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This week's featured author pagesGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831) -- great German philosopher who influenced Karl Marx, and who is famous for his impenetrable writing
Henry W. Longfellow (1807 - 1882) -- nineteenth century American poet
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865) -- skillful English novelist, a contemporary and friend of Dickens and Charlotte Brontë
Xenocrates (396 - 314) -- Greek philosopher who systematised Platonism and defended it against Aristotle
Hesiod (900 - 800) -- early Greek lyric poet