1, Homer

Homer, a blind poet in ancient Greece. According to legend, he recorded the Trojan War from BC 12 to BC 1 1 century, as well as the epics Iliad and Odyssey, which are representative works of long narrative stories about maritime adventures in ancient Greece, and he wrote them based on short folk songs.

He lived between 10 BC and the 9th and 8th centuries.

Homer, the masterpiece, has long influenced western religions, cultures and ethics.

2. Dante

Dante alighieri (1265- 132 1), an Italian poet at the end of 13, the founder of modern Italian and one of the pioneers of the European Renaissance, is famous for his long poem The Divine Comedy.

Later, a writer named Boccaccio named it sacred comedy. The Divine Comedy is divided into three sections. The first paragraph is called "hell", the second paragraph is called "purgatory" and the third paragraph is called "heaven", which will be remembered by future generations.

He is regarded as the greatest poet in the Italian Renaissance in the Middle Ages and one of the most outstanding poets and writers in the West.

The representative works are Divine Comedy, New Life, On Common Saying and Pastoral Poetry.

3. Goethe

Johann wolfgang von goethe (1August 28th, 749-1March 22nd, 832), born in Frankfurt am Main, is a famous German thinker, writer and scientist. He is the most famous representative of Weimar classicism.

As the creator of poetry, drama and prose, he is one of the greatest writers in Germany and an outstanding and brilliant figure in the field of world literature.

1773, he wrote a play "Gotz von Berlichenken", which was famous in German literature. Young Werther was published on 1774, which made him famous. 1776 began to serve Weimar principality. He finished Faust at 183 1 and died in Weimar the following year.

Masterpieces: The Trouble of Young Werther and Faust.

4. Byron

George gordon byron (1788-1824) was a great English romantic poet in the early 9th century.

He is not only a great poet, but also a fighter who struggled for his ideals all his life. He took an active and courageous part in the revolution-he took part in the Greek national liberation movement and became a member of * * * *.

His masterpieces include Childe Haller's Travels and Don Juan. , and created a number of "Byronic heroes" in his poems.

5. Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (English: William Shakespeare, 1564- 16 16 April 23rd) is often regarded as Shakespeare in China society.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Lu Xun called Shakespeare a "narrow spire" in On Moro Poetry (1February 908). He is the most outstanding dramatist in the history of English literature, the most important and greatest writer in the European Renaissance, the master of humanistic literature at that time and one of the most outstanding writers in the world.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. He married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18. They have three children: Susanna, twins Hamnet and Judith.

From the end of 16 to the beginning of 17, Shakespeare began a successful career in London. He is not only an actor and playwright, but also a partner of the Palace Minister Troupe, which was later renamed the King Troupe. In about 16 13, Shakespeare lived in seclusion in Stratford-on-Avon and died three years later.

His masterpieces include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew and so on.

6. Hugo

Victor hugo (1February 26th, 802-1May 22nd, 885), a French writer,1a representative writer of positive romantic literature in the early 9th century, a representative figure of humanitarianism and an outstanding bourgeois-democratic writer in the history of French literature. He is called "Shakespeare of France".

He wrote many poems, novels, plays, various essays, literary comments and political articles in his life, which have a wide influence in France and even the world.

Hugo 1802 was born in Besancon and has two older brothers. /kloc-at the age of 0/3, he and his brother entered a boarding school, and both brothers became student cadres. Hugo was able to write outstanding poems at the age of 16, and published them at the age of 2 1, which made him famous.

1845, King Louis Philippe of France granted Hugo the position of a member of the House of Lords, and since then he has devoted himself to politics. 1848, February Revolution broke out in France, and King Louis of France abdicated.

During this period, Hugo advocated revolution everywhere, made great contributions to the people, won the respect of the new Republic, was promoted to count, and was elected as a national representative and a member of parliament. Three years later, Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte proclaimed himself emperor and Hugo attacked it, so he was exiled abroad.

After that, I wandered for 20 years, during which I finished the novel Les Miserables. 1870, France returned to the Republic (the Third Republic of France), and Hugo returned to France from exile. 1885, Hugo died and a state funeral was held in Pandra.

Hugo's creative history is over 60 years, and his works include 26 volumes of poems, 20 volumes of novels, 2 volumes of scripts1and 2 volumes of philosophical works, totaling 79 volumes.

His masterpieces include the novels Notre Dame de Paris, 1993 and Les Miserables, and the short story Death of Normandy (the seventh lesson of the sixth grade of Jiangsu Education Edition is called Captain).

