Historical overview of the period following the peak of Cretan Literature, emphasizing on: 1) the literature of the pre-revolutionary period (Rigas, Vilaras, 26/51 Christopoulos), 2) the authors before Solomos, 3) the Ionian school, 4) the Athenian Romantics, 5) the prose of the nineteenth century and 6) the generation of 1880 and its successors.