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This week's featured author pagesBertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) -- German poet and playwright whose theories of a relationship of alienation between audience and theatre had a marked inpact on the development of drama.
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (1798 - 1857) -- the first French positivist, Comte is famous for his doctrine of the progress of society
Alexander S. Pushkin (1799 - 1837) -- known as the Shakespeare of Russia, he is also the most beloved of her poets
Seamus J. Heaney (1939 - 0) -- Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner
William Morris (1834 - 1896) -- British writer, craftsman, and typographer