Read Online GRE Literature in English (REA) by James S. Malek, Thomas C. Kennedy, Pauline Beard, Robert Liftig, Bernadette Brick - Free Book Online

Man , and his book of poems, God’s Trombones, Seven Negro Sermons in Verse .
    Drill Questions
    No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—
Almost, at times, the Fool.
The speaker of this poem compares himself to
Hamlet.
Shakespeare.
Polonius.
Claudius.
the Fool.
The stanza is excerpted from
“The Waste Land.”
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”
“Who Goes with Fergus?”
“In Memory of W. B. Yeats.”
    Note: This review is by necessity incomplete. It is impossible for us to go into great detail about individual authors or to be all-inclusive, just as it is impossible for you to study all of English literature in preparation for this test. We encourage you to refer to the more exhaustive list that follows as a general reference. And as a further aid, we have marked with an asterisk those titles in our MAXnotes ® series of literary digests.
    SUGGESTED READING LIST
    Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart *
    Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams
    Addison, Joseph. The Pleasures of the Imagination, “Tulips”
    Aeschylus. The Libation Bearers, Oresteia
    Algren, Nelson. The Man with the Golden Arm
    Amis, Kingsley. Lucky Jim
    Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings *
    Anouilh, Jean. The Lark
    Aristophanes. Lysistrata
    Aristotle. On the Art of Poetry, Poetics
    Arnold, Matthew. “Dover Beach,” “The Scholar-Gypsy,” The Study of Poetry , “Thyrsis,” “To Marguerite - Continued”
    Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale, * Lady Oracle
    Auden, W.H. “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” “Musée des Beaux Arts”
    Auerbach, Eric. Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
    Austen, Jane. Emma,* Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice,* Sense and Sensibility
    Baldwin, James. Go Tell it On the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son
    Baraka, Amiri (Leroi Jones). “Poem for Half White College Students”
    Barth, John. Lost in the Funhouse , “The Battle of Maldon”
    Beckett, Samuel. Murphy, Waiting for Godot *
    Bede. Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
    Behan, Brendan. The Hostage
    Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave
    Bellow, Saul. Henderson the Rain King, Seize the Day
    Beowulf*
    Bishop, Elizabeth. “One Art”
    Blair, Robert. “The Grave”
    Blake, William. “The Lamb,” “London,” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, “The Tyger”
    Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction
    Borges, Jorge Luis. The Garden of Forking Paths
    Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
    Brecht, Bertolt. The Caucasian Chalk Circle, St. Joan of the Stock-yards, The Threepenny Opera
    Brode, Anthony. “Breakfast with Gerard Manley Hopkins”
    Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre *
    Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights
    Brooks, Gwendolyn. “We Real Cool”
    Browne, Sir Thomas. Religio Medici
    Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “Aurora Leigh,” Sonnets from the Portuguese
    Browning, Robert. “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,” “The House Holder,” “My Last Duchess,” “Porphyria’s Lover”
    Bryant, William Cullen. “The Death of Lincoln”
    Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress
    Burke, Edmund. Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies
    Burney, Fanny. Evelina
    Burns, Robert. “A Red, Red Rose,” “Tam o’ Shanter,” “To a Louse [On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church]”
    Burton, Robert. Anatomy of Melancholy
    Butler, Samuel (1612-1680). “Hudibras”
    Butler, Samuel (1835-1902). Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh
    Byrd,