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Wu Cheng'en
c. 1500-82; China

Ming dynasty scholar Wu Cheng'en is considered the author of Journey to the West, a fictionalized account of Buddhist monk Xuanzang's pilgrimage to India. Also known as Monkey, the novel is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of premodern China.

Sir Thomas Wyatt
b. 1503; England
d. 10-6-1542

Wyatt and Henry Howard are known as the “Fathers of the English Sonnet”.

Thomas Wyatt quote ~
• “Therefore fear not to assay/ To gather, ye that may,/ The flower that this day/ Is fresher than the next.”
That the Season of Enjoyment is Short

• Selected Poems: Sir Thomas Wyatt

John Wycliffe
b. c. 1320; England
d. 12-31-1384

John Wycliffe was a theologian who founded the Lollard movement, a precursor to the Protestant Reformation. Wycliffe is credited as the instigator of the first complete translation of the Bible into English and his work of making the sacred available to the common man was part of the paradigm of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381.

John Wycliffe quote ~
• “This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.”

• The English Works of Wyclif Hitherto Unprinted

Hedd Wyn
b. 1-13-1887; Trawsfynydd, Meirionydd, North Wales
d. 7-31-1917; Pilckem Ridge, Ypres - Battle of Paschendale

Welsh language poet Hedd Wyn, born Ellis Humphrey Evans, was killed during the Battle of Passchendaele in World War I.

He took the name Hedd Wyn, meaning “blessed peace”, in 1910.

Hedd Wyn quote ~
• “Why must I live in this grim age,
When, to a far horizon, God
Has ebbed away, and man, with rage,
Now wields the sceptre and the rod?

Man raised his sword, once God had gone,
To slay his brother, and the roar
Of battlefields now casts upon
Our homes the shadow of the war.

The harps to which we sang are hung,
On willow boughs, and their refrain
Drowned by the anguish of the young
Whose blood is mingled with the rain.”
Rhyfel (“War”)

• The English Works of Wyclif Hitherto Unprinted