Events and Trends
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| The early modern period |
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| European literature in the 18th century |
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| Modern literature, 19th century |
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| Modern literature, 20th century |
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| Modern literature in Europe |
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| Modern literature in the Americas |
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| Australasian literature |
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- 1605-1615 - Miguel de Cervantes writes the two parts of Don Quixote.
- 23 April 1616 - death of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes.
- 1660-1669 - Samuel Pepys writes his diary.
- 1667-1668 - Marianna Alcoforado writes her Letters of a Portuguese Nun.
- 1671-1696 - Madame de Sévigné writes her famous letters.
- Metaphysical poets
- German literature of the Baroque period
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“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
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“Power-worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”
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