LET REVIEWER - GEN. ED.

ENGLISH 2

Literature (Authors & their works)

Rabindranath Tagore - first Asian to receive Nobel Prize; Gitanjali

Euripedes - Greek dramatist authored "Alcestis" and "Andromache"

William Shakespeare - considered as the greatest English writer and also known as the "Bard of Avon"

~Macbeth - Shakespeare play; the story of a man whose downfall was caused by the overwhelming ambition of power

~Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare play; "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good night till it be morrow?"

Edgar Allan Poe - he is known as the father of horror stories; also considered the father of modern American short stories

~The Cask of Amontillado - short story by Poe; has the theme which is similar to the theme of "Poison Tree"

~Annabel Lee

Francis Bacon - known as the Father of English Essays

~Of Studies - Francis Bacon's essay; "Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Rubaiyat - Omar Khayam's work has the theme "Grasping pleasure while you can"

Kalidasa - greatest Indian writer of all time

~Mahabharata - Indian epic which is considered as the longest poem ever written - 100,000 couplets divided into 18 parvans or sections; longest epic

~Panchatantra - a collection of Indian beast fables originally written in Sanskrit

~Rig Veda - a collection of Indian sacred hymns

~Upanishad - a collection of Indian religious text

Beowulf - National Epic of England; first great work of English literature; the story of a man's effort to save his king from a monster

Nibelungenlied - medieval German epic

The King James Bible - regarded as the most influential book in the history of English civilization

~Psalms of King David - a greatest lyric poem in the literature of the world

Geoffrey Chaucer - called "Morning Star" of English literature

Thales of Mellitus - the first man to replace myth with natural laws

Matsuo Basho - greatest haiku poet

Irving Washington - father of American literature

Homer - father of first mythical geographer who was recognized due to his vivid descriptions of lands and people encountered by his hero, Ulysses

~The Iliad - a great epic whose plot centers around the anger and wrath of Achilles against Agamemnon, a great leader

~Helen of Troy - face that caused a thousand ship and men to raise their arms and fight

Charles Dickens - master of "local color" because of his Pickwick Papers

Gulliever's Travel - Jonathan Swift's satire on human folly and stupidity

Cavalier Poems - poems are often erotic and espouse "Carpe diem" or "Seize the day"

Dead Star - first English short story is written in 1925 by Paz Marquez Benitez

Elizabeth Barret Browning - wrote the most exquisite love poems of her time in "Sonnets from the Portuguese

Canterbury Tales - a very long poem about a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury

Yasumari Kawabata - Japanese poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968

Middle Ages - the era of knights, chivalry, and castles in English literature

Renaissance - period of English literature literally means "rebirth" in French

Pilgrim Progress - written by John Bunyan

Thomas Stearns Elliot Lowell - author of "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"

Daniel Defoe - "Robinson Crusoe", castaway who spends 28 years on a remote island near Venezuela, encountering native Americans, captives and mutineers before being rescued.

Christopher Marlowe - Father of English Tragedy

Wole Soyinka - first black Nigerian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986A

America is in the Heart - Carlos Bulosan's 1946 literary work that tells about the painful reality of the American dream

Samuel Johnson - described as the most distinguished man of letters in English history

The Song of Hiawatha - National Epic of America

O Captain! My Captain! - poem commemorates the life of a public leader, Abraham Lincoln

Uncle Tom's Cabin - literary work that is believed to have triggered the American Civil War

Henly - "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul" poem of Invictus

Keats - "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"

Mark Twain - American greatest humorist; Samuel (Larghorne) Clemens real name

Quezon - "Like the Molave" his source of inspiration

Manuel Arguilla - author of "how my brother Leon brought home a wife"

Washington - author of "The legend of the sleepy hollow"

Rhodora - "If eyes are made for seeing, the beauty is its own excuse for being" is taken from the poem

Leonardo Da Vinci - famours work "Monaliza"

Juan Luna - Spolarium - painting

Michael Angelo - the statue of David

Ophelia Dimalanta - Love Sonnets

Fray Juan de Placencia - author of Doctrina Cristiana