Author Listings 21-30

Busse Library provides this website as a resource for students and faculty researching literature's major authors. Based upon the book, The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights, and Poets of All Time by Daniel S. Burt (New York: Facts on File, 2001), the project offers full listings by ranking and through a name index. Specialized pages offer women writers, American authors, United Kingdom authors, and world authors grouped by continent.

Developed solely for this website, additional project resources include significant authors in children's literature and a compilation of other "top 100" literature projects. Each author's entry includes online biographical research and landmarks, scholarly resources, major works online, and Busse Library offerings for the novelist, dramatist, or poet. This project, and its inspiration, develop from a tradition to select the world's most important authors who made a lasting contribution to literature and to compile a selection of history's most significant published texts in fiction and nonfiction.  

The Authors, By Ranking:

• Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) [21]
• Euripides (c.480-406 B.C.) [22]
• John Donne (1572-1631) [23]
• Herman Melville (1819-1891) [24]
• John Keats (1795-1821) [25]
• Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.) [26]
• Tu Fu (712-770) [27]
• William Blake (1757-1827) [28]
• Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.) [29]
• Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) [30]

Alexander Pushkin

• Alexander Pushkin: Project Gutenberg -- full author index offering Daughter of the Commandant, short stories, and verse
• Poems of Alexander Pushkin: The Schiller Institute. Originally featured in FIDELIO Magazine, 1.2 (Summer 1999).
• Pushkin's Poems. Translated by G.R.Ledger. -- offers English and Russian texts
• "The Snow Storm" -- full text of 1894 Pushkin short story
• The Pushkin Page. By Stephany Gould Plecker. c2002.
• Alexander Pushkin -- short biography from University of Virginia's Slavic Department
• Alexander Pushkin: Books and Writers -- biography
• Alexander Pushkin Literary Museum: Vilnuis, Lithuania -- family-owned estate
• Pushkin Genealogy: The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families: Frontline: PBS
• The Pushkin Museum: Moscow -- author's last home in city's Arbat district

Busse Library Resources on Pushkin

• Berry, Thomas E. Plots and characters in major Russian fiction / 1977-1978. PG3095 .B4 Ref
• Garrard, John Gordon. The Russian novel from Pushkin to Pasternak / c1983. PG3098.3.R87 1983
• Magarshack, David. Pushkin; a biography / [1968,c1967] PG3350 .M28 1968
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich. Eugene Onegin: a novel in verse / c1943. PG3347.E8 D5
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich. The poems, prose and plays by Alexander Pushkin / [1943] PG3347.A2 Y3

Euripides

• The Bacchae. Translated by Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College, British Columbia
• Great Books Index: Euripides -- directory to online texts
• Works by Euripides: Internet Classics Archive: MIT -- offering full texts of 19 plays
• "Euripides and His Tragedies." From The Drama: Its History, Literature, and Influence on Civilization. Ed. Alfred Bates, 1906. TheaterHistory.com
• "Euripides." From The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton.
• Euripides Hippolytus. Course Page by John Porter, University of Saskatechewan
• Euripides: The Plays. University of Nottingham (UK), Classics Department -- structural analyses of works
• Euripides. Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2001. Bartleby.com
• Euripides. Perseus Encyclopedia: Tufts University -- detailed, hypertext biography

Busse Library Resources on Euripides

• Euripides. The Bacchae: Hippolytus; Alcestis; Medea: in modern translations / 1965. PA3975 .A2 1965
• Euripides. The plays of Euripides in English / [1906] PA3975 .A1x 1906
• Lucas, F.L. Euripides and his influence / 1963. PA3978 .L8 1963
• Segal, Erich. Euripides; a collection of critical essays / [1968] PA3978.Z9 S4
• Wilson, John Richard. Twentieth century interpretations of Euripides' Alcestis / [1968] PA3973 .A5 W5

John Donne

• John Donne: The Literature Network --short biography and extensive collection of meditations and poetry
• John Donne's Devotions. By John Donne. Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• Selected Poetry of John Donne: Representative Poetry Online (RPO) -- 42 online works
• The Works of John Donne: The Luminarium -- extensive collection of sonnets, sermons, and other poetry
• Essays on Early 17th Century English Literature: John Donne: The Luminarium -- directory to online criticism
• John Donne Journal: North Carolina State University
• John Donne Society, Montclair State University (NJ)
• John Donne: Academy of American Poets -- extensive biography and six poem texts
• John Donne: The Luminarium -- detailed biography

Busse Library Resources on Donne

• Bald, R.C. John Donne, a life / 1970. PR2248 .B35 1970b
• Coffin, Charles Moore. John Donne and the new philosophy / 1937. PR2248 .C6 1937a
• DiPasquale, Theresa M. Literature and sacrament: the sacred and the secular in John Donne / c1999. PR2248 .D5 1999
• Donne, John. The complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne / [1946] PR2245.A5 H3 1946
• Donne, John. Divine poems/ 1952. PR2246 .G26
• Gardner, Helen Louise. John Donne: a collection of critical essays / [1962] PR2248 .G25
• Louthan, Doniphan. The poetry of John Donne: a study in explication / 1976, c1951. PR2248 .L6 1976
• Williamson, George. The Donne tradition: a study in English poetry / [1958] PR451 .W5 1958

