Pablo Neruda. Annemarie Heinrich (1912-2005), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Pablo Neruda Biography and Legacy Pablo Neruda remains one of the most powerful and contradictory voices in world literature. To read Neruda is to...
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Dante Alighieri. Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Dante Alighieri Biography and Legacy Dante Alighieri was a Florentine poet, thinker, and philosopher whose masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, reshaped world literature. By writing in...
Image by Michal Renčo from Pixabay Letters from a Stoic by Seneca Seneca, full name Lucius Annaeus Seneca, was a Roman philosopher, statesman, playwright, and Stoic thinker who lived from around 4 BCE to...
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...
Gulliver’s Travels book cover. Author Jonathan Swift Illustrator Arthur Rackham, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric. He is...
Sherwood Anderson, writer of Winesburg, Ohio. Pirie MacDonald , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his influential...
Pietro Aretino. Pietro Aretino, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Pietro Aretino Biography and Legacy Pietro Aretino was a prolific Italian writer, poet, playwright, and satirist of the Renaissance period. He is often remembered for his...
As I Lay Dying cover. English: Published in New York by Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. Designer uncredited., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner William Faulkner was an...
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...