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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 article.

Survey articles

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]
Stub Aeschylus: (525-456 BC) Greek tragedian, considered to be the father of Greek tragic drama; wrote Agamemnon and The Eumenides. [e]
Stub Aristophanes: (ca 450 - 388? BC) Greek comic dramatist; wrote The Clouds and Lysistrata. [e]
Stub 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]
Stub Sophocles: (496? - 406 BC) One of the three great Greek tragedians; wrote Electra, Oedipus the King, and Antigone. [e]
Stub Ovid: (43BC-AD17) (Publius Ovidius Naso), Roman poet, author of Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria. [e]
Developing Article Virgil: (70-19 BC) Roman poet; wrote the Aeneid, one of the masterpieces of world literature. [e]

Medieval writers

Stub Dante Alighieri: (1265-1321) Italian poet who wrote the monumental epic the Divine Comedy. [e]
Developed Article Geoffrey Chaucer: (1345-1400) English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales. [e]
Stub 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]

New Developing Article 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]

Stub Omar Khayyam: Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet who died in 1131. [e]
Developing Article 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]
Stub Hans Christian Andersen: (1805-75) Danish author of fairy tales. [e]
Developing Article 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]
Developing Article 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

Stub Isaac Asimov: Add brief definition or description
Stub Arthur C. Clarke: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article 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
Developing Article Jules Verne: Add brief definition or description

New H.G. Wells: Add brief definition or description

Philip K. Dick: 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
Developing Article Henry David Thoreau: Add brief definition or description
Stub Nathaniel Hawthorne: Add brief definition or description
Herman Melville: Add brief definition or description

New Stub Louisa May Alcott: Add brief definition or description

Emily Dickinson: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Edgar Allan Poe: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Mark Twain: Add brief definition or description
Stub Willa Cather: Add brief definition or description

New Stub Robert Frost: Add brief definition or description

Ernest Hemingway: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Steinbeck: Add brief definition or description
William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
Stub Vladimir Nabokov: Add brief definition or description
Toni Morrision: Add brief definition or description
Stub Thornton Wilder: Add brief definition or description
Stub Arthur Miller: Add brief definition or description
John Updike: Add brief definition or description
Stub Ezra Pound: Add brief definition or description


English writers

Developing Article Jane Austen: Add brief definition or description
Stub William Blake: Add brief definition or description
Charlotte Brontë: Add brief definition or description
Emily Brontë: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Robert Browning: Add brief definition or description
Stub John Bunyan: Add brief definition or description
Stub Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Add brief definition or description
Joseph Conrad: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Charles Dickens: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Donne: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Thomas Hardy: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Samuel Johnson: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Keats: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article 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]
Developing Article John Milton: Add brief definition or description
George Orwell: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article William Shakespeare: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article George Bernard Shaw: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Add brief definition or description
Stub Oscar Wilde: Add brief definition or description
Virginia Woolf: Add brief definition or description
Developed Article William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description

French writers

Albert Camus: Add brief definition or description
Guy de Maupassant: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Alexandre Dumas: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Victor Hugo: Add brief definition or description
Jean Baptiste Moliere: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Marcel Proust: Add brief definition or description
Jean Racine: Add brief definition or description
Stub George Sand: Add brief definition or description
Stendhal: Add brief definition or description
Stub Voltaire: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Honoré de Balzac: Add brief definition or description

German writers

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Bertolt Brecht: Add brief definition or description

New Stub Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Add brief definition or description

Stub Theodor Fontane: Add brief definition or description
Stub 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
Developing Article Rainer Maria Rilke: Add brief definition or description
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Add brief definition or description
Paul Celan: Add brief definition or description

Irish writers

Stub James Joyce: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article William Butler Yeats: Add brief definition or description
Laurence Sterne: Add brief definition or description
Stub 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
Stub 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
Developing Article Leo Tolstoy: Add brief definition or description
Ivan Turgenev: Add brief definition or description

Scottish writers

Developed Article Robert Burns: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Arthur Conan Doyle: Add brief definition or description
Developed Article Walter Scott: Add brief definition or description

South African writers

Alan Paton: Add brief definition or description

Spanish writers

Developing Article 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
Developing Article August Strindberg: Add brief definition or description
Giovanni Boccaccio: Add brief definition or description
George Eliot: Add brief definition or description
Stub Aldous Huxley: Add brief definition or description
Thomas Pynchon: Add brief definition or description
Calderón de la Barca: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Lord Byron: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Umberto Eco: Add brief definition or description
Salman Rushdie: Add brief definition or description

Literary genres

Literary motifs, styles, and techniques

Literary movements

Works

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