Biographies



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A

Adams, Henry Brook (1838 - 1918)
Aeschines (-290 - -314)
Aeschylus (-524 - -455)
Aesop (0 - 0)
Alcott, Louisa May (1832 - 1888)
Andersen, Hans Christian (1805 - 1875)
Antonius, Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180)
Ariosto, Ludovico (1474 - 1533)
Aristophanes (-448 - -385)
Aristotle (-384 - -322)
Arnold, Matthew (1822 - 1888)
Augustine, Saint (354 - 430)
Austen, Jane (1775 - 1817)

B

Bacon, Sir Francis (1561 - 1626)
Barrie, Sir James Matthew (1860 - 1937)
Bastiat, Claude-Frederic (1801 - 1850)
Baum, Lyman Frank (1856 - 1919)
Behn, Aphra (1640 - 1689)
Berkeley, George (1685 - 1753)
Blake, William (1757 - 1827)
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313 - 1375)
Boswell, James (1740 - 1795)
Bradstreet, Anne (1613 - 1672)
Brontë, Charlotte (1816 -1855)
Brontë, Emily (1818 - 1848)
Brooke, Rupert Chawner (1887 - 1915)
Browning, Elizabeth Barret (1806 - 1861)
Browning, Robert (1812 - 1889)
Bryant, William Cullen (1794 - 1878)
Bulfinch, Thomas (1796 - 1867)
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle (1803 - 1873)
Burke, Edmund ( 1729 - 1797)
Burns, Robert ( 1759 - 1796)
Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821 - 1890 )
Butler, Samuel (1835 - 1902)
Byron, Lord George Gordon Noel (1788 -1824)

C

Carroll, Lewis (1832 - 1898)
Cather, Willa Silbert (1873 - 1947)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547 - 1616)
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343 - 1400)
Cicero, Marcus Tullius ( -106 - -43)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772 - 1834)
Collins, (William) Wilkie (1824 - 1889)
Collodi, Carlo (1826 - 1890)
Confucius (-551 - -479)
Congreve, William (1670 - 1729)
Conrad, Joseph (1857 - 1924)
Cooper, James Fenimore (1789 - 1851)
Crane, Stephen ( 1871 - 1900)

D

Dana, Richard Henry ( 1815 - 1882)
Dante, Alighieri ( 1265 - 1321)
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809 - 1882)
Defoe, Daniel (1660 - 1731)
Demosthenes ( -384 - -322)
Descartes, René (1596 - 1650)
Dickens, Charles (1812 - 1870)
Dickinson, Emily (Elizabeth) (1830 - 1886)
Donne, John (1572 - 1631)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821 - 1881)
Dowson, Ernest Christopher (1867 - 1900)
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859 - 1930)
Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871 - 1945)
Dryden, John (1631 - 1700)
Dumas, Alexandre père (1802 - 1870)

E

Eliot, George (1819 - 1880)
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888 - 1965)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803 - 1882)
Epictetus (55 - 135)
Erasmus, Desiderius (1469 - 1536)
Euripides (-480 - -406)

F

Fielding, Henry ( 1707 - 1754)
Firdawsi (940 - 1020)
Flaubert, Gustave (1821 - 1880)
Foss, Sam Walter (1858 - 1911)
France, Anatole (1844 - 1924)
Freud, Sigmund (1856 - 1939)
Frost, Robert Lee (1874 - 1963)

G

Galen (130 - 199)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749 - 1832)
Grahame, Kenneth (1859 - 1932)
Gray, Thomas (1716 - 1771)
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm (1785 - 1763)

H

Haggard, H. Rider (1856 - 1925)
Hardy, Thomas (1840 - 1928)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804 - 1864)
Hemans, Felicia Dorthea (1793 - 1835)
Henley, William Ernest (1849 - 1903)
Herodotus (-484 - -425)
Herrick, Robert (1591 - 1674)
Hippocrates (-460 - -377)
Hobbes, Thomas (1588 - 1679)
Homer (-800 - -900)
Housman, Alfred Edward (1859 - 1936)
Hubbard, Elbert Green (1856 - 1915)
Hugo, Victor (1802 - 1885)
Hume, David (1711 - 1776)
Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh (1784 -1859)

I

Ibsen, Henrik (1828 - 1906)
Irving, Washington (1783 - 1859)

