For one, the works of art produced during that time period would be first on my to-do list. ... Last, but not the very least, I would have liked to experience and read, first-hand, the literary works of such authors as Dante, Christine de Pisan, and Boccaccio. Starting in the 13th century, art was beginning to accelerate to a much higher level of in terms of quality and craft. ...
The Harlem Renaissance, as the name given to this whole bunch of artistic and literary revivals, is believed to have begun in 1923 with Jean Toomer's novel Cane. Besides Toomer, some of the important writers of the time can be listed as Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. ... Countee Cullen's "Incident" is another striking one in terms of how it makes the reader feel. ...
The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians The popularity of Geoffrey's Historia and its other derivative works (such as Wace's Roman de Brut) is generally agreed to be an important factor in explaining the appearance of significant numbers of new Arthurian works in continental Europe during the 12th and 13th centuries, particularly in France.[71] It was not, however, the only Arthurian influence on the developing "Matter of Britain". ... However, the mos...
