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A free library of enduring ideas.
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Charles Darwin1809–1882
Charles Sanders Peirce1839–1914
David Hume1711–1776
Francis Bacon1561–1626
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862
Herbert Spencer1820–1903
Herman Melville1819–1891
John Dryden1631–1700
John Henry Newman1801–1890
Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall1774–1856
Matthew Arnold1822–1888
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Robert Southey1774–1843
Sir Philip Sidney1554–1586
Sir William Jones1746–94
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881
Thomas Love Peacock1785–1866
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
Belief, truth and the practical consequences of ideas in American philosophy.
The American Renaissance
Nineteenth-century American literature exploring nature, individuality and society.
Early Modern Philosophy
Inquiries into reason, experience, knowledge and human nature in early modern thought.
East and West
Literature, history and thought across Eastern and Western traditions.
The Romantic Critics
Poetry, drama and the imagination in the criticism of the Romantic era.
Victorian Sages
Victorian reflections on society, culture and the moral questions of a changing world.