Literature

Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Literature is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific work but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination, poetry, drama, fiction and non fiction.

Importance of literature

Literature is the foundation of life, it laced on emphasis on many topics from human tragedies to tales of the ever, popular search for love. While it is physically written in words, these words come alive in the imagination of the mind, and its ability to comprehend the complexity or simplicity of text

Types of literature

Two types of literature are:

1) Applied literature

2) pure literature

Basic genres of literature

Poetry

Drama

Novel

Short story

Fiction

Essay

Relation between literature and society Literature is intimately related to society. The

relation between literature and society is highly complex and it is very difficult to determine which element of society has exerted but influence on literature

Literature in fifteenth century

Chaucer

Important work of Chaucer is

Canterbury tales.

Literature in sixteenth century

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare tragedies

Hamlet

King Lear

Othello

Macbeth

Literature in seventeenth century

Ben Jonson

Cavalier poets

Literature in eighteenth century

James Thomson

Oliver Goldsmith

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