What Are The Most Important Literary Genres?

What are the most important literary genres? This is a question that generates a great deal of debate. Greek authors ranked or divided works according to their usefulness. Today, updating this Hellenic tradition, we’ll identify the most important literary genres following a natural criterion. In fact, this is the kind that most critics take as a reference point today. “The first book in history was born when words, barely written air, found shelter in the marrow of an aquatic plant.” -Irene Vallejo- What are the most important literary genres? Germán Garrido Miñambres, in his 2010 article for Literature Magazine, claims that…