| clorinda | tancredi |
| special victims unit | machado |
| claude robichaux | confederacy of |
| "that minx." | confederacy of |
| "world-soul" | seagull |
| "glimpse of a dream smouldering in a cave" | okigbo |
| "descend on us." | okigbo |
| maya angelou | autobiography |
| bharati university | tagore |
| "the armies of those i love engirth me." | sing |
| pardoner | chaucer |
| marguerite | ionesco |
| "i celebrate myself and sing myself." | song of myself |
| "man thinking" | emerson |
| "the sabbath rang slowly / in the pebbles of the holy streams" | fern hill |
| "where ignorance is bliss / 'tis folly to be wise" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| slawomir mrozek | police |
| "swah-vo-meer m'ro-zhek" | police |
| cox | hadleyburg |
| mikhail bakhtin | rabelais |
| wally | cider house rules |
| matthew biggs | insomnia |
| black moon | insomnia |
| krook | spontaneous combustion |
| alexandrine meter | prose |
| roberta alden | dreiser |
| sententiae | syria |
| adunis | ovid |
| "modern tragedy" | doll |
| "barbaric act of violence" | doll |
| byblos | metamorphoses |
| sybil carpenter | bananafish |
| "a rolling stone gathers no moss" | syria |
edgar linton | wuthering heights |
| valley of ashes | myrtle |
| cat on a hot tin roof | williams |
| pietro bembo | italian |
| "prudence" | hippolytus |
| troezen | hippolytus |
| "with usura" | pound |
| "the art of losing isn't hard to master" | bishop |
| hugh macdiarmid | drunk |
| scratchy wilson | crane |
| catskills | irving |
| michel | immoralist |
| dewey dell | faulkner |
cancer ward | solzhenitsyn |
| clyde griffiths | dreiser |
| "fake" | genji |
| razor | maugham |
| "with blue - uncertain stumbling buzz - between the light - and me." | fly |
| nicolas azcarate | cuba |
| "tobacco reading" | cuba |
| fernando gonzales ochoa | nada |
| la violencia | nada |
| fernand lotte | human comedy |
| ferdinand de grammont | human comedy |
| "cannot rub the strangeness from my sight / i got from looking through a pane of glass." | apple pick |
| "so dreadful that not even a sci-fi writer could have made him up." | trujillo |
| yunior | trujillo |
| "immanent will that stirs and urges everything" | hardy |
| "sinister mate" | hardy |
| "the convergence of the twain," | hardy |
| natalia ginzburg | manzoni |
| bagutta prize | manzoni |
| pink fairy book | shoemaker |
| hurry harry | bumppo |
| chingachgook | bumppo |
| "mass of stupid filth." | leaves of grass |
| "are not torn down, rings and all." | scrooge |
| "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." | lady windermere's fan |
| gonzalo arango | nada |
| big foot | dead |
| "our sauron, our arawn, our darkseid" | trujillo |
| girl of the streets | crane |
| "porphyria's lover," | browning |
| potter | crane |
| pete | crane |
| kostoglotov | solzhenitsyn |
| "that mighty mighty tribe of johnsons." | street |
| de profundis | opium |
| "does it make any difference / what names we call these lips by, if they keep / on yielding, and the kissing never stops?" | tsvetaeva |
| dylan thomas | do not go gentle into that good night |
| extinctathon | atwood |
| oryx | atwood |
| crake | atwood |
| pedro romero | the sun also |
| mike campbell | the sun also |
| journal of the plague year | defoe |
| moll flanders | defoe |
| doctor faustus | helen |
| "covers me like a kind of bark" | italian |
| lutie | street |
| ann goldstein | ferrante |
| neapolitan novels | ferrante |
| edward upward | isherwood |
| "clad in the beauty of a thousand stars" | helen |
| sublet | bayou |
| jonathan franzen | new yorker |
| "everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type easter egg." | updike |
| mortmere | isherwood |
| fenway park | updike |
| polynices | antigone |
| "gentleman from" | bayou |
| "most perfect...for the mathematical destruction of a mortal." | infernal machine |
| "make me immortal with a kiss." | helen |
| pope of the fools | hunchback of notre-dame |
| max brod | kafka |
| absalom pro deo | cry, the beloved |
| "the sea is calm tonight / the tide is full, the moon lies fair." | dover beach |
| "whene'er to drink you are inclin'd... remember tam o'shanter's mare." | burns |
| houyhnhnms | lemuel |
| road to revolution | lenin |
| ann whitefield | shaw |
| changing places | campus |
| lawrence ferlinghetti | howl |
| "living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy" | letters to a young poet |
| danish west indies | rhys |
| andrew lang | shoemaker |
| karl rossmann | kafka |
| "the man who would be king," | "the white man's burden" |
| buck mulligan | ulysses |
| yun ling | mist |
| "throwing-up" | ferris wheel |
| adamastor | portuguese |
| "clearly doesn't" | death |
| english novel | ford |
| captain edward ashburnham | good soldier |
| enheduanna | poetry |
| beautiful star | mishima |
| shino | thousand cranes |
| otoko | beauty and sadness |
| garden journal | hill |
| prayer for owen meany | irving |
| fumiko | thousand cranes |
| jean morris | heart of darkness |
| "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 |
| "red hounds" | death |
| david lodge | campus |
| st. louis | maya |
| tawfiq al-hakim | egypt |
| "great soft jelly thing" | i have no mouth, and i must scream |
| molloy | beckett |
| holden caulfield | salinger |
| wang lung | the good |
| house of hwang | the good |
| "out-laws" | race |
| grey wall | swastika |
| in jean cocteau | answer |
| minta doyle | party |
| infernal machine | answer |
| clare hollingworth | war correspondent |
| celeste albaret | proust |
| midnight's children | rushdie |
| leni | kafka |
| archer | maltese |
| pearl s. buck | buck |
| sam spade | maltese |
| "what is to be done?" | lenin |
| audre | fourth |
| "rid yourself of all your daily cares." | kafka |
| "in-laws" | race |
| updike | witches of |
| "dream argument." | hughes |
| "likes a boggy acre / a floor too cool for corn." | dickinson |
| panic room | snow |
| "foster-child of silence and slow time." | ode to a grecian |
| "big house on the street," | allende |
| an ideal husband | wilde |
| algernon moncrieff | wilde |
| nautilus | verne |
| "adnexa," | elegy |
| allen's | catherine |
| phileas fogg | verne |
| "my little horse must think it queer / to stop without a farmhouse near" | frost |
| "drive your plow over the bones of the dead" | blake |
| knights of the round table | lancelot |
| rick deckard | dick |
| adela | lorca |
| "the curse is finally expiated." | gloss |
| nocturnes | senghor |
| "dormitive principle" | imaginary invalid |
| "we bend over them ... taking their breath / soft on our faces, wiping their domed brows." | whitman |
| "they call us cotton heads" | mask |
| "savage" | brave new world |
| jose arcadia | garcia |
| eclogues | virgil |
| "great blobs of purple and red emotion" | eatonville |
| "literary brownface" | ventriloquism |
| flores | borges |
| "point of departure" | universal history of infamy |
| "magical realism in spanish-american fiction." | universal history of infamy |
| "looked better picked than growing." | manderley |
| "the lord of those dead who are dressed in red. / the man who is masked in a faceless face" | dario |
| agnes wickfield | david |
| thackeray | barry |
| amerika | kafka |
| chums of chance | pynchon |
| "baby igor." | pynchon |
| edouard manet | nana |
| "lying in their blood," | rowlandson |
| "hell-hounds." | rowlandson |
| man in the high castle | dick |
| by the waters of babylon | benet |
| "american muse," | benet |
| do androids dream of electric sheep | dick |
| colonel aureliano of the buendia | garcia |
| battle of red cliffs | romance of the three kingdoms |
| we have always lived in the castle | jackson |
| horace smith | ozymandias |
| "civil peace." | achebe |
| "descent" | avatar |
| pat barker | sassoon |
| "for whom all winds are quiet as the sun, / all waters as the shore" | baudelaire |
| tapanhumas | andrade |
| "lingered ... till human voices wake us, and we drown." | mermaid |
| "but where are the snows of yesteryear?" | villon |
| tragedians | stoppard |
| british angry young men | 50 |
| "perfect loveliness" | dunbar |
| "garish lights, and mincing little fops / and cabarets and songs" | dunbar |
| edward carpenter | regeneration |
| intermediate sex at craiglockhart hospital | regeneration |
| "blond" | rumi |
| "bright-hearted companions" | rumi |
| "all the blond ones." | rumi |
| the homecoming | pinter |
| "men of death" | mask |
| "panterheaded ancestors." | mask |
| george whitefield | man and superman |
| sibylline leaves | gloss |
| "combing the white hair of the waves blown back" | mermaid |
| "on parables," | kafka |
| "if you only followed the parables," | kafka |
| in the postscript | name of the rose |
| "must muddle the reader's ideas, not regiment them," | name of the rose |
| "are you nobody too?" | dickinson |
| howie newsome | grover's corners |
| gabriel oak | far from the madding |
| "i am a traveler from an antique land." | ozymandias |
| "could not see to see." | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
| laura trevelyan | white |
| marie ndiaye | france |
| "the right word," | flaubert |
| late bourgeois world | gordimer |
| world of strangers | gordimer |
| "drinks the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of utica." | rockland |
| miss kenton | butler |
| "most loving and affectionate manner" | queequeg |
| "the martyr of style." | flaubert |
| frances vane | peregrine |
| "the memoirs of a lady of quality." | peregrine |
| "interior landscape," | basque |
| obabakoak | basque |
| babette | lottery |
| in king lear | fairy tale |
| waverley | scott |
| angela carter | fairy tale |
| plot against america | roth |
| "swede" | roth |
| french quarter | confederacy of |
| "my heart under your foot, sister of a stone" | bee |
| "what are you laughing about? you are laughing at yourselves!" | government inspector |
| ndiaye | france |
| "when all wells are drawn dry, / i'll drink a tear out of thine eye." | hair |
| tom thumb | fairy tale |
| sketchbook of geofrrey crayon | legend of sleepy hollow |
| the , gent | legend of sleepy hollow |
| "you eat your victuals fast enough." | shropshire lad |
| muhbab ali | kim |
| pandaemonium | paradise lost |
| lindsay lohan | parent trap |
| robert hunter | alger |
| "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times." | tale of two cities |
| james chettam | middlemarch |
| "sexual intercourse began" | lady chatterley's lover |
| "and the beatles' first lp" | lady chatterley's lover |
| "spanish sombrero" | smith |
| "individuals and things" | basque |
| hallucinated city | andrade |
| "artifices," | ficciones |
| "three visions of judas" | ficciones |
| "tlon, uqbar, orbis tertius" | borges |
richard madden | borges |
| bartleby the scrivener | melville |
| "a low, dishonest decade." | september 1, 1939 |
| "le mot juste," | flaubert |
| "my life is the gardener of my body" | hebrew |
| "stop calling me a crypto-nazi, or i'll sock you in the face" | debating |
| susan choi | education |
| cassim | ali |
| ali baba | one thousand and one nights |
| mark kelly | giffords |
nagg and nell | endgame |
| "well-to-do planter" | occurrence at owl creek bridge |
| "yes, you squashed cabbage-leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult to the english language!" | eliza |
| beatriz viterbo | borges |
| jan bronski | grass |
| namesake | lahiri |
| hesse | glass bead game |
| "assorted characters of death and blight" | design |
| "like the ingredients of a witches' broth." | design |
| in an adichie | sun |
| "burns at both ends" | candle |
| "the veldt" | bradbury |
| something wicked this way comes | bradbury |
| on earth we | vietnam |
| briefly gorgeous | vietnam |
| harriet beecher stowe | uncle tom's cabin |
| trevor | vietnam |
| zygmunt krasinski | romantic |
| undivine comedy | romantic |
| "lycidas" | milton |
| "if the sun and moon should doubt, they'd immediately go out." | auguries of innocence |
| "the most obscene of women." | sand |
| winter in majorca | sand |
| "nellie j. banks" | testaments |
| pearl girls | testaments |
| ralph touchett | james |
| "did god in portioning wine and bread / give man his thought or his mere body?" | michael |
| lin daiyu | dream of the red chamber |
| jose quadrado | sand |
| herbert stencil | pynchon |
| bringing up baby | albee |
| joan didion | murder |
| diary of a young girl | frank |
| sarah palin | bering strait |
| juvenal | mother-in-law |
| gilbert kaplan | minority report |
| "the most immoral of writers" | sand |
| "the tale of the fuller's wife." | golden ass |
| jenny gabriel | witches of eastwick |
| darling daintyfoot | our lady of the flowers |
| dulness | pope |
| dunciad | pope |
| robert morison | 1918 |
| "refutation" | sand |
| "butterflies, off banks of noon" | bird |
| madame merle | james |
| "in exile at sarzana." | cavalcanti |
| cavalcanti | dante |
| in a paul bowles | joseph |
| "half-sick of shadows," | lady of |
| "one could do worse than be a swinger of birches," | frost |
| "queenie" | updike |
| percy shelly | ode to the west wind |
| knut hamsun | norway |
| "common farmer" | i sing the body electric |
| "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 |
| elizabeth barrett browning | if thou must love me |
| fulbert | idol |
| "keep the water white." | lonely londoners |
| "doctor's wife," | blindness |
| "will not last the night" | candle |
| ensign beverley | rivals |
| rene descartes | i have no mouth, and i must scream |
| "fair folk." | piers plowman |
"be just" | kafka |
| "the taxis." | macneice |
| pearl poet | sir gawain and the green knight |
| inger | growth of the soil |
| hce | finnegans wake |
lord warburton | the portrait of a lady |
| la traviata | hans |
| gorgo | medusa |
| "of la mancha." | don quixote |
| qfwfq | calvino |
| maria antonia garces | algiers |
| "captive's tale" | algiers |
| "the lady of shalott." | tennyson |
| niccolo | tristero |
| if on a winter | calvino |
| anneli taube | kiss of the spider woman |
| rosie | narayan |
| doremus jessup | it can't happen here |
| vermont vigilance | it can't happen here |
| calcutta ashoke | lahiri |
| queequeg | white |
| "ex ovo omnia" | metamorphoses |
| "everything comes out of an egg" | metamorphoses |
| miss barrie | metamorphoses |
| d.j. west | kiss of the spider woman |
| duke of squamuglia | tristero |
| "they say such different things at school." | michael |
| "love's the boy stood on the burning deck / trying to recite `the boy stood on the burning deck.'" | casabianca |
| "leap plashless as they swim" | bird |
| monsieur crevel | cousine bette |
| count steinbock | human comedy |
| "naked and beautiful, reaching for the light." | hospital |
| "autumn already!" | season in hell |
| eilert lovborg | hedda |
| colonel delmare | sand |
| raymon de ramiere | sand |
| amadis of gaul | quixote |
| "to hear her tender-taken breath, and so live ever - or else swoon to death." | bright star |
| argentina with jenna | freedom |
| margaret | wilde |
| maurice | holden |
| "communal people" | hawk |
| "wild god of the world," | hawk |
| athena college | coleman |
| "we are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." | prospero |
| "chicken george" | roots |
| boolie werthan | driving |
| "that taste of opiate wine! lure of the dark valley!" | akhmatova |
| tom hanks | brown |
| "limpin' lump o' brick-dust." | din |
| "vincent cradeau." | joseph |
| "man who looked / with such a wistful eye / upon that little tent of blue / which prisoners call the sky." | wilde |
| autobiography of malcolm | haley |
| "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 |
| chay | ivanhoe |
| severo del valle | house of the |
| book nine | tom |
| "those who lawfully may, and those who may not, write such histories as this" | tom |
| "is the warm smell of bread before you bake it" | house on |
| g. h | native |
| cal stephanides | metamorphoses |
| "i will enjoy thee now, my celia," | carew |
| "i hate and love. why i do so, perhaps you ask. i know not, but i feel it, and i am in torment." | lesbia |
| "the smile at the foot of the ladder" | miller |
| wash williams | winesburg |
| "respectability" | winesburg |
| kate swift | winesburg |
| geb | nut |
| joe gargery | great expectations |
| clara wieland | spontaneous combustion |
| "secret code" | car |
| arnold friend | car |
| "i caught this morning morning's minion," | windhover |
| "marry me." | gabriel |
| "he which hath no stomach to this fight" | st. crispin's day |
| "passport made." | st. crispin's day |
| el-meer | tartuffe |
| "torturing faces with the vacancy of wide sunflowers" | end of the party |
| on the natural history of destruction | sebald |
| "lunar race" | behn |
| emperor of the moon | behn |
| baliardo | behn |
| "avenged in part for lifelong hidings she has had to bear." | hayden |
| "i stand mesmerized, wondering how you sing / your notes hold the world spellbound." | yeats |
| af-roh | hephaestus |
| "there is no end to my sickness, no term. one disaster comes to vie with another." | trojan |
| "your fortune, i am now sorry to inform you, is almost nothing." | vicar of |
| she stoops to conquer | goldsmith |
| tipton grange | middlemarch |
| "embalmed" | anubis |
| mcteague | paint |
| gunpowder | irving |
| "the revolutionist's handbook and pocket companion." | man and superman |
| satis house | great expectations |
| mahlke | cairo |
| worldly wiseman | christian |
| simon armitage | sir gawain and the green knight |
| joseph stangerson | study in |
| gregson | study in |
| blore | and then there |
| hek-yoo-bah | trojan |
| "you are my peace, my solace, my salvation; on you depends my bliss or desolation." | tartuffe |
"miss brill" | mansfield |
| "old slewfoot" | yearling |
| steve | show boat |
| adolphe | red and |
| after john andre | american revolution |
| anna funder | brecht |
| "non-fiction novel" | lee |
| women in love | lawrence |
| ettinsmoor | narnia |
| "epic prose poem about the life of frederick the great" | death in venice |
| "why you got the white mens driving and the colored lifting?" | fences |
| "you might as well advise me to give up my fortune as my argument." | vicar of |
| conversations with friends | irish |
| the 's nest | mental hospital |
| gopher prairie | main street |
| "willingly would make rubbish of the earth." | reader |
| "going to nassau." | enormous radio |
| "unreal city." | waste land |
| james wood | auster |
| "shallow graves" | auster |
| thamyris | milton |
| casey cep | baseball player |
| "the violence of beast on beast is read as natural law, but upright man seeks his divinity by inflicting pain." | far cry from africa |
| "wants to die." | sexton |
| john ray jr | nabokov |
| "the house of asterion" | borges |
| rice | awakening |
| lucina | napoleon |
| jolly seventeen | main street |
| carol kennicott | main street |
| lords of xibalba | ball game |
emma tennant | henry james |
| the 's bastard | jane eyre |
| "i sing of olaf glad and big" | cummings |
| roylott | snake |
| behemoth | master and mar |
| hans christian andersen | emperor |
| duke of angouleme | julien |
| archbishop ruggieri | ugolino |
| james more | stevenson |
| david balfour | kidnapped |
| billy bones | stevenson |
| on the geneology of morals | nietzsche |
| loved one | waugh |
| mistress overdone | vienna |
| "prenez garde a tchou-tchin-tchou" | stepdaughter |
| abbe faria | dumas |
| count of monte cristo | dumas |
| vincent | cry, the beloved country |
| "turn everything off. start new." | veldt |
| chatsworth | pemberley |
| bret harte | california |
| mina | abraham |
| "the day you won your town the race." | housman |
| harriet bird | baseball player |
| la folle | bayou |
| "beyond" | bayou |
| bayou folk | chopin |
| "ploffskin, pluffskin, pelican jee!" | lear |
| "the pelican's chorus." | lear |
| sasuke | tanizaki |
| dukes of devonshire | pemberley |
| dumas | housman |
| jerry in central park | albee |
| stanley kowalski | streetcar named |
| heorot | grendal |
| "in my craft or sullen art" | thomas |
| "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 |
| in george bernard shaw | juan |
| "so sweet / and so cold." | "this is just to say" |
| jamie | long day's journey into night |
| "the ballad of reading gaol" | wilde |
| tiresias | serpent |
| rap on race | mead |
| deaths and entrances | thomas |
| zorba the greek | kazantzakis |
| arndt | eugene onegin |
| "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 |
| "not finding yourself at the age of 34 is a disgrace!" | death of a |
| world according to garp | irving |
| "no more to say, and nothing to weep for but the beings in the dream." | kaddish |
| karl adolph gjellerup | denmark |
| henrik pontoppidan | denmark |
| bernard malamud | baseball |
| "at the bat." | baseball |
| "the original of" | pemberley |
| ee-un | sonnet |
| "beware the ides of march." | julius |
| "brightening" | mask |
| "would adore my gifts instead of me." | herbert |
| king albert | suicide |
| "and you'll be marching with the band / in step, responding to command" | brecht |
| aethiopia | greek |
| "these pretzels are making me thirsty." | kramer |
"he prayeth well, who loveth well both man and bird and beast." | "the rime of the ancient mariner" |
| salamano | camus |
| corbenic | grail |
| pecola | bluest eye |
| valmiki | ramayana |
| robert de boron | grail |
| "and you, garcia lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?" | ginsberg |
| brom bones | irving |
| "to understand thoroughly and intuitively" | grok |
| sexual suspect | world according |
| "had somewhere to get to and calmly sailed on." | icarus |
| "thirty years now i have labored / to dredge the silt from your throat. / i am none the wiser." | plath |
| "o my chevalier!" | windhover |
| "sitting careless" | autumn |
| "hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind." | autumn |
| friedrich holderlin | hymn |
| abebooks | jerome |
| everything is illuminated | foer |
| extremely loud | 2001 |
| cypresses believe in god | spanish civil |
| national prize in literature | spanish civil |
| "suspended by a handkerchief, and nearly at its last gasp." | dogs |
| skulker | dogs |
| man and superman | juan |
| "pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling" | dover beach |
| "begin, and cease, and then again begin." | dover beach |
| incredibly close | 2001 |
| "whether i pound or am being pounded, / all the same there will be moaning!" | peer gynt |
| "extricating young gussie." | jeeves |
| foer | 2001 |
| j. g. ballard's | ballard |
| coleridge on lyrical ballads | wordsworth |
| "moves in darkness" | mending wall |
| tzesar | solzhenitsyn |
| schiller | sturm und drang |
| decay of the angel | mishima |
| honda | mishima |
| wye | wordsworth |
| "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" | wordsworth |
| walter williams | parker |
| "muddied people" | styx |
| "tristi fummo." | styx |
| "will arise and go now." | lake isle of innisfree |
| "purifiers" | borges |
| peter o'toole | modest proposal |
| carmichael | cry, the beloved |
| "flight" | chopin |
| dog in the manger | aesop |
| "the tortoise and the hare." | aesop |
| "loose, baggy monsters" | james |
| thornfield hall | jane eyre |
| parcae | fate |
| "fluid puddings," | james |
| "you have only to ask, i will do anything" | cry, the beloved country |
| "laws of inevitability" | war and peace |
| sair | sonnet |
| spenserian | sonnet |
| "dinner is a casual affair." | brooks |
| "turning point" | bleak house |
| slim | dog |
maria dahvana headley | beowulf (retelling) |
| "bro!" | old english |
| "frost on the ground." | li |
| vanir | mim |
| " out of the " | flowers of evil |
| tococul | breakfast at tiffany's |
| "thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" | stevens |
| joad | steinbeck |
| "the yellow wallpaper" | husband |
| duke of norfolk | prince and the |
| blefuscu | lilliput |
| charles marlow | heart of darkness |
| "teach us ... what sweet thoughts are thine: / i have never heard." | to a skylark |
| "ode to the west wind." | shelley |
| traveller | in the penal colony |
| mama yaya | tituba |
| gourd vine | hurston |
| first mate | conrad |
| "looking down into the swift water twenty feet below" | peyton |
| "musee des beaux arts," | auden |
| "delicate ship" | icarus |
| love in the time of cholera | garcia marquez |
| "plunged holding his treasure?" | suicide |
| leggatt | conrad |
| "third world woman" | india |
| under western eyes | india |
| ana | statue |
| "five years have past!" | wordsworth |
| "gash gold-vermilion." | windhover |
| "let all who prate of beauty hold their peace." | millay |
| kat | all quiet on the western front |
| kantorek | all quiet on the western front |
| sir walter raleigh | shepherd |
| "luxury, peace, and pleasure" | baudelaire |
| "invitation to the voyage." | baudelaire |
| haiti a french | welles |
| "sink through the sea ... shall rise again" | thomas |
| "though lovers be lost love shall not." | thomas |
| "poet of" | palestine |
| ellen olenska | wharton |
| "clean favored" | richard cory |
| "imperially slim." | richard cory |
| "more light! more light!" | hecht |
| hwalbindang | korean |
| "oh, what a tangled web we weave / when first we practice to deceive" | scott |
| don fabrizio | lampedusa |
| "go on living the life of the spirit" | lampedusa |
| "dame peace" | parliament of fowls |
| "dame patience" | parliament of fowls |
| captain vhd vhd | cosmicomics |
| torquato tasso | tancredi |
| randle patrick mcmurphy | mental hospital |
| khepri | ra |
| "enchanted magician" | lazarus |
| "heart-broken jester" | lazarus |
| "ancient pond" | haiku |
| "sweet sensations" | conversation |
| "ennobling thoughts," | conversation |
| "the slut you are so bent on becoming." | kincaid |
| jodie foster | snow |
| tomis | ovid |
| baroness orczy | guillotined |
| ted streshinsky in the saturday evening post | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "not to be born at all is best . . . for envy, sedition, strife, carnage, and war make up the tale of life." | oedipus at colonus |
"some cromwell guiltless of his own country's blood" | "elegy written in a country churchyard" |
| mo yan | china |
| "swans" | capote |
| "there should be stars for great wars" | cisneros |
| "one last poem for richard." | cisneros |
| "please don't smoke in bed, or use candles," | cider house rules |
| "thunder words" | finnegans wake |
| "be chaste, except you ravish me." | donne |
| "bragging and laughing that under his wrist, is the pulse." | chicago |
| "what shall i do with this absurdity" | yeats |
| "what pipes and timbrels? what wild ecstasy?" | ode on a grecian urn |
| flash gordon | mysterious flame of queen loana |
| gabriela mistral | chile |
| "suffering is one very long moment . . . we cannot divide it into seasons." | de profundis |
| "talent is nothing but faith in yourself, in your own powers." | actor |
| pater jakobus | castalia |
| dangerous liaisons | smallpox |
| "i spend my wedding day running from the oldest boy. his mama died in his arms and he don't want to hear nothing bout no new one" | god |
| meyer wolfsheim | great gatsby |
| k. chesterton | chesterton |
| "fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic." | chandler |
| big sleep | philip |
| ken kesey | mental hospital |
| lord of the rings | tolkien |
| in book | life of pi |
| an experiment in criticism | reader |
| "response" | reader |
| "hold fast" | dream |
| warren | frost |
| silas | frost |
| "season of mists and mellow fruitfulness," | keats |
| "where are the songs of spring?" | keats |
| "out, out-" | frost |
| yunioshi | breakfast at tiffany's |
| "a temporary matter" | lahiri |
| 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 |
| kochan | mishima |
| cimrman | curie |
| mick jenkins | we real cool |
| kill devil hills | wright |
| "could notactually set eyes on" | temple |
| "crystal palace" | dostoyevsky |
| "thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no, / nor honeysuckle." | millay |
| bonus note | machine |
| "we shall rest." | uncle vanya |
| bonus petrovich | the overcoat |
| "was apparent everywhere," | temple |
| "to a waterfowl." | bryant |
| bonus in shinto | fox |
| bonus buzz | lake isle of innisfree |
| "they asked 'do you love her to death?' i said 'speak of her over my grave and watch how she bringsme back to life.'" | darwish |
| "oh shame upon the earth! apollo, apollo!" | cassandra |
| "human beast" | zola |
| "twinned novels" | hulme |
| on the shadow side | hulme |
| and the world kept silent | night |
| "rocks and seas" | conversation |
| thechinese | eating people |
| "in that holocaust of hell" | dunbar |
| "for gawd's sake git the water!" | gunga din |
| "glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens" | williams |
| "the angel of the battlefield." | geneva |
| colonus | antigone |
| "process of alienation." | kikuyu |
| grandmother | o'connor |
| bonus let | karst |
| "a modest proposal." | irish |
| david livesey | treasure island |
| squire john trelawney | treasure island |
| like clover | moses |
| "young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes." | laurence |
| friar laurence | romeo and |
| friar john | mantua |
| luttrell | wide sargasso sea |
| rang shim bombo | yeti |
| nyalmo | yeti |
| "clerk's tale" | decameron |
| jim hawkins | treasure island |
| robert coover | hansel and |
| "the gingerbread house" | hansel and |
| "their color is a diabolic die." | on being brought |
| color purple | walker |
| hugo ball | dada |
| "gerontion" | eliot |
| nanny | mule |
| hungry joe | catch-22 |
| captain flume | catch-22 |
| chief white halfoat | catch-22 |
| connie reid | lady |
| johnny cade | outsiders |
| raskolnikov in crime | dostoevsky |
| book thief | kite runner |
| jacques lantier | zola |
| in search of our mothers | walker |
| churning of the ocean | hindu |
| stendhal | red and the black |
| marcus | mcteague |
| prester john | baudolino |
| jenkins | revolution |
| bonus british | peter |
| "crawled under a lorry." | gus |
| spring snow | mishima |
| "i sang in my chains like the sea" | thomas |
| "wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight" | thomas |
| "blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay." | thomas |
| gao xingjian | mountain |
| heinrich von ofterdingen | flower |
| el escorial | fuentes |
| etemenanki | tower of babel |
| parul sehgal | woolf |
| "the case against" | woolf |
| lord of aratta | tower of babel |
| enmerkar | tower of babel |
| roderick | poe |
| tonkunstler society | salieri |
| "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 |
| "alterest all things with thy peering eyes." | poe |
| harry domin | robots |
| "great chieftain of the puddin' race!" | burns |
| "to a haggis." | burns |
| thisman | poe |
| barnstable | cape cod |
| no child left behind act | education |
| race to the top | education |
| "conception of the primal horde," | darwin |
| catholic mass | nicene |
| stages on life | either/or |
| pellinore | questing beast |
| "the deceitful marriage," | berganza |
| "the conversation of the dogs" | cervantes |
| "ode to psyche" | keats |
| "sunflower sutra." | ginsberg |
| may welland | age of innocence |
| newland archer | age of innocence |
| edith wharton | age of innocence |
| de ropp | saki |
| "trilogy" | polish |
| national league rookie of the year | rickey |
| warren buffett | interest |
| "my wealth has come from a combination of living in america, some lucky genes, and" | interest |
| fair labor standards act | minimum |
| laura miller | mueller report |
| "game of thrones with footnotes." | mueller report |
| madness of king george | bennett |
| madeleine forestier | maupassant |
| four quartets | eliot |
| don gonzalo | don juan |
| east river | brooklyn |
| sinbad | sailor |
| thomas love peacock | abbey |
| "poisoning" | alice |
| jeff | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "merry pranksters," | wolfe |
| myra breckinridge | los angeles |
| "blaze like meteors and be gay" | thomas |
| gore vidal | los angeles |
| walter savage landor | oxford |
| "the third and final continent" | lahiri |
| harry fatt | waiting for lefty |
| "dover beach." | arnold |
| tirso de molina | don juan |
| "effect" | distancing |
| roanoke | paul d |
| "the parliament of fowls." | chaucer |
| jerusalem delivered | tancredi |
| in the leopard | tancredi |
| "grave men, near death" | thomas |
| "everybody's protest novel." | native |
| kapasi | lahiri |
| "durable" | thomas |
| cider house rules homer wells | abortion |
| wilbur larch | abortion |
| "hills like white elephants." | abortion |
| "mother of exiles" | new colossus |
| "woman hollering creek" | llorona |
| cisneros | llorona |
| "eat people." | china |
| "wild african savage" | paul d |
| baasie | the burgher's |
| crab | two gentlemen of |
| "the deluge at norderney" | dinesen |
| "an art" | lady lazarus" |
| "out of the ash" | lady lazarus" |
| "eats men like air." | lady lazarus" |
| "like the cat has nine times to die" | lady lazarus" |
| good person of szechwan | china |
| "hoary-headed swain" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe." | olenska |
| ricardo reis | pessoa |
| geoffrey crayon | irving |
| elfriede jelinek | doll's house |
| kiran desai | pamuk |
| phedre | racine |
| le cid | corneille |
| natasha | rostov |
| "arrangement in black and white" | parker |
| chronicle of a death foretold | garcia marquez |
| gustav freytag | falling |
| "mr. w. h." | shakespeare's sonnets |
| hotson | shakespeare's sonnets |
| sandra gilbert | julia |
| stephen albert | borges |
| ralph fiennes | english patient |
| "how can we know the dancer from the dance?" | yeats |
| "this hour, this night, my feelings go hard." | li |
| "left school," | brooks |
| jean rhys | jane eyre |
| "abortions will not let you forget." | brooks |
| odette de crecy | charles |
| aunt alexandra | atticus |
| "nobody." | dickinson |
| clutter | lee |
| yeshua ha | master and mar |
| steller | sebald |
| song dynasty | water margin |
| "attic shape" | beauty |
| guy de maupassant | german |
| normal people | irish |
| "a passion in the desert." | balzac |
| pemberley | fitzwilliam |
| shams of tabriz | rumi |
| if this | 40 |
| jessica | shylock |
| antonio | shylock |
| "sweet thing" | williams |
| "son" | borges |
| alfred doblin | berlin |
| john le carre's | berlin |
| tanizaki | kabuki |
| love suicides of amijima | chikamatsu |
| save me the waltz | flapper |
| "dramatizing herself." | flapper |
| "mother goose" | cat |
| edward lear | limerick |
| sri lanka in running in the family | ondaatje |
| bluest eye | morrison |
| alfieri | view from the |
| in the jungle | comrade |
| "no joy in mudville" | baseball player |
| "mother died today." | meursault |
| harun | meursault |
| "victoria's requiem." | russian |
| overland monthly | california |
| "wild men" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| and then there were none | miller |
| messenger | giver |
| evelyn waugh | brideshead revisited |
| hooper | brideshead revisited |
| laurie anderson | jo |
| "delirium" | season in hell |
| helen alving | ghosts |
| thomas carew | cavalier |
| kizuki | norwegian wood |
jack burden | all the king's men |
| ferber | parker |
| river of the arrow | kim |
| anoosh | persepolis |
| "the innocent" | california |
| oroonoko | slave |
| ryanosuke akutagawa | japan |
| new york trilogy | auster |
| auster | roth |
| maurice bendix | greene |
| "tim'rous beastie" | burns |
| "red shoes." | andersen |
| lovborg | hedda |
| godfrey reggio | silas |
| "the game" | irish |
| squire thornhill | vicar of |
| trojan women | cassandra |
| chronicles of narnia | lewis |
| kerma | turtle |
| "anthem" | rand |
| shere khan | jungle book |
| william gilmore simms | uncle tom's cabin |
| the sword and the distaff | uncle tom's cabin |
| georgiana burne | rubaiyat |
| henry fielding | fairy tale |
| harrow | penal colony |
| nervous conditions | zimbabwe |
| frantz fanon | wretched of the earth |
| zosia | pan tadeusz |
| "nation language," | english |
| louise bennett | english |
| little girl | six characters in search of an author |
| "to a louse" | burns |
| "the fish is red." | bishop |
| "yes, call me by my pet-name!" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "if swans can rain / white rape from heaven, then what is a girl to do?" | erdrich |
| harper | wolfe |
| camelot | sir gawain and the green knight |
| naoko | norwegian wood |
| darlington hall | remains of the day |
| american senator lewis | remains of the day |
| "amateur" | remains of the day |
| benn | remains of the day |
| in wodehouse | butler |
| kamau brathwaite | english |
| poemes | verlaine |
| garces | don quixote |
| algiers | don quixote |
| tomas rodaja | lawyer |
| andrei | war and peace |
| betrayal | pinter |
| "the distance of the moon." | calvino |
| ermes marana | calvino |
| millicent boyd | golf |
| mitchell holmes | golf |
| adventures of peregrine pickle | smollett |
| "we cannot make [this thing] / stand still, yet we will make him run." | sun |
| prix goncourt | france |
| book of salt | stein |
| althea | prison |
| robert southey | fairy tale |
| " for 10 points each: when " | thrush |
| bellipotent | john |
| buzz windrip | lewis |
| armida | jerusalem delivered |
| mio romagna | sacco |
| oldest member | golf |
| vikentios kornaros | greek |
| royal court theatre | island |
| "the village blacksmith" | chestnut tree |
| felix hobain | walcott |
| "where knowledge is free" | tagore |
| "let my country awake." | tagore |
| rosamond | middlemarch |
| fountain of youth | heidegger |
chichikov | dead souls |
| "in the bleak midwinter." | goblin market |
| "write down!" | darwish |
| marquis of saluzzo | decameron |
| bartlett | johnson |
| samuel selvon | lonely londoners |
| movement | gunn |
| "man hands on misery to man," | this be the verse |
| "get out as early as you can, / and don't have any kids yourself." | this be the verse |
| taming of the shrew | christopher |
| breakfast at tiffany | capote |
| government inspector | gogol |
| at swim | dublin |
| elizabeth gaskell | ghost |
| christmas past | ghost |
| cato the elder | farm |
| connell | rooney |
| daphne du maurier | rebecca |
| macunaima | andrade |
| lincoln in the bardo | saunders |
| "egg-rasher" | achebe |
| jonathan | achebe |
| christina rossetti | goblin market |
| canopus | lessing |
| "nothing puzzles god" | achebe |
| virgin | moby-dick |
| james frazer | fasti |
| "song of the reed flute." | rumi |
| emmanuel egudu | elizabeth |
| john maxwell coetzee | coetzee |
| "i know why he beats his wing! / i know why the caged bird sings" | dunbar |
| "ave atque vale," | baudelaire |
| "escape from spiderhead." | tenth of december |
| karl bushy | sturm und drang |
| a. s. byatt's | fairy tale |
| maxine hong kingston | chinese |
| helen oyeyemi | fairy tale |
| it can | lewis |
| happen here | lewis |
| "school" | matsuo |
| "soldiers' dreams" | matsuo |
| "the months and days are the travelers of eternity" | matsuo |
| "the poetess." | sappho |
| "dog of tears" | portuguese |
| king of ward | portuguese |
"but all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty" | sappho |
| "he seems to me equal to the gods." | sappho |
| "deathless" | sappho |
| ann more | donne |
| mademoiselle | nabokov |
| jean santeuil | proust |
| ben ezra | stoppard |
| "angel of death." | huck |
| alice munro | canada |
| tayeb salih | arabic |
| vasily vasilych | hamlet |
| shamela | fielding |
| thousand cranes | tea |
| alexievich | monologue |
| "black woman" | senghor |
| "ten thousand tiny bubbles bursting on his skin" | maori |
| bone people | maori |
| "you must change your life" | rilke |
| ricky roma | mamet |
| gellhorn | spanish civil |
| vladek | spiegelman |
| grassdale manor | wildfell |
| anne bronte | epistolary |
| fefu | fornes |
| ancient mariner | dice |
| ethiopiques | senghor |
| caliban | tempest |
| ned kelly | carey |
| her friends | fornes |
| vivian bearing | donne |
| extraordinary voyages | french |
| from the earth to the moon | french |
| "teach yourself italian." | lahiri |
| caine mutiny | wouk |
| jimmie johnson | crane |
| "the snow queen," | mirror |
| "a very small, brief book of thoughts, maximes," | big man |
| "use the right word, not its second cousin." | cooper |
| jean anouilh | antigone |
| pacific street saloon | time of your life |
| andre brink | season |
| effia | gyasi |
| norris changes trains | isherwood |
| sir alan gardiner | mantel |
| william john bankes | daube |
| trujillo | julia |
darl (bundren) | as i lay dying |
vardaman (bundren) | as i lay dying |
| radio panamericana by pedro camacho | julia |
| city lights bookstore | california |
| "a trivial comedy for serious people," | importance of being earnest |
| tor house | california |
| "proposing to say, not merely come near it" | cooper |
| kitchen god | tan |
| "lonely old grubber" | ginsberg |
| vince | buried child |
| r. p. blackmur | stevens |
| "poem without" | hero |
| grushnitsky | hero |
| fathers and sons | turgenev |
| anacreon | poetry |
| "hanging here on the gallows" | poland |
| "da" | sanskrit |
| "the half-life of love is forever." | yunior |
| marshall mcluhan | finnegans wake |
| remembrance of earth | china |
| eloise | salinger |
| susan barton | friday |
| colombian nobel laureate | garcia marquez |
| nicolas guillen | hughes |
| philip carey | maugham |
| of human bondage | maugham |
| "someone else was dreaming" | borges |
| raynell | wilson |
| "should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" | auld lang syne |
| on beauty | howards end |
| schlegel | howards end |
| "miniver cheevy" | robinson |
| "the encyclopedia of the dead." | kis |
| wainwright prize | diary |
| junot diaz | brief wondrous life of oscar wao |
| nights at the circus | carter |
| leaf storm | macondo |
| renzo | manzoni |
| chernobyl | journalist |
| "black milk of daybreak" | holocaust |
| "the colomber." | buzzati |
| tartar steppe | buzzati |
| winfried georg sebald | sebald |
| max sebald | sebald |
| milkman | song of solomon |
| "gentleman from sole to crown" | robinson |
"one calm summer night" | robinson |
| "proper souls." | david |
| byron in italy | david |
| shen tsien | good person |
| what is to be done | dostoyevsky |
| "apropos of the wet snow." | dostoyevsky |
| "spiteful" | dostoyevsky |
| the landlady | dostoyevsky |
| denys finch | out of africa |
| trout fishing in america | brautigan |
| "the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses." | cummings |
| "and treat those two imposters just the same." | triumph |
| gordon lish | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| what we talk about when we talk about love | carver |
| "sapphic love" | david |
| "an excuse for putting on weight" | david |
| church fathers | david |
| machado de assis | brazil |
| brief wondrous life of oscar wao | diaz |
| astrid lindgren | sweden |
| jim burden | my |
| willa cather | my |
| "friends" | emma |
| artificial paradises | fleurs du mal |
| daniel o'connell | nautilus |
| waindell college by dr | pnin |
| alp | finnegans wake |
| "i say now these are the soul." | sing |
| ivan yakovlevich | nose |
| "that which we call a rose / by any other name would smell as sweet." | balcony |
| "bent / above a sinking fire." | leda |
| "to be or not to be, that is the question." | machine |
| larry darrell | maugham |
| "old egg," | wodehouse |
| "dear old crumpet." | wodehouse |
| deems taylor | millay |
| charles bovary | flaubert |
| "elegy for alto." | okigbo |
| clara bowden | smith |
| karl ove knausgard | hitler |
| "the dream of the rood." | old english |
| half of a yellow sun | adichie |
| ifemelu | adichie |
| francis bellamy | looking backward |
| durvasa | kalidas |
| the king's henchman | millay |
| in shahnameh | persian |
| "sing about the pleasant summer which has just begun." | kalidas |
| "the people." | sandburg |
| ocampo | argentina |
| "expendable" | cortazar |
| swing time | smith |
| in white teeth | islam |
| "the cask of amontillado." | seal |
| regency | clarke |
| "can you describe this?" | russian |
| "the danger of a single story" | adichie |
| "more sinn'd against than sinning" | lear |
| philip terry | on the road |
| "the happy prince" | wilde |
| lord henry wotton | wilde |
| clotho | pelops |
| bacchae | euripides |
| "caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn falcon." | windhover |
| "axolotl." | cortazar |
| father jerome | castle |
| life-studies | lowell |
| harjo | harjo |
| la maga | hopscotch |
| knausgard | father |
| barchester towers | trollope |
| barsetshire | trollope |
| svejk | dog |
| valvert | duel |
| pierre corneille | spain |
| "first expression of american thought as a unity" | chicago world's fair |
| "clever" | latin |
| "o, reason not the need." | lear |
| adam mickiewicz | pushkin |
| "my hope and treasure lies above" | fire |
| thady quirk | castle |
| "who am i? and " | nobody |
| principe | rubaiyat |
| don delillo | kennedy |
| profiles in courage | kennedy |
| mabel waring | woolf |
| "the new dress." | woolf |
| "novels of the rose" | d'annunzio |
| mercury theatre | welles |
| "nevsky prospekt," | petersburg |
| brodsky | petersburg |
| susan glaspell | provincetown players |
| "sonnet 31" | larkin |
| "from house to house" | larkin |
| "sad steps" | larkin |
| "don't have any kids yourself" | larkin |
| libra | kennedy |
| nakata | kafka on the shore |
| robert gottlieb | confederacy of dunces |
| giuseppe ungaretti | montale |
| "charioted by bacchus and his pards." | bird |
| "half in love with easeful death." | bird |
| "not born for death" | bird |
| kandata | akutagawa |
| "rape." | brooks |
| playboy of the western world | ireland |
| korova milk bar | burgess |
| hermann | queen of spades |
| in zola | train |
| "plank in reason" | brain |
| "symphony in gray major" | dario |
| houellebecq | trump |
| godfrey cass | raveloe |
| "krik?" | haiti |
| "krak!" | haiti |
| all for love | dry |
| noah webster | dictionary |
| "male" | dictionary |
| "strange to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes," | ginsburg |
| "the child's cry / melts in the wall." | mother |
| john millington synge | playboy of the western world |
| cacambo | candide |
| louise | chopin |
| desiree | chopin |
| arcite | knight |
| "languid lemon tree." | spain |
| cuttlefish bones | montale |
| cat and mouse | grass |
| elsa morante | italian |
| pamuk | museum of innocence |
| rochester | jane eyre |
| joseph campbell | hero |
| purple hibiscus | adichie |
| party of the poor | famished road |
| azaro | famished road |
| "gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe." | cavafy |
| drama pulitzer | nguyen |
| chocolate factory | dahl |
| witches | dahl |
| louisa may alcott | little women |
| "simulacra" | barn |
| hae-mi | murakami |
| "patmos," | holderlin |
| "generique" | murakami |
| lori parks | topdog/underdog |
| de quincey | ode to a nightingale |
| evgeny | bronze horseman |
| muriel and afrekete | lorde |
| "an iron house, without windows or doors" | lu |
| wilder | yonkers |
| "printed at naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529." | castle of otranto |
| "believe me, i loved you all." | brooks |
| the chairs and the | ionesco |
| "principles" | morgenthau |
| roman marcus vinicius | polish |
| "tithonus poem" | sappho |
| while in the rusty spoon | yoyodyne |
| kurt mondaugen | yoyodyne |
| totem | darwin |
| fleur jaeggy | de quincey |
| possible lives | de quincey |
| the frogs and the clouds | comedy |
| roger mexico | pynchon |
| william wycherley | restoration |
| pharillon | cavafy |
| "is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature." | morgenthau |
william carlos williams | "the red wheelbarrow" |
| raphael de valentin's | human comedy |
| "the little match girl" | andersen |
| "red in tooth and claw" | tennyson |
| castalia | glass bead game |
| clotel | jefferson |
| lavransdatter | kristin |
| undset | kristin |
| chancery | bleak house |
| "now is the time to drink" | horace |
| maecenas | horace |
| wildwood: a | united kingdom |
| eastern iranian | persian |
| roger deakin | united kingdom |
| journey through trees | united kingdom |
| john paul jones | cooper |
| "walks through the valley of the shadow of death." | charge of the light brigade |
| "the lord is my shepherd, i shall not want." | psalms |
| ichabod crane | irving |
| carlene | on beauty |
| wellington | united kingdom |
| maitresse erzulie to kiki | on beauty |
| pheoby watson | hurston |
| "transparent eye-ball." | emerson |
| book of fantasy | rizal |
| tale of love | israel |
| amos oz | israel |
| "they that begin by burning books will end by burning people." | german |
| angers fragment | snorri |
| shadow songs | senghor |
| "i am arturo bandini!" | bukowski |
| john fante | bukowski |
| babbitt | lewis |
| "the poetry cloud." | liu |
| kurt von obersdorf | fran |
| "ultrasonic music" | ballard |
| "video killed the radio star." | ballard |
| brian sterling | ballard |
| menander | comedy |
| tybalt | nurse |
| "years" | dickinson |
| "safe in their alabaster chambers" | dickinson |
| "sings the tune without the words" | dickinson |
| "twas mercy brought me from my pagan land." | wheatley |
| "complacencies of the peignoirs, and late coffee and oranges" | stevens |
| the king's horseman | soyinka |
| in death | mask |
| "essay on phrygian religious customs" | immoralist |
| the musee des arts et metiers | foucault's pendulum |
| "and the stoicism of seneca." | shakespeare |
| according to trevor horn | ballard |
| filomena | ring |
| jem-mah-tah | dioneo |
| martin amis | time's arrow |
| i. name | constance |
| tales of the jazz age | fitzgerald |
"the diamond as big as the ritz" | fitzgerald |
| "a refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in london" | thomas |
| "proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side." | wheatley |
"mother-rival" | eliza doolittle |
| man who turned | stick |
| "to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." | ulysses |
| "invents" | hamlet |
| "exploits what has been invented" | hamlet |
| "hamlet of the shchigrovsky district" | sportsman's sketches |
| widows | kushner |
| new american poetry | san francisco |
| "elderly maimed tablet." | dream of the red chamber |
| oslo | norway |
| varieties of religious experience | john |
| huzun | istanbul |
| "secret" | milady |
| "life-force" | don juan |
| museum of innocence | istanbul |
| "dear loyalty, that could have served and followed him and loved him as a dog loves!" | white heron |
| freddy eynsford | eliza |
| "call the roller of big cigars." | stevens |
| "paradise [to be] regained." | thoreau |
| gargantua | rabelais |
| "flowering judas" | porter |
| cormac mccarthy | no country for old |
| fray | feather |
| freyja | feather |
| elmer gantry | lewis |
| gilukhepa | plutarch |
| led zeppelin | liverpool |
| mersey sound | liverpool |
| richard wilbur | tartuffe |
| panulphe | tartuffe |
| "the darkling thrush." | hardy |
| wimpole street | eliza |
| estelle rigault | no exit |
| michael robartes | easter rising |
| rodolphe boulanger | emma |
| kobo abe | stick |
| instead of paris | yonville |
| gromov | ward number 6 |
| "demon of experiment" | six |
| theodore | castle |
| "then there's a pair of us!" | nobody |
| confounded husband | moliere |
| gathering blue | giver |
| number the stars | hammersberg |
| in the giver | release |
| "daffodils" | i wandered lonely as |
| ani | yam |
inez serrano | no exit |
| dubose | to kill a mockingbird |
| "since feeling is first" | death |
| tatyana | eugene |
| shlay | howards |
| richard zenith | portuguese |
| "we wear the mask" | dunbar |
| santa clara valley | judge |
| percy bysshe | ozymandias |
| robert creeley | san francisco |
| "lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree / in the cool of the day," | ash wednesday |
| roger casement in matadi | conrad |
| madeline gleason | san francisco |
| jack spicer | san francisco |
| inheritance of loss | desai |
| recognition of shakuntala | sanskrit |
| "perfect" | child |
| "lay-air-tees" | polonius |
| "i was the more deceived" | get thee to a |
| "ward number six" | chekhov |
| "and that has made all the..." | difference |
| ruth may | poisonwood bible |
| methuselah | poe |
| atticus finch | sheriff |
| john florio | montaigne |
| j.p | carver |
| "the lady with the dog" | chekhov |
| "reducing classes" | everything that rises must converge |
| godhighs | everything that rises must converge |
| "vulcanist" | faust |
| great temple of osiris | abydos |
| diss | siren |
| jim on the mississippi river | huckleberry |
| "buck did not read the newspapers." | call of the |
| bill sikes | nancy |
| helen schlegel | howards |
| "sympathy" | dunbar |
| "a white heron" | maine |
| last of the mohicans | cooper |
| azdak | caucasian chalk |
| ryunosoke akutagawa | rashomon |
ministry of education | "the necklace" |
| "three white leopards" | eliot |
| "yeux glauques" | pound |
| ariel dorfman | chile |
| mary mccarthy | hellman |
| dashiell hammett | hellman |
| little foxes | hellman |
| lyrics of lowly life | dunbar |
| woland | knee |
| "flecknoe" | marvell |
| "a fine and private place" | grave |
| "but none, i think, do there embrace." | grave |
| "mock their useful toil." | ambition |
| newark colleges of rutgers university | goodbye |
| radcliffe college | goodbye |
| rabbi binder | conversion of the |
| neil klugman | "goodbye |
brenda patimkin | roth |
| "goodbye, columbus" | roth |
| tethys | oceanus |
| nathan johnson | frederick |
| "i raise my sword-pen" | burgess |
| korova | burgess |
| rohv | knee |
| "lord, what fools..." | these |
| "dire offense" | rape of the lock |
| "for fools rush in..." | where |
| simon pilkings | soyinka |
| raina petkoff | bulgaria |
| cedric of rotherwood | ivanhoe |
| when the mad hatter | queen of hearts |
| "you do not do" | daddy |
| "the time you won your town the race, we chaired you through the market-place." | "to an athlete |
| lobster quadrille | mock turtle |
| gryphon | mock turtle |
| queen of air | sword in the stone |
| king arthur in the sword in the stone | merlin |
| according to greek | pandora |
| book of days | fasti |
| on the roman calendar | fasti |
| lewis lambert strether | ambassadors |
| chad newsome | ambassadors |
| matt bonner | mule |
| "milk with knives in it" | clockwork orange |
| "moloko [muh-loh-koh] with knives in it" | clockwork orange |
| alex, pete, georgie | clockwork orange |
| blooms of dublin | joyce |
| hero and | chapman |
"the secret sharer" | conrad |
| "inevitable overthrow in time" | beowulf |
| "so!" | beowulf |
| trimalchio | petronius |
| satyricon | petronius |
| modern languages department | communication |
| lurie | communication |
| leading man | egg |
| columbian orator | frederick |
| "narrative." | frederick |
| "song of the war carts." | tang |
| "going down impassive rivers" | rimbaud |
| "a season in hell." | rimbaud |
| war with the newts | capek |
| marquesas | typee |
| "ow" | tale of genji |
| ozzie freedman | conversion of the |
| when koroviev | knee |
| "beauty is twice beauty, and what is good is doubly good." | socks |
| tronckh | candide |
| marquis of steyne | thackeray |
| amelia sedley | thackeray |
| "lioness on a cheese grater." | lysistrata |
| old women | lysistrata |
| "the word 'death' is not pronounced in new york, in paris, in london, because it burns the lips. the mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death." | labyrinth of |
| luna silvestre | paz |
| benedict cumberbatch | stoppard |
| "after blenheim" | southey |
| tom wingo | prince of tides |
| "memory play." | tom |