J

James, Henry (1843 - 1916)
James, William (1842 - 1910)
Jonson, Ben (1572- 1637)
Joseph, Chief (Highn'moot Tooyalakekt) (1804 - 1904)
Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius (1882 - 1941)

K

Kant, Immanuel (1724 - 1804)
Keats, John (1795 - 1821)
Kempis, Thomas à (1380 - 1471)
Khayyam, Omar (1048 - 1131)
Kipling, Rudyard (1865 - 1936)

L

Lamb, Charles (1775 - 1834)
Lawrence, David Herbert (1885 - 1930)
Lazarus, Emma (1849 - 1887)
Lear, Edward (1812 - 1888)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646 - 1716)
Lincoln, Abraham (1809 - 1865)
Locke, John (1632 - 1704)
London, Jack (1876 - 1916)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807 - 1882)
Lovelace, Richard (1618 - 1657)

M

Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469 - 1527)
Marlowe, Christopher (1564 - 1593)
Marvell, Andrew (1621 - 1678)
Marx, Karl/Engels, Friedrich (1818 - 1883)
Maupassant, Guy de (1850 - 1893)
McDonald, S.P. Clarence (0 - 0)
Melville, Herman (1819 - 1891)
Mill, John Stuart (1806 - 1873)
Milton, John (1608 - 1674)
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533 - 1592)
Montgomery, Lucy Maud (1874 - 1942)

N

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844 - 1900)
Noyes, Alfred (1880 - 1958)

O

Orczy, Baroness Emma (1865 - 1947)
Ortega y Gasset, José (1883 - 1955)

P

Paine, Thomas ( 1737 - 1809)
Pascal, Blaise ( 1623 - 1662)
Philip II, King of Macedon (-382 - -336)
Plato (-427 - -347)
Plotinus (205 - 270)
Plutarch (50 - 125)
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809 - 1849)
Pope, Alexander (1688 - 1744)
Pound, Ezra Loomis (1885 - 1972)
Prescott, William Hickling (1796 - 1859)
Publius Ovidius Naso (0 - 0)

R

Raleigh, Sir Walter (1554 - 1618)
Rhead, Louis (1857 - 1926)
Rice, Henry Grantland (1880 - 1954)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869 - 1935)
Rossetti, Christina (1830 - 1894)
Rostand, Edmond (1868 - 1918)
Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712 - 1778)

S

Sa'di, Sheykh Moslehoddin (1213 - 1293)
Seeger, Alan (1888 - 1916)
Service, Robert W. (1874 - 1958)
Shakespeare, William (1564 - 1616)
Shaw, George Bernard (1856 - 1950)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797 - 1851 )
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792 - 1822)
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751 - 1816)
Sinclair, Upton Beall (1878 - 1968)
Smith, Adam (1723 - 1790)
Sophocles (-496 - -405)
Spenser, Edmund (1552 - 1599)
Spyri, Johanna (1827 - 1901)
Stannard, David Edward (1941 - )
Stendhal ( 1783 - 1842 )
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour (1850 - 1894)
Stoker, Bram (1847 - 1912)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811 - 1896)
Summers, Montague (1880 - 1948)
Swift, Jonathan Dean (1667 - 1745)

T

Tacitus, P. Cornelius (56 - 120)
Tennyson, Lord Alfred (1809 - 1892)
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence (1863 - 1940)
Thompson, Francis (1859 - 1907)
Thoreau, Henry David (1817 - 1862)
Thucydides (-455 - -400)
Titus Lucretius Carus (-95 - -55)
Tolstoy, Leo (1828 - 1910)
Twain, Mark (1835 - 1910)

V

Verne, Jules (1828 - 1905)
Virgil (-70 - -19)
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

W

Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823 - 1913)
Wallace, Lewis (1827 - 1905)
Washington, Booker Taliaferro (1856 - 1915)
Wells, Herbert George (1866 - 1946)
Wharton, Edith (1862 - 1937)
Wheatley, Phillis (1753 - 1784)
Whitman, Walter (1819 - 1892)
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807 - 1892)
Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills (1854 - 1900)
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759 - 1797)
Wordsworth, William (1770 - 1850)
Wyss, Johann Rudolph (1782 - 1830)

Y

Yeats, William Butler (1865 - 1939)