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St. John of the Cross
Saint John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz) was a major figure in the Catholic Reformation, a Spanish mystic and Carmelite friar born at Fontiveros, a small village nea... |
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Miguel de Cervantes, Creator Don Quixote
Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote, the most famous figure in Spanish literature.
Miguel de Cervantes, born in Alcalá de Henares in 1... |
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Edmund Spenser, The Prince of Poets
Spenser was known to his contemporaries as 'the prince of poets', as great in English as Virgil in Latin. He left behind him masterful essays in every genre of poetry, fr... |
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Sir Walter Raleigh, Writer and Explorer
Sir Walter Raleigh is a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer. He was responsible for establishing the first English colony in the New World, on June 4, 1584,... |
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Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist and Poet
Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist and poet, b. Canterbury. Probably the greatest English dramatist before Shakespeare, Marlowe was educated at Cambridge and he went... |
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William Shakespeare
All about William Shakespeare, surely the world's most performed and admired playwright, was born in April, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, about 100 miles nor... |
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Jacob Cats, Dutch Poet
Cats was contemporary with Hooft and Vondel and other distinguished Dutch writers in the golden age of Dutch literature, but his Orangist and Calvinistic opinions separat... |
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Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish Writer
Quevedo was a Spanish satirist, novelist and poet and one of the great writers of the Spanish Golden Age. His Los sueños is a brilliant and bitterly satiric account of th... |
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Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Poet
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft was a Dutch poet, dramawriter and historian by profession. He was the son of the famous plural mayor of Amsterdam, P. C. Hooft. He travelled thr... |
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Tirso de Molina, Creator of Don Juan
Tirso de Molina, pseudonym of Gabriel Téllez, one of the outstanding dramatists of the Golden Age of Spanish literature.
The most powerful dramas associated with his n... |
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Bredero, Dutch Dramatist & Poet
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero is considered the major Dutch poet of his generation, particularly for his spontaneous love sonnets. The first Dutch master of comedy, Bredero... |
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Joost Van Den Vondel
Netherlands poet and convert, born at Cologne, 17 Nov. 1587, of parents whose residence was originally at Antwerp. Of his early youth nothing is known. In his eighth or n... |
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Constantijn Huygens, Poet/Composer
Constantijn Huygens was a Dutch poet and composer, Secretary to two Princes, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. He is often considered a member of what i... |
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John Milton, Writer of Paradise Lost
Milton, John, one of the greatest poets of the English language. While Milton was at Cambridge he wrote poetry in both Latin and English, including the ode "On the Mornin... |
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac, was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobl... |
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