Herman Melville

• "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street." Hypertext version by Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Great Books Index: Herman Melville -- directory to online texts
• Herman Melville Online -- directory to full texts
• Nantucket's Tried-Out Moby-Dick: Robert A. diCurcio's Companion Reader to Melville's Masterpiece -- chapter-by-chapter analysis of novel for first-time readers
• Herman Melville: Perspectives in American Literature (PAL)
• Herman Melville's Billy Budd. David Padilla, University of Virginia (ed.) -- novel text, criticism, and history
• Ishmail: Melville Scholarly Listserv
• The Life and Works of Herman Melville -- gateway to resources
• The Melville Society
• Moby Dick. Searchable version from Princeton University
• Moby-Dick, or the Whale: Melville.org -- full text and background materials
• Herman Melville -- biography from University of Virginia
• Herman Melville: Books and Writers -- biography
• Herman Melville's Arrowhead: Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Busse Library Resources on Melville

• Bloom, Harold. Ahab / 1993. PS2386 .K57 1993
• Dryden, Edgar A. Melville's thematics of form; the great art of telling the truth / [1968] PS2387 .D7x
• Gleim, William S. The meaning of Moby Dick / 1962 [c1938] PS2384 .M62 G5
• Herbert, T. Walter. Moby-Dick and Calvinism: a world dismantled / c1977. PS2384 .M62 H37
• Higgins, Brian. Herman Melville, an annotated bibliography / c1979-. PS2386 .H5x
• Howard, Leon. Herman Melville, a biography / [1951] PS2386 .H6
• Leyda, Jay. The Melville log; a documentary life of Herman Melville, 1819-1891 / 1969 [c1951] PS2386 .L4 1969
• Melville, Herman. The letters of Herman Melville / 1960. PS2386 .A57
• Melville, Herman. Omoo: a narrative of adventures in the South Seas / [c1982] PS2384 .O56 1892.
• Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar. A reader's guide to the short stories of Herman Melville / c1986. PS2387 .N5 1986
• Rollyson, Carl E. Herman Melville A to Z: the essential reference to his life and work / c2001. PS2382 .M38 2002
• Wright, Nathalia. Melville's use of the Bible / 1969 [c1949] PS2388 .B5 W7 1969

John Keats

• John Keats: Project Gutenberg -- full content of Lamia and Poems 1817
• The Literature Network: John Keats -- biography and large poem collection
• Selected Poetry of John Keats: Representative Poetry Online (RPO) -- 22 major texts
• The British Library: The John Keats Exhibition
• John Keats: An Overview: The Victorian Web
• The Keats-Shelley Association of America
• The Keats-Shelley Journal
• The Life and Work of John Keats -- texts, biography, and criticism
• Web Concordance: John Keats, The Odes of 1819
• John Keats: Academy of American Poets --biography and seven classic poem texts
• John Keats: Books and Writers -- biography and bibliography
• John Keats.com -- extensive biography and poem texts
• The Keats-Shelley House (Rome, Italy)

Busse Library Resources on Keats

• Finney, Claude Lee. The evolution of Keats's poetry / 1963 [c1936] PR4837 .F5 1963
• Ford, George Harry. Keats and the Victorians; a study of his influence and rise to fame / 1944. PR4837 .F6
• Hilton, Timothy. Keats and his world / [1971] PR4836 .H58 1971
• Keats, John. The letters of John Keats / 1935. PR4836 .A56 1935
• Murray, John Middleton. Keats / [1968, c1955] PR4837 .M8 1968
• Ridley, M.R. Keats' craftsmanship; a study in poetic development / 1962. PR4837 .R5 1962
• Shuster, George Nauman. The English ode from Milton to Keats / 1940. PR509 .O3 S55
• Vendler, Helen Hennessy. Coming of age as a poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath / 2003. PR502 .V46 2003
• ward, Aileen. John Keats; the making of a poet / [1963] PR4836 .W3
• wasserman, Earl R. The finer tone: Keats' major poems / 1953. PR4837 .W3

Ovid

• The Metamorphoses. By Ovid. The Internet Classics Archive: MIT
• Ovid: The Latin Library -- nine major texts, Latin-only offerings
• The Ovid Collection at the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center (ETC) -- offers full text of The Metamorphoses
• The Perseus Project (Tufts University): Ovid Offerings -- collection of original and secondary works
• Ovid Illustrated: The Renaissance Reception of Ovid in Image and Text. By Virgil Solis, et al. University of Virginia, ETC
• Ovid: Library of Congress Citations
• The Ovid Project: Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses. By Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont
• Ovid's Metamorphoses: An Introduction and Commentary. By Larry A. Brown.
• Ovid. By John Porter, University of Saskatchewan. -- biography and bibliography
• Ovid. Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2001. Bartleby.com

Busse Library Resources on Ovid

• Ovid. Four books of the Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso / 1875, c1872. PA6519 .M4x
• Ovid. The loves; the art of beauty; The remedies for love / c1957. PA6522 .A3x 1957
• Ovid. Ovid's Metamorphoses: the original text reduced to the natural English order / [189-] PA6519 .M2x 1895

Tu Fu

• Du Fu Index: Poems -- short biography and large poem collection
• Translated Chinese Poetry: Poems by Tu Fu
• Du Fu and His Thatched Cottage of Chengdu -- detailed history and biography
• The Thatched Cottage of Du Fu: Chengdu, China
• Tu Fu. Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2001. Bartleby.com

William Blake

• Contents, The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Ed., David V. Erdman.
• The Literature Network: William Blake -- biography and poem collection
• Project Gutenberg: William Blake -- full-text access to the Poems of William Blake and Songs of Innocence and Experience
• Representative Poetry Online (RPO): William Blake -- 45 poem texts
• Blake Digital Text Project: University of Georgia
• Concordance to the Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake: University of Georgia
• "An Introduction to William Blake." By Alfred Kazin. Multimedia Library, c1997. -- critical biography
• William Blake Archive: Library of Congress
• William Blake Online: Tate Museum, London
• "About Blake." By Denis Vultee, et al. William Blake Archive: Library of Congress. -- extensive biography
• Tyger of Wrath: William Blake at the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia). -- full catalog of 176 works from the 1999 exhibition
• William Blake: Books and Writers -- biography

Busse Library Resources on Blake

• Blake, William. Blake's Dante: the complete illustrations to the Divine comedy / 1980. PQ4329 .B5 1979
• Blake, William. The complete writings of William Blake / 1966. PR4141 .K42 1966
• Frye, Northrop. Fearful symmetry, a study of William Blake / 1947. PR4147 .F7
• Russell, Archibald George Blomefield. The engravings of William Blake / 1912. NE642.B5 R8 1968
• Van Sinderen, Adrian. Blake, the mystic genius / 1949. NE642.B5 W5
• Wingfield Digby, George Frederick. Symbol and image in William Blake / 1957. NE642.B5 W5

Aeschylus

• Great Books Index: Aeschylus -- directory for online texts
• Works by Aeschylus: Internet Classics Archive: MIT -- full texts of seven major plays
• "Aeschylus: The First Dramatist." From The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton -- critical study
• "Aeschylus and His Tragedies." From The Drama: Its History, Literature, and Influence Upon Civilization.Ed. Alfred Bates. TheaterHistory.com
• The Perseus Project: Tufts University: Aeschylus -- resources on playwright
• Aeschylus. Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2001. Bartleby.com
• Biography of Aeschylus. Temple University, Intellectual Heritage Program (IHP)
• "Drama: The Greek Theater and Three Athenian Tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides." From The Glory that Was Greece: History and Culture in Ancient Athens: An Online Resource for Students. By Leigh T. Denault. -- offers biography

Busse Library Resources on Aeschylus

• Aeschylus. The Oresteia trilogy / [1970, c1965] PA3827 .A7 T4
• Aeschylus. Fifteen Greek plays / 1943. PA3626 .A2 C6
• Aeschylus. The Persians / [1970] PA3827 .P3P6
• Aeschylus. The seven against Thebes / [1970] PA3827 .S4 D3
• Coe, Tony. Seize the fire; a version of Aeschylus' Prometheus bound / c2001. Video PA3827 .A4 S45
• Sheppard, John Tresidder. Aeschylus and Sophocles; their work and influence / 1963. PA3829 .S45 1963

Gustave Flaubert

• The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters." Translated by A.L. McKenzie. (1921). University of Adelaide Library (Australia).
• Gustave Flaubert Collection: Etext Conversion Project: Nalanda Digital Library (Kerala, India) -- full texts of four major works
• Project Gutenberg: Gustave Flaubert -- 13 full works including French and English translations of Madame Bovary
• "Gustave Flaubert." From The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Ed. Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth.
• Gustave Flaubert: University of Rouen -- criticism, manuscripts, and other resources (French-only)
• Flaubert Pavilion/Gravesite: Rouen, France
• Gustave Flaubert: Books and Writers -- biography
• Literary Locales -- includes photos of Flaubert's birthplace, childhood home, and gravesite

Busse Library Resources on Flaubert

• Bart, Benjamin F. Madame Bovary and the critics; a collection of essays / 1966. PQ2246.M3 B3
• Brombert, Victor H. The novels of Flaubert; a study of themes and techniques / 1966. PQ2247 .B68
• Buck, Stratton. Gustave Flaubert / [1966] PQ2247 .B8
• Donato, Eugenio. The script of decadence: essays on the fictions of Flaubert / 1993. PQ2249 .D56 1992
• Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Backgrounds and sources; essays in criticism / [1965] PQ2246.M2 E5 1965
• Flaubert, Gustave. Oeuvres / 1951-52. PQ2246 .A1x 1951
• Giraud, Raymond Dorner. Flaubert; a collection of critical essays / [1964] PQ2249 .G5
• Smalley, Barbara. George Eliot and Flaubert: pioneers of the modern novel / [1974] PR4683 .S5