elegant+literature
41Vampire literature — (1897). In later years, vampire stories have diversified into areas of crime, fantasy, science fiction or even chick lit. As well as the typical fanged revenants, newer representations include aliens and even plants with vampiric abilities.… …
42Periodical Literature, Canada — Periodical Literature Canada † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Periodical Literature (Canada) Under the French domination, periodical literature, still in its infancy in France even as late as the close of the eighteenth century, was totally… …
431999 in literature — The year 1999 in literature involved some significant events and new books. Events*June 19 Stephen King is hit by a Dodge van while taking a walk. He spends the next three weeks hospitalized. He does not continue with his next book, On Writing ,… …
44Swahili literature — Swahili also called kiSwahili , or Kiswahili that body of creative writing done in Swahili, a Bantu language of Africa. The earliest preserved Swahili writing, from the early 18th century, is written in Arabic script, and subsequent… …
451639 in literature — The year 1639 in literature involved some significant events.Events* On May 21, the King s Men act John Fletcher s The Mad Lover . *Blaise Pascal s family move to Rouen. *François de La Mothe Le Vayer is elected to the Académie Française. *Simon… …
461633 in literature — The year 1633 in literature involved some significant events.Events*On May 21, Ben Jonson s masque The King s Entertainment at Welbeck is performed. *In view of the condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Catholic church, René Descartes abandons… …
471783 in literature — Events* The Peace of Versailles ending the American Revolution formally. * The first prime ministry of William Pitt the Elder *Friedrich Schiller leaves Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution. *William Cobbett arrives in London. *August von… …
48Augustan Age — the period of English literature in the early 18th century, when writers such as Swift and Pope were active. The name comes from that of the Roman emperor Augustus, who ruled when Virgil, Horace and Ovid were writing, and suggests a classical… …
49belles-lettres — n. pl. [Fr.] Polite literature, elegant literature, polite letters, elegant letters, the humanities …
50Theaker Wilder — (c.1717 ndash; c.1778) was the first Regius Professor of Greek and Senior Register at Trinity College, Dublinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regius Professor of Greek %28Trinity%29] and became famous for being Oliver Goldsmith s tutorThe Cambridge… …
