authors
The group of writers organized in 1714 by Jonathan Swift to satirize both literary incompetence and the "false taste of the age".
Literary Club
The British recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, author of The Golden Notebook, The Grass is Singing and The Good Terrorist, who has been described as an "epicist of the female experience"
Doris Lessing
A work of fiction, a major concern of which is the nature of fiction itself, such as John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman or John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is known as
metafiction
The playwright whose Pulitzer Prize winning ( 1945) Harvey has been adapted for both film and television several times.
(Mary Chase, Margaret Edson, Lynn Nottage, Paula Vogel, Wendy Wasserstein)
Mary Chase
The genre of novel that deals with the development of a young person, usually from adolescence to maturity and which is usually autobiographical.
Bildungsroman
Late 18th Century US author of Alcuin: A Dialogue on the Rights of Women and Wieland.
Charles Brockden Brown
Recipient of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Optimist's Daughter is
Eudora Welty
Term invented during 19th century to describe a phenomenon peculiar to the revival of alliterative verse in the later Middle English Period in which a strophe of unrhymed alliterative lines is trailed by a set of rhymed lines ( typically five) the first line being very short and the succeeding quatrain's lines shorter than the unrhymed lines preceding the five line set
(antistrophe, bob and wheel, pentastich, poulter's measure, rhopalic verse)
bob and wheel
The recurrent grouping of two or more verse lines in terms of length, metrical form and often, rhyme scheme.
stanza
Greek goddess of retributive justice or vengeance, the derivative eponymous term being applied to divide retribution as when an evil act brings about its own punishment
Nemesis
20th century Irish philosopher and novelist who wrote the Nice and the Good, Nuns and Soldiers, The Good Apprentice, The Book and the Brotherhood, and The Message to the Planet.
(Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory.
Elizabeth Bowen. Mary Lavin. Iris Murdoch. Edna O'Brien)
Iris Murdoch
First African-American recipient of the PUlitzer Prize for Poetry ( 1950) for her collection entitled Annie Allen
Gwendolyn Brooks
Period in English cultural history between 1870 and the death of the British monarch in 1901 that saw the full flowering of the movement toward realism ( in literature under George Eliot and Thomas Hardy) which had begun as early as the 1830s but had been subordinated to the dominant romanticism of the middle decades of the 19th century.
Late Victorian Age
Instructiveness in a literary work, one purpose of which is to give guidance, particularly in moral, ethical or religious matters.
didacticism
Philosophy founded by Zeno in the 4th century BCE that exalts endurance and self sufficiency and that in Hemingway's words, can be recognized as "grace under pressure"
(Calvinism, Gnosticism, Philistinish, Stoicism, Transcendentalism)
Stoicism
19th century English author of The Lost World and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was awarded in both 1925 and 1928 to the creator of the fictitious Tilbury Town.
(Stephen Vincent Benet, Robert Tristram Coffin, John Gould Fletcher, Maxine Winokur Kumin, Edwin Arlington Robinson)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Group of American writers born around 1900 who served in the First World War ( many afterward spent time in Paris) and reacted during the 1920s against certain tendencies of older writers of their time.
Lost Generation
Followers of England's Charles I who composed lighthearted poems thematically concerned with love, war, chivalry and loyalty to the king and among whose numbers are Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, and Sir John Suckling are the
Cavalier Lyricists
Mary Ann or Marian Cross had a pseudonym and wrote many books under that name. These works include Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. The pseudonym was
George Eliot who wrote Silas Marner
18th century English author of Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe, and A Journal of the Plague Year.
Daniel Defoe
Irish British playwright whose Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Saint Joan and the Arms and the Man earned him 1925's Nobel Prize for Literature
(Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling, Harold Pinter, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw)
George Bernard Shaw
School of British poetry born during the 1940s who struggle to see the world afresh as might a visitor who has traveled from afar
Martian School
19th Century American author of The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and Mosses from an Old Manse.
James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Netanyahus was written by
Joshua Cohen