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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 Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes, and our quiz system features over 340 quizzes Have a
- Difference between oral literature and written literature . . . - Answers
Oral literature has influenced written literature by serving as a foundation for storytelling techniques, narrative structures, and themes that writers draw inspiration from
- The Beat Generation - Literature Periods Movements
The publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl in 1956 marks a turning point in the history of Beat literature, not to mention American literature in general The long-form poem is intended to be read aloud, almost chanted, a sort of return to an oral tradition that had been neglected in literature for a long time The content of the poem raised eyebrows, and sparked an obscenity trial which
- Edgar Allan Poe - online-literature. com
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), American poet, critic, short story writer, and author of such macabre works as “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1840); I looked upon the scene before me - upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain - upon the bleak walls - upon the vacant eye-like windows - upon a few rank sedges - and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees - with
- Literary Periods Timeline - online literature
Literary Periods History Timeline Here you will find our graphical timeline representing literary periods movements, as well as major events or authors from literature history To learn more about specific eras you can browse back to our Literary Periods page You may purchase this timeline in poster form here
- Classic Literature Summaries - The Literature Network
Classic Literature Summaries Below you will find the full list of 63 summaries we have in our database, listed alphabetically by associated author Each is a chapter by chapter summary of the associated work
- William Shakespeare - 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; "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it
- Anton Chekhov - online literature
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860 in the port town of Taganrog (at the northern tip of the Black Sea between Ukraine and Russia) in Rostov Oblast, Southern Russia, the third of six children born to Yevgenia Yakovlevna Morozov, daughter of a well-traveled cloth merchant and Pavel Yegorovitch (1825-1898), a grocer Their home is now a museum Anton's grandfather had been a serf
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