WORLD

LITERATURE
 WORLD LITERATURE
- is the totality of all
national literatures.
 AMERICAN LITERATURE

- refers to all works of

literature in English
published in the United
States
 ENGLISH
LITERATURE
• encompasses both written
and speech works by
writers from the United
Kingdom.
 EUROPEAN LITERATURE

-literature in the Indio-

European languages
including Latin, Greek, the
Romance languages, and
Russian
LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

-refers to all works of

literature in Latin
American countries
 ASIAN LITERATURE
-refers to the body of
literature produced in the
countries in Asia
 AFRICAN
LITERATURE
-refers to the body of
literature produced in
Africa
Anglo American
Literary Authors
 Geoffrey Chaucer
• (1340-1400) Known as
the Father of English
Literature
• Author of 'The
Canterbury Tales'.
• He was the first poet to
be buried in Poets'
Corner of Westminster
Abbey.
 William Shakespeare
• (1564 – 1616) English
poet and playwright.
Famous plays
include Macbeth, Romeo
and Juliet, Merchant of
Venice and Hamlet.
• Shakespeare is widely
considered the seminal
writer of the English
language.
 John Milton
• (1608 – 1674)
English poet. Best
known for his epic
poem Paradise
Lost (1667), written
in blank verse –
telling the Biblical
story of man’s fall.
 Samuel Johnson
• (1709 – 1784)
British/English
author
• English man of
letters
• best known for his
compilation of the
English dictionary.
 Jane
• (1775 – 1817) English
Austen
author who wrote
romantic fiction
combined with social
realism. Her novels
include: Sense and
Sensibility (1811), Pride
and Prejudice (1813),
Mansfield Park (1814),
and Emma (1816).
 Samuel Clemens
• (1835-1910) Father of
American Literature
• better known by his pen
name Mark Twain, was an
American author and
humorist. He is noted for
his novels Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn(1885),
called "the Great American
Novel", and The
Adventures of Tom
Sawyer (1876).
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• (1807-1882) was the
most loved poet in
America during his
lifetime.
• America’s household
poet.
• Author of the poems
entitled “A Psalm of
Life” and “The Rainy
Day”
 Edgar Allan Poe
• (1809-1849) was an
American writer, editor,
and literary critic. Poe is
best known for his
poetry and short stories,
particularly his tales of
mystery and macabre.
• The Raven, Annabel Lee
 Emily Dickinson
• (1830-1885) is one
of America’s greatest
and most original
poets of all time.
• American poet who
wrote unique poetry
• “Hope is the Thing
with Feathers”