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- Ancient literature: Add brief definition or description
- Medieval literature: Add brief definition or description
- American literature: The novels, plays, poetry, and other creative written work of the American people, from Colonial times to the present. [e]
- English literature: The novels, plays, poetry, and other creative written work of the English people. [e]
- French literature: The novels, poetry, and plays written in the French language from the earliest stages until the present day [e]
- German literature: the novels, poetry, and plays written in the German language from the earliest stages (ca. 9th century) until the present day [e]
- Japanese literature: Add brief definition or description
- Russian literature: Add brief definition or description
- Women in literature: Add brief definition or description
Writers
Ancient writers
- Homer: (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE) Greek poet, to whom is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey. [e]
- Aeschylus: (525-456 BC) Greek tragedian, considered to be the father of Greek tragic drama; wrote Agamemnon and The Eumenides. [e]
- Aristophanes: (ca 450 - 388? BC) Greek comic dramatist; wrote The Clouds and Lysistrata. [e]
- Euripides: (484? - 406 BC) Greek tragic dramatist, one of the three great tragedians of ancient Greece; wrote The Bacchae, Electra, and The Trojan Women. [e]
- Sophocles: (496? - 406 BC) One of the three great Greek tragedians; wrote Electra, Oedipus the King,a nd Antigone. [e]
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Ovid: (43BC-AD17) (Publius Ovidius Naso), Roman poet, author of Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria. [e]
- Virgil: (70-19 BC) Roman poet; wrote the Aeneid, one of the masterpieces of world literature. [e]
Medieval writers
New Dante Alighieri: (1265-1321) Italian poet who wrote the monumental epic the Divine Comedy. [e]
- Geoffrey Chaucer: (1345-1400) English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales. [e]
- Gottfried von Straßburg: German poet of the early thirteenth century, considered one of the masters of the high courtly literature of the era, famous as the author of the epic poem Tristan and Isolde. [e]
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Hartmann von Aue: (c. 1160/65 – c. 1210) was a German medieval author of epic poetry, one of the three most important poets of German courtly literature of the Middle Ages (with Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg) [e]
- Omar Khayyam: Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet who died in 1131. [e]
- Petrarch: (1304–74) Italian poet, humanist and essayist, and one of the most important intellectual figures of the early Renaissance. [e]
- Chrétien de Troyes: Add brief definition or description
- Wolfram von Eschenbach: Add brief definition or description
Children's and young adult literature
- Dr. Seuss: (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-91) Extremely popular American writer of children's books, including books designed to teach reading. [e]
- Hans Christian Andersen: (1805-75) Danish author of fairy tales. [e]
- Rudyard Kipling: (1865-1936) British poet, short story writer, and novelist, though best known for his children's classics, the Just So Stories and the Jungle Books. [e]
- Lewis Carroll: The pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), British mathematician and author of children's books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark). [e]
- Brüder Grimm: (Brothers Grimm), Jacob and Wilhelm, German linguists, famous for their collection of fairy tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen, 1812-1815) and their German dictionary [e]
Science-fiction writers
- Isaac Asimov: (1920-92) American chemist and prolific author, especially of science fiction. [e]
- Margaret Atwood: (1939 - ) Canadian poet, literary critic, essayist, and writer of novels with an emphasis on feminism as well as Canadian nationalism and identity. [e]
- Arthur C. Clarke: (1917-2008) British futurist and author of science fiction. [e]
- Robert A. Heinlein: (1907–88) American author of science fiction; wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. [e]
- Ursula K. Le Guin: (1929-) American novelist and poet, best known for her work in science fiction and fantasy. [e]
- Stanisław Lem: (1921-2006) Polish science-fiction author (Solaris) [e]
- Larry Niven: (born April 30, 1938) American author of hard science fiction, such as the Ringworld series. [e]
- Jack Vance: (1916 –) American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries who has achieved cult-like status. [e]
- Jules Verne: (1828-1905) French author and science-fiction pioneer, some of whose novels involved travel through outer space and under water before technology had made these possible, and whose work has been widely translated and made into a number of films. [e]
New H.G. Wells: (1866–1946) English author best known for his pioneering science-fiction novels; wrote The Time Machine. [e]
- Philip K. Dick: (1928-1982) American author of science-fiction stories and novels [e]
American writers
