LITERATURE

Rabindranath Tagore Panchatantra

First Asian writer to receive the Nobel Prize. Collection of Indian beast fables originally
William Shakespeare written in Sanskrit.
Greatest English writer Beowulf
Bard of Avon First great work of English literature.
The greatest Sonnet Writer It is a story of a man’s effort to save his King
Macbeth from a monster
Theme: ambition for power National Epic of England
Shakespeare’s play is a story of a man Psalms of King David
whose downfall was caused by Greatest lyric poem of the world
overwhelming ambition for power Sons of King David
Guy de Maupassant Atin Cu PungSingsing
The Necklace Folk song that originated in Pampanga.
Foremost French Writer
Greatest French storywriter Kalidasa
Turold Greatest Indian writer of all time.”
The Songs of Roland Geoffrey Chaucer
Ernest Hemingway “Morning Star” of English literature.
Invictus The Canterbury Tales
Alexander Dumas Canterbury Tales
The count of Monte Cristo long poem about a pilgrimage from London
Edgar Allan Poe to Canterbury
Father of horror stories. Thales of Melitus
Francis Bacon First man to replace myth with natural laws.
Father of English Essays. Rig Veda
Rubaiyat Collection of Indian sacred hymns.
Theme “Grasping pleasure while you can” Upanishad
Omar Khayam’s work Collection of Indian religious text.
The Cask of Amontillado Matsuo Basho
Edgar Allan Poe Regarded as the greatest haiku poet.
Theme: Similar to the theme of Poison Tree Washington Irving
Nick Joaquin Father of American literature.
Pen Name: Quijano de Manila Homer
He is a Filipino writer whose stories and First mythical geographer who was
poems depict Filipino-Spanish cultural recognized due to his vivid descriptions of
beliefs and traditions. lands and people encountered by his
Culture: Hispanic hero, Ulysses.
Jose Garcia Villa Luis San Pedro
First Filipino National Artist for Literature National Artist Award
awarded in 1973. Famous composer from Angono, Rizal.
Bienvenido Santos The King James Bible
Filipino migrant whose fiction stories reflect Most influential book in the history of English
the Filipino’s concept of American culture. civilization.
Jose Garcia Villa Korido
PH National Artist awardee for Literature Popular Philippine secular poetry in
Comma poet octosyllabic quatrains. ( Ibong Adarna)
He used commas extensively in his works. Nibelungenlied
Used free verse and espoused the dictum, It is a medieval German epic.
Art for art's sake Charles Dickens
Master of “local color” because of his
Pickwick Papers.
Gulliver’s Travel Romeo and Juliet
It is Jonathan Swift’s satire on human folly Shakespeare’s play are these lines taken
and stupidity. “Good night, good night! Parting is such a
Hud-hud sweet sorrow that I shall say
Epic of Ifugao. good night till it be morrow”
Cavalier Poems Theme: love and War
Erotic and espouse CARPE DIEM or “seize Not included as the most influential book
the day”. Wole Soyinka
Dead Stars First black Nigerian writer to be awarded the
First successful short story in English written Nobel Prize for literature in 1986
in 1925 Biag Ni Lam-Ang
Paz Marquez Benitez. Epic of Ilocanos.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Without Seeing the Dawn
Most exquisite love poems of her time in StevanJavellana’s 1947 novel that captured
“Sonnets from the Portuguese”. the moving tale of the cruelty and the
bravery of the war yeard
Yasunari Kawabata America Is in the Heart
Japanese poet who won the Nobel Prize for Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 literary work that
literature in 1968 talks about the painful reality of the
Mahabharata American dream
Indian epic Samuel Johnson
Longest ever written is made up of almost Arguably the most distinguished man of
100,000 couplets divided into 18 letters in English history”.
parvans or sections. The Song of Hiawatha
Middle Ages National Epic of America.
Era of knights, chivalry, and castles in O Captain! My Captain!
English literature. Poem commemorates the life of a public
Maragtas leader, Abraham Lincoln.
Epic of Visaya. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Awit Literary work is believed to have triggered
Popular Philippine secular poetry in the American Civil War.
dodecasyllabic quatrains. (Florante at Laura) Merchant of Venice
Jose Dela Cruz Theme:Mercy, spontaneous and freely given
Popularly known as “HusengSisiw”. Hamlet
Renaissance Theme: To be or not to be- Indecision
Period of English literature literally means Sixes and Sevens
“rebirth” in French Confusion
Child of Sorrow, ZoiloGalang George Eliot
First novel in English written by a Filipino Pen name of Mary Ann Evans
writer in 1921 Mark Twain
Of Studies Pen name of Samuel Clemens
From which Francis Bacon’s essay is this Adventure of Tom Sawyer
line taken “Some books are to be tasted,
others are to be swallowed, and some few to
be chewed and digested”
Christopher Marlowe
Father of English Tragedy.