"H" in Literature by HensleyB

Identify the poet who penned the stanza below.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.

What 1984 coming-of-age novel tells of protagonist and narrator Esperanza Cordero's experiences growing up in Chicago?

The poems "Works and Days," which contains the story of Pandora, and "Theogeny" are both works of what ancient poet?

Called "The Terrible," what monstrous giant guarded the Cedar Forest in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" until he was decapitated by Enkidu?

The Liquidation Office hosts the title event and changes protagonist Hugo Pludek beyond recognition in a play, described as a "counter-Communist farce," by what author?

The ballets "The Nutcracker" and "Coppélia" are both based on works by what Romantic era author?

What poet penned the following stanza?

The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

The Duchess, Mother Shipton, Uncle Billy, and John Oakhurst are the title pariahs in a short story by what author?

The deaf John Singer's interactions with people in a Georgia mill town forms the basis of what 1940 novel?

What is the title of the poem from which the following lines have been excerpted? The "he" below refers to the title character.

He’d a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin.
They fitted with never a wrinkle. His boots were up to the thigh.
And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,
His pistol butts a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.

The 1959 play "A Raisin in the Sun," which tells of a black family's experience in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood, takes its title from the poem "Harlem." Name BOTH the playwright who wrote "A Raisin in the Sun" AND the poet who wrote "Harlem."

In what 1963 novel are the final 99 chapters described as "Expendable"? The reader may choose to ignore them, or navigate the book in a non-linear way aided by a table provided by the author.