| lady castlewood | thackeray |
| hwaet | beowulf |
"the windhover" | hopkins |
| galta in india | monkey |
| mahfouz | children of gebelawi |
| ukemochi | food |
| kay-moh-chee | food |
| kill | penthesilea |
| letters to a prime minister | martel |
| good morning | rhys |
| mountain interval | frost |
| "beautiful uncut hair of graves" | grass |
| mother shipton | outcasts of poker |
| lamartine | childe harold's pilgrimage |
| "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." | be |
| things they carried | o'brien |
| quiet american | greene |
| "dapple-dawn-drawn falcon." | windhover |
| leander | chapman |
| the the abject | death in venice |
| christopher knowles | separate |
| "the english tongue i love" | walcott |
| "how can i turn from africa and live?" | walcott |
| "the cisco [sis-koh] kid" | kidnap |
"the cop and the anthem" | o. henry |
| soapy | loiter |
| george chapman | iliad |
| mercutio | fairies |
| "ratiocination" | auguste |
| "no bigger than an agate stone" | fairies |
| cobweb | fairies |
| "a girl i knew," | salinger |
| "the most exquisite pairs of ears i have ever seen." | salinger |
| "silence invaded the suburbs" | yeats |
| "the jolly corner," | james |
| fremont | kite |
| story of a new name | naples |
| "can therefore choose between the endings," | hardy |
| patrick leigh fermor | istanbul |
| time of gifts | istanbul |
| hook of holland | istanbul |
| poirot | istanbul |
| fiammetta | decameron |
| "the story of" | stone |
| gay talese | esquire |
| "why should a dog or horse or rat have life, but not you?" | never |
| pot of gold | plautus |
| merlin | don quixote |
| sherman alexie | reservation |
| spokane | reservation |
| clee hill | shropshire lad |
| night sky with exit wounds | vuong |
| gerard manley hopkins | praise |
| "with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life" | how do i love thee |
| "let it be for nought." | if thou must love me |
| peabody | as i lay dying |
| secretum meum | laura |
| emilia | decameron |
| "the train came out of the long tunnel" | snow |
| kazuo ishiguro | butler |
| farraday | butler |
| lawrence rainey | waste land |
| "the contest of cithaeron and helicon." | corinna |
| tanagra | corinna |
| corinna | corinna |
| "the lass of aughrim" | dubliners |
| work in progress | duffy |
"poem without a hero" | akhmatova |
| lionel | gordimer |
| burger's | gordimer |
| "the final problem," | doyle |
| saint valentine | parliament of fowls |
| cottingley fairies | doyle |
| "with a roar" | snow |
john grimes | go tell it on the mountain |
| "early though the laurel grows / it withers quicker than the rose." | shropshire lad |
| phoebus | ovid |
| herakles | autobiography of red |
| in autobiography of red | dickinson |
| hazel morse | big blonde |
| daniel gluck | smith |
| post-brexit | autumn |
| "an afternoon of nurses and rumors." | yeats |
| "about suffering they were never wrong." | auden |
| "the most delicious poem about someone dying" | yeats |
| "why so pale and wan, fond lover?" | suckling |
| kennebunkport | tarkington |
| remedios | fold |
| tish | if beale street could talk |
| fonny | if beale street could talk |
| craiglockhart hospital | sassoon |
| "dreamers." | sassoon |
| sassoon | sassoon |
| "hermaphroditism" | sterne |
| "the horse on the mountain." | lorca |
| caroline lamb | byron |
| "on the front porch at frank martin's drying-out facility" | carver |
| "also a chimney sweep." | carver |
| pontifex | butler |
| richard adams | watership down |
| hazel | watership down |
| gina apostol | rizal |
| revolution according to raymundo mata | rizal |
| mimi c. magsalin | rizal |
| estrella | rizal |
| apostol | rizal |
| amadeus | shaffe |
| juanito | fortunata and jacinta |
| fortunata | madrid |
| robbie turner | atonement |
| finn | grendel |
| geats | grendel |
| little prince | saint-exupery |
| song offerings | bengali |
| billy bibbitt | asylum |
| "life and opinions." | sterne |
| "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," | biography |
| true story | lucian |
| "the speckled band." | doyle |
| longfellow | cambridge |
| hetton | handful of dust |
| george etheredge | fopling |
| adolphe le bon | poe |
| "come again... / tho' it were ten thousand mile." | rose |
| clarel | melville |
| well of loneliness | hall |
the ponder heart | welty |
| "could sit and ponder all day" | welty |
| welty | welty |
| "the green door." | green |
| "we can remember it for you wholesale" | invasion of earth |
strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde | stevenson |
| pizan | rose |
| richard brinsley sheridan | ireland |
| sean o'casey | ireland |
| ali baba in the one thousand | arabic |
| ignacio sanchez mejias | lorca |
| leonardo felix | lorca |
| silent spring | carson |
| ddt | carson |
| uhuru | ngugi |
| herero | yoyodyne |
| "a fable for tomorrow." | carson |
| "the truth about native crime," | cry, the beloved country |
| man without qualities | austria |
| johann blumenbach | race |
| secretaire | letter |
| ice-9 | cat's cradle |
| oliver goldsmith | she stoops to conquer |
| our ancestors | calvino |
| baron in the trees | calvino |
| george shearing | road |
| "the paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids." | melville |
| "bob southey! you're a poet, poet laureate, / and representative of all the race." | don juan |
| "no man is an island." | donne |
| betty smith | trees |
| "moor of venice?" | othello |
| desdemona | othello |
| iago | othello |
| "guttering, choking, drowning," | owen |
| like touchstone | all's well that ends well |
| "domestic fool." | all's well that ends well |
| djerba | abydos |
| septimus bons | forster |
| "fair youth." | four |
| "n plus seven" | oulipo |
| joseph kell | burgess |
| donne | canonization |
| "a little phrase" | in search of lost time |
| "thy firmness makes my circle just," | metaphysical |
the kite runner (country) | afghanistan |
| astrov | doctor |
| pythian | ode |
| "sweet and fitting," | ode |
| viet thanh nguyen | vietnam |
| father balbi | casanova |
| casanova in bolzano | marai |
| "so much depends," | red wheelbarrow |
| bright lights | 80s |
| big city | 80s |
| bret easton ellis | 80s |
| "a simple heart." | flaubert |
| frederic moreau | flaubert |
| madame arnoux | flaubert |
| hassan to amir | thousand |
a thousand splendid suns (country) | afghanistan |
| "burning city." | vietnam |
| hall's | king |
| the mountaintop | hall |
| "letter from birmingham jail." | king |
| "palm-of-the-hand stories" | kawabata |
| orpheus and eurydice | france |
| andre gide | france |
| zhen | water margin |
| cesaro | viola |
| ansley | roman fever |
| proust in german | kiss |
| quevedo | spain |
| lazarillo de tormes | spain |
| lope de vega | fuenteovejuna |
| devil's dictionary | bierce |
| edmund spenser | willie |
| sherman mccoy | bonfire of the vanities |
| chapter 15 | bonfire of the vanities |
| weiss | bonfire of the vanities |
| "a tattered coat upon a stick." | old |
| civilizing process | levi-strauss |
| sherry | laureate |
| pater | beauty |
| year of living dangerously | koch |
| lavache | all's well that ends well |
| streep | thatcher |
| ian buruma | naipaul |
| "confessional biography." | naipaul |
| where jacques | touchstone |
| life of great american cities | corner |
| jose burgos | name of the rose |
| "honest abe" | bonfire of the vanities |
| "accept" | sunrise |
| zamora linmark | hawai'i |
| edgar ramirez | hawai'i |
| florante sanchez | hawai'i |
| brave orchid | hawai'i |
| rolling the r's | hawai'i |
| novy mir | solzhenitsyn |
| "complicated man." | homer |
| "power of making words express what he feels," | leavis |
| "grand style" | leavis |
| new critics | new critic |
| una | knight |
| emil post | cain |
| "a civilization of" | george |
| william hale | murder |
| tayo | ceremony |
| "the very end of the world" | heart of darkness |
| "exterminate all the brutes!" | heart of darkness |
| waverly jong | tan |
| algernon | ernest |
| "tradition and the individual talent" | new critic |
| "hamlet and his problems" | new critic |
| sacred wood | new critic |
| simplicissimus | brecht |
| "speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold. for 10 points each: name this poem that asks, " | those winter sundays |
| those winter sundays | wheatley |
| "today we all know very well that a may be often b as well as a" | garden party |
| "even f may become o, q, y, and perhaps also r." | garden party |
| fa'alupega | oral |
| fa'agogo | oral |
| "edge." | child |
| "into the red eye, the cauldron of morning." | ariel |
| "you." | second person |
| "careers." | stranger |
| pharsalia | petrarch |
| "christian, i'm not a." | davis |
| essays one | davis |
| "the man that corrupted hadleyburg" | twain |
| "there will come soft rains," | bradbury |
| nizami | persian |
| "father, how can i love you or any of my brothers more?" | lost |
| blood meridian | mccarthy |
| john polidori | frankenstein |
| history house | roy |
| "the blessed damozel" | rossetti |
| gerard de villefort | count of monte cristo |
| noh | zeami |
| matsukaze | zeami |
| david herbert lawrence | lawrence |
| captain shotover | shaw |
| "weaker" | shaw |
| peter pan | sword |
| clelie | scudery |
| ask to embla | ash |
| ramon gris | wall |
| outback | australia |
| "as is painting, so is poetry" | horace |
| "hobby-horse" | sterne |
| sentimental journey | sterne |
| prince hal | falstaff |
| "purely, as they turn from praise." | how do i love thee |
| horacio oliveira | cortazar |
| the devil's elixirs | uncanny |
| "horror of distance" | odour |
| never do again | wallace |
| zenith | wallace |
| tobias smollett | sterne |
| archibald macleish | be |
| supposedly fun thing | wallace |
| kate croy | italy |
| merton densher | italy |
"time's winged chariot" | to his coy mistress |
| cope | larkin |
| "sailing home from rapallo" | lowell |
| "risorgimento black and gold casket" | lowell |
| "napoleon's at the invalides." | lowell |
| "all-purpose poem for state occasions" | cope |
| martin pearce | desertion |
| rehana | desertion |
marilla cuthbert | anne of green gables |
| crucifer | theroux |
| "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." | archilochus |
| will marry when | ngugi |
| mugo | ngugi |
maxim de winter | daphne du maurier |
| vampyre | frankenstein |
| marguerite de navarre | decameron |
| sergeant trotter | mousetrap |
| "how do i love thee? let me count the ways." | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "listen to the reed and the tale it tells" | persian |
| abbey of theleme | rabelais |
| pantagruel | rabelais |
| banana trilogy | neruda |
| grapes | neruda |
| "living? our servants will do that for us." | axel |
| darconville | theroux |
| ronny heaslop | passage to india |
| lampito | lysistrata |
| "slow-chapped power" | marvell |
| "deserts of vast eternity" | marvell |
| "fur fla bis fle" | ghost |
| "oh, whistle, and i'll come to you, my lad," | ghost |
| vulture peak | buddha |
| welcome to the monkey house | vonnegut |
| other rooms | dill |
| skully's landing | capote |
| "dillingham" | gift of the |
| madame sofronie | gift of the |
| "after such knowledge, what forgiveness?" | eliot |
| "arms, and the man i sing." | virgil |
| woman in the nineteenth century | fuller |
| "boum" | passage to india |
| "meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf" | sea rose |
| "you are caught in the drift." | sea rose |
| heart of the matter | greene |
| arden of faversham | elizabeth i |
| paulina salas | death |
| "what we talk about when we talk about" | frank |
the grasmere journals | (dorothy) wordsworth |
| other voices | dill |
| tibullus | elegy |
| grossman | love in the time of cholera |
| vercelli codex | cross |
| lost illusions | lucien |
| calling out to yeti | stalin |
| "rolls the executions on his tongue like berries" | stalin |
| the flies | orestes |
| "making the audience bow their heads as if they had been hit by a blast of wind." | courage |
| ivor | dentist |
| "there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go" | cummings |
| luis de | portuguese |
| flask | white |
| john singer | heart is a lonely |
| member of the wedding | mccullers |
| moon is a harsh mistress | heinlein |
| shui ta | good person |
| jay rubin | murakami |
| aunt polly | paint |
| cyrano de bergerac | rostand |
| "like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies." | she walks in beauty |
| orgoglio | faerie queene |
| titus andronicus | philomel |
| "then while we live, in love let's so persevere, / that when we live no more, we may live ever." | loving husband |
| gone with the wind | mitchell |
| laura wingfield | williams |
| "the sea and the mirror" | tempest |
| maxwell anderson | vanzetti |
| "stands on the grave of dreams" | caged bird |
| "upward to heaven he flings" | caged bird |
| thomas russell sullivan | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| derek hartfield | murakami |
| alfred birnbaum | murakami |
| ponyboy curtis | outsiders |
| thomas stockmann | enemy of the people |
| "where am i going to?" | car |
| logan killicks | their eyes were watching god |
| melchizedek analogizes | decameron |
| "destroyer and preserver" | ode to the west wind |
| lawrence shannon | night of |
| night of the iguana | williams |
| moonstone | diamond |
| tobias wolff | vietnam |
| in pharaoh | vietnam |
| major scobie | diamond |
godfrey ablewhite | the moonstone |
| captain underpants | pilkey |
| mccullers | ballad of the |
| spanish tragedy | pamuk |
| "a cup of wine, under the flowering trees." | li |
| edinburgh review | romanticism |
| "merely funny" | not bloody likely |
| caroline b. dow | millay |
| vassar | millay |
| fitzcarraldo | tokarczuk |
| yusef | diamond |
| englishmen | diamond |
| rutulian | turnus |
| green knight | gawain |
| "barbara frietchie" | whitter |
| "snow-bound" | whitter |
| "beardless children" | pearl |
| "send forth the best ye breed." | kipling |
| "it is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings" | li |
| "jewel stairs' grievance." | li |
| "spice" | dune |
| koo-lohm | siren |
| poole | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| ragtime | houdini |
| pharos | cavafy |
| "fluttering and dancing in the breeze." | wordsworth |
| "the summer they electrocuted the rosenbergs" | bell jar |
| howard roark | architect |
| my father | autobiography |
| frank chin | autobiography |
| "literary descendant of the confession" | autobiography |
| pole in spanish | coetzee |
| "to resist the hegemony of the english language." | coetzee |
| string of pearls | sweeney |
| jim smiley | webster |
| "giant wings prevent him from walking." | flowers of evil |
| "where the mind is without fear." | tagore |
| president miguel | the house of the spirits |
| galahad | grail |
| other world | cyrano |
| "the emperor's new clothes" | andersen |
| tabrizi | rumi |
| game warden | sinatra |
| "tales of passion." | ted |
| erik lonnrot | borges |
| doris kilman | clarissa dalloway |
| mrs dalloway | woolf |
| luciana [loo--nah | syracuse |
| tiff | comedy of |
| giant peach | wonka |
| john cheever | prison |
| celimene | alceste |
| theodore roethke's | world war ii |
| "foundations" | asimov |
| princess helene | natasha |
| pechorin | lermontov |
| eric | finnegans wake |
| "the castle," | bald soprano |
"lake poets" | romanticism |
| "burning bright." | blake |
| "errors" | bradstreet |
| "if ever two were one, then surely we" | bradstreet |
| "the land was ours before we were the land's." | frost |
| sambo | simon |
| quimbo | simon |
| clair | simon |
| miss marple | lady of shalott |
| "the canary." | mansfield |
| "that government is best which governs least." | thoreau |
| vachel lindsay | lincoln |
| mead | boas |
| arnolphe | school for wives |
| hikari | oe |
| "what immortal hand or eye / could frame thy [this two-word phrase]?" | fearful symmetry |
| fearful symmetry | frye |
| "four monarchies," | bradstreet |
| sighet | night |
| vahn | statue |
| "with eyes of cold silver" | lorca |
| "romance sonambulo." | lorca |
| the generation of '27 | lorca |
| fedallah | pequod |
| "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" | misfi |
| penguin books | lady chatterley's lover |
| "dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah," | flowers of evil |
| "revolt," | flowers of evil |
| "the nutcracker and the mouse king" | hoffmann |
| coppelius | hoffmann |
| "notes" | dostoyevsky |
| "desert" | nemo |
| "verses upon the burning of our house" | bradstreet |
| regents park | mrs |
| "since i cannot prove a lover... i am determined to prove a villain" | richard iii |
| "nana" | zola |
| ataguitania | calvino |
| amazing adventures of kavalier | chabon |
| alden pyle | quiet |
| pollux | leda |
| finny | separate |
| starship troopers | heinlein |
| blithe spirit | coward |
| "montage" | dream |
| madame arcati | coward |
| "action." | falling |
| mel | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| "strikes it rich" | yiddish |
| fountainhead | rand |
| "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 |
| hunter s. thompson | horse |
| said | salammbo |
| thomas bertram | mansfield park |
| antigua | mansfield park |
| many philip roth | jew |
| "dr. heidegger's experiment" | hawthorne |
| "fester[s] like a sore." | dream |
| "deferred?" | dream |
| "i am an american, [this city] born." | chicago |
| "an experiment in literary investigation," | gulag archipelago |
| district commissioner | nigeria |
| cheshire cat in alice | carroll |
| " in his poem " | williams |
| elizabeth drury | world |
| john mcclane | die hard |
| just to say | williams |
| cradle will rock | welles |
| "that you are losing." | greek |
| "a kind of solution." | greek |
| "modern sequel" | greek |
| john raffles | eliot |
| nicholas bulstrode | eliot |
dom casmurro | brazil |
posthumous memoirs of bras cubas (country) | brazil |
| diotallevi | eco |
| "if i love you, beware!" | habanera |
| "mithridates, he died old" | shropshire lad |
| "malt does more than milton can / to justify god's ways to man." | shropshire lad |
| "the conscience of the nation" | boll |
| goodreads | pnin |
| eugenie grandet | balzac |
| "history is about to crack wide open. millennium approaches." | rosenberg |
| constantine cavafy | greek |
| good man is hard to find | o'connor |
| thiazi | feet |
| eliza | uncle tom's |
| cabin | stowe |
| priapus | hestia |
| "for madmen only" | steppenwolf |
| abulafia | eco |
| "o villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this." | dogberry |
"chickamauga" | bierce |
| made knight | candle in the |
| enemy of the people | two minutes hate |
| sholem aleichem | yiddish |
isaac bashevis singer | yiddish |
| my name is red | pamuk |
if beale street could talk | baldwin |
| hetton abbey | waugh |
| in platero | jimenez |
| "if they give you ruled paper, write the other way." | jimenez |
| amijima | love |
| chikamatsu | puppet |
| "deep solitude." | twenty love poems |
| tucson | color purple |
| "homage" | bradstreet |
| august wilson | pittsburgh |
| beli | trujillo |
| john webster | eliot |
| "little people" | murakami |
| "a hunger artist," | kafka |
| giles corey | press |
| "all the world's a stage." | seven ages of |
| sir topas | twelfth night |
| autobiography of an ex | georgia |
| colored man | georgia |
| "the beloved" | pale fire |
| "i was the shadow of the waxwing slain" | pale fire |
| ephesus | petronius |
| zhahn val-zhahn | miserables |
| rosalind | as you like it |
| "an image of africa" | conrad |
| essays of elia | lamb |
| yale series of younger poets | auden |
| wolf hall | mantel |
| mantel | interloper |
| "master" | basho |
| luis de gongora | spain |
| pan tadeusz | poland |
| "ithaka." | cavafy |
| "perestroika," | 1980 |
| europa | 1980 |
| house for mr | naipaul |
| biswas | naipaul |
| sutter | wilson |
| du mal | baudelaire |
| pribislav hippe | magic mountain |
| "great white wings/drag beside them like oars" | baudelaire |
| u. v | tamil |
| "none of them knew the color of the sky." | the open boat |
| "huddled/camouflage" | dover |
| daljit nagra | dover |
| nagra | dover |
| swaminatha iyer | tamil |
| judgement day | violent bear it away |
| richard huelsenbeck | dada |
| pride and prejudice | austen |
| "there shall be no more cakes and ale?" | twelfth night |
| mary warren | crucible |
| mccarthyism in the crucible | miller |
| bradstreet | age |
| s. behrman | octopus |
| sign in sidney | hansberry |
| clybourne park improvement association | karl |
| ennius | scipio |
| real inspector hound | stoppard |
| death on the nile | shaffer |
| kenzaburo oe | personal matter |
| "not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the british guards" | dickens |
| "bad moral character" | dickens |
| charley | steinbeck |
| lying life of adults | ferrante |
| isle of skye | to the lighthouse |
| isolation | erikson |
| vinteuil | in search of lost time |
| boo radley | to kill a mockingbird |
| battlefield earth | hubbard |
| ossian | goethe |
| "going on a journey" | goethe |
| "drink to me only with thine eyes." | to |
| wilkins micawber | uriah |
| la luna | old gringo |
| "indiana general" | old gringo |
| zverkov | turgenev |
| "the chimney sweeper" | blake |
| dioscuri | pollux |
| dally | switchblade |
| "the diary of p." | handmaid |
| christine | cook |
| catherine barkley | farewell to arms |
| "childe harold's pilgrimage" | byron |
| "rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" | stein |
| emil sinclair | hesse |
| "one-shot," | atticus |
| jem finch in to kill a mockingbird | atticus |
| "a youth to fortune and to fame unknown." | elegy written in a country |
| uss housatonic | hunley |
| "dying / is an art, like everything else. / i do it exceptionally well," | lazarus |
| odale's choice | brathwaite |
| "elements and an angelic sprite," | holy sonnets |
| "young goodman brown." | hawthorne |
| valladolid | berganza |
| bangor | handmaid |
| coatlicue | feather |
| daniel deronda | eliot |
| "jangling journalist" | wolfe |
| "oxymorons and serpentae carminael! ... schlock!" | wolfe |
| "the fall of house voticky" | capek |
| s. wu | romance of the three kingdoms |
| "i cultivate a white rose" | cuba |
| lao she | cat |
| "mid-term break," | heaney |
| takashi | oe |
| bird | oe |
| djali | esmeralda |
| "red room" | strindberg |
| "ode to the confederate dead" | lowell |
| dead souls | gogol |
| tarrou | bernard |
| solitary | wordsworth |
| deianeira | river |
| columbine | pierrot |
| jack merridew | samneric |
| lheureux | emma |
| "paralysis" | dublin |
| doc daneeka | catch-22 |
| "desperate men" | ransom of red |
| louise mallard | chopin |
| sound of the mountain | kawabata |
| round table | lancelot |
| dance of the forests | soyinka |
| daodu | soyinka |
| street in bronzeville | brooks |
| "upon appleton house." | marvell |
| "curious incident of the dog in the night-time." | sherlock holmes |
| stanley webber | pinter |
"narrow fellow in the grass" | dickinson |
| "debauchee of dew" | dickinson |
| natchez | welty |
| "beyond the genius of the sea." | stevens |
| if not | sappho |
| "of the spangled mind." | ode to aphrodite |
| "classics." | heaney |
| ruby turpin | revelation |
| "romance" | aesop |
| perry index | aesop |
| mangan | dublin |
| strindberg | proscenium |
| " lists " | dapple |
| " wrote " | hopkins |
| brief history of seven killings | jamaica |
| intima theater | proscenium |
| "nine and fifty" | yeats |
| "scatter, wheeling in great broken rings, upon their clamoring wings." | yeats |
| claude frollo | esmeralda |
| "in a kingdom by the sea" | annabel lee |
| hal 9000 | 2001 |
| "the boy who cried wolf" | aesop |
| zeno of elea | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| professor uzzi | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "between my finger and thumb, the squat pen rests. i'll dig with it." | heaney |
the silent cry | oe |
"the idea of order at key west" | stevens |
| greek war of independence | byron |
| latin to an oxford | wimsey |
| "placetne, magistra?" | wimsey |
| gaudy night | wimsey |
alice b. toklas | stein |
| krypton | superman |
| "forget-me-nots of the angels." | longfellow |
| "listen my children and you shall hear" | longfellow |
| jerry siegel | superman |
| joe shuster | superman |
| christopher reeve | superman |
| "father of american anthropology." | boas |
| ben richards | king |
| "adieu, the flow'ry plain" | wheat |
| "why, phoebus, moves thy car so slow?" | wheat |
| on being brought | wheat |
| africa to america | wheat |
| hasanaginica | goethe |
| "ain't i a woman?" | truth |
| klara | never let me go |
| "knew no haste." | because i could not stop for death |
| "schartz-metterklume method." | saki |
| queen of spades | pushkin |
| vladimir lensky | duel |
| eugene | duel |
| "the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war" | stowe |
| macduff | macbeth |
| "just sag, like a heavy load" | dream deferred |
| nws | united kingdom |
| in the signifying monkey | equiano |
| "interesting narrative" | equiano |
| esteban trueba | house of the spirits |
| "time is tied to the wrist" | mars |
| "rain is when the earth is television" | mars |
| craig raine | mars |
| hard times | thurber |
| "the secret life of walter mitty." | thurber |
| baron hulot | human comedy |
| rastignac in the human comedy | balzac |
| resources of quinola | balzac |
| marcel proust in in search of lost time | french |
| voltaire in candide | french |
| sin | satan |
| deus ex machina | tartuffe |
| argas | tartuffe |
| connecticut yankee in king arthur | twain |
| george wilson | jay gatsby |
| ottava rima | sailing to byzantium |
| john nefastis | crying of lot 49 |
| burns | kiss |
| cynthia | bar |
| senator jakob | kafka |
| red center | handmaid's tale |
| anne rutledge | lincoln |
| aegisthus in an aeschylus | clytaemnestra |
| identified with the bennu | phoenix |
| mary lamb | shakespeare |
| bleh | lemuel |
| soma | brave new world |
| horus | osiris |
| semele | dionysus |
| igraine | arthur |
| kalabis | havel |
| eponine | les |
| "sunstone" | paz |
| donald | tracy |
| bill oliver | death of a salesman |
| captain vere | billy budd |
| arthur dimmesdale | scarlet letter |
| antwerp | astraea |
| bacchus | portuguese |
| sonya | dostoyevsky |
| six inch | lemuel |
| "300 years" | omeros |
| seven seas | omeros |
| margaret peel | lucky |
| scarlett | mitchell |
| meshach | daniel |
| "water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink" | albatross |
| english by edward fitzgerald | rubaiyat |
| four iambic | rubaiyat |
| joy hopewell | o'connor |
| holy church of christ without christ | o'connor |
| ymca | o'connor |
"the lawyer of glass" | cervantes |
| tabitha | baseball |
| sportsman's sketches | turgenev |
| isabella thorpe | northanger abbey |
| abednego | daniel |
| sweet thursday | cannery row |
| charlotte lucas | pride and prejudice |
william styron | sophie's choice |
| bel | daniel |
| "pah-chay" | six characters in search of an author |
| rules of the game | six characters in search of an author |
| evgenii | bronze horseman |
| smersh | bond |
| "she" | bond |
| vesper lynd | bond |
| sequel to drum | o captain! my captain |
| "the prize we sought is won." | o captain! my captain |
| "hopped along the imperial highway." | frog |
| king of thebes | oedipus |
| "can you not trust me as a physician?" | the yellow wallpaper |
| dupin | purloined letter |
| "paradise lost." | milton |
| spainard | benito |
| "we are no other than a moving row/of magic shadow-shapes that come and go." | rubaiyat |
| "the wine of life keeps oozing drop my drop,/the leaves of life keep falling one by one." | rubaiyat |
| loman | miller |
| " for 10 points each, name this collection which attempts to provide a history of latin america, consisting of 231 poems across 15 sections, including " | canto |
| " for 10 points each, canto general is a work by this nobel prize-winning poet who wrote " | neruda |
| poema | chile |
| anjana | ramayana |
| kaikeyi | ramayana |
| "season word" | haiku |
| in christina rosetti | frog |
| antoine roquentin | sartre |
| victoria land | ross |
| marie byrd land | ross |
| little america | ross |
| twelve labors | eurystheus |
| tiryns | eurystheus |
| kroeber, sapir | boas |
| marry warren | crucible |
| neptune by claus of innsbruck | my last duchess |
| "grow old along with me! / the best is yet to be" | rabbi ben ezra |
| "pisan" | cantos |
| for anatole | mallarme |
| tsimtsum | pi |
| ganelon | charlemagne |
| "party on the right" | saramago |
| sketchbook of geoffrey crayon | irving |
| "drowsy syncopated tune" | hughes |
124 bluestone road | beloved |
| "sweetish sickness" | sartre |
| third empire | sartre |
| "macdonagh and macbride, and connolly and pearse" | yeats |
| ray gillette | archer |
| cyril figgis | archer |
| woodhouse | archer |
| "good country people" | o'connor |
| hulga | o'connor |
| misfit | o'connor |
| "the gold-bug" | poe |
| "the masque of the red death" | poe |
| "something there is that doesn't love a wall." | frost |
| manley pointer | o'connor |
| "go home and write / a page tonight" | hughes |
| twins | awakening |
| juan preciado | mexico |
| "the center was not holding" | didion |
| coral | red |
| edward rochester | bertha |
| the dial | second coming |
| "the death of the hired man" | frost |
| "that has made all the difference" | frost |
| elicio | cervantes |
| pale king | wallace |
| baltasar | saramago |
| blimunda | saramago |
| "to lucasta going to the warres." | lovelace |
| "lame balloonman" | in just |
| jacques georges | age |
| "next tomorrow" | macbeth |
| "demon-child." | scarlet letter |
reverend (arthur) dimmsdale | the scarlet letter |
| quasimodo in the hunchback of notre dame | hugo |
| nidhogg | serpent |
| nagas | serpent |
| miss ethel lange | south |
| morrie | south |
| koorma | turtle |
| russell-saunders | tenth of december |
| wayne booth | author |
| roland barthes | author |
| "school of resentment" | author |
| "petersburg tale" | bronze horseman |
| yevgeny | bronze horseman |
| "racism in conrad's heart of darkness." | achebe |
| governor bellingham | scarlet letter |
| phi beta kappa society | emerson |
| "whoso must be a man, must be a nonconformist" | emerson |
| "gather ye rosebuds while ye may" | herrick |
| side of paradise | fitzgerald |
| chinese literature | journey to the west |
| wu song | water margin |
| billiards at half | boll |
| faehmel | boll |
| set at christmastime | doll's |
on famous women | boccaccio |
| troy to italy | aeneid |
| "are you washed in the blood of the lamb?" | lindsay |
| "general william booth enters into heaven." | lindsay |
| hermann broder | singer |
| love story | singer |
| magician of lublin | singer |
| berenger pines | ionesco |
| dark avengers | wolverine |
| mircea eliade | ionesco |
| queens marie | ionesco |
| exit the king | ionesco |
| nu | ionesco |
| hugoliade | ionesco |
| "representative man" | emerson |
| "novel which ... depersonalizes a portion of the human race" | achebe |
| laura kinney | wolverine |
| "fastball special." | wolverine |
| kitty pride | wolverine |
| in the fatal attractions | wolverine |
| daken | wolverine |
| x-23 | wolverine |
| magneto | wolverine |
| "brief" | we real cool |
| journeyman years | wilhelm meister |
| marco | view from the |
| carpentier | magical realism |
| "listen my children and you shall hear / the midnight ride of paul revere" | longfellow |
| fable for critics | lowell |
| immoralist | gide |
| bridge of san luis rey | wilder |
| birds in cloudcuckooland | aristophanes |
| aurora by georges clemenceau | zola |
| acrisius of argos | danae |
| tramecksan | lilliput |
| samecksan | lilliput |
| robert juet | hudson |
| henry green | hudson |
| malory at the isis | archer |
| "the seagull." | checkhov |
| grischa | checkhov |
| university of massachusetts | achebe |
| hundred years together | solzhenitsyn |
| vera gangart | solzhenitsyn |
| work squad | solzhenitsyn |
| rusanov | solzhenitsyn |
| "lak of steadfastness" | chaucer |
| donald mahon | faulkner |
| margaret powers | faulkner |
| charlestown | faulkner |
| cecily | faulkner |
| anse | faulkner |
| sondra finchley | dreiser |
| george farr | faulkner |
| the x-men | wolverine |
| "continuous as the stars that shine / and twinkle on the milky way." | i wandered lonely as a cloud |
aleksandr solzhenitsyn | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| tsezar | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "there on the sad height," | do not go gentle into that good night |
| st. elizabeth's | pound |
| tudor arghezi | ionesco |
| christopher columbus | irving |
| crick institute | atwood |
| puritan boston | scarlet letter |
| liesel meminger | book thief |
| best actress | driving miss daisy |
| morgan freeman | driving miss daisy |
| hoke colburn | driving miss daisy |
| benh zeitlin | beasts of the southern wild |
| wallis | beasts of the southern wild |
| "time held me green and dying, though i sang in my chains like the sea." | fern hill |
| second coming | yeats |
| bethlehem | yeats |
| "only the wind's home," | waste land |
| mason & dixon | pynchon |
| "paddle in the cold," | yeats |
| "all's changed" | yeats |
| abbey theater | yeats |
| "those that i fight i do not hate/those that i guard i do not love," | yeats |
| cathy ames | east of |
| henry carr | stoppard |
| "this is the way the world ends / not with a bang but a whimper." | eliot |
| "you are alone." | monologue |
| "verses" | eliot |
| a 's own | woolf |
| " for 10 points, name this irish poet of " | yeats |
| an irish airman foresees his death | yeats |
| "crouched like two bulls locked horn in horn," | browning |
| "a man may, in effect, make a whore of his own wife" | defoe |
| "conjugal lewdness." | defoe |
| epping forest | defoe |
| lester kane in chicago | dreiser |
| jennie gerhardt | dreiser |
| frank copperwood | dreiser |
| too late the phalarope | paton |
| "the former age." | chaucer |
| montoya hotel | the sun also |
| robert cohn | the sun also |
| jake barnes | the sun also |
| georgette | the sun also |
| port ticonderoga | atwood |
| bill gorton | the sun also |
| saddler | defoe |
| delamarche | kafka |
| karl | kafka |
| la senora | allende |
| zulema halabi | allende |
| island beneath the sea | allende |
| tete | allende |
| "there's a stake through your black heart," | plath |
| "i'm through." | plath |
| rossum | robot |
| publius | syria |
| radius | robot |
| golden shovel | brooks |
| claudia chauchat | magic mountain |
| catronia | kidnapped |
| metzger | pynchon |
| herr huld | kafka |
| stamp paid | beloved |
| suma | murasaki |
| wilhelm gustloff | grass |
| great mahlke in cat | grass |
| tom canty | prince and the pauper |
| pauper | twain |
| "the philosophy of composition," | raven |
| "rare and radiant maiden" | raven |
| "looks as if she were alive" | browning |
| duke of ferrera | browning |
| elizabeth barret | browning |
| harvey stone at the cafe select | the sun also |
| frances clyne | the sun also |
| "auguries of innocence," | robin |
| room of one | woolf |
| bright star | keats |
| "night funeral" | harlem |
| "what happens to" | dream |
| o-lan | the good |
| december in stockholm | buck |
| eastasia | 1984 |
| pencey prep | holden |
| "phony." | holden |
| seymour | glass |
| carpentered hen | updike |
| in the beauty of the lilies | updike |
| "riverrun past" | adam |
| "wandering steps and slow" | adam |
| "solitary way" | adam |
| nadsat | russian |
| golan trevize | asimov |
| "where did they get/them two fine cars?" | harlem |
| hetty sorrell | adam |
| hayslope | adam |
| lexa, jane | witches of |
| sukie | witches of |
| gutman | maltese |
| red harvest | hammett |
| tomas transtromer | buck |
| minister jack eccles | harry |
| toulouse valmorain | allende |
| handbook | shaw |
| rankeillor | kidnapped |
| glass key | hammett |
| lillian hellman | hammett |
| thin man | hammett |
| in the thin man | nick and nora |
| arthur donnithorne | adam |
| jabez stone | benet |
| sir robert chiltern | wilde |
| cecily cardew | wilde |
| place of the gods | benet |
| ubtreas | benet |
| ashing | benet |
| the lion d'or | madame bovary |
| samson carrasco | don quixote |
| tommy traddles at salem house | david |
| "the devil and daniel webster?" | benet |
| ou-dis-sun | benet |
| in part | goethe |
| eduard | goethe |
| against the day | pynchon |
| pierce inverarity | pynchon |
| pugnax | pynchon |
| spenlow and jorkins | david |
| adventures of three englishmen | verne |
| three russians in south africa | verne |
| ottilie and the captain | goethe |
| little em | david |
| james steerforth | david |
| mr peggotty | david |
| mrs crupp | david |
| "will v-day be me-day too?" | hughes |
| miss pinkerton | vanity |
| academy for young ladies | vanity |
| airstrip one | winston |
| "2 + 2 = 5." | winston |
| mr murdstone | david |
| uriah heap | david |
| gummidge | david |
| south side boys | native |
| jan erlone | native |
| "strong and diverse," | benet |
| "i shall not rest quiet at montparnasse" | benet |
| "bury my heart at wounded knee" | benet |
| "american names." | benet |
| "john brown's body" | benet |
| thus spoke zarathustra | nietzsche |
| "for carl solomon," | howl |
| grasshopper lies heavy | dick |
| "of our world as it might have been" | dick |
| scanner darkly | dick |
| rachael rosen | dick |
| "the curse of minerva." | byron |
| "don juan." | byron |
| elgin | byron |
| air india flight | mukherjee |
| alfred jarry | apartheid |
| ubu roi | apartheid |
| moses jackson | stoppard |
| invention of love | stoppard |
| "a dimpled spider, fat and white, holding up a moth" | frost |
| persuasion | austen |
| ohio impromptu | beckett |
| lady cheveley | wilde |
| "intended" | heart of darkness |
| nellie | heart of darkness |
| leon dupuis | madame bovary |
| captain nemo in twenty thousand leagues under the sea | verne |
| unnameable | beckett |
| "gogo light--bough not break--gogo dead." | waiting for |
| "a gypsy's child" | habanera |
| v-2 rockets | pynchon |
madame ranevskaya | the cherry orchard |
| "harrison bergeron" | vonnegut |
| midland city pontiac | vonnegut |
| dwayne hoover in breakfast of champions | vonnegut |
| "can the devil speak true?" | macbeth |
| "out, out damned spot!" | macbeth |
| thane of cawdor | macbeth |
| stavrogin in the posessed | dostoevsky |
| "american bandstand" | ignatius |
"my kingdom for a horse!" | richard iii |
| dinah nuthead | adam |
| hand of ethelberta | hardy |
| group of noble dames | hardy |
| faber | fahrenheit 451 |
| imipolex g | pynchon |
| bokanovsky process | brave new world |
| seymore levov | roth |
| "what peaches and what penumbras" | ginsberg |
| "hold back the edges of your gowns, ladies, we are going through hell." | williams |
| "paterson." | williams |
| george washington cable | confederacy of |
| old creole days | confederacy of |
| "when i heard the learn'd astronomer," | whitman |
| general in his labyrinth | garcia |
| podsnap | brave new world |
| luis alejandro velasco for the el espectador | garcia |
| "the story of a shipwrecked sailor." | garcia |
| no one writes to the colonel | garcia |
| pozdnyshev | tolstoy |
| "beastly, beastly book." | brave new world |
| world controller | brave new world |
| how much land does a man need | tolstoy |
| kreutzer sonata | tolstoy |
| "el aleph" | borges |
| "death-pale figures" | keats |
| chicana | mexican |
| lieutenant dan in forrest gump | sinise |
| detective mac taylor | sinise |
| csi | sinise |
| course in general linguistics | saussure |
| hermes to apollo | lyre |
| "lyric." | lyre |
| "unbound." | prometheus |
| fermina | love in the time of cholera |
| scheherazade | one thousand and one nights |
| arnold lobel | frog |
| lobel | frog |
| arabella donn | jude the |
| little father time | jude the |
| german industrialist | schindler's ark |
| "outback." | australia |
| "the stillness round my form was like the stillness in the air" | i heard a fly buzz when i died |
| tale heart | poe |
| "the pit and the pendulum" | poe |
| zillah | wuthering heights |
| weird sisters | macbeth |
| santa claus | nicholas |
| captain hoseason | david |
| diana moon glampers | harrison bergeron |
| honey | albee |
| "born again" | nietzsche |
| "blond beast" | nietzsche |
| mary's frankenstein | shelley |
| "the courier's tragedy," | pynchon |
| genghis cohen | pynchon |
| benny profane | pynchon |
| sandy | journey to the west |
| pigsy | journey to the west |
| lucie manette | tale of two cities |
| sydney carton | tale of two cities |
| barsad | tale of two cities |
| "brekekekex koax koax." | aristophanes |
| anthony hecht | dover beach |
| elizabeth rousset | boule de suif |
| pablo honey | magic theater |
| the devil | irving |
| questing beast | once and future king |
| aloeus | ephialtes |
| "ode on the death of a favourite cat, drowned in a tub of gold fishes" | gray |
| stu redman in the stand | sinise |
"on silent haunches" | "fog" |
| sandberg | fog |
| "benito cereno is a work by this novelist who first hit it big with the novel typee. his other works include billy budd and " | melville |
| girl with the dragon tattoo | craig |
| jake lonergan in cowboys | craig |
| the and as & aliens | craig |
| sean connery | dr. no |
| ludvik jahn | kundera |
"optimism is the opium of the people" | kundera |
| communist president | czech |
| nick andros | lowe |
| sam seaborn on the west wing | lowe |
| indiana state auditor chris traeger on parks | lowe |
| the stand | lowe |
| recreation | lowe |
| cleon for demos | aristophanes |
| tell my horse | hurston |
| large colour prints | tyger |
| cather | my |
| mnevis bull | ra |
| family life | vas deferens |
| "a lovely light!" | candle |
| niketas choniates | baudolino |
| thirteen ways of looking | blackbird |
| "blitzball." | phineas |
james incandenza | infinite jest |
primrose (family) | the vicar of wakefield |
| new heloise | bovary |
| ottone | frank |
| "the cliffs of england stand" | dover beach |
| aegean | dover beach |
| david mamet | united states |
| magister ludi | glass bead game |
| le chiffre | james |
| "helen being chosen found life flat and dull, and later had much trouble from a fool." | prayer for my daughter |
| "death as nostalgia, rather than as the fruition or end of life, is death as origin" | labyrinth of solitude |
| nostalgia for death by xavier villaurrutia | labyrinth of solitude |
| periodic table | levi |
| "breath of autumn's being." | west wind |
| bond girl | dr. no |
| honey ryder | dr. no |
| craig | dr. no |
| "tender is the night." | keats |
| perry smith | murder |
| "it isn't fair, it isn't right" | jackson |
| merricat | jackson |
| "love laws" | god of small things |
| patty berglund | freedom |
| robinson jeffers | hawk |
| kovrin | black monk |
| "sepulchre there by the sea." | poe |
| roman elegies | goethe |
| catriona | stevenson |
| sonny | welty |
| late in miss julie | kills |
| mikael blomkvist in the american | craig |
| national steinbeck center | salinas |
| earwicker | finnegans wake |
| ashima calcutta | lahiri |
| crooks | lennie |
| "someone had blundered" | charge of the light brigade |
| poaceae | grass |
| galatea | quixote |
| king theseus | oedipus |
| jocasta | oedipus |
| ismene | oedipus |
| ras the exhorter | invisible man |
| "madness... madness!" | bridge |
| clipton | bridge |
| blofeld | james |
| quantum of solace | craig |
| scales of justice | anubis |
zenocrate | marlowe |
| "locked up in coffins of block." | chimney sweep |
| "is rich" | updike |
| george caldwell | updike |
| mount doom | bilbo |
| sting | bilbo |
| hobbit | bilbo |
| baker street | sherlock |
| in saki | wolf |
| isaac cline | larson |
| "the enormous radio" | swimmer |
| "how terrible and brief was my desire of you!" | song of despair |
| "in you the wars and the flights accumulated." | song of despair |
| "love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds." | shakespeare |
| in sonnet | time |
| "gray-beard loon" | ancient mariner |
| "rime" | ancient mariner |
| ts'ui pen | garden of forking paths |
| "cabin of clay and wattles." | lake isle of innisfree |
| heart of midlothian | scott |
| "funes, the memorious." | borges |
| arrowsmith | lewis |
| "i think we are in rat's alley / where the dead men lost their bones." | waste land |
| sergeant troy | gabriel |
| baoyu | monk |
| joe crowell | grover's corners |
| splendid phoenix | dream of the red chamber |
| shirley | welty |
| "scud" | nabokov |
| speak, memory | nabokov |
| drones club | jeeves |
| theses | luther |
| hareton | read |
| pumblechook | great expectations |
| jose arcadio buendia | one hundred years of solitude |
| tom stoppard | rosencrantz |
| "samiel" | devil |
| dolorous stroke | fisher king |
| troezen to athens | theseus |
| gerald duval | all quiet on the western front |
| corporal himmelstoss | all quiet on the western front |
| pinzada | interpreter of maladies |
| marie cordona | camus |
| "piece of string" | maupassant |
| "i want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees," | neruda |
| "every day you play" | neruda |
| "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" | cummings |
| "the public and its problems" | james |
| serena joy | handmaid's tale |
| javert | drown |
| "rappaccini's daughter," | hawthorne |
| house of the seven gables | hawthorne |
| three tall women | albee |
| "hamlet." | doctor zhivago |
| "dying." | dracula |
| "death by drowning," | kafka |
| "the judgment" | kafka |
| eugenides | waste land |
| james baldwin | mead |
| reichenbach falls with moriarty | sherlock |
| "dear bosie" | wilde |
| conseil | verne |
| last temptation | jesus |
| "impulse was converted into momentary figures." | billiard |
| family values | cope |
| carol ann duffy | cope |
| theophilus msimangu's | cry, the beloved country |
| "eternal recurrence." | nietzsche |
| ralph steadman | thompson |
| scanlan | thompson |
| akela | wolf |
| "would rather be / a pagan suckled in a creed outworn." | wordsworth |
| "nymph's reply" | marlowe |
| laurel hand | welty |
| judge mckelva | welty |
| "all i could see from where i stood / was three long mountains and a wood." | renascence |
| "peppered with thorn pricks" | blackberry |
| "froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer" | soldier |
| in sylvia plath | nazi |
| hillalum | chiang |
| "triple goddesses," | moon |
| lycia | iobates |
| elli | age |
| freyr | muspelheim |
| "the thin men of haddam." | bird |
| "among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye" | bird |
| machiavel | marlowe |
| adrian leverkuhn | mann |
| sora | roxas |
| "tonight i can" | write |
| doors of perception | huxley |
| le morte | galahad |
| d'arthur | galahad |
| "tower of babylon." | chiang |
| "the story of your life," | chiang |
| yuri | doctor zhivago |
| cloud messenger | sanskrit |
| "nightingale." | emperor |
| joseph of arimathea | grail |
| fisher king | grail |
| cholly | bluest eye |
| death of ivan illyich | tolstoy |
| axel | roxas |
| crispin | stevens |
| "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" | hughes |
| "white night-gowns," | stevens |
| "disillusionment of ten o'clock." | stevens |
| oswald the lucky rabbit | mickey |
| full surrogacy now | ferrante |
| "green sea" | owen |
| "what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / slouches towards bethlehem to be born?" | yeats |
| bel ami | maupassant |
| "be a man, my son," | kipling |
| "did he who made the lamb make thee?" | blake |
| "the ransom of red chief" | henry |
| j.m. synge | playboy of the western world |
| that hecht | dover beach |
| "darkling plain" | dover beach |
| "eat the cones" | frost |
| smerdyakov | karamazov |
| carmen maria machado | husband |
| nancy | good soldier |
| ash'ari | possession |
| "single man in possession of a good fortune" | darcy |
| wickham | darcy |
| bingley | darcy |
| "persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." | tom |
| oklahoma to california in the grapes of wrath | steinbeck |
| van helsing | dracula |
| jim casy | steinbeck |
| dust bowl | steinbeck |
| svidrigailov | crime and punishment |
| porfiry petrovich | crime and punishment |
| new life | sonnet |
| weir mitchell | husband |
"life for me ain't been no crystal stair" | langston hughes |
| "being read to by a boy." | eliot |
| "dream variations" | hughes |
| "night coming tenderly, black like me." | hughes |
| "an old man in a dry month" | eliot |
| "the wasteland." | eliot |
| "the love song of j. alfred prufrock" | eliot |
| "key." | simon |
| jorge de montemayor's | verona |
| "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "sound poems." | dada |
| lives of animals | coetzee |
| sometimes a great notion | kesey |
| caverns | kesey |
| "have helen in their hearts" | williams |
| "like the quarry-slave at night, scourged to his dungeon" | bryant |
| valenod | red and the black |
| mathilde de la mole | red and the black |
| lewis hyde | stevenson |
| laszlo de almasy | greek |
| hugh hayden | poet laureate |
| michael sheen | six characters in search of an author |
| "the stars went out and so did the moon" | hughes |
| "two gentlemen of" | verona |
| gar-san | no exit |
| in john | dirt |
| "a psalm of life." | longfellow |
| diedrich knickerbocker | irving |
| "the metamorphosis." | kafka |
| maud gonne | yeats |
| "what mad nijinsky wrote / about diaghilev." | auden |
| "drowned phoenician sailor" | eliot |
| almustafa | prophet |
| adham, gabal | children |
| agatha christie | train |
| maureen corrigan | great gatsby |
| "pretend i'm chaste," | spanish |
| "beowulf: the monsters and the critics." | tolkien |
| dick hickock | capote |
| catholic flyte | brideshead |
| squire allworthy | fielding |
| samuel m. johnson's | dictionary |
| chinatown | tristero |
| "save the children" | china |
| pancho villa | mexico |
| hilaire belloc | chesterton |
| my lovely | philip |
| koran | william |
| polyneices | antigone |
| bristol | cabot |
| betrayed by rita hayworth | puig |
| duchess of malfi | webster |
| "misery" | blacksmith |
| felix unger | odd couple |
| oscar madison | odd couple |
| "acquainted with the night." | frost |
| "homer nods" | horace |
| "coastal shelf." | larkin |
| hamza | muhammad |
| ngugi wa thiong'o | kenya |
| poprishchin | diary of a madman |
| mickey mouse | iwerks |
| jenny cameron | fielding |
| haemon | antigone |
| natty bumppo in the last of the mohicans | cooper |
| "what's wrong with someone laughing as they tell the truth?" | horace |
| "there is a middle ground in things." | horace |
| licinius | horace |
| "dragged diana from her car" | poe |
| "the haunted palace," | poe |
| "the tell-tale heart." | poe |
| "beautiful spark of the gods." | schiller |
| schweizer, roller | schiller |
| "monster on the hill... slowly lurching toward your favorite city" | swift |
| "it's me, hi, i'm the problem it's me." | swift |
| "you're not dylan thomas, i'm not patti smith" | swift |
| tortured poets | swift |
| tom dillion tiktok | infinite jest |
| "doctorates in political economy from harvard" | infinite jest |
| "a vape shop up the street." | infinite jest |
| "powerful western fallen star." | whitman |
| "elephant in the room" | revolution |
| gil scott | revolution |
| "[this event] will not be televised." | revolution |
| "young authors" | chicago |
| castalian order | hesse |
| "listen to the river." | hesse |
| "one for all and all for one." | three musketeers |
| "darkly painted on the crimson sky." | bryant |
| "along that pathless coast" | bryant |
| "will lead my steps aright." | bryant |
| "show you fear in a handful of dust" | eliot |
| "measured out my life with coffee spoons" | eliot |
| "do i dare disturb the universe?" | eliot |
| enoch emery | o'connor |
| "bleeding drops of red." | whitman |
| "judging functions," | jung |
psychology of the unconscious | jung |
| "archetype," | jung |
| "introvert," | jung |
| "extrovert." | jung |
| "collective unconscious." | jung |
| "take the wings of morning, pierce the barcan wilderness." | bryant |
| "the long train of ages glides away." | bryant |
| yohr | human |
| japanese ministry of transport | richard parker |
| thirsty | richard parker |
| "no more time's dark events, charging like ceaseless clouds across the sky" | whitman |
| "hush'd be the camps." | whitman |
| "exult o shores, and ring o bells!" | whitman |
| razmann | schiller |
| "perceiving functions," | jung |
| "body laid out" | lorca |
| "the spilled blood" | lorca |
| "sleepwalking ballad." | lorca |
| "wait" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "rings in the ear" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "piercing familiarity." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "legal" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "willing to face hungry lions." | letter from birmingham jail |
| daneel olivaw | earth |
| professor otto lidenbrock | earth |
| foundation's edge | 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 |
| "icicle of moon." | lorca |
| "flesh," | lorca |
| "branches." | lorca |
| portuguese nobel laureate | saramago |
| jack vance | earth |
| "mazirian the magician." | earth |
| janov pelorat | earth |
| "stillness" | earth |
| fifth season | earth |
| "spacer" | earth |
| elijah bailey | earth |
| "reply" | williams |
| "i come, my sweet, to sing to you" | williams |
| "green and wooden" | williams |
| "who shall say i am not / the happy genius of my household?" | williams |
| "danse russe" | williams |
| "forgive me" | williams |
| "great map" | saramago |
| "p-h," | saramago |
| "avarice" | flower |
| "an unjust law is no law at all." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "white moderate" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "compelled to carry the gospel of freedom" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "fellow clergymen." | letter from birmingham jail |
| seven books of the diana | verona |
| "shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend." | verona |
| "we lay our scene" | verona |
| "expanding like a balloon" | island |
| "i'm the reason why it's no go" | island |
| "we are going to have fun" | island |
| "littluns" | island |
| "suns" | flower |
| "lured" | flower |
| "coaxed" | flower |
| "sin," | flower |
| "kissambushed" | dada |
| body sweats | dada |
| "jolifanto bambla" | dada |
| "anti-art" | dada |
| elsa von freytag-loringhoven | dada |
| "twisty things" | island |
| "creature that bulged" | island |
| "a great ape...sitting asleep with its head between its knees" | island |
| "two honest confessions" | letter from birmingham jail |
| "a negative peace which is the absence of tension." | letter from birmingham jail |
| "west briton" | dead |
| trappist | dead |
| "wolves" | kesey |
| "never give an inch!" | kesey |
| henry stamper | kesey |
| beatriz | coetzee |
| possessing the secret of joy | walker |
| shug avery | walker |
| celie in the color purple | walker |
| dee | walker |
| wangero | walker |
| tashi | walker |
| gardens | walker |
| michael ondaatje | greek |
| "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 |
| "atelier" | six characters in search of an author |
| property man | six characters in search of an author |
| johnny carson | walker |
| "can't appreciate these quilts" | walker |
"everyday use" | walker |
| paulo coelho | alchemist |
| "fools" | pope |
| "roar aloud, 'subscribe, subscribe'" | pope |
| "ten times worse when they repent." | pope |
| "who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" | pope |
| "drop into thyself, and be a fool" | pope |
| "the proper study of mankind is man." | pope |
"epistle to dr. arbuthnot" | pope |
| "two households, both alike in dignity" | verona |
| silvia | verona |
| "beyond sandy hook," | hughes |
| "i'm the man who sailed those early seas" | hughes |
| "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 |
| "if you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it." | alchemist |
| "beware, beware of my hunger" | palestine |
| mahmoud darwish | palestine |
| tuqan | palestine |
| petronius | polish |
| lygia | polish |
| "whipper-snappers of boys" | dead |
| black gaiety | dead |
| "pack of pariah dogs" | saki |
| "i like mysteries but i rather dislike muddles," | passage to india |
| "no, not yet." | passage to india |
| cyril fielding | passage to india |
| "our symbols." | palestine |
| "the smell of coffee" | palestine |
| "longing inspired by the law of gravity." | palestine |
| "you killed me...and i forgot, like you, to die" | palestine |
| "ancient walls" | palestine |
| "blast a hole into forever." | fences |
| "i took all...my dreams...and i buried them inside you," | fences |
| "you say i take and don't give!" | fences |
| "hear it ring!" | fences |
| "good old dog" | fences |
| "death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner." | fences |
| "tell st. peter to open the gates" | fences |
| "cocoons" | passage to india |
| st. lucian | greek |
| penelopiad | greek |
| "put thousands together less bad, but the cage less gay," | red and the black |
| "chronicle of the nineteenth century." | red and the black |
| abbe pirard | red and the black |
| vergy | red and the black |
| "dashing and not very respectable," | saki |
| "tobermory." | saki |
| "heavy judger of men." | moloch |
| "so much depends upon the red wheelbarrow." | williams |
| "where are the songs of" | spring |
| "locksley hall," | spring |
| "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." | spring |
| "hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads, and freight handler to the nation." | chicago |
rootabaga stories | sandburg |
| "is at hand." | the second coming |
| ernst stavro blofeld | bond |
| on her majesty | bond |
| summer of love | kilmer |
"poems are made by fools like me, but only god can make a tree." | kilmer |
| "a poem should not mean / but be" | macleish |
| "in the ghoul-haunted woodland of weir." | ulalume |
| "ah, sunflower!" | ginsberg |
| "whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen" | moloch |
| christine nilsson | age of innocence |
| sillerton jackson | age of innocence |
| lawrence lefferts | age of innocence |
| mingotts | age of innocence |
| "narrative structures" | bond |
| "mates in eight moves." | bond |
| "in new york." | bond |
| "every man his own" | bond |
| houdan | saki |
| nuttel | saki |
| john fuegi | brecht |
| "life and lies" | brecht |
| "distancing effect" | brecht |
| good person of szechuan | brecht |
| "each time you happen to me all over again" | age of innocence |
| "the shaughraun." | age of innocence |
| nadia | west |
| saeed | west |
| mykonos | west |
| constance garnett | karamazov |
| "everything is lawful." | karamazov |
| "heart's abhorrence" | spain |
| "practical in the extreme" | husband |
| "an intense horror of superstition." | husband |
| "perhaps...my writings will not be given to the lethe's waters," | ovid |
| "as chiron was to achilles, i am to cupid" | ovid |
| remedia amoris | ovid |
| "poem and an error" | ovid |
| "i give you my sweat and my blood," | fences |
| "dark london" | west |
| "40 meters and a pipe." | west |
| marin county | west |
| sergeant lituma | radio |
| panamericana in mario vargas llosa | radio |
| "how much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow." | darcy |
| "tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt me," | darcy |
| "three classics" | yiddish |
| "peace be upon you" | yiddish |
| "blows a small fortune" | yiddish |
| "leaping and creeping" | lilliput |
| "sever." | kiss |
becky thatcher | tom sawyer |
| lydia bennet | wickham |
| "the most fantastic parking-lot attendant in the world." | 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 |
| "exquisite pattern." | emperor |
| "but he hasn't got anything on!" | emperor |
| "new clothes" | emperor |
| "slow-stepped verse," | sanskrit |
| "freedom has a price" | marjane |
| uncle anoosh | marjane |
| graz | marjane |
| reza | marjane |
| "royal blood." | grail |
| flegetanis | grail |
| perceval | grail |
| "lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." | eliot |
| "silly novels by lady novelists." | eliot |
| gwendolen harleth | eliot |
| "don't you remember?" | emperor |
| "beautiful colors" | emperor |
| a. s. kline's | sonnet |
| "dostioffski," | on the road |
| "the sunny pavement of greenwich village." | kaddis |
| "a splash quite unnoticed" | williams |
| xion | roxas |
| ismael | moby-dick |
| milkman dead iii | song of solomon |
| bulter mansion | song of solomon |
| "creep over" | husband |
| "rest cure" | husband |
| "flamboyant pattern." | husband |
| s | husband |
| "sighs on which i fed my heart" | sonnet |
| la vita nuova | sonnet |
| vittoria da colonna | sonnet |
| giacomo da lentini | sonnet |
| samuel ferguson | verne |
| james strand | verne |
| "snare / strangled into a scream" | wilde |
| "with sin / in the secret house of shame." | wilde |
| "c.3.3." | wilde |
| "who looked / so wistfully at the day." | wilde |
| "young sinner" | wilde |
| "for the colour of his hair." | wilde |
| "a dill pickle." | mansfield |
| "ordinary domestic scenes." | africa |
| "rudimentary souls" | africa |
| "farewell to english." | africa |
| "antithesis of the thames." | africa |
| "an image of" | africa |
| joe wilson | verne |
| dick kennedy | verne |
| "old age should burn and rage at close of day." | thomas |
| roethke | villanelle |
| "terrence, this is stupid stuff," | housman |
| art of love | ovid |
| sons of jacob | gilead |
| cat's eye and oryx and crake | atwood |
| "a pluralistic universe" | james |
| "the will to believe," | james |
| "to live life to the end is not a childish task." | doctor zhivago |
| forest brotherhood | doctor zhivago |
| nikolai | doctor zhivago |
| evgraf | doctor zhivago |
| liberius | doctor zhivago |
| enormous room | cummings |
"into the valley of death / rode the six hundred" | the charge of the light brigade |
| rushdie | midnight's children |
| "feudal spirit," | jeeves |
| "mentally negligible" | jeeves |
| right ho | jeeves |
| carry on | jeeves |
| nottle | jeeves |
| original of laura | nabokov |
| charlotte haze | nabokov |
| "ridiculus sum" | bovary |
| glasgow cathedral | rob roy |
| diana vernon | rob roy |
| "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." | second coming |
| "skin...white as leprosy" | ancient mariner |
| "glittering eye." | ancient mariner |
| "sonny boy" | jeeves |
| "the psychology of the individual," | jeeves |
| gussie fink | jeeves |
| stephano | caliban |
| max gottlieb | lewis |
| leora | lewis |
| "meditation upon death." | thanatopsis |
| "aedh wishes for the cloths of heaven" | yeats |
| jeanie deans | scott |
| frank osbaldistone | rob roy |
| scottish highlands | rob roy |
| "the coward does it with a kiss, / the brave man with a sword" | wilde |
| "the moor, i know his trumpet" | long day's journey into night |
| "we are such stuff as manure is made on, so let's drink up and forget it," | long day's journey into night |
| old gaspard | long day's journey into night |
| "the mad scene. enter ophelia!" | long day's journey into night |
| kyot the provencal | grail |
| vulgate cycle | grail |
| "buzz when [she] died." | flies |
| "life-blood seemed to sip" | ancient mariner |
| "night-mare" | ancient mariner |
| "dewdrop world." | haiku |
| "spring is passing" | haiku |
| spring of my life | haiku |
| "knot it" | murder |
| in emma cline | murder |
| elise pachen | murder |
| mouschi | frank |
| silberberg | frank |
| dussel | frank |
| the van daans | frank |
| "stony eye-balls" | ancient mariner |
| "suspension of disbelief" | ancient mariner |
| "bright-eyed" | ancient mariner |
| biographia literaria | ancient mariner |
| "a pair" | south korea |
| human acts | south korea |
| "cremated, just as i would like to be" | frank |
| ghost writer | frank |
| miep gies | frank |
| "secret annex." | frank |
| cady's life | frank |
| e. i. lonoff | frank |
| "discovering home" | africa |
| "broad brushstrokes" | africa |
| "taboo subjects" | africa |
| "it is best to be prepared" | god of small things |
| rhodes scholar chacko | god of small things |
| variations on the death of trotsky | united states |
| "leads." | united states |
| we do not part | south korea |
| jabez branderham | wuthering heights |
| "thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess" | wuthering heights |
| "vinegar-faced" | wuthering heights |
| "i'd lost my way on the moor!" | wuthering heights |
| "melody gloucester pegasus" | jackson |
| "would you like a cup of tea?" | jackson |
| uncle julian | jackson |
| merricat blackwood | jackson |
| "scuttling" | grass |
| paul pokriefke | grass |
| call of the toad | grass |
| "presumptive fathers" | grass |
| oskar matzerath in the tin drum | grass |
| "the sons of adam are limbs of each other" | farsi |
| "crying sound" | farsi |
| "awake!" | farsi |
| "monstrous vermin." | samsa |
| gregor | samsa |
| larry mccaslin | god of small things |
| "sad red" | mexican |
| "says goodbye sometimes." | mexican |
| gloria anzaldua | mexican |
| borderlands | mexican |
| "cemetery of reconciliation." | grass |
| "wi'-gi-e" | murder |
| david grann | murder |
| helter skelter | murder |
| manson family | murder |
| peters | murder |
| evie | murder |
| "celestial" | keats |
| "what men or gods are these?" | keats |
| "likes looking at the walls" | mexican |
| "linoleum roses on the floor." | mexican |
| "i'll shake the sky / like a hundred violins" | mexican |
| "you must keep writing." | mexican |
| "tame a wild tongue" | mexican |
| "would have the rabbit out of hiding" | frost |
| "but here there are no cows" | frost |
| "like the months of the year" | ionesco |
| "shall i live in hope?" | richard iii |
| "all men i hope live so." | richard iii |
| "all the world to nothing! ha!" | richard iii |
| "i'll have her, but i will not keep her long." | richard iii |
| "capers nimbly...to the lascivious pleasing of a lute," | richard iii |
| "rudely stamp'd" | richard iii |
| "not shaped for sportive tricks." | richard iii |
| "was ever woman in this humour won?" | richard iii |
| "decadent rubbish." | seagull |
| boris trigorin | seagull |
| dorn | seagull |
| sorin | seagull |
| "little fish" | room of one's own |
| "astronomy, relativity, geography" | room of one's own |
| "the great art of making money," | room of one's own |
| "chloe liked olivia." | room of one's own |
| old man warner | jackson |
| "pack of crazy fools" | jackson |
| "there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. there's just stuff people do" | grapes of wrath |
| "the smell of rot fills the country" | grapes of wrath |
| "the men sat still - thinking - figuring" | grapes of wrath |
| tom joad | grapes of wrath |
| "what is that tree?" | seagull |
| olga knipper | seagull |
| "well worth reading about." | mississippi |
| "life on" | mississippi |
| two fathoms | mississippi |
| jeff atman | venice |
| geoff dyer | venice |
| "soft soul of america" | blake |
| "proverbs of hell." | blake |
| four zoas | blake |
| "half-men," | russian |
| "one whistles, another meows, a third snivels." | russian |
| "no foreign sky protected me, / no stranger's wing shielded my face" | russian |
| "seventeen months." | russian |
| "laughing cockroaches" | russian |
| "darkness" | stoppard |
| "old times" | mississippi |
| dick allbright | mississippi |
| junior anti | nineteen eighty-four |
| sex league | nineteen eighty-four |
| two minutes hate | nineteen eighty-four |
| thought police | nineteen eighty-four |
| "it is an equal error...to blame the praiseworthy and to praise the blameworthy" | helen |
| gorgias | helen |
| eurotas | helen |
| theoclymenus | helen |
| "angelfood" | ionesco |
| "long live the emperor" | ionesco |
| martins with the fire chief | ionesco |
| "two gin-scented tears." | nineteen eighty-four |
| "anyone under forty-five is perfectly capable of touching his toes" | nineteen eighty-four |
| "a wonderful shot of a child's arm going up up up" | nineteen eighty-four |
| "i sold you and you sold me," | nineteen eighty-four |
| "under the spreading chestnut tree." | nineteen eighty-four |
| "a heart...too soon made glad." | duchess |
| "my last." | duchess |
| "all that's best of dark and bright" | beauty |
| "whose love is innocent." | beauty |
| "she walks in [this word]." | beauty |
| "the beast?" | beauty |
| uncle doaker | wilson |
| berenice charles | wilson |
| three lawsof robotics | asimov |
| thefoundationseries | asimov |
| "just this / or that in you disgusts me," | duchess |
| "never to stoop." | duchess |
| claus of innsbruck | duchess |
| "taming a sea-horse" | duchess |
| "spot of joy" | duchess |
| "gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name," | duchess |
| "i'm going out to fetch the little calf" | frost |
| "i shan't be gone long - you come too." | frost |
| "not to blame for his key" | frost |
| "a minor bird," | frost |
| "zeze the x" | house on mango street |
| ebling mis | asimov |
| hari seldon | asimov |
| galactic empire | asimov |
| "prophetic book" | blake |
| "and did those feet in ancient time." | blake |
| marriage of heaven | blake |
| albion | blake |
| jane taylor | apartheid |
| "all-fray zhah-ree's" | apartheid |
| lord morena | apartheid |
| ethel lange in blood knot | apartheid |
| "his happy good-night air/some blessed hope, whereof he knew/and i was unaware." | darkling thrush |
| la belle dame | keats |
| merci | keats |
| prince genji | murasaki |
| harlem shadows | mckay |
| camus | plague |
| chris hemsworth | snow |
| huntsman eric | snow |
| "when art / is too precise in every part." | herrick |
| "julia poems" | herrick |
| "delight in disorder." | herrick |
| "this same flower that smiles today / tomorrow will be dying" | herrick |
| "this great war" | uncle tom's cabin |
| madame de thoux | uncle tom's cabin |
| keeler to loomis | house on mango street |
| "nenny," | house on mango street |
| "do you think that the soul first shows itself by a gnashing of teeth?" | robot |
| "cramp." | robot |
| "kah-rel cha-pek" | robot |
| busman | robot |
| ultimus | robot |
| "liquefaction" | herrick |
| "a wild civility" | herrick |
| "careless shoe-string" | herrick |
| "cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes." | brooks |
| "strike straight." | brooks |
| "only pleasure" | six characters |
| "happy and careless" | six characters |
| "vile" | six characters |
| "i've lost a whole day over [this group]!" | six characters |
| "in search of an author." | six characters |
| "superb three-mast" | maupassant |
| "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 |
| curley | of mice and |
| travels with charley | steinbeck |
| "sophocles long ago / heard it on the aegean," | dover beach |
| "near me on the grass lies glanvil's book." | scholar-gipsy |
| a man's a man a' that | burns |
| "the best laid schemes of" | to a mouse |
| esme | stoppard |
| rock 'n' roll and travesties | stoppard |
| "alienated windy corner, perhaps forever," | forster |
| river arno | forster |
| adela quested in the marabar | forster |
| terrance hayes | brooks |
| "rented back room" | brooks |
| "winter afternoons," | there's a certain slant of light |
| grunlich | mann |
| schubal | kafka |
| "both incline / their drowsy faces...on either side of [this poet's] enormous grave" | eliot |
| "the hollow round of my skull" | eliot |
| "for thine is the kingdom" | eliot |
| avrahm yarmolinsky | stoppard |
| "what the hell are you talking about?" | stoppard |
| plastic people of the universe | stoppard |
| jacob's room | woolf |
| blake poem | tyger |
| "redbreast in a cage / puts all heaven in a rage." | robin |
| "with blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz / between the light and me / and then the windows failed, and then / i could not see." | dickinson |
| "in the opposite house / as lately as today" | death |
| "in a green bay." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| professor kuckuck | mann |
| confessions of felix krull | mann |
| the zek shukhov | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "irritating cleverness" | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "before i knocked." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "sang the sun in flight." | do not go gentle into that good night |
| "mourn'd--and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "would i might rouse the lincoln in you all!" | lindsay |
| "lincoln." | lindsay |
| "thanks to the human heart by which we live" | ode: intimations of immortality |
| "cream gilded cabin." | pound |
| "aunt cora's patchwork" | jane eyre |
| "oh-bay-ah" | jane eyre |
| married him | jane eyre |
| coulibi | jane eyre |
| "the limper." | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "how can you ask a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?" | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| god with alyosha the baptist in gang | one day in the life of ivan denisovich |
| "ugly - babbling old - witch!" | menagerie |
| "old-fashioned what-not" | menagerie |
| wingfield | menagerie |
| jose norberto allende | cortazar |
| serpent club | cortazar |
| "english rubaiyat" | pound |
| "still-born" | pound |
| "thin like brook water" | pound |
| "and men / go often awry." | to a mouse |
| esmerelda | hunchback of notre-dame |
| shadow and act | ellison |
| but your land is beautiful | paton |
| msimangu | stephen |
| paquette in candide | pangloss |
| auerbach | mephistopheles |
| "hired assassin" | menagerie |
| "ritual dance" | rilke |
| "cramped circles." | rilke |
| "wild beast's fur" | rilke |
| "a legendary head / with eyes like ripening fruit." | rilke |
| "no world" | rilke |
| "constantly passing bars" | rilke |
| "haunted by humans." | book thief |
| standover man | book thief |
| "living phantom." | murasaki |
| "shining prince" | murasaki |
| cicada | murasaki |
| fujitsobo | murasaki |
| "faces of beasts" | rilke |
| "set traps for freedom" | rilke |
| "unobstructed world." | rilke |
| "plunges into the heart and is gone" | rilke |
| "nothing new in the west." | all quiet on the western front |
| "suck'd me first and, now sucks thee." | flea |
| "intent" | author |
| shining by stephen king | author |
| w. k. wimsatt | author |
| liza dalby | murasaki |
| edward seidensticker | murasaki |
| "wild little plant" | murasaki |
| "a time when meadow, grove, and stream" | ode: intimations of immortality |
| "apparell'd in celestial light." | ode: intimations of immortality |
| "bones are picked clean" | and death shall have no dominion |
| seagull | chekhov |
| quvenzhane wallis | hushpuppy |
| "the bathtub" | hushpuppy |
| hushpuppy | beasts of the southern wild |
| wwi in a german | paul |
| essays in radical empiricism | pragmatism |
| morlocks | time |
| eloi | time |
| griffin in the invisible man | wells |
| edward prendick | island of doctor moreau |
| robert frost medal | we real cool |
| lowland | lahiri |
| much of lahiri | india |
| fireside | lowell |
| "a study of provincial life." | middlemarch |
| " for 10 points each: name this poem that contrasts the hedonism of the title character working in the kitchen with the death of a poor woman. " | emperor of ice cream |
| " and the speaker states, " | emperor of ice cream |
| "on indolence," | ode |
| "pallid bust of pallas just above [the speaker's] chamber door." | raven |
| "was young and easy under the apple boughs / about the lilting house and happy as the grass was green." | fern hill |
| wilfrid sellars | pragmatism |
| "let us go then, you and i/when the evening is spread out against the sky/like a patient etherized upon a table." | eliot |
| east coker | eliot |
the dry salvages | t.s. eliot |
| little gidding | eliot |
| macondo in one hundred years of solitude | garcia marquez |
| john fowles | magical realism |
| pearl-feather | song of hiawatha |
| biglow papers | lowell |
| hans huberman | book thief |
| jewish max vanderburg | book thief |
| hendrik hofgen | mephistopheles |
| klaus mann | mephistopheles |
| "would always wish evil, and always works the good." | mephistopheles |
| rolls-royce | myrtle |
| the sea-wolf | london |
| new french review | gide |
| sha wujing | journey to the west |
| zhu bajie | journey to the west |
| lin chong | water margin |
| song jiang | water margin |
| gao qiu | water margin |
| cai jing | water margin |
| last tycoon | fitzgerald |
| nick carraway in the great gatsby | fitzgerald |
| "all is void, void, void" | seagull |
| "if at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it," | seagull |
| "innumerable centers of culture." | author |
| "implied" | author |
| western canon | author |
| neon bible | toole |
| tadzio in death in venice | mann |
| group portrait with lady | boll |
| "torture one poor word ten thousand ways." | dryden |
| ben jonson | dryden |
| bois sauvage | mississippi |
| salvage the bones by jesmyn ward | mississippi |
| addie bundren | mississippi |
| lay dying by william faulkner | mississippi |
| skeetah | mississippi |
| "always wears mourning... to match my life." | seagull |
| vikram seth | india |
| levy pants company | confederacy of |
| "frail cottage" | bronze horseman |
| "chill corpse" | bronze horseman |
| "marble pair of guardian lions" | bronze horseman |
| "force its own reception" | dryden |
| "in pious times, ere priest-craft did begin." | dryden |
| "some peaceful province" | dryden |
| "outcasts always mourn" | ballad of reading |
| "whistles far and wee," | in just |
| "eddieandbill" | in just |
| "bettyandisabel." | in just |
| "in just-." | cummings |
| princess celestia | twilight |
| "revisit[ed] the banks of the wye during a tour." | tintern |
| year of the death | ricardo reis |
| victor sings | awakening |
| pedro paramo | mexico |
| tomas arroyo | mexico |
| comala | mexico |
| "iron railing" | bronze horseman |
| "granite carapace" | bronze horseman |
| "proud young city" | bronze horseman |
| "break a window to the west." | bronze horseman |
| "keen tremor" | awakening |
| "zampa." | awakening |
| "disagreeable little woman" | awakening |
| "si tu savais." | awakening |
| "allez vous-en!" | awakening |
| while at grand isle | awakening |
| "the only person worth playing for." | awakening |
| impromptu | awakening |
| rosemary hoyt | dick |
| tommy barban | dick |
| "on my first sonne" | jonson |
| su tong | red |
| deirdre bair | godot |
| "tied...down" | godot |
| "whips" | godot |
| "surely tomorrow." | godot |
| barbara grizzuti harrison | didion |
| "only disconnect." | didion |
| "to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow" | didion |
| 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 |
| "pilgrimage." | charlemagne |
| "minuscule." | charlemagne |
| joyeuse | charlemagne |
| isaac luria | pi |
| "the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth." | pi |
| ministry of transport | pi |
| pondicherry | pi |
| "neurasthenic cher" | didion |
| milton rogers | silas |
| tom corey | silas |
| "rags to riches" | silas |
| william dean howells | silas |
| lantern yard | silas |
| "weaver of raveloe" | silas |
| "nine worthies." | charlemagne |
| hugo the strong | charlemagne |
| julian west | looking backward |
| rip | wolf |
| erastro in la galatea | cervantes |
| pictures | williams |
| "thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" | ode to a nightingale |
| "was it a vision, or a waking dream?" | ode to a nightingale |
| "she will rise again" | saramago |
| back bay | silas |
| "sank like lead" | albatross |
| "slimy things...upon the shiny sea" | albatross |
| james mccune smith | douglass |
| "representative american man." | douglass |
| james greenleaf whittier | douglass |
| "gone, gone, sold and gone" | douglass |
| "utter loneliness" | douglass |
| "chapter 25" | douglass |
| station eleven | lear |
| "crack your cheeks" | lear |
| "once so beautiful" | albatross |
| "so funny and ugly." | albatross |
| "exiled" | albatross |
| "hoots and jeers" | albatross |
| "laugh[ed] at the archer." | albatross |
| "prince of cloud and sky" | albatross |
| girton college | room of one's own |
| "six feet." | how much land does a man need |
| gardencourt | james |
| touchett | james |
| ma kilman | omeros |
| paul scofield | lear |
| peter brook | lear |
| "the wren goes to't" | lear |
| hara in gone with the wind | mitchell |
| "painted on the wall." | my last duchess |
| scrivener | melville |
| "engaged" | becky |
| margaret schlegel | howards |
| camilla | to the |
| macalister | to the |
| newnham college | room of one's own |
| evelyn | bar |
| "historical, satirical, philosophical, ... or straight" | dahl |
| "the great automatic grammatizator." | dahl |
| "shot down over libya." | dahl |
| going solo | dahl |
| henry sugar | dahl |
| gpt | dahl |
| pratchett | dahl |
| "on the deck" | o captain! my captain |
| lady utterword | shaw |
| "the stables are the real centre of the household" | shaw |
| "walk? not bloody likely!" | shaw |
| other flammable objects | irani |
| azar nafisi | irani |
| reading lolita in tehran | irani |
| olstead | bar |
| henry tilney | northanger abbey |
| bobby thomson | baseball |
| "shot heard 'round the world," | baseball |
| in fathers | rand |
| we the living | rand |
| "swaying mass" | o captain! my captain |
| "eager faces turning" | o captain! my captain |
| "the people all exulting" | o captain! my captain |
| angela davis | douglass |
| "lectures on liberation." | douglass |
| thea kronborg | cather |
| greek passion | kazantzakis |
| freedom or death and the | kazantzakis |
| mack | cannery row |
| mister fitzwilliam darcy | pride and prejudice |
| mister george knightly | emma |
| frij | midas |
| "-sih-dus]." | milton |
| glum | brobdingnag |
| glumdalclitch | brobdingnag |
| yahoo in the land of the houyhnhnms | lemuel |
| lohl | paz |
| "post data" | paz |
| "an abyss where vice is triumphant" | misanthrope |
| magwitch | philip |
| daoud | brother |
| stephen daedalus | joyce |
| "holiday" | soma |
| "all the advantages of christianity and alcohol, and none of the defects." | soma |
| savage reservation | brave new world |
| point counterpoint | huxley |
| crome yellow | huxley |
| second vatican council | john xxiii |
| pacem in terris | john xxiii |
| hank morgan | connecticut yankee in |
| st. olaf's | jay gatsby |
| henry gatz | funeral |
| owl eyes | funeral |
| when klipspringer | funeral |
| "sir gawain and the green knight," | kiss |
| cadbury | dahl |
| katharine peabody loring | james |
| olive chancellor | james |
| florence with mrs | james |
| "poised against the sunset, / crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog / and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye--." | sunflower sutra |
| kat, muller, kropp | all quiet on the western front |
| joe trace | jazz |
| alice manfred | jazz |
| "his own idiosyncratic voice" | o captain! my captain |
| "bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths" | o captain! my captain |
| banquo | macbeth |
| birnam wood | malcolm |
| "with mournful tread" | o captain! my captain |
| "lovely and soothing" | when lilacs last in |
| "ancient as the world and older than the flow of blood in human veins" | hughes |
| george selby | simon |
| aumsa | soyinka |
| kongi's harvest | soyinka |
| "all the trophies of his former loves" | lock |
| alessandro tassoni | lock |
| "mounted to the lunar sphere" | lock |
| "glittering" | lock |
| belinda in an alexander pope | lock |
| helen vendler | o captain! my captain |
| "swart growth of hair" | jekyll becoming |
| hastie lanyon | jekyll becoming |
| regent's | jekyll becoming |
| "drowning man is said to cling to a straw." | prospector |
| "man-o'war jack" | prospector |
| "little cuss" | prospector |
| klondike gold rush | prospector |
| "take their case." | soyinka |
| "one may enjoy the freedom of being an honest man" | misanthrope |
| "universal alphabet" | higgins |
| flay | banquo |
| fleance | banquo |
| "leaning from the steep slope." | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| snoopy | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| lotaria | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "horror of the spirit" | jekyll becoming |
| "every thinking activity implies mirrors" | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| "without fear of wind or vertigo" | if on a winter's night a traveler |
| goodman grey | minister's |
| joseph moody | minister's |
| "maggie and milly and molly and may" | cummings |
| "are apt to forget to remember." | anyone lived in a pretty |
| "glad and big" | olaf |
| "statistics lie" | olaf |
| "a light and diplomatic" | bird |
| "floats downstream till the current ends" | bird |
| "a pain" | bird |
| "still throbs in the old, old scars" | bird |
| "its blood is red on the cruel bars." | bird |
| "sings of freedom" | bird |
| "the north wind and the sun," | aesop |
| jean de la fontaine | aesop |
| "snow falling faintly" | dublin |
| "failed to love a tree in each person" | machu picchu |
| "emerging from the jungle." | machu picchu |
| "sidereal eagle, misty vine." | machu picchu |
| "rise up in birth with me." | machu picchu |
| "heights" | machu picchu |
| "prosperous in proper sense" | bird |
| "make miniature valhalla of my heart" | bird |
| according to the hymiskvidha | tyr |
| earth by the river styx | hades |
| kuut | south africa |
| chant of jimmie blacksmith | australia |
| sailor who fell | mishima |
| grace with the sea | mishima |
| "nansen kills a kitten" | mishima |
| prince gremin | eugene |
| castle of wolfenbach | catherine |
| baptist alyoshka | ivan |
| yosh | ivan |
| fetyukov | ivan |
| volodin | the first circle |
| vuh-loh-din | the first circle |
| "tote" | boule de suif |
| the b. toklas | stein |
| lennie in of mice | steinbeck |
| "shocking" | chopin |
| madame valmonde | desiree |
| bin-yee | desiree |
| "whose mind is pure machinery" | moloch |
| "sphinx of cement and aluminum" | moloch |
| "bashed open skulls" | moloch |
| "ate up brains and imagination" | moloch |
| "melancholy air and intellectual abstraction" | hamlet |
| oakhurst | hamlet |
| "foretopman" | billy |
| kree | tutor |
| hortensio | tutor |
| frank poole | hal 9000 |
| "daisy bell" | hal 9000 |
| dora flood | cannery |
| "more brave than me, more blonde than you." | olaf |
| "my dear fellow" | jo |
| kirkes in new york | jo |
| john brooke | meg |
| demi | meg |
| josy | meg |
| north fork river | roaring camp |
| thomas luck | roaring camp |
| father flynn | dublin |
| celine varens | edward |
| samneric | lord of the flies |
| nair | river |
| potamoi | river |
| "oh-fee-on" | creation |
| eurynome | creation |
| hermia | lysander |
| "if [this character] had not read all those novels...[this character]'s fate might have been different" | emma |
| perpetual orgy | emma |
| julian barnes | emma |
| "c'est moi" | emma |
| "say mwah" | emma |
| "a veritable peace-maker" | dublin |
| "gnomon," | dublin |
| "simony," | dublin |
| "black gold" | journey to the west |
| "absolute simplicity" | catch-22 |
| "respectful whistle." | catch-22 |
| "ladies of sorrow" | opium |
| oxford street | opium |
| "pleasures" | opium |
| "pains" | opium |
| thomas de quincey | opium |
| "the napoleon of crime." | holmes |
| meiringen | holmes |
| strand | holmes |
| "i am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor!" | nemo |
| "mobilis in mobili" | nemo |
| five civil war | nemo |
| professor aronnax on the abraham lincoln | nemo |
| nautilus in twenty thousand leagues under the sea | nemo |
| "rapture on the lonely shore" | childe harold's |
| bridge of sighs | venice |
| "a palace and a prison on each hand." | venice |
| lee goodwin | yoknapatawpha |
| "mile" | compson |
| farwell to arms | hemingway |
| joe dimaggio in the old man | hemingway |
| battle of caporetto | switzerland |
| virgil thomson | stein |
| four saints in three acts | stein |
| "lost generation." | stein |
| "sacred emily" | stein |
| autobiography of alice | stein |
| 27 rue de fleurus | stein |
| borachio | much ado about nothing |
| "pleasure in the pathless woods" | childe harold's |
| clytemnestra in aeschylus | electra |
| "perhaps gracious, perhaps mocking" | hesse |
| before lsd | hesse |
| timothy leary | hesse |
| "song of the thousand voices." | hesse |
| gnostic | hesse |
| abraxas | hesse |
| "when this you see remember me" | stein |
| "shall be the hero of [his] own life" | david |
| "boz" | dickens |
| miss dubose | atticus |
| "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 |
| "all he wished, a friend." | elegy written in a country |
| "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" | elegy written in a country |
| "god of death." | electra |
| "storm in the sky in the evening" | russian |
| "no monument stands." | russian |
| "forges decrees" | 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 |
| dante tours | divine |
| "delete the adjectives and...have the facts" | atticus |
| "we meet at the final crossroads" | ibsen |
| "the one cock in the basket" | ibsen |
| "people don't do such things!" | ibsen |
| "the most wonderful thing of all?" | ibsen |
| "draws the world" | borges |
| herbert quain | borges |
| nils runeberg | borges |
| pierre menard | borges |
| calpurnia | cook |
| "a simple man am i" | marti |
| "existing monuments" | eliot |
| "the chair she sat in, like a burnished throne" | eliot |
| "unreal city under the brown fog of a winter dawn." | eliot |
| grishkin | eliot |
| "he is the god of love" | ibsen |
| button molder | ibsen |
| ma rainey | wilson |
| black bottom | wilson |
| "the gunman kill and go free to kill again" | chicago |
| potato face blind man | rootabaga |
| mikt | underworld |
| koot | underworld |
| kwaht | feather |
| tlee | feather |
| "son of phlegm, grandchild to water" | age |
| yossarian | catch-22 |
| major major major major | milton |
| "spleen and ideal." | fleurs du mal |
| "delicate monster" | reader |
| "my likeness! my brother!" | reader |
| west wind | nokomis |
| wenonah | nokomis |
| "a voice of gladness, and a smile, and eloquence of beauty" | thanatopsis |
| "thanatopsis club" | lewis |
| english socialist party | big brother |
| encyclopedia britannica | red-headed |
| vincent spaulding | red-headed |
| jabez | red-headed |
| suburban bank | sherlock |
| "the world no longer let me love. my hope and treasure lie above." | burning |
| geeb | egypt |
| fooz | egypt |
| brustein | hansberry |
| "cigar-girl" | marie |
| monsieur le blanc | marie |
| rue pavee | seine |
| pullman porter | brutus |
| tortilla flat | california |
| "you never really understand a person...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." | atticus |
| "real courage" | atticus |
| "when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway" | atticus |
| enrique flores | cuba |
| galbis | cuba |
| alejo carpentier | magic |
| mohan | house for mr. biswas |
| in a free state | egypt |
| "a feline smell," | eliot |
| "saw the skull beneath the skin." | eliot |
| jaques | as you like it |
| jay-kez | as you like it |
| "a stage where every man must play a part" | merchant of |
| "thoroughgoing racist" | conrad |
| jean prouvaire | javert |
| enjolras | javert |
| "bastard of [this city]." | istanbul |
| armanoush | istanbul |
| asya | istanbul |
| learned what | pittsburgh |
| stool pigeon | pittsburgh |
| gem of the ocean | pittsburgh |
| radio golf | pittsburgh |
| canewell | pittsburgh |
| "rat." | murakami |
| alaska by michael chabon | yiddish |
| isaac singer | yiddish |
| "the whole world is growing smaller every day" | kafka |
| "you only need to change your direction" | kafka |
| "a little fable" | kafka |
| "the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence." | kafka |
| "i don't want to be a tree, i want to be its meaning." | istanbul |
| charles thomas wooldridge | ballad of |
| "creeping like a snail unwillingly to school." | seven ages of |
| "poor uncle" | claudius |
| "the stammerer." | claudius |
| "the god" | claudius |
| "i, [this man]." | claudius |
| dolphin hotel | murakami |
| "calcutec." | murakami |
| "olympian mixture" | claudius |
| "play the fool" | claudius |
| "when old age shall this generation waste" | grecian urn |
| "an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato" | ebenezer |
| bob cratchit | tim |
| "god bless us every one." | tim |
| "the god of my youth, the object, all my life long, of love and veneration" | mozart |
| fitz-norman | forrest |
| "river that goes curving, / advances and retreats." | stone |
| "audio-animatronics" | eco |
| pirates of the caribbean | eco |
| "a fantasy world more real than reality." | eco |
| "family size" | eco |
| "how to travel with a salmon." | eco |
| knights templar | eco |
| "old king log" | claudius |
| "withers quicker than the rose" | shropshire lad |
| laurel | shropshire lad |
| in an alejandra pizarnik | stone |
| "the bad light is near and nothing is real." | stone |
| "each is another and no other: / crossing and vanishing." | stone |
| "pillars of magic" | stone |
| "corridors of a dissolving autumn." | stone |
| "i go among your body as among the world" | stone |
| after valjean | drown |
| mead hall | hrothgar |
| duke of gloucester | edgar |
| "poly-deck-tees" | perseus |
| meek | dead |
| mictlan, quetzalcoatl | blood |
| "there'll be time enough for sleep" | shropshire lad |
| "the wood's in trouble" | shropshire lad |
| "does it stink like rotten meat?" | dream |
| mephistopheles, faust | goethe |
| dolokhov | mason |
| osip bazdeyev | mason |
| goddess | wheatley |
| "on the death of george whitefield" | elegy |
| phillis | elegy |
the good earth | pearl s. buck |
| hay fever | coward |
| love's whirlwind | coward |
| "barren field" | dream |
| "good morning, daddy! ain't you heard?" | dream |
| "keeper" | dream |
| "i, too" | dream |
| "crust[s] and sugar[s] over" | dream |
| "like a syrupy sweet" | dream |
| john woodbridge | bradstreet |
| "dear mother, fairest queen." | bradstreet |
| "strong foundation of proud babel" | bradstreet |
| "my pleasant things in ashes lie." | bradstreet |
| "whole mines of gold" | bradstreet |
| "all the riches the east doth hold" | bradstreet |
| jackie croyton | coward |
| "always" | coward |
| green town | something wicked |
| william halloway | something wicked |
| phineas fletcher | uncle tom's |
| yord | feet |
| "the road goes ever on" | tolkien |
| black speech | tolkien |
| "rule them all." | tolkien |
| haladdin | tolkien |
| poet in new york | lorca |
| kirill eskov | tolkien |
| book of lost tales | tolkien |
| "music of creation." | tolkien |
| "legendarium." | tolkien |
| operation shylock | jew |
| footnote to history | samoa |
| man and | shaw |
| "material counterpart" | pequod |
| "monomaniac soul." | pequod |
| "gold coin from quito" | pequod |
| "american wood." | pequod |
| peleg | pequod |
| "what angel is hidden in your cheek?" | lorca |
| "the dove and the leopard fought" | lorca |
| "a boy brought the white sheet." | lorca |
| kihika | ngugi |
| munira | ngugi |
| ilmorog | ngugi |
| "thank god!" | waugh |
| julia flyte | waugh |
| kurt | waugh |
| "red hell" | pequod |
| "into that blackness" | pequod |
| everything that rises must | o'connor |
| spielvogel | alex |
| alexander portnoy | roth |
| nathan zuckerman in the human stain | roth |
| university of leeds | ngugi |
| "that which bites you is in your own clothing." | ngugi |
| petals of blood | ngugi |
| warigia | ngugi |
| "flow to a sea of silence." | tagore |
| "ruler of the minds of all people" | tagore |
| kabir | tagore |
| ogre of endless tears | ngugi |
| cliffs of dover | peach |
| el pweeg | prison |
| marshals of france | alceste |
| "o thou my lovely boy" | sonnet |
| "fie fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow" | taming of the shrew |
| "come on and kiss me." | taming of the shrew |
| "wive it wealthily in padua" | taming of the shrew |
| "more obedient" | taming of the shrew |
| "god is within us." | tagore |
| "how to answer" | tagore |
| "you sit there smiling." | tagore |
| "into a single current" | tagore |
| "children...that old lie" | owen |
| "memory and desire." | bananafish |
| "sex is fun -- or hell" | bananafish |
| "a perfect day for" | bananafish |
| "eclipse himself" | cyrano |
| "thrust home!" | cyrano |
| "the best dream that ever i had in my life" | taming of the shrew |
| "bedazzled with the sun" | taming of the shrew |
| sophie zawitowska | holocaust |
| tawv | holocaust |
| wiesel | buchenwald |
| "colored queen who wears a kimono and plucks his eyebrows" | god |
| "a woman who cries with determination behind her closed door" | god |
| "liver cancer" | aids |
| cohn | ethel |
| "the tenderness of patient minds" | anthem for doomed |
| "human war" | ginsberg |
| "america two dollars and twentyseven cents." | ginsberg |
| "gone without corsets & eyes" | ginsberg |
| masago | akutagawa |
| sea witch | andersen |
| "up the the ladder of the earth...through the awful tangles of lost forests" | heights of macchu |
| "my friend" | heights of macchu |
| "the liberators" | canto general |
| "beasts of england" | pig |
| old major | pig |
| "four legs good, two legs bad." | pig |
| "thigh with a horn in it" | spain |
| "five o'clock." | spain |
| "ignacio's blood in the ring." | spain |
| "brother square-toes" | kipling |
| "when it comes to slaughter / you will do your work on water" | kipling |
| major kovalev | nose |
| "immortal hand or eye." | blake |
| "ragnarok." | borges |
| "lacking a common memory" | borges |
| "the sect of the phoenix." | borges |
| "death and the compass" | borges |
| artifices | borges |
| "black into white" | pig |
| "when in disgrace with fortune" | sonnet |
| polyeidos | athena |
| yomi | izanagi |
| kagu-tsuchi | fir |
| "man delights not me; no, nor woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so." | what a piece of work is |
| tragic episode | gilbert |
| three tabloids | gilbert |
| rosencrantz and guildenstern | gilbert |
| "initiation," | hero |
| "return." | hero |
| "with a thousand faces." | hero |
| " examples of these people often have a hamartia, or fatal flaw, that leads to their downfall. morally gray characters are called the " | hero |
| gloomy | hero |
| "the eyes of the panther." | bierce |
| "skilled in circumvention of the law." | bierce |
| "the hapless soldiers sigh" | blake |
| day magazine in new york | bell jar |
| "a duck-sized horse." | caged bird |
| madame lebrun | caged bird |
| "i know why [what animal] sings?" | caged bird |
| "there never was a body that [gave] the undertaker a tip" | o'connor |
| "open his soul beyond terror" | hero |
| "abyss" | hero |
| "atonement with the father." | hero |
| bliss hickman | adam |
| tiberinus | janus |
| juturna | turnus |
| "portrait plays" | ibsen |
| heinrich boll | billiard |
| "you prob'ly must have heard of" | bell jar |
| lenny shepherd | bell jar |
| thirty best short stories of the year | bell jar |
| "the earth's name is juan" | canto general |
| "concerned with a rather strictly defined, clinical version of truth" | pisces |
| slothrop | pisces |
| "ever the stars above look down / on thy stars below in" | frederick |
| when rabbit | marty tothero |
| ras the destroyer | invisible man |
| "an extravagance of laughter," | ellison |
| going to the territory | ellison |
| "will soon be engaged," | collins |
| fordyce | collins |
| maurice bavaud | tell |
| aegidius tschudi | tell |
| baron of attinghausen | tell |
| "i promise to stand still" | tell |
| "mopping and mowing" | goblin |
| "stood, / like a lily in a flood" | goblin |
| "solely to avoid looking a fool" | "shooting an elephant" |
"shooting an elephant" | orwell |
| orwell | coolie |
| t | night of |
| though reverend shannon | episcopal |
| call of the wild in the yukon | london |
| "pink elephants," | john barleycorn |
| macomb | dill |
| "if i can stop one heart from breaking, i shall not live in vain." | dickinson |
"hit a world at every plunge" | funeral ("i felt a funeral, in my brain") |
"the congo" | vachel lindsay |
| george 's | salvation army |
| "what all schoolchildren learn / those to whom evil is done / do evil in return" | september 1, 1939 |
| "musee de beaux-arts [myoo-zay day boh-zart] arts" | auden |
| "sick-or-axe" | tempest |
| stanley webber in the birthday party | pinter |
| "[his] foe outstretched" | blake |
| "brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" | aristophanes |
| lothar | clara |
| "two folds of crepe" | veil |
| tom foster | winesburg |
| helen white | winesburg |
| curtis hartman | kate |
| j.b | macleish |
| rodo | uruguay |
| "and the maiden," | death |
| in mel | what we talk about when we talk about love |
| nathan englander | frank |
| "what we talk about when we talk about anne frank" | new yorker |
| john hersey | new yorker |
| warning for fair women | elizabeth i |
| mary arden | shakespeare |
| "so gay ever glancing ever changing" | wordsworth |
| "dear, dear sister" | wordsworth |
| "steep woods and lofty cliffs" | wordsworth |
| "impress / thoughts of more deep seclusion." | wordsworth |
| river wye | wordsworth |
| "moments of great tension." | william of baskerville |
| gallery of prospero | rodo |
| history of a troubled life | uruguay |
| "market" | goblin |
| "i am taking this only so that you do not think you have failed to do anything." | trial |
| "assigned only to you. i'm going now to close it" | trial |
| "lowliest gatekeeper." | trial |
| meme | buendia |
| "weak and degenerate brain." | miss julie |
| "man-hating half-woman" | miss julie |
| "gave me eyes, gave me ears; / and humble cares, and delicate fears." | wordsworth |
| "would not open lip from lip" | goblin |
| "gold upon [her] head" | goblin |
| "mossy glen" | goblin |
| "we must not look at" | goblin |
| "rat's pace" | goblin |
| "cat's face" | goblin |
| "morning and evening" | goblin |
| "apples and quinces, lemons and oranges." | goblin |
| gikuyu | ngugi |
| his odes | horace |
| "war is sweet to them who know it not." | pindar |
| "the shawl." | ozick |
| in ozick | concentration camp |
| "dictation," | concentration camp |
| great railway bazaar | theroux |
| "the mongoose," | naipaul |
| "christmas won't be christmas without any presents," | alcott |
| amy march in little women | alcott |
| fruitlands | alcott |
| "organization for modern theft and robbery" | ngugi |
| devil on the cross | ngugi |
| district officer robson | ngugi |
| kihika in the mau mau rebellion | ngugi |
| karanja | ngugi |
| "sexless" | du maurier |
| "monte verita" | du maurier |
| "don't look now" | du maurier |
| nat hocken | du maurier |
| "in a gentlemanly manner" | alcott |
| john matteson | alcott |
| peyton thomas | alcott |
| transcendental wild oats | alcott |
| as you like it in the forest of arden | shakespeare |
| four prentices of london | heywood |
| woman killed with kindness | heywood |
| letters by captain walton | frankenstein |
| elizabeth on an arctic | frankenstein |
| felix de lacey | frankenstein |
| "one thing" | decameron |
| "ageless," | du maurier |
| sound of music by the orangedrink lemondrink man | roy |
| jeanette winterson | frankenstein |
| cornelius agrippa | frankenstein |
| "sad trash." | frankenstein |
| turkishwoman safie | frankenstein |
| villa diodati | frankenstein |
| "year without a summer." | frankenstein |
| "munich mannequins." | ariel |
| "lilacs," | chopin |
| "disappeared among the reeds and willows" | chopin |
| "will never know... his mother." | chopin |
| "body and soul free" | chopin |
| adrienne | chopin |
| "final act of betrayal by a ruling class that has failed its people" | roy |
| "the end of imagination." | roy |
| "old roses" | roy |
| rescue in malaysia | conrad |
| jolyon | galsworthy |
| galsworthy | stevenson |
| "tulips" | ariel |
| panurge | rabelais |
| "the angel of the central committee" | neruda |
| "from air to air, as through an empty net" | neruda |
| "arise to birth with me, my brother." | neruda |
| "once he liked humans; / how long ago this was!" | naipaul |
| "the classics can console. but not enough." | naipaul |
| auguste villiers | axel |
| "light, hope, and life." | axel |
| de l'isle-adam | axel |
| sara de maupers | axel |
| professional foul | stoppard |
| an outcast of the islands | conrad |
| ridiculous precieuses | moliere |
| paul pennyfeather | oxford |
| bollinger club | oxford |
| "the lady, or the tiger?" | stockton |
| johnny corkscrew | sword |
| "the misfit." | sammy |
| "three girls in nothing but bathing suits" | a&p |
| "stomach kind of fell as i felt how hard the world was going to be." | a&p |
| maud bailey | possession |
| james blackadder | possession |
| christabel lamotte | possession |
| cropper | possession |
| "mr. sludge, 'the medium'" | browning |
| george murchison | beneatha |
| artamene | scudery |
| de scudery | moliere |
| "found" | songs of innocence and |
| "the little black boy" | songs of innocence and |
| learned to drive | vogel |
| vogel | indecent |
| mortimer cropper | ash |
| great ventriloquist | ash |
| fairy melusine | ash |
| roland michell | possession |
| "war is god." | holden |
| judge holden | blood meridian |
| "the kid" | blood meridian |
| heinrich von kleist | marquise of o |
| kleist | romantic |
| james mcauley | malley |
| "bush poets" | australia |
| lyca | lost |
| "fairies' midwife" | mab |
| mercutio in romeo | mab |
| "billingsgates" | rabelais |
| "folk laughter." | rabelais |
| "carnivalesque" | rabelais |
| "do what thou wilt." | rabelais |
| oracle of the golden bottle | rabelais |
| frank raymond leavis | leavis |
| ladies of grace adieu | mab |
| "philosophical poem" | mab |
| "breaches, ambuscadoes, spanish blades" | mab |
| "plaits the manes of horses." | mab |
| "drums in [a soldier's] ear," | mab |
| "starts and wakes... swears a prayer or two and sleeps again." | mab |
| "whip of cricket's bone" | mab |
| "little atomies" | mab |
| martha in edward albee | george |
| frenchman alec therien | walden |
| ellery channing | walden |
| "brute neighbors" | walden |
| "economy" | walden |
| venetia moore | mab |
| captain fox | mab |
| susanna clarke | mab |
| duke of ephesus | solinus |
| egeon of syracuse | solinus |
| hans jakob christoffel | simplicius simplicissimus |
| "alienation effects in chinese theatre" | brecht |
| duessa | knight |
| archimago | knight |
| "i will not give up berlin!" | george |
| "humiliate the host" | george |
| maubert isabeau | bread |
| "beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs" | bierce |
| "shot to rags" | bierce |
| william benton | bierce |
| word book | bierce |
| colt .44 | bierce |
| house of busyrane | knight |
| "not too bold," | knight |
| "you seem to be displaying signs of triviality." | ernest |
| "bunburyist" | ernest |
| "in town and jack in the country" | ernest |
| "the importance of being" | ernest |
| chasuble | ernest |
| cecily and gwendolen | ernest |
| dusters | tin drum |
| herta muller | bread |
| "human moments in world war iii" | delillo |
| willie mink | nun |
| "unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend, and of the curveship lend a myth to god." | bridge |
| neo-gothic bridge | brooklyn |
| "faux-sicilian cyclops" | quevedo |
| "farts sing like sirens." | quevedo |
| "has a music of its own" | ernest |
| "produces vibrations." | ernest |
| "the words on the page" | leavis |
| john crowe ransom | leavis |
| r. leavis | leavis |
| "by choice... made themselves immune" | insensibility |
| "whatever shares the eternal reciprocity of tears." | insensibility |
| "happy are men who yet before they are killed can let their veins run cold." | insensibility |
| "human moments" | world war iii |
| colorado command | world war iii |
| "lawful wife" | chekhov |
| "mistress." | chekhov |
| "hard, gemlike" | flame |
| "is success in life." | flame |
| in urn burial | flame |
| "life is a pure" | flame |
| "and we live by an invisible sun within us." | flame |
| "the girls in their summer dresses." | shaw |
| billy kwan | koch |
| cookie | koch |
| baby kochamma | roy |
| delphin slade | roman fever |
| lilly sabina | antrobus |
| "our town." | wilder |
| prozorov | three sisters |
| "women never forgive failures." | konstantin |
| his dark materials | pullman |
| pramoedya ananta toer | indonesia |
| mood | indonesia |
| ananta toor | indonesia |
| earth of mankind | indonesia |
| buru quartet | indonesia |
| max havelaar | indonesia |
| jill bryant | koch |
| house of pride | knight |
| bower of bliss | knight |
| "redcrosse" | knight |
| fairie queene | knight |
| radigund | knight |
| el buscon | spain |
| loiseau | chicken |
| lyra belacqua | pullman |
| "in deserts, where no men abide," | rose |
| "must have uncommended died" | rose |
| "go, lovely" | rose |
| "newly sprung in june" | rose |
| "confrontation is largely metaphysical" | death and the king's horseman |
| "clash of cultures." | death and the king's horseman |
| "eater of left-overs." | death and the king's horseman |
| praise singer | death and the king's horseman |
| "saltmother" | paz |
| "daughter of fire, spirit of fire." | paz |
| "that never dreams" | paz |
| "madrid, 1937" | paz |
| "salamander." | paz |
| eliot weinberger | paz |
| nineteen ways of looking at wang wei | paz |
| "this is the royal bed." | rose |
| "hurled from a considerable height" | forster |
| "the machine stops" | forster |
| "the celestial omnibus" | forster |
| cecil vyse | forster |
| vashti | forster |
| "a word once sent abroad can never return." | horace |
| "weighty openings" | horace |
| "purple patches" | horace |
| quiet city | shaw |
| "hangs over every american typewriter." | fitzgerald |
| like fitzgerald | dick |
| tender | dick |
| "line-up for yesterday" | nash |
| "r is for ruth, to tell you the truth, there's just no more to be said, just r is for ruth." | nash |
| "dandy, but liquor is quicker." | candy |
| "homelessness." | forster |
against interpretation | sontag |
| "the monkey," | singer |
| "beautiful riverbank" | blanche |
| "beautiful dream" | blanche |
| "cold-wetness" | seafarer |
| "amen." | seafarer |
| "erect" | riddle |
| "hairy" | riddle |
| max morden | banville |
| iris murdoch | ireland |
| john banville | ireland |
| "he / whom every man in arms should wish to be." | happy warrior |
| "the character of the happy warrior" | nelson |
| c. s. forester's | nelson |
| hornblower | nelson |
| volcano lover | sontag |
| the prince de ligne | casanova |
| the histoire de ma vie | casanova |
| embers | marai |
| "wits" | barlow |
| "vision of" | hartford |
| "mariner who first unfurl'd an eastern banner over the western world" | hartford |
| under the net | murdoch |
| sovereignty of good | murdoch |
| "i think that i shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree." | kilmer |
| "like a buttercup / upon its branching stem." | asphodel, that greeny flower |
| melanie klein | ring |
| athenian new comedy | menander |
| dyskolos | menander |
| matter and memory | bergson |
| love in a fallen city | chang |
| "pour new seas in mine eyes... and burn me o lord, with a fiery zeal / of thee and thy house, which doth in eating heal." | i am a little world made cunningly |
| bureau of fisheries | carson |
| reeds in the wind | italian |
| grazia deledda | italian |
| lu ling | tan |
| vi to viii of don juan | malaprop |
| marquis of londonderry | malaprop |
| "could not speak english" | malaprop |
