Accumulation of Common Sense: A Great Collection of Foreign Literary Knowledge
1. Homer's Epic: The collective name for Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The earliest formal written literary work in the history of Western literature, centered on the Trojan War, depicts the myths and heroes of ancient Greece.
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2. Aesop's Fables: The world's earliest collection of fables. Famous articles: "The Farmer and the Snake", "The Fox and the Grape", "The Tortoise and the Rabbit Race", "The Crow Drinks Water", "The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf", "The North Wind and the Sun".
3. Ancient Greek drama: the three great tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides; Masterpieces: Aeschylus - "The Bound Prometheus", Sophocles - "The King of Oedipus", Euripides's masterpiece - "Medea".
Comedy representative: Aristophanes, representative works include "The Arcanaean" and "Birds".
4. Plato: The great philosopher of ancient Greece, and the teacher Socrates, the student Aristotle and known as the Three Sages of Greece, the representative work "The Republic".
5. Socrates: Ancient Greek famous thinker, philosopher, educator, citizen assessor, Plato's teacher, representative works of "Ktilas", "Tai Arteides", "Wise Men", "Statesmen".
6. Aristotle: Ancient Greeks, one of the great philosophers, scientists and educators in the ancient history of the world, can be called the culmination of Greek philosophy, representative works of "Instrumentalism", "Physics", "Metaphysics", "Ethics", "Political Science".
7. Virgil: The most important poet of ancient Rome, representative of the work "Aeneid", the first epic in the history of European literature independently created by the literati.
8. Augustine: a Christian thinker during the ancient Roman Empire, an important representative of European medieval Christian theology and patristic philosophy, the representative work "Confessions" (the three major confessions of the world, the authors are Augustine, Rousseau, Tolstoy).
9. Dante: Italian, famous masterpiece "Divine Comedy", divided into "Hell", "Purgatory", "Heaven" three parts. Engels said: "Dante was the last poet of the Middle Ages and at the same time the first poet of the New Age. ”
10. Petrarch: Italian writer, "father of humanism", known for his sonnets, the Songbook.
11. Rabelais: French writer, known as the "giant" of humanism, whose masterpiece "The Legend of the Giant" is the beginning of the French novel.
12. Boccaccio: Italian writer, the representative work "Decameron", is the first realist work in the history of European literature
13. Cervantes: Spanish writer, masterpiece: Don Quixote, is the most outstanding realist novel of the Spanish Renaissance.
14. Montaigne: French writer, masterpiece "Essay Collection", creating prose genres, "treasure trove of ideas".
15. Chaucer: English novelist and poet, masterpiece "Canterbury Stories".
16. Shakespeare: English playwright, poet, and most prominent representative of the Renaissance. Representative works: Four tragedies "Hamlet", "Othello", "Macbeth", "King Lear"; Four comedies "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Merchant of Venice", "Twelfth Night", "Everyone Rejoices"; Historical dramas: Henry IV, King John, Richard II; Other works: the tragedy "Romeo and Juliet", the comedy "Nothing Happens", "Simberlin".
17. Molière: French classicist comedian. Masterpieces: "Hypocrite", "Noble Fan", "Miserly Man", "Miserly Man" has created the famous miserly typical Abagon.
18. Milton: English poet who was a bridge between the Renaissance movement and the 18th-century Enlightenment thought movement. Masterpiece: Paradise Lost. Three great poems of the West: Milton's Paradise Lost, Homer's Epic, and Dante's Divine Comedy.
19. La Fontaine: French fable writer, known as "Homer of France", representative works: "Wolf and Lamb", "Crow and Fox".
20. Voltaire: Initiator and leader of the French Enlightenment. "King of France", "The Conscience of Europe". Representative works: epic "Henry Yardard", "Orléans Maiden", tragedy "O'Dép", comedy "The Debauched Son", philosophical novel "Honest Man", "Naïve Man".
21. Rousseau: French Enlightenment thinker and writer. The most democratic representative of the Enlightenment. Representative works: "Emile", "Confessions".
