Literature Registry

Authors, Playwrights & Poets 47 authors Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Literary Forms & Poetic Meters 26 forms Fixed verse forms and prose genres from the Sicilian and Shakespearean sonnet to haiku and the bildungsroman Literary Movements & Schools 26 movements Weimar Classicism, Literary Modernism, and Magical Realism Novels & Long Fiction 41 novels Foundational world fiction from Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji and Cervantes's Don Quixote to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Plays & Drama 32 plays Stage tragedies and tragicomedies from Sophocles's Oedipus Rex and Shakespeare's Macbeth to Goethe's Faust and Beckett's Waiting for Godot Poetry & Verse Works 32 works Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost, and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land