| "paradise of bachelors" | massachusetts |
| "a lovely road that runs from ixopo into the hills." | cry, the beloved country |
| arthur jarvis by absalom | cry, the beloved country |
| carisbrooke | cry, the beloved country |
| "meaning of so tiny a being as the [...] sea lace." | carson |
| dorothy freeman | carson |
| "strange blight" | carson |
| "white granular powder" | carson |
| national book award for the sea around us | carson |
| "our own heart exceeds us" | duino elegies |
| "think of the hands / how they rest without weight." | duino elegies |
| "the emotion / that almost dismays us, / when a joyful thing falls." | duino elegies |
| "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 |
| "author's note" | cry, the beloved country |
| "was begun in trondheim and finished in san francisco" | cry, the beloved country |
| "penal and correctional institutions." | cry, the beloved country |
| robert musil | austria |
| elaine castillo | bulosan |
| freedom from want | bulosan |
| hrothgar | grendel |
| "our court" | lear's daughters |
| "more like a tavern or a brothel," | lear's daughters |
| "tis his own blame... and must needs taste his folly," | lear's daughters |
| "serpent's tooth" | lear's daughters |
| "the howl of the loser, the lament of the hell-serf." | grendel |
| "had an accident. so may you all" | grendel |
| "monstrous hell-bride" | grendel |
| hall heorot | grendel |
| shieldings | grendel |
| in enemies of promise | crabbe |
| the village | crabbe |
| "the fall of rome." | auden |
| "has been through it" | saint-exupery |
| wadi el natrun | saint-exupery |
| flight to arras | saint-exupery |
| wind, sand | saint-exupery |
| brick lane | bengali |
| broken nest | bengali |
| gitanjali by rabindranath tagore | bengali |
| the and the home and the world | bengali |
"furioso" | orlando |
| "humanism" | ariosto |
| "complaint book," | calvino |
| "smiling, lifeless man" | road |
| "old broken-down pier" | road |
| "holy goof." | road |
| old bull lee | road |
| "dreams and hopes for the future" | saint-exupery |
| tartarus of maids | massachusetts |
| "the town-ho's story" | harper's |
| "a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again" | harper's |
| "hothouse on the roof" | banana |
| achtung | tyrone |
| varts | gravity's rainbow |
"00000" | gravity's rainbow |
| "innamorato." | orlando |
| anna barbauld | priestley |
| "the mouse's petition" | priestley |
| "pensive prisoner's prayer" | priestley |
| birling | priestley |
| john betjeman | wyatt |
| "diary of a country mouse" | wyatt |
| "a crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine" | washington |
| "celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light." | washington |
| paris review | plimpton |
| "participatory novels," | plimpton |
| paper lion | plimpton |
| detroit lions | plimpton |
| exit ghost | roth |
| george plimpton | roth |
| death in the afternoon | bull |
| ursus | bull |
| benito perez galdos | fortunata and jacinta |
| "wives" | fortunata and jacinta |
| jake | madrid |
| in perez galdos | blind |
| sadiku | baroka |
| "animal" | lion and the jewel |
| nigerian nobel | soyinka |
| lorin stein | paris review |
| ian mcewan | atonement |
| briony | atonement |
| lola | atonement |
| confession of a white widowed male | humbert |
| siege of namur | toby |
| "lillibullero," | toby |
| "argumentum fistulatorium." | toby |
| "i knew him... a fellow of infinite jest." | alas, poor yorick |
| "what the book is about" | gordimer |
| "what happened to" | gordimer |
| katya bagnelli in nice | gordimer |
| bernard chabalier | gordimer |
| pickup | gordimer |
| "i have lit my treasured candles, / one by one, to hallow this night" | poem without a hero |
| "what have poets, in any case, to do with sin?" | poem without a hero |
| "hateful things" | pillow book |
| "fifth dimension." | margarita |
| latunsky | margarita |
| "little round hole in the red-earth wall" | things fall apart |
| "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 |
| "the pacification of the primitive tribes," | things fall apart |
| ezeudu | things fall apart |
| etheredge | gambling |
| dulcinea del toboso | don quixote |
| marie celeste | doyle |
| harry houdini | doyle |
| "the giant rat of sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared," | doyle |
| "abandon" | margarita |
| madam tofana | margarita |
| apartment no | margarita |
| death valley | mcteague |
| sheppey | maugham |
| man of mode | fopling |
| "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" | congreve |
| millamant in the way of the world | congreve |
| mirabell | congreve |
| alexei ivanovich in a dostoyevsky | gambling |
| hermann in a pushkin | gambling |
| "peter quint--you devil!" | james |
| m.r | james |
| "partial magic" | don quixote |
| "second part," | don quixote |
| "third sally." | don quixote |
| cide hamete benengeli | don quixote |
| "a difficult interval for a poet." | stein |
| "i know that i shall meet my fate" | death |
| "blues." | reservation |
| louise erdrich | reservation |
| love medicine | reservation |
| absolutely true diary | reservation |
| lone ranger | reservation |
| tonto fistfight in heaven | reservation |
| reardan | reservation |
| spencer brydon | james |
| "after homer and before" | stein |
| ardua hall holograph | gilead |
| "jezebel's." | gilead |
| ada | gilead |
| colonies | gilead |
| "for you, a thousand times over!" | kite |
| "runner" | kite |
| saifo | kite |
| "things of beauty." | pillow book |
| rigleys | chrysanthemum |
| malabar | rocking-horse winner |
| my country | duffy |
| peter kien | canetti |
| constant reader | parker |
| "the only secret people keep / is immortality." | dickinson |
| ancash | dickinson |
| "mortal coil" | be |
| "i could be a good woman if i had five thousand a year." | becky |
| william makepeace thackeray | becky |
| "rather exaggerated" | overcoat |
| "strictness, strictness, and always strictness!" | overcoat |
| "trifling" | overcoat |
| person of consequence | overcoat |
| petrovich 150 rubles | overcoat |
| "came in from the cold," | spy |
| "studied to be a pastor of souls" | brecht |
| "silent scream" | brecht |
| "alienation effect" | brecht |
| "the rhodora" | be |
| "beauty is its own excuse for" | be |
| "finale of seem." | be |
| "the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns." | be |
| "frank sinatra has a cold." | esquire |
| james lingk | ricky |
| lingk | ricky |
| "shiva handed him a million dollars." | patel |
| aaronow | patel |
| julie charles | lake |
| james wormold | spy |
| george smiley | spy |
| menaechmi | plautus |
| pyrgopolynices | soldier |
| philocomasium | soldier |
| labrax | rope |
| "i am the master of my fate; i am the captain of my soul." | invictus |
| "pro rege nostro," | henley |
"invictus" | henley |
| "under the bludgeonings of chance / my head is" | bloody, but unbowed |
| hermetic order of the golden dawn | yeats |
| "fifteen apparitions have i seen; the worst a coat upon a coat-hanger." | yeats |
| "decrepit age that has been tied to me / as to a dog's tail." | yeats |
| "fastened to a dying animal." | yeats |
| "benign indifference of the universe" | camus |
| "howls of execration" | camus |
| "crowd of spectators." | camus |
| "the growing stone" | camus |
| "streak of bad luck" | outcasts of poker |
| piney woods | outcasts of poker |
| "mending" | wall |
| moustique | walcott |
| tigre | walcott |
| "stranger-god." | death in venice |
| "sirocco." | death in venice |
| alistair crowley | yeats |
| hansbach | journey to the center |
| center of the earth | verne |
| journey | verne |
| "of fred" | handmaid's tale |
| "what is" | grass |
| in a carl sandburg | grass |
| "i am large. i contain" | multitudes |
| stumpy | thomas |
| "baby nicole." | gilead |
| roberto saviano | naples |
| graziella | naples |
| gomorrah | naples |
| william langland | piers plowman |
| piers plowman | passus |
| langland | pearl |
| hyde park gates news | woolf |
| "captured" | petrarch |
| "lovely eyes" | petrarch |
| "sun's ray / was darkened." | petrarch |
| "how many flowers have fallen" | tang |
| "four paragons" | tang |
| "complete" | tang |
| "three hundred" | tang |
| "rumble and roll" | tang |
| "vowels." | rimbaud |
| "was indifferent to all crews" | rimbaud |
| "no longer felt [itself] guided by haulers." | rimbaud |
| "die in peaceful harbor," | petrarch |
| "if my stay / was vain, let my vanishing, at least, be virtuous." | petrarch |
| "vain hope and vain sadness," | petrarch |
| "the world's delight is a brief dream." | petrarch |
| "prayer to the virgin" | petrarch |
| tay-nard-yayz | cosette |
| happars | typee |
| tommo | whale |
| alvaro | rose |
| rose tattoo | williams |
| japhy ryder | dharma bums |
| desolation angels | dharma bums |
| desolation peak | dharma bums |
| raymond sintes | camus |
| "lamplighter" | spy |
| toby esterhase | spy |
| captain segura | spy |
| "i heard he was lying helpless, and so i came up--took my chance." | russia |
| matzerath | three |
| marius pontmercy | cosette |
| thenardiers | cosette |
| "just take his head off outside." | queen of hearts |
| mad hatter in alice | carroll |
| pygmalion and arms | shaw |
| in arms | bulgaria |
| raina | bulgaria |
| james fitz | lady of the lake |
| "hail to the chief" | lady of the lake |
| "the seven voyages of sinbad the sailor" | thousand and |
| leader of the home rule league | parnell |
| henchard | mayor of |
| susan henchard | elizabeth-jane |
| newark public library | "goodbye |
| "aryan [" | daddy |
| "-yun] eye" | daddy |
| "one gray toe / big as a frisco seal." | daddy |
| "with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other" | hatter |
| rick telander | basketball |
| brooklyn in heaven | basketball |
| playground | basketball |
| "the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven" | alexie |
| plin | manticore |
| teucer | ajax |
| teth | oceanus |
| titanomachy | oceanus |
| "he would be king on it." | isle |
| "thousand twangling instruments," | isle |
| "full of noises, / sounds and sweet airs." | isle |
| "beauteous" | isle |
| "worm, colonel of carrion" | walcott |
| "waste no compassion on these separate dead!" | walcott |
| "the hearth and" | salamander |
| "she should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word." | to-morrow, and |
| "black velvety jacket of brilliant flies" | rimbaud |
| "accursed poets." | rimbaud |
| "a black, e white, i red, u green, o blue" | rimbaud |
| pierpont mauler | joan |
| "that things cannot be otherwise than as they are" | pangloss |
| in jewett | maine |
| "accomplish[ing] nothing and arriv[ing] in air." | deerslayer |
| "floating tom" | deerslayer |
| "dread[s] being awakened from the happiest dream" | emma |
| "three dull things" | emma |
| "one of the few people who could see faults" | emma |
| "a world in decay," | rashomon |
| penguin classics | rashomon |
| "crimson lacquer," | rashomon |
| "forehead itching red torments" | rimbaud |
| "the lice searchers." | rimbaud |
| "the hardest, the most complicated part was only just beginning." | chekhov |
| "the lower race," | chekhov |
| lopakhin by madame ranevskaya | chekhov |
| von dideritz | chekhov |
| "two words," | allende |
| huberto naranjo | allende |
| jean de satigny | allende |
| blanca | allende |
| "ali baba and the forty thieves" | thousand and |
| "aladdin's wonderful lamp" | thousand and |
| juan dahlmann | south |
| "die-dough" | virgil |
| anatole france | penguin island |
| marbodius | penguin island |
| quincy morris | helsing |
| "grey-haired" | chekhov |
| "terrible change for the worse." | helsing |
| "md, d.ph., d.lit., etc., etc." | helsing |
| "bloofer lady" | helsing |
| clive durham | maurice |
| alec scudder | maurice |
| vaska | lower depths |
| kostilyoff | lower depths |
| uncle reed | red room |
| "inexperience" | kundera |
| "sixty-three words." | kundera |
| art of the novel | kundera |
| "lost letters" | kundera |
| "war on kitsch" | kundera |
| "radiantly beautiful" | helsing |
| "soul wail." | helsing |
| "good spirits" | helsing |
| "children afraid of the night." | auden |
| "prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone" | auden |
| book of disquiet | portuguese |
| "heteronyms." | portuguese |
| "tell whoso hath sorrow / grief never shall last" | scheherazade |
| "ebony horse" | scheherazade |
| antoine galland | scheherazade |
| "the planet of inexperience" | kundera |
| hutter | deerslayer |
| nick adams | hemingway |
| "debt we pay to human guile" | dunbar |
| "shoot straight" | brooks |
| artful dodger | handkerchief |
| charley bates | handkerchief |
| "if equal affection cannot be, / let the more loving one be me." | auden |
| "of eros and of dust" | auden |
| david hawkes | dream of the red chamber |
| "much trouble," | cloud |
| "goddesses for the lazy" | cloud |
| "cuckoo land?" | cloud |
| "nights of insult let you pass / watched by every human love" | auden |
| "rest your sleeping head, my love, / human on my faithless arm." | auden |
| "looking up at the stars" | auden |
| act i of 's othello | venice |
| "amazons." | elizabeth |
| romney in florence | elizabeth |
| margaret hale | elizabeth |
| "i shall but love thee better after death." | elizabeth |
| cranford | elizabeth |
| gaskell | elizabeth |
| "maimed," | dream of the red chamber |
| "-ology," | dream of the red chamber |
| lay dying in mississippi | faulkner |
| boon hogganbeck | reivers |
| ned mccaslin to memphis | reivers |
| miss corrie | reivers |
| jeremy | alchemist |
| "yew-uhl" | to kill a mockingbird |
| signor brunoni | elizabeth |
| captain brown | elizabeth |
| "tonight i can write [these compositions]" | saddest lines |
| "laughed his joy" | anyone |
| "cried his grief" | anyone |
| "is no parenthesis." | death |
| kansas city to new york | american |
| "trainor, the druggist" | spoon river anthology |
| onnie jay holy | wise blood |
| anse bundren | as i lay |
| "the curious case of benjamin button" | fitzgerald |
| therese fowler's | fitzgerald |
| "must enter again... the synagogue of the ear of corn" | thomas |
| "after the first death, there is no other." | thomas |
| "[this body part] and ideal" | spleen |
| ahn-wee | spleen |
| "like oars" | albatross |
| mary hartley fitch | the sea, the |
| "on which she embroidered fantails once." | stevens |
| "let the boys bring flowers in last month's newspapers" | stevens |
| "cease, gentle muse!" | wheatley |
| "s.m.a." | wheatley |
| "muse! bow propitious while my pen relates" | wheatley |
| "in bright array they seek the work of war." | wheatley |
| "one does not always marry when insane," | bierce |
| hildegarde moncrief | fitzgerald |
| anton chigurh | no country for old |
| pulitzer prize for fiction for the amazing adventures of kavalier | chabon |
| pish | immortal |
| "all good things are wild and free" | thoreau |
| "all voting" | thoreau |
| "sort of gaming" | thoreau |
| "supple and turbulent, a ring of men" | stevens |
| "not as a god, but as a god might be." | stevens |
| no name in the street | baldwin |
| "very bad novel" | uncle tom's |
| "many thousands gone" | bigger |
| mosquito inlet light | open |
| tees | our man in |
| our man | greene |
| alden pyle in vietnam | quiet american |
| llewelyn moss | no country for old |
| edward malone to south america | challenger |
| land of mist | doyle |
| john watson in doyle | sherlock |
| "it's between the two of us now!" | balzac |
| mulk raj anand | bloomsbury |
| henry drummond | inherit the wind |
| golden dancer | inherit the wind |
| bertram cates | inherit the wind |
| guatemalan nobel | asturias |
| marcos jimenez in the autumn of the patriarch | garcia |
| "get thee to a nunnery" | ophelia |
| polonius | ophelia |
| "from her fair and unpolluted flesh." | violet |
| "i know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows" | oberon |
| "the steadfast tin soldier" | andersen |
| "i, too, dislike it." | poetry |
| kaht | decameron |
| nee bohk--choh | decameron |
| gemmata | dioneo |
| gottfried lessing | ring |
| angel face | senor |
| colonel sonriente | senor |
| sohn-ree-en-tay | senor |
| el senor presidente | asturias |
| lucky jim | amis |
| london fields | amis |
| corner in westminster | owen |
| white goddess | frazer |
| golden bough | frazer |
| tahn | midsummer night's |
| tih | midsummer night's |
| "the course of true love never did run smooth" | lysander |
| the pilot | cooper |
| scott's waverley | cooper |
| "play for voices" | under milk wood |
| absalom kumalo | paton |
| cry, the | paton |
| long walk to freedom | mandela |
| paton | mandela |
| helen macdonald | united kingdom |
| "so, ye three ghosts, adieu!" | odes |
| love, ambition | odes |
| poesy | odes |
| "moonlight before his bed" | li bai |
| "married at fourteen" | li bai |
| "eastward i go only by force; but westward i go free" | thoreau |
| john adolphus etzler | thoreau |
| "great measure responsible" | scott |
| "devil's" | dictionary |
| merriam-webster | dictionary |
| "portrait of the artist as a young dog." | thomas |
| michael caine | thomas |
| interstellar | thomas |
| "the woods decay.." | tennyson |
| "after many a summer dies a swan." | tennyson |
| "tis better to have loved and lost // than to never have loved at all." | tennyson |
| rachel brown | inherit the wind |
| "when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter" | dream of the red chamber |
| olympia press | golden lotus |
| "little tragedies" | mozart |
| "every gentleman in the south a major or colonel" | scott |
| "received ideas." | dictionary |
| "cynics," | dictionary |
| "a temporary insanity curable by marriage," | dictionary |
| "i've stayed in the front yard all my life." | brooks |
| "if i poisoned the beginnings of your breaths, / believe that even in my deliberateness i was not deliberate." | brooks |
| avram brankovich | dictionary |
| yusuf masudi | dictionary |
| milorad pavic | dictionary |
| "the khazars." | dictionary |
| "for esme - with love and squalor" | bananafish |
| slow learner | pynchon |
| formula 86 | dahl |
| bucket | dahl |
| huchette theater | ionesco |
| "forest" | ionesco |
| bobby watsons | ionesco |
| "always wears her hair in the same style." | ionesco |
| broadside press | brooks |
| "a girl gets sick of a rose" | brooks |
| greta gerwig | little women |
| merry's museum | little women |
| a. m. barnard | little women |
| chaim soutine | dahl |
| "man from the south." | dahl |
| mary maloney | dahl |
| great glass elevator | dahl |
| grandpa joe | dahl |
| dorothy wordsworth | united kingdom |
| goshawk | peregrine |
| the once and | peregrine |
| "i love you more than words can wield the matter." | king lear |
| "out, vile jelly" | blind |
| "what must be said" | israel |
| sergeant x | esme |
| geraldine brooks | little women |
| pierre bayle | lisbon |
| "what is, is right." | lisbon |
| after a batavian | lisbon |
| "not respecting universal reason." | lisbon |
| jacques the anabaptist | lisbon |
| don issachar | lisbon |
| in the damask drum | mask |
| plumfield academy | little women |
| "it would have been too dark--too dark altogether" | kurtz |
| "the intended." | kurtz |
| "wider than the sky." | brain |
| "boots of lead... lift a box / and creak across my soul" | brain |
| "the author to her book" | brain |
| "feeble" | brain |
| "mourners to and fro" | brain |
| "a drum / kept beating" | brain |
| zami | lorde |
| "the true story of ah q." | lu |
| "kong yiji" | china |
| sara coleridge | ode to a nightingale |
| count of st | queen of spades |
| "wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him." | kurtz |
| "there was nothing either above or below" | kurtz |
| "had kicked himself loose of the earth." | kurtz |
| "faithless harlot" | against the day |
| yashmeen harlot | against the day |
| bella kurnitz in a neil simon | yonkers |
| camoes | lusiads |
| camoes prize | saramago |
| blindness | saramago |
| "the black unicorn" | lorde |
| new spelling of my name | lorde |
| "into nine levels" | dickey |
| "buckdancer's choice." | dickey |
| deliverance | dickey |
| anwar in a mahfouz | assassination |
| aravind adiga | assassination |
| elwan | assassination |
| randa | assassination |
| torquilstone castle | ivanhoe |
| county mayo | ireland |
| synge | ireland |
| bessie burgess | plough and the stars |
| jack clitheroe | plough and the stars |
| irish citizen army | plough and the stars |
| vernon halliday | amsterdam |
| clive linley | amsterdam |
| sylvia plath to frieda hughes | mother |
| "mizu no oto" | frog |
| "sound of water" | frog |
| ludovico technique | clockwork orange |
| unlimited dream company | ballard |
| "throb of heart divine" | poe |
| eureka | poe |
| chemical essays | roderick |
| "sentience of all vegetable things" | roderick |
| la bete | train |
| la lison | train |
| in a patricia highsmith | train |
| charles anthony bruno | train |
| guy haines | train |
| humaine | train |
| this haibun travelogue | narrow road to the deep north |
| saigyo | narrow road to the deep north |
| george cram cook | provincetown players |
| square theatre | iceman cometh |
| don parritt | iceman cometh |
| "hwaet!" | beowulf |
| "listen!" | beowulf |
| "where now the horse and the rider?" | tolkien |
| edoras | tolkien |
| dieter | hitler |
| "far-reaching singleness" | larkin |
| "the strength and the pain / of being young." | larkin |
| philip sidney | larkin |
| "plain as a wardrobe" | larkin |
| "i work all day, and get half-drunk at night." | larkin |
| "between the end of the chatterley ban / and the beatles' first lp." | larkin |
| "knew to my veins and glands as a child." | petersburg |
| cape cod to greenwich village | provincetown players |
| "tamam shud" | rubaiyat |
| "who is the potter, pray, and who the pot?" | rubaiyat |
| "wilderness were paradise enow" | rubaiyat |
| "air of the dream" | house |
| "two beautiful elm trees" | house |
| "have a thing in the ground" | house |
| willy loman in an arthur miller | house |
| "hardness and the brightness and the plain" | larkin |
| waverly novels | scott |
| brother lawrence | spain |
| part of speech | brodsky |
| "elegy to john donne." | brodsky |
| nicholas branch | kennedy |
| "hit" | kennedy |
| ted sorensen | kennedy |
| "one thing at least is certain, light has weight," | rubaiyat |
| "existential hero" | kennedy |
| magid | islam |
| leah, felix | nw |
| keisha | nw |
| awol in rome | john |
| korn | john |
| cathcart | john |
| "only once" | aarfy |
| overlords | clarke |
| "two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication" | seal |
| "i shall not die of a cough." | seal |
| "yes, for the love of god!" | seal |
| "thousand injuries of fortunato." | seal |
| "the black cat" | seal |
| nora ephron | kennedy |
| "i was probably the only person... that [this man] had not made a pass at" | kennedy |
| obinze | adichie |
| "night, street, lamp, drugstore" | russian |
| "black night / white snow" | russian |
| "today i have much to do: i must kill off memory." | russian |
| "the twelve," | russian |
| silver age | russian |
| lady pole | clarke |
| "the sentinel," | clarke |
| "the airborne toxic event." | white noise |
| the-college | white noise |
| ariosto | orlando |
| in orlando furioso | ruggiero |
| bradamante | ruggiero |
| "yes, there's a problem with gender... and we must fix it," | adichie |
| "raceteenth," | adichie |
| "we should all be feminists" | adichie |
| arthur symons | city in the sea |
| "the viol, the violet, and the vine" | city in the sea |
| "resignedly beneath the sky / the melancholy waters lie." | city in the sea |
| "guy de maupassant." | babel |
| benya krik | babel |
| odessa tales | babel |
| cleveland wrecking company | brautigan |
| farragut | nautilus |
| "mendacity" | big daddy |
| suddenly last summer | lobotomy |
| venable | lobotomy |
| catharine | lobotomy |
| "flung roses, roses riotously with the throng." | gone with the wind |
| cynara | gone with the wind |
| pierre choderlos | dangerous liaisons |
| the vicomte de valmont | dangerous liaisons |
| "a small, good thing," | car |
| "of course all life is a process of breaking down" | fitzgerald |
| the crack-up | fitzgerald |
| bembo | italian |
| first series of essays | self-reliance |
| "the masterpiece of nature." | friend |
| "desire to preserve tradition" | streetcar named desire |
| "attraction to what is going to destroy tradition" | streetcar named desire |
| ricardo guiraldes | gaucho |
| payadas | gaucho |
| marxist naphta | hans |
| berghof | hans |
| infinite city | san francisco |
| "generations have trod, have trod, have trod," | god's grandeur |
| "nature is never spent." | god's grandeur |
| "god's grandeur" | hopkins |
| kerouac | big sur |
| "the cook's tale," | chaucer |
| cambyuskan | squire |
| new weird | machado |
quincas borba (author) | joaquim maria machado de assis |
posthumous memoirs of bras cubas (author) | joaquim maria machado de assis |
| jorge amado | brazil |
| "blast of misogynist rage and public humiliation" | diaz |
| stieg larsson | sweden |
| "pippi longstocking" | sweden |
| roseanna | sweden |
| camara laye | adichie |
| "played in the snow" | adichie |
| "silence dogood" | franklin |
| jack duluoz | big sur |
| brautigan | big sur |
| life of jesse james | my |
| wick cutter | my |
| anton cuzak | my |
| shimerda | my |
| story of a crime | sweden |
| "wasp." | sweden |
| "kicked the hornet's nest." | sweden |
| lisbeth salander in the girl with the dragon tattoo | sweden |
| "in the pale glimmer" | fleurs du mal |
| "limbo" | fleurs du mal |
| "the lesbians." | fleurs du mal |
| "lethe" | fleurs du mal |
| "condemned." | fleurs du mal |
| collected works | fleurs du mal |
| "dreams of scaffolds" | fleurs du mal |
| "my twin, my brother" | fleurs du mal |
| lloyd richards | wilson |
| yale repertory theatre | wilson |
| "womanless man" | wilson |
| "go down swinging." | wilson |
| negro leagues | wilson |
| "o time thy pyramids" | borges |
| "the circular ruins," | borges |
| lewis page mercier | nautilus |
| on illustrious men | petrarch |
| "scipio's dream." | petrarch |
| accidie | petrarch |
| north london in a zadie smith | wife of bath |
| "fairy power," | wife of bath |
| "no one now sees fairies any more" | wife of bath |
| jankyn | wife of bath |
| science museum of minnesota | wilson |
| "midnight mass of the dying year" | longfellow |
| "the death of the old year." | longfellow |
| sparknotes of moby | dylan's nobel |
| "songs are unlike literature." | dylan's nobel |
| "adamantine chains" | petrarch |
| lady truth | petrarch |
| "penitential psalms" | petrarch |
| "coronation oration" | petrarch |
| la bonne chanson | verlaine |
| saturnine poems | verlaine |
| "into the furious lashing of the tides" | drunken boat |
| "yelping redskins." | drunken boat |
| margaret canby | keller |
| frost fairies | keller |
| "the frost king." | keller |
| miracle worker | keller |
| ghost of christmas past | fezziwig |
| cecil graham in act iii | cynic |
| "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." | cynic |
| "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 |
| atsumori | heike |
| "every spirit upon earth seemed fervourless as i" | darkling thrush |
| "his soul upon the growing gloom." | darkling thrush |
| "some vengeful god" | hap |
| "know that thy sorrow is thy ecstasy!" | hap |
| "purblind doomsters had as readily strown blisses... as pain." | hap |
| nadaismo | colombia |
| "deathbed" | leaves of grass |
| "i greet you at the beginning of a great career" | emerson |
with kurt weill wrote the threepenny opera | brecht |
| viktor shklovsky | distancing |
| "defamiliarization" | distancing |
| lucia in the betrothed | manzoni |
| in the betrothed | plague |
| lucia in the lazzaretto of milan | plague |
| prince andrei bolkonsky | napoleon |
| manzoni | napoleon |
| "archangel of hatred" | nautilus |
| charles smithson | fowles |
| sarah woodruff | fowles |
| french lieutenant | fowles |
| "too many... mopey suburbanites." | new yorker |
| james thurber | new yorker |
| harold ross | new yorker |
| explosion in a cathedral | carpentier |
| "the god with the lyre" | rilke |
| sonnets to orpheus | rilke |
| balthus | rilke |
| slavery society in rochester | fourth |
| "a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages." | fourth |
| the ladies' anti | fourth |
| covey | douglass |
| project | works progress administration |
| "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 |
| "what little [that character's creator] didn't say." | julia |
| how the garcia girls lost their accents | julia |
| "the scriptwriter?" | julia |
| rufino | julia |
| sofia | julia |
| cara | julia |
| "in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire" | california |
| "shine, perishing republic." | california |
| charles bukowski | california |
| "notes of a dirty old man." | california |
| "will we walk all night through solitary streets?" | california |
| san francisco renaissance | california |
| "heretical" | importance of being earnest |
| algernon montcrieff | importance of being earnest |
| hokku | renga |
| franz xaver kappus | letters to a young poet |
| letters to a young poet | rilke |
| letters to a young painter | rilke |
| "ready to carve a flock of geese" | dead |
| daily express | dead |
| freddy malins | dead |
| "screwed" | dead |
| red brick university | lucky jim |
| simon darcourt | canada |
| urquhart mcvarish | canada |
| rebel angels | canada |
| her the sovereignty | rowlandson |
| goodness of god | rowlandson |
| mary rowlandson | captivity |
| magnalia christi americana | mather |
| pechorin in a mikhail lermontov | hero |
| silver age of russian | pasternak |
| my sister | pasternak |
| buried child | shepard |
| curse of the starving class | shepard |
| sound of waves | mishima |
| timofey pavlovich pnin | campus |
| waindell | campus |
| ford madox ford | good soldier |
| "fished from obscurity," | stevens |
| "princox" | stevens |
| "fubbed." | stevens |
| "the plot against the giant" | stevens |
| "heavenly labials in a world of gutturals." | stevens |
| nikolai punin | akhmatova |
| lev gumilyov | akhmatova |
| ghost of don andrea | spanish tragedy |
| hieronimo | spanish tragedy |
| balthazar | spanish tragedy |
| sargon of akkad | poetry |
| "melic" | poetry |
| "sapiential books" | wisdom |
| nature of a crime | ford |
| romance, the , and the inheritors | ford |
| alfred peron | beckett |
| "dante... bruno. vico... joyce." | beckett |
| time regained | proust |
| the prisoner | proust |
| fugitive | proust |
| martha gellhorn | war correspondent |
| margaret bourke | war correspondent |
| "women in lifeboats" | war correspondent |
| yentl | singer |
| "beam me up" | rushdie |
| star trek | rushdie |
| "chekov and zulu" | rushdie |
| "to whom it may concern" | maya |
| uncle willie | maya |
| shem | finnegans wake |
| shaun | finnegans wake |
| "round and round the place, with a clasp-knife" | huck |
| judge thatcher | huck |
| widow douglas | huck |
| in my father | singer |
| black dobbe | singer |
| leah napolin | singer |
| "the spinoza of market street" | singer |
| frampol | singer |
| cotton | mather |
| "banish all the world," | falstaff |
| "i do; i will." | falstaff |
| "mere scutcheon." | falstaff |
battle of shrewsbury (henry iv) | falstaff |
| bardolph at the boar | falstaff |
| head tavern | falstaff |
| "with big nails, to keep off the devil." | huck |
| worn satchel | matsuo |
| "banana tree," | matsuo |
| monkey | matsuo |
| "upward and upward" | falstaff |
| "cold as any stone." | falstaff |
| an alan sillitoe | race |
| loneliness of the long distance runner | 50 |
| essex borstal | bakeries |
| "sixth sense" | all quiet |
| detering | all quiet |
| earl miner | matsuo |
| "royal anthology" | matsuo |
| "all that remains" | matsuo |
| "summer grass" | matsuo |
| straw raincoat | matsuo |
| record of a travel | matsuo |
| "my pretty rose tree." | tyger |
| "when the stars threw down their spears / and water'd heaven with their tears." | tyger |
| "what dread hand? and what dread feet?" | 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 |
| lewis milestone | all quiet |
| ss strathallan | war correspondent |
| poum | spanish civil |
| "the most visible point of his island," | robinson |
| "logically inevitable" | robinson |
| shama at the hanuman house with the tulsi | biswas |
| sentinel | biswas |
| geoffrey keynes | tyger |
"a terrible mistake" | the tyger |
| " which made a ship sink in " | hardy |
| " one of these birds sings " | thrush |
| " in a hardy poem that opens " | thrush |
| " for 10 points each: hardy's " | world war i |
| channel firing | world war i |
| " is about the opening of this war, which was protested by poets like siegfried sassoon and wilfred owen in poems such as " | world war i |
| decorum est | world war i |
| theydulce | world war i |
| eve sedgwick | john |
| epistemology of the closet | john |
| "different in his essential nature than the normal men around him." | john |
| "kick'd and knock'd" | goblin market |
| "maul'd and mock'd." | goblin market |
| "what can i give him, poor as i am?" | goblin market |
| spinner of years | hardy |
| immanent will | hardy |
| lost in the stars with kurt weill | anderson |
| plowed under | paper |
| triple-a | paper |
| santo domingo | time of the hero |
| world war ii japan in an artist of the floating world | ishiguro |
| "black little god" | queequeg |
| yojo | queequeg |
| "don't ye love sperm?" | moby-dick |
| postscript to the name of the rose | jorge |
| "library plus blind man can only equal" | jorge |
| "how south african censorship works." | gordimer |
| "there is no such thing as the state" | september 1, 1939 |
| "till china and africa meet," | as i walked out one evening |
| "all the clocks in the city" | as i walked out one evening |
| "you cannot conquer time." | as i walked out one evening |
| bouvard et pecuchet | flaubert |
| "under the spreading" | chestnut tree |
| no pain cafe | walcott |
| jacques roumain | vo |
| "the man with night sweats." | gunn |
| sense of movement | gunn |
| fighting terms | gunn |
| "in the position of a kind of jeremiah" | debating |
| "the american dream is at the expense of the american negro" | debating |
| "let me not forget." | tagore |
| "where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way" | tagore |
| "paddle his own canoe." | biswas |
| "escape" | biswas |
| "deserving destitutes" | biswas |
| philumena | mother-in-law |
| hecyra | terence |
| the self-tormentor | terence |
| borthrop trumbull | middlemarch |
mary garth | middlemarch |
| tertius lydgate | middlemarch |
| edward causabon | middlemarch |
| vincy | middlemarch |
| "the same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world." | tagore |
"drunk with the joy of singing i forget myself and call thee friend" | tagore |
| "let me carry the pangs of this sorrow in my dreams and in my wakeful hours" | tagore |
| sostrata | mother-in-law |
| captain kopeikin | dead souls |
khlobuyev | dead souls |
manilov | dead souls |
| "nothing more wonderful than the murder of a mouse in an air pump." | heidegger |
"forbear!" | "dr. heidegger's experiment" |
| "venerable friends" | heidegger |
colonel killigrew | "dr. heidegger's experiment" |
| "before us the future looms dark, and that we can scarcely..." | dead souls |
| lonely londoners | english |
| james whitcomb riley | english |
| brathwaite | dante |
| de vulgari eloquentia | dante |
| joachim ziemssen | hans |
| "kirghiz eyes," | clawdia |
| "loafe and invite" | soul |
| flowers for algernon | mouse |
| donnegan | mouse |
| millat | mouse |
| "socially distanced" | blindness |
| "false samaritan" | blindness |
| "girl with dark glasses" | blindness |
| "white evil." | blindness |
| "poshlost" | dead souls |
| "julian," | snows of kilimanjaro |
| "wide as all the world." | snows of kilimanjaro |
| "dried and frozen carcass of a leopard" | snows of kilimanjaro |
| ensure in yaa gyasi | mouse |
| plastic box company | mouse |
| "future" | mouse |
| professor nemur | mouse |
| daniel keyes | mouse |
| malala yousafzai | education |
| "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 |
| "finest writing since shakespeare" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "let thy mouth / be heir to those who are now exanimate. / gather the north flowers to complete the south." | sonnets from the portuguese |
| "potato-faced" | snows of kilimanjaro |
| jim conklin | red badge of courage |
| "what fearful pranks ensue" | burns |
| "halloween." | burns |
| robert sempill | burns |
| "oh, would some power give us the gift / to see ourselves as others see us!" | burns |
| "on turning her up in her nest, with the plough." | burns |
| "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men / gang aft agley." | burns |
| christiania | norway |
| woman at point zero | egypt |
| ahmad abd | egypt |
| firdaus | egypt |
| john huston | red badge of courage |
| lillian ross | red badge of courage |
| paul auster | red badge of courage |
| burning boy | red badge of courage |
| "you can now eat and shoot... that's all you want to do." | red badge of courage |
| growth of the soil | norway |
| reiko | norwegian wood |
| midori | norwegian wood |
| "elegiac duodecimal scale" | andersen |
| "as a novelist." | andersen |
| uriah heep | andersen |
| "a slow process of annihilation" | egypt |
| hidden face of eve | egypt |
| "it's no go the yogi-man, it's no go blavatsky / all we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi." | macneice |
| macneice | auden |
| letters from | auden |
| "the stars are dead. the animals will not look" | spanish civil war |
| "come and see the blood in the streets" | spanish civil war |
| "i explain a few things," | spanish civil war |
| lensmand geissler | growth of the soil |
| isak | growth of the soil |
| "cannot contain their urine" | shylock |
| "the devil can cite scripture for his purpose." | shylock |
| "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 |
| laban | shylock |
| sleeping woman | norwegian wood |
| discreet escorts | south africa |
| "solved the problem of sex rather well." | south africa |
| "dog man" | south africa |
| astrid | south africa |
| promise | south africa |
| "non-poisonous" | paint |
| "solid men of boston" | paint |
| lucius brockway | paint |
| surinam | slave |
| "how the whale got his throat," | just-so |
| effie | just-so |
| "how the tiger got his stripes." | jungle book |
| another of the just so stories | hedgehog |
| "one big thing." | hedgehog |
| wouter van twiller | irving |
| scaly city | south africa |
| "a warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations." | hitler |
| orve knausgaard | hitler |
| "the end of the party" | greene |
| wormsley common gang | greene |
| sarah miles in world war ii | greene |
| "invisible gentlemen" | japan |
| exit one | ghosts |
| kunta kinte | slave |
| "the ice palace." | flapper |
| "the offshore pirate," | flapper |
| ardita | flapper |
| flappers | bernice |
| "a portrait of shunkin." | tanizaki |
| "the beauty of the dark" | tanizaki |
| diary of an old man | kabuki |
| some prefer nettles | chikamatsu |
| nonsense songs | lear |
| "with a ring at the end of his nose." | lear |
| stories, botany and alphabets | lear |
| "there once was a man from decatur . . ." | limerick |
| "by the turkey who lives on the hill," | runcible |
| "mince, and slices of quince" | runcible |
| pussycat | runcible |
| alcee arobin | awakening |
| lambton | pemberley |
| republic of pemberley | austen |
| consuelo in minou | sand |
| minou | sand |
| adventures with my pets | dumas |
| mysouff | dumas |
| "the happy life home." | veldt |
| cooger and dark's | something wicked this way comes |
| "firefly." | norwegian wood |
| toru watanabe | norwegian wood |
| rubber soul | norwegian wood |
| in sebald | 40 |
| primo levi | 40 |
| black mathilde | head |
| "large, handsome, stone building" | pemberley |
| "natural beauty." | pemberley |
| "he has not sinned at all" | peer gynt |
| peer | button-moulder |
| mensagem | pessoa |
| "vivian darkbloom" | nabokov |
| "that great scroll" | diderot |
| jacques the fatalist | diderot |
| white king | through the looking glass |
| amy waldman | 2001 |
| edmund curll | pope |
| "great anarch" | pope |
"dread empire" | pope |
| "universal darkness buries all." | pope |
| prince of dullness | pope |
| "history" | irving |
| "exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference." | irving |
| bracebridge hall | irving |
| "my father's suitcase," | pamuk |
| "headscarf girls." | pamuk |
| bonkowski | pamuk |
| hoja | pamuk |
| "repaired" | doll's house |
| "fall into degradation" | doll's house |
| pillars of society | doll's house |
| "little squirrel" | doll's house |
| homage to catalonia | orwell |
| dialogue with death | koestler |
| gnasher | dogs |
| "something that was all his own" | native |
| bigger thomas by richard wright | native |
| lafargue | native |
| nights of plague | pamuk |
| maureen freely | pamuk |
| "liked to hear of how japan was conquering china." | native |
| "admits the possibility of his being subhuman" | native |
| "what i killed for, i am" | native |
| "it's more real to me here than if i went up." | olenska |
| strega prize | italian |
| paolo giordano | italian |
| solitude of prime numbers | italian |
| falconieri | tancredi |
| camps | plague |
| "only goodness." | lahiri |
| "this blessed house." | lahiri |
| tina | lahiri |
| "a vivid figure of the union of opposites." | thomas |
| "see with blinding sight." | thomas |
| "an unconscious determinant" | native |
| fredric wertham | native |
| brinkley court | jeeves |
| haired fairy | italy |
| talking cricket | italy |
| carlo collodi | italy |
| pinocchio | italy |
| laura marris | plague |
| "there is more to admire in humans than there is to scorn." | plague |
| raymond rambert | plague |
| in the shadow of no towers | spiegelman |
| "a report on a journey" | shanghai |
| kingston to oxford | jerome |
| montmorency | jerome |
| guide to the galaxy | adams |
| dirk gently | adams |
| "holistic detective agency." | adams |
| hitchhiker | adams |
| kincaid | letter |
| in night | moshe |
| jews of sighet | moshe |
| eliezer | moshe |
| "fears in solitude" | conversation |
| conversation poems | coleridge |
| "the lovely shapes and sounds intelligible" | frost |
| "eternal language" | frost |
| "chweh yung-mee" | me too |
| "monster" | me too |
| ko un | me too |
| catherine robbe | me too |
| "robe gree-yay" | me too |
| alain | me too |
| small place | kincaid |
| jamaica kincaid | lucy |
| alfred noyes | highwayman |
| "landlord's daughter" | highwayman |
| once paul | beloved |
| "flakes of rust" | beloved |
| "[fall] away." | beloved |
| heo gyun | korean |
| story of hong gildong | korean |
| ten thousand lives | ko |
| matsushima | deep north |
| sado island | milky way |
| "silver river." | milky way |
| manyoshu | milky way |
| tanabata | milky way |
| "chase his mate." | parliament of fowls |
| "fact." | cosmicomics |
| quentin durward | scott |
| green fisherman | italy |
| "field of miracles" | italy |
| catchfools by the fox | italy |
| c.k. stead | new zealand |
| "every city light" | frost |
| "by contraries" | west-running brook |
| running brook | gold |
| georges hugon | nana |
| "cindy, oh cindy" | raisin in the sun |
| judd woldin | raisin in the sun |
"with feminine vengeance" | a raisin in the sun |
| "that's what it says in all the novels that men write." | raisin in the sun |
"one for whom bread food is not enough" | a raisin in the sun |
| willy harris | raisin in the sun |
| sir tomato | italy |
| prince lemon | italy |
| "up the country" | australia |
| "bulletin debate," | australia |
| thomas gerald clancy | australia |
| "up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred" | australia |
| "waited till his billy boiled," | australia |
| "jolly swagman" | australia |
| "camped by a billabong." | australia |
| "bush ballads" | australia |
| "at midnight." | frost |
| simon gillayley | hulme |
| arabella hunt | fielding |
| "foundling" | fielding |
| waters | fielding |
| partridge | fielding |
| blifil | fielding |
| "i had often cowled in the slumbrous heavy air" | australia |
| "stockmen in denver suits" | beat |
| "like the thought of" | heaven |
| badroulbadour | heaven |
| "trash" | we must love one another or die |
| "ashamed to have written." | we must love one another or die |
| "hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police . . ." | we must love one another or die |
| "looked over" | shield of achilles |
| "metaphysical" | detective |
| "your followers have swallowed you like mummia, and being sick ... vomit you up" | webster |
| white devil | webster |
| gasparo | webster |
| "our gustatory pleasure." | lobster |
| "to believe we can live without taking life is delusional" | kingsolver |
| animal, vegetable | kingsolver |
| price | kingsolver |
| kilanga | kingsolver |
| and quiet flows the don | cossacks |
| cossack ivan mazepa | pushkin |
| prisoner of the caucasus | byron |
| "mummy, maw and gulf." | weird sisters |
| "double, double, toil and trouble" | weird sisters |
| "panacea" | browne |
| fragment on mummies | browne |
| hydriotaphia | browne |
| "exiles by the falk laws." | wreck of the deutschland |
| "inscape" | wreck of the deutschland |
| "curtal" | sonnet |
| don federico | rat |
| in the great gatsby | ash |
| "valley" | ash |
| felix | ash |
| russian messenger | cossacks |
| "parish boy's progress." | oliver twist |
| sowerberry | oliver twist |
| unwin | bumble |
| vilkins | bumble |
| twist | bumble |
| corney | bumble |
| "fat prince" | azdak |
| natella | azdak |
| "big jim evans saying it was a hard blow" | heaney |
| "a four-foot box, a foot for every year." | heaney |
| p. v. glob's | heaney |
| bonnie prince charlie | fielding |
| upton inn | fielding |
| "whistling dick's christmas stockings" | prison |
| "twist ending," | prison |
| barnet in london | oliver twist |
| mike nichols | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| beyond the forest | 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 |
| "out here in jutland / in the old man-killing parishes / i will feel lost, / unhappy and at home" | heaney |
| bog people | heaney |
| "summer's blood" | heaney |
| "blackberry-picking" | heaney |
| "power that crosses the white sea," | antigone |
| "wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man." | antigone |
| "dreamer" | dostoyevsky |
| "white nights," | dostoyevsky |
| nastenka | dostoyevsky |
| liza | dostoyevsky |
| "we must carry on as though we did [know the difference between truth or illusion]" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "abmaphid." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| nghi vo | great gatsby |
| "nee voh's" | great gatsby |
| "one of the first graphic novel moments" | great gatsby |
| michael pekarofski | great gatsby |
| rise of colored empires | great gatsby |
| riva degli schiavoni | james |
| bsharri | gibran |
| rifaa | children |
| silmarillion | tolkien |
| middle-earth | tolkien |
| "i'm going to hide behind language" | spanish |
| extracting the stone of madness | spanish |
| "you want me white." | spanish |
"the earth will be a soft cradle" | mistral |
| "that frozen niche [where] men have put you" | spanish |
| sonnets of death | spanish |
| "a christmas memory." | capote |
| officer dewey | capote |
| "the corner" | capote |
| sook | capote |
| "sub-creator" | tolkien |
| "a secondary world which your mind can enter." | tolkien |
| "on fairy-stories" | tolkien |
| numenor | tolkien |
| li xingdao | caucasian chalk circle |
| "nine jewels" | persian |
| amir khusrow | persian |
| "mad elephant" | rushdie |
| amerigo vespucci | rushdie |
| "annus mirabilis." | dryden |
| juliana bordereau in the aspern papers | venice |
| milly theale in the wings of the dove | venice |
| "if it's hoarfrost on the ground" | li |
| "lower[s] his head and think[s] of home." | li |
| yr with deborah blau | mental hospital |
| acutes | mental hospital |
| chronics | mental hospital |
| "a man is destined sometimes to have his head cut off." | china |
| republic of wine | china |
| true story of ah | china |
| nunkie | hurston |
| hattie | hurston |
| "do not know the secret of the poet's heart." | shaw |
| "shorthand and french." | grete |
| "spring to her feet and stretch her young body" | grete |
| war trash | li |
| "the wind, tens of thousands of miles long" | li |
| "steps are already quite white with dew" | li |
| "the simple art of murder," | chandler |
| "the average detective story is no worse than the average novel." | chandler |
| chandler | philip |
| in the long goodbye | mexico |
| gilbert keith chesterton | chesterton |
| father brown | chesterton |
| borgias in a sherlock holmes | detective |
| auberon quinn | detective |
| qassem | children |
| mysterious flame of queen loana | eco |
| "bible of infidels" | william |
| "a book containing different wisdom than ours." | william |
| weimar germany with adrian leverkuhn | doktor faustus |
| "i married him" | reader |
| stanley fish | milton |
| surprised by sin | paradise lost |
| the de laclos | dangerous liaisons |
| marquise of merteuil | smallpox |
| justine | sade |
| when mark david chapman | beatles |
| "the sacred and profane memories of charles ryder." | brideshead |
| vile bodies | waugh |
| "nightmare" | abbey |
| toobad | abbey |
| confessions of an english opium eater | de quincey |
| queen honeybee | shug |
| ocean view orchards | cider house rules |
| st. cloud's | cider house rules |
| orphanage | cider house rules |
| in john irving | abortion |
| "just to let the air in" | abortion |
| freemason pierre choderlos | dangerous liaisons |
| everyman | good deeds |
| hildegard von bingen's | morality |
| "damned fool -- he ruined the song!" | actor |
| day of the turbins | stalin |
| plinio designori | castalia |
| "a world without collisions." | hally |
| robert zwelinzima | sizwe bansi is dead |
| "sighs," | de quincey |
answered prayers | capote |
| beppo | detective |
| "the aztec love of war" | mexican |
| "the mariachi trumpets of the blood" | mexican |
| "you bring out [this ethnicity] in me." | mexican |
| "two-faced year, mother of change and fate." | lazarus |
| "huddled masses" | breathe free |
| "forsake" | good deeds |
| "see the object as in itself it really is." | arnold |
| "the perfect critic," | eliot |
| "bed" | in the penal colony |
| jitney | wilson |
| "the secret agent," | greenwich observatory |
| adolf verloc | greenwich observatory |
| "blithe spirit." | to a skylark |
| "the necessity of atheism." | oxford |
| "the shape of the letters on my father's [tombstone] gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man." | pip |
| trabb | pip |
| wopsle | pip |
| lucy potts | hurston |
| "muck," | hurston |
| "the decay of lying." | wilde |
| vivian | wilde |
| function of criticism at the present time | arnold |
| "what a trash / to annihilate each decade" | plath |
| "number three." | plath |
| "the vampire who said he was you / and drank my blood for a year," | plath |
| all saints | don juan |
| tartuffe by moliere | don juan |
| jose zorrilla | don juan |
| "stone guest." | don juan |
| tenorio | don juan |
| flosky | abbey |
| "chronicle his own impressions" | wilde |
| "the critic as artist." | wilde |
| "any existence" | wilde |
| middle kingdom egyptian | sailor |
| amenaa | sailor |
| "voice like a selected weapon / or a measured injection." | plath |
| "blue flannel suit." | plath |
| anil | ondaatje |
| in the skin of a lion | canada |
| dance of the happy shades | canada |
| ondaatje | canada |
| ernst junger | western front |
| storm of steel | western front |
| "all quiet on" | western front |
| sir percy blakeney | guillotined |
| "last survivor" | old english |
| "heaven-candle," | old english |
| "whale-road," | old english |
| "modern" | old english |
| wiglaf | old english |
| "do not fear, do not turn pale" | sailor |
| lord of punt | sailor |
| oedipus at colonus | sophocles |
| natalya sats | peter |
| "symphonic fairy tale," | peter |
| young pioneer | peter |
| "and the wolf." | peter |
| "tread softly because you tread on my dreams." | yeats |
| "it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors," | picture of dorian gray |
| "all art is quite useless." | picture of dorian gray |
| "ghost-custodian" | old english |
| "mad jacobin" | oxford |
| in the shadow of young girls in flower | proust |
| "a plantation and two hundred slaves." | o'connor |
| patty sing | o'connor |
| "believe me, i knew you, though faintly" | brooks |
| "thin gin" | brooks |
| make mine music | peter |
| sterling holloway | peter |
| "flowery tale" | keats |
| "in a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?" | borges |
| "british artillery park on the ancre" | borges |
| "peace comes dropping slow" | yeats |
| "nine bean rows" | yeats |
| "midnight's all a glimmer" | yeats |
| county sligo | yeats |
| susan gubar | jane eyre |
| "disdainful smile." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "name" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "spelt by [the] unletter'd muse." | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "plods his weary way" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "hit or miss the moon." | frost |
| "made all the difference." | frost |
| "shadows with the magic hand of chance." | keats |
| "when i have fears that i may cease to be," | keats |
| " form of this god makes the speaker " | hermes |
| to the reader | hermes |
| " satan is called " | hermes |
| "i am not deceived, i do not think it is still summer / because sun stays and birds continue to sing." | brooks |
| "plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood" | brooks |
| "a street in bronzeville'', is based on her childhood in segregated chicago and she wrote of a group of pool players who " | brooks |
| we real cool | brooks |
| "grandeur" | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| madame defarge | pross |
| "on self-respect" | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "john wayne: a love song." | slouching towards bethlehem |
| "striking through the thought of his dear ones" | watch |
| " for 10 points each: name this poetry collection. its author was prosecuted for violating decency laws, and had to remove its poems " | flowers of evil |
| metamorphoses of the vampire | flowers of evil |
| " for 10 points each: in a poem from les fleurs du mal called " | hermes |
| alchemy of sorrow | hermes |
| "a sillier old lady i never met in all my life." | pitty |
| rose in fences | pittsburgh |
| fences in the pittsburgh cycle | wilson |
| "that's the way that go!" | gabriel |
| trickster of seville | juan |
| stone guest | juan |
| "the pulley" | herbert |
| "the altar" | herbert |
| bald hills | war and peace |
| nikolenka | rostov |
| new york editions | james |
| alexander herzen | stoppard |
| stephen to johannesburg | theophilus |
| sarah jane hamilton | pitty |
| melanie wilkes | pitty |
| charles hamilton in gone with the wind | pitty |
| selina | screenplay |
| dirk | screenplay |
| city of dis | styx |
| filippo argenti | styx |
| "such a shout is useless" | phlegyas |
| "now you are caught, foul soul" | phlegyas |
| allen mandelbaum | phlegyas |
| princess marya | war and peace |
| ingram frizer | marlowe |
| deptford | marlowe |
| william hatcliffe | shakespeare's sonnets |
| "the rival poet." | shakespeare's sonnets |
| "in a funk." | suicide |
| "the most exquisite moment of her whole life." | mrs. dalloway |
| "men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses" | parker |
| cimarron | screenplay |
