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3 days ago · Alexander Pope (born May 21, 1688, London, England—died May 30, 1744, Twickenham, near London) was a poet and satirist of the English Augustan period, best known for his poems An Essay on Criticism (1711), The Rape of the Lock (1712–14), The Dunciad (1728), and An Essay on Man (1733–34). He is one of the most epigrammatic of all English authors.
- Homer and The Dunciad
Alexander Pope - Poetry, Satire, Enlightenment: These poems...
- Thomas a Kempis
Thomas à Kempis (born 1379/80, Kempen, near Düsseldorf,...
- Homer and The Dunciad
18 hours ago · Peter I ( Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized : Pyotr I Alekseyevich, [note 1] IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [ O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [ O.S. 28 January] 1725), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, [note 2] from 1721 until his death in 1725.
2 days ago · In general, the early modern period is considered to have lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries (about 1500–1800). In a European context, it is defined as the period following the Middle Ages and preceding the advent of modernity, sometimes defined as the "late modern period". In the context of global history, the early modern period is ...
4 days ago · Samuel Wesley (born Feb. 24, 1766, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Oct. 11, 1837, London) was a composer and organist who helped introduce the music of J.S. Bach into England. The son of Charles Wesley, the hymn writer, and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, he began an oratorio, Ruth, at a young age and at age 11 ...
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5 days ago · Harriet Beecher Stowe (born June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.—died July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is cited among the causes of the American Civil War.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · Culture of theUnited States. American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also includes literature produced in languages other than English.
1 day ago · Find your next biographies & memoirs read. Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes: and for a brief moment, share in their joy and feel their pain. This is the power that great memoirs have over us. But if you can’t stomach yet another celebrity tell-all, then you might be ready for fresh blood! Let the reviewers at Reedsy Discovery introduce ...
