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Preparing for CollegeLincoln SteffensCatalog1、The Author- Lincoln Steffens2、The literary knowledge mentioned in the article -Homer -Dante -Shakespeare -Caesar -Robert Owen -Tories -Liberals -Roman Catholic -ProtestantLincoln SteffensSteffens was born April 6, 1866, in?San Francisco. He grew up in a wealthy family and attended a military academy. He studied in France and Germany following graduation from the?University of CaliforniaLincoln’s careerSteffens began his career as a journalist at the?New York Evening Post. He later became an editor of?McClures?magazine, where he became part of a celebrated?muckraking?trio with?Ida Tarbell and?Ray Stannard Baker. He specialized in investigating government and political corruption. In 1906, he left?McClures, along with Tarbell and Baker, to form?The American Magazine. After the Muckraking Movement, he began to investigate the Mexican Revolution and the Soviet Revolution.He died of heart failure on August 9, 1936, in?Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.Lincoln’s worksThe Shame of the Cities?(1904) ?The Struggle for Self-Government?(1906) ?The Traitor State?(1905)Autobiography（1931） HomerIn the?Western classical tradition,?Homer is the author of the Ilia? (伊里亚特,相传为荷马所做的古希腊史诗) and the Odyssey(奥德赛古,希腊史诗), and is revered as the greatest of?ancient Greek?epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the?Western canon?of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of?literature.For modern scholars the date of Homer refers not to an individual, but to the period when the epics were created. DanteDurante degli Alighieri,?simply?referred to as?Dante?was a major Italian poet of the?Middle Ages. His?Divine Comedy, originally called?La Comedia?and later called?Divina?by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the?Italian language?and a masterpiece of world literature.In Italy he is known as the Supreme Poet.Shakespeare William Shakespeare?was an English?poet?and?playwright, widely regarded