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Charles Darwin1809–1882
Charles Sanders Peirce1839–1914
David Hume1711–1776
Francis Bacon1561–1626
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
Herman Melville1819–1891
John Dryden1631–1700
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall1774–1856
Matthew Arnold1822–1888
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Robert Southey1774–1843
Sir William Jones1746–94
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881
Thucydidesc. 460–c. 400 BC
W. B. Yeats1865–1939
Walt Whitman1819–1892
William Hazlitt1778–1830
William James1842–1910
William Strunk Jr.1869–1946
collections
American Pragmatism
Peirce and William James on belief, truth and the practical difference that ideas make.
The American Renaissance
Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Melville: the generation of American writers who came of age in the 1840s and 1850s.
Early Modern Philosophy
Francis Bacon and David Hume on knowledge, experience and human nature.
East and West
Sir William Jones and Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, European scholars who brought Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit learning to Western readers.
The Romantic Critics
Shelley and Hazlitt on poetry, drama and the imagination.
Victorian Sages
Carlyle and Arnold on society, culture and the spirit of the age.