New Washington Irving: (1783-1859) American writer, considered the first American man of letters, best known for his short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. [e]
- James Fenimore Cooper: (1789-1851) The first major American novelist, most famous for his adventuresome Leather-Stocking Tales set in the American frontier. [e]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-82) American poet, essayist, and lecturer; leading exponent of New England transcendentalism. [e]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: (1807-82) US poet and essayist whose ballads and versus made him the best-loved American poet of the 19th century. [e]
- Henry David Thoreau: (1817-62) New England transcendentalist philosopher, naturalist, and writer; one of key inspirations for the modern conservation movement. [e]
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: (1804-64) American novelist and short story writer, best known for The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. [e]
- Herman Melville: (1819-91) American fiction writer, author of Moby Dick, one of the masterpieces of world literature. [e]
- Louisa May Alcott: (1832-88) American writer; best known for her autobiographical novel Little Women. [e]
- Emily Dickinson: (1830-86) American poet whose poetry, exhibiting great originality in thought and form, has been a major influence on modern poetry. [e]
- Edgar Allan Poe: (1809–1849) American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist, and one of the most prominent figures in the American Romantic Movement in literature. [e]
- Mark Twain: (1835-1910) Pen name of Samuel Clemens, a leading American novelist and humorist of the late 19th century. [e]
New Willa Cather: (1873-1947) American writer who wrote several novels portraying frontier life on the Great Plains of America in the late 19th century, among them O Pioneers! and My Ántonia. [e]
- Robert Frost: (1874-1963) American lyric poet who drew his inspiration from nature and the New England countryside. [e]
- Ernest Hemingway: (1899-1961) American writer, author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms. and For Whom the Bell Tolls. [e]
- John Steinbeck: (1902–1968) One of the best known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century; wrote Grapes of Wrath. [e]
- William Faulkner: (1897-1962) US writer who wrote about the American South; wrote The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!. [e]
- Vladimir Nabokov: (1899-1977) Russian-American novelist and poet; wrote Lolita and Pale Fire. [e]
- Toni Morrision: (1931-) American writer, winner of Nobel Prize, whose novels explore the African-American experience; author of Song of Solomon. [e]
- Thornton Wilder: (1897-1975) American author of plays (Our Town) and novels (The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Ides of March) [e]
- Arthur Miller: (1915-2005), American author of plays (All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge) and films (The Misfits) [e]
- John Updike: (1932-2009) American author of novels, short stories, and poetry. Most famous for his five Rabbit novels (1960-2001) [e]
- Ezra Pound: (1885-1972) American 20th century poet, author of The Cantos. [e]
English writers
- Jane Austen: English novelist (1775-1817), author of Pride and Prejudice and other novels. [e]
- William Blake: (1757-1827) was an English poet and artist, posthumously seen as one of the leading figures of the Romantic Movement. [e]
- Charlotte Brontë: (1816-55) English novelist who wrote Jane Eyre. [e]
- Emily Brontë: (1818-48) English writer who wrote Wuthering Heights. [e]
- Robert Browning: (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) English poet and playwright best known for his dramatic monologues. [e]
- John Bunyan: (1628-88) English Puritan minister and writer; wrote The Pilgrim's Progress. [e]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: (Oct. 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834) Romantic poet and critic, colleague of William Wordsworth. [e]
- Joseph Conrad: (1857-1924) Polish-British novelist and short story writer; wrote Lord Jim and The Secret Agent. [e]
- Charles Dickens: (1812-70) English novelist and social critic; wrote the semi-autobiographical David Copperfield. [e]
- John Donne: English metaphysical poet (1572-1631). [e]
- T.S. Eliot: (1888-1965) British-American 20th century poet who wrote The Waste Land and Four Quartets. [e]
- Thomas Hardy: (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) Author of the Wessex novels and poet [e]
- Samuel Johnson: (1709-1784) One of the leading figures of English literature's Augustan Age. [e]
- John Keats: (31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821) Despite his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25, one of the major poets of the English Romantic Movement. [e]
- Rudyard Kipling: (1865-1936) British poet, short story writer, and novelist, though best known for his children's classics, the Just So Stories and the Jungle Books. [e]
- John Milton: English 17th-century poet, author of Paradise Lost. [e]
- George Orwell: (1903-50) Pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, a British novelist best known for his political works Animal Farm and 1984. [e]
- William Shakespeare: (1564- 1616) English poet and playwright. [e]
- George Bernard Shaw: (1856 - 1950) Irish playwright, writer, and critic who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. [e]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: (1792-1822) English poet, major exponent of the romantic movement. [e]
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, author of The Charge of the Light Brigade and Ulysses. [e]
- Oscar Wilde: (1854–1900) Irish poet, author, and playwright; wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray. [e]
- Virginia Woolf: (1882-1941) Feminist author, essayist, and critic wrote A Room of One’s Own (1929) [e]
- William Wordsworth: (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) One of the leading English romantic poets. [e]
French writers
- Albert Camus: (1913-60) Algerian-French existentialist philosopher and novelist; classic quote is "The only serious philosophical problem is that of suicide" (i.e., is life meaningful?) [e]
- Guy de Maupassant: Add brief definition or description
- Alexandre Dumas: (1806-1876) Writer of iconic French literature, including The Three Musketeers; usually suffixed "père" to distinguish him from his namesake son, always suffixed "fils", who was also a major French writer. [e]
- Victor Hugo: (1802-1885) French novelist, best known for The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables. [e]
- Jean Baptiste Moliere: (January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673) French playwright and actor, known for his comedies. [e]
- Marcel Proust: (1871-1922) French writer, famous for the largely autobiographical novel À la recherche du temps perdu. [e]
- Jean Racine: Add brief definition or description
- George Sand: (1804-76). The male pen-name of the female romantic writer, Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant. [e]
- Stendhal: Pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle (1783–1842), French author of Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) [e]
- Voltaire: The pen-name of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), a French writer and philosopher, who was one of the leading figures of The Enlightenment. [e]
- Honoré de Balzac: (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) French novelist and playwright, famous for writing over 100 novels and plays on life collectively entitled La Comédie humaine. [e]
- François Rabelais: (1483/94-1553) French author of a series of novels on Gargantua and Pantagruel [e]
- Georges Perec: (1936-1982) French author of novels and texts full of various types of word play [e]
German writers
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: (1621-1676), German author of the first important novel in New High German, Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch (1668) [e]
- Bertolt Brecht: (February 19, 1898 - August 14, 1956) Playwright and theatre theorist, known for his political (specifically Marxist) plays. [e]
New Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: (1749 - 1832) German writer, poet, and philosopher; still considered the greatest writer of German literature [e]
- Theodor Fontane: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Mann: (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German author, social critic, and 1929 Noble Prize Laureate, known for the novels Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and the short story Death in Venice [e]
- Heinrich Heine: Add brief definition or description
- Johann Nestroy: Add brief definition or description
- Friedrich Schiller: Add brief definition or description
- Arno Schmidt: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Schnitzler: Add brief definition or description
- Günter Grass: Add brief definition or description
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Add brief definition or description
- Heinrich von Kleist: Add brief definition or description
- Gerhart Hauptmann: Add brief definition or description
- Rainer Maria Rilke: (1875,Prag-1926) German poet from the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy, famous for his Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies) and the novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge (The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge) [e]
- E.T.A. Hoffmann: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Celan: (1920-1970) Pen name of Paul Antschel, important German-language poet born in Romania [e]
Irish writers
- James Joyce: (1882-1941) Irish novelist who portrayed life in Ireland in The Dubliners; also wrote Ulysses, often regarded as one of the 20th centuries greatest English language novels. [e]
- William Butler Yeats: (June 13 1865 – January 28 1939), the greatest lyric poet in English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [e]
- Laurence Sterne: (1713-1768), Irish author and Anglican clergyman, best known for his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman [e]
- Jonathan Swift: (1667-1745), Irish author, famous for his novel Gulliver's Travels [e]
Japanese writers
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Add brief definition or description
- Kobo Abe: (1924-1993) Japanese novelist and dramatist; wrote The Woman in the Dunes. [e]
- Masuji Ibuse: (1898-1993) Japanese novelist and short story writer; wrote Black Rain. [e]
