An Overview of Notable Literary Works and Figures

Chapter 1

Twenty-six. Korido (Popular Philippine secular poetry in octosyllabic quatrains)

Twenty-seven. Nibelungenlied (A medieval German epic)

Twenty-eight. Charles Dickens (He is known as the master of "local color" because of his Pickwick Papers.)

Twenty-nine. Beowulf (It is a story of a man's effort to save his King from a monster)

Thirty. Gulliver's Travel (It is a Jonathan Swift's satire on human folly and stupidity) Thirty-one. Jose Garcia Villa (He is a Philippine National Artist Awardee for Literature) Nineteen seventy-three Thirty-two. Hud-Hund (Known as epic of Ifugao)

Three. Cavalier Poems (these poems are often erotic and espouse CARPE DIEM or "seize the day")

Thirty-four. Dead Stars (Known as the very first successful short story in English written in nineteen twenty-five by Paz Marquez Benitez)

Thirty-five. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (She wrote the most exquisite love poems of her time in "Sonnets from the Portuguese")

Thirty-six. Canterbury Tales (This is a very long poem about a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury)

toniet wait Thirty-seven. Younan Kawabata (He is a Japanese poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in nineteen sixty-eight)

Thirty-eight. Mahabharata (This Indian epic which is considered as the longest poem ever loginin (written))

Thirty-nine. Middle Ages (This was the era of knights, chivalry, and castles in English literature)

Forty. Maragtas (This is known as epic of Visaya)

One. Awit (This's a popular Philippine secular poetry in decasyllabic quatrains)

Forty-two. Jose Dela Cruz (He is popularly known as Huseng Sin)

Forty-three. Renaissance (This period of English literature literally means "rebirth" in French)

Forty-four. Child of Sorrow, Zoilo-Galang (This is the first novel in English written by a Filipino writer in nineteen twenty-one)

Forty-five. Of Studies (From which Francis Bacon's essay in this line taken "Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some by few to be chewed and digested) Forty-six. Beowulf (This is the National Epic of England)

Forty-seven. Christopher Marlowe (Known as the Father of English Tragedy)

Forty-eight. Romeo and Juliet (From which Shakespeare's play are these lines taken "God night, good night! Parting is such a sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow")