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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.

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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]

New 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

New 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]

New 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

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

François Rabelais: Add brief definition or description

Georges Perec: 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

Paul Celan: 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

Alan Paton: Add brief definition or description

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

Literary motifs, styles, and techniques

Literary movements

Works

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Japanese writers

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Writers

Ancient writers

Medieval writers

Children's and young adult literature

Science-fiction writers

American writers

English writers

French writers

German writers

Irish writers

Japanese writers

Russian writers

Scottish writers

South African writers

Spanish writers

Yiddish Writers

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Literary genres

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Literary movements

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