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1938: Literature, World - Archive Article - MSN Encarta (5878 words) |
 | The former, a kind of glorified but unconventional textbook, a commentary on the literature of the world 'From Confucius' Day to Our Own,' was designed to make great works of all time palatable to the general reader. |
| It followed no order of chronology nor any well defined system of presentation, but was guided by the author's personal predilections and his interest in pointing out similarities between widely disparate civilizations and distant ages. |
| In Enjoyment of Literature, the sensitive and highly individual novelist and critic, John Cowper Powys, brought together a number of essays on a variety of literary subjects, from the Greeks to Dostoevsky. |
| Czech literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (664 words) |
| Until c.1400, Czech literature consisted mainly of Latin chronicles (Cosmas of Prague, 1125) and of Czech hymns, tales of chivalry, and romances in verse. |
| ech, Jan Neruda, and Joseph V. Sládek and the novels of Alois Jirásek achieved fame, literature was oriented toward the intellectual and the bourgeois. |
| In the period from 1918 to 1938 Czech literature was the most cosmopolitan of the Slavonic literatures; at the same time native themes were cultivated. |
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