ENGLISH REVIEWER
AUTHORS
Kalidasa - Indian Shakespeare, sanskrit drama “Shakuntala”
Emily Bronte - “Wuthering Heights”
Rabidranath Tagore - “Gitanjali”
Boris Paternak - “Doctor Zhivago”
George Orwell - “Animal Farm” (Boxer-name of the horse in the story)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - “The Song of Hiawatha”, “Paul Revere’s Ride” (song=long)
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) - “Middlemarch”, “Daniel Deronda”, “Silas Marner”
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) - “The Gift of the Magi”, “Cabbages and Kings”, “The
Last Leaf”(selflessness and sacrifice)
Christopher Marlowe - “Doctor Faustus”
Turold - “Songs of Roland” (rold=roland)
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) - “Huckleberry Finn”,“Tom Sawyer”
Miguel de Cervantes - “Don Quixote”(#1 Best Selling Book in the world, 500 mil copies sold
)
Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities (#2 Best selling book, 200 mil copies sold)
J.R.R. Tolkien - “The Lord of the Rings”
Antoin de Saint-Exupery - “The Little Prince”
J.K. Rowling - “Harry Potter”
Virgil - “Aeneid”
William Shakespeare - Bard of Avon, Greatest Storyteller, “Romeo and Juliet”(love and
war), “Hamlet”(to be or not to be), “Macbeth”(overwhelming ambition for power, longest
Shakespearean play)
Nathaniel Hawthorne - “Scarlet Letter” (scarlet:rose:thorns)
James Joyce - wrote last novel “Ulysses” with crayons
F. Scott Fitzgerald - “The Great Gatsby”
Virginia Woolf - “Mrs. Dalloway”,”To the Lighthouse”
Daniel Dafoe - “Robinson Crusoe”
Jonathan Swift - “Gulliver’s Travel”
William Makepeace Thackeray - “Vanity Fair”
Harriet Beecher Stowe - “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Alexander Dumas - “Count of Monte Cristo”
Ben Johnson - “Song to Celia”
William Blake - “A Poison Tree”
Homer - vivid geographer, “Odyssey”, “Iliad”
Lewis Carroll - “Alice in the Wonderland”
Elizabeth Browning - wrote sonnets for her husbando-UwU. “Sonnet 43”(with opening line
‘How do I love thee? Let me count the ways’- yamete kudasai :3)
Geoffrey Chaucer - Father of English Literature, Father of English Poetry
“The Canterbury Tales”(first serious collection of short stories in English)
Herman Melville - “Moby-Dick” (opening line “Call me Ishmael.”)
Rudyard Kipling - “If”
William Ernest Henley - “Invictus”
Robert Frost - “The Road Not Taken”
Jane Austen - “Pride and Prejudice”
Vedavyasa/Vyasa - “Mahabharata”, “Bhagavad Gita”(part of Mahabharata)
Valmiki - “Ramayana”
Vishnu Sharma - “Panchatantra” (Indian collection of fables)
FILIPINO REVIEWER
AUTHORS AND LITERARY PIECES
Paz Marquez Benitez - “Dead Stars”
Francisco Arcellana - “The Mats”
Nick Joaquin - A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, The Woman Who Had Two Navels , May
Day Eve, Mga Ama, Mga Anak, Culture and History.”
Lope K. Santos - Ama ng Balarilang Filipino, “Banaag at Sikat”
Jose Garcia Villa - Doveglion, Have Come, Am Here, Poems, Footnote to the Youth , Sari-
Sari: A Novel of the Philippines
Aurelio Tolentino - Kahapon, Ngayon at Bukas, Dulang Kapampangan (HOURelio;
time=when? kahapon, ngayon at bukas)
Felipe de Leon - Noli Me Tangere: The Opera
Pedro Paterno. - “Ninay” (first tagalog novel)
F. Sionil Jose - Viajero, The Rosales Saga, Ermita (Si madam Rosales may bag na chanel
*sionel at mahilig siya mag travel *viajero)
Lualhati Bautista - Gapo, Bata Bata Pa’no ka Ginawa
Carlos Bulosan - Voice of Bataan, America is in the Heart
Severino Montano - Arena Theater (MATERS)
Rolando Tinio - Experimental Theater
Naty Cramy Rogers - Sala Theater
The Manila Times - first English-language newspaper
Severino Reyes - Walang Sugat, Lola Basyang (severe? no, kasi walang sugat)
N.V.M (Nestor Vicente Madali). Gonzalez - The Bamboo Dancers
Liwayway - first literary magazine
Amado V. Hernandez - Biyaya ng Lupa
Doctrina Cristina - Fr. Juan de Placencia and Domingo Nierva (first book printed)
Barlaan at Josaphat - Virgilio Almario (First Novel Published)
Urbana at Feliza - An epistolary by Modesto De Castro (si Urbana at Feli ay modest)
Pedro Bukaneg - Father of Ilocano literature
Leon Pechay - Modern Ilocano literature
Isabelo de los Reyes - Iglesia Filipina Independencia
Pascual Poblete - Translation of Noli Me Tangere
Jose Corazon dela Cruz - Huseng Batute, Ang Punong Kahoy
Jose Dela Cruz - Huseng Sisiw
Juan Crisostomo Sotto - Panitikang Kapampangan, Miss Pathupats
Alejandro Abadilla - Ako ang Daigdig
Zoilo Galang - first novel written in English “A Child of Sorrow” (umiyak ang bata kasi di sya
magalang)
Amado V. Hernandez - Mga Ibong Mandaragit
