MAT - Literature
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- American - essayist and poetry
- Dante Alighiere
- Italian - poet - The Divine Comedy (a.k.a. Dante's Inferno)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- American writer - 19th c. - wrote the Scarlet Letter
- Pindar
- Greek lyric poet - 14th c. B.C.
- Herman Melville
- American author - 19th c. - Moby-Dick (has the one legged Captain Ahab)
- T.S. Eliot
- American-born British - poet - early 20th c. - The Wasteland/Four Quartets/ The Love Song...
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Spanish author - Don Quixote (windmill symbols)
- Aesop
- Greek writer - wrote fables (a.k.a. fabulist)
- Emily Dickinson
- American - poet - 19th c.
- Lord Byron
- (George Gordon Byron) English poet of Romantic Era - Don Juan
- Franz Kafka
- novella writer of "The Metamorphosis"
- Lewis Carroll
- (Charles Dodson) English - Through the Looking Glass
- Marcel Proust
- French novelist - late 19th c. - Remembrance of Things Past (a.k.a. In Search of Lost Time)
- Ovid
- Roman poet - wrote Metamorphoses (myth poem)
- Homer
- Greek poet - epics - wrote The Illiad and The Odyssey (main characters are Archilles and Odysseus)
- Vladmir Nabokov
- Russian born American novelist - wrote Lolita
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
- (woman) French - novelist - last 19th c. - early 20th c.
- Gustave Flaubert
- French novelist - 19th c. - wrote Madame Bovary
- Giacomo Casanova
- Italian author - memoirs of sexual conquest
- Honore de Balzac
- French writer - wrote novels about Paris
- Edmund Spenser
- English poet - 16th c. - wrote the Faerie Queen
- Anton Checkhov
- Russian writer - fiction and plays - late 19th c. - The Cherry Orchard/Three Sisters
- John Keats
- English poet - early 1800s - known for his "Odes"
- Victor Hugo
- French author - 19th c. - work set in Paris - wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Sophocles
- Greek playwright - 5th c. B.C.
- Charles Dickens
- English - novelist - 19th c. - Oliver Twist/David Copperfield/Great Expectations/Christmas Carol - most work set in London
- Fyodor Doestoevsky
- Russian - novelist - The Brothers Karamazov/Crime and Punishment
- George Orwell
- English author - 20th c. - wrote 1984 and Animal Farm
- Jane Austen
- English writer- wrote commedies of manners - Pride and Prejudice/Emma
- William Faulkner
- American novelist - 20th c. - wrote Absalom! & The Sound of Fury - created fictional towns of Jefferson and Yoknapatawpha in Mississippi
- Luigi Pirandello
- Italian author - wrote play Six Characters in Search of an author
- Euripides
- Greek - playwright - 5th c. BC - wrote Medea
- James Joyce
- Irish author - 19th c. - wrote Ulysses/Dubliners/Finnegan's Wake
- John Milton
- English poet - 17th c. - wrote Paradise Lost
- Plautus
- Roman playwright - 2nd c. B.C.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- German author - late 18th c. - wrote Faust (sells soul to devil, Mephistopheles)
- Albert Camus
- French existential novel writer - 20th c. - The Stranger
- George Eliot
- (Mary Ann Evans) English writer - 19th c. - Middlemarch/Adam Bede
- Plutarch
- Greek - biographer and philosopher
- Sappho
- Greek poet - 17th c. B.C. - woman who wrote lesbian love poems