Literature

Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, "literature" is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.

Literature is literally "an acquaintance with letters", as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the littera meaning "an individual written character"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts or works of art, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non - fiction drama and poetry especially. In much (if not all) of the world, texts can be oral  as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, other forms of oral poetry, and the folktale. The word "literature" as a common noun can refer to any form of writing, such as essays; "Literature" as a proper noun refers to a whole body of literary work. In a nutshell, it is to say 'It is to the heart and soul - the way of giving to the mind of the reader the extraordinary feel of sensation .