22. Montesquieu: French Enlightenment thinker, representative works of "On the Spirit of the Law" and "Persian Faith".
23. Diderot: French Enlightenment thinker, materialist philosopher, writer, representative of the encyclopedic school. Editor-in-chief of the first French encyclopedia, representative works such as "Ramo's Nephew" and "On the Art of Drama".
24. Beaumarchais: French dramatist, whose masterpieces "The Barber of Severe", "The Wedding of Figaro", and "The Guilty Mother" are collectively known as the "Figaro Trilogy" ("The French Revolution began on the day of the performance of "The Marriage of Figaro") - Napoleon).
25. Defoe: The founder of the English realist novel. His masterpiece is Robinson Crusoe.
26. Swift: Pioneering the tradition of satire in English literature. His masterpiece is Gulliver's Travels.
27. Henry. Fielding: English realist novelist, playwright, masterpieces of Tom Jones, The Biography of Joseph Andrew.
28. Lessing: Founder of German literature, masterpieces such as The Young Scholar, Hamburg Review, Emilia Garlotti
29. Goethe: Germany's great national poet, representative works of "Faust", "The Troubles of Young Werther".
30. Schiller: German poet and dramatist, masterpieces of "Conspiracy and Love" and "The Robber".
31. Wordsworth: English Romantic poet, leader of the "Lakeside Poet", representative works "LyricAl Ballad Collection : Preface" (the first artistic manifesto of English Romanticism), "Tindon Temple".
32. Shelley: English Romantic Democratic poet, "The Flower of Lyric Poetry", masterpiece "Liberated Prometheus", "To the Lark", "Ode to the West Wind", famous sentence "If winter comes, will spring be far away?"
33. Byron: English Romantic poet, representative works of "The Travels of Child Harold" and "Don Juan". Thackeray: British critical realist writer, masterpiece vanity fair.
34. Dickens: British writer, masterpieces such as David Copperfield, Orphans of the Mist, Pickwick's Tales, Tales of Two Cities (describing the French Revolution, "Twin Cities" refers to Paris and London), Lone Star Blood and Tears.
35. The Brontë Sisters: British female writer, representative of Charlotte: "Jane Eyre"; Emily: Wuthering Heights; Anne: The Tenant at Wildfield Manor.
36. George Bernard Shaw: Irish playwright, known as the outstanding realist playwright in Britain after Shakespeare, whose representative works "Joan of Arc", "House of Sorrows", "The Profession of Mrs. Warren", won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
37. Thomas Hardy: English poet and novelist, masterpieces such as "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", "The Nameless Jude", "Homecoming", "Mayor of Custer Bridge".
38. Keats: English poet, along with Shelley and Byron, whose masterpieces are Ode to the Nightingale, Isabella, and Ode to Autumn.
39. Jane Austen: British novelist, masterpieces of Pride and Prejudice, Emma.
40. Conan Doyle: British detective novelist, born in Scotland, representative works of "The Study of Blood Letters", "Bohemian Scandal", "The Redhead Society".
41. Hugo: Leader of the French Romantic literary movement, "Shakespeare of France", masterpieces such as Notre Dame de Paris, Les Misérables (Napoleonic Wars and the decades that followed, shaping the highest humanitarian ideal "Jean Valjean"), "Ninety-Three Years" (the background of the French Revolution).
42. Stendhal: French critical realist writer, one of the earliest and most important practitioners of realism, masterpieces such as The Red and the Black and the Abbey of Parma.
43. Mérimée: French realist writer and playwright, masterpiece "Carmen" (also known as "Carmen").
44. Balzac: French critical realist writer, "father of the modern French novel". His representative works include "Juan Party Man", "Donkey Skin", "Human Comedy" (Eugenie Grande (Miserly Grande), "Tall Old Man").
45. Georges San: French novelist, representative works of "Antiana", "Consu Aero".
46. Dumas: French Romantic writer, representative works of "The Three Musketeers" (also known as "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo").
47. Dumas: French novelist, dumas's illegitimate son, representative of "La Traviata".
48. Flaubert: French critical realist writer, "the originator of naturalistic literature" and "the founder of the modern Western novel", representative works such as "Madame Bovary" and "Emotional Education".
49. Zola: French naturalist novelist, leader of the naturalist literary genre, important critical realist writer. His masterpieces are "Sprout" and "Nana".