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
|
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,
|
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
|
Burns, Robert |
1759-1796 |
Auld Lang Syne |
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
|
Wordsworth, William |
1770-1850 |
Poems of the Imagination |
I wandered lonely as a cloud
|
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor |
1772-1834 |
The Ancient Mariner |
Water, water, every where.
|
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
|
Keats, John |
1795-1821 |
Ode on a Grecian Urn |
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
|
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,
|
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
1850-1894 |
Treasure Island |
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest
|
Kipling, Rudyard |
1865-1936 |
If |
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
|
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,
|
© Nigel J. Ross, 2002
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