Death of Normandy has also been selected into the ninth lesson of grade five in Chinese version A, the twentieth lesson of grade five in Hebei Education Edition and the tenth lesson of grade six in Shanghai Education Edition.

7. Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (186 1 year-1941year) is an Indian poet, writer, social activist, philosopher and Indian nationalist.

186 1 On May 7th, 2008, Rabindranath Tagore was born into a wealthy aristocratic family in Kolkata, India. 13 years old, can write long poems and compose poems. 1878 went to study in Britain, 1880 returned to China, specializing in literary activities.

1884 to 19 1 1, secretary of the Vatican Institute, founded an international university in the 1920s. 19 13 years, together with gitanjali, he became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

194 1 wrote his last words, Crisis of Civilization, accusing the British colonial rule, believing that the motherland would be liberated independently.

Representative works include Gitanjali, Birds, Sand in Eyes, Four People, Family and the World, Gardeners Collection, Crescent Moon Collection, The Last Poetry, Gola, Crisis of Civilization, etc.

8. lev tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (левниколаевичтолстой).

Tolstoy was born into a noble family, entered Kazan University in 1844, dropped out of school in 1847 and returned to his hometown, trying to reform serfdom in his own territory. 185 1 ~ 1854 served in the Caucasian army and began to write. 1854 ~ 1855 participated in the Crimean war.

1855165438+10 entered the literary world of Petersburg. When Tolstoy went abroad from 65438 to 0857, he saw many contradictions in capitalist society, but he couldn't find a way to eliminate social ugliness, so he had to appeal to people to live according to "eternal religious truth".

1860 ~ 186 1 year, Tolstoy went abroad again, met herzen, listened to Dickens' speech and met proudhon. Tolstoy wrote the historical novel War and Peace from 1863 to 1869.

Tolstoy tried to live a simple civilian life in his later years. 19 10 ran away from home in June, and 1 1 died in the station in June, at the age of 82.

His representative works include War and Peace, Anna karenin and Resurrection.

9. The original name of NIZHNI NOVGOROD in Gorky City

Maxim Gorky (Maxim Gorky,1March 86816-1June 936 18), formerly known as Alexei Macsimovici BeSkof, was a writer, poet, critic, political commentator and scholar in the former Soviet Union.

Gorky was born in a carpenter's family in Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga River on March 6th, 868. When his father died at the age of 4, he spent his childhood with his mother at his grandfather's house. 10 years old, Gorky began to make a living independently.

He worked as an apprentice, porter, janitor, baker, etc. , personally experienced the suffering of the lower classes. During this period, he studied hard and began to explore the truth of transforming society.

From 65438 to 0884, he joined the populists, read the works of populists and Marx, and actively participated in revolutionary activities. From 65438 to 0905, Gorky joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.

From 65438 to 0906, Gorky was entrusted by Lenin to carry out revolutionary activities in the United States from Finland, and published the novel Mother in the United States. Later he settled in Capri, Italy.

19 13 years, Gorky returned to work in proletarian cultural organizations from Italy and presided over the literary column of Pravda.

19 17 After the October Revolution, Gorky came into conflict with Lenin and the new regime with chaos, destruction, anarchy and various violent incidents.

192 1 year1October, Gorky went abroad to recuperate due to illness and differences with the Bolshevik regime. 1928, Gorky returned to the Soviet Union. Under Stalin's arrangement, he made two long-distance trips in Russia and decided to return to China to settle down.

1934 was elected chairman of the writers association. After Gorky returned to China, as a banner of Soviet cultural circles, he did a lot of work for Soviet cultural construction. However, various problems in the Soviet Union in the 1930s kept him at a certain distance from Stalin and real politics.

1June, 93618th, Gorky died at the age of 68.

Representative works include Haiyan, Mother, Childhood, On Earth, My University and so on.

10, Lu Xun

Lu Xun (188 1 September 25th-19361October19), formerly known as Zhou Zhangshou, later renamed Yushan, later changed to Yucai, "Lu Xun" is his1.

A famous writer and thinker, an important participant in the May 4th New Culture Movement and the founder of modern literature in China.

Lu Xun has made great contributions in many fields, such as literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, introduction of art theory, introduction of basic science and research on ancient books collation.

He had a great influence on the development of China's social ideology and culture after the May 4th Movement, and enjoyed a high reputation in the world literary world, especially in the fields of Korean and Japanese ideology and culture. He is known as "the writer who occupied the largest territory on the East Asian cultural map in the 20th century". ?

His representative works include Scream, Wandering, Flowers at Morning, Weeds, Gai Hua Collection, A Brief History of Chinese Novels, etc.

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