Sentence examples for literature dates from inspiring English sources

Irish literature dates from the 8th century.

Bengali literature dates to before the 12th century.

Modern Bulgarian literature dates from the mid-19th-century awakening of national consciousness.

Although written Turkmen literature dates at least to the 18th-century poet Mahtum Quli (Magtim Guli), it underwent a burst of growth when the literary publications of the new republic began to appear in the late 1920s and '30s.

This form of nonfictional prose literature dates from before the Christian Era; Jewish thought and style were molded by commentaries on the Old Testament and compilations of the wisdom of the sages.

Bengali can trace its literature back to Old Bengali caryā-padas, late Buddhist verses thought to date from the 10th century; Gujarati literature dates from the 12th century (Śālibhadra's Bharateśvara-bāhubali-rāsa) and to a period when the area of western Rājasthān and Gujarāt are believed to have had a literary language in common, called Old Western Rajasthani.

The classics of Western literature date from the seventh century B.C.

The earliest extant examples of Javanese literature date from the 9th or 10th century ce.

The oldest examples of Gujarati literature date from the writings of the 12th-century Jain scholar and saint Hemachandra.

The renaissance of German literature, dating from the late 18th century, found at least one of its homes in Berlin.

Tamil schools of personal religious devotion (bhakti) have long been important in Hinduism, being enshrined in a literature dating back to the 6th century ad.