| murray jay siskind | white noise |
| love suicides at sonezaki | chikamatsu |
| "as if he were anxious to attach himself to [the title character's] windpipe without delay." | oliver twist |
| "the sourest-natured dog that lives" | two gentlemen of |
| in julius caesar | friends |
| "lend me your ears" | friends |
| dan-ay-ee | polydectes |
| smay | july's people |
| "strip of blue between the boards" | dinesen |
| seven gothic tales | dinesen |
| kasparson | dinesen |
| kamante | dinesen |
| maud brown | brooks |
| "what shall i give my children? who are poor" | brooks |
| "which way does your beard point tonight?" | whitman |
| "contains multitudes." | whitman |
| "as a seashell" | lady lazarus" |
| "they had to call and call" | lady lazarus" |
| "like sticky pearls." | lady lazarus" |
| "a smiling woman" | lady lazarus" |
| "does exceptionally well." | lady lazarus" |
| "bright as a nazi lampshade" | lady lazarus" |
| "with her red hair" | lady lazarus" |
| miss malin | dinesen |
| "easter wings." | herbert |
| "she shall have a hump on each shoulder ... [and] skin like a mummy." | sheridan |
| "illiterate him quite from your memory" | sheridan |
| school for scandal | sheridan |
| o'trigger | sheridan |
| "barrabas came to us by sea" | allende |
| valmorain | allende |
| "the pure gold baby/that melts to a shriek" | lady lazarus" |
| kurtz in africa | heart of darkness |
| ramchunder | vanity fair |
| stah | cloud |
| hugh conway | shangri-la |
| james hilton | shangri-la |
| packingtown | jungle |
| shlee | comrade |
| jurgis | comrade |
| "a thais / in her you court, but a lucretia / when you've possessed her" | mexico |
| "lay the guilt on women" | mexico |
| "pyramidal, funereal, earth-born" | mexico |
| "you foolish men" | mexico |
| "first dream" | mexico |
| traps of faith | mexico |
| sor juana | mexico |
| nellie on the thames | heart of darkness |
| "public transportation." | meursault |
| "dies alone" | meursault |
| "envoy." | meursault |
| doc knobb | baseball player |
| ernest thayer | baseball player |
| mercedes | baseball player |
| "undaunted spirit" | mexico |
| "determines / to immortalize itself in ruin." | mexico |
| "apart-aid" | the burgher's |
| andromaque | racine |
| jean racine | corneille |
| "i wander through each chartered street." | london |
| robert heinlein | starship troopers |
| bug war | starship troopers |
| sally bowles | berlin |
| christopher isherwood | berlin |
| "pilot fish" | moveable |
| "miss stein instructs" | moveable |
| "declaring that any civilian caught interfering with the railroad, its bridges, tunnels or trains will be summarily hanged" | occurrence at |
| farquhar | drink |
| nawv | brave new |
| bokanovsky | brave new |
| "semi-morons" | epsilon |
| "dwells with [this concept] that must die." | beauty |
| gustav von | death in venice |
| union army | little women |
| laurence | piano |
| in fences | trumpet |
| u.s.a | dos passos |
| jose robles | hemingway |
| say roh | hemingway |
| though dos passos | moveable |
| modern breakthrough | denmark |
| karen blixen | dinesen |
| el toboso | dulcinea |
| aldonza lorenzo | dulcinea |
| "strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and eyes, while i walk on the sunny pavement of greenwich village." | kaddish |
| loveless | moloch |
| "free radicals" | munro |
| bett | munro |
| happy loman | death of a |
| eddie carbone | view from the |
| "car-bone" | view from the |
| brooklyn | view from the |
| "sent to the devil somewhat 'ere his time" | byron |
| "plain" | darkling |
| tonia perez | cisco kid |
| tar baby | morrison |
| gold rush | california |
| luck | california |
| anushka | master and mar |
| willie maxwell | lee |
| furious hours | lee |
| go set | lee |
| the reverend | lee |
| holcomb | lee |
| marianne dashwood | sense and sensibility |
| steele | sense and sensibility |
| willoughby | sense and sensibility |
| elinor | sense and sensibility |
| alec leamas | berlin |
| spy who came | berlin |
| sandy bar | california |
| roaring camp | california |
| papa-daddy's | welty |
| shirley-t.'s | welty |
| "a foil to europe" | image of africa |
| "good god! what is the meaning of this?" | sense and sensibility |
| barton park | sense and sensibility |
| eliza williams | sense and sensibility |
| colonel brandon | sense and sensibility |
| edward ferrars | sense and sensibility |
| "seizing" | beauty |
| benjamin bailey | beauty |
| "will never / pass into nothingness." | beauty |
| "shalt remain" | beauty |
| "a thing of [this concept] is a joy forever." | beauty |
| curtain of green | welty |
| china grove | welty |
| whitaker | welty |
| "to teach you how to be a wife." | boccaccio |
| "i like guys to hurt me" | irish |
| "milk in a bottle / corked sloppily with paper" | irish |
| "between my finger and my thumb" | irish |
| sally rooney | irish |
| "injecting blood into the veins of society." | persepolis |
| kim wilde | persepolis |
| "the story of a childhood," | persepolis |
| little house on the prairie | ingalls |
| saratoga trunk | ferber |
| royal family | ferber |
| "black hat trimmed with gold daisies" | mansfield |
| "extravagant." | mansfield |
| jardins publiques | mansfield |
| "isn't life..." | mansfield |
| godber | mansfield |
| name the muse of history | clio |
| clio | adonis |
| iphigenia in tauris | euripides |
| aulis | euripides |
| in stendahl | como |
| jody baxter | yearling |
| secret river | kinnan |
| yearling | kinnan |
| monroeville | lee |
| dill | lee |
| st bernard | pynchon |
| lost guard | pynchon |
| laszlo jamf | pynchon |
| aslan | narnia |
| "the valiant" | lucy |
| trumpkin | lucy |
| severo | house of the |
| neff | set |
| isis, nut | set |
| nut | shu |
| pyramid of quetzalcoatl | tula |
| toltec empire | tula |
| tropic of capricorn | miller |
| tropic of cancer | miller |
| modern husband | fielding |
| in tom jones | partridge |
| allworthy | partridge |
| "to saxham" | carew |
| "to my friend g. n. from wrest" | carew |
| like robert herrick | cavalier |
| "an elegy upon the death of the dean of paul's" | donne |
| carew | donne |
| willie stark | warren |
| ebisu | hiruko |
| awashima | hiruko |
| "women and fiction" | room of |
| "a room of one's own" | stephen |
| seer | prospero |
| billy bathgate | doctorow |
| in roots | kunta |
| judge lynch | california |
| "ash-heels" | california |
| ice palace | parker |
| here lies | parker |
| "in english my name means hope. in spanish it means too many letters." | house on |
| "a city of fountains large and small, of parks where music once rang out from the bandstands" | geneva |
| palermo | geneva |
| "the blue hotel" | swede |
| janie crawford by zora neale hurston | their eyes w |
| "thought she heard someone crying" | mansfield |
| clodia metelli | lesbia |
| lesbia | catullus |
| combray | proust |
| le dernier amour | flaubert |
| st. jude | corrections |
| "mr. difficult" | gaddis |
| "gams." | white |
| daggoo | white |
| starbuck | white |
| antichrist by an anabaptist | candide |
| "whether he is or not, i still have nothing to eat." | candide |
| "rather sound judgment with great simplicity of mind," | candide |
| sears roebuck | their eyes w |
| "mule talk" | their eyes w |
| "magnitude," | harold |
| "man of magnitude." | harold |
| "the real thing." | brideshead revisited |
| "social leper" | brideshead revisited |
| anthony blanche | brideshead revisited |
| "imparting some special virtue of its own, as in ... japonicas" | white |
| "strikes more of panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood." | white |
| "vague, nameless horror" | white |
| subterraneans | kerouac |
| "the book of the grotesque" | carpenter |
| "bad blood" | season in hell |
| renaud | charlemagne |
| baligant | charlemagne |
| "get up and give history a kick up the backside and get it going again," | harold |
| "they're called social reformers." | harold |
| "scalar" | harold |
| emir of babylon | charlemagne |
| twelve peers | charlemagne |
| matter of france | charlemagne |
| "came down the walk." | bird |
| "sore must be the storm / that could abash" | bird |
| "a bird came down the walk" | dickinson |
| "seen [this thing] - go round - / they might as wise have lodged a bird." | brain |
| "to and fro" | brain |
| "at daybreak" | calvino |
| zinc cliffs | calvino |
| ruedi | calvino |
| uzzi-tuzii | calvino |
| "nice" | pinter |
| torcello | pinter |
| byzantine emperor hugo | charlemagne |
| four sons of aymon | charlemagne |
| invisible cities | calvino |
| ferrars | roger |
| "smoke-heap of cinders and ash" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "aghlich mayster," | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "monstrous apparition." | sir gawain and the green knight |
| "the mother of all axes" | sir gawain and the green knight |
| granny bb | calvino |
| "matter was uniformly scattered in space." | calvino |
| the recognitions | gaddis |
| precrime division | minority report |
| "the minority report" | dick |
| bob childan | san francisco |
| "hide-run" | goat |
| bilskirnir | 540 |
| crevel | cousine bette |
| cimbria | country |
| "figurative incarceration" | lawyer |
| "of glass." | lawyer |
| felicia hemans | casabianca |
| "casabianca" | bishop |
| "victory filled up / the little rented boat" | bishop |
| "everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!" | bishop |
| "gentleman of shalott" | tennyson |
| "half is enough" | tennyson |
| elisabeth demand | ali smith |
| anthea | ali smith |
| imogen | ali smith |
| el trato | algiers |
| "topography" | algiers |
| los banos de | algiers |
| antonio de sosa | algiers |
| ricote | don quixote |
| leni lamiasson | kiss of the spider woman |
| tobis | kiss of the spider woman |
| oscar fenichel | mother |
| "sophisticated fun" | tristero |
| "a screaming comes across the sky." | v-2 |
| virgin suicides | eugenides |
| middlesex | eugenides |
| girl meets boy | ali smith |
| "a plank in reason, broke." | brain |
| northumberland | shrewsbury |
| hal at shrewsbury | hotspur |
| " 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 |
| "last cigarettes" | zeno |
| trieste | zeno |
| italo svevo | calvino |
| her real glory | kiss of the spider woman |
| becka | testaments |
| june kashpaw | erdrich |
| "what's america, but the legend of rock 'n' roll?" | elvis |
| that erdrich | elvis |
| heid | elvis |
| il milione | travel |
| anthony sattin | nile |
| anis zani | nile |
| "at 2 or 3 or 4 a.m." | wolfe |
| "stalking the billion-footed beast" | wolfe |
| "radical chic" | wolfe |
| maria ruskin | wolfe |
| "master of the universe" | wolfe |
| mirror for the romantic | dream of the red chamber |
| chang weiyuan | dream of the red chamber |
| "the double vision of michael robartes" | yeats |
| "astronomer-poet" | rubaiyat |
| wilderness | rubaiyat |
| "an authentic ghost story." | uncle tom's cabin |
| george shelby | uncle tom's cabin |
| woodcraft | uncle tom's cabin |
| "k-mart realists" | wolfe |
| "usually in lonely rustic septic tank rural settings" | wolfe |
| reverend bacon | wolfe |
| "plunged in the battery-smoke" | tennyson |
| "double vision" | michael |
| "the phases of the moon" | michael |
| owen aherne | michael |
| "i have met them at close of day." | easter, 1916 |
| "laus veneris." | rubaiyat |
| "the tentmaker" | rubaiyat |
| whitley stokes | rubaiyat |
| "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 |
| vera claythorne | nursery rhyme |
| justice wargrave | nursery rhyme |
| "god has pity on kindergarten children." | hebrew |
| yehuda amichai | darwish |
| "challenge to me, because we write about the same place." | darwish |
| "stubbornly, scrupulously silent" | name of the rose |
| "naturally, a manuscript." | name of the rose |
| bernard gui | name of the rose |
| africae | name of the rose |
| salvatore | name of the rose |
| holy sinner | italy |
| "lady of the pearls." | italy |
| silvestra | italy |
| "a lady asks me," | cavalcanti |
| "donna me prega." | cavalcanti |
| dolce stil novo | cavalcanti |
| boy, snow, bird | fairy tale |
| aarne-thompson | fairy tale |
| "for life, as it were." | james |
| washington square | james |
| sloper | james |
| adrift on | nile |
| samara | nile |
| came like swallows | 1918 |
| katherine anne porter | 1918 |
| "pale horse, pale rider." | 1918 |
| "near-total historical amnesia" | sontag |
| "illness as metaphor." | sontag |
| "notes on camp." | sontag |
| woman warrior | chinese |
| "the glass coffin." | fairy tale |
| "child rowland to the dark tower came, / his word was still 'fie, foh, and fum.'" | fairy tale |
| "story of the three bears." | fairy tale |
| "jack and the beanstalk." | fairy tale |
| possession | fairy tale |
| wives of geniuses | stein |
| have sat with | stein |
| "heavy knotted rope." | penal colony |
| "have faith and wait" | penal colony |
| old commandant | penal colony |
| willa | penal colony |
| red azalea | chinese |
| "scar literature" | chinese |
| "talk-stories" | chinese |
| "ghosts." | chinese |
| tadeusz | judge |
| soplica | judge |
| francis ford coppola | film |
| apocalypse now | film |
| monique truong | stein |
| pilar | for whom the be |
| peter neumeyer | penal colony |
| edwin muir | penal colony |
| "before the great wars" | psalms |
| "summer evening by the window with" | psalms |
| amichai | psalms |
| babamukuru | nervous conditions |
| nhamo | nervous conditions |
| noviolet bulawayo | zimbabwe |
| "three bards" | romantic |
| "o lithuania, my homeland!" | pan tadeusz |
| jonathan cape | orwell |
| blood knot | fugard |
| willie ballroom | fugard |
| work team | island |
| hodoshe | island |
| clicking of cuthbert | golf |
| my man | wodehouse |
| inimitable | wodehouse |
| txillardegi | unamuno |
| the generation of '98 | unamuno |
| niebla | unamuno |
| in sartre | spanish civil |
| commodore hawser trunnion | peregrine |
| fleet debtors prison | peregrine |
| adventures of roderick random | smollett |
| peter smollett | orwell |
| alain mabanckou | single sentence |
| broken glass | single sentence |
| lucy ellmann | single sentence |
| comedie | single sentence |
| clapeau | chef |
| arana | basque |
| "nivolas" | unamuno |
| abel sanchez | unamuno |
| binh | stein |
| "spicy nest" | hair |
| "our very sorrows weep, / that joys so ripe, so little keep." | hair |
| "shake your head and scatter" | sun |
| "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 |
| fanta | france |
| khady | france |
| despite laura | goblin market |
| "all of you" | achebe |
| "under the ridge." | for whom the be |
| party of marxist unification | for whom the be |
| "little rabbit" | for whom the be |
| karkov | for whom the be |
| anthropophagic manifesto | andrade |
| "letter to the icamiabas" | lusiads |
"good girl" (instead of "good woman") | snow country |
| japanese nobel | kawabata |
| "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 |
| "dwindled and grew grey, then fell with the first snow" | goblin market |
| "hobbling down the glen," | goblin market |
| "upon what soil they fed their hungry thirsty roots." | goblin market |
| "there is no friend like a sister" | goblin market |
| "ineluctable modality of the visible" | ulysses |
| "shout in the street" | ulysses |
| "stately, plump" | ulysses |
| "from the stairwell bearing a bowl of lather," | ulysses |
| "telemachus." | ulysses |
| "yes i said yes i will yes." | ulysses |
| deasy | ulysses |
| "good woman" | kawabata |
| " millicent boyd reads plagiarized marcus aurelius quotes at mitchell holmes in a failed attempt to keep him calm while engaging in this activity. for 10 points each: the oldest member narrates wodehouse's story " | milne |
| rodney has a relapse | milne |
| first crusade by torquato tasso | jerusalem delivered |
| erotokritos | jerusalem delivered |
| fifteen-syllable | jerusalem delivered |
| both gods of the lightning | sacco |
| "all right we are two nations" | dos passos |
| "put me on to edenville. aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one." | ulysses |
| alfred prufrock | mermaid |
| "singing, each to each," | mermaid |
| "i do not think that they will sing to me." | mermaid |
| "mermaids singing, each to each" | eliot |
| "restaurants with oyster shells." | sawdust |
| "preludes" | sawdust |
| "faint stale smells of beer" | sawdust |
| "trampled" | sawdust |
| "drowned lilies dancing" | gautier |
| alice ruth moore | dunbar |
| "free bird" | angelou |
| "dares to claim the sky." | angelou |
| "i mean, i can fly / like a bird in the sky" | giovanni |
| "ego tripping." | giovanni |
| virginia tech | giovanni |
| "nikki-rosa." | giovanni |
| gotz von berlichingen | lenz |
| lenz | lenz |
| eye in the door | regeneration |
| ghost road | regeneration |
| siegfried sassoon | owen |
| "sad bad glad mad brother's name" | villon |
| "prince of all ballad-makers." | villon |
| "the ballade of the ladies of bygone days." | villon |
| "civilwarland in bad decline," | saunders |
| willie lincoln | saunders |
| "victory lap" | tenth of december |
| eber | tenth of december |
| in saunders | james |
| verbalucetm | james |
| "on stupid pills." | james |
| suffering wife | lenz |
| "thrown against a sharp white background" | hurston |
| "how it feels to be colored me." | hurston |
| "i am thrown. i am against. i sharp. i color." | parker |
| "i feel most colored when i am thrown against a sharp white background." | parker |
| "resume." | parker |
| prize for fiction | mantel |
| "so now get up," | mantel |
| "muses of pieria" | farm |
| victoria ocampo | argentina |
| "last night i dreamed i went to [this place] again." | manderley |
| frith | manderley |
| happy valley | rhododendron |
| "glaring" | rhododendron |
| "crimson faces," | rhododendron |
| "stood fifty feet high" | rhododendron |
| "great stuffer of bags" | eatonville |
| georges guieysse | argot |
| louchebem | argot |
| "the intestine of the leviathan." | paris sewer |
| "missing one thing: god!" | dario |
| "to roosevelt." | dario |
| "you open me like a flower," | ocampo |
| dario cuerda in leopoldina | ocampo |
| sur | ocampo |
| prufrock | sawdust |
| "listen to the song of" | rumi |
| english for spiritual | couplet |
| "god sobs in my arms" | tonight |
| agha shahid ali | tonight |
| "stride is wilderness of freedom" | coetzee |
| "the thought-fox" | coetzee |
| marcel schwob | argot |
| universal history of infamy | borges |
| "well-knit plots" | detective |
| belano | detective |
| sonora | detective |
| "greasy black cap" | master |
| like the master | bulgakov |
| white guard | bulgakov |
| mikhail berlioz | massolit |
| john slack | spoon river anthology |
| "babbles of the fish-frys of long ago... of what abe lincoln said / one time at springfield." | spoon river anthology |
| "where are the clown, the boozer, the fighter... where is old fiddler jones?" | spoon river anthology |
| "the hill." | spoon river anthology |
| edgar lee masters | spoon river anthology |
| in rooney | emma |
| "the uncivil teacher of court etiquette kotsuke no suke" | universal history of infamy |
| "the widow ching - pirate." | universal history of infamy |
| fezziwig | ghost |
| "may god strike you dead, you two-faced scorpion! you thorn in my flesh!" | lorca |
| pepe el romano | lorca |
| angustias | lorca |
| "you would not believe, would you, / that i came from good welsh stock?" | spoon river anthology |
| "he oxygen, she hydrogen, / their son, a devastating fire." | spoon river anthology |
| margaret fuller | spoon river anthology |
| "i would have been as great as george eliot" | spoon river anthology |
| five ages of man | farm |
| geoponici | farm |
| columella | farm |
| perses | farm |
| "in the garden room" | ghost |
| all the year round | ghost |
| "below there!" | ghost |
| "the signal-man." | ghost |
| "and she was loved!" | song of solomon |
| "sugarman" | song of solomon |
| "your day has come" | song of solomon |
| "bag of gold" | song of solomon |
| mercy hospital | song of solomon |
| "fly." | song of solomon |
| "sharp pang of appetite" | mantel |
| "reminds him that it is time for a second breakfast." | mantel |
| "that dark center where procreation flared." | rilke |
| "paces in cramped circles" | rilke |
| "a thousand bars" | rilke |
| "thing poems," | rilke |
| new poems | rilke |
| "we cannot know his legendary head" | rilke |
| "archaic torso of apollo" | rilke |
| "trumpets for the sky itself to hear" | song of solomon |
| "sylvia's death." | sexton |
| khlestakov | government inspector |
| claire zachanassian | visit |
| mitch | mamet |
| "moon river." | tlon |
| in stephen mitchell | rilke |
| "ritual dance around a circle / in which a mighty will stands paralyzed." | rilke |
| "brilliance" | rilke |
| griboedov | massolit |
| charles brockden brown | ventriloquism |
| carwin | ventriloquism |
| wieland | ventriloquism |
| "affected by sort of a cold shadow of the white man's curiosity" | hawthorne |
| jennifer glaser | jew |
| "bee sequence" | plath |
| "sylvia, sylvia / where did you go / after you wrote me / from devonshire / about raising potatoes / and keeping bees?" | sexton |
| "the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe." | whitman |
| in satan says | body |
| "i have done what you wanted to do, walt whitman, / allen ginsberg" | body |
| "exceptional heroic" | body |
| "vivat, vivat, vivat, vivat." | imaginary invalid |
| phyllis | marriage |
| valere | marriage |
| tan twan eng | mist |
| cesaire | tempest |
| sarita | fornes |
| "earnestly entreateth the hermit to shrieve him" | gloss |
| "to teach, by his own example, love and reverence to all things." | gloss |
| lady lowborough | wildfell |
| tenant of wildfell hall | epistolary |
| jack halford | epistolary |
| "lonely old courage-teacher" | whitman |
| lunatic view | menace |
| " for 10 points each: this other pinter play was inspired by his own affair with bbc presenter joan bakewell. this nine scene " | betrayal |
| "a solitary human voice." | chernobyl |
| "why we love" | chernobyl |
| "great empire crumbled and fell apart." | chernobyl |
| william boot | journalist |
| master of ceremonies | mask |
| "prayer to masks" | senghor |
| beyond black | mantel |
| "something has died. isn't there now." | booker |
| masuji ono | booker |
| "less lovely" | party |
| bourton | party |
| "what passes for cookery in england is an abomination" | woolf |
| "a triumph." | daube |
| " for 10 points each: name this concept which a critic calls a " | menace |
| "king of the zipper" | ferris wheel |
| native companion at the illinois state fair | wallace |
| "ticket to the fair." | wallace |
| "consider the lobster" | wallace |
| maine lobster festival | wallace |
| ota | thousand cranes |
| oki toshio | beauty and sadness |
| keiko | beauty and sadness |
| domenico scarlatti | portuguese |
| blindness by jose saramago | portuguese |
| calicut | portuguese |
| "baby" | mamet |
| "talking about it" | mamet |
| "speaking about it as an idea" | mamet |
| carol in oleanna | mamet |
| "regional eroto-political contrast" | ferris wheel |
| "all is to be dared" | sappho |
| "ode to jealousy" | sappho |
| "many-colored mind" | sappho |
| "many-colored throne" | sappho |
| "be my ally" | sappho |
| "weaves wiles" | sappho |
| phaon | sappho |
| longinus | sappho |
| bei dao | mist |
| cruelty special to our species | korean |
| east coast magazine | ferris wheel |
| "poppy or charms can make us sleep as well" | donne |
| "swell'st." | donne |
| izaak walton | donne |
| wit | donne |
| in a franz grillparzer | sappho |
| eed | othello |
| oenone to paris | behn |
| heroides | behn |
| "sense of failure that is the source of almost all my anxiety" | italian |
| anita raja | ferrante |
| french communist | isherwood |
| prince albert tobacco | babbitt |
| "the zip city - zeal, zest and zowie" | babbitt |
| discovery one in arthur clarke | computer |
| in ellison | ape |
| red peter | ape |
| "creature" | heart of darkness |
| "bundles of acute angles" | heart of darkness |
| "as a snake would a bird." | heart of darkness |
| season of migration to the north | arabic |
| "arab and african." | othello |
| "bony scandalmonger" | hamlet |
| "blend of chalk and rot." | hamlet |
| in an ivan turgenev | hamlet |
| "call me [this character] of the shchigrovsky district." | hamlet |
| tsvetaeva | hamlet |
| "life is not a walk across a field" | doctor zhivago |
| adaptive manipulator | computer |
| aggressive menace | computer |
| oki | beauty and sadness |
| memoirs of a woman of pleasure | hill |
| john hill | fielding |
| christopher smart | pope |
| hilliad | pope |
| sophia parnok | tsvetaeva |
| "give you many / combs and rings" | tsvetaeva |
| the girlfriend | tsvetaeva |
| robby | mcewan |
| ted williams to hamlet | updike |
| "hub fans bid kid adieu." | updike |
| joe dimaggio | old man and the sea |
| ethan feld | chabon |
| cam island | chabon |
| meyer landsman | chabon |
| alaska in the yiddish policemen | chabon |
| "clashed swords with [him] twenty strokes" | akutagawa |
| "old potter's tale" | akutagawa |
| margaret edson | donne |
| "this is my play's last scene" | donne |
| "since she whom i loved hath paid her last debt," | donne |
| franz biberkopf | berlin |
| isherwood | berlin |
| leonard marnham | mcewan |
| "states and empires" | french |
| baltimore gun club | french |
| journey to the center of the earth by jules verne | french |
| micromegas | french |
| mt. stromboli | french |
| pond of blood | akutagawa |
| mountain of needles | akutagawa |
| "ascend to heaven" | akutagawa |
| chum frink | babbitt |
| seneca doane | babbitt |
| good citizen | babbitt |
| sinclair lewis | babbitt |
| monarch | babbitt |
| prout | babbitt |
| myra | babbitt |
| "comical history" | french |
| "failed cattle thief" | trujillo |
| "nothing ever ends, adrian" | watchmen |
| walter kovacs | watchmen |
| "the end is nigh" | watchmen |
| tomb for boris davidovich | kis |
| kis | joyce |
| dara mcanulty | diary |
| empathy exams | doctor |
| johnny the priest | anna christie |
| "deep, sluggish" | bayou |
| "had not often been disfigured by frowns" | bayou |
| "cursed with the brand of slavery." | desiree's baby |
| deerslayer | cooper |
| "sentimental and ... trite, reassuringly platitudinous." | fiedler |
| death in the american novel | fiedler |
| "come back to the raft ag'in, huck honey!" | fiedler |
| the dilemma of one | ghost |
| solomon wilberforce | season |
| ghana in an akosua busia | season |
| dry white | season |
| "the voice." | infernal machine |
| kitty duval | time of your life |
| nick's | time of your life |
| "tarts" | o'neill |
| summerland | chabon |
| "the end, just like a harp's sigh, comes light" | night |
| "longing for death." | night |
| "buying a fishing rod for my grandfather." | gao |
| guandi | temple |
| homegoing | gyasi |
| ama ata aidoo | ghost |
| eulalie | ghost |
| "town" | fish |
| richard marriot | fish |
| "somewhere behind turkenfeld," | sebald |
| michael hamburger | holocaust |
| "death fugue." | holocaust |
| giovanni drogo | buzzati |
| "i'll fergive her!" | street |
| devil's row | crane |
| "born too late." | robinson |
| "put a bullet through his head" | robinson |
| "richard cory." | robinson |
| "i have been slipping downhill long enough" | shoot |
| bear | shoot |
| serebryakov | shoot |
| young naturalist | diary |
| lamorna ash | fish |
| emperor of all maladies | doctor |
| biography of cancer | doctor |
| "tradition, touching all he sees / beguiles and reassures" | robinson |
| "she fears him, and will always ask / what fated her to choose him." | robinson |
| "in the middle of the road / like roland's ghost winding a silent horn" | robinson |
| "eros turannos" | robinson |
| "mr. flood's party" | robinson |
| "the days of old" | robinson |
| kind of alaska | doctor |
| "biography" | doctor |
| emil grubbe | doctor |
| william halsted | doctor |
| sidney farber | doctor |
| man who mistook his wife for a hat | doctor |
| oliver sacks | doctor |
| siddhartha mukherjee | doctor |
| yu hua | china |
| elia kazan | streetcar named desire |
| leslie jamison | doctor |
| mila | poland |
| "what krishna meant... when he admonished arjuna / on the field of battle" | eliot |
| "strong brown god." | eliot |
| "the cheater's guide to love," | yunior |
| how you lose her | yunior |
| benamuckee | friday |
| foe | friday |
| poll | friday |
| broken stars | china |
| frontiers of science | china |
| chronicle of a blood merchant | china |
| hugo award | china |
| body problem | china |
| wouk | fiddler on the roof |
| w. s. merwin | neruda |
| "nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die" | salinger |
| jimmy jimmerino | salinger |
| "miss spiritual tramp of 1948" | salinger |
| booper | salinger |
| michel tournier | friday |
| speranza | friday |
| "bluebeard," | bloody chamber |
| charles perrault | fairy tales |
| "state domain" | big man |
| "tell me who to kill," | naipaul |
| ". for 10 points each: aeschylus claims that the persians was " | frogs |
| "american everygirl who happens to be jewish." | wouk |
| pale of settlement | fiddler on the roof |
| "if i were a rich man" | fiddler on the roof |
| in like water for chocolate | esperanza |
| nenny in the house on mango street | esperanza |
| lost children archive | mexico |
| "understanding which has made a stranger a brother" | tagore |
| harald hjarne | endless |
| "in thy hands, my lord." | endless |
| "the broken wall, the burning roof and tower / and agamemnon dead" | leda |
| "a sudden blow." | leda |
| "some boy's been swinging them." | birches |
| prince hotaru | fireflies |
| tamakazura | fireflies |
| "facino cane" | human comedy |
| "the unknown masterpiece." | human comedy |
| "the presentation of credible experiences and happenings in literature." | realism |
| "copying a copy of the real." | barthes |
| laura esquivel | recipe |
| "pan-mediterranean muses," | ovid |
| nate silver | howards end |
| matthew lopez | howards end |
| efforts of affection | moore |
| "imaginary gardens with real toads in them" | moore |
| "well done, cutty-sark!" | drunk |
| "the ladder sways as the boughs bend." | apple pick |
| "to left and right" | birches |
| oscar hijuelos | pulitzer |
| lucas hnath | doll |
| wild duck | ibsen |
| catherine burroughs | closet |
| "dominated by a 'literary'... element conducive to the act of contemplation." | closet |
| songs of mihyar | syria |
| moral letters to lucilius | seneca |
| hercules furens | seneca |
| elizabeth temple | bumppo |
| the prairie and the | cooper |
| hagen | pnin |
| wickfield | uriah |
| "be drunk!" | spleen |
| "cup" | dice |
| maniac in dario fo | police |
| accidental death of an anarchist | police |
| "experiments with the action of magnetism had occupied public attention," | nose |
| "a newly fried pancake." | nose |
| kovalyov | nose |
| "in my barren land you are the final rose" | neruda |
"ah you who are silent!" | neruda |
| "there were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle." | neruda |
| "white hills, white thighs" | neruda |
| "body of a woman," | neruda |
| "o romeo, romeo! wherefore art thou romeo?" | balcony |
| elma | balcony |
| "what belongs to him or her and to none else" | sing |
| "what belongs to the day." | sing |
| "too" | sing |
| "the darker brother" | sing |
| "the universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion" | sing |
| "the body electric?" | sing |
| arab shakespeare trilogy | machine |
| heiner muller | ishiguro |
| william inge | balcony |
| bus stop | balcony |
| "my name, dear saint, is... is hateful to myself" | balcony |
| "my ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongue's utterance." | balcony |
| "camest thou hither" | balcony |
| "the orchard walls are high and hard to climb" | balcony |
| "of an ex-colored man." | autobiography |
| black boy | autobiography |
| "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 |
| juan carlos etchepare in heartbreak tango | puig |
| puig | argentina |
| "sun moon stars." | rain |
| garry essendine in present laughter | coward |
| chinese pidgin english in sea of poppies | india |
| "elvis puff." | india |
| sophie mol | india |
| amitav ghosh | india |
| rahel | india |
| jimmy aaron | autobiography |
| jane pittman | autobiography |
| "the horror and the glory." | autobiography |
| melquiades | die |
| franz kromer | demian |
| "clumsy" | glass menag |
| "you're one times one! you're blue roses!" | glass menag |
| "blow out your candles" | glass menag |
| amanda wingfield | glass menag |
| along with francois rabelais | dostoyevsky |
| great derangement | india |
| mrozek | absurd |
| sergeant pluck | ireland |
| third policeman | ireland |
| the st. cloud's orphanage | cider house rules |
| hester eastman | scarlet letter |
| father amador | die |
| colonel aponte | die |
| santiago nasar | die |
| dedicated to jessie pope | dulce et decorum est |
| "curse through sludge." | dulce et decorum est |
| book three of horace | dulce et decorum est |
| "gas! gas! quick, boys!" | dulce et decorum est |
| "kentucky straight bourbon" | glass menag |
| machines like me | mcewan |
| sophie von kuhn | hymn |
| westernized lakunle | lion and the jewel |
| "lovely road that runs" | cry, the beloved country |
| tixo | cry, the beloved country |
| "for the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts" | wilde |
| "funny little dwarf" | wilde |
| "the birthday of the infanta," | wilde |
| "is not private, but not final." | dulce et decorum est |
| "hanging face" | dulce et decorum est |
| "misty panes and thick green light." | dulce et decorum est |
| issa | japanese |
| shiki | japanese |
| "mastered all the arts of cowardice" | medea |
| "even greeks look down on other greeks, too clever to see the good in them." | medea |
| "to go home singing." | medea |
| "the tragedy is not that things are broken. the tragedy is that things are not mended again." | cry, the beloved country |
| "the unborn child that's inheritor of our fear." | cry, the beloved country |
| "destroy it and man is destroyed" | cry, the beloved country |
| sweet sorrow | coward |
| coward | blithe spirit |
| "ozymandias." | shelley |
| lapland | snow queen |
| western biological | cannery row |
| alias grace | atwood |
| critic laura miller | mcewan |
| "cutting word." | japanese |
| sydney pollack | out of africa |
| "squatters" | out of africa |
| "notes from an immigrant's handbook," | out of africa |
| shadows on the grass | out of africa |
| "moth machine" | out of africa |
| ngong hills | out of africa |
| kenya by danish | out of africa |
| emmanuelson | out of africa |
| the ' play | jesus |
| path of thunder | okigbo |
| "cataracts and hurricanoes" | lear |
| "rumble thy bellyful" | lear |
| "blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" | lear |
| "never, never, never, never, never" | lear |
| "wild to do something for father" | hair |
| eau claire | hair |
| jay cee for ladies | esther |
| eagle in sherwood anderson | willard |
| buddy | willard |
| adirondacks | willard |
| "scourge of penance" | everyman |
| good deeds | morality |
| second shepherds | jesus |
| passion play | jesus |
| ilujinle | lion and the jewel |
| the lion and the jewel | photographer |
| "not fear the devil himself," | land |
| "how much land does a man need?" | tolstoy |
| "happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" | tolstoy |
| "sketches" | sevastopol |
| kozeltsof | sevastopol |
| preference | sevastopol |
| sauron | ring |
| "sitting alone and remembering." | old gringo |
| cesarea tinajero in mexico in the savage detectives | bolano |
| ulises | bolano |
| "her salt tears fell from her, and softened the stones" | tree |
| coulibri plantation | rhys |
| "out flew the web and floated wide" | mirror |
| "isthmian," | pindar |
| bruno schulz | judaism |
| hippolyte tautain | club |
| 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 |
| "with a woman's head" | candle |
| "all of animated nature" | candle |
| "diversely framed." | candle |
| shankuntala | kalidas |
| reverend arthur villars | burney |
| evelina | burney |
| elmer rice | expressionism |
| adding machine | expressionism |
| sophie treadwell | expressionism |
| machinal | expressionism |
| oresteia of aeschylus | mourning becomes electra |
| "cinnamon shops," | judaism |
| hatton | out of africa |
| "cuckoo" | japanese |
| "but slowly, slowly!," | japanese |
| let him die | okigbo |
| biafra | okigbo |
| biafran war in half of a yellow sun | adichie |
| okigbo | adichie |
| okeoma | adichie |
| menedamus | self-tormentor |
| "at the hotel de bourgogne between de bergerac and a boeotian" | duel |
| devil in the white city | chicago world's fair |
| fair in jimmy corrigan | graphic novel |
| chris ware | graphic novel |
| art speigelman | graphic novel |
| triumph of death | d'annunzio |
| republic of fiume | d'annunzio |
| "explode his inward air" | hades |
| "lost his bottle of oil." | hades |
| "single" | pushkin |
| "great stage of fools." | lear |
| "shall break into a hundred thousand flaws" | lear |
| "man's life's as cheap as beast's" | lear |
| "swaggering soldier." | latin |
| "i am a man, i consider nothing human alien to me" | self-tormentor |
| "in silent night when rest i took," | fire |
| "adieu, adieu, all's vanity" | fire |
| "here stood that trunk, and there that chest." | fire |
| sir murtaugh | castle |
| sir patrick | castle |
| maria edgeworth | castle |
| condy | castle |
| otranto | castle |
| "nemean" | pindar |
| stephanie burt | callimachus |
| library of alexandria | callimachus |
| aetia | callimachus |
| tumblr | callimachus |
| pinakes | callimachus |
| "you cannot fold a flood-- / ... because the winds would find it out-- / and tell your cedar floor." | fire |
| "raise up thy thoughts above the sky / that dunghill mists away may fly." | fire |
| "so it feels like hell" | plath |
| "art, like everything else." | plath |
| "i have done it again." | plath |
| campensis | isis |
| poligraf poligrafovich in a mikhail bulgakov | dog |
| "junkman's obbligato" | coney island |
| "i am waiting." | coney island |
| "mexico city blues." | keroua |
| "the thieving magpie." | murakami |
| janacek's sinfonietta | murakami |
| ascent to heaven | mahabharata |
| hidimbi | mahabharata |
| bhishma | mahabharata |
| "dead hands, dead stringencies." | plath |
| "stasis in darkness" | plath |
"the arrow / the dew that flies." | plath |
| brently mallard | chopin |
| valmonde | chopin |
| zandrine | chopin |
| "the happiest of mortals, for he is above everything he possesses." | candide |
| admiral byng | candide |
| "to encourage the others." | candide |
| lieutenant mamiya | murakami |
| malta kano | murakami |
| d'annunzio | francesca |
| giovanni malatesta | francesca |
| "on the air" | welles |
| walk together | wilson |
| lafayette theater | harlem |
| "modern fiction" | shakespeare |
| english by constance garnett | shakespeare |
| torrents of spring | shakespeare |
| "elite" | boston |
| "brahmins." | boston |
| thayers | boston |
| "two-fifths genius, three-fifths sheer fudge" | lowell |
| "anesthesia" | holmes |
| "boston brahmin." | holmes |
| "the deacon's masterpiece." | holmes |
| moritz jaeger | hauptmann |
| horatio oliveira | hopscotch |
| talita | hopscotch |
| latin american boom | vargas |
| time of the hero | vargas |
| "how to write about africa" | granta |
| "how to write about pakistan." | granta |
| poet louise gluck | nobel |
| granta | nobel |
| " for 10 points each: in the third canto of this satirical byron epic, the title character and his lover haidee listen to a hymn lamenting turkey's rule over the " | don juan |
| isles of greece | don juan |
| " for 10 points each: byron addressed a ten-year old " | heart |
| maid of athens | heart |
| " in a poem that urges to " | heart |
| " this thing. byron's poem " | heart |
| " ends by praising " | heart |
| poetic justice | harjo |
| "i'm with you" | rockland |
| septimus harding | warden |
| hiram's hospital | warden |
| the barsetshire series | warden |
| trollope | thackeray |
| "and sons." | father |
| l'abri | desiree's |
| " for 10 points each: name this country that byron called a " | greece |
| serapion | all for love |
| palmyra | dry |
| wild gallant | jonson |
| every man | jonson |
| his humour | jonson |
| "sly fox" | jonson |
| arkham house | lovecraft |
| "the only real horror in most of these fictions is the horror of bad taste and bad art." | lovecraft |
| "polemic" | dictionary |
| simon winchester in the meaning of everything | dictionary |
| "child of hope and fear." | dictionary |
| father gassalasca jape | dictionary |
| sandwich islands | dictionary |
| "canvas-covered wagon" | chopin |
| coton mais | chopin |
| "lying in the shadow of the big stone pillar" | chopin |
| baron montes | balzac |
| delilah for a polish | balzac |
| "trahmp la-more" | balzac |
| at madame vauquer | balzac |
| "vough-care" | balzac |
| "vough-trahn" | balzac |
| "yoo-zhan day rahs-tin-yahc" | balzac |
| princess ateh | dictionary |
| in hauptmann | fairies |
| sunken bell | fairies |
| elisabeth hauptmann | brecht |
| "play with music" | brecht |
| "the key is in the sunlight at the window." | ginsburg |
| "queer shoulder to the wheel" | ginsburg |
| "i've given you all and now i'm nothing." | ginsburg |
| "what sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls?" | ginsburg |
| "] is found stuffed in a chimney after being murdered by an orangutan. c. auguste dupin [" | poe |
| "] features in many stories by, for 10 points, what author of " | poe |
| with salvatore quasimodo | montale |
| hermetic tradition | montale |
| the children's hour | hellman |
| red channels | blacklist |
| "unrepentant" | blacklist |
| screenwriters ring lardner | blacklist |
| "alien corn" | bird |
| "poet hidden in the light of thought" | bird |
| "half the gladness that thy brain must know." | bird |
| "hail to thee, blithe spirit!" | bird |
| jacques lacan | poe |
| "luh-cawn" | poe |
| "even and odd." | poe |
| "gruff' voice. minister d hides the titular letter in a card rack and returns it for 50,000 francs in a story by this author. in another story by this author, camille l'espanaye [" | poe |
| andric | turk |
| tea obreht | tiger |
| "the fragrance of the lemon trees" | montale |
| "the disinherited one" | knight |
| wamba | knight |
| "our sincerest laughter with some pain is drought" | bird |
| "rose embower'd in its own green leaves." | bird |
| "never known the weariness, the fever, and the fret" | bird |
| howard phillips lovecraft | lovecraft |
| daniel jose older | lovecraft |
| cthulhu | lovecraft |
| "stranger, bear word to the spartans we..." | boll |
| "dominant point of reference" | italian |
| ti noel | haiti |
| the corrections | oprah |
| bridge on the drina | turk |
| "possibility" | island |
| stone pits | raveloe |
| dunstan | raveloe |
| raveloe | eliot |
| "the sea like a vast silvered mirror reflects the sky like a sheet of zinc." | symphony in gray major |
| "to roosevelt" | dario |
azul (collection) | dario |
| "a man without land is nobody." | montreal |
| "just above my chamber door" | pallas |
| "pallid" | raven |
| "the glory that was greece, / and the grandeur that was rome." | helen |
| red sorghum | mo |
| "don't speak." | mo |
| jed martin | houellebecq |
| ayad akhtar | trump |
| homeland elegies | trump |
| toole | new orleans |
| colin clout | shepheardes |
| spenser | sidney |
| astrophel | sidney |
| avalon coldmoon | soseki |
| "my master." | soseki |
| glenn gould | austria |
| trotta | roth |
| hellman | blacklist |
| "struck and banded which way please them" | tennis ball |
| "to gun-stones" | tennis ball |
| bosola | tennis ball |
| paradise vendors | confederacy of dunces |
| john kennedy toole | confederacy of dunces |
| reilly | confederacy of dunces |
| last gentleman | new orleans |
| "exile song" | brazil |
| "my land has palm trees where the thrush sings." | brazil |
| "a glimpse of yellow lemons" | montale |
| "the golden trumpets of radiance" | montale |
| "thunder their songs" | montale |
| unlike ungaretti | montale |
| italian hermeticism | montale |
| jarrow | bede |
| katherine paterson | bridge to terabithia |
| twinkies | bridge to terabithia |
| easter mass | bridge to terabithia |
| "isn't there someone kind enough to strangle me in my sleep?" | akutagawa |
| "the black sluggard." | knight |
| boeing | yoyodyne |
| yoyodyne | pynchon |
| venetian epigrams | goethe |
| "mimes, in the form of god on high... / hither and thither fly" | poe |
| "blood red thing" | poe |
| "writhes" | poe |
| "mimic rout." | poe |
| "create a sensation" | poe |
| janice avery | bridge to terabithia |
| may belle | bridge to terabithia |
| "god'll damn you to hell when you die" | bridge to terabithia |
| concept of the political | schmitt |
| clayton chiclitz | yoyodyne |
| stanley koteks | yoyodyne |
| "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 |
| "brothers poem" | sappho |
| "lady of beauty" | sappho |
| "deathless child of zeus" | sappho |
| lesbos | sappho |
a minor apocalypse (language) | polish |
| kris kelvin | polish |
| christian lygia | polish |
| our american cousin | lincoln |
| tubingen | holderlin |
| "delusion notes." | nietzsche |
| yusuke kafuku | murakami |
| "drive my car," | beatles |
| "a book that one thumbs / listlessly till slumber comes." | harlem renaissance |
| "like a pipe for a christmas present, or records" | harlem renaissance |
| "bessie, bop, bach." | harlem renaissance |
| "heritage" | harlem renaissance |
| "we are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan" | brooks |
| "kitchenette building." | brooks |
| "wispy... 'kilroy-is-here' announcements;" | brooks |
| grace poole | bertha |
| edna o'brien | joyce |
| "is it about a bicycle?" | third policeman |
| flann o'brien | third policeman |
| de selby | third policeman |
| mathers | third policeman |
| pluck | third policeman |
| "turkish pavilion." | julie |
| "crazy again tonight! absolutely crazy!" | julie |
| "lupi ad anglos," | sermon |
| "sinners in the hands of an angry god." | sermon |
| mandrake | machiavelli |
| finn mac cool | o'brien |
| mad king sweeney | o'brien |
| pooka mcphillimey | o'brien |
| in flann | joyce |
| dalkey archive | joyce |
| memory of departure | gurnah |
| "god sees the truth, but waits." | tolstoy |
| kingdom of god is within you | tolstoy |
| red hook | view from the bridge |
| eddie | view from the bridge |
| ambeth ocampo | rizal |
| crisostomo ibarra | rizal |
| makamisa | rizal |
| "postmodern novelist." | delillo |
| "to my husband," | cope |
| lachlan mackinnon | cope |
| "waste land limericks" | cope |
| holy thursday | chrysostom |
| liturgy of saint basil | chrysostom |
| against the jews | chrysostom |
| paschal | chrysostom |
| mongane wally serote | dry white season |
| "for don m - banned" | dry white season |
| captain stolz | dry white season |
| melanie bruwer | dry white season |
| gordon ngubene | dry white season |
| ben du toit | dry white season |
| "every photograph reinforces the aura" | barn |
| "most photographed" | barn |
| hard day | beatles |
| yellow submarine | beatles |
| a 's night | beatles |
| dark horse comics | escapist |
| amazing midget radio comics | escapist |
| empire comics | escapist |
| john buchan | thirty-nine steps |
| richard hannay | thirty-nine steps |
| "spy glass." | hurston |
| "the gilded six bits" | hurston |
| simoun | rizal |
| ton beau | marot |
| "ballad of the ladies of times past" | villon |
| "dean of american letters" | howells |
| thomas bailey aldrich | chestnutt |
| "the goophered grapevine," | chestnutt |
| mrs quabarl | saki |
| rape of the sabine women | saki |
| wilfrid | saki |
| beasts and super-beasts | saki |
| sappleton | saki |
| missie may | hurston |
| otis slemmons | hurston |
| "the shadow of the empire state building" | hurston |
| niels klim | latin |
| helen waddell | latin |
| "wandering scholars" | latin |
| "monstrous and empty," | latin |
| benediktbeuern abbey | latin |
| thomas of celano | latin |
| "day of wrath." | latin |
| archpoet | latin |
| "alexandrian stanza" | emerson |
| "forward, backward, or across." | emerson |
| "envy is ignorance" | emerson |
| "imitation is suicide . . ." | emerson |
| "to be great is to be misunderstood." | emerson |
| "currents of the universal being" | emerson |
| "part and parcel with god" | emerson |
| "conformity" | emerson |
| frank novak | boy, snow, bird |
| at the whitman | boy, snow, bird |
| "fantastic" | fox |
| bean in a roald dahl | fox |
| oyeyemi | fox |
| boggis | fox |
| bunce | fox |
| william congreve | mourning bride |
| mikis theodorakis | greek |
| "i woke with this marble head in my hands" | greek |
| mythistorema | greek |
| "six principles of political realism" | morgenthau |
| politics among nations | morgenthau |
| purpose of american politics | morgenthau |
| nella larsen | passing |
| snow white by oyeyemi | boy, snow, bird |
| "wrestles with" | gorilla |
| "principle of universal discovery." | physicist |
| friedrich durrenmatt | switzerland |
| in the physicists | solomon |
| olanna | half of a yellow sun |
| madame koto | famished road |
| like yiannis ritsos | cavafy |
| "common attic." | cavafy |
| dugal mcadoo | chestnutt |
| "plantation tradition" | chestnutt |
| conjure woman | chestnutt |
| howells | chestnutt |
| christian monty kipps | on beauty |
| belsey | on beauty |
| kipps | united kingdom |
"how can i face such slaughter and be cool?" | a far cry from africa |
| allan woodcourt | summerson |
| "the band sounded louder and gayer" | new zealand |
| janet frame | mansfield |
| scott in mansfield | horse |
| frame | horse |
| master of hestviken | undset |
| tiina nunnally | undset |
| the wreath and the wife | undset |
| "heed the false calculations of chaldean" | horace |
| "envious age has been flying," | horace |
| leucothoe | horace |
| carmina | horace |
| "acrostic" | emerson |
| "comedies" | restoration |
| "where i'm calling from" | carver |
| "affirms something." | cathedral |
| "darkness dread & drear." | blake |
| "sunned" | blake |
| "with smiles / and with soft deceitful wiles," | blake |
| "and what shoulder, and what art, / could twist the sinews of thy heart? " | blake |
| "earth's answer" | blake |
| "who could frame thy fearful symmetry?" | blake |
| "for whom do you bind your golden hair" | horace |
| "faithless" | horace |
| "heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd." | mourning bride |
| country wife | restoration |
| "sferics" | pynchon |
| "mondaugen's story." | pynchon |
| the secret postal service | pynchon |
| "all that remained for me of catholicism was its smell" | drum |
| jan | drum |
| "break this heavy chain / that does freeze my bones around!" | blake |
| "middle" | comedy |
| pyrgopolynices in roman | comedy |
| antiphanes | comedy |
| knemon | comedy |
| masaoka shiki | tanka |
| james graham ballard | ballard |
| "lowlife and high tech" | ballard |
| neuromancer | ballard |
| "much madness is divinest sense," | 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 |
| "woeful" | nurse |
| "lamentable" | nurse |
| "opinion" | comedy |
| "proof" | comedy |
| "each age" | dickinson |
| "lens / disseminating their circumference." | dickinson |
| "assent" | dickinson |
| "demur," | dickinson |
| "you're straightaway dangerous - / and handled with a chain." | dickinson |
| "crescent above" | dickinson |
| "worlds scoop their arcs - and firmaments - row - diadems drop." | dickinson |
| "the poets light but lamps," | dickinson |
| lucy terry | bars fight |
| harriet jacobs | wilson |
| aunt ester in gem of the ocean | wilson |
| william wells brown | jefferson |
| sally hemings | jefferson |
| notes on the state of virginia | jefferson |
| "ya," | cutting |
| "furu ike ya." | cutting |
| belbo | foucault's pendulum |
| dan brown | da vinci code |
| robert langdon | da vinci code |
| pendulum | da vinci code |
| emperor mata kharibu | dance of the forests |
| lady tortoise | dance of the forests |
| nigeria in death | soyinka |
| for nigeria | mask |
| william empson | shakespeare |
| "let us offer our pinch of dust all to this god" | shakespeare |
| "first known author in world literature." | enheduanna |
| weigle | enheduanna |
| decad | hymn |
| cuneiform | sumerian |
| vincent starrett | holmes |
| colonel ardenti | foucault's pendulum |
| an account of my hut | zuihitsu |
| "awful" | row |
| "the island called god." | row |
| an awful rowing toward god | sexton |
| "i have gone out, a possessed witch" | sexton |
| part way back | sexton |
| like sharon olds | confessional |
| "acquired more essential history from plutarch than most men could from" | shakespeare |
| "cybernetic culture" | cyberpunk |
| sheridan le fanu | cyberpunk |
| lord ruthven | cyberpunk |
| carmilla | cyberpunk |
| bev | clybourne park |
russ (stoller) | clybourne park |
| bev and russ | lindner |
| "follow the brush." | zuihitsu |
| "lean and slipper'd pantaloon" | jaques |
| "all the world" | jaques |
| "it's no sin to sin in confidence" | tartuffe |
| "moment of unkindness." | tartuffe |
| life of alexander | plutarch |
| "an epitome of bierce's strange doomed and constricted life" | patriotic gore |
| "theory and play." | duende |
| "duende" | lope de vega |
| "some blessed hope, whereof he knew" | hardy |
| "how did you find the quarrel on the seventh cause?" | jaques |
| "retort courteous," | jaques |
| "quip modest," | jaques |
| "reply churlish" | jaques |
| "full of strange oaths," | jaques |
| "bubble reputation, even in the cannon's mouth." | jaques |
| duke senior | jaques |
| "dream vision" | gower |
| on isis | plutarch |
| "gentlemen" | hardy |
| "pythagoras, thucydides, / herodotus, and homer ... burnt brightlier towards their setting-day." | hardy |
| "tangled bine-stems scored the sky / like strings of broken lyres." | hardy |
| "the land's features" | hardy |
| "corpse outleant." | hardy |
| "happy good-night air" | hardy |
| district officer pilkings | mask |
| the king's horseman, amusa | mask |
| strait | gide |
| gate | gide |
| "problem plays." | troilus and criseyde |
| "nun's priest's tale" | chaucer |
| speculum meditantis | gower |
| vox clamantis | gower |
| roger avary | los angeles |
| alan steinberg | abdul-jabbar |
| "why the host of 'jeopardy!' matters" | abdul-jabbar |
| anna waterhouse | abdul-jabbar |
| mycroft holmes | abdul-jabbar |
| great epics | tamil |
| sangam | tamil |
| kannagi | tamil |
| "the story of my dovecot." | babel |
| bill buford | bukowski |
| "godfather" | bukowski |
| "dirty realism." | bukowski |
| henry chinaski | bukowski |
| detective nicky belane | los angeles |
| ferdinand celine in a bukowski | los angeles |
| "the gold watch" | los angeles |
| augusto monterroso | flash |
| tyrannosaurus rex | bradbury |
| "a nobleman and his sister." | letter |
| earl of rochester | disappointment |
| "the hell of impotence" | disappointment |
| cloris | disappointment |
| "you spoiled the song," | gorky |
| "i owe everything to that meeting." | babel |
| "modern poets" | liverpool |
| "modern classics" | liverpool |
| paperbacks | liverpool |
| adrian henri | penguin |
| revelation motor company | fran |
| dodsworth | lewis |
| trisolaris | liu |
| "when he woke up, the dinosaur was still there" | flash |
| "there would still have been milton and the universal alphabet." | eliza |
| sylvy | white heron |
| "boston marriage" | jewett |
| annie adams fields | jewett |
| "handsome, clever, and rich" | austen |
| corsican brothers | dumas |
| pierre picaud | count of monte cristo |
| isaac laquedem | wandering jew |
| charles shields | go set a watchman |
| "careless indictment" | go set a watchman |
| tonja carter | go set a watchman |
| "happy as hell" | go set a watchman |
