European literature

History of Literature
Bronze Age literature
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Medieval literature
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European literature refers to the literature of Europe.

European literature includes literature in many languages; among the most important of the modern written works are those in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Czech and Russian and works by the Scandinavians and Irish.

Important classical and medieval traditions are those in Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Norse, Medieval French and the Italian Tuscan dialect of the renaissance.

In colloquial speech, European literature often is used as a synonym for Western literature.

European literature is a part of world literature.

Contents 1 Ancient Greek Literature 2 Latin Literature 3 Italian Literature 4 Spanish Literature 5 Portuguese Literature 6 French Literature 7 Germanic Literature 8 English Literature 9 Russian Literature 10 Scandinavian Literature (Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark) 11 Dutch, Flemish and Frisian literature 12 Slavic and East-European literature (Russia, Poland, Czechia, Ukraine and Hungaria) 13 See also

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Medieval literature Renaissance literature MLN: Modern Language Notes Literatures by nation or language: divided into literature and poetry. -Literature Albanian Anglo-Norman Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Austrian Breton British Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Czech

Danish Dutch Faroese Frisian French Galician German Greek, Ancient Greek, Modern Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Jèrriais Macedonian Manx

Nordic Norwegian Occitan Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Scandinavian Scottish Serbian Slovenian Spanish Ukrainian Welsh literature in English (Anglo-Welsh) Welsh-language literature Yiddish -Poetry Ottoman

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