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Literature Core Articles

(10) = worth this number of points * = external, to replace or rewrite ** = micro-stub

Survey articles

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: Literature of the British isles written in English. ^[e]
French literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the French language from the earliest years until the present day ^[e]
German literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the German language from the earliest stages (ca. 9^th century) until the present day ^[e]
Japanese literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the Japanese language from the earliest years until the present. ^[e]
Russian literature: Novels, poetry, essays and plays written in the Russian language from the earliest years until the present day ^[e]
Women in literature: Add brief definition or description

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]
Alexander Pushkin: Add brief definition or description
Leo Tolstoy: (1828-1910) A Russian author, often called the "greatest of all novelists"; wrote War and Peace. ^[e]
Matsuo Bashō: (1644-94) Japanese haiku poet, widely considered to be the most accomplished practitioner of the art form. ^[e]
Yasunari Kawabata: Japanese novelist (1899–1972) who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works include Snow Country and The Sound of the Mountain. ^[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]
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]
Walt Whitman: (1819-92) American poet and essayist, famous for his flowing free verse in Leaves of Grass, including 'A Noiseless Patient Spider' ^[e]
Robert Burns: The National poet of Scotland (1759-96); writer of Auld Lang Syne. ^[e]
Bertolt Brecht: (Feb. 19, 1898 - Aug. 14, 1956) Playwright and theatre theorist known for elucidating the alienation effect and who was persecuted for what was perceived to be a Marxist slant to his plays. ^[e]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: (1749 - 1832) German writer, poet, and philosopher; still considered the greatest writer of German literature ^[e]
Victor Hugo: Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885), poet, novelist and playwright, was the dominant French writer of the 19th century, and also a considerable political figure. ^[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]
John Milton: English 17th-century poet, author of Paradise Lost. ^[e]
Walter Scott: (1771-1832) A prolific Scottish poet and novelist, considered the originater of the genre of historical fiction. ^[e]
George Bernard Shaw: (1856 - 1950) Irish playwright, writer, socialist propagandist, and art, music and drama critic who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. ^[e]
Jane Austen: Add brief definition or description
William Blake: Add brief definition or description
Giovanni Boccaccio: Add brief definition or description
Geoffrey Chaucer: Add brief definition or description
Charles Dickens: Add brief definition or description
Dante Alighieri: Add brief definition or description
George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
Robert A. Heinlein: Add brief definition or description
Sherlock Holmes: Add brief definition or description
Aldous Huxley: Add brief definition or description
James Joyce: Add brief definition or description
Jack Kerouac: Add brief definition or description
Toni Morrison: Add brief definition or description
Petrarch: Add brief definition or description
Thomas Pynchon: Add brief definition or description
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
Virginia Woolf: Add brief definition or description
William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description

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