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This week's featured author pagesOliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894) -- physician, who wrote the "Breakfast-Table" series of essays
Ralph Cudworth (1617 - 1680) -- a representative of the Cambridge Platonists, Cudworth argued extensively against reductivism
Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) -- English playwright
William B. Yeats (1865 - 1939) -- Irish poet, who wrote pieces of simple style related to pagan mythology. Chief proponent of the Irish Renaissance movement.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) -- one of the greatest French poets of the 19th century