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This week's featured author pagesTzu Lao (500 - 500) -- Influential Chinese philosopher who founded Taoism
Seneca (4 - 65) -- Roman statesman, tragic poet, and Stoic philosopher; one of the leading writers in the Silver Age of Latin literature
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) -- Scottish historian and essayist, who famously argued that history is the biography of great men
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) -- major figure in the English Romantic movement
Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) -- Victorian poet