- Kenzaburo Oe: (1935- ) Nobel prize winning Japanese novelist; wrote A Personal Matter and The Silent Cry. [e]
- Natsume Soseki: (1867-1916) Japanese novelist; wrote Botchan, The Wayfarer, and Kokoro. [e]
- Junichiro Tanizaki: (1886-1965) Japanese novelist, short story writer, and dramatist; wrote The Makioka Sisters and Some Prefer Nettles. [e]
- Yukio Mishima: (1925-70) Japanese novelist who advocated a return to traditionalism; wrote Confessions of a Mask, and the tetralogy The Sea of Fertility; politically far-right; attempted nationalist coup and committed seppuku [e]
- Matsuo Bashō: (1644-94) Japanese haiku poet, widely considered to be the most accomplished practitioner of the art form. [e]
- Yasunari Kawabata: (1899-1972) Japanese novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature; wrote Snow Country and The Sound of the Mountain. [e]
Russian writers
- Anton Chekhov: Add brief definition or description
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: (1821-81) Russian writer; wrote Crime and Punishment, The Possessed, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov along with other well-known works. [e]
- Nikolai Gogol: (1809-52) Russian Realist writer; wrote Dead Souls and The Overcoat. [e]
- Maxim Gorky: (1868-1936) Russian novelist who promoted "Socialist Realism", the official school of Soviet literature and art. [e]
- Mikhail Lermontov: (1814-41) Russian novelist and a leading Romantic poet; wrote A Hero of Our Time. [e]
- Boris Pasternak: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Pushkin: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Add brief definition or description
- Leo Tolstoy: (1828-1910) A Russian author, often called the "greatest of all novelists"; wrote War and Peace. [e]
- Ivan Turgenev: (1818-83) Russian novelist, dramatist, and short story writer who favored Westernization; wrote Fathers and Sons. [e]
Scottish writers
- Robert Burns: The National poet of Scotland (1759-96); writer of Auld Lang Syne. [e]
- Arthur Conan Doyle: (1859–1930) British author – of the Sherlock Holmes stories – and physician. [e]
- Walter Scott: (1771-1832) A prolific Scottish writer, considered the inventor of the genre of historical fiction; wrote the Waverley novels, romanticizing Scottish Highland culture. [e]
South African writers
- Alan Paton: (1903-88) South African political activist and writer whose novel Cry, the Beloved Country focused international attention on apartheid. [e]
Spanish writers
- Miguel de Cervantes: (1547 – 1616)Spanish novelist, poet, playwright and soldier. [e]
- Federico Garcia Lorca: Add brief definition or description
- Calderón de la Barca: Add brief definition or description
Yiddish Writers
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: (1904-1991) A Polish-born, Yiddish-language author of short stories, novels, and children's literature who was a leader of the Yiddish literary movement and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. [e]
- Sholem Aleichem: (1859-1913) Pen name of Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich, a Russian-born, Yiddish-language humorist and author of short stories, novels, and plays, including Tevye der Milchiker (Tevye the Milkman), on which Fiddler on the Roof is based. [e]
Unsorted by nationality
- Margaret Atwood: (1939 - ) Canadian poet, literary critic, essayist, and writer of novels with an emphasis on feminism as well as Canadian nationalism and identity. [e]
- Henrik Ibsen: (1828-1906) Norwegian dramatist regarded as the founder of modern prose drama; wrote A Doll's House and An Enemy of the People. [e]
- August Strindberg: A Swedish writer and playwright (1849 - 1912). [e]
- Giovanni Boccaccio: Add brief definition or description
- George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- Aldous Huxley: (1894-1963) British novelist best known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. [e]
- Thomas Pynchon: Add brief definition or description
- Lord Byron: (January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824), born George Gordon, An English romantic poet, known not only for his poetry, but also his very unconventional lifestyle and revolutionary attitude. [e]
- Umberto Eco: (1932- ) Italian novelist, humanist, columnist and professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. [e]
- Salman Rushdie: Indian-born novelist and essayist, best-known for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses (born 1947). [e]
Literary genres
- Children's literature: Add brief definition or description
- Drama: A type of literature, especially plays, meant to be delivered in spoken performance on stage. [e]
- Epic: A type of poem, usually describing the heroic exploits of a character with a narrative story important to the culture and history of a people. [e]
- Fairy tale: A story with magical or supernatural elements, in either oral tradition or written literature. [e]
- Fantasy: A speculative artistic genre involving the supernatural. [e]
- Folklore: The body of myths, legends, and traditional beliefs of a people or the study of those beliefs. [e]
- Gothic novel: A form of fiction which became popular in England in the second half of the eighteenth century involving elements of the supernatural designed to give a pleasing frisson of terror to the reader. [e]