| institute for union with nothingness | house of the spirits |
| red lantern | house of the spirits |
| transito soto | house of the spirits |
| "barabbas came to us by sea," | house of the spirits |
| last party | mailer |
| adele morales | mailer |
| "nonfiction novel" | mailer |
| gaylen | mailer |
| "mattress-grave," | german |
| "will the despotism of the earthly never cease?" | german |
| hymns to the night | german |
| almansor | german |
| tolkappiyam | grammar |
| panini's ashtadhyayi | grammar |
| yande codou | senghor |
| adboulaye sadji | damas |
| jeanne nardal | damas |
| "three fathers" | damas |
| paulette | damas |
| pigments | damas |
| anne de breuil | milady |
| fleur-de-lis | milady |
| "there are no flies or mosquitoes to sting you," | john |
| "rid of them centuries ago" | john |
| girl of mataski | john |
| imitation of christ | john |
| "art, science, and religion" | john |
| helmholtz watson | john |
| political justice | godwin |
| "drunken, vainglorious lout" | easter rising |
| "her nights in argument" | easter rising |
| "voice grew shrill." | easter rising |
| "changed, changed utterly" | easter rising |
| enishte | istanbul |
| lord sudley | milady |
| templemar | milady |
| "the prince of aquitaine, his tower in ruins" | desdichado |
| literary souvenirs | art for art's sake |
| mildred douglas | hairy ape |
| "drink! don't think!" | ship |
ann radcliffe (work) | the mysteries of udolpho |
| aubert | mysteries of udolpho |
| like the monk | gothic |
| adventures of caleb williams | godwin |
| eugene sue | wandering jew |
| ahasuerus in jan potocki | wandering jew |
| manuscript found in saragossa | wandering jew |
| rennepont | wandering jew |
| "vague des passions" | romantic |
| rene de chateaubriand's | romantic |
| chimeras in nerval | desdichado |
| les filles | desdichado |
| dorfman | kushner |
| "panegyrick" | cromwell |
| "could not cease in the inglorious arts of peace," | cromwell |
| "horatian ode." | cromwell |
| "some village-hampden," | elegy written in a country churchyard |
| "monody on queen caroline." | west |
| "i fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, and weep the more because i weep in vain." | west |
| gray's elegy | west |
denise levertov (movement) | black mountain |
| "projective verse" | black mountain |
charles olson (movement) | black mountain |
| "because i do not hope to turn again" | ash wednesday |
| guido cavalcanti | ash wednesday |
| terence mcnally | kiss |
| valentin arregui | kiss |
| "a gay fantasia on national themes" | kushner |
| anita | desai |
| raghuvamsa | sita |
| prithvi | sita |
| congo river | conrad |
| alphonse keyaerts | heart of darkness |
| keyarts | heart of darkness |
| carlier | heart of darkness |
| "fathered" | san francisco |
| jack abbott | mailer |
| in the belly of the beast | mailer |
| carnal prayer mat | scholar |
| wu jingzi | scholar |
| du shaoqing | scholar |
| "scholar-beauty" | dream of the red chamber |
| "the management of grief." | mukherjee |
| artist of disappearance | desai |
| "but who can talk of give and take" | easter rising |
| "sixteen men were shot?" | easter rising |
| "if excess of love / bewildered them till they died?" | easter rising |
| "in the midst of it all" | easter rising |
| "hearts with one purpose alone" | easter rising |
| "there be no sadness of farewell,/ when i embark;" | crossing the bar |
| "boundless deep." | crossing the bar |
| wolfram von eschenbach | grail |
| "poplar of water" | paz |
| disjunctions | paz |
| family idiot | emma |
| "more polished than the ivory of dieppe" | emma |
| homais | emma |
| monica in munich | forster |
| malabar caves | forster |
| wych elm tree | forster |
| "rock drill" | pound |
| "thrones" | pound |
| "faces in the crowd." | pound |
| "baffling hermeticism" | paz |
| "bleeding," | paz |
| "humiliated christ" | paz |
| "the sons of" | paz |
| "calm course of a star," | paz |
| "hamlets" | turgenev |
| "i came here to forgive, but all i can do is take pleasure in your misery." | rosenberg |
| e.l. doctorow's | rosenberg |
| story of a marriage | greer |
| hippie boy | stick |
| grand lord | hell |
| "old bitch gone in the teeth." | pound |
| "for three years, / was out of sync with his time." | pound |
| abab | pound |
| "botched civilization" | pound |
| "broad-backed hippopotamus" | eliot |
| "rests on his belly in the mud." | eliot |
| " and which opens " | eliot |
| " another of his speakers is asked a question by the smyrna merchant " | eliot |
| " after converting to anglicanism, this author wrote " | eliot |
| " he used the sanskrit words shantih, shantih, shantih to close a poem that begins " | eliot |
| "stud" | chile |
| "between the streets and the air" | chile |
| "like an empty net" | chile |
| "the hour of the spell that blazed like a lighthouse" | chile |
| "a tawdry cheapness" | pound |
| "shall reign throughout our days," | pound |
| "the sage heraclitus" | pound |
| "all things are are a-flowing." | pound |
| "costly thy habit as thy purse can buy" | polonius |
| "the apparel oft proclaims the man." | polonius |
| "borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry" | polonius |
| "my blessing season in thee." | polonius |
| "oh, i am slain," | polonius |
| "brevity is the soul of wit." | polonius |
| "noble son is mad." | polonius |
| "bud" | chile |
| "e-r-o-s" | cupid |
| soolt | tristan |
| denoalan | tristan |
| iseult | tristan |
| "every word [this author] writes is a lie" | hellman |
| regina hubbard | hellman |
| pentimento | hellman |
| "corambis." | polonius |
| thomas chatterton | keats |
| marguerite mason | duino elegies |
| "secret thesis" | duino elegies |
| "most painful event" | duino elegies |
| "the greatest." | duino elegies |
| "first notes of song" | duino elegies |
| "barren numbness." | duino elegies |
| "read the poet gaspara stampa sufficiently yet?" | duino elegies |
| "the eternal feminine draws us on." | faust |
| thales | faust |
| "mind's bible" | keats |
| "a vale of soul-making." | keats |
| john gibson lockhart | keats |
| "it is better to be a starving apothecary than a starving poet" | keats |
| "will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us." | keats |
| "the man of achievement" | keats |
| mah-jongg | joy luck club |
| "puckish," | six |
| "malicious," | six |
| "nimble little maidservant" | six |
| don abbondio | six |
| "the stepchild," | six |
| chestny | everything that rises must converge |
| "neptunist" | faust |
| "restock to the earth." | maupassant |
| "useless beauty" | maupassant |
| "paste." | maupassant |
| hauchecome | maupassant |
| "queen mother of the western skies," | joy luck club |
| "american translation." | joy luck club |
| mei woo | joy luck club |
| popo | joy luck club |
| "of liars" | montaigne |
| "of ancient customs" | montaigne |
| "of cannibals," | montaigne |
| "attempts." | montaigne |
| "the man who lived underground," | wright |
| detective britten | wright |
| eight men | wright |
| kitchen shack with the communist jan erlone | wright |
| sissy jupe | school |
| tom brown | school |
| bitzer | school |
| m'choakumchild | school |
| flashman | school |
| "we have bastardized ... to please our corrupt taste" | montaigne |
| king charles ix | montaigne |
| "but hold! they do not wear trousers" | montaigne |
| hod | balder |
| greek kronia | saturnalia |
| "when i was one-and-twenty" | 22 |
| nemean odes | pindar |
| celebrations of hestia | donkey |
| "pry" | donkey |
| rose stanley | school |
| "quadruped graminivorous," | school |
| "threnodic essence" | soyinka |
| "sadly familiar reductionist tendency." | soyinka |
| "not hate progress, only its nature / which makes all roofs and faces look the same" | soyinka |
| true church | eliot |
| "can never fail / for it is based upon a rock," | eliot |
| "lifts her leafy arms" | pray |
| malakas | philippines |
| maganda | philippines |
"it bites my eyes like a mad dog" | lysistrata |
| "sex strike" | lysistrata |
| calonice | lysistrata |
| "safety first," | school |
| "goodness, truth, and beauty, come first." | school |
| "before the curtain," | thackeray |
| lester mead | banana |
strong wind | banana (trilogy) |
| "to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of god" | burgess |
| kenneth toomey in earthly powers | burgess |
| "milk-plus," | burgess |
| "an enemy of all religion," | frederick |
| "horrible hypocrisy" | frederick |
| "magical root" | frederick |
| sandy jenkins | frederick |
| anna murray | frederick |
| blee | saramago |
| "the country of the blind" | wells |
| griffin | wells |
| code of the woosters | reginald |
blandings castle | wodehouse |
| "elementary, my dear." | john |
| psmith | john |
| carlo campanati | burgess |
| drexel | wright |
| ernie | wright |
| pierre teilhard | everything that rises must converge |
| omega point | everything that rises must converge |
| "cushion with the stuffing out" | everything that rises must converge |
| don dubrow | nickel |
| brau | nickel |
| sahr | saramago |
| "tried to leave" | tom |
| "more faithful than he intended to be." | tom |
| "emissary from the world of reality" | tom |
| "dick steele" | thackeray |
| english humorists of the eighteenth century | thackeray |
| "no stir in the air, no stir in the sea, the ship was still as she could be." | inchcape |
| "the inchcape rock" | southey |
| prince of tides | conroy |
| quartilla | petronius |
| giton | petronius |
| "building blocks" | beowulf |
| "flood timber" | beowulf |
| "with a hostile world" | beowulf |
| "fate will unwind as it must," | beowulf |
| nowell codex | beowulf |
| sund | beowulf |
| "anecdote of the jar" | stevens |
| anopopei | naked and the |
| the naked and the dead | mailer |
| piet wetjoen | boer |
| "tone" | boer |
| "elegance." | petronius |
| "arbiter" | petronius |
| tigellinus | petronius |
| miguel asturias | banana |
| "dweller in truth." | egypt |
| "common people" | egypt |
| lawrence durrell | egypt |
| ilish | egypt |
al-sayyid | mahfouz |
| "no ... we have nothing to ask him." | candide |
| "was round upon the ground" | anecdote of the jar |
| khor | sportsman's sketches |
| kalinych | sportsman's sketches |
| "diary" | superfluous |
| tim o'brien's | vietnam |
| "on earth we're briefly gorgeous" | drown |
| "between my arms." | drown |
| "handsomest... man in the world" | drown |
| vuong | drown |
| "answered the hardest question right." | as i lay dying |
| reverend whitfield | as i lay dying |
| macgowan | as i lay dying |
| "highest excellence o'er power" | laura |
| "golden hair" | laura |
| "away from all that is base" | laura |
| "sestet," | laura |
| "forest and steppe." | sportsman's sketches |
| "doggerel verse" | stone |
| "precious jade." | stone |
| "sprightly words" | decameron |
| lisabetta | decameron |
| ciappelletto | decameron |
| filocolo | decameron |
| salvage the bones | as i lay dying |
| esch batiste | as i lay dying |
| great santini | conroy |
| pat conroy | wolfe |
| look homeward | wolfe |
| asheville | wolfe |
| japan to canada | life of pi |
| much of gravity | world war ii |
| doych | hopkins |
| illusory land of the great void | stone |
| "bed and company" | fairies |
| titania in william shakespeare | fairies |
| peaseblossom | fairies |
| mustardseed | fairies |
| mab | fairies |
| "sinister design" | auguste |
| "too cunning to be profound." | auguste |
| silence of the girls | iliad |
"the grand march" | the unbearable lightness of being |
| "es muss sein!" | unbearable lightness of being |
| tereza by milan kundera | unbearable lightness of being |
| "freckles" | fairies |
| "pensioners" | fairies |
| "bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs," | fairies |
| "tithe-pig's tail," | fairies |
| "team of little atomi." | fairies |
| punch | thackeray |
| the sundial | hill house |
| "smart lad" | shropshire lad |
| "betimes away" | shropshire lad |
| "montale's black lucifer" | unbearable lightness of being |
| "ovid's fragile medusa" | unbearable lightness of being |
| six memos for the new millennium | unbearable lightness of being |
| "einmal ist keinmal." | unbearable lightness of being |
| ashburnham house | nowell |
| story of europe | octopus |
| shelgrim | octopus |
| in frank norris | train |
| southwestern trust | train |
| "the symbol of a vast power, huge, terrible." | train |
| "snob" | thackeray |
| "i must be my own mamma." | thackeray |
| "the hard stool," | waiting for godot |
| "the scapegoat's agony" | waiting for godot |
| "think!" | waiting for godot |
| "personal god quaquaquaqua." | waiting for godot |
"five pennies is a nickel" | welty |
| "what are those blue remembered hills, / what spires, what farms are those?" | shropshire lad |
| "the land of lost content." | shropshire lad |
| "beacon burns" | shropshire lad |
| three hundred poems | li |
| "at sixteen you departed, you went ... by the river of swirling eddies" | li |
| "three men" | li |
| "bai" | li |
| "po" | li |
| de haarlemse toneelschuur | waiting for godot |
| "women don't have prostates." | waiting for godot |
| "the net," | waiting for godot |
| "slave breaker" | covey |
| aulds | covey |
| incidents in the life of a slave girl | harriet |
| belgravia | hopkins |
| germinie lacerteux | goncourt |
| "same caliber" | tom |
| little eva | tom |
| akim | tom |
| "whole works" | iliad |
| cyclops | odyssey |
| "tell me about a" | complicated |
| "much turning." | complicated |
| "of '98." | generation |
| "of '27." | generation |
| in mist | cervantes |
| fermor | odes |
| zal | simurg |
| farid ud | simurg |
| "the chambered nautilus" | holmes |
| "the autocrat of the breakfast table" | holmes |
| "mere thinker." | emerson |
| "aye tear her tattered ensign down" | ship |
| "old ironsides." | ship |
| "disappeared in the dead of winter" | yeats |
| "sad" | shepherd |
| "sons of ben," | suckling |
| "ballade upon a wedding." | suckling |
| vera knoop | rilke |
| "there rose a tree. o pure transcendence!" | rilke |
| "let the rose blossom each year" | sonnet |
| "eyes like ripening fruit." | archaic torso of apollo |
| din attar | simurg |
| w.c. handy | if beale street could talk |
| "orchard fruits" | rossetti |
| "frosty wind made moan" | in the bleak midwinter |
| "earth stood hard as iron" | in the bleak midwinter |
| british christmas | in the bleak midwinter |
| magnificent ambersons | tarkington |
| remedios the beauty | fold |
| fernanda | fold |
| "fifty years to-night / that god saved the queen." | shropshire lad |
| "i cheer a dead man's sweetheart, / never ask me whose" | shropshire lad |
| "is my team ploughing?" | shropshire lad |
| "townsman of a stiller town," | shropshire lad |
| claudio gatti | ferrante |
| "confirmed" | kundera |
| tommaso debenedetti | kundera |
| giovanni's room | baldwin |
| bartell d'arcy's | dubliners |
| "no title" | li |
| rene gallimard | butterfly |
| song liling | butterfly |
| pythian odes | corinna |
| carol shields | canada |
| stone diaries | canada |
| box man | sebald |
| mcmurphy | asylum |
| wymark | asylum |
| ladies' day | asylum |
| randle p | asylum |
| father purdon | dubliners |
| "spiritual accountant." | dubliners |
| "i think he died for me." | dubliners |
| tom kernan | dubliners |
peter ackroyd | biography |
| rugby school | biography |
| the rambler | biography |
| "bog in the history department" | who's |
| "some bookworm." | who's |
| "here we go round the mulberry bush" | who's |
| "bland, intellectual joke" | who's |
| joan gilling | asylum |
| "scratches its innocent behind on a tree" | auden |
| encolpius | satyricon |
| "about as sensitive as a ... toilet seat." | salinger |
| "hapworth 16, 1924." | salinger |
| sandy stranger | nun |
| spark | nun |
| slop | sterne |
| "personal knowledge." | biography |
| "necessary explanation" | idiot |
| "enormous, implacable, and dumb" | idiot |
| "a completely beautiful human being" | idiot |
| nastasya filippovna | idiot |
| ippolit | idiot |
| rogozhin | idiot |
| in human | sterne |
| all too human | sterne |
| leonard in the boer war | butler |
| "pleasantly surprise his boss" | butler |
| "herr ribbentrop." | butler |
| weymouth | butler |
| "beneath the falls." | snow |
| "[flows] down inside" | snow |
| runaway horses | snow |
| satoko | snow |
| marathi | mistry |
| "instapoet." | kaur |
| walther von | linden |
| vogelweide | linden |
| sam craig | our town |
| sissy rommely | tree grows in brooklyn |
| aunt sissy by francie | tree grows in brooklyn |
| sissy | tree grows in brooklyn |
| "the fire sermon." | waste land |
| odd couple | simon |
| anne ferris | hotel |
| elyot | hotel |
| "zek" | ivan |
| life of pi by the canadian | india |
| other canadian | mistry |
| such a long journey | mistry |
| "the bear." | go down, moses |
| black national anthem | sing |
| "lift every voice and [perform this action] / till earth and heaven ring" | sing |
| fra cristoforo | betrothed |
| "the unnamed." | betrothed |
| nnedi okorafor | science |
| binti | science |
| nii parkes | ghana |
| "patient griselda." | decameron |
| lady murasaki shikibu | genji |
| "all animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it" | butler |
| way of all flesh | bildungsroman |
| "i'm lonely--i'll make me a world" | johnson |
| "the creation," | johnson |
| "o black and unknown bards" | go down, moses |
| "at the creation, ever heard a theme / nobler than [this spiritual]?" | go down, moses |
| "tropical" | philippines |
| nick joaquin | philippines |
| "seven tales" | philippines |
| fiver | watership down |
| "sort of thrilled" | smash |
| pancho rodriguez | smash |
| good samaritan | parable |
| parable of the ring | decameron |
| "squirrel-soul" | sterne |
| "the freest writer." | sterne |
| eliza draper | sterne |
| katie | tree grows in brooklyn |
| royal welch fusiliers | world war i |
| soviet art | pasternak |
| "promenade of discoveries" | gide |
| notes on chopin | gide |
| arlecchino | commedia dell'arte |
| interior | maeterlinck |
| melisande | maeterlinck |
| wilbur schramm in iowa | writing |
| iowa writers | smiley |
| national book critics choice award | smiley |
| thousand acres | smiley |
| aubrey beardsley | rape of the lock |
| iyaloja | market |
| "aunts of all kinds are damned bad things" | she stoops to conquer |
| aunt pedigree | she stoops to conquer |
| aunt dahlia | wooster |
| "aunt agatha takes the count." | wooster |
| in aunts aren | watson |
| sign of four | watson |
| guignol | commedia dell'arte |
| rubin carter | boxer |
| "hurricane" | boxer |
| algren | boxer |
| "runcible spoon" | lear |
| "the owl and the pussycat." | lear |
| "frumious bandersnatch" | carroll |
| "callooh! callay!" | chortle |
| amusa | market |
| homegoing by yaa gyasi | ghana |
| anna wulf | lessing |
| sci-fi series | lessing |
| dove linkhorn | algren |
| walk on the wild side | algren |
| frankie machine in nelson algren | drug |
| man with the golden arm | drug |
| chicago to paterson | boxer |
| harney | grangerford |
| the ' workshop | smiley |
| camden | deathbed |
| letters written to | richardson |
| joe gillayley | maori |
| whale rider | new zealand |
| witi ihimaera | new zealand |
| university of auckland | new zealand |
| books of bokonon | cat's cradle |
| felix bokonon | cat's cradle |
| edgar branch | grangerford |
| robert hirst | grangerford |
| "ode to stephen dowling bots" | grangerford |
| "half past two" | grangerford |
| "brotherly-love" | grangerford |
| "colonel" | grangerford |
| "little engine" | rape of the lock |
| "mock-heroic" | rape of the lock |
| albert schweitzer | cat's cradle |
| "you are not my hero." | cat's cradle |
| earl mccabe | cat's cradle |
| "you know who." | cat's cradle |
| "hundred martyrs to democracy," | cat's cradle |
| papa monzano | cat's cradle |
| "billet-doux" | rape of the lock |
| "you are a great artist." | rape of the lock |
| "consecrate[d] to fame" | rape of the lock |
| "midst of stars," | rape of the lock |
| "c----," | rape of the lock |
| john caryll | rape of the lock |
| "let spades be trumps" | rape of the lock |
| "two-edged" | rape of the lock |
| "augustblistering sun" | camera eye |
| "whirl of sugarboom prices." | camera eye |
| big money | camera eye |
| jack absolute | pine-apple |
| "the very" | pine-apple |
| "of politeness." | pine-apple |
| "we happy few, we band of brothers" | agincourt |
| jean de meun | rose |
| "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 |
| "ghazal of dark death" | lorca |
| "room iridescent with agony" | lorca |
| gypsy ballads | lorca |
| "the tale of the three apples" | arabic |
| "yours truly" | camera eye |
| eduardo galeano | uruguay |
| miles gloriosus | plautus |
| messenio | menaechmi |
| "perfume." | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "call" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "bashful and tender" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "fragrant pines" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "cedars" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| katherine mansfield | garden party |
| tales from shakespeare | lamb |
| best american short stories | visually impaired |
| cowboys ennis | visually impaired |
| jack twist | visually impaired |
| "brokeback mountain." | visually impaired |
| "the decapitated chicken," | uruguay |
| open veins of latin america | uruguay |
| self-love | praise of folly |
| "lazy laughing languid" | rossetti |
| "fond of a kiss and fond of a guinea." | rossetti |
| william michael | rossetti |
| "come and kiss me. / never mind my bruises, / hug me, kiss me, suck my juices." | rossetti |
"jenny" | dante gabriel rossetti |
| "sea-winds blown from east and west" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| "breath of my chant" | when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd |
| quail | invasion of earth |
| "grossly mistaken" | praise of folly |
| "hodge-podge medley of speech" | praise of folly |
| "inimitable combs" | praise of folly |
| "industry" | praise of folly |
| "nature's dumb creatures." | praise of folly |
| "long-robed philosophers," | praise of folly |
| "artisans," | praise of folly |
| yevgeny zamyatin | brave new world |
| one state in we | brave new world |
| poligraf poligrafovich | bulgakov |
| ti-jean | walcott |
| "kindness and mercy" | invasion of earth |
| "sophons" | invasion of earth |
| "wallbreakers" | invasion of earth |
| "black smoke" | invasion of earth |
| "letter to the god of" | love |
| "courtly" | love |
| after dr jekyll | danvers |
| member of parliament | danvers |
| two soviet | strugatsky |
| "stalkers" | strugatsky |
| visitation zones | strugatsky |
| roadside picnic | strugatsky |
| "monument more lasting than bronze." | ode |
| "victory" | ode |
| simonides | ode |
| nemean, isthmian | ode |
| 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 |
| understanding fiction | warren |
| "mexican book" | mccarthy |
| "hanging from the beam, / slowly swaying." | brown |
| joyce kilmer | trees |
"same [one of these objects] that smiles today / to-morrow will be dying." | rose |
| chrysogenee | rose |
| chantilly | poe |
| c | poe |
| aurora leigh | elizabeth |
| "to the depth and breadth and height / my soul can reach" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| performances of god of vengeance on broadway | obscenity |
| ubu | poland |
| "if i get hungry, / i eat the flesh of my usurper. / beware... beware... of my hunger, / and of my anger." | palestin |
| "language of love." | hebrew |
| great frost | orlando |
| sasha | orlando |
| "donelson." | melville |
| "the portent" | brown |
| in ti | aeschylus |
| "excuse me." | aeschylus |
| farming of bones | haiti |
| non-u.s | haiti |
| frederick r. waterford | historical notes |
| commander in the handmaid | atwood |
| historical notes | gilead |
| "the wide net" | green |
| "any man's death diminishes [him]" | donne |
| "of heaven." | trees |
| "van-tuy's" | in search of lost time |
| "conceits" | metaphysical |
| wrought urn | canonization |
| "for god's sake hold your tongue, and let me love." | canonization |
| "mother tongue." | tan |
| baptist church in san francisco | tan |
| "i am the enemy you killed my friend." | owen |
| "at every jolt, the blood / come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs." | owen |
| "whiter...than snow" | othello |
| "smooth as monumental alabaster" | othello |
| "the green eyed monster" | othello |
| "sublunary lovers' love" | donne |
| "cannot admit absence." | donne |
| "in blood of innocence" | donne |
| bennington college | tartt |
| "have not grown old" | yeats |
| "the nineteenth autumn has come upon me / since i first made my count." | yeats |
| "fragrant zone" | keats |
| "a fairy's child" | keats |
| "en-dim-ee-in" | keats |
| "encumbered sleeper" | owen |
| "profound dull tunnel" | owen |
| groves of academe | mccarthy |
| candace bushnell | mccarthy |
| sex and the city | mccarthy |
| "the story of the girl who stood up for education," | malala |
| what the butler saw | orton |
| jimmy porter | look back in anger |
| necklace | maupassant |
| jay mcinerey | 80s |
| " for 10 points each: the awakening is a novel by this author of the short story " | chopin |
| grand isle | gulf |
| armitage | laureate |
| florence pugh | little women |
| timothee chalamet | little women |
| senator burrows | munitions |
| in marvel comics | munitions |
| stark industries | munitions |
| "terrible" | eight |
| "model plays" | eight |
| "i have no children by which i can ... get a single penny." | modest proposal |
| "been assured by a very knowing american" | modest proposal |
| "will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." | modest proposal |
| "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 |
| beautiful things that heaven bears | ethiopia |
| "to the queen of sheba." | elegies |
| droogs | burgess |
| enderby quartet | four |
| georges perec | oulipo |
| raymond queneau | oulipo |
| "benediction upon the audience." | kalidasa |
| "erotic" | eight |
| lindo jong | fortune cookie |
| mei hsu | fortune cookie |
| "bad instruction." | fortune cookie |
| "i am not that young any more" | didion |
| "goodbye to all that" | didion |
| "insider baseball" | presidential campaign |
| "the weasel, twelve monkeys and the shrub." | presidential campaign |
| dinaw mengestu | ethiopia |
| marguerite henry | misty of chincoteague |
| maureen beebe | misty of chincoteague |
| eastern shore | misty of chincoteague |
| misty of chincoteague | penning |
| saltwater cowboys | penning |
| chincoteague bay | assateague |
| "caucasian" | race |
| "ethiopian." | race |
| janiculum | stendhal |
| gina | stendhal |
| clelia | stendhal |
| "lover by lover" | yeats |
| "paddle in the cold / companionable streams" | yeats |
| mythologiques | levi-strauss |
| splinter cell | clancy |
| rainbow six | clancy |
| aubrey buffing | bonfire of the vanities |
| filippo chirazzi | bonfire of the vanities |
| "great white defendant" | bonfire of the vanities |
| peter fallow | bonfire of the vanities |
| "crystallization" | stendhal |
| on love | stendhal |
| farnese tower | stendhal |
| count mosca | stendhal |
| origin of table manners | levi-strauss |
| tristes tropiques | levi-strauss |
| peek | levi-strauss |
| savage mind | levi-strauss |
| "that is no country for," | old |
| pierre de ronsard | old |
| "lemon tarts" | bonfire of the vanities |
| "social x-rays," | bonfire of the vanities |
| "hearts have not" | old |
| oskar schell | extremely loud and incredibly close |
| in foer | holocaust |
| hoodoo love | nottage |
| cherry lane theatre | nottage |
| toulou | nottage |
| candylady | nottage |
| escape to life | erika |
| black virgin | france |
| mohammed ben | france |
| michel houellebecq | france |
| moktir | france |
| biskra | france |
| "a mere child" | kawabata |
| old capital | kawabata |
| "how love fled... and hid his face amid a crowd of stars" | old |
| countess of roussillon | all's well that ends well |
| "nothing is funnier than" | unhappiness |
| "open-ey'd conspiracy his time doth take" | ariel |
| "like reeds," | ariel |
| "hell is empty, and all the devils are here!" | ariel |
| "where the bee sucks, there suck i." | ariel |
| "full fathom five thy father lies" | ariel |
| prospero in the tempest | ariel |
| "society." | corner |
| william f. whyte | corner |
| "move to the right!" | thatcher |
| "the world is what it is" | naipaul |
| nazruddin | naipaul |
| doris lessing | bend in the river |
| nebula awards | bend in the river |
| "a hundred and fifty different ways" | touchstone |
| suyuan woo | tan |
| "lies within the shell of a cracked nut," | heart of darkness |
| "misty halo." | heart of darkness |
| "flabby, pretending, weak-eyed devil" | heart of darkness |
| "suppression of savage customs" | heart of darkness |
| kurtz in the congo by joseph conrad | heart of darkness |
| "a horse leaping over a high fence." | open boat |
| "sing for the whole world." | independent people |
| "the boss," | willie |
| sadie burke | willie |
| huey long | willie |
| malaciah | willie |
| "pleading child" | tan |
| "two kinds." | tan |
| "half by expectation, half by inattention" | tan |
| ted jordan | tan |
| chanu | brick lane |
| lady gregory | yeats |
| castle rackrent | countess cathleen |
| malay annals | epic |
| "talent and destiny are apt to feud" | vietnam |
| "white christmas" | vietnam |
| "talos." | willie |
| dolph pillsbury | willie |
| "wandering over withered fields." | death |
| "look at the dew on the leaves and grass" | death |
| fujiwara no teishi | death |
| "falling is the essence of a flower." | mishima |
| yasmin ghorami | ali |
| joe sangster | ali |
| love marriage | ali |
| nazneen | brick lane |
| jake heke | young adult |
| once were warriors | young adult |
| "little blue men" | pearl |
| house of boxes | pearl |
| "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 |
| an address to the atheist | wheatley |
| " and described " | wheatley |
| peacock | shelley |
| emmy hennings | voltaire |
| ball | voltaire |
| else lasker | blue |
| tofa sauni | oral |
| alfred wendt | young adult |
| goodman fielder wattie award | young adult |
| leaves of the banyan tree | young adult |
| am legend | matheson |
| "coiled" | child |
| "white serpent" | child |
| miss toobad | nightmare abbey |
| scythrop | nightmare abbey |
| marionetta | nightmare abbey |
| in nightmare abbey | childe harold's pilgrimage |
| scythrop in nightmare abbey | shelley |
| jon the bailiff | independent people |
| nonni | independent people |
| summerhouses | independent people |
| halldor laxness | iceland |
| laxness | saga |
| rod serling | bet |
| "nightmare at 20,000 feet" | matheson |
| "death ship," | matheson |
| "for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction." | don juan |
| "the butcher cumberland" | don juan |
| "i want a hero: an uncommon want." | don juan |
| leila in saint petersburg | don juan |
| vernon | don juan |
| haydee | don juan |
| "old leather-face," | willie |
| proud flesh | willie |
| black tulip | dumas |
| auguste maquet | dumas |
| "d'artagnan romances" | dumas |
| cornelius van baerle's | dumas |
| mordaunt | dumas |
| felton | dumas |
| "very fiery particle" | don juan |
| "let itself be snuffed out by an article." | don juan |
| heartbreak house | shaw |
| "icy waters" | horace |
| "noble fountain" | horace |
| "lame-footed punishment rarely forgets the wicked man" | horace |
| "shines out with its honor unstained." | horace |
| lucius calpurnius piso | horace |
| "it is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland," | horace |
| bandusian | horace |
| " describes how " | tempest |
| " referencing ariel's line " | tempest |
| "ruth, rachel, esther, and bathsheba" | lakunle |
| "fox." | lakunle |
| alex thomas | assassin |
| ygnirod | assassin |
| zycron | assassin |
| richard griffen | chase |
| otto katz | czech |
| too loud a solitude | czech |
| "big black valise that looked like the head of a hippopotamus" | grandmother |
| edgar atkins teagarden | grandmother |
| famous barbecue | grandmother |
| hesione hushabye | shaw |
| "a fantasia in the russian manner on english themes." | shaw |
| reverend james morrell | shaw |
| leslie marmon silko | ceremony |
| laguna pueblo | ceremony |
| "offering." | sunrise |
| empyrean | divine comedy |
| "build that shed out in the garden" | pinter |
| "don't let them tell you what to do!" | pinter |
| "monty." | pinter |
| "pauses" | pinter |
| filipino hawaiians | woman warrior |
| julie otsuka | woman warrior |
| when the emperor was divine | woman warrior |
| blu | woman warrior |
| badal sarkar | bengali |
| amal | bengali |
| mareech sambad | mukherjee |
| shaila bhave | mukherjee |
| aleksandr tvardovsky | novy mir |
| "the -eenth of marchember" | donne |
| "the triple fool" | donne |
| "sunk in sleep." | donne |
| "sing, o muse, of the rage of achilles." | homer |
| bollingen prize | fitzgerald |
| fa mu lan | hawai'i |
| ann yamanaka | woman warrior |
| featherstone | bradbury |
| tilita | bradbury |
| deutscher | bradbury |
| "i recognize an ancient flame" | divine comedy |
| "raphel mai amecche zabi almi" | divine comedy |
| varieties of disturbance | davis |
| "is indignant that scotland has so few trees." | johnson |
| mary richards | hadleyburg |
| "index entry" | davis |
| parson yorick | sterne |
| "i thought once how theocritus had sung" | sonnets from the portuguese |
| seven beauties | persian |
| comparison of the two languages | persian |
| "a man with guts" | bradbury |
| "that fool weakling keith," | bradbury |
| sara teasdale | bradbury |
| gilbert durand | idol |
| "chac mool" | fuentes |
| terra nostra | fuentes |
| celestina | fuentes |
| vivien in the pure | colette |
| alms of alcippe | yourcenar |
| renee vivien prize | yourcenar |
| grace frick | yourcenar |
| "the uncanny" | sandman |
| "odour of chrysanthemums" | lawrence |
| blackmore | lawrence |
| lucy prebble | enron |
| serious money | churchill |
| pope joan | churchill |
| "sink" | kitchen |
| marlene | kitchen |
| noirtier | count of monte cristo |
| if in alexandre dumas | dantes |
| the chateau d''s | dantes |
| "make a poet black, and bid him sing" | cullen |
| "yet do i marvel." | cullen |
| "at spring-time" | keats |
| "still can push the vision splendid to a birth." | keats |
| "like lightning dart into the nation's heart," | scottsboro |
| witness for the prosecution | christie |
| spider | christie |
| in christie | hastings |
| black coffee | hastings |
| sir claud amory | hastings |
| "grief" | pine |
| dominique bauby | diving bell and the butterfly |
| bauby | count of monte cristo |
| reluctant fundamentalist | hamid |
| shehan karunatilaka | almeida |
| "seven moons" | almeida |
| dialogues of the courtesans | comedy |
| heliodorus | ethiopia |
| "shines" | sweden |
| "just like you" | sweden |
| swedish royal dramatic theater | anna christie |
| "hadleyburg" | stranger |
| "number 44" | stranger |
| laura in il canzoniere | petrarch |
| augustan | vates |
| "redux," | astraea |
| "happy age" | astraea |
| how to get filthy rich in rising asia | hamid |
| exit west | hamid |
| "e unibus pluram." | wallace |
| wheelchair assassins | wallace |
| "smelfungus," | sterne |
| in hanif kureishi | jungle book |
| buddha of suburbia | jungle book |
| "man-cub" | jungle book |
| sarah waters | picaresque |
| tipping the velvet | picaresque |
| "immortal soul" | italy |
| "hours." | italy |
| wings of the dove | italy |
| "i have lived too long in foreign parts" | italy |
| coliseum | italy |
| "roughly 37" | wallace |
| lost highway | wallace |
| "wonderfully and oddly hollow" | wallace |
| elizabeth siddal | rossetti |
| "a tear more rare than pearl" | hair |
| bernardine evaristo | girl, woman, other |
| national theatre | girl, woman, other |
| "number one," | stalin |
| soselo | stalin |
| the 's skin | stalin |
| "orbs of liquid grey" | italy |
| "raised no cry. i wonder why." | scottsboro |
| "worth its song." | scottsboro |
ningguo house | dream of the red chamber |
| zhiyanzhai | dream of the red chamber |
rongguo house | dream of the red chamber |
| story of the stone | jade |
| "versions" | cheng |
| "from the gold bar of heaven." | the blessed |
| "mr. strugnell" | larkin |
| "mr. bleaney" | larkin |
| "our almost-instinct" | larkin |
| "what will survive of us is love." | larkin |
| "a penny for your thoughts, schopenhauer" | lowell |
| "91 revere street." | lowell |
| david lloyd george | skunk hour |
| margarete steffin | brecht |
| princess of france | love's |
salve deus rex judaeorum | emilia lanier |
| singaporean ling jishi | diaries |
| yunje | diaries |
| ding ling | communist |
| "the diary of miss sophie," | communist |
| rightist movement | communist |
| the 1911 revolution | ah q |
| elieshi lema | swahili |
| "mwendo" | swahili |
| narratives of empire | vidal |
| bob ford | city and the pillar |
| maria verlaine | city and the pillar |
| in the city | los angeles |
| "black wires" | dark lady |
| aubrey burl | love's |
| teen sensations | blume |
| bernardo soares in the book of disquiet | heteronym |
| another of pessoa | campos |
| "to feel everything in every way" | campos |
| "tobacco shop." | campos |
| achebe | haiti |
| abdulrazak gurnah | tanzania |
| gurnah | desertion |
| "that there were flowers also in hell." | imagism |
| madrigal | imagism |
| "cyriack, this three years day," | milton |
| "god doth not need either man's work or his own gifts." | milton |
| "they also serve who only stand and wait." | patience |
| "cleanness" | patience |
| rastignac | lucien |
| jeremiah de saint-amour | love in the time of cholera |
| pylades | orestes |
| knight in the panther | stalin |
| "semi-moonman" | stalin |
| "turn back think again" | stalin |
| "breaker of nations" | stalin |
| robert conquest | stalin |
| "flung on the sand." | sea rose |
| "drip such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf." | sea rose |
| "awaken me" | paz |
| "daybreak is the face of the sun" | paz |
| "life and death are reconciled" | paz |
| "lady of midnight." | paz |
| sections | paz |
| "king without a kingdom" | orestes |
| "philebus." | orestes |
| scyros | orestes |
| "parable play" | brecht |
| ignatius dullfeet | brecht |
| "stunted" | sea rose |
| "whither... dost thou pursue thy solitary way?" | bryant |
| "the innumerable caravan, who moves to that mysterious realm" | bryant |
| "whole being is sheer negative impulse, a tangle of contradictions," | paz |
| "and other extremes." | paz |
| "gate of our being" | paz |
| "where the rocking billows rise and sink / on the chafed ocean side." | bryant |
| "from zone to zone," | bryant |
| "guides through the boundless sky" | bryant |
| "certain flight." | bryant |
| "on a day i already remember," | stone |
| "on a thursday, as today is, in autumn." | stone |
| "black stone on a white stone" | bolano |
| cesar vallejo | bolano |
| "god si love," | passage to india |
| "why can't we be friends?" | passage to india |
| "in their hundred voices, 'no, not yet.'" | passage to india |
| muslim dr | passage to india |
| "conform the order of their lives" | bryant |
| "groves," | bryant |
| "god's first temples." | bryant |
| "a forest hymn" | bryant |
| "indo-chinese" | truong |
| "the definition of love" | marvell |
| "languishing" | marvell |
| "the garden" | marvell |
| "vendors of grain-eggs-pulse-and-vegetables" | lysistrata |
| "garlic-tavern-keepers of bakeries" | lysistrata |
| cinesias | lysistrata |
| myrrhine, calonice | lysistrata |
| "i appear iridescent; my form is shining now" | cross |
| tatwine | cross |
| cynewulf | cross |
| five metrical feet | elegy |
| amores | ovid |
| a metrical foot | ovid |
| cerinthus | sulpicia |
| linda hammerick | truong |
| "the strongest man in the world is he who stands alone." | enemy of the people |
| "the people's messenger" | enemy of the people |
| morten kiil | enemy of the people |
| "begotten by despair, upon impossibility," | marvell |
| "the conjunction of the mind, and opposition of the stars." | marvell |
| "annihilates all that's made to a green thought, in a green shade" | marvell |
| thomas fairfax | marvell |
| abraham lincoln in twenty thousand leagues under the seas | farragut |
| "history has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues" | eliot |
| "hieronymo's mad againe" | eliot |
| "datta. dayadhvam. damyata" | eliot |
| "london bridge is falling down." | eliot |
| "too busy feeling grief," | their eyes were watching god |
| "the son of evening sun." | their eyes were watching god |
| "thousand sister calyxes arching" | their eyes were watching god |
| leafy | their eyes were watching god |
| jair | orthrus |
| according to hesiod | nemean |
| orthrus | nemean |
| "i'm leaving them there." | boot |
| "last night i dreamed i went to manderley again." | rebecca |
| when rebecca | danvers |
| dakkar in the mysterious island | nemo |
| otis | ghost |
| monsieur pain | bolano |
| trilce | surrealism |
| "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 |
| arthur shelby | george |
| great birnam | dunsinane |
| "at their end know dark is right, because their words had forked no lightning" | wise |
| holy sonnet ten | donne |
| monkey king | buddha |
| levi matvei | devil |
| ivan karamazov | devil |
| professor woland in mikhail bulgakov | devil |
| a quadrillion kilometers | devil |
| canterville chase | ghost |
| "the turn of the screw." | ghost |
| dwayne hoover | breakfast of |
| now it can be told | breakfast of |
| "through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument." | emily |
| colonel sartoris | emily |
| homer barron | emily |
| "a rose for" | emily |
| h. b | emily |
| "nine nines." | buddha |
| golden cicada | buddha |
| brangwen | rainbow |
| sodapop | outsiders |
| s. e. hinton | rumble fish |
| rusty-james | rumble fish |
| "anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy." | catch-22 |
| something happened | heller |
| in catch | chuck |
| abraham van brunt | brom |
| abominable snowman | yeti |
| tibetan buddhism | bon |
| amazon antiope | theseus |
| "thou still unravished bride of quietness, thou foster-child of silence and slow time." | grecian urn |
| "on first looking into chapman's homer" | cortes |
| "stared at the pacific" | cortes |
| michaelis | lady |
| braing | rainbow |
| "devoured alive by a rat," | irish |
| william wood | irish |
| "quitting... animosities" | irish |
| lindalino | irish |
| the drapier's letters | 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 |
| "manunkind" | cummings |
| "a phenomenon... well known to naturalists" | ode to the west wind |
| "the sea-blooms and the oozy woods... tremble and despoil themselves." | ode to the west wind |
| "dome of a vast sepulchre" | ode to the west wind |
| "black rain, and fire, and hail will burst." | ode to the west wind |
| "the trumpet of a prophecy." | ode to the west wind |
| "drive" | ode to the west wind |
| "dead thoughts over the universe." | ode to the west wind |
| terza rima | ode to the west wind |
| "hansel and gretel" | grimm |
| "or does it" | explode |
| kawl | crime and |
| nih-kawff | crime and |
| in crime | police |
| nikodim fomich | police |
| ilya petrovich | police |
| petit gervais | coin |
| "everlasting fields of clover" | moses |
| sugarcandy mountain | moses |
| muriel the white goat | animal farm |
| oreads | satyr |
| tahng sahn-zahng | sun wukong |
| helmet of awe | fafnir |
| "drill" | malthus |
| burgos | laugh |
| noboru wataya | murakami |
| wind/pinball | murakami |
| richard mansfield | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| cavendish palace | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| 50-pound | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| utterson | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| lanyon | dr. jekyll and mr. h |
| an artist of the floating world | ishiguro |
| "genge" | pirandello |
| lady frola | pirandello |
| no one | pirandello |
| right you are | pirandello |
| if you think you are | pirandello |
| ponza | pirandello |
| philip gabriel | murakami |
| boris the manskinner by lieutenant mamiya | murakami |
| "sonnets on pink silk handkerchiefs." | milan |
| city of the beasts | allende |
| redcrosse knight | duessa |
| "a false sorceress" | duessa |
| "thou art more lovely and more..." | temperate |
| "we / left school. we / lurk late. we / strike straight. we / sing sin. we / thin gin. we / jazz june. we / die soon." | we real |
| without a summer | darkness |
| "i had a dream, which was not all a dream." | darkness |
| "busy monster." | cummings |
| "noone stooped to kiss his face" | cummings |
| "he was not a marrying man." | emily |
| coulibri | wide sargasso sea |
| koo-lee-bree | wide sargasso sea |
| meade | ring |
| pale fire | nabokov |
| "delicious" | cold |
| joel cairo | falcon |
| casper gutman | falcon |
| nora charles | thin man |
| v | thin man |
| "i am sorry then you have so lost a father that you must lose a husband" | burgundy |
| "appalling" | howards end |
| edward tudor | prince and the |
| tom driscoll | pudd'nhead wilson |
| "the miller's tale" | tub |
| barsoom | burroughs |
| in the barsoom | john |
| dejah thoris | john |
| helium | john |
| new york cafe | heart is a lonely |
| heart is a lonely hunter | mccullers |
| cousin lymon | ballad of the |
| fill | food |
| tsoht | fugard |
| tsotsi | fugard |
| herland | perkins |
| daiyu | flowe |
| one of wilde | salome |
| reek | salome |
| absolon | miller |
| spite of himself | doctor |
| simianshen | four |
| sih-mee-ahn-shen | four |
| "the man with bandaged hands." | david |
| which of the fates | clotho |
| "pity this busy monster, manunkind" | cummings |
| "it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea." | annabel lee |
| "is all that we see or seem." | dream within |
| petey the cat | dog man |
| sydney to bellingen | church |
| both oscar | booker |
| man group | booker |
| "radicalize their consciousness to challenge patriarchy." | harjo |
| his romantic | holderlin |
| "bread and wine" | holderlin |
| "familiar human subjects." | goethe |
| things they carried by tim | vietnam |
| "ding-dong-dong" | paint |
| "a key that wouldn't unlock anything" | paint |
| sunday school | paint |
| dore bible | paint |
| "ole missis" | paint |
| ben rogers | paint |
| "play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do" | paint |
| michael herr | vietnam |
| norman bowker | vietnam |
| silver star | vietnam |
| paul berlin | vietnam |
| going after cacciato | vietnam |
| rat kiley | vietnam |
| curt lemon | vietnam |
| ted lavender | vietnam |
| chambers | pudd'nhead wilson |
| adventures of ook | pilkey |
| egdon heath | diamond |
| eustacia vye | diamond |
| esperanca in the heart of the matter | diamond |
| allan quatermain | diamond |
| rachel verinder | diamond |
| "are forever" | diamond |
| "caught fire" | bald soprano |
| clym yeobright | diamond |
| francisco de quevedo | gongora |
| humphrey chimpden earwicker | finnegans wake |
| la scienza nuova | finnegans wake |
| "yogeybogeybox" | joyce |
| "sausage" | joyce |
| "devour" | time |
| "the four ages of poetry" | romanticism |
| "unacknowledged legislators of the world." | romanticism |
| "man speaking to men." | romanticism |
| "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," | romanticism |
| "at last on the cloudy river of the sky" | li |
| "rihaku" | li |
| doctor mackenzie | bald soprano |
| "the stone," | bald soprano |
| "not pygmalion likely!" | not bloody likely |
| "climb from a fried fish shop down by the mint" | shaw |
| "high english social values." | shaw |
| "lament for the death of" | bullfighter |
| belmonte | bullfighter |
| killall | webster |
| francis jeffrey | romanticism |
| "whining and hypochondriacal" | romanticism |
| annie ernaux | nobel |
| nobel laureate elfriede jelinek | rhine |
| baudolino | picaresque |
| lata mehra | seth |
| "has gone to be a soldier in the army of the lord." | john brown |
| "came down and settled over me" | millay |
| "in the palm of your hand" | millay |
| "three long mountains and a wood" | infinity |
| shekure | pamuk |
| kadife | pamuk |
| "like a frenchman" | webster |
| simon girty | webster |
| judge hathorne | webster |
| new hampshirite jabez stone | webster |
| seven moral tales | translation |
| edward lloyd | dickens |
| "gradual regeneration" | raskolnikov |
| "new story" | raskolnikov |
| alyona ivanova | raskolnikov |
razumikhin | crime and punishment |
| haired woman | pamuk |
| "head-scarf girls." | pamuk |
| butterfly, stork | pamuk |
| olive | pamuk |
| bokonon | cat |
| in war | natasha |
| death of the poet | lermontov |
| gruzhnitsky | lermontov |
| sateen dura luxe | world war ii |
| rabo karabekian | world war ii |
| edgar derby | world war ii |
| "gradual initiation into a new unknown life" | raskolnikov |
| in a marvell | garden |
| "industrious bee / computes its time as well as we." | garden |
| "annihilate[s] all that's made" | garden |
| eloise wengler | salinger |
| "rahm-owe's" | diderot |
| encyclopedie with jean | diderot |
| "thumbing my nose at you know who" | bokonon |
| mount mccabe | bokonon |
| shoba | interpreter of maladies |
| "did you leave because of my attic wife." | rochester |
| adele varens | rochester |
| "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 |
| "you're not allowed to have arrows." | jerusalem |
| "dark satanic mills." | jerusalem |
| "jesus saviour pilot me / over life's tempestuous sea." | hayden |
| le ly hayslip | autobiography |
| when heaven | autobiography |
| earth changed places | autobiography |
| am malala | autobiography |
| ybon | naipaul |
| assault by harry mulisch | dutch |
| "it's a wonder i haven't abandoned all my ideals." | dutch |
| shukumar | interpreter of maladies |
| "where you're madder than i am" | rockland |
| "where you imitate the shade of my mother." | rockland |
| "angel-headed" | hipster |
| arnold rubek | when we dead awaken |
| irena | when we dead awaken |
| "the marvelous real." | hoffmann |
| german by daphne hardy | darkness at noon |
| "you and i can make mistakes--but not the party." | darkness at noon |
| martin guzzlewit | dickens |
| nickelas nicklebery | dickens |
| mount purgatory | divine comedy |
| both your houses | pennsylvania |
| 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 |
| greatest unread novelist | australia |
| miles franklin | australia |
| sandstone | jaipur |
| thar | jaipur |
| mary crawford | fanny |
| "poor relation" | mansfield park |
| anoosh in persepolis | satrapi |
| satrapi's persepolis | comic |
| in persepolis | god |
| manly health | whitman |
| marie stahlbaum | hoffmann |
| princess pirlipat | hoffmann |
| kater murr | hoffmann |
| miesmies | hoffmann |
| drosselmeier | hoffmann |
| "hang on to the innocence and turbulence and capacity for wonder" | journalism |
| hawa mahal | jaipur |
| amber fort | jaipur |
| 52-stanza | bradstreet |
| "solitary traveler" | mrs |
| "sky and branches" | mrs |
| "proportion" | mrs |
| "conversion." | mrs |
| abraham liscov | hoffmann |
| "ah, ah!" | hoffmann |
| "pretty eyes, pretty eyes!" | hoffmann |
| "hands off the mask!" | fo |
| inspector bertozzo | fo |
| "ideas worth spreading." | ted |
| "confessions of a bad feminist" | adichie |
| bad feminist | adichie |
| an untamed state | adichie |
| "here at the furthest verge of earth." | prometheus bound |
| "picasso without paint" | sinatra |
| "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 |
| "too far from town to learn baseball" | frost |
| "whose woods these are i think i know." | frost |
| "proportioned, spiritless poems" | bradstreet |
| "away in brutish london, for a hollow crown" | bradstreet |
| "simon will listen while you read a song." | bradstreet |
| zoe | nigeria |
| raceteenth | nigeria |
| "man passes" | flowers of evil |
| "through forests of symbols" | flowers of evil |
| "perfumes, colors, and sounds" | flowers of evil |
| "deep and dark unity." | flowers of evil |
| "andromache, i think of you!" | flowers of evil |
| "hypocrite reader! my double! my brother!" | flowers of evil |
| dennis tedlock | popol vuh |
| father ximenez | popol vuh |
| len rix | hungarian |
| katalin street | hungarian |
| melancholy of resistance | hungarian |
| fatelessness | hungarian |
| the and satantango | hungarian |
| "in july as in january / for the sincere friend / who gives me his hand frankly." | i cultivate a white rose |
| "for a beaker full of the warm south" | keats |
| many romantic | byron |
| "mad poet" | necronomicon |
| "dreaded" | necronomicon |
| wilbur whateley | necronomicon |
| "the dunwich horror." | necronomicon |
| old ones | necronomicon |
| six early stories | mann |
| "who become lost" | mexico |
| visceral realists | mexico |
| benno von archimboldi | mexico |
| "lady jane." | lady chatterley's lover |
| "ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically." | lady chatterley's lover |
| bolton | lady chatterley's lover |
| "ceiling" | nigeria |
| "pacification" | nigeria |
intimate apparel | nottage |
| "from every angle of the universe" | aleph |
| "all voting a sort of gaming" | thoreau |
| "peaceable revolution" | thoreau |
| "their tax-bills." | thoreau |
| "spent in jail," | thoreau |
| "preston the wise" | windmill |
| briareus | windmill |
| "scenes of parisian life," | human comedy |
| rouse up | oe |
| young men of the new age | oe |
| george hsu | queen mother |
| ge'ez | kebra nagast |
| dinesen | gothic |
| elizabeth hobbs keckley | lincoln |
| "bronzed, lank man" | lincoln |
| "all may judge" | bradstreet |
| "ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain." | bradstreet |
| john berryman | bradstreet |
| every man in his humor with every man out of his humor | jonson |
| blind beggar of alexandria | chapman |
| an humorous day | chapman |
| "watcher of the skies" | chapman |
| the and 's mirth | chapman |
| "helmet and the helmet-feather" | lady of shalott |
| "burn'd like one burning flame together." | lady of shalott |
| "four gray walls, and four gray towers, / overlook a space of flowers" | lady of shalott |
| "the curse is come upon me" | lady of shalott |
| "bold sir lancelot." | lady of shalott |
| sotherton | mansfield park |
| sam staples | thoreau |
| ellen sewell | thoreau |
| black book | pamuk |
| white book | han |
| "harsh humanity" | simon |
| "native new england." | simon |
| "such depravity" | simon |
| "devilish" | simon |
| heather badcock | lady of shalott |
| "reaping early" | lady of shalott |
| villa villekulla | pippi |
| "the daughters of the late colonel" | mansfield |
| evenings at medan | franco-prussian |
| "two friends." | franco-prussian |
| natsume soseki | i am a cat |
alfred uhry | driving miss daisy |
| lonely hunter | georgia |
| the heart | georgia |
| "primitive tribes" | nigeria |
| "ketman" | captive mind |
| czeslaw milosz | captive mind |
| "moralist" | captive mind |
| "slave of history" | captive mind |
| valentine gersbach | herzog |
| mady | herzog |
| "they tell me you are wicked and i believe them." | chicago |
| andy samberg | brooklyn nine-nine |
| detective jake peralta | brooklyn nine-nine |
| pimento | brooklyn nine-nine |
| detective peralta | die hard |
| hans gruber | die hard |
| nakatomi plaza | die hard |
| peralta | die hard |
| " for ten points each: name this poem, which describes breaking someone's leg while dancing in a parody by kenneth koch. this poem describes items " | this is just to say |
| "literary coffeehouses" | austria |
| doctor gonzo | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| "we were somewhere around barstow... when the drugs began to take hold." | fear and loathing in las vegas |
| jason mantzoukas | pimento |
| rosa diaz | pimento |
