Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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)