Authors in their century
XVIII
25 authors in this century
Fernán Caballero
Fernán Caballero is the pseudonym used by Spanish writer and folklorist Cecilia Böhl de Faber and Ruiz de Larrea. He cultivated a quaint of a customary character and his ...
François-René Chateaubriand
He was a French diplomat, politician and writer considered the founder of romanticism in French literature.
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos
He was a French writer and military officer, known for the novel "The Dangerous Relations.".
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He was an English poet, critic and philosopher, one of the founders, along with his friend William Wordsworth, of Romanticism in England -
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was an American novelist. He wrote thirty-four adventure novels, in which he recounts the life of the pioneers and their clashes with the red skins.
Ramón de la Cruz
Don Ramón de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla was a Spanish playwright, considered as one of the definers of Madrid's casticism in the context of the "new art of making comedies"...
Ángel de Saavedra, Duque de Rivas
He was a Spanish playwright, poet, historian, painter and statesman, who today enjoys a notoriety for his romantic drama Don Álvaro or the strength of the sino.
Denis Diderot
He was a decisive figure of the Illustration as a French writer, philosopher and encyclopedist..
Leandro Fernández de Moratín
He was a Spanish playwright and poet, the most relevant neo-classical comediographer of the 18th century.
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding was a novelist known for his great sense of humor and satirical skills, and as author of the novel Tom Jones.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dramaturgo, novelist, poet and German naturalist, a fundamental contributor to Romanticism, which he exercised a great influence and was one of the greatest exponents of ...
Carlo Goldoni
It was an Italian playwright of the Serene Republic of Venice in the Italian, Veneto and French languages.
Jacob Grimm
He was a German linguist and mythologist, considered founder of the historical grammar. His life and work was strongly linked to that of his younger brother, Wilhelm, so ...
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
He was a Spanish writer, jurist and enlightened politician. Especially committed to the economic and cultural development of his country, his report on the Agrarian Law o...
George Gordon Lord Byron
He was a poet of the British Romanticism movement, antecedent of the figure of the cursed poet. Because of his poetic talent, personality, physical appeal and life as sca...
marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known for his title as Marquis de Sade, was a French writer, essayist and philosopher, author of numerous works of various genr...
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller was a German poet, playwright, philosopher, historian and editor. It is considered, along with Goethe, the most important playwright i...
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott was a novelist, theatre writer and poet. He is considered the first modern English writer to have a true international career,
Mary W. Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, known as Mary Shelley, was a narrator, playwright, essayist, philosopher and biographer of the United Kingdom, especially as the author of the...
Henri Beyle Stendhal
He was a French writer, valued for his acute analysis of the psychology of his characters and for the concision of his style, he is considered one of the first and most i...