| jimmy figgis | pimento |
| andre braugher | brooklyn nine-nine |
| captain raymond holt | brooklyn nine-nine |
| "kawazu," | heian |
| "frog," | heian |
| "a harmless drudge," | dictionary |
| "sentiments... are repressed entirely" | salammbo |
| matho | salammbo |
| "the forgetting" | concentration camp |
| "return of words," | heloise |
| "greasepaint" | heloise |
| elias lonnrot | kalevala |
| journey to the center of the earth | verne |
| "the galoshes of fortune." | andersen |
| "designed to shock the whites out of their apathy" | bigger |
| "bigger thomas... is afraid, terribly afraid. but afraid of what? of himself." | fanon |
| mayotte capecia | fanon |
| am a martinican woman | fanon |
| "the negro and language." | fanon |
| "reflecting gems" | richard iii |
| buckingham | richard iii |
| hastings | richard iii |
| clarence | richard iii |
| patriotic gore | simon |
| edge of the wild | warg |
| "would you like to have a bag of candy and a nice ride?" | ransom of red |
| jeff peters | conscience in |
| enlace | calvino |
| "the best place to hide a leaf is in a forest" | book |
| "on the outskirts of bikanir." | book |
| "the approach to al'mutasim." | book |
| wycliffe bible | book |
| combed thunderclap | book |
| axaxaxas mlo | book |
| "novel" | romance |
| "i thought it would" | cheshire cat |
| "everybody has won." | dodo |
| in the hobbit | warg |
| mercy lewis | abigail |
| "poppet" | abigail |
| communist red wolf | calvino |
| "the dark girl of long alley." | calvino |
the path to the nest of spiders | calvino |
| " for ten points each: koch described spraying hollycocks with lye in a parody of this author's poem " | williams |
| " for ten points each: in " | plum |
| " the narrator apologizes for eating these fruits, which were " | plum |
| "to his mistress going to bed." | donne |
| "frailty and the decay" | world |
| "anatomy" | world |
| in a henry vaughan | world |
| "saw eternity the other night, like a great ring of pure and endless light." | world |
| "long thin nose" | two minutes hate |
| "small goatee" | two minutes hate |
| fiction department | two minutes hate |
| "shovelboard" | abigail |
| "deputy governor" | abigail |
| "people ride a hundred miles to see." | abigail |
| "indians smashed" | abigail |
| "dear parents' head on a pillow" | abigail |
| mephistophilis | faustus |
| rebecca taichman | yiddish |
| boiberik | yiddish |
| i. l. peretz | yiddish |
| "sandy-haired woman" | two minutes hate |
| "opening and shutting like that of a landed fish." | two minutes hate |
| "a noise that set one's teeth on edge" | two minutes hate |
| "b-b! ... b-b!" | two minutes hate |
| keating | fountainhead |
| "handed in his checks on the 7th december, 1850" | outcasts of |
| poker flat | four |
| grapes of wrath | steinbeck |
| "feel right around there and see how soft it is." | curley |
| to be young | hansberry |
| gifted and black | hansberry |
| "we shall never be younger." | christopher |
| andy tucker | conscience in |
| "may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm" | robot |
| "must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law." | robot |
| gloria weston | robbie |
| austrian emperor albert | william tell |
wallenstein trilogy | schiller |
| "archipelago" | gulag |
| professor abraham van helsing | stoker |
| fault in our stars | green |
| gene | separate |
| jill boardman | water |
| "loved chivalry, truth and honor, freedom and courtesy" | knight |
| according to vergil | aristaeus |
| in nordic | urd |
| asa hawks | wise blood |
| sabbath lily | wise blood |
| in the book of the heavenly cow | hathor |
| gaht | kenya |
| christmas yet to come | ebenezer |
| "the canterville ghost" | wilde |
| virginia otis | wilde |
| savile | wilde |
| civilians | bierce |
| culver creek preparatory high school | green |
| bright room called day | kushner |
| cash | as i lay dying |
| maman | samedi |
| man with two left feet | wodehouse |
| "strange white flowers" | time machine |
| "yes and his heart was going like mad and yes i said yes i will yes." | marion |
| "o death, my captain, it is time! let us raise the anchor!" | flowers of evil |
| paris spleen | baudelaire |
| "echoes down the corridor," | abigail |
| "a terribly strange bed" | collins |
| walter hartright | woman in white |
| anne catherick | woman in white |
| laura fairlie | woman in white |
| "my kingdom for" | horse |
| "the day is ours, the bloody dog is dead." | richmond |
| friday to christianity | robinson |
| stanislaus in all quiet on the western front | kat |
| lady ashton | bride of |
| master of ravenswood | bride of |
| "what passing-bells for these who die as [blank]?" | cattle |
| nick and honey | who's afraid of |
| 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 |
| aunt florence | letter |
| "tucker bag" | australia |
| "swagman," | australia |
| jack maggs | australia |
| "like a foggy mist" | faustus |
| "b-text" | faustus |
| "the reward of sin is death," | faustus |
| "i'm not capitulating." | rhinoceros |
| ben-ren-zhay | rhinoceros |
| tappan zee | sleepy hollow |
| "hessian trooper" | sleepy hollow |
| "nameless battle during the revolutionary war" | sleepy hollow |
| tarry town | sleepy hollow |
| uss scorpion | australia |
| tobias oates | australia |
| nevil shute | australia |
| "jumbuck" | australia |
| leonora ashburnham | good soldier |
| alexis zorba | greek |
| "gay castles" | sleepy hollow |
| "forever flushing round a summer sky," | sleepy hollow |
| castle of indolence | sleepy hollow |
| "stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley" | sleepy hollow |
| "old indian chief" | sleepy hollow |
| "powwows" | sleepy hollow |
| nickel boys | whitehead |
| the , the intuitionist | whitehead |
| john valentine | indiana |
| gabriel syme | thursday |
| harry perowne | robinson crusoe |
| briony tallis in atonement | robinson crusoe |
| "hitch-hiking" | key west |
| "she sang beyond the genius of the sea" | key west |
| cycnus | shield of heracles |
| king dahfu | henderson the rain |
| henderson the rain king | bellow |
| bellow | ravelstein |
| "what, but the mystery which it obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crepe so awful?" | minister's black |
| "for of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'it might have been!" | maud |
| whittier | maud |
| cora to the valentine | underground |
| majnun | persian |
| house for mr biswas | naipaul |
| "when love with unconfined..." | wings |
| duke frederick | as you like it |
| bridge of the requiter | chinvat |
| pell | ladon |
| peloponnese | ladon |
| keek | shield of heracles |
| till | memnon |
| antilochus | memnon |
| kali yuga | kalki |
| ee-poh-leet | phedre |
| lucilius | seneca |
| qasim | children of gebelawi |
| mahj | persian |
| layla | persian |
| after hasek | brecht |
| fall of the city of mahagonny | brecht |
| ruby dee | hansberry |
| "stately pleasure-dome" | porlock |
| "kubla khan." | coleridge |
| porlock | coleridge |
| "i am hungry to be interrupted" | smith |
| "thoughts about the person from porlock." | smith |
scenes of clerical life | george eliot |
| feuerbach | eliot |
| "exquisite music" | greek |
| "invisible procession" | greek |
| "say goodbye" | greek |
| "are coming today" | greek |
| "the god abandons antony" | greek |
| jaroslav hasek | czech |
| smoke and steel | chicago |
| "unscrupulosity of statement" | eliot |
| "perverted moral judgment" | eliot |
| "evangelical teaching: dr. cumming," | eliot |
| countess czerlaski | eliot |
| reverend amos barton | eliot |
| life of jesus | eliot |
| essence of christianity | eliot |
| hettie cohen | baraka |
| "posthumous memoir" | brazil |
| general fink | svejk |
| von finkenstein | svejk |
| "faces of women and children" | chicago |
| "tool maker," | chicago |
| "stacker of wheat," | chicago |
| cornhuskers | chicago |
| stories of vladimir nabokov | signs and symbols |
| "an aging couple... at a loss about what to do about their institutionalized son." | signs and symbols |
| "a basket with ten different fruit jellies in ten little jars." | signs and symbols |
| "going to" | america |
| "eternal union" | dostoyevsky |
| "find pleasure in the spilling of blood" | dostoyevsky |
| america with grushenka | dmitri |
| karamazov | dmitri |
| la cousine bette | balzac |
| eugene vidocq | vautrin |
| "cheat-death" | vautrin |
| victorine | vautrin |
| "i'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" | pere goriot |
| puzo | pere goriot |
| since nabokov | pnin |
| "heartfelt story of a hapless antihero" | pnin |
| "is mightier than the sword." | pen |
| richelieu | pen |
| "no stone left unturned," | euripides |
| bulwer-lytton | euripides |
| heraclidae | euripides |
| wen jiabao in an aravind adiga | narayan |
| balram | narayan |
| our man in havana | tiger |
| "queer, sultry summer" | rosenberg |
| ethel rosenberg | angels in america |
| countess of pembroke | sidney |
| dorus | sidney |
min jin lee | pachinko |
sunja | pachinko |
| chika unigwe | adichie |
| edward bulwer | pen |
| "brutal" | chicago |
| "beautiful word" | interloper |
| "idiotic" | interloper |
| "realist with wings." | atwood |
| "of migration to the north." | season |
| yaa gyasi | homegoing |
| "the terror of their neighbors, before the white men came" | achebe |
| change of world | auden |
| "shining." | japanese |
| "embarrassing things" | japanese |
| "pleasant things." | japanese |
| ten-square-foot | japanese |
| "crowd of hungarians" | chicago |
| "keg of beer and an accordion" | chicago |
| "the terrible burden of destiny" | chicago |
| "as a young man laughs," | chicago |
| "as a weapon i may be of some use. but as a man, i'm a wreck," | vronsky |
| kitty shcherbatsky | vronsky |
| mihailov | vronsky |
| makhotin | vronsky |
| gladiator | vronsky |
| "pined away." | goblin market |
| "the flowing river never stops, and yet the water never stays the same." | japanese |
| minister of the left | japanese |
| victoria noorthoorn | yeats |
| "the function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle." | yeats |
| "the host of the beast" | boll |
| past nine | boll |
| st. anthony's abbey | boll |
| "linguistic and moral destruction." | grass |
| assassination of margaret thatcher | mantel |
| "anguished deliberation." | lady or the tiger |
| "deputation of five strangers" | lady or the tiger |
| "cushioned parapet" | lady or the tiger |
| "semi-barbaric" | lady or the tiger |
| life of napoleon | stendhal |
| battle of waterloo in the charterhouse of parma | stendhal |
| de stael's | stendhal |
| "unripe peach" | banana |
| "disgusting" | banana |
| queen yaruga | pale fire |
| jakob gradus | pale fire |
| charles kinbote | pale fire |
john shade | pale fire |
| "the more we reflect upon," | lady or the tiger |
| "harder it is to answer," | lady or the tiger |
| "devious mazes of passion" | lady or the tiger |
| "human heart." | lady or the tiger |
| "that's a fine death!" | napoleon |
| "insignificant creature." | napoleon |
| "lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind." | rose |
| "one who wastes her time and me." | rose |
| "beds of" | rose |
| "bed of crimson joy." | rose |
| "while ye may." | rose |
| "red sox beat yanks 5-4 on chapman's homer" | pale fire |
| "carrying...a book of myths in which our names do not appear." | auden |
| "lying in a hammock" | rich |
| margarita in a mikhail bulgakov | master |
| "wait-and-get" | photo |
| rotimi | photo |
| "prince of tyre" | pericles |
| "mouldy tale" | jonson |
| "a farewell to tobacco" | lamb |
| mercy otis warren | american revolution |
| royall tyler | contrast |
| colonel manly | contrast |
| maria van rough | contrast |
| dimple | contrast |
| comedy in the contrast | sheridan |
| "malapropisms" | sheridan |
| "[this city] delivered." | jerusalem |
| in jon krakauer | everest |
| into thin air | everest |
| allie cone | satanic verses |
| everest vilas | satanic verses |
| everest | satanic verses |
| farishta | satanic verses |
| john vanbrugh | shakespeare |
| horner | shakespeare |
| "most blameless" | ulysses |
| "the sceptre and the isle." | ulysses |
"crossing the bar" | tennyson |
| "has overgrown causes and effects" | grass |
| "what is [this substance]?" | grass |
| "lot's wife." | szymborska |
| szymborska | poland |
| "house of god." | leopard |
| "silvergrass." | banana |
| "thatched hut lacks all color" | du |
| "horses neighing and snorting" | du |
| nanmu | du |
| rich white gentleman | johnson |
| "lift every voice and sing." | johnson |
| "say it!" | no ideas but in things |
| "how dull it is to pause / to make an end." | ulysses |
| "crosses of fire" | twenty love poems |
| "the atlas of your body." | twenty love poems |
| sea garden | rose |
| sonezaki by chikamatsu monzaemon | love |
| man who loved love by iharu seikaku | floating world |
michael frayn | copenhagen |
| margrethe bohr | copenhagen |
| "but why?" | copenhagen |
| corinne | color purple |
| celie addresses | color purple |
| god bless you | firemen |
| model-t | firemen |
| e. l. doctorow's ragtime | firemen |
| "burying lamps" | twenty love poems |
| "tangling shadows" | twenty love poems |
| "a spider, trying to hide" | twenty love poems |
| macon dead iii | fly |
| pedro calderon | spain |
| araucaniad | spain |
| de la barca | spain |
| "yellow dress" | color purple |
| "sister's choice" | color purple |
| "mister" | color purple |
| georgia to god | color purple |
| holy city | jerusalem |
| claudine in school | colette |
| lea | colette |
| colette | paris |
| mathilde de morny | paris |
| anita loos | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| lorelei lee | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| "diamonds are a girl's best friend." | gentlemen prefer blondes |
| "hysterical pregnancy" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "m, o, a, i." | twelfth night |
| "cultured" | spain |
| "conceptism." | spain |
| mayor of zalamea | spain |
| " cites her sister cassandra burning their letters as a reason for a lack of biographical insight. for 10 points each: menand closes by highlighting the little provisions the austens had after the death of jane's father george, who had this profession. an austen character with this profession desires to " | priest |
| frank lentricchia | close |
| aldo leopold | sand county almanac |
| saddest story | world war i |
| "on random sheets of waste paper" | hoffmann |
| kriesler | hoffmann |
| rex mottram | waugh |
| lord marchmain | waugh |
| wetstein | werther |
| "younger men... and children... women... birds." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| "bergin and water." | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| " 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 |
| " but is better known as " | wallace |
| goop cruise | mccarthy |
| " in a 2023 harper's essay about going on a goop cruise. for 10 points each: this author reflected on wallace's suicide and robinson crusoe in the 2011 essay " | franzen |
| farther away | franzen |
| crossroads | franzen |
| english review | ford |
| niels | copenhagen |
| "by the pricking of my thumbs" | something wicked this way comes |
| "bread and circuses" | juvenal |
| "who watches the watchmen?" | juvenal |
| "[this object] of the sea," | donkey |
| "you could give back [this thing] to [this thing]." | donkey |
| "old time is still a-flying." | donkey |
jimenez | donkey |
| in nguyen | drug |
| "the remedy." | drug |
| "melange" | drug |
| "the fairest of maidens" | heine |
| "golden comb." | heine |
| in a heine | doppelganger |
| golyadkin | doppelganger |
| atta troll | midsummer night's dream |
| thomas schell | 9/11 |
| "jealous nature" | karenina |
| "destroy the love she shares with count vronsky - and head for the train tracks." | karenina |
| "a case for reparations." | atlantic |
| elizabeth peabody | buddhism |
| english for the dial | buddhism |
| japhy rider | buddhism |
| tod hackett | los angeles |
| miss inamura | crane |
| "it has not arrived" | dickens |
| avignon on good friday in an italian | laura |
| "whoso list to hunt, i know where is an hind." | wyatt |
| "was a damaged person who deserved nothing." | rooney |
| beautiful world | rooney |
| where are you | rooney |
| my year of rest | 9/11 |
| "land ethic" | sand county almanac |
| "a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community." | sand county almanac |
| western flyer | steinbeck |
| sea of cortez | steinbeck |
| "the battle of the ants." | walden |
| giovanna | aunt |
| lying life of adults to english | italian |
| whodunnit | shaffer |
| "a moment's monument" | pre-raphaelite |
| house of life | pre-raphaelite |
| "so various, so beautiful, so new" | dover |
| "beach" | dover |
| "moon's / spotlight, banking on the miracle of sun" | lawrence |
| five great epics | three |
| town in an amos tutuola | three |
| "love shall be our token, / love be yours and love be mine." | carols |
| "oral history" | 1980 |
| world only spins forward | 1980 |
| council room of the continental principalities | 1980 |
| "millennium approaches" | 1980 |
| babe | 1980 |
| violent bear it away | o'connor |
| gas heart | tzara |
| "thou." | jug of wine |
| big man | naipaul |
miguel street | naipaul |
| this indo-trinidadian | naipaul |
| magrath sisters | 1980 |
| beth henley | 1980 |
| crimes of the heart | 1980 |
| isaac butler | 1980 |
| dan kois | 1980 |
| heine | midsummer night's dream |
| clack the rattlebug | gaiman |
| american gods | gaiman |
| "music of the spheres." | scipio |
| "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 |
| mason tarwater | violent bear it away |
| father huismans | naipaul |
| "betray'd to endless night," | holy sonnets |
| "a little world made cunningly." | holy sonnets |
| "break, blow, burn, and make me new." | holy sonnets |
| "sycorax video style" | brathwaite |
| born to slow horses | brathwaite |
| arrivants | brathwaite |
| cristoph martin wieland | dario |
| bani adam for a nowruz | translation |
| on the use of the chorus in tragedy | schiller |
| don manuel | schiller |
| bride of messina | schiller |
| armgart | schiller |
| roller | schiller |
| schweizer | schiller |
| amalia von edelreich | schiller |
"like adamant draw mine iron heart." | holy sonnets |
| "nolite te bastardes carborundorum" | handmaid |
| aunts at rachel | handmaid |
| leah centers | handmaid |
| wandering jew | hawthorne |
| "the virtuoso's collection," | hawthorne |
| owen warland | hawthorne |
| "no hopeful verse" | hawthorne |
| "the artist of the beautiful" | hawthorne |
| francis villon | ballad |
| "ay-may sez-ehr's" | caliban |
| une tempete | caliban |
| blind billy blue | odyssey |
| in walcott | odyssey |
| "my name is not nobody!... learn, you bloody tyrants, that men can still think." | odyssey |
| antigone in ghana | brathwaite |
| "under his eye." | handmaid |
| boy willietries | wilson |
| seven guitars | wilson |
| floyd barton | wilson |
| sidley park | stoppard |
| "the a.b. memoirs," | handmaid |
unoka | things fall apart |
| "on turning her up in her nest with the plough, november, 1785" | mouse |
"schemes of mice and men" | burns |
| the trial and the castle | kafka |
| paul sheldon in misery | king |
| jack torrance in the shining | king |
| hans castorp by thomas mann | magic mountain |
| naphta | magic mountain |
| "old soldier watching from his tent." | baudelaire |
| "the flawed bell" | baudelaire |
| "schoolboy" | wilson |
| kinesias | lack |
| "crouch" | lioness |
| "men," | chorus |
| "old women." | chorus |
| "herr god, herr lucifer." | lazarus |
| "you are pithy and historical as the roman forum." | colossus |
| emma lazarus | colossus |
| "the new [this figure]." | colossus |
| first lady eva peron | argentina |
| island with fugard | kani |
| "the wazir and the sage duban" | genies |
| "the fisherman and the genie" | one thousand and one nights |
| dahish | city of brass |
| "have made this crying sound" | reed |
| "it's best to cut conversation short, say good-bye, and leave." | reed |
| myrrhine | lack |
| arkadiy | turgenev |
| "stormy, husky, brawling" | chicago |
| "never lost a battle" | chicago |
| "big shoulders" | chicago |
| "alive and coarse and strong and cunning." | chicago |
| "it's us" | old gringo |
| ambrose bierce in the mexican revolution | old gringo |
| johnny goodboy tyler | hubbard |
| "wart" | arthur |
| sword in the stone | arthur |
| shusai | kawabata |
| "iron horse" | things fall apart |
| "effeminate," | things fall apart |
| reverend smith | things fall apart |
| ojiugo | things fall apart |
| "yermolay and the miller's wife" | turgenev |
| "we are not a school of painters." | imagist |
| t. e. hulme | imagist |
| antiope | amazon |
| volsung and hljod | sigmund |
| helen carey | of human bondage |
| sally athelny | of human bondage |
| "are gone to praise god and his priest and king who make up a heaven of our misery" | chimney |
| experience showing the two contrary states of the human soul | songs of innocence |
| "go oft awry" | best-laid |
| marie arouet | voltaire |
| reform club in london | around the world in |
| "one next himself in power, and next in crime." | beelzebub |
| "hay-uh-rot" | beowulf |
matthew maule | the house of the seven gables |
| "god will give him blood to drink." | house of the seven |
| amy lowell | imagist |
| chartist movement | disraeli |
| "who? who?" | disraeli |
| second reform act | disraeli |
| sybil | disraeli |
| "time passes" | to the lighthouse |
| "the pomegranate" | kawabata |
master of go | kawabata |
| kimiko | kawabata |
| mawl | geirrod |
| myantonia | cather |
| alexandra bergson | carl |
| elstir | in search of lost time |
| "battle police." | farewell to arms |
| "hope is both the earliest and most indispensible virtue inherent in the state of being alive" | erikson |
| stagnationand intimacy | erikson |
| "identity crisis." | erikson |
annie proulx | the shipping news |
| sunshine | shipping news |
| quoyle | shipping news |
| eurymedon | iapetus |
| "corinna's going a maying" | herrick |
| lord chancellor | more |
| when izanami | yomi |
| grim | geirrod |
| irs in operation snow white | hubbard |
| psychlos | hubbard |
| "lilith" | magic mountain |
| cheh | maya |
| second witch | something wicked |
"kisses are a better fate than wisdom" | cummings |
| "and death i think is no parenthesis." | since feeling is firs |
| when joel chandler harris | remus |
| massolit | master and margarita |
| bezdomny | master and margarita |
| eshuoro | soyinka |
| kongi's | soyinka |
| when pi | banana |
| "we will not anticipate the past" | sheridan |
| "indited to dinner." | nell |
| "back-us" | dionysus |
| "perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries" | library of babel |
| twin snakes | mario |
| mike tyson | mario |
| lou albano | mario |
| pauline | mario |
| cappy | mario |
| brazil by guilherme | haiku |
| de almeida | haiku |
| "the middle way is safest" | phaethon |
| vanita | wee willie winkie |
| dmitri ivanovich nekhlyudov | tolstoy |
| nek-hul-yoo-dawff | tolstoy |
| the boys | syracuse |
| dobbin | piano |
| mount judge | pennsylvania |
| raymond chandler | philip |
| lissoy | deserted village |
| "to make much of time" | virgin |
| mount salus | optimist's |
| no country for old men by cormac mccarthy | texas |
| fay | texas |
| bud korpenning | manhattan transfer |
| congo jake | manhattan transfer |
| poseidon impregnated medusa | chrysaor |
| geometry | descartes |
| irene adler | sherlock holmes |
| "a scandal in bohemia" | sherlock holmes |
| metal gear solid | mario |
| matthew cuthbert | anne |
| in the color purple | shug |
| temple of my familiar | walker |
| "you and i would have to be so changed" | nora |
| meleagant | lancelot |
| guenevere | lancelot |
| "i remember you dead" | pinter |
gus (hitman) | the dumbwaiter |
| spooner | pinter |
| "christ follows dionysus" | pound |
| "his true penelope was flaubert" | pound |
| "cogito ergo sum." | descartes |
| tamaki | softball |
| "big boy leaves home" | uncle tom's children |
| lulamae barnes | holly |
| kuh-poh-tee | breakfast at tiffany |
| "belhomme's beast" | maupassant |
| copper knight | lancelot |
| joyous guard | lancelot |
| dolorous guard | lancelot |
| geb and nut | shu |
| ennead | heliopolis |
| al-masalla | heliopolis |
| "into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country [this word]." | awake |
| "aj srishti shukher ullashe" | nazrul |
| "the song of destruction" | nazrul |
| tengo kawana | 1q84 |
| franz kafka prize | murakami |
| "love rectangle" | eliot |
| hetty sorrel | eliot |
| "savage as wild beasts," | odyssey |
| eumaeus | odyssey |
| recluse | wordsworth |
| "it's eating my head" | maupassant |
| in the plague | beach |
| vinteuil with odette | proust |
| "in the crowding darkness, not a word did they say" | brooks |
| "the old marrieds" | brooks |
| in treatise on demonstration of problems in algebra | khayyam |
| "astronomer-poet of persia" | khayyam |
| "iron youth" | all quiet on the western front |
| second company | all quiet on the western front |
| himmelstoss | all quiet on the western front |
| mirah lapidoth | eliot |
| "the oozy weeds about me twist." | billy budd |
| "the ribs and terrors in the whale" | melville |
| "with the beatles" | akutagawa |
| the 's window | hansberry |
| for colored girls | public theater |
| topdog/underdog | public theater |
| shuidiao getou | song |
| "riverside city" | moon |
| "i can receive nothing from a stranger." | nora |
| james gibbons huneker | slam |
| "reverberated across the roof of the world." | slam |
| "part or particle of god." | transcendental |
| "the great lawsuit" | fuller |
| essays and poems | fuller |
| "starry" | billy budd |
| "in the darbies" | billy budd |
| 400-acre | gordimer |
| "the blackbird of glanmore" | heaney |
| "a little stillness dancer," | heaney |
| big jim evans | heaney |
| "it was a hard blow" | heaney |
| "some realms i owned, two rivers, a continent" | bishop |
| louise crane | key west |
| "three loved houses" | key west |
| "football in the first year of man'en" | oe |
| "honoured sir." | locke |
| letter concerning toleration | locke |
| "tabula rasa." | locke |
| golden house | rushdie |
| joseph anton | rushdie |
| "[the title animals] and death" | sartre |
| the flies and nausea | sartre |
| "yield their names to the element" | confederate |
| colonel shaw | lowell |
| "for the union dead." | lowell |
| "skunk hour" | lowell |
| "plunge and expire." | leaves |
| thomas melvill | leaves |
| "what's to become of me?" | shaw |
| nepommuck | shaw |
| "some of these days" | nausea |
| moderato cantabile | duras |
| the lover | duras |
| "the viy" | ivan |
| "quarrel" | ivan |
| diary of a superfluous man | ivan |
| squire booby | fielding |
| joseph andrews | fielding |
| "of things past." | prague |
| l'argent and l'assommoir | rougon |
| germinal in the rougon | zola |
| "i am [this sort of] man." | sincere |
| motivos de son | hughes |
| garland, polokov | czech |
| ikem | anthills of the savannah |
| anthills of the savannah | achebe |
| kindred | time travel |
| lauren | time travel |
| "unlimited but periodic" | library of babel |
| "spherical fruits" | library of babel |
| "far finer language than spanish." | borges |
| thebaid | statius |
| photos by ara guler | prague |
| "and the city." | prague |
| edward malone | doyle |
| caprona in the land that time forgot | haggard |
| edgar rice burroughs | haggard |
| jane porter | haggard |
| u-33 | haggard |
| kala | haggard |
| "say goodbye to her, to" | antony |
| in octavia butler | time travel |
| pauline pfeiffer hemingway | key west |
| soares | robinson |
| "where are the days of tobias" | angel |
| stephen spender | duino elegies |
| j. b. leishman's | duino elegies |
| roscius | lord chamberlain |
| oroonoko in a thomas southerne | behn |
| rickshaw boy | cat |
| "phoebus." | esmeralda |
| "small electric" | moon |
| "you have to be always drunk." | spleen |
| femi osofisan | antigone |
| odewale in ola rotimi | oedipus |
| gods are not to blame | oedipus |
| ojuola | oedipus |
| sylvain bemba | black |
| "i was a child and she was a child" | annabel lee |
| virginia clemm | annabel lee |
| "a wind blew out of a cloud" | annabel lee |
| "shut her up in a sepulchre." | annabel lee |
| "love that was more than love" | annabel lee |
| "i will arise and go now, and go to innisfree..." | yeats |
| "i will write it out in a verse, --macdonagh and macbride, connolly and pearse" | yeats |
| court of miracles | esmeralda |
| frank boas | mead |
| democrat cornudet | maupassant |
| "places with no carpet on the floor" | hughes |
| "where there ain't no light." | hughes |
| "will be at the table/when company comes" | hughes |
| "be ashamed that i, too, am, america." | hughes |
| room 101 | 1984 |
| "winged seraphs of heaven" | annabel lee |
| " for 10 points each: name this play, whose second act features a couple getting cold feet on their wedding day. a man acting as a minister in this play says, " | our town |
| the matchmaker | wilder |
| "what [this author] doesn't know about modern architecture." | wolfe |
| right stuff | wolfe |
| "kandy kolored" | college |
| "tangerine flake" | college |
| ed roth | college |
| george barris | college |
| hobhouse | don juan |
| "a mere-copy book." | lamb |
| jurgis rudkus by upton sinclair | jungle |
| nazi germany in dragon | lanny |
| walter gilkyson | oil |
| bunny ross | oil |
| "loyal subjects," | cap |
| bertha flowers | not speak |
| "the other tartuffe." | figaro |
| "just because you are a great nobleman, you think you are a great genius" | figaro |
| coupable | figaro |
| "wagnerian" | swan |
| "glorious rays and light" | swan |
| "alejandro nebuchadnezzar." | president |
| dreams from my father | president |
| pilgrimage to john hobhouse | byron |
| big oakland powwow | orange |
| reservation blues | alexie |
| junior in the absolutely true diary of a part | alexie |
| time indian | alexie |
| harriet vane | wimsey |
| whose body | wimsey |
| murder must advertise | wimsey |
| la mere | figaro |
| red queen in through the looking | alice |
| "the bloody chamber." | carter |
| "the company of wolves." | carter |
| "the lady, or [this animal]?" | tiger |
| in carter | world war i |
| "the lady of the house of love," | world war i |
| wandering stars | orange |
| tony loneman | orange |
| "the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth" | mead |
| land of green plums | muller |
| hunger angel | muller |
| theofraste | wife of bath |
| in zadie smith | jamaica |
| wife of willesden | jamaica |
| josey wales | jamaica |
| "the singer" | jamaica |
| petrie | welty |
| "picker-up of learning's crumbs" | browning |
| "karshish, the arab physician" | browning |
| "hoary cripple." | browning |
| "inebriate of air" | dickinson |
| "i taste a liquor never brewed." | dickinson |
| roger | lord of the flies |
| "sex and temperament in three primitive societies." | mead |
| klamm | castle |
| "death is the mother of beauty," | stevens |
| "green freedom of the cockatoo upon a rug." | stevens |
| "casual flock of pigeons" | stevens |
| "complacencies of the peignoir." | stevens |
| "petrified man" | welty |
| independence day | welty |
| pike | welty |
| "lessons in living." | not speak |
| momma | not speak |
| "when i want." | marriage |
| ngugi wa mirii | marriage |
| "marriage a la mode" | mansfield |
| jenny erpenbeck | english |
| international booker | english |
| kurt tucholsky | castle |
| grandeurthe windhover | hopkins |
| red barber | thurber |
| erwin martin | thurber |
| ulgine barrows | thurber |
| "the catbird seat" | thurber |
| lady carlotta | saki |
| "the oral history of a nuclear disaster." | chernobyl |
| romelio ureta | death |
| "unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster followed fast and followed faster." | raven |
| "each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." | raven |
| "be embraced, millions!" | schiller |
| "daughter of elysium." | schiller |
| amalia | schiller |
| "thou mastering me god! giver of breath and bread," | hopkins |
| "there lives the dearest freshness deep down things," | hopkins |
| " for 10 points, name this jesuit poet of " | hopkins |
| " for 10 points each: hopkins' phrase " | stress |
| " exemplifies his " | stress |
| falconsprung | stress |
| tamara | invisible cities |
| belarusian nobel | alexievich |
| unwomanly face | alexievich |
| voices of utopia | alexievich |
| "sorry he could not travel both" | frost |
| "alyson from bath into alvita from willesden" | chauce |
| "colloquial flow" | chauce |
| with august falck | proscenium |
| "arch." | proscenium |
| falck | maeterlinck |
| " after stating, " | dapple |
| falconthe windhover | hopkins |
| windhoveri | hopkins |
| "hasped and hooped and hirpling," | heaney |
| heaneywulf in a london | heaney |
| irina dumitrescu | heaney |
| headley | heaney |
| ambroise phillips | ode to aphrodite |
| "menippean" | satire |
| sulpicia | satire |
| "diamonds and toads" | perrault |
| "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." | lorde |
| "biomythography" | zami |
| "a carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers." | zami |
| "to die is to rest" | philippines |
| carlos bulosan | great depression |
| "philippine temptation" | twain |
| roughing it | twain |
| "the squat pen rests" | beowulf |
| ilya muromets | bogatyr |
| volkh | bogatyr |
| " was written by this southern gothic author of stories like " | o'connor |
| "go back to hell where you came from, you old wart hog" | revelation |
| guppy | spontaneous combustion |
| jobling | spontaneous combustion |
| esther summerson | bleak house |
| sister outsider | lorde |
| "usher ii" | mars |
| ylla | mars |
| classic slave narratives | douglass |
| equiano | douglass |
| "thund'ring noise" | burn |
| johan van heemskerk | arcadia |
| russian golden age | hero of our time |
| "superfluous man" | hero of our time |
| de maintenon | three musketeers |
| martinique | three musketeers |
| "af" | klara and the sun |
| cootings machine | klara and the sun |
| josie | klara and the sun |
| kathy | never let me go |
| hailsham | never let me go |
| never let me go | ishiguro |
| "to every middlesex village and farm." | longfellow |
| "hardly a man is now alive who remembers." | longfellow |
| "roof was scarcely visible, the cornice but a mound," | because i could not stop for death |
| "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 |
| "get away from earth awhile." | frost |
| saint-cyr | racine |
| athalie | racine |
| "custom is king of all." | herodotus |
| halicarnassus | herodotus |
| salamis | herodotus |
| bud collyer | superman |
| george reeves | superman |
| lois lane | superman |
| "man of steel." | superman |
| "lovely stars" | longfellow |
| "soul is marching on." | brown |
| good lord bird | mcbride |
| henry shackleford | mcbride |
| "little onion" | mcbride |
| earth grocery store | mcbride |
| "the last days of john brown." | thoreau |
| "anacreon in heaven" | key |
| hms tonnant | key |
| "beneath the myrtle shade." | maecenas |
| zadok the priest | handel |
| ode for the birthday of queen anne | handel |
| girl with a watering can | renoir |
| first sinojapanese war | shimonoseki |
| hannibal hamlin | madison |
| "he never did a thing so very bad / he don't know why he isn't quite as good / as anyone. he won't be made ashamed / to please his brother, worthless though he is." | death of the hired man |
| "he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across / and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, 'good fences make good neighbors.'" | mending wall |
| "naif" | holden |
| "phony" | holden |
| "the sailor uncle" | lamb |
| "the changeling" | lamb |
| "cousin bridget" | lamb |
| timon of athens | shakespeare |
| "] (the poem is " | wheat |
| ") [10e] this author wrote " | wheat |
| giving up the ghost | mantel |
| "from the castle walls, but from counting houses." | mantel |
| hilary mantel | wolf hall |
| mrs lovett | sweeney |
| "demon barber of fleet street" | sweeney |
| michael verancius | wedding |
| rhetoric of fiction | unreliable narrator |
| "picaro" | lazarillo de tormes |
| el llano en llamas | rulfo |
| ciudad seva | puerto rico |
| yo boing | 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 |
| an appeal in favor | child |
| class of americans called africans | child |
| "the quadrooms" | child |
| "over the river and through the woods." | child |
| "determined to prove a villain" | richard iii |
| "now is the winter of our discontent / made glorious summer by the son of york." | richard iii |
| "dull rhymes" | keats |
| "bound with garlands of her own" | keats |
| "supperless to bed ... must retire." | keats |
| eve of st | keats |
| "tease us out of thought," | keats |
| mose porter | iceman cometh |
| " and a poem that celebrates a " | leaves of grass |
| " titled " | leaves of grass |
| " for 10 points each: this american poet wrote the collection leaves of grass, which also includes " | whitman |
| " for 10 points each: this other whitman poem begins " | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| " and includes a description of the " | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| forbidden city the | grand canal |
| "bottled spider." | richard iii |
| clarence in the tower of london | richard iii |
| rutabaga stories | sandburg |
| "prairie years" | sandburg |
| spoon river anthology | lincoln |
| "great star" | lincoln |
| "western sky in the night." | lincoln |
| "the ship is anchor'd safe" | lincoln |
| "they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning." | lincoln |
| " for 10 points each: name this collection which includes " | leaves of grass |
| "people of israel, listen to all the laws that i am giving you today." | deuteronomy |
| "i saved latin. what did you ever do?" | rushmore |
| "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 |
| "anybody interested in grabbing a couple of burgers and hittin' the cemetery?" | royal tenenbaums |
| "of the progress of the soul." | donne |
| "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 |
| tyger | symmetry |
| "the jungle is dark, but full of diamonds," | death of a salesman |
| bill singleman | death of a salesman |
| "would prefer not to," | melville |
| "what passing bells for doomed youth? / only the monstrous anger of the guns" | owen |
| watchmen | rorshach |
| "very scary" | calvin |
| "let's go exploring!" | calvin |
| hun hanahpu | hero twins |
| xquic | hero twins |
| lusiads | portugal |
| mistress higgins | scarlet letter |
| black man | scarlet letter |
| mad hatter in wonderland | alice |
| in through the looking glass | walrus |
| "the vorpal blade went snicker-snack." | jabberwock |
| news on the march | citizen kane |
| jerry thompson | citizen kane |
| "a man who got everything he wanted, and then lost it." | citizen kane |
| jim leland | citizen kane |
| organ | tartuffe |
| elise and cleante | miser |
| harpagon | miser |
| ratatosk | eagle |
| "old foolosopher," | iceman cometh |
| "bedrock bar, the end of the line cafe...the last harbor." | iceman cometh |
| joe mott | iceman cometh |
| larry slade | iceman cometh |
| countess cathleen | yeats |
| "the ceremony of innocence is drowned." | yeats |
| aleel | yeats |
| "no trespassing" | citizen kane |
| "i knew a simple soldier boy / who grinned at life in empty joy" | sassoon |
| "suicide in the trenches." | sassoon |
| "merry war" | beatrice |
| "down under" | australia |
| keneally | schindler |
| "my self-possession gutters" | portrait of a lady |
| "thou hast committed fornication: but that was in another country" | portrait of a lady |
| ned rosier | portrait of a lady |
| jenna maroney | tracy |
| grizz | tracy |
| "ready to kill" | sandburg |
| "yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again." | sandburg |
| "the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth," | sandburg |
| "to the feast-flowing board let us gratefully throng" | key |
| "when the warrior returns" | key |
| "on the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep." | key |
| peter schilling | tom |
| "coming home" | tom |
| "papers want to know what shirts he wears" | tom |
| "sitting in a tin can" | tom |
| "tell my wife i love her very much- she knows!" | tom |
| "space oddity." | tom |
| jermaine | tom |
| mystery garage | tracy |
| "there are no rules." | calvin |
| tracer bullet | calvin |
| spaceman spiff | calvin |
| bill watterson | calvin |
| flight of the conchords | tom |
| tim tebow | tom |
| "junkie, strung out in heavens high, hitting an all time low." | tom |
| "ashes to ashes" | tom |
| before elihu | eliphaz |
| job | eliphaz |
| neal cassady | dean |
| beat | on the road |
| japhy ryder in the dharma bums | kerouac |
| bocaccio | decameron |
| accelerating inflation rate of unemployment | friedman |
| permanent income hypothesis | friedman |
| "dappled things" | hopkins |
| cleanser of the altars | pig |
| ralph in lord of the flies | pig |
| jones in animal farm | pig |
| spirit of reason | inferno |
| "the father of science fiction" | welles |
| after job | boil |
| egyptians in the book of exodus | boil |
| killing joke | moore |
| judge brack | hedda |
| ejlert lovberg | hedda |
| "no one shall sleep" | nessun dorma |
| lucy sacheverell | lovelace |
| tom in the glass menagerie | amanda |
| the and the memorandum | havel |
| antananarivo | madagascar |
| pansy | portrait of a lady |
| margaret garner | morrison |
| pavel kirsanov | fathers and sons |
| saint vaivaswata | vishnu |
| churning of the milky ocean | vishnu |
| "the bow and the lyre." | paz |
| north american plate | aleutian |
| "the lady of shallot" | tennyson |
| "gonna fly now" | rocky |
| "yo, adrian!" | rocky |
| mickey goldmill | rocky |
| sylvester stallone | rocky |
| "i am pagliacci." | rorshach |
| "smartest man in the morgue" | rorshach |
| "dog carcass in alley... tire tread on burst stomach." | rorshach |
| new frontiersman | rorshach |
| goldeneye estate | bond |
| "the living daylights" | bond |
| le chiffre in casino royale | bond |
| gettler | bond |
| leslie knope | bridge to terabithia |
| onion | decameron |
| "creep-o" | rocky |
| tony gazzo | rocky |
| snake woman | quetzalcoatl |
| death god | quetzalcoatl |
| democracy and education | dewey |
| art as experience | dewey |
| shawshank redemption | king |
| kingsley amis in colonel sun | bond |
| "bitch" | bond |
| "the bitch is dead." | bond |
| georgi abalishi | brecht |
| good person of schezuan | brecht |
| polly peachum | brecht |
| ironshirts | brecht |
| "ianthe," | byron |
| caucasus mountains | south ossetia |
| abkhazia | south ossetia |
| akutagawa prize | japan |
| aglaya | dostoyevsky |
| smyerdakov | dostoyevsky |
| measure of the soul | augustine |
| manichaeism to the christianity | augustine |
| city of god | augustine |
| reconsiderations | augustine |
| monica | augustine |
| valeria | lolita |
| joseph k. the trial | kafka |
| lord munodi | lemuel |
| big endians | lemuel |
| "who" | lemuel |
| nyms | lemuel |
| kirilov | dostoyevsky |
| shatov | dostoyevsky |
| nastassya | dostoyevsky |
| "song offering." | gitanjali |
| " for 10 points each: stein is credited with coining this term for the generation that came of age during world war i. writers considered to be part of this " | lost |
| chanticleer | the canterbury tales |
| chekov | gun |
| kara sea to the kazakh steppes | ural |
| "floodtide below me!" | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| "you furnish your parts towards eternity." | crossing brooklyn ferry |
| georg bendemann | kafka |
| "do it! do it!" | rorshach |
| alan moore | rorshach |
| "be my mirror, my sword and shield" | viva la vida |
| "i used to rule the world." | viva la vida |
| happy days | beckett |
| godot | beckett |
| "reflex from a distance." | pavlov |
| noble prize in medicine | pavlov |
| "and yet, god has not said a word!" | browning |
| "faultless painter" | browning |
| "you ever ate a chicken that was two days old?" | o'connor |
| prince prospero | poe |
| "reposes" | wordsworth |
"under this dark sycamore," | tintern abbey |
| "a poet could not but be gay, / in such a jocund company." | wordsworth |
| "a host of golden daffodils." | wordsworth |
| jaggers | great expectations |
| "let the rain kiss you" | hughes |
| "april rain song." | hughes |
| "down on lennox avenue," | hughes |
| beardsley school for girls | lolita |
| "sullen wind" | browning |
| "tore the elm-tops down for spite" | browning |
| "the rain set in early tonight" | browning |
| manly pointer | o'connor |
| communist hugo | sartre |
dirty hands | sartre |
| hoederer | sartre |
| oberlin college | beloved |
| miss bodwin | beloved |
| "schoolteacher" | beloved |
| compeyson | great expectations |
| journey to parnassus | cervantes |
| "the jealous extremaduran" | cervantes |
| golden helmet of mambrino | cervantes |
| sampson carrasco | cervantes |
| late mattia pascal | pirandello |
| doctor hinkfuss | pirandello |
| tonight we improvise | pirandello |
| addio | pirandello |
| "the poet of the body" | song of myself |
| "poet of the soul." | song of myself |
| "i stop somewhere waiting for you" | song of myself |
| "barbaric yawp" | song of myself |
| "roofs of the world." | song of myself |
| "may be from below," | emerson |
| "if i am the devil's child, i will live then from the devil." | emerson |
| "what do i know?" | emerson |
| "meeting at night" | browning |
| "parting at morning" | browning |
| "strive to do, and agonize to do, and fail in doing" | browning |
| "was the common property of the human race" | paine |
| "the sword of washington would have been wielded in vain." | paine |
| "common sense." | paine |
| "seas of bright juice suffuse heaven" | song of myself |
| "unscrew the locks from the doors! / unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!" | song of myself |
| shabbatai zevi | singer |
| rietze the candle | singer |
| satan in goray | singer |
| the slave and the | singer |
| "to live in mankind is far more than to live in a name" | lindsay |
| "the eagle that is forgotten." | lindsay |
| "mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you" | lindsay |
| "creeping through the black / cutting through the jungle with a golden track." | lindsay |
| "twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle." | second coming |
| "ledaean body bent above a sinking fire" | yeats |
| "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." | emerson |
| "the american scholar" | emerson |
| national book award | singer |
| crown of feathers | singer |
| "the slaughterer" | singer |
| yasha mazur | singer |
| meso | aztec |
| jared lee loughner | giffords |
| skittles | trayvon |
| utoya | breivik |
| cedar mountains | humbaba |
| dartmoor with sir henry | hound of the |
| "open sesame." | ali |
| "father of tragedy" | aeschylus |
| land of nod | enoch |
| zac efron | lorax |
| danny devito | lorax |
| "speaks for the trees" | lorax |
"the bet" | chekhov |
gayev | the cherry orchard |
| green eggs | seuss |
| cat in the hat | seuss |
| jim bayliss | miller |
| steve deever | miller |
| man who had all the luck | miller |
| howard wagner in death of a salesman | miller |
| newcomes | thackeray |
| professor willard | grover's corners |
| murder of roger ackroyd | christie |
| cloudcuckooland | birds |
| "peor and baalim forsake their temples dim" | milton |
| "and sullen molloch" | milton |
| "on the morning of christ's nativity." | milton |
| licensing order | milton |
| "look homeward, angel" | milton |
| defoe | moll flanders |
| andrew falk | miller |
| david beeves | miller |
| yucatan peninsula | maya |
| "when at the races with a lady, brush dust off her gown. if there is no dust, brush it nonetheless." | ars amatoria |
| "great shift" | saussure |
| "what good is it, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?" | james |
| "ghost caught in individualism's blind alley" | china |
| red hare | china |
| "what is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed?" | soliloquies |
| "how all occasions do inform against me." | soliloquies |
| madame marie | ambassadors |
| lewis strether | ambassadors |
| de vionnet | ambassadors |
| "roman fever" | daisy miller |
| "a melody sweetly play'd in tune." | rose |
| elemental odes | neruda |
| bierce | devil's dictionary |
| kimbro | paint |
| "anna christie" | o'neill |
| bella in the twilight | stewart |
| lily collins | mirror |
| julia roberts | mirror |
| napoleon, grimm | mirror |
| half-pint | mirror |
| in skepticism | in medias res |
| chadwick newsome | ambassadors |
| "drink and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim." | ode to a |
| age of enlightenment | voltaire |
| la henriade | voltaire |
| in candide | el |
| glubbdubdrib | gulliver's |
| drapier | swift |
| happy death | camus |
| "all god's chillun got wings" | o'neill |
| randolph driblette | pynchon |
| count paris | romeo and juliet |
| night!s | romeo and juliet |
| "this is my letter to the world," | dickinson |
| "might i but moor / to-night with thee," | wild nights |
| "with thee," | wild nights |
| "our luxury." | wild nights |
| "i have so many enemies" | psalms |
| morph ball | samus |
| chozo on zebes | samus |
| space pirates | samus |
| zero suit | samus |
| ridley | samus |
| metroid | samus |
| pig bodine | pynchon |
| whole sick crew | pynchon |
| miss pross | tale of two cities |
| carton | tale of two cities |
| adam malkovich in the galactic federation | samus |
| pikachu in the subspace emissary | samus |
| tallon iv | samus |
| parasite queen | samus |
| power suits | samus |
| charge beam | samus |
| "the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape" | soliloquies |
| "what a rogue and peasant slave am i!" | soliloquies |
| "unweeded garden," | soliloquies |
| "o that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!" | soliloquies |
| "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 |
| jerry cruncher | tale of two cities |
| pearl louie brandt | chinese |
| tiger mother | chinese |
| waverly | chinese |
| franz moor | schiller |
| "storm and drive." | sturm und drang |
| weimar classicism | sturm und drang |
| waiting for the barbarians the magistrate | coetzee |
| miranda tate | dark knight rises |
| "your humble narrator." | clockwork orange |
| "lovely ludwig van" | clockwork orange |
| abe froman | ferris bueller's day off |
| "twist and shout" | ferris bueller's day off |
| matthew broderick | ferris bueller's day off |
| principal ed rooney | ferris bueller's day off |
| ferrari | ferris bueller's day off |
| sloane | ferris bueller's day off |
| t.h. white | once and future king |
| freddy hill | pygmalion |
| "vanished" | clouds |
| tom walker | irving |
| margaret saville | frankenstein |
| de laceys | frankenstein |
| henry clerval | frankenstein |
| "oh my brothers" | clockwork orange |
| "give thanks to the lord, for he is good." | psalms |
| "give crowns and pounds and guineas / but not your heart away." | when i was one-and-twenty |
| seven sleepers | arabic |
| people of the cave | arabic |
| il commendatore | don giovanni |
| sitka | roth |
| cousin pons | human comedy |
| locksley | ivanhoe |
| "say good bye to miss lara" | django unchained |
| miss lara | django unchained |
| calvin candide | django unchained |
| christoph waltz | django unchained |
| jaimie foxx | django unchained |
| broomhilda | django unchained |
| "two weeks" | how i met your mother |
| "second greatest love story" | how i met your mother |
| tony shalhoub | detective |
| usa network | detective |
| "just one more thing." | detective |
| kate beckett | detective |
| richard castle | detective |
| elementary and sherlock | detective |
| collegehumor | django unchained |
| "we're not going to go there." | django unchained |
| jessica chastain | zero dark thirty |
| kathryn bigelow | zero dark thirty |
| "sweet-ass." | xkcd |
| black hat guy | xkcd |
| what if | xkcd |
| randall munroe | xkcd |
| natalie teeger | detective |
| sharona fleming | detective |
| christopher nolan | dark knight rises |
| bane | dark knight rises |
| catwoman | dark knight rises |
| "mousy" | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| biology department | who's afraid of virginia woolf |
| jason clarke | zero dark thirty |
| james gandolfini | zero dark thirty |
| leon panetta | zero dark thirty |
| "grow vaster than empires" | to his coy mistress |
| "of mans first disobedience, and the fruit of" | paradise lost |
| forbidden tree | paradise lost |
| il penseroso | milton |
| philistine dalila | samson agonistes |
| duke of tintagel | wharton |
| nan st | wharton |
| raymond de chelles | wharton |
| penistone crags | wuthering heights |
| "truth as subjectivity" | kierkegaard |
| sickness unto death | kierkegaard |
| "always coming on / the always rising of the night." | to his coy mistress |
"to adore each breast" | "to his coy mistress" |
| "for the rest," | to his coy mistress |
| "the grave's a fine and private place." | to his coy mistress |
| "vegetable love" | to his coy mistress |
| "not all the vats upon the rhine/ yield such an alcohol" | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| "shall but drink the more." | i taste a liquor never brewed |
| "get thee back into the tempest and night's plutonian shore!" | raven |
| "quaint and curious volumes" | raven |
| "surcease" | raven |
| "pondered weak and weary," | raven |
| sobek | horus |
| ginnungagap | ymir |
| price is right | how i met your mother |
| robin sherbatsky | how i met your mother |
| ted mosby | how i met your mother |
| neil patrick harris | how i met your mother |
| barney stinson | how i met your mother |
| clint | how i met your mother |
| "imperial affliction / sent us of the air" | dickinson |
| "there's a certain slant of light" | dickinson |
| lady narborough | picture of dorian gray |
| "sweating with blood" | picture of dorian gray |
| "little yellow book" | picture of dorian gray |
| lord saxmundham | shaw |
| sergius saranoff | shaw |
| bodger | shaw |
bluntschli | shaw |
| arms and the man | shaw |
| seneca crane | hunger games |
| president snow | hunger games |
| peeta melark | hunger games |
| katniss everdeen | hunger games |
| foxface | hunger games |
| lady | hunger games |
| buttercup | hunger games |
| district 12 | hunger games |
| burmin | pushkin |
| tomsky | pushkin |
| mookherjee | kim |
| "toomai of the elephants" | jungle book |
| "keep [his] head when all about" | kipling |
| "losing theirs" | kipling |
| delly cartwright | hunger games |
| gale hawthorne | hunger games |
| elmer moffatt | wharton |
| undine spragg in the custom of the country | wharton |
| mattie silver | wharton |
| ushant | wharton |
| england by van helsing in a bram stoker | vampire |
the grass harp | truman capote |
| jose ybarra | breakfast at tiffany's |
"the blizzard" | pushkin |
dimitri gurov | "the lady with the dog" |
| les propheties | nostradamus |
| "agony in eight fits," | carroll |
| "what i tell you three times is true," | carroll |
boojum | carroll |
| "uffish thought" | carroll |
| "by the tumtum tree" | carroll |
| "galumphing back" | carroll |
| langston | hughes |
| "purple smoke rising from the mountains" | li bai |
| "milky way falling from the ninth heaven" | li bai |
| "waterfall of lushan mountain" | li bai |
| "two small people, without dislike or suspicion" | li bai |
| "down through the narrows of the river kiang" | li bai |
| "the moonlight glistens in front of my bed / as if there is frost on the ground" | li bai |
lopakhin | the cherry orchard |
| "lied in every word." | browning |
| "you need not clap your torches to my face," | browning |
| "fra lippo lippi" | browning |
| men and women | browning |
| the french war | greene |
| "fulcrum of violence" | hughes |
| "hangs still;" | hughes |
| "drie[s] up / like a raisin in the sun" | hughes |
| father pirard | red and the black |
| julian sorel | red and the black |
| besancon | red and the black |
| croisenois | red and the black |
| madame de renal | red and the black |
| fenrir with angrboda | loki |
| "best is yet to be" | browning |
| "hoary cripple, with malicious eye" | browning |
| kiyoagi matsugae | mishima |
| father dosen | mishima |
| kashiwagi | mishima |
mathilde aubain | flaubert |
| felicite | flaubert |
rosanette | flaubert |
| dambreuse | flaubert |
| rudolphe | flaubert |
| "turbid ebb and flow / of human misery," | dover beach |
| "we are here as on a darkling plain," | dover beach |
| "the sea is calm tonight." | dover beach |
| will halloway | bradbury |
jim nightshade | bradbury |
| guy montag in fahrenheit | bradbury |
| cooger | bradbury |
judge honda | mishima |
| "for three years" | pound |
"it is difficult / to get the news from poems" | william carlos williams |
moocow | a portrait of the artist as a young man |
| davin | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| cranly | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| "sort of mournful cosmic last resort." | dover beach |
| "naked shingles of the world," | dover beach |
| "hath neither joy, nor love, nor light." | dover beach |
"the hunting of the snark" | carroll |
| ragged dick | alger |
| mark the match boy | alger |
| "the dismantling of lemuel pitkin," | west |
| cool million | west |
| "brimming pools of ecstasy." | eye |
| "are nothing like the sun" | eye |
| "how swift how secretly / the shadow of the night comes on." | macleish |
| baratheon | game of thrones |
| chao gai | water margin |
sun quan | romance of the three kingdoms |
| " for 10 points each: this american modernist poet of " | stevens |
| disillusionment of ten | stevens |
| " he also wrote " | stevens |
| " for 10 points each: stevens described this animal that " | blackbird |
| " and whose eye is " | blackbird |
| coast guard | jaws |
| uss indianapolis | jaws |
| captain quint | jaws |
| orca | jaws |
| devon prep | phineas |
| gene forrester | separate peace |
| brinker hadley | separate peace |
| "a song of ice and fire" | game of thrones |
| broom of the system | wallace |
"poor yorick!" | hamlet |
| justice of the ten pound court | irving |
| tassel with brom bones | irving |
| ben okri | nigeria |
| sani abacha | nigeria |
| chrissie watkins | jaws |
| mayor larry vaughan | jaws |
| arabella wilmot | vicar of wakefield |
| history of little goody | goldsmith |
| kate hardcastle | maid |
| "stoops" | maid |
| "nearly all young criminals have had lying mothers," | doll |
| christine linde | doll |
| enfield tennis academy | infinite jest |
hal (incandenza) | infinite jest |
queen mab | romeo and juliet |
benvolio | romeo and juliet |
| edna ferber | chicago |
| so big | chicago |
| "govern in a thing so small." | design |
| "this sleep of mine" | woodchuck |
| "long sleep, or just some human sleep." | woodchuck |
| "if fame belonged to me, i could not escape her," | letters |
| "macavity" | cat |
| "old possum's book of practical" | cat |
| "on a hot tin roof." | cat |
| goma | cat |
| bengalsky | cat |
| "should be palpable and mute," | poem |
| "art of this," | poem |
| "prince of cats," | romeo and juliet |
| "everybody knows where you go when the sun goes down" | cash |
| "i wasted my time when i would try, try, try." | cash |
| "rollin' 'round the bend," | cash |
| joaquin phoenix | cash |
| june carter | cash |
| "i keep a close watch on this heart of mine." | cash |
| in kafka on the shore | cat |
| "bustopher jones" | cat |
| "[stretching] in vain to reach the prize," | gray |
| "not all that glisters [is] gold." | gray |
| "withered leaves to quicken a new birth." | west wind |
| "solitary the thrush, the hermit withdrawn to himself," | lincoln |
| "rise up, for you the flag is flung, for you the bugle trills," | lincoln |
| "coward holding a baby-killer in his manly arms," | no exit |
| "i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow." | villanelle |
| pro football hall of fame | ohio |
| "dick, joe, ned and jack" | chimney sweep |
| harvey cheyne | kipling |
| daniel dravot | kipling |
| peachy carnahan | kipling |
| captains courageous | kipling |
| knock | marlowe |
tamburlaine the great | marlowe |
mycetes | marlowe |
"a&p" | updike |
| rhode island in the witches of eastwick | updike |
| "run" | updike |
| "when you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold" | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| emma clery | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| clongowes college | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| dante riordan | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| charles parnell | portrait of the artist as a young man |
| arkenstone | bilbo |
| shire | bilbo |
| "spring is the mischief in me" | frost |
| "i could say " | frost |
| " to him, / but it's not elves exactly, and i'd rather / he said it for himself." | frost |
| "earth's the right place for love" | frost |
| "from what i've tasted of desire" | frost |
| "knowing how way leads onto way," | frost |
| "but, will you be my preceptor, mr. higginson?" | letters |
| "was told that it was disgraceful." | whitman |
| "deal[ing] with lesser boy - to prove ability." | god |
| miles standish | god |
| "a distant - stately lover." | god |
| "name this poem from the collection michael robartes and the dancer about the poet's newborn anne. its speaker hopes that she may " | prayer for my daughter |
| "a prayer for my daughter" | sailing to byzantium |
| "sick with desire and fastened to a dying animal it knows not what it is." | sailing to byzantium |
| ajax the greater | achilles |
| gianni schicchi | o mio |
| lauretta | o mio |
| rinuccio | o mio |
| thunder-ten-tronckh | cunegonde |
| "much have i travell'd in the realms of gold" | on first looking into chapman's homer |
| "stout cortez, when with eagle eyes / he stared at the pacific." | on first looking into chapman's homer |
| way of the world | congreve |
"tell how a man, though, could possibly thread the lyre's narrow modes?" | sonnets to orpheus |
| rosalie murray | agnes grey |
| twilight sparkle | my little pony |
| "bronies." | my little pony |
| "cutie marks" | my little pony |
| ursa major | trixie |
| alicorn amulet | trixie |
| "little we see in nature that is ours." | world is too much with us |
"the wild honey suckle" | freneau |
| be still | finlandia |
| my soul | finlandia |
| puff | sheridan |
| charles surface | school for scandal |
| sneerwell | school for scandal |
| "paris of the west," | san |
| "gods are able" | sonnets to orpheus |
| "what powerful but unrecorded race/ once dwelt in that annihilated place." | ozymandias |
| "the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed." | ozymandias |
| "the lone and level sands stretch far away," | ozymandias |
| hate week | 84 |
| big brother in a george orwell | 84 |
| komatsu | 84 |
| "poet of the american revolution" | freneau |
| "the indian burying ground" | freneau |
| "...airman forsees his death" | yeats |
| "essay on the principle of population" | malthus |
| henry george | rent |
| "contrary states" | songs of innocence and |
| "infant joy" | songs of innocence and |
| "infant sorrow," | songs of innocence and |
| "piping down the valleys wild / piping songs of pleasant glee / on a cloud i saw a child." | songs of innocence and |
| "der sandmann." | the tales of hoffman |
| great depression in the adventures of augie march | bellow |
| asher lev | potok |
| reuven malter | potok |
| daniel sauters | potok |
| the chosen | potok |
| war years | lincoln |
| vampire hunter in a seth grahame | lincoln |
| "somewhere in the clouds above" | yeats |
| alden pyle in the quiet american | greene |
| mathilde moisel | necklace |
| trilogy of the rat | murakami |
| "two chinamen, behind them a third, / are carved in [the title stone]." | lapis lazuli |
| "genuflection." | warsaw |
| black obelisk | remarque |
| three comrades | remarque |
| station at the horizon | remarque |
| "heaven has no rage like love turned to hatred, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" | congreve |
| rokovoko | queequeg |
| pudd'nhead wilson | twain |
| from russia with love | fleming |
| loved me | fleming |
| casino royale | bond |
| amis | bond |
| maurice bendrix in the end of the affair | greene |
| polk county | hurston |
| hurston | boas |
| at balder | dwarf |
| david lean | bridge |
| bridge on the river kwai | world war ii |
| "great old ones" | lovecraft |
| miskatonic university in arkham | lovecraft |
| strange wine | ellison |
| "not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion." | smith |
"invisible hand" | smith |
| "sisters of the sacred well" | milton |
| "pilot of the galilean lake." | milton |
| "malt does more than" | milton |
| "look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth" | milton |
| "justify the ways of god to man" | milton |
| "attercop, attercop, won't you stop, stop your spinning and look for me?" | bilbo |
| "hope springs eternal in the human breast" | pope |
| "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind," | pope |
| eloisa to abelard | pope |
| "what dire offence from am'rous causes springs" | pope |
| lord petre | pope |
| "beauty which the appearance of utility bestows" | smith |
| "derive nothing from" | smith |
| "except the pleasure of seeing it." | smith |
| "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 |
| "two roads diverged in a wood, and i, / i took the one less traveled by, / and that has made all the difference." | frost |
| "a stone's throw from the equator, with a bottomless historical chasm separating the two" | arabic |
| "in october 1914" | arabic |
| port said | arabic |
| "crooked rose" | thomas |
| "lover's tomb." | thomas |
| "keeping time, time, time, / in a sort of runic rhyme." | poe |
| "world of merriment their melody foretells" | poe |
| iron cross | grass |
| pilenz | grass |
| danzig | grass |
| billy the poet | welcome to the monkey house |
| "nothinghead," | welcome to the monkey house |
| ethical suicide parlor | welcome to the monkey house |
| guelphs | shelley |
| valperga | shelley |
| daybreak | gay science |
| golden day | invisible man |
| rinehart | invisible man |
| jane gallagher | holden |
| d.b | holden |
| pensey | holden |
| witches of eastwick | updike |
| jack favell | rebecca |
| captain hook | peter |
| gerald du maurier | peter |
| "campensis." | isis |
| imm by star | cholesterol |
| p450scc | cholesterol |
| thorsten fehr | plasticity |
| jean genet | our lady of the flowers |
| divine | our lady of the flowers |
| thomas mallory | morte d'arthur |
| ambassador to mexico | lindbergh |
| wave of the future | lindbergh |
| alexandra spofford | witches of eastwick |
| jane smart | witches of eastwick |
| sukie rougemont | witches of eastwick |
| sophie caco | breath, eyes, memory |
| breath, eyes, memory | haiti |
| port-au-prince | haiti |
| prince amerigo | james |
| fortune of love | quixote |
| felixmarte de hyrcania | quixote |
| "faithful hound" | antisthenes |
| shirley jackson | lottery |
| why people believe weird things | skeptic |
| michael shermer | skeptic |
| christopher tietjens | ford |
| georgetown | freedom |
| "somebody blew up america," | september 11 |
| amiri baraka | september 11 |
| "4000 israeli workers" | september 11 |
| joey | september 11 |
| the and war and remembrance | wouk |
| "spooks" | coleman |
| faunia farley | coleman |
| lady oisille | marguerite |
| parlemente | marguerite |
| "i'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than" | hawk |
| hawk tower | california |
| fanny brawne | to autumn |
| "ethical birth control" | welcome to the monkey house |
| paul proteus | vonnegut |
| ilium | vonnegut |
| charles nordhoff | bounty |
| james hall | bounty |
| roger byam | bounty |
| captain queeg | wouk |
| winds of war | wouk |
| "cultivated." | sativa |
| oryza | sativa |
| medicago | sativa |
| hareton earnshaw | read |
| daisy armstrong | orient express |
| ratchett | orient express |
| painter of signs | english |
| suitable boy in english | seth |
| amaranta ursula | one hundred years of solitude |
| "the aged p," | great expectations |
| wemmick | great expectations |
| "dirty picture" | slaughterhouse-five |
| roland weary | slaughterhouse-five |
| eliot rosewater | slaughterhouse-five |
| "poo-tee-weet?" | slaughterhouse-five |
| "so it goes" | slaughterhouse-five |
| "spiritual dislocation" | success |
| "the catastrophe of success" | streetcar named desire |
| your best life now | osteen |
| "smiling preacher." | osteen |
| lakewood | osteen |
| huxtable | architecture |
| gines de pasamonter | don quixote |
| mambrino | don quixote |
| "varney," | vampire |
| bram stoker | vampire |
| dick turpin | highwayman |
| black bess | highwayman |
| jean shepherd | libertine |
| "'gadzooks!' quoth i, 'but here's a saucy bawd!'" | libertine |
| "i must kill a man!" | maupassant |
| "the ballad of reading gaol (redding jail)." | wilde |
| "knowledge by description." | russell |
| "principal enemy of moral progress in the world." | russell |
| "sense" | russell |
| "reference" | russell |
| am not | russell |
| "it is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist" | wilde |
| reading | nottage |
| according to coase | club |
| troy flavin | welty |
| delta wedding | welty |
| fairchilds | welty |
| dabney | welty |
| duke of alba | goethe |
| euphorion with helen | goethe |
| egmont | goethe |
| "knowledge by acquaintance" | russell |
| american way of death | mitford |
| walter younger | raisin in the sun |
| in suzan | brother |
| in august wilson | brother |
| gabe | brother |
| hoseason | stevenson |
| kidnapped | stevenson |
| pew | stevenson |
| "our helper... amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing." | mighty fortress |
| "corpo" | it can't happen here |
| "oligarchy" | iron heel |
| avis everhard | iron heel |
| while lovelace | prison |
| celestial city | christian |
| pursuit of love | mitford |
| love in a cold climate | mitford |
| in a harte | chinese |
| "plain language from truthful james," | chinese |
bill nye (ah sin) | harte |
| mokattam hills | cairo |
| "garbage city" | cairo |
| "city of the dead." | cairo |
| complete works of william shakespeare | football |
| "wonderland quartet" | oates |
| "hold their manhoods cheap." | st. crispin's day |
| the st. crispin's | shakespeare |
| marcus in death valley | dentist |
| "clubman" | periphetes |
| fanny robin | child |
| book iv of virgil | bee |
| telipinu | bee |
| uncle billy | outcasts of poker flat |
in a mikhail lermontov | heroes |
| toph | eggers |
| moshe the beadle | night |
| italian jewish | levi |
| viracocha at ollantaytambo | inca |
| gateway of the sun in tiwanaku | staff |
| cook islands | staff |
| "a tip-toe" | st. crispin's day |
| "they're hanging [the title character] in the mornin'." | danny deever |
"rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing." | the windhover |
| "dapple-dawn-drawn" | alliteration |
| "distinctive design that constitutes individual identity." | inscape |
alfred uhry (trilogy) | atlanta |
| last night of ballyhoo | atlanta |
| uhry | atlanta |
| an akhmatova | heroes |
| long john silver | stevenson |
| modestine | stevenson |
"the hunger had more power than even sorrow over me. (ugolino)" | inferno |
jack stapleton | the hound of the baskervilles |
| "the adventure of silver blaze." | haddon |
| book of jude | enoch |
| great flood | enoch |
oleanna | mamet |
| amber | scooby |
| coolsville | scooby |
| scrappy | scooby |
| shaggy | scooby |
| "proot" | stevenson |
| travels with a donkey | stevenson |
| uncle ebenezer | stevenson |
| jim hawkin | stevenson |
| the death and | jacobs |
| carmicael | cry, the beloved country |
| dubula | cry, the beloved country |
| lithebe | cry, the beloved country |
| harlem globetrotters | scooby |
| "zoinks!" | scooby |
| "jinkies!" | scooby |
| great dane | scooby |
| oates | henry |
| "nick shadow," | devil |
| "fantastic baroque machine," | devil |
| "samiel," | bullet |
| "natural depravity." | claggart |
| antoine macquart | spontaneous combustion |
| "the tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere." | fenimore cooper's literary offenses |
| dark age ahead | jacobs |
| "the swimmer," | new yorker |
| eustace tilley | new yorker |
| josue | fuentes |
| destiny and desire | fuentes |
| domingo sarmiento | dictator novel |
| augusto roa bastos | dictator novel |
| facundo | dictator novel |
| "hypocrite, my likeness, my brother" | reader |
julius excluded from heaven | erasmus |
the education of a christian prince | erasmus |
| "fool, though rosy lips and cheeks / within his bending sickle's compass come." | time |
| "verse shall stand, / praising thy worth, despite" | time |
| "cruel hand." | time |
| irene westcott | enormous radio |
| neddy merrill | swimmer |
| neddy | swimmer |
| tijuana | richler |
| "the true blue protestant poet" | shadwell |
| "the last great prophet of tautology" | shadwell |
| george jean nathan | american mercury |
| prince heinrich hotel | billiard |
| joe bonham | trumbo |
| "i knew it wouldn't be much of a poem / but i love the title." | cope |
| "chartism." | carlyle |
| "he didn't even have time to kick off his seaboots" | pincher |
| pincher martin | lord of the flies |
| "in the bardo." | lincoln |
| sisyphos | thanatos |
| "apprenticeship," | wilhelm |
| duddy kravitz | richler |
| "boy wonder" | richler |
| jerry dingleman | richler |
| imaginary prisons | prison |
| bertha mason in the caribbean | rhys |
| shraddhadeva manu | fish |
jack potter | crane |
| "we sat and wept" | babylon |
| "take this cup from me." | hamlet |
| "a different drama is underway." | hamlet |
| "let's take off this little frock" | stepdaughter |
| inspector lestrade | sherlock |
| "the adventure of the empty house" | sherlock |
| cannon street hotel by the smyrna | waste land |
| cumean sibyl | waste land |
| manus in new lives for old | mead |
| temperament in three primitive societies | mead |
| manus in growing up in new guinea | mead |
| pier with chains | prison |
| "consultant in poetry to the library of congress." | poet laureate |
| "epistolary psychogram" | wheatley |
| "a letter from [this author]." | wheatley |
| "specialty" | romance at short notice |
| "fire" | sherlock |
| king of bohemia | sherlock |
| abe slaney | sherlock |
| sussex downs | sherlock |
| "canvas of our pitiable desires" | reader |
| "not brave enough." | reader |
| "the king of poets" | season in hell |
| fair in chicago | larson |
| isaac's storm | larson |
| "the whipping," | hayden |
| "those winter sundays." | hayden |
| tracy smith | poet laureate |
| ron jones at a palo alto | third wave |
"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 |
| "sequel to" | drum-taps |
| "the wound-dresser." | drum-taps |
| michael richards | kramer |
| "show about nothing." | kramer |
| george costanza | seinfeld |
| "i like for you to be still." | neruda |
| "it is the hour of departure. oh abandoned one!" | neruda |
| "the just judges" | camus |
| "judge-penitent" | camus |
| baptiste clamence | camus |
| maitre holbroque | maupassant |
| "what work is" | detroit |
| "belle isle, 1949." | detroit |
| in the loved one | cemeteries |
| happier hunting ground | cemeteries |
| joyboy | cemeteries |
| "first chapters" | you |
| plaszow | amon goeth |
| "why i write such good books" | nietzsche |
| ecce homo | nietzsche |
| ubermensch | nietzsche |
| "i understand." | stepdaughter |
| enrico iv | pirandello |
| hero twins to xibalba | ball game |
| adulateur | warren |
"fear and loathing" (city) | las vegas |
| "he is the very pine-apple of politeness" | malaprop |
| "my affluence over my niece is very small." | malaprop |
| blues for mister charlie | baldwin |
| "couplet" | elegy |
| duino castle | elegy |
| "test the reality of misty fields" | bird |
| "downward to darkness." | bird |
| "bland motions" | bird |
| "a small part of the pantomime" | bird |
| "a man and a woman and" | bird |
| "are one," | bird |
| barabas | marlowe |
| "the world is too much with us." | wordsworth |
| "she dwelt among the untrodden ways," | wordsworth |
| lucy poems | wordsworth |
| "nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands" | cummings |
| "carried through many nations and over many seas, i arrive" | elegy |
| "but tell me, who are they, these wanderers?" | elegy |
| "hail and farewell" | elegy |
| "forefathers of the hamlet sleep?" | graveyard |
| "close bosom-friend of the maturing sun." | autumn |
| "fine clothes" | hughes |
| "a dollar and a half." | hughes |
| "hard times," | hughes |
| "they'll see how beautiful i am." | hughes |
| "down on lenox avenue." | hughes |
| whitby | dracula |
| mystery of edwin drood | raven |
| "silken, sad, uncertain rustling" | raven |
| "some visitor... only this and nothing more." | raven |
| "the night's plutonian shore." | raven |
| simone simonini | graveyard |
| "melancholy mark'd...for her own" | graveyard |
| injun joe | graveyard |
| paths of glory | graveyard |
| sudd in south sudan | swamp |
| history of the dividing line | swamp |
| great dismal | swamp |
| pantanal | swamp |
| okefenokee | swamp |
| "en vain pour eviter" | carmen |
| micaela | carmen |
| in lewis carroll | carpenter |
| yo gabba gabba | bourdain |
| guy fieri | bourdain |
| parts unknown | bourdain |
| no reservations | bourdain |
| kitchen | bourdain |
| "walks, and will not rest" | lincoln |
| "might rouse [this man] in you all!" | lincoln |
| drum-taps | lincoln |
| norse cosmology | yggdrasil |
| besides the women of trachis | sophocles |
| oechalia | sophocles |
| theban plays | sophocles |
| bone in the throat | bourdain |
| get jiro | bourdain |
| hungry ghosts for dc comics | bourdain |
| "dr. tony" | bourdain |
| "here are presented the results of the enquiry." | herodotus |
| persian wars in thehistories | herodotus |
| gelonus | herodotus |
| pheidippides | herodotus |
| "the fox and the grapes" | aesop |
| babrius | aesop |
| boreas | aesop |
| lopa de vega's | aesop |
| agastya | mountain |
| himavant | mountain |
| meru | mountain |
| "shows," | uncle tom's cabin |
| avrion mitchison | watson |
| avoid boring people | watson |
| cold spring harbor laboratory | watson |
| at the cavendish laboratory at cambridge | watson |
| hugi | thjalfi |
| evander in the aeneid | cacus |
| church lees | scarlet |
| england to north america | cabot |
| when cabot | venice |
| veblen | pecuniary |
| "triple-faced." | moon |
| journal of a tour to the hebrides | boswell |
| gp | albee |
| duke orsino | twelfth night |
| "moxon's master" | robot |
| shockand shroud in thomas pynchon | robot |
| "retire" | robot |
| chilote | imbunche |
| "skrymir" | utgard-loki |
| at utgard | age |
| walrus | carpenter |
| "misunderstanding" | importance of being earnest |
| lady bracknell | importance of being earnest |
| gwendolen fairfax | importance of being earnest |
| "decorated" | bradbury |
| eckels | bradbury |
| along with seascape | albee |
| "i am, george" | albee |
| gandalf in the hobbit | troll |
| "patent" | troll |
| mountain king | troll |
| snufkin | troll |
| much of the fenian | oisin |
| "[i]n you everything sank!" | twenty love poems and a song of despair |
| "it so happens i am sick of being a man." | walk |
| "dare you see a soul at the white heat?" | dickinson |
| titaness | phoebe |
| arthur to avalon | morgan |
| tintagel | morgan |
| hirudotherapy | leech |
| "euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant" | huxley |
| marsh chapel experiment | leary |
| panchala | draupadi |
| snork maiden in tove jansson | troll |
| pachamama | inti |
| in nonnus | sinew |
| heptapod | chiang |
| dame brusen | galahad |
| logris | galahad |
| sarras | galahad |
| "terra firma," | leto |
| titan coeus | phoebe |
| lachesis | eris |
| atropos | eris |
| elpenor | circe |
| canens | circe |
| charon the golden bough | cumaean sibyl |
| imahmana | viracocha |
| tocapo | viracocha |
| coricancha | inti |
| "the colossus." | plath |
| "like air." | lady lazarus |
| "not god but a swastika" | nazi |
| "a dust whom england bore, shaped, made aware" | soldier |
| "there's some corner of a foreign field / that is forever england." | soldier |
| rupert brooke | soldier |
| "shall not sleep, though poppies grow." | soldier |
| "in flanders fields." | soldier |
"wish fulfillment" | freud |
| "timshel." | steinbeck |
| salinas valley | steinbeck |
| rose-of-sharon | steinbeck |
| trasks | steinbeck |
| "zoophagous maniac." | dracula |
| when lucy | dracula |
| "i shall never get you put together entirely" | plath |
| siberia by sonya | crime and punishment |
| mikolka | crime and punishment |
| marmeladov | crime and punishment |
| luzhin | crime and punishment |
| lizaveta | crime and punishment |
| "fort-da" | freud |
| "irma's injection." | freud |
| beyond the pleasure principle | freud |
| "stop[s], wounded by the wandering scent." | neruda |
| edward estlin cummings | cummings |
| "ride a watersmooth-silver stallion" | cummings |
| "pigeons|just|like|that." | cummings |
| "fire and ice." | frost |
| "home burial" | north of boston |
| in a christmas | henry |
| obierka | things fall apart |
| saadat hasan manto | indian independence |
| shiva of the knees | indian independence |
| the widow | indian independence |
| "sad lexicon," | baseball |
| "saddest of all possible words." | baseball |
| jack keefe | baseball |
| you know me al | baseball |
| "the band is playing somewhere and somewhere hearts are light" | baseball |
| sensei | suicide |
| sonezaki | suicide |
| "was not an important failure." | icarus |
| "fauna of the night," | freud |
| "needs ourlove." | freud |
| "important jew" | freud |
| "merely told the unhappy present to recite the past like a poetry lesson." | freud |
| inthepoem | freud |
| "ulysses." | tennyson |
| "deutches requiem." | borges |
| bioy casares | borges |
| "catalogue of catalogues." | borges |
| "the aleph." | borges |
| uqbar | borges |
| kokoro by natsume soseki | suicide |
| "incident" | suicide |
| "o, well for the fisherman's boy" | tennyson |
| "the sailor lad" | tennyson |
| "the tender grace of a day that is dead / will never come back to me." | tennyson |
| "choric song" | tennyson |
| "there is sweet music here that softer falls / than petals from blown roses on the grass." | tennyson |
| "i mete and dole / unequal laws unto a savage race," | tennyson |
| "i will drink / life to the lees," | tennyson |
| "the lotos eaters" | tennyson |
| "sprung" | hopkins |
| "five franciscan nuns," | boat |
| "the loss of the titanic." | boat |
| "a thousand screams the heavens smote; / and every scream tore through my throat." | renascence |
| " flower with a " | sunflower sutra |
| " it opens " | sunflower sutra |
| " and closes with a " | sunflower sutra |
| tincan | sunflower sutra |
| "that fearful sound of 'fire' and 'fire'," | verse |
| "upon the burning of [her] house." | verse |
| "blank" | verse |
| "i have been happy - and i love the theme" | poe |
| "a world of happiness" | helen |
| "tintinnabulation" | helen |
| "so musically wells." | helen |
| "come buy our orchard fruits / come buy, come buy." | frost |
| nine lyric poets | greek |
| "victory odes" | greek |
| "a message from the emperor." | kafka |
| thousand-yard | kafka |
| titorelli | kafka |
| willem | kafka |
| "gives / immortal youth to mortal maids." | verse |
| "this be" | verse |
| john stanhope | dickinson |
| "put away / my labor and my leisure too / for his civility." | dickinson |
| "since then - 'tis centuries - and yet" | dickinson |
| "tapping at my chamber door" | poe |
| "temple in which living pillars / sometimes give voice to confused words," | correspondences |
| "man passes there through forests of symbols." | correspondences |
| "listens close to your sweet speaking / and lovely laughing" | greek |
| winter by canadian | greek |
| "jill goes down on her back." | auden |
| "the clocks had ceased their chiming, / and the deep river ran on" | auden |
| "walking down bristol street." | auden |
| "put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves" | auden |
| "working week and [his] sunday rest." | auden |
| "cut off the telephone" | auden |
| "as i walked out one evening" | auden |
| "ballad" | landlord |
priscilla (poetry) | longfellow |
| "what maidens loth?" | keats |
| "what mad pursuit?" | keats |
| "grassy and wanted wear" | frost |
| "less traveled by." | frost |
| pacification of the primitive tribes of the lower niger | things fall apart |
| nwoye | things fall apart |
| "where the beggars raffle the banknotes" | auden |
| "what a thrill." | plath |
| "green valley" | auden |
| "life is real! life is earnest!" | longfellow |
| "the jewish cemetery at newport," | longfellow |
tales of a wayside inn | longfellow |
| john alden | longfellow |
| "the courtship of miles standish," | longfellow |
| gitche gumee | longfellow |
| frisco | sunflower sutra |
| " was written by this poet. in another poem, he describes a " | ginsberg |
| " which he refers to as " | ginsberg |
| " for 10 points each: moloch appears in this ginsberg poem, in which the narrator " | howl |
| blake.saw | howl |
| "saboteur," | plath |
| "kamikaze man," | plath |
| "babushka" | plath |
| "say yes to life." | nietzsche |
| "suppose truth is a woman, what then?" | nietzsche |
| "revaluation of all values," | nietzsche |
| dionysian in the birth of tragedy | nietzsche |
| amor fati | nietzsche |
| breakfast of champions | vonnegut |
| humbaba in the cedar forest | gilgamesh |
| edwin arlington robinson | richard cory |
| offred in the handmaid | atwood |
| "drowned" | concentration camp |
| "where is god now?" | concentration camp |
| we were in auschwitz | concentration camp |
| "ccny lecturers on dadaism" | potato salad |
| "there is so much graciousness in cunning" | nietzsche |
| "every profound spirit needs a mask." | nietzsche |
| elisabeth forster | nietzsche |
| "in fairly good translation," | sophocles |
| "heard [the eternal note of sadness] on the aegean." | sophocles |
| gullinbursti | boar |
| fauchelevent | les miserables |
| blysspluss | atwood |
| year of the flood | atwood |
| moira at jezebel | atwood |
| scrabble with the commander | atwood |
| "you ain't gonna be able to say a word / if i land my fist on you." | landlord |
| "judge gives negro 90 days in county jail." | landlord |
| "come as a master from deutschland." | death |
| "why swell'st thou then?" | death |
| "better than thy stroke." | death |
| "fugue" | death |
| hard hours | hecht |
| "so there stood matthew arnold and this girl." | hecht |
| "as two stiff compasses are two" | donne |
| "big boy doing a man's work" | frost |
| "is all pine" | frost |
| m. bechade | leech |
| ricarimpex | leech |
| dhanvantari | leech |
| ozobranchus | leech |
| "principal conclusions" | mueller report |
"baghdad-on-the-subway" | o. henry |
| james dillingham young | henry |
| georges duroy | maupassant |
| "have done with childish days- the lightly proffered laurel, the easy, ungrudged praise." | kipling |
| room ballads | kipling |
| "you're a better man than i am, gunga din!" | kipling |
| barrack | kipling |
| "betrothed unto your enemy," | donne |
| hero-worship | carlyle |
| "cor meum" | ecce |
| "sextus molestus," | ecce |
| "why i am a fatality" | ecce |
| "how one becomes what one is." | ecce |
| "romani" | ecce |
| "behold," | ecce |
| cornelii | ecce |
| "the entertainment," | infinite jest |
| pegeen mike | playboy of the western world |
| battista | calvino |
| shao hao | mulberry |
| morning star | mulberry |
| in on heroes | carlyle |
| sartor resartus | carlyle |
| "philosopher of clothing" | carlyle |
| "i loafe and invite my soul, / i lean and loafe at my ease." | song of mysel |
| "on moonlit heath and lonesome bank." | housman |
| "the cow, the old cow, she is dead," | housman |
| "the world as the world's not." | housman |
| shrewsbury | housman |
| "let us sleep now," | owen |
| "dead smile" | owen |
| "drawing-down of blinds" | owen |
| "i sought a theme, and sought for it in vain," | yeats |
| "in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." | yeats |
| "an aged man is but a paltry thing / a tattered coat upon a stick," | yeats |
| "it is a fatal mistake ever to offer resistance to people who are stronger than ourselves." | maupassant |
| "liberty, cherished liberty, fight thou on the side of thy defenders." | maupassant |
| "thruster holding me tight" | song of mysel |
| "i witness and wait," | song of mysel |
| "real or fancied indifference of some man or woman i love." | song of mysel |
| james hargreaves | spinning jenny |
| president of liberia | johnson |
| pool of blood | akutagawa |
| "no vulgar assassin" | bierce |
| "from which gentlemen are not excluded." | bierce |
| "the horseman in the sky" | bierce |
| "the fury and the mire of human veins" | yeats |
| winding stair | yeats |
| under ariel roth | seventh-day adventist |
| geoscience research institute at loma linda university | 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 |
| joel harrison knox | other voices, other rooms |
| raise the wage act | 15 |
| when charlemagne | carloman |
| increase and cotton | mather |
| "holy writ." | borges |
| "the book of sand" | borges |
| crimson hexagon | borges |
| "the labyrinth." | borges |
| dragon palace | aging |
| oisin | aging |
| william of malmesbury | arthur |
| "coming of age in the usa." | alvarez |
| victor zsasz | harley |
| black mask | harley |
| "emancipation." | harley |
| margot robbie | harley |
| bud | harley |
| lou | harley |
| joker | harley |
| peter in central park | albee |
| wonderboy | baseball |
| lesley gore | harley |
| you don | harley |
| own me in belle reve penitentiary | harley |
| renee montoya | harley |
| ace chemicals | harley |
| "after that hunky wayne guy." | harley |
| after cassandra cain | harley |
| "no mockeries... no prayers nor bells." | owen |
| "what passing-bells for those who die as cattle?" | owen |
| "think of sweet and chocolate" | brooks |
| "tan man." | brooks |
| "never giggled or planned or cried" | brooks |
| "who have lived their day" | brooks |
| john wheelwright | baseball |
| "mighty" | baseball |
| "the city in the sea" | poe |
| "jerusalem / in england's green and pleasant land." | blake |
| "a lump of food that my children chewed without stopping" | ferrante |
| days of abandonment | ferrante |
| story of the lost child | ferrante |
| milos forman | salieri |
| peter shaffer | horse |
| "balloon syndrome." | hedgehog |
| "the only moving thing / was the eye of" | stevens |
| "the only emperor is" | stevens |
| sandy williams | hughes |
| not without laughter | hughes |
| lenox avenue | hughes |
| jesse b. semple | hughes |
| "lives in the shadow of passaic falls." | williams |
| "no ideas but in things," | williams |
| greek new testament | erasmus |
| textus receptus | erasmus |
| "this is what you cannot understand." | rumi |
| "interpreting" | rumi |
| kaws | mickey |
| companion | mickey |
| "purple with green rings," | stevens |
| "the comedian as the letter c." | stevens |
| in the time of the butterflies | alvarez |
| bryansk forest | ilya |
| svyatogor | ilya |
| el culebron | snake |
| in richard johnson | merlin |
| vortigern | merlin |
| yvain | knights of the round table |
| longer ending | erasmus |
| grammar school | history boys |
| "i'm a jew. i'm small. i'm a homosexual. and i live in sheffield." | history boys |
| cutlers | history boys |
| janan | new life |
| "thirty pairs of yapping hounds." | questing beast |
| hart's | questing beast |
| through king pellam | joseph |
| british christianity | joseph |
| callimaco | mandrake |
| "of poppy and cold mandrake juice" | jew of malta |
| "grins and lies...hides our cheeks and shades our eyes." | dunbar |
| "but oh, the clay is vile, beneath our feet, and long the mile." | sing |
| "quit" | sing |
| malindy | sing |
| alice dunbar nelson | cage |
| charles ryder in brideshead revisited | oxford |
| "dark side of the human soul." | balcony |
| madame irma | balcony |
| eye view | yi |
| yi sang prize | booker |
| bora chung | booker |
| cursed bunny | booker |
| "all of you might be tricked as" | mandrake |
| "wise young woman" | mandrake |
| "jammed up against the blades" | hedgehog |
| "the mower." | hedgehog |
| "know one important thing" | hedgehog |
| paris metro | dumas |
| rocinante in don quixote | cervantes |
| innana | aphrodite |
| the theater of cruelty | genet |
| carol rosen | balcony |
| oswald mosley | mitford |
| "dialectic of inward deepening" | stages on life's way |
| "in vino veritas," | stages on life's way |
| "aesthetic" | either/or |
| "hilarius bookbinder" | kierkegaard |
| "victor eremita." | kierkegaard |
| "deeds, not words" | denmark |
| amleth in the gesta | denmark |
| buchi emecheta | married |
| aku-nna | married |
| invention of morel | argentina |
| reinhold niebuhr | realism |
| kenneth waltz | realism |
| it is | grimke |
| testimony of a thousand witnesses | grimke |
| lord redesdale | mitford |
| breyten breytenbach | afrikaans |
| true confessions of an albino terrorist | afrikaans |
| tweede asem | afrikaans |
| dertigers | afrikaans |
| sestigers | afrikaans |
| katherine cornell in a rudolf breiser | browning |
| flush at the casa guidi | browning |
| blixen | kenya |
| "man at war with the hostile world." | monsters and the critics |
| "hostile" | dragon |
| "must ever call" | dragon |
| "with a profound appeal" | dragon |
| william le queux | invasion |
| when william came | invasion |
| ingrid jonker | afrikaans |
| "the child is not dead" | afrikaans |
| "i believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things..." | visible and |
| fritjof capra | physic |
| "shut up and calculate!" | physic |
| "riverrun, past eve and adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay." | finnegans wake |
| "three [of these things] for muster mark," | quark |
| "hero's journey," | monomyth |
| "the ultimate boon." | monomyth |
| "for what did knees have to receive me? for what were the breasts that i sucked?" | job |
| regulations respecting the british colonies on the continent of america considered | dickinson |
| olive branch petition | dickinson |
| pennsylvania farmer | dickinson |
| "penman of the american revolution." | dickinson |
| carlisle | dickinson |
| "dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul" | longfellow |
| "mezzo cammin" | longfellow |
| nicene creed in english | visible and |
| rotpeter | kafka |
| "i'se been a-climbin' on, and reachin' ladders, and turning corners" | hughes |
| "dr[ies] up, like a raisin in the sun?" | hughes |
| james kirke paulding | irving |
| seth handaside | irving |
| hendrick hudson | irving |
| salmagundi | irving |
| "fabius." | dickinson |
| muktika upanishad | 108 |
| gopis of vrindavan | 108 |
| celestial master zhang | 108 |
| marshal hong | 108 |
| walter klemmer in an elfriede jelinek | piano |
| detlev spinell | piano |
| oahu in hawaii | pearl harbor |
| "i believe in one god." | nicene |
| grassmann's law | sanskrit |
| julia quinn | bridgerton |
| jean page | bridgerton |
| rhimes | bridgerton |
| spike jonze | adaptation |
| orchid thief | adaptation |
| susan orlean in adaptation | streep |
| in the devil wears prada | streep |
| niger river | park |
| segou | park |
| drop city | alaska |
| " for 10 points each: henry wadsworth longfellow started his poem about this person with the line " | revere |
| brian epstein | liverpool |
| judith martin | manners |
| "hand-switching" | manners |
| cincinnati bengals | brown |
| sage | koestler |
| chris packham | panda |
| "evolutionary cul-de-sacs" | panda |
| wes mckinney | panda |
| world wrestling federation | panda |
| the flamingo's smile | panda |
| pulitzer for tales of the south pacific | michener |
| ned rise | park |
| "bind up your loins like a man." | job |
| in eugene peterson | job |
| "i'll never do that again, i promise!" | job |
| "comforters" | job |
| edward l. greenstein | job |
| charles grosvenor osgood | spenser |
| "yclept" | spenser |
| act of creation | koestler |
| "spare us yet, lest we forget--lest we forget!" | kipling |
| "recessional" | kipling |
| "goatskin water-bag" | kipling |
| "the bliss of what?" | daffodil |
| "crusoe in england." | daffodil |
| "out-did the sparkling waves in glee" | daffodil |
| "jocund company," | daffodil |
| "ten thousand" | daffodil |
| "absent soul," | lorca |
| "sad breeze through the olive trees" | lorca |
| "i will not see it!" | lorca |
| "time" | borges |
| carlos danieri | borges |
| the sharper's cards | borges |
| "what makes you look so white?" | kipling |
| judge of the nations | kipling |
| "poking among the meats" | ginsberg |
| rockland | ginsberg |
| "listen closely" | dream |
| "feet beating out" | dream |
| "happy beat." | dream |
| "a barren field frozen with snow" | dream |
| "like rotten meat" | dream |
| "all things are watching her and she cannot see them" | lorca |
| "loved a thunderbird instead" | plath |
| "sung me moon-struck." | plath |
| "the stars go waltzing out in blue and red" | plath |
| "(i think i made you up inside my head.)" | plath |
| "barely daring to breathe or achoo" | plath |
| "lonesome man in kansas." | ginsberg |
| "wichita vortex sutra," | ginsberg |
| "who killed the pork chops?" | ginsberg |
| kilmarnock volume | burns |
| "suppers" | burns |
| times square on new years | burns |
| "vulture-like" | poe |
| thenarrator | poe |
| "revolutionary act" | midnight's children |
| "of the knees" | midnight's children |
| sundarban | midnight's children |
| absurd person singular | alan |
| when the loam | butler |
| admirable crichton | butler |
| "dignity" | butler |
| stevens in kazuo ishiguro | butler |
| j. m. barrie's | butler |
| thais by menander | corinth |
| "nice seeing your honest, chubby face" | burns |
| world war ii in a markus zusak | book |
| "i am prepared to die" | rivonia |
| fair pay act | mcdaniel |
| oceanographic institution | woods hole |
| "i will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!" | george iii |
| willis | george iii |
| "hatter" | mad |
| "ayckbourn" | alan |
| "dream of baboons and periwinkles." | stevens |
| "the single artificer of the world" | stevens |
| "beauty of inflections" | stevens |
| "beauty of innuendoes" | stevens |
| "imagine golden birds." | stevens |
| "among twenty snowy mountains" | stevens |
| "never get across" | tree |
| "toward heaven still." | tree |
| "holy glimmers of goodbyes." | owen |
| "die as cattle" | owen |
| "not worldly." | mrs. dalloway |
| "artificial wilderness," | auden |
| "sky like lead," | auden |
| "marble, well-governed cities." | auden |
| larry kramer | auden |
| "white legs disappearing into the green" | auden |
| "magnetic curses" | sandburg |
| "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation" | sandburg |
| "put his head to the window." | blake |
| "naturalist," | zola |
| macquart | zola |
| "a report to an academy." | kafka |
| "orisons" | owen |
| "wailing shells" | owen |
| "half the seed of europe" | owen |
| "the parable of the old man and the young" | owen |
| "drunk with fatigue" | owen |
| "blood-shod," | owen |
| isao | mishima |
| kiyaoki | mishima |
| "pile the bodies high," | sandburg |
"shovel them under" | sandburg |
| capek | capek |
| "heroine whom no one but [the author] will like" | emma |
| jane fairfax | knightley |
| "novelsof manners" | austen |
| sensibilityandprideandprejudice | austen |
| "and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise." | if |
| "ram of pride" | owen |
| "abram," | owen |
| prairie madness | norwegian |
| giants in the earth | norwegian |
| "the father of the green revolution." | norwegian |
| lots of goto | basic |
| "spaghetti code" | basic |
| anjum | roy |
| " for 10 points each: name these animals, one of which represented winfield scott's plan to " | snake |
| elizabeth-jane | wife selling |
| i. keynes | liquid |
| "don't tread on me." | gadsden |
| seven books on the structure of the human body | vesalius |
| like nicolaus copernicus | padua |
| saint frideswide | chest |
| lane company | chest |
| captain flint | chest |
| legrand | chest |
| "invocation" | deities |
| "time, not corydon, hath conquer'd" | arnold |
| "sweet city" | arnold |
| "dreaming spires." | arnold |
| "eternal note of sadness" | arnold |
| "thyrsis" | arnold |
| celexa | serotonin |
| research in the southern | ross |
| "brueghel's icarus" | auden |
| "thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season." | eliot |
| "pressing lidless eyes" | eliot |
| "the stars threw down their spears" | blake |
| "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 |
| "equal to [these beings]." | deities |
| thorn birds | outback |
| "s.c." | outback |
| ralph de bricassart | outback |
| travelsacross | outback |
| svoss | outback |
| identity card | darwish |
| etgar keret | israel |
| modernhebrew | israel |
| themisfit | o'connor |
| bonus genentech | insulin |
| eli lilly | insulin |
| inthe libationbearers | clytemnestra |
| percival wemys madison | lord of the flies |
| "you knew, didn't you? i'm part of you," | lord of the flies |
| britishschoolboys | lord of the flies |
| meggie cleary | outback |
| six characters | rules of the game |
| pirandello | rules of the game |
| silia | rules of the game |
| "opensesame." | scheherazade |
| cassimafter | scheherazade |
| no smoking | o'connor |
| "greenleaf" | o'connor |
| ablackwoman | o'connor |
| barry mcstay | bats |
| vespertilio | bats |
| "from dawn to dark" | audubon |
| birds of america | audubon |
| apollo stars | hubbard |
| lafayette ronald hubbard | hubbard |
| teri | hubbard |
| "i've lost a whole day over these people!" | six characters in search of an author |
| bridge | brooklyn |
| "continuity of parks." | cortazar |
| andrea in cortazar | paris |
| "letter to a young lady in" | paris |
| "cries of hate" | meursault |
| "dazzling red glare" | meursault |
| arab in albert camus | meursault |
| killsan | meursault |
| aunt sissy | brooklyn |
| chestney | o'connor |
| "great wings beating still above the staggering girl" | yeats |
| ying chan | mishima |
| shigekuni honda | mishima |
| "flood-tidebelow me!" | brooklyn |
| reuven | brooklyn |
| danny | brooklyn |
| pecola breedlove | bluest eye |
| dick | bluest eye |
| botany of desire | pollan |
| "men, forgive him, for he knows not what he has done." | jesus |
| gospelaccordingto jesus christ | saramago |
| lasttemptation of christ | kazantzakis |
| "how many dawns, chill from his rippling rest" | brooklyn |
| "powhatan's daughter." | brooklyn |
| noor hindi | flowers |
| "children throwing rocks at israeli tanks / seconds before becoming [these things]" | flowers |
| "one day, i'll write about [these things] like we own them." | flowers |
| year of magical thinking | didion |
| blue nights | didion |
| maginot line | bluest eye |
| aunt jimmy | bluest eye |
| soaphead church | bluest eye |
| "i carry your heart with me" | cummings |
| butt the hoopoe | india |
| sea of storiesafterwriting | india |
| messengerand baal | india |
| satanicverses | india |
| kahani | india |
| gibreel | india |
| "heart with pleasure fills / and dances with" | daffodil |
| thisthinker | kierkegaard |
| johannes de silentio | kierkegaard |
| "don't panic!" | hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy |
| "adrift in the void" | death and the king's horseman |
| simonpilkings | soyinka |
| "far and wee." | cummings |
| "here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud" | cummings |
| "defunct" | cummings |
| "bowing my head, i think of home." | li |
| "quiet nightthought" | li |
| alisonbechdel | fun home |
| "how choose/between [this place] and the englishtongue i love?" | africa |
| "how can i turn from [this place] and live?" | africa |
| constantinconstantius | kierkegaard |
| "discover thesecond face hidden behind the one you see" | kierkegaard |
| orandfear | kierkegaard |
| peer gyntsuite | morning mood |
| williamshakespeare | england |
| "but still i face westward with a dreary moan." | li |
| "we will drown away the woes of ten thousand generations." | li |
| "singing wildly" | li |
| "bring in the wine" | li |
| "friendshipandpleasure" | li |
| "a pool of moon bright" | li |
| "you love me yet!" | john |
| haleasks | john |
| cheever | john |
| kitsune | inari |
| in shinto | white |
| "they'll come for wool and go back shorn" | sancho |
| "there's a remedy for everything exceptdeath" | sancho |
| "caballero de la triste figura" | sancho |
| missstacy | anne of green gables |
| "the fairy queen." | anne of green gables |
| "bosom friend" | anne of green gables |
| "carrots." | anne of green gables |
| avonlea on prince edward island | anne of green gables |
| lucy maud montgomery | anne of green gables |
| "a lump of vanity" | john |
| "aye, naked! and the wind, god's icy wind, will blow!" | john |
| "lusty bachelor," | wife of bath |
| "meek." | wife of bath |
| "when chapman billies leave the street," | burns |
| "wee,sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie." | burns |
| "my love is like a red red rose." | burns |
| "to amouse" | burns |
| thisauthor | burns |
| rachel lynde | anne of green gables |
| intintern abbey | river |
| "a soft inland murmur." | river |
| russian at waindell college | nabokov |
| charleskinbote | nabokov |
| pale firewho | nabokov |
| frenchprofessor | nabokov |
| "bee-loud glade," | lake isle of innisfree |
| hisgeorgics | vergilius |
| marriesin | east of eden |
| "there are millions of suns left," | song of myself |
| "the procreant urge of the world." | song of myself |
| "twenty-eight young men" | song of myself |
| "twenty-eight years of womanlylife." | song of myself |
| "every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." | song of myself |
| "do i contradictmyself" | song of myself |
| "i am large, i contain multitudes" | song of myself |
| age of anxietyand | auden |
| "the shieldofachilles" | auden |
| "new norwegian" | bokmal |
| ostnorsk | bokmal |
| "there is nowhere finer than" | nevsky prospekt |
| piskarev | nevsky prospekt |
| castorand | swans |
| adam trask | east of eden |
| inbrideshead revisited | painter |
| into | painter |
| thelighthouse | painter |
| "she looked over his shoulder" | auden |
| "who wouldnot live long." | auden |
| "an affirming flame." | auden |
| "ironic pointsof light" | auden |
| "blind skyscrapers" | auden |
| twobenedictine | sancho |
| bonus have | nadsat |
| dim andbillyboy | nadsat |
| georgie | nadsat |
| orgonhides | moliere |
| roomandgo tell it on the mountain | baldwin |
| sword of honorand | waugh |
| handfulof dustwrotebrideshead revisited | waugh |
| "dies like a dog" | trial |
| benjamin bunny | peter |
| flopsy | peter |
| mopsy | peter |
| "bingen on the rhine" | the open boat |
| sunay zaim | snow |
| "my fatherland or my headscarf," | snow |
| "winter solstice?" | snow |
| maggieand brickfeud with big daddy | williams |
| "famous clairvoyante" | sosostris |
| "the burial of the dead," | waste land |
| "this is the way the world ends / not with a bang but with awhimper" | eliot |
| stephanie courtney | flo |
| geico | flo |
| "puts out moresexual vibes than" | flo |
| "honor your superior!" | machine |
| "inverts," | in search of lost time |
| vinteuil sonata | in search of lost time |
| "for a long time, i went to bed early" | in search of lost time |
| vaugoubert | in search of lost time |
| balbec | in search of lost time |
| "musical prodigy" | williams |
| "no-neck monsters" | williams |
| miss jelkes | williams |
| "waffles" | uncle vanya |
| sonia | uncle vanya |
| serebrakov | uncle vanya |
| three sistersandthe cherry orchard | chekhov |
| playa | chekhov |
| archaic greek | kouroi |
| "acreation of the devil." | bell |
| charles morel | in search of lost time |
| harold carnes | american psycho |
| patrick bateman | american psycho |
| norn skuld | valkyrie |
| "shield maidens" | valkyrie |
| gunnr | valkyrie |
| "the white seal" | jungle book |
| bagheera | jungle book |
| baloo | jungle book |
| theabidharma-kosadescribes | naraka |
| "the city and the dogs" | vargas llosa |
| "as i was going down impassive rivers / i no longer felt myself guided byhaulers." | drunken boat |
| wolf cub village | eating people |
| "exchange [these people] and eat them." | child |
| huey lewis | american psycho |
| "kill all yuppies" | american psycho |
| "this is notan exit." | american psycho |
| inanother | marlowe |
| anna scherer | war and peace |
| "theantichrist" | war and peace |
| "philosophical chapters." | war and peace |
| pendulumandthe name of the rose | eco |
| kyot | eco |
| "horny feet" | emperor of ice-cream |
| "hell," | naraka |
| necip | snow |
| akawabata | snow |
| alp arslan | anatolia |
| "harp with a woman'shead" | millay |
| "the ballad of the harp weaver." | millay |
| "awful weight" | renascence |
| "i count religion but a childish toy." | marlowe |
| persian emperorthat | marlowe |
| otsego hall | cooper |
| "descriptive tale" | cooper |
| oliver effingham | cooper |
judge marmaduke temple | cooper |
| abner doubleday | cooper |
| "literary offenses" | cooper |
| baseball hall of fame | cooper |
| "notes and errata" | infinite jest |
| "my temple, my mural, my sky." | swift |
| william bowery | swift |
| "i think i've seen this film before and i didn't like the ending." | swift |
| "go pick out a white dress" | swift |
| aleksandr vershinin | three sisters |
| slop in tristram shandy | obstetrics |
| chamberlen | obstetrics |
| rural hours | cooper |
| jamie lloyd | descriptions of |
| "two and forty hours." | descriptions of |
| "a plague on both your houses." | descriptions of |
| "wherefore art thou" | descriptions of |
| "fair verona" | descriptions of |
| dante's purgatorio | descriptions of |
| "the lone survivors of the shipwreck" | swift |
| "if you're anything like me." | swift |
| grimaud | three musketeers |
| american birth control league | higgins |
| the panic of 1907 | interstate commerce |
| elulu | ur |
| balulu | ur |
| when martin luther king | birmingham |
| "the negro is your brother" | birmingham |
| "does the set of all those sets that do not contain themselves [pause] contain itself?" | paradox |
| "enveloped in cotton." | tell-tale heart |
| "vulture eye." | tell-tale heart |
| amir | kite runner |
| girls of slender means | scotland |
| "a normal life among normal people." | mountain |
| shingo ogata in a kawabata | mountain |
| "soul" | mountain |
| "please shut off the telephone" | williams |
| "of evil" | flower |
| "live with" | fuentes |
| mexico in the old gringo | fuentes |
| "whose wings are dull realities." | tell-tale heart |
| "wind in the chimney," | tell-tale heart |
| "a mouse crossing the floor," | tell-tale heart |
| "a cricket which has made a single chirp." | tell-tale heart |
| "object there was none. passion there was none" | tell-tale heart |
| trauma plot | bird |
| "halcyon days" | bird |
| tereus and philomela | bird |
| tridentine mass | christie |
| max mallowan | christie |
| tony marston | christie |
| kenneth branagh | christie |
| "lovesick major" | three sisters |
| post-fourier | infinite jest |
| "hipster." | mailer |
| "with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." | love |
| "thy neighbor as thyself." | love |
| shema | love |
| holy spirit in acts | tower of babel |
| sehgal | woolf |
| jamie hood | bird |
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