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D. G. James (1905-1968)
British critic, author of Scepticism and Poetry (1937), The Life of Reason: Hobbes, Locke, Bolingbroke (1949), Matthew Arnold and the Decline of English Romanticism (1961), The Dream of Prospero (1967), and other books.

 

 

 

 

 

Henry James (1843-1916)
American (later a British citizen) novelist, one of the great masters of the genre, author of such books as Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, The Ambassadors, Wings of the Dove, The Spoils of Poynton, The Golden Bowl, Portrait of a Lady, The Aspern Papers.

 

 

 

 

 

William James (1842-1910)
American psychologist and pragmatist philosopher, author of such books as The Varieties of Religious Experience. 

 

 

 

 

 

Julian Jaynes (1923- )
Princeton professor of psychology and author of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, a book Barfield reviewed in Teachers College Record.

 

 

 

 

 

John the Baptist (between 8 & 4 BC-about AD 27)
"According to all four Gospels the precursor of Jesus Christ, born in Judea, the son of the priest Zacharias and Elisabeth, cousin of Mary, the mother of Jesus. John was a Nazarite from birth and prepared for his mission by years of self-discipline in the desert. At about the age of 30 he went into the country around the Jordan River preaching penance to prepare for the imminent coming of the Messiah" [Microsoft Encarta 97 Encyclopedia 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation].

 

 

 

 

 


Mark Johnson (1949- )
American professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University and author, with George Lakoff of Metaphors We Live By (1983) and Philosophy in the Flesh (1999).

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
English writer and lexicographer. He was the subject of a famous biography by James Boswell.

 

 

 

 

 

Reverend Jim Jones (1931-1978)
Religious leader of The People's Temple in Guyana, whose fanaticism led to the assassination of Congressman Leo Ryan and the directed suicides of 909 of his followers on November 18, 1978.

 

 

 

 

 

James Joyce (1882-1941)
Expatriate Irish poet and novelist, one of the major writers in the modernist tradition. Author of Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake.