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- The Literature Network: Online classic literature, poems, and quotes . . .
Welcome to The Literature Network! We offer searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors
- Literary Periods, Movements, and History - online literature
Literature History Henry Augustin Beers was a literature historian and professor at Yale who lived at the turn of the 19th century He wrote intensely detailed histories of American and English literature, covering the periods up until what were his modern times We have collected those works below English Literature History
- Trancendentalism - Literature Periods Movements
The literary productions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman shifted the balance of power in English literature away from the British Isles and towards the United States The new American literature was bold, fresh, and young It encompassed the sweep of the prairies and the energies of the explorers
- Ch. 5: Masculine Literature
But that great branch of literature--Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and all down later times, shows beyond all question, the influence of our androcentric culture Literature is the most powerful and necessary of the arts, and fiction is its broadest form If art "holds the mirror up to nature" this art's mirror is the largest of all, the most used
- Modernism - Literature Periods Movements
Experimentation with genre and form was yet another defining characteristic of Modernist literature Perhaps the most representative example of this experimental mode is T S Eliot’s long poem The Waste Land Literary critics often single out The Waste Land as the definitive sample of Modernist literature In it, one is confronted by
- Charles Dickens - Biography and Works. Search Texts . . . - online literature
Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote numerous introductions to his works, collected in his Appreciations and Criticisms of the works of Charles Dickens (1911) and in his highly acclaimed biography Charles Dickens (1906) he writes: He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything
- William Shakespeare - Biography and Works. Search . . . - online literature
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), `The Bard of Avon', English poet and playwright wrote the famous 154 Sonnets and numerous highly successful oft quoted dramatic works including the tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet;
- The Enlightenment - Literature Periods Movements
Citizens would gather to read whatever literature was available, to engage in heated conversation with neighbors, or to ponder the affairs of state What made this kind of revolution in free time possible was an increasingly urban, sophisticated population coupled with the steady progress of industrialization
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