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This week's featured author pages

John Donne (1572 - 1631) -- author of metaphysical and love poetry that is among the greatest ever written

Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856) -- German lyric poet

Cesare Beccaria (1738 - 1794) -- Italian jurist who, preempting Bentham, encouraged the improvement of prison systems in Europe

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) -- arguably the most heralded poet and dramatist of all time.

Samuel T. Coleridge (1772 - 1834) -- poet and literary philosopher of the Romantic movement.