The literary world is one of the largest, existing because of the many literary genres that exist. However, it is being lost because reading is not in vogue. Nevertheless, it is part of our history, and so today we want to tell you all about what you can find in them.

And the thing is, genres are wide, and you don’t know them all. Luckily, we’ve researched and are going to teach you what literary genres there are and what sub-genres you can find in each one.

What literary genres are.
Literary genres refer to the classification into groups or categories of different literary works. They are divided based on the structure they have as well as the content. In other words, we are talking about large groups that include all literary works.

Throughout history, literary genres have not always been the same, even works have not belonged to the same genres as they do now. However, this classification has been maintained for some time. With one caveat: the inclusion of a gendered number, the didactic.

Thus, it can now be said that there are three large and very important groups that have long encompassed works: narrative, lyrical, and dramatic. The didactic genre was soon included.

Who created the literary genres?
Have you ever wondered who was the architect of these literary genres? Or why the novel belongs to the narrative genre and the poem to the lyrical or dramatic genre? Well all this We owe it all to one man: Aristotle.

The first mention as well as the first classification of literary genres was from Aristotle. Specifically, in his work Poetics, he spoke of three types of genres: narrative, lyrical, and dramatic.