- Haiku: A Japanese poem containing of three lines with five, seven, five syllables, respectively. [e]
- Historical novel: A form of fiction which places its fictional characters in historical settings where they interact with the real people of the time. [e]
- Mystery fiction: Add brief definition or description
- Novel: A work of prose fiction of extended length. [e]
- Poetry: A form of literary work which uses rhythm, metre, and sound elements (such as assonance or dissonance) to structure, amplify, and in some instances supplant the literal meanings of words. [e]
- Romance: A medieval verse or prose story concerning often concerning love or acts of chivalry in somewhat of a fantasy setting. [e]
- Science fiction: A story-telling genre that presents alternatives to what is currently considered scientifically possible or that extrapolates from present-day knowledge. [e]
- Technothriller: Add brief definition or description
- Thriller: A fictional work combining action and elements of mystery and, possibly, romance. [e]
- Short story: Add brief definition or description
- Young adult: Add brief definition or description
Literary motifs, styles, and techniques
- Allegory: A fictional narrative device or genre whereby a hidden or secondary meaning is found behind the literal story line. [e]
- Anticlimax: A figure of speech in which the writer goes from a sophisticated point to a mere trifle of a statement. [e]
- Antihero: A leading character in a work of literature whose qualities are the opposite of heroic. [e]
- Climax: Add brief definition or description
- Confessional poetry: Poetry which expresses in intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about details of the poet's personal life, such as in poems about illness, sexuality, and despondence. [e]
- Irony: The use of words or situations to convey a meaning opposite to their literal meaning. [e]
- Metaphor: Expression directing the mind to understand and experience one kind of thing in terms of another. [e]
- Motif: Add brief definition or description
- Simile: A comparison used in literature which employs the use of "like" or "as" to reference one construct to another. [e]
- Theme: Add brief definition or description
Literary movements
- Aestheticism: Add brief definition or description
- Classicism: Add brief definition or description
- The Enlightenment: An 18th-century movement in Western philosophy and intellectual life generally, that emphasized the power or reason and science to understand and reform the world. [e]
- Modernism: Add brief definition or description
- Postmodernism: A broad collection of critical theories, political attitudes and literary and artistic practices that react to what postmodernists feel to be a modernist culture - one defined by belief in scientific knowledge, moral authority, historical progress and a foundationalist view of language and the self. [e]
- Realism: Add brief definition or description
- Romantic Era: An intellectual movement in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries emphasizing individualism imagination and emotion. [e]
- Surrealism: Add brief definition or description
- Stream of consciousness: Add brief definition or description
- Symbolism: The act of creating a concept, thing, object, or idea that represents an abstraction or an instance of that abstraction. [e]
Works
Nota Bene: Please list here only those works of exceptional importance whose authorship is either unknown or about whose author very little is known.
- Arthurian legends: Add brief definition or description
- Beowulf: An Old English epic poem. [e]
- Poem of the Cid: Add brief definition or description
- Chanson de Roland: Add brief definition or description
- Lazarillo de Tormes: A sixteenth-century Spanish novel credited with founding the picaresque literary genre [e]
- Mabinogion: Collection of 11 medieval Welsh tales taken from mythology, folklore, and legend. [e]
- The Tale of Genji: An 11th century Japanese literary masterpiece, one of the world's earliest novels; written by Lady Murasaki, it depicts Japanese aristocratic and court life of the time. [e]
- The Epic of Gilgamesh: One of the oldest known literary works, originating from ancient Sumeria (about 2000 BC) [e]
- Mahabharata: Ancient religious epic of India whose origins go back to about 500 BC and which created — together with the Ramayana — the Hindu culture. [e]
- Ramayana: Ancient religious epic of India whose origins go back to about 500 BC and which created — together with the Mahabharata — the Hindu culture. [e]
- Carmina burana: Collection of 254 poems and dramatic texts, mostly in medieval Latin, contained in a manuscript of 1230 (with a later appendix), the Codex Buranus (from Benediktbeuren in Germany) [e]
- Nibelungenlied: (The Lay of the Nibelungs) Epic Poem (originating from the 13th century) written in Middle High German telling the story of Siegfried and Kriemhild [e]
- The Works of Ossian: An influental collection of poems (published 1760-1765) by James Macpherson as translations from ancient Gaelic whose origin has long been debated [e]
- One Thousand and One Nights: Collection of stories and fairy tales of Persian and Arabian origin. [e]
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