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This week's featured author pages

Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599) -- English poet of the sixteenth century

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805) -- great German dramatist and lyric poet, who was also an accomplished philosopher and historian

Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912) -- Irish author of well-known gothic horror fantasy novels

Ovid (43 - 17) -- Roman poet whose often frivolous verse has never ceased to be entertaining and inspiriational.

Virgil (70 - 19) -- Roman poet that sang of the founding of Rome and who would go on to exert an incalculable influence on subsequent literature.