French poet, novelist, translator, and collaborator with Mme. de La Fayette.

Dramatist and poet, he was part of a drinking and literary coterie attached to the court of Charles II. His plays include Pompey the Great (1664), translated from Corneille, The Mulberry-Garden (1668), Antony and Cleopatra (1677), and Bellamira, Or The Mistress (1687).

Archbishop of Canterbury from 1758.

Novelist and salonnière, Mme. de Scudéry was known along with d'Urfé and Calprènede for promoting literary and cultural aesthetics of delicate refinement exalting chivalric virtues partly through long works of romance fiction that constitute the most significant examples of the Roman de longue haleine, literally the "long-winded novel." She published most of her work under the name of her brother, Georges, but her authorship was recognized. Artamène ou Le Grand Cyrus (1649-1653), Clélie (1654-1660), and Mathilde d'Aguilar (1667) are her best-remembered works.

Brother to Madeleine de Scudéry, his works include the play L'Amour tyrannique (1640) and the epic poem Alaric (1655).

Founded by John Arbuthnot, the loose association of writing collaborators included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift as well as other members. Their work was collected as Memoirs of the extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (1741).

Poet, novelist, biographer, critic, translator, editor, historian, antiquarian, and collector of literary curiosities, Scott was especially well loved for his representations of the culture and scenery of his native Scotland. His initial fame derived from Romantic poems such as The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810).

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, also known as "Scipio Africanus the Elder," was a famed general and chief magistrate for the Roman Republic. He is primarily regarded for his strategic brilliance, which was most strongly evidenced in his defeat of Hannibal at the Battle of Zama during the Second Punic War.

Friedrich Schlegel was a poet, novelist, classicist, philologist, and literary critic. He was highly influential in the development of German Romanticism, especially through his contributions to his brother August Wilhelm's periodical The Athenäum.

Appointed professor at Jena in 1798, August Wilhelm von Schlegel was a poet, playwright, satirist, translator, literary critic, periodical editor, and propogandist. With his brother Friedrich he edited the periodical The Athenæum. His translations of Shakespeare's plays brought the English dramatist to a broad German audience. Schlegel's lectures beginning in Jena and continuing over the next fourteen years in Berlin and Vienna spread the Romantic aesthetic throughout Europe.