Modern English Literature — Quick Reference

Author → Work Quick Match

Author	Must-Know Works
T.S. Eliot	The Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral
Yeats	The Second Coming, Easter 1916
Orwell	1984 ("Big Brother"), Animal Farm ("All animals equal")
Golding	Lord of the Flies
Beckett	Waiting for Godot
Woolf	Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse
Joyce	Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist
Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea
Frost	The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods
Shaw	Pygmalion, Arms and the Man
Conrad	Heart of Darkness

Nobel Prize Winners

Year	Winner
1907	Kipling
1923	Yeats
1925	Shaw
1948	T.S. Eliot
1950	Bertrand Russell
1953	Churchill
1954	Hemingway
1969	Beckett
1983	Golding
2001	Naipaul

Key Quotes

• "April is the cruellest month" → Eliot (Waste Land)
• "Big Brother is watching you" → Orwell (1984)
• "All animals are equal but some more equal" → Orwell (Animal Farm)
• "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" → Frost (Road Not Taken)
• "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" → Yeats (Second Coming)

Stream of Consciousness

Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway) + James Joyce (Ulysses)

Traps

• Orwell: 1984 quotes vs Animal Farm quotes — don't swap
• Churchill & Russell won Nobel in Literature (not Peace/Physics)
• Frost = American poet
• Yeats, Shaw, Beckett, Joyce = all Irish