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An outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets, Archibald Lampman was born on November 17, 1861 in Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Chatham. Lampman was repelled by the mechanization of urban life and escaped to the countryside…

Regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th century life and letters, Samuel Johnson (usually known as Dr. Johnson) was a writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic,…

American author and poet, Frederick William Thomas was born October 26, 1806 in Providence, Rhode Island. He spent his early years in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended law school in Baltimore, Maryland where in 1828 he was admitted to the bar.…

English Whig politician, essayist, poet and historian, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay of Rothley was born on October 25, 1800 in Leicestershire. Macaulay studied law and was called to the bar in 1826 but never practised seriously. He…