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European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, essays, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known.
There are many criticisms associated with the American Renaissance, and some critics question if it ever actually took place. One of the most prominent criticisms is that authors during this period are seen as simply taking styles and ideas from past movements and culture and reforming them into new, contemporary works.
A 19th-century (ca. 1800 to 1860) movement emphasizing emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thought. Response to the Enlightenment [ 36 ] Jean Paul , Novalis , Washington Irving , Lord Byron , Mary Shelley , Alexander Pushkin , Victor Hugo , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Camilo Castelo Branco , Adam Mickiewicz , José de Alencar
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century African-American writers and Category:18th-century American male writers and Category:18th-century Native American writers and Category:18th-century American women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), [2] who went by his middle name Waldo, [3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:18th-century English male writers and Category:18th-century English women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
The 1920s brought sharp changes to American literature. Many writers had direct experience of the First World War, and they used it to frame their writings. [37] Writers like Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and poets Ezra Pound, H.D. and T. S. Eliot demonstrate the growth of an international perspective in American literature. American writers had ...
Gothic poets include Thomas Gray (1716–71), whose Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) is "the best known product of this kind of sensibility"; [10] William Cowper (1731–1800); Christopher Smart (1722–71); Thomas Chatterton (1752–70); Robert Blair (1699–1746), author of The Grave (1743), "which celebrates the horror of death ...