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This week's featured author pages

Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400) -- English poet, before Shakespeare, whose varied work includes one of the greatest poems, The Cantebury Tales.

Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599) -- English poet of the sixteenth century

Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637) -- Jacobean dramatist, poet, and critic, some of whose plays were acted in by Shakespeare

Pythagoras (550 - 500) -- a reputed mathematician, scientist, and philosopher, about whom very little is really known

Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) -- a brilliant mathematician and physicist, Newton was also interested in theology and alchemy