ANSWER SHEET – Famous Writers, Famous Works

Author

Dates

Famous Work

Quotation

Chaucer, Geoffrey

1340-1400

The Canterbury Tales

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

Shakespeare, William

1564-1616

Hamlet

Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy

Donne, John

1572-1631

Air and Angels

Twice or thrice had I loved thee,
Before I knew they face or name.
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame,
Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be.

Milton, John

1608-1674

Paradise Lost

Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n.

Bunyan, John

1628-1688

Pilgrim's Progress

As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world.

Blake, William

1757-1827

Songs of Experience

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Burns, Robert

1759-1796

Auld Lang Syne

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?

Wordsworth, William

1770-1850

Poems of the Imagination

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

1772-1834

The Ancient Mariner

Water, water, every where.
Not any a drop to drink.

Austen, Jane

1775-1817

Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

1792-1822

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert

Keats, John

1795-1821

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.

Dickens, Charles

1812-1870

A Christmas Carol

"God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim.

Brontë, Charlotte

1816-1855

Jane Eyre

Reader, I married him.

Carroll, Lewis

1832-1889

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail."

Stevenson, Robert Louis

1850-1894

Treasure Island

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Kipling, Rudyard

1865-1936

If

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And – which is more – you'll be a Man, my son!

Wilde, Oscar

1854-1900

Lady Windermere's Fan

I can resist everything, except temptation.

Milne, A.A.

1882-1956

Winnie-the-Pooh

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.

Eliot, T.S.

1888-1965

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table.

© Nigel J. Ross, 2002


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