High School example essay topic

Here is a massive list, for massive attack, of major works with which one should be familiar: 1) Aeschylus -- The Libation Bearers 2) Sophocles -- Oedipus the King & Antigone 3) Aristophanes -- Lysistrata 4) Plato -- Phaedo (specifically Allegory of the Cave & the Death of Socrates) 5) Beowulf 6) Dante -- Inferno (from the Divine Comedy) 7) Chaucer -- The Canterbury Tales 8) Machiavelli -- The Prince 9) Christopher Marlowe -- Doctor Faustus 10) John Milton -- Paradise Lost 11) Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels & A Modest Proposal 12) Alexander Pope -- An Essay On Man & An Essay On Criticism 13) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Faust (pts. 1&2) 14) William Blake (poetry) -- The Tyger 15) Wordsworth (poetry) -- Ode on Intimations of Immortality 16) Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Rhi me of the Ancient Mariner 17) Percy Bys she Shelly -- Ode to the Western Wind 18) Lord Tennyson -- Ulysses & Idylls of the King 19) Robert Browning -- My Last Duchess 20) Frederick Douglass -- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 21) Walt Whitman -- Song of Mys lef 22) Emily Dickinson 23) Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary 24) Dostoyevsky -- Notes From Underground 25) Tolstoy -- Death of Ivan Ilynich 26) Yeats 27) Thomas Mann -- Death in Venice 28) Rainer Maria Rilke 29) James Joyce -- Ulysses & The Dead 30) Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own 31) Franz Kafka -- The Trial & Metamorphosis 32) T.S. Eliot -- Waste Land 33) John Smith -- The General History of Virginia 33) Robert Burns 34) Elizabeth Barret Bronzing -- So nents from the Portuguese 35) Edward Fitzgerald -- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 36) George Eliot -- Silas Marner 37) Matthew Arnold -- Dover Beach 38) Christina Rossetti -- Goblin Market 39) Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray 40) Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure & HAP (poem) 41) Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness 42) A.E. Housman -- Terrance This Is Stupid Stuff 43) Benjamin Frnaklin -- Autobiography 44) Emerson -- The American Scholar, Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, & Fate 45) Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown, The Minister's Black Veil, Rappaccini's Daughter, & The Scarlet Letter 46) Edgar Allan Poe -- The Imp of the Perverse, The Fall of the House of Usher, Annabel Lee, & The Raven 47) Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin 48) Thoreau -- Walden & Nature Writings 49) Ambrose Bierce -- Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 50) Sarah Orne Jewett -- A White Heron 51) Kate Chopin -- The Awakening 52) Charles W. Chestnutt -- The Goophered Grapevine 53) Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wall-paper 54) W.E. B Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk 55) Ezra Pound -- The Cantos 56) e. e. cummings 57) F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Babylon Revisited 58) Amiri Baraka -- Dutchman 59) Theodore Roethke 60) Gertrude Stein -- The Making of Americans Well, there you have it: a list of major literary works that are usually not covered in high-school, but should be in college; and which one definitely will have to be familiar with for the English GRE if one plans on going to Graduate School. I hope that you enjoy... and I have read all of these: so if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask... Also, obviously, there is more to the list, but I figured sixty is enough for now... lol... let me know when you are finished and I will give you another list.