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CZ:Core_Articles
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 article.
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. 9th 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]
- 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]
- 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: Add brief definition or description
Science-fiction writers
- Isaac Asimov: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur C. Clarke: Add brief definition or description
- Robert A. Heinlein: Add brief definition or description
- Ursula Le Guin: Add brief definition or description
- 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
New H.G. Wells: Add brief definition or description
American writers
- Washington Irving: Add brief definition or description
- James Fenimore Cooper: Add brief definition or description
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Add brief definition or description
- Henry David Thoreau: Add brief definition or description
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Add brief definition or description
- Herman Melville: Add brief definition or description
New 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
New 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
- Thornton Wilder: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Miller: Add brief definition or description
- John Updike: Add brief definition or description
English writers
- Jane Austen: Add brief definition or description
- William Blake: Add brief definition or description
- Charlotte Brontë: Add brief definition or description
- Emily Brontë: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Browning: Add brief definition or description
- John Bunyan: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Conrad: Add brief definition or description
- Charles Dickens: Add brief definition or description
- John Donne: Add brief definition or description
- T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Hardy: Add brief definition or description
- Samuel Johnson: Add brief definition or description
- John Keats: Add brief definition or description
- 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: Add brief definition or description
- George Orwell: Add brief definition or description
- William Shakespeare: Add brief definition or description
- George Bernard Shaw: Add brief definition or description
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Add brief definition or description
- Oscar Wilde: Add brief definition or description
- Virginia Woolf: Add brief definition or description
- William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description
French writers
- Albert Camus: Add brief definition or description
- Guy de Maupassant: Add brief definition or description
- Alexandre Dumas: Add brief definition or description
- Victor Hugo: Add brief definition or description
- Jean Baptiste Moliere: Add brief definition or description
- Marcel Proust: Add brief definition or description
- Jean Racine: Add brief definition or description
- George Sand: Add brief definition or description
- Stendhal: Add brief definition or description
- Voltaire: Add brief definition or description
- Honoré de Balzac: Add brief definition or description
German writers
- Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Add brief definition or description
- Bertolt Brecht: Add brief definition or description
New Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Add brief definition or description
- Theodor Fontane: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Mann: Add brief definition or description
- 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: Add brief definition or description
- E.T.A. Hoffmann: Add brief definition or description
Irish writers
- James Joyce: Add brief definition or description
- William Butler Yeats: Add brief definition or description
- Laurence Sterne: Add brief definition or description
- Jonathan Swift: Add brief definition or description
Japanese writers
- Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Add brief definition or description
- Kobo Abe: Add brief definition or description
- Masuji Ibuse: Add brief definition or description
- Kenzaburo Oe: Add brief definition or description
- Natsume Soseki: Add brief definition or description
- Junichiro Tanizaki: Add brief definition or description
- Yukio Mishima: Add brief definition or description
- Matsuo Bashō: Add brief definition or description
- Yasunari Kawabata: Add brief definition or description
Russian writers
- Anton Chekhov: Add brief definition or description
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: Add brief definition or description
- Nikolai Gogol: Add brief definition or description
- Maxim Gorky: Add brief definition or description
- Mikhail Lermontov: Add brief definition or description
- Boris Pasternak: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Pushkin: Add brief definition or description
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Add brief definition or description
- Leo Tolstoy: Add brief definition or description
- Ivan Turgenev: Add brief definition or description
Scottish writers
- Robert Burns: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Conan Doyle: Add brief definition or description
- Walter Scott: Add brief definition or description
South African writers
Spanish writers
- Miguel de Cervantes: Add brief definition or description
- Federico Garcia Lorca: Add brief definition or description
Yiddish Writers
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: Add brief definition or description
- Sholem Aleichem: Add brief definition or description
Unsorted by nationality
- Margaret Atwood: Add brief definition or description
- Henrik Ibsen: Add brief definition or description
- August Strindberg: Add brief definition or description
- Giovanni Boccaccio: Add brief definition or description
- George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
- Aldous Huxley: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Pynchon: Add brief definition or description
- Calderón de la Barca: Add brief definition or description
- Lord Byron: Add brief definition or description
- Umberto Eco: Add brief definition or description
- Salman Rushdie: Add brief definition or description
Literary genres
- Children's literature: Add brief definition or description
- Drama: Add brief definition or description
- Epic: Add brief definition or description
- Fairy tale: Add brief definition or description
- Fantasy: Add brief definition or description
- Folklore: Add brief definition or description
- Gothic novel: Add brief definition or description
- Haiku: Add brief definition or description
- Historical novel: Add brief definition or description
- Mystery: Add brief definition or description
- Novel: Add brief definition or description
- Poetry: Add brief definition or description
- Romance: Add brief definition or description
- Science fiction: Add brief definition or description
- Technothriller: Add brief definition or description
- Thriller: Add brief definition or description
- Short story: Add brief definition or description
- Young adult: Add brief definition or description
Literary motifs, styles, and techniques
- Allegory: Add brief definition or description
- Anticlimax: Add brief definition or description
- Antihero: Add brief definition or description
- Climax: Add brief definition or description
- Confessional poetry: Add brief definition or description
- Irony: Add brief definition or description
- Metaphor: Add brief definition or description
- Motif: Add brief definition or description
- Simile: Add brief definition or description
- Theme: Add brief definition or description
Literary movements
- Aestheticism: Add brief definition or description
- Classicism: Add brief definition or description
- Modernism: Add brief definition or description
- Postmodernism: Add brief definition or description
- Realism: Add brief definition or description
- Romanticism: Add brief definition or description
- Surrealism: Add brief definition or description
- Stream of consciousness: Add brief definition or description
- Symbolism: Add brief definition or description
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: Add brief definition or description
- Poem of the Cid: Add brief definition or description
- Chanson de Roland: Add brief definition or description
- Lazarillo de Tormes: Add brief definition or description
- Mabinogion: Add brief definition or description
- The Tale of Genji: Add brief definition or description
- The Epic of Gilgamesh: Add brief definition or description
- Mahabharata: Add brief definition or description
- Ramayana: Add brief definition or description
- Carmina burana: Add brief definition or description
- Das Nibelungenlied: Add brief definition or description
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- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Ancient literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Medieval literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/American literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/English literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Japanese literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/French literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Russian literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/German literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Children's and young adult literature]
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Science fiction literature
- CZ:Literature_Workgroup/Women in literature