Quote of the day
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
John William Mackail

Born: August 26, 1859
Died: December 13, 1945 (aged 86)
Bio: John William Mackail was a Scottish man of letters and socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil scholar. He was also a poet, literary historian and biographer.
Known for:
- Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
- The Life of William Morris (1899)
- Biblia Innocentium (1892)
- Latin Literature (1895)
- Lectures on Poetry (1911)






