English Literature

What is literature …..

Literature is a term use to describe written or spoken material. The term is most commonly used to refer to words of the creative imagination including works of poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. Literature is the art of written works. It is the body of written works of a language period or culture. Literature is published in written works in a particular style or particular subject. Literature is the mirror of life. Our life and all the subject are related to our life is the subject matter or element of literature. So we can get the touch of our life trough literature.

Definition: What is literature? Why do we read it? Why is literature important? 

Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, "literature" is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction. 

Why do we read literature?

Literature represents a language or a people: culture and tradition. But, literature is more important than just a historical or cultural artifact. Literature introduces us to new worlds of experience. We learn about books and literature; we enjoy the comedies and the tragedies of poems, stories, and plays; and we may even grow and evolve through our literary journey with books.

Ultimately, we may discover meaning in literature by looking at what the author says and how he/she says it. We may interpret the author's message. In academic circles, this decoding of the text is often carried out through the use of literary theory, using a mythological, sociological, psychological, historical, or other approach.

Whatever critical paradigm we use to discuss and analyze literature, there is still an artistic quality to the works. Literature is important to us because it speaks to us, it is universal, and it affects us. Even when it is ugly, literature is beautiful.

Also Known As: Classics, learning, erudition, belles-lettres, lit, literary works, written work, writings, books.

Common Misspellings: Litericher.

Famous quotations about literature…………..

 “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” 
― Victor Hugo

 “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.” 
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” 
― Charles Dickens

  

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.” 
― Charles Dickens

“Without literature, life is hell.” 
― Charles Bukowski

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” 
― C.S. Lewis

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.” 
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.” 
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

 

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.” 
― George Washington

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” 
― Anne Frank

Literary ages of English literature can be studied with the help of given graph.