Literature History

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  • Haiku

    A very short form of Japanese poetry typically chararcterized by # qualities.

  • Love Suicides at Amijima

    Love Suicides at Amijima
    Play is by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. First performed Jan. 3, 1721 and it was a double suicide in 1969. No original events has ever been identified even after examination of newspaper around Nov. 13, 1720

  • The Enlightenment

    This new way of thinking was that rational thought begins with clearly stated principles, uses correct logic to arrive at conclusions, tests the conclusions against evidence, and then revises the principles in the light of the evidence.

  • Immanuel Kant

    Immanuel Kant
    April 22, 1724 - Feb 12, 1804. Argued human concepts and categories structures our view of the world and his laws and that reason is the source of Morality.

  • Moliere

    Jean- Baptiste Poquelin aka Moliere. Born jan15, 1622- Feb 17, 1673. Considered to be one of the greatest master of comedy in Western literature. Wrote Tartuffe 1645-1673 was the career period. Had three chilldren Luis, Marie Modeleine, and Pierre.

  • Tartuffe

    Tartuffe
    Written by Moliere and premiered on 1664. Famous for theatrical comedy.

  • Modest Proposal

    Published 1729 written and published anonymously by Jonathon Swift. Wrote for oreventing chidren of poor people from being a Burthen to their parent or country and making them benefical to public.

  • Voltaire

    Born Francois- Marie Arouet. Born Nov. 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778. Wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets.

  • Candide

    Candide, ou L'Optimisme published in 1759 by Voltaire Age of Englitenment.

  • Xeuqin

    Cao Xuegin born 1715 or 1724 and died either 1763 or 1764. In 1791 he published 120 chapters version. He was born to the Han Chinese Clan.

  • Story of the Stone

    Story of the Stone
    Written by Cao Xuegin but left unfinshed at his deathin 1763. It was published in 1792, its Literary Merits for chinese readers recommend it as the best starting point for any understanding of Chinese psychology, culture, and society.

  • An Age of Revolution

    The Age of Revolution is the period from approximately 1775 to 1848 in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in many parts of Europe and the Americas.[1] The period is noted for the change in government from absolutist monarchies to constitutionalist states and republics.

  • Goethe

    Goethe
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, born Aug 28, 1749- MArch 22, 1832. German Poet/playwriter more than 10,000 leters and 3,000 drawings by him are extant.

  • Faust

    Faust
    Makes a pact with the devil for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

  • Barbauld

    Anna Laetita Barbauld born June 20, 1743- March 9, 1825. Came when female writers were rare. Career ended abruptly in 1812 with the publication of Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which citized Britian's participation in the Napolenic Wars.

  • Blake

    Blake
    William Blake born Nov. 28, 1757- Aug. 12, 1827. Considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

  • Wordsworth

    William Wordsworth born April 7, 1770- April 23, 1850. He was a English Romantic poet who help launch the Romantic Age in English Literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

  • Coleridge

    Samuel taylor Coleridge born Oct. 21, 1772- July 26, 1834. His critical work especially Shakespeare was highly influential and helped introduce German idealist philosophy to english-speaking culture.

  • Tolstoy

    Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy born Sept. 9, 1828- Nov. 20, 1810. Had 14 children and known for 2 long novels war & Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877)

  • Death of Ivan Ilyich

    Death of Ivan Ilyich
    By Leo Tolstoy, published in 1886. Was 114 pages paperback, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870's.

  • Young Goodman Brown

    Young Goodman Brown
    Written By Nathaniel Hawthorne, published 1853. 17th Century Puritan Bew England humanity exists in a state of depravity, except those who are born in a state of grace.

  • Bartheby the Scrivner

    Bartheby the Scrivner
    Herman Melville published Nov. 1853. Considered a precursor of absurdist Literaure touching on severaal of Franz kafka's themes in such work as "A Hunger Artist" and "The Trial"

  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness
    Written by Joseph Conrad published in Feb. 1899 1st as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's magazine. Was a fram Narrative, which complexed exploration of the attitudes people hold on what consitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and attitudes on colonialiam and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism.