| − | Linguistic analysis of great authors shows both similarities and differences in their use of vocabulary, grammatical forms, and punctuation.<ref>https://www.tylervigen.com/literature-statistics</ref> | + | Linguistic analysis of great authors shows both similarities and differences in their use of vocabulary, [[grammar|grammatical]] forms, and punctuation.<ref>https://www.tylervigen.com/literature-statistics</ref> |
| | [[File:Books-and-glasses.jpg|thumbnail|300x|right|33% of high school graduates never read another book the rest of their lives and 42% of college grads never read another book after college.<ref>[https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/sobering-statistics-about-readers-today/ Sobering Statistics About Readers Today]</ref>]] | | [[File:Books-and-glasses.jpg|thumbnail|300x|right|33% of high school graduates never read another book the rest of their lives and 42% of college grads never read another book after college.<ref>[https://www.hogwartsprofessor.com/sobering-statistics-about-readers-today/ Sobering Statistics About Readers Today]</ref>]] |
| − | Literature is not only a storehouse of creativity. Through its topics of discussion literature is also a take on the history of the world. Dealing as it does with language it is also, a repository of the history of language. Ancient literature like those of [[Greek]], Latin, Hebrew, Celtic, Saxon, Aryan, Dravidan and the like help us learn how these languages have evolved through time and through the ravages of the different cultures conquering them. Literature has also helped preserve for man the different schools of thought, Sophism to Modernism, the [[Dead Sea scrolls]] to Structuralism. <ref> [http://www.iguides.org/articles/articles/85/1/The-importance-of-the-history-of-Literature/Page1.html The importance of the history of Literature] | + | Literature is not only a storehouse of [[creativity]]. Through its topics of discussion literature is also a take on the history of the world. Dealing as it does with language it is also, a repository of the history of language. Ancient literature like those of [[Greek]], Latin, Hebrew, Celtic, Saxon, Aryan, Dravidan and the like help us learn how these languages have evolved through time and through the ravages of the different cultures conquering them. Literature has also helped preserve for man the different schools of thought, Sophism to Modernism, the [[Dead Sea scrolls]] to Structuralism. <ref> [http://www.iguides.org/articles/articles/85/1/The-importance-of-the-history-of-Literature/Page1.html The importance of the history of Literature] |