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Babrius Babrius
Babrius , fl. 2d cent.?, Greek fabulist, versifier of the fables of Aesop . Many of the medieval prose collections of Aesop were based on Babrius. He may have been a Hellenized Roman.... Read more
Nicholas Breton Nicholas Breton
Nicholas Breton , 1551?-c.1623, English author, a prolific and versatile writer of verse and prose. His best work, written in a lyrical and pastoral vein, appeared in The Arbor of Amorous Devices (1597), England's Helicon (1600), and The Passionate Shepherd (1604). Bibliography: See his poems... Read more
Thomas Deloney Thomas Deloney
Thomas Deloney , c.1543-c.1600, English ballad writer, fiction writer, and pamphleteer. He was a silk weaver. Deloney's chief works are three prose narratives— Jack of Newbury, Thomas of Reading, and The Gentle Craft (all c.1597)—relating to the clothier's, weaver's, and shoemaker's... Read more
Hadewijch Hadewijch
Hadewijch , fl. early 13th cent., Dutch mystical poet, a nun. Her works, beautiful lyrics on the love of God and a number of letters in rhyme and visions in prose, are a monument both of early Dutch literature and of Roman Catholic mysticism.... Read more
Phaedrus Phaedrus
Phaedrus , fl. 1st cent. AD, Latin writer, a Thracian slave, possibly a freedman of Augustus. He wrote fables in verse based largely on those of Aesop . The prose collections of fables that were popular throughout Western Europe in the Middle Ages were probably derived from Phaedrus.... Read more
Edward Moore Edward Moore
Edward Moore 1712-57, English dramatist. He wrote two comedies in the sentimental tradition, The Foundling (1748) and Gil Blas (1751), but his reputation as a dramatist rests primarily on his prose tragedy The Gamester (1753).... Read more
Francis Quarles Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles 1592-1644, English poet. His best-known work is Emblems (1635), a book of moral and religious verse. Though not an ardent royalist, he wrote pamphlets during the Commonwealth upholding the divine right of kings. Enchiridion (1640) is his collection of prose aphorisms.... Read more
William Vaughn Moody William Vaughn Moody
William Vaughn Moody 1869-1910, American poet and dramatist, b. Spencer, Ind., grad. Harvard, 1893. After writing several verse dramas, Moody achieved wide success with the prose play The Great Divide (produced as A Sabine Woman, 1906). The Faith Healer (1909), however, also written in prose,... Read more
Donald Hall Donald Hall
Donald Hall New England writer Donald Hall (born 1928) was a major poet in the lineage of Robert Frost. Memoirist, short story writer, essayist, dramatist, critic, and anthologist as well as poet, he was one of the most versatile and respected writers of his generation. "In the history of... Read more
Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio , 1313-75, Italian poet and storyteller, author of the Decameron. Born in Paris, the illegitimate son of a Tuscan merchant and a French woman, he was educated at Certaldo and Naples by his father, who wanted him to take up commerce and law. In Naples he met (1336) the woman... Read more

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