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Art, Language, & Literature
Literature & Writing
A Abbotsford (Scotland)
Acmeist Movement
Acontius
Aeneid
Aesthetic Movement
Alcoforado, Marianna
Alexandrine
All’s Well That Ends Well
Allegory
Almanac
Amadis of Gaul
Ancrene Riwle
Anecdote
Animal Tale
Anthology
Antony and Cleopatra
Apocalyptic Writings
Arnaut Daniel
As You Like It
Aucassin et Nicolette
Audiobook
B Baedeker, Karl
Bakhtin, Mikhail
Ballade
Bannatyne, George
Bard
Bardic Tale
Barlaam and Josaphat
Bay Psalm Book
Beat Generation
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron
Behistun Inscription
Bennett, James Gordon (1795-1872)
Bennett, James Gordon (1841-1918)
Beowulf
Bestiary
Bhagavad-Gita
Bible
Bibliography
Billings, John Shaw
Biography
Black Mountain Poets
Blank Verse
Bloomsbury Group
Bodoni, Giambattista
Bok, Edward William
Book
Book Collecting
Book of the Dead
Book Publishing
Booker Prize
Boston News-Letter
Bowdler, Thomas
Brisbane, Arthur
Brockhaus, Friedrich Arnold
Brooks, Cleanth
C Caldecott Medal
Caliban (fictional character)
Cancioneiro
Canzone
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Carter, Nick
Caslon, William
Cavalier Poets
Chansons de Geste
Chapbook
Clarke, Charles Cowden
Classic, Classical, and Classicism
Codex
Collier, Peter Fenelon
Columnist
Comedy
Coriolanus
Correspondence
Couplet
Criticism, Literary
Cursor Mundi
Curtis, Cyrus H(ermann) K(otzschmar)
Cymbeline
D Dada
Dance of Death
Day, Benjamin Henry
Deception Tale
Detective Story
Dewey Decimal Classification
Dictionary
Diderot, Denis
Didot
Distichs of Cato
Dowden, Edward
Count Dracula
E E-Book
Edda
Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
Elegy
Elizabethan Miscellanies
Encyclopedia
Encyclopedists
Epic
Epigram
Epistle
Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum
Epitaph
Essay
Estienne, Robert (1503-1559)
Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site
Everyman
Existentialism
Expressionism
F Fable
Fabliau
Falstaff, Sir John
Farce
Faust
Federalist, The
Fescennine Verses
Field, Marshall, III
Flower Symbolism
Folktales
Fool’s Tale
Forty-Seven Ronin
Free Verse
Freedom of the Press
Frontier Legend
Funk, Isaac Kauffman
G Gilgamesh Epic
Godey, Louis Antoine
Golden Age
Good vs. Evil Tale
Gothic Novel
Governor General’s Literary Awards
Gutenberg Bible
Gutenberg, Johannes
H Hagiography
Haiku
Hamlet (play)
Harlem Renaissance
Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William, Viscount Northcliffe
Hearst, William Randolph
Henry IV, Part I and II and Henry V (plays)
Hero Legend
Howard, Roy Wilson
Humor
I Idyll
Iliad
Imagism
Incunabula
Information Science
Investigative Reporting
Irony
J Joke
Journalism
Journals and Diaries
Julius Caesar (play)
K Kalevala
King John
King Lear
L Lapidary
Laura Ingalls Wilder Award
Legend (folklore)
Legendary City
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Library of Congress Classification
Limerick (verse)
Little Magazine
Longfellow National Historic Site
Lost Generation
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Luce, Henry
Lukács, György
Lyric
M Mabinogion
Macbeth (play)
Magic Tale
Mahabharata
Manutius, Aldus
Masque
Measure for Measure
Melodrama
Metaphysical Poets
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (play)
Minnesinger
Mother Goose
Much Ado About Nothing
Mystery Story
Mythopoeia
N National Book Awards
Naturalism (literature)
Newbery Medal
Nibelungenlied
Novel
Nursery Rhymes
O Ochs, Adolph Simon
Ode
Odysseus
Odyssey
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Orators
Ossian and Ossianic Ballads
Othello (play)
Otherworld Journey
P Paean
Palimpsest
Panchatantra
Paperback Books
Parable
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Pastoral Poetry
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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Picaresque Novel
Poema del Cid
Poet Laureate
Poetry
Poole, William Frederick
Pre-Raphaelites
Press Associations and Press Agencies
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Prix Goncourt
Prosody
Proverb
Pulitzer Prizes
R Ramayana
Realism (art and literature)
Reuter, Paul Julius, Baron von
Reversal of Fortune Tale
Rhetoric
Rhyme
Rhythm
Richard II (play)
Richard III (play)
Riddle
Roman de la Rose, Le
Romance (literature)
Romance Tale
Romanticism (literature)
Romeo and Juliet (play)
Rondeau
Royalty and Nobility Tale
S Saga (literature)
Saintsbury, George Edward
Samizdat
Satire
Science Fiction
Scripps, Edward Wyllis
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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Skeat, Walter William
Sonnet
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Spenserian Stanza
“Stabat Mater Dolorosa”
Stedman, Edmund Clarence
Storytelling
Stream of Consciousness
Sturm und Drang
Surrealism
Symbolist Movement
T Tempest, The
Tests in Folklore
The Comedy of Errors
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Taming of the Shrew
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Timon of Athens
Tragicomedy
Transcendentalism
Trickster Tale
Troilus and Cressida (play)
Troubadours and Trouvères
Twelfth Night (play)
V Versification
Victorian Style
W Walden Pond
Waltharii Poesis
“Wanderer, The” (Anglo-Saxon poem)
Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore
Winter’s Tale, The
Wit
Y Yellow Journalism
Z Zenger, John Peter
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