Global Lit: Tolstoy's Folk Tales

Leo Tolstoy, who lived and worked in Russia during the Enlightenment, Romantic, Realist, and Naturalist periods (even a bit into the Modernist era), is one of the most influential writers in the world. 

Global Lit: Blake, Tennyson, Browning

William Blake

William Blake is an early Romantic poet.

Romantics

Romantics  are reacting to the Enlightenment thinkers in Europe and England – you’ll remember that the Enlightenment were those 18^th Century philosophers and scholars who believe, more or less, in the power of human reason to fix the world; who believe, that is,