Virgil. Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Virgil Biography and Legacy Virgil was a Roman poet, best known for three major works that had a lasting influence on Western literature, The Eclogues (or Bucolics), The...
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Rumi. See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Rumi Biography and Legacy Rumi, born Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī in 1207 in present-day Afghanistan, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi...
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