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What are core articles? Core articles are our top priority articles – articles that are most in demand and most important for us to include in an encyclopedia that has any hope of being comprehensive.

These are the highest priority articles items for the Literature Workgroup, though they have not yet been finalized by a Workgroup editor. In order to keep the list manageable, this list should be contain no more than about 200 items total. Thus only those articles should be added which can reasonably be considered of paramount importance for the Literature WG.

In the listings below, articles (links) rendered in blue are those articles which have at least some substantive content beyond a mere definition. Those articles rendered bold-faced link to lemma articles, which have no content beyond the bare definition only. If the link is rendered magenta, then not even a lemma article has been created. The bar graph to the left of those articles which have substantive content (blue link) indicates the level of completeness of the artilce.

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

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 BCE) Earliest great Greek tragic dramatist; only 7 plays survive, including the trilogy the Oresteia (about the House of Atreus). ^[e]
Aristophanes: (ca 450 - 388? BC) Greek comic dramatist; wrote The Clouds and Lysistrata. ^[e]
Euripides: Greek tragic dramatist (c.480–c.406 BC), one of the three great tragedians of ancient Greece. Works include Medea, The Bacchae, Electra, and The Trojan Women. ^[e]
Sophocles: (496? - 406 BC) One of the three great Greek tragedians; wrote Electra, Oedipus the King, and Antigone. ^[e]
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

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]
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]

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]
Arthur C. Clarke: (1917-2008) British author of science fiction. ^[e]
Robert A. Heinlein: (1907–88) American author of science fiction; wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. ^[e]
Ursula Le Guin: (born October 21, 1929) Science-fiction author whose works address themes from sociology and anthropology. ^[e]
Stanisław Lem: Add brief definition or description
Larry Niven: Add brief definition or description
Jack Vance: Add brief definition or description
Jules Verne: Add brief definition or description
H.G. Wells: Add brief definition or description

American writers

English writers

French writers

German writers

Irish writers

Japanese writers

Russian writers

Scottish writers

South African writers

Alan Paton: Add brief definition or description

Spanish writers

Yiddish Writers

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Literary genres

Literary motifs, styles, and techniques

Literary movements

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.

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