Solon Robinson was a writer, journalist, agriculturist, and pioneer. He wrote for the New York Tribune and American Agriculturist and published several books including Hot Corn, a bestseller.
Marie Françoise Sophie Nichault de la Valette, épouse Lottier puis Gay, née le 1er juillet 1776 à Paris où elle est morte le 5 mars 1852, est une écrivaine, compositrice et salonnière française.
Sophie Jewett, also known under the pseudonym Ellen Burroughs, was an American lyric poet, translator, and professor at Wellesley College. Much of her poetry contains lesbian themes.
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in thirty competitions, won twenty-four, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won thirteen competitions, and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles; Euripides won four.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard oli tanskalainen teologi, filosofi ja uskonnollinen kirjailija, joka on vaikuttanut merkittävästi sekä kristilliseen teologiaan, fenomenologiaan että eksistentialismiin. Hän sai vaikutteita kristillisestä perinteestä, antiikin kreikkalaisesta filosofiasta, saksalaisesta idealismista ja romantiikan ironiasta.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christianity, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a "single individual", giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment. He was against literary critics who defined idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, and thought that Swedenborg, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schlegel, and Hans Christian Andersen were all "understood" far too quickly by "scholars".
Henry Spenser Wilkinson was the first Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University. While he was an English writer known primarily for his work on military subjects, he had wide interests. Earlier in his career he was the drama critic for London's Morning Post.
Stacy Aumonier was a British writer and stage performer, most highly regarded for his short stories. Between 1913 and 1928, he wrote more than 85 stories, 6 novels, a volume of character studies, and a volume of 15 essays.
