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W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin, 1927 - Poet W. S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927. He has authored over fifteen books of poetry and some of those titles include "The River Sound" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), which was named a New York Times notable book of the year; "The Vixen" (1996), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; "T....[more]

Maura Nolan

Siegfried Wenzel

Ludovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto (September 8, 1474 – July 6, 1533) was an Italian poet best known for his epic poem, Orlando Furioso (1516). Orlando Furioso is translated as “The Frenzy of Orlando” or “Mad Orlando.” It is a romantic epic poem that continues the earlier, incomplete romantic poem Orlando Innamorato (English translatio....[more]

Aristotle

Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher who wrote about physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, dance, philosophy, psychology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, morality, biology, botany, agriculture, and zoology. He was a student of the Classical Greek philosopher Plato and went on to te....[more]

Erich Auerbach

Known for his literary criticism, Erich Auerbach was born in Berlin, Germany in 1892. His first major work, Dante: Poet of the Secular World, was published in 1929 during his time at the University of Marburg. However, like many Jewish intellectuals at the time, Auerbach was forced into exile by the Nazi Party. Now hav....[more]

E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge (Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge) (July 27, 1857 - November 23, 1934) Budge was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, England to Mary Ann Budge. His father is unknown. He went to live with his grandmother and aunt in London as a young man. He was interested in languages by the age of ten, but left s....[more]

Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) Bulfinch was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the sixth of the eleven children born to Hannah Apthorp and Charles Bulfinch. He attended the Boston Latin School, Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, graduating in 1814. He was an avid reader and amassed a large library over ....[more]