Western literature

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History of Literature
Bronze Age literature: Sumerian Egyptian Assyro-Babylonian
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Medieval literature Greek Arabic Kannada Japanese Anglo-Saxon French German Norse Irish Persian Welsh Hebrew
Early Modern literature Renaissance literature Baroque literature
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Western literature refers to the literature of the Indo-European languages, as well as several languages geographically or historically related to the Indo-European languages (Basque, Hungarian, and so forth). Western literature is considered one of the defining elements of Western civilization.

The best of Western literature is considered to be the Western Canon. The list of works in the Western Canon varies according to the critic's opinions on Western culture and the relative importance of its defining characteristics.

Western literature includes literature in many languages: