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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.

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]
Virgil: (70-19 BC) Roman poet; wrote the Aeneid, one of the masterpieces of world literature. ^[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]
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]

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]
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]
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]

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]
Larry Niven: Add brief definition or description
Jack Vance: (1916 – 2013) American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries who 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]
H. G. Wells: (1866 – 1946) British author in many fields, including politics, who is perhaps best remembered for his seminal works of science-fiction. ^[e]

American writers

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: Add brief definition or description
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Add brief definition or description
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Add brief definition or description
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Add brief definition or description
Herman Melville: Add brief definition or description
Louisa May Alcott: Add brief definition or description
Emily Dickinson: Add brief definition or description
Edgar Allan Poe: Add brief definition or description
Mark Twain: Add brief definition or description
Willa Cather: Add brief definition or description
Robert Frost: Add brief definition or description
Ernest Hemingway: Add brief definition or description
John Steinbeck: Add brief definition or description
William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
Vladimir Nabokov: Add brief definition or description
Toni Morrision: Add brief definition or description

English writers

French writers

German writers

Irish writers

Japanese writers

Russian writers

Scottish writers

South African writers

Alan Paton: Add brief definition or description

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Literary genres

Literary motifs, styles, and techniques

Literary movements

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