Spanish literature — Introduction the body of literary works produced in Spain. Such works fall into three major language divisions: Castilian, Catalan, and Galician. This article provides a brief historical account of each of these three literatures and… … Universalium
French Literature — • Origin, foundations, and types Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. French Literature French Literature † … Catholic encyclopedia
German literature — comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is… … Wikipedia
German language literature — German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language.This includes literature written in Germany itself as well as German language Swiss and Austrian literature, and to a lesser extent works of the German… … Wikipedia
Albanian literature — Albania, part of the ancient Illyrian territories, a cross road of civilizations and geopolitical interests during the barbarian onslaughts and later on a province of the Eastern and Western Empires, Rome and Byzantium, after, over centuries,… … Wikipedia
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LITERATURE — Biblical and Hebraic Influences One result of the Christian struggle against Muslim invaders of the Iberian peninsula from the eighth century onward was the blending of national and religious aspirations, which revealed itself in Spanish… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Swiss literature — There is no such thing as a Swiss national vernacular literature, properly speaking. But there are four branches which make up a literature of Switzerland, according to the language in which the works are composed. As the Confederation, from its… … Wikipedia
Cornish literature — the body of writing in Cornish (Cornish language), the Celtic language of Cornwall in southwestern Britain. The earliest extant records in Cornish are glosses added to Latin texts as well as the proper names in the Bodmin Manumissions … Universalium
1562 in literature — Events*New books* Magdeburg Centuries , volumes V and VI *Petrus Ramus Grammaire française New drama*Thomas Norton Thomas Sackville Gorboduc Poetry*Arthur Brooke The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet Births*January 20 Ottavio Rinuccini, poet… … Wikipedia
Gosse, Edmund — LL.D. (1849) Poet and critic. On Viol and Flute (1873), King Erik (1876), New Poems (1879), Firdausi in Exile (1885), Collected Poems (1896), Seventeenth Century Studies (1883), History of Eighteenth Century Literature (1889), Secret of… … Short biographical dictionary of English literature
