Who called the novel a “comic-epic poem in prose”?

Hesiod, the reputed author of the Theogony, the oldest surviving account of the origin of the Greek gods, was a poor Boeotian farmer of the eighth century B.C. His Works and Days gives advice on fanning and moral life.

The alienated artist never discovered food that he enjoyed, so he starves to death in Franz Kafka’s short story “The Hunger Artist.”

Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon created the Hardy Boys.

These lines from Section 27, Stanza 4 of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam lament the loss of Tennyson’s close friend Arthur Hallam, who died at twenty-two.

Hamartia is the fatal flaw that brings a good character to ruin. Hubris is pride, the classic example of hamartia.

For nearly ten years the short story writer Guy de Maupassant apprenticed himself to Flaubert to learn to write fiction.