Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

The historic roots of Algerian literature goes back to the Numidian era, when Apuleius wrote The Golden Ass, the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

He wrote the grammatical rules for the Vulgate Latin spoken by some illiterates in Europe at his time.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.

In 825 Al-Khwārizmī wrote a treatise in Arabic, On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, which was translated into Latin from Arabic in the 12th century as Algoritmi de numero Indorum.

Classics Professor G. P. Goold at University College, wrote of Housman's scholarly accomplishments: " The legacy of Housman's scholarship is a thing of permanent value ; and that value consists less in obvious results, the establishment of general propositions about Latin and the removal of scribal mistakes, than in the shining example he provides of a wonderful mind at work ....

Bede wrote in Latin and never used the term and his list of kings holding imperium should be treated with caution, not least in that he overlooks kings such as Penda of Mercia, who clearly held some kind of dominance during his reign.

Matteo Ricci was among the very earliest to report on the thoughts of Confucius, and father Prospero Intorcetta wrote about the life and works of Confucius in Latin in 1687.

He wrote it in French, not in Latin and thereby reached a wider audience in his country than that of scholars.

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

Abbott also wrote educational text books, one being " Via Latina: First Latin Book " which was published in 1898 and distributed around the world within the education system.

Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style.

Jerome, who wrote the Latin Vulgate translation, wrote in the 4th century, " it is rejected by everyone " and included it in the Vulgate, which is the reason for translating the letter into Latin.

Aleandro compiled a Lexicon Graeco-Latinum ( 1512 ), and wrote Latin verse of considerable merit inserted in the Carmina Illustrium Poetarum Italiorum of Joannes Matthaeus Toscanus.

Hadrian wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek ; one of the few surviving examples is a Latin poem he reportedly composed on his deathbed ( see below ).

Irenaeus wrote a number of books, but the most important that survives is the " Against Heresies ", normally referred to by its Latin title Adversus Haereses which is an important source regarding the Gospel according to the Hebrews.

Jordanes wrote in Late Latin rather than the classical Ciceronian Latin.

Stuart humorously wrote of his rapid courtship in Latin, " Veni, Vidi, Victus sum " ( I came, I saw, I was conquered ).

Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels " ( 1946 ) Orwell wrote: " If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

The most significant of these was H. P. Lovecraft who also wrote an excellent conspectus of the Gothic and supernatural horror tradition in his Supernatural Horror in Literature ( 1936 ) as well as developing a Mythos that would influence Gothic and contemporary horror well into the 21st century.

The writer Dean Swinford, ( whose concept of irrealism was described at length in the section " Irrealism in Literature "), wrote that the artist Remedios Varos, in her painting The Juggler, " creates a personal allegorical system which relies on the predetermined symbols of Christian and classical iconography.

Hu Shih, a pivotal figure of the first half of the twentieth century, wrote an influential and perceptive study of this literary tradition, entitled Báihuà Wénxuéshǐ ( A History of Vernacular Literature ).

In his The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Keene claims Murasaki wrote the " supreme work of Japanese fiction " by drawing on traditions of court diaries, and earlier monogatari — written in a mixture of Chinese script and Japanese script — such as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tales of Ise.

He also wrote a comprehensive Lexicon of World Literature and earlier had published a German Literature in Illustrations and a Journal on Schiller.

* Byzantine poet Musaeus also wrote a poem ; Aldus Manutius made it one of his first publications ( c. 1493 ) after he set up his famous printing press in Venice ( his humanistic aim was to make Ancient Greek Literature available to scholars ).

" Nobel Literature laureate Octavio Paz wrote in 1974 that " the Mexican people, after more than two centuries of experiments, have faith only in the Virgin of Guadalupe and the National Lottery ".

Curtius wrote as follows in the opening pages of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages ( 1953 English translation ), following close on Toynbee, as he sets the stage for his vast study of medieval Latin literature.

The original character is often said to have been based on one Thomas Jones ( c. 1530-1609 ) who, according to the Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, was pardoned for unspecified offences in 1559, wrote poetry, was a steward who " often had recourse to the law ", and married the widow of Thomas Rhys Williams of Ystrad-ffin.

D ' Israeli, in his 1824 Curiosities of Literature, suggests that Commines's hatred for the duke of Burgundy poisoned everything he wrote about him, but comments:

One of them, Kenzaburō Ōe wrote his best-known work, A Personal Matter in 1964 and became Japan's second winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A month later, the Baker Street Irregulars wrote a letter to the Saturday Review of Literature, insisting that the story be published.

Alexander Pope ( 1688 – 1744 ) owned a copy of Rogers ' reprint of Crowley's edition of Piers Plowman with the Crede appended, and Isaac D ' Israeli ( 1766 – 1848 ) wrote in his Amenities of Literature that Pope had " very carefully analyzed the whole " of the latter text.

Five years later, in his preface to Bungakuron ( The Criticism of Literature ), he wrote about the period:

In Studies in Classic American Literature, the English novelist D. H. Lawrence wrote that Whitman " was the first to smash the old moral conception that the soul of man is something ' superior ' and ' above ' the flesh.

He was also an enthusiastic Americanist and wrote the ground-breaking " American Literature: An Historical Review, 1620 – 1880 " ( 1882 ).

Shmuel Yosef Agnon, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, settled in Talpiot in 1924 and wrote most of his important works there.

Professor of Frisian Language and Literature Goffe Jensma wrote that the three authors of the translation intended it " to be a temporary hoax to fool some nationalist Frisians and orthodox Christians and as an experiential exemplary exercise in reading the Holy Bible in a non-fundamentalist, symbolical way.

He was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance and wrote four novels: Home to Harlem ( 1928 ), a best-seller which won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, Banjo ( 1929 ), Banana Bottom ( 1933 ) and in 1941 the manuscript of a novel that has not yet been published called Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem.

In addition to these, Roscoe wrote tracts on penal jurisprudence, and contributed to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Linnean Society.

With her husband she wrote in 1852 The Literature and Romance of Northern Europe.

In 1976 Muir wrote The Frank Muir Book: An irreverent companion to social history, which is a collection of anecdotes and quotations collected under various subjects including " Music ", " Education ", " Literature ", " Theatre ", " Art " and " Food and Drink ".

Brophy also wrote several non-fiction books and essays, including Black Ship to Hell ( 1962 ; an appreciation of Shavian and Freudian ideas ), Mozart the Dramatist ( 1964 ) and ( with her husband and Charles Osborne ) Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without ( 1967 ).