Britannica Guide to the 100 Most Influential Writers of All Time
100 Most Influential Writers of All Time
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2010
352 pages
978-1-61530-096-9 (ISBN)
Description
There are few tools more powerful than the written word. Writers who finely hone their craft possess the ability to spread messages, change minds, or merely create something beautiful. As shown in the pages of this volume, masterful writers through the ag
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Content
- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- HOMER
- EARLY REFERENCES
- MODERN INFERENCES
- HOMER AS AN ORAL POET
- THE POEMS
- AESCHYLUS
- SOPHOCLES
- ARISTOPHANES
- GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS
- VIRGIL
- EARLY LIFE
- LITERARY CAREER
- IMRU' AL-QAYS
- DU FU
- AL-MUTANABBI
- FERDOWSI
- MURASAKI SHIKIBU
- RUMI
- DANTE
- PUBLIC CAREER AND EXILE
- THE DIVINE COMEDY
- PETRARCH
- GEOFFREY CHAUCER
- EARLY YEARS
- THE MIDDLE YEARS
- LAST YEARS AND THE CANTERBURY TALES
- LUÍS DE CAMÕES
- MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
- MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
- A LIFE FILLED WITH ADVENTURE
- DON QUIXOTE
- LATER YEARS
- EDMUND SPENSER
- LOPE DE VEGA
- CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
- EARLY LIFE IN STRATFORD
- CAREER IN THE THEATRE
- PRIVATE LIFE
- PLAYS AND POEMS
- JOHN DONNE
- LIFE AND CAREER
- POETRY
- PROSE
- JOHN MILTON
- JEAN RACINE
- APHRA BEHN
- BASHO
- SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ
- DANIEL DEFOE
- JONATHAN SWIFT
- VOLTAIRE
- HENRY FIELDING
- SAMUEL JOHNSON
- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
- EARLY WORKS
- A CHANGE IN PERSPECTIVE
- NEW VENTURES
- LATER YEARS
- ROBERT BURNS
- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
- SIR WALTER SCOTT, 1ST BARONET
- SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
- JANE AUSTEN
- GEORGE GORDON BYRON, 6TH BARON BYRON
- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
- JOHN KEATS
- ALEKSANDR PUSHKIN
- VICTOR HUGO
- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
- EDGAR ALLAN POE
- CHARLES DICKENS
- ROBERT BROWNING
- CHARLOTTE BRONTË
- HENRY DAVID THOREAU
- EMILY BRONTË
- WALT WHITMAN
- HERMAN MELVILLE
- GEORGE ELIOT
- CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
- FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
- GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
- HENRIK IBSEN
- LEO TOLSTOY
- EMILY DICKINSON
- EARLY YEARS
- DEVELOPMENT AS A POET
- MATURE CAREER
- LEWIS CARROLL
- MARKTWAIN
- YOUTH AND APPRENTICESHIPS
- LITERARY MATURITY
- OLD AGE
- ÉMILE ZOLA
- HENRY JAMES
- AUGUST STRINDBERG
- OSCAR WILDE
- ARTHUR RIMBAUD
- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
- ANTON CHEKHOV
- RABINDRANATH TAGORE
- WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
- LUIGI PIRANDELLO
- MARCEL PROUST
- ROBERT FROST
- THOMAS MANN
- LU XUN
- VIRGINIA WOOLF
- EARLY LIFE AND INFLUENCES
- EARLY FICTION
- MAJOR PERIOD
- LATE WORK
- JAMES JOYCE
- FRANZ KAFKA
- T. S. ELIOT
- EUGENE O'NEILL
- ANNA AKHMATOVA
- WILLIAM FAULKNER
- VLADIMIR NABOKOV
- ERNEST HEMINGWAY
- JOHN STEINBECK
- GEORGE ORWELL
- PABLO NERUDA
- SAMUEL BECKETT
- RICHARD WRIGHT
- EUDORA WELTY
- NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
- ALBERT CAMUS
- ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
- JACK KEROUAC
- FLANNERY O'CONNOR
- TONI MORRISON
- WOLE SOYINKA
- SIR SALMAN RUSHDIE
- J. K. ROWLING
- GLOSSARY
- FOR FURTHER READING
- INDEX
- Book Cover
