" Austrian historian Ernst Stein praised Ammianus as " the greatest literary genius that the world produced between Tacitus and Dante ".

He was the second child and eldest son of Isaac D ' Israeli, a literary critic and historian, and Maria Basevi.

According to literary historian Sacvan Bercovitch:

Hume achieved great literary fame as a historian.

Einhard's literary model was the classical work of the Roman historian Suetonius, the Lives of the Caesars, though it is important to stress that the work is very much Einhard's own, that is to say he adapts the models and sources for his own purposes.

Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.

* 1947 – David Shapiro, American poet, literary critic, and art historian

* 1971 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist ( b. 1891 )

Karel van het Reve ( 19 May 1921, Amsterdam – 4 March 1999, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature.

In addition to Sappho's accomplishments, literary historian Jeannette Howard Foster includes the Book of Ruth, and ancient mythological tradition as examples of lesbianism in classical literature.

* 1999 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator and literary historian ( b. 1921 )

* 1855 – Henrik Schück, Swedish literary historian ( d. 1947 )

In 1874, German literary historian Karl Elze dated both The Tempest and Henry VIII — traditionally labeled as Shakespeare's last plays — to the years 1603 – 04.

Meanwhile, among Greek scholars, the literary historian and philologist Jacques Bompaire, the philologist and philosopher E. Dupréel, and later the literature historian Jacqueline de Romilly pioneered new studies in the Sophists and the Second Sophistic.

However, by the late 1960s, many of Structuralism's basic tenets came under attack from a new wave of predominantly French intellectuals such as the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, the philosopher and social commentator Jacques Derrida, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic Roland Barthes.

The main literary sources for Servius ' life and achievements are the Roman historian Livy ( 59 BC – AD 17 ), his near contemporary Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Plutarch ( c. 46 – 120 AD ); their own sources included works by Quintus Fabius Pictor, Diocles of Peparethus and Quintus Ennius.

In literary historian Donald Keene's books, he uses four large categories:

The vampire is such a dominant figure in the horror genre that literary historian Susan Sellers places the current vampire myth in the " comparative safety of nightmare fantasy ".

Newfoundland marine insurance agent and historian William A. Munn ( 1864 – 1939 ), after studying literary sources in Europe, suggested in his 1914 book " Wineland Voyages: Location of Helluland, Markland & Vinland " that the Vinland explorers " went ashore at Lancey Meadows, as it is called today ".

* November 28 – Walter Havighurst, American critic, novelist, literary and social historian of the Midwest, professor of English at Miami University, ( died 1994 )

** Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian ( d. 1975 )

* January 31 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist ( b. 1891 )

Additionally, according to Plutarch's essay on the meaning of the " E at Delphi "-- the only literary source for the inscription --- there was also inscribed at the temple a large letter E. Among other things epsilon signifies the number 5.

* 1977 – Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian poet, novelist and literary art critic ( b. 1925 )

( P. G. Wodehouse attributes a Magdalen undergraduateship to his fictional literary character Bertie Wooster ; Tibby, in E. M. Forster's Howards End, is also a Magdalen undergraduate, as is Bridey in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

Robert E. Van Voorst states that the literary origins of Toledot Yeshu can not be traced with any certainty, and its medieval composition without a fixed form, it is " most unlikely " to have reliable historical information.

His literary depiction of the Swedish-American immigrant experience is comparable to O. E.

* Mohammad Mokhtari, graduate of the Department of Persian Language and Literature, a renowned poet, novelist, and literary critic, and a leading member of the Iranian P. E. N.

* In his short story " The Celestial Omnibus ", published in 1911, E. M. Forster makes Browne the first " driver " that the young protagonist encounters on the magical omnibus line that transports its passengers to a place of direct experience of the aesthetic sublime reserved for those who internalize the experience of poetry, as opposed to those who merely acquire familiarity with literary works for snobbish prestige.

S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz cited other literary inspirations: Guy de Maupassant's " The Horla " ( 1887 ), which Lovecraft described in " Supernatural Horror in Literature " as concerning " an invisible being who ... sways the minds of others, and seems to be the vanguard of a horde of extraterrestrial organisms arrived on earth to subjugate and overwhelm mankind "; and Arthur Machen's " The Novel of the Black Seal " ( 1895 ), which uses the same method of piecing together of disassociated knowledge ( including a random newspaper clipping ) to reveal the survival of a horrific ancient being.

The published story was regarded by Robert E. Howard ( the creator of Conan ) as " a masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of the highest achievements of literature .... Mr. Lovecraft holds a unique position in the literary world ; he has grasped, to all intents, the worlds outside our paltry ken.

Ambrose E. Gonzales, another writer of South Carolina planter-class background, also wrote original stories in 19th-century Gullah, based on Gullah literary forms.

* Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Latina literary theory

The Orléanists indeed continued throughout the Second Republic ( 1848 – 1852 ) and the Empire ( 1852 – 1870 ) to enjoy a marked social and literary prestige, on the strength of the wealth and capacity of some of their members, their influence in the Académie française and the ability of their organs in the press — particularly the Revue des deux mondes, the Journal des débats, and the papers directed by E. Hervé.

According to modern scholars drawing primarily on Chinese literary sources, a foreigner named " Huntian " Hùntián established the Kingdom of Funan around the 1st century C. E.

Originally published in 1870 by the Reverend E. Cobham Brewer, it was aimed at the growing number of people who did not have a university education, but wanted to understand the origins of phrases and historical or literary allusions.

There are many important literary works written in Kawi, most notably Empu Tantular's epic poem, " Kakawin Sutasoma " ( E. M. Uhlenbeck, 1964: " A Critical Survey of Studies on the Languages of Java and Madura ", The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff ), from which is taken the National motto of Indonesia: " Bhinneka Tunggal Ika ".

His poetry, which he published at intervals ( notably Poems, 1875, illustrated by etchings by himself and Alma-Tadema ), recalled Blake and Shelley, and was considerably influenced by Rossetti ; he also wrote several volumes of artistic and literary criticism, and edited Keats, L. E. L., Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Shakespeare and Scott.

It is currently sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Literature, and is awarded in January (' E ' in the list, below ) and July (' L ' in the list below ) to the best serious literary story published in a newspaper or magazine by a new or rising author.

E. M. Forster, by then a good friend who had been influenced by Dickinson's books, became his literary executor.

About 380 ‑ 381 he was elevated to the See of Sebaste in Armenia and, without displaying any literary activity, took his stand beside his brothers Basil and Gregory in their fight against the Arian heresy ( Theodoret, " H. E.

* The literary journal Underneath the Bunker ( the title of which may refer to a song left off the tracklisting for the R. E. M.

As one of the dozens of creative literary and artistic figures who migrated during the 1920s to Paris, France and congregated in Montparnasse, Cowley returned to live in France for three years, where he worked with Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Edmund Wilson, Erskine Caldwell, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby and others.