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This week's featured author pages

Henry W. Longfellow (1807 - 1882) -- nineteenth century American poet

Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) -- Bacon, who was also a politician and a lawyer, advocated the founding of human activity on a common methodology of inquiry

Henry Lawson (1867 - 1922) -- influential poet who captured the Australian way of life

Aristophanes (385 - 450) -- Greek comedian, famous for his savage parodies and chaotic comedies.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894) -- physician, who wrote the "Breakfast-Table" series of essays