Born in County Dublin in 1865, W. B. Yeats went on to become a leading figure in the Irish Literary Revival and eventually won a Nobel Prize for Literature for his contribution to the shaping of modern Irish culture.
The decade-long relationship between the composer Chopin and the author Sand, though unlikely, was a testament to the Romantic belief in the virtues of genius.
Today best known for his epic novel Les Miserables (1862), Victor Hugo (1802–1885) used literature to speak out about social issues and highlight injustice. HIs works helped to shape the soul of modern France.
A recurring figure in Gothic fiction, the doppelgänger or double appears in many forms, but is it benevolent or malevolent?
Best remembered for the story that gave us the ballet The Nutcracker, ETA Hoffmann wrote many uncanny, supernatural tales. Here are five of them.
Discover the works of Thomas Hardy, a Victorian writer who captured the intricacies of families and relationships within his texts through evocative, poetic prose.
Follow Dante’s mystical journey in Heaven (Paradiso), the final, and most theological, canto of The Divine Comedy.
Discover thirteen writers who hail from Ireland, beyond the ones you may already have heard of.
