Category talk:Post-Renaissance Personages

Spenser, The faerie Queen 1596: Epicurean quotes
Christian Thomasius, (1655-1728, german jurist and writer), is labeled in Germany as "savior of Epicurus"; he wrote about happiness as 'peace of mind' in Einleitung zur Sittenlehre, (1692, repr. 1968), and recommended reading the french libertines.
Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813), famous german writer, philosopher, journalist, in Agathon 1794, Aristipp 1802, Conversation on Horace, Euthanasia, debates materialism, self-concern, and supports a moderate highly cultivated Epicureanism.
Thomas More (Utopia, Book II) invites to “avoid pleasure which whether prevents to enjoy a wider pleasure, or is followed by some pain”.
Wordsworth: "O ye, who patiently explore / the wreck of Herculanean love, / what rapture, could you seize..." (1820)
Wright, Frances, (1795-1852) A few days in Athens; being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum. [London 1822] New York, Arno Press, 1972. [A novel on Epicurean life]: "An opinion, right or wrong can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation". This quote and other dialogs between Epicurus' and adherents of the school, were written before her twentieth birthday, but published a few years later. Her Epicurean Ideals of Aesthetics and Friends were of interest to Jeremy Bentham, and to Marquis de Lafayette. And for Thomas Jefferson: her work is a "treat to me of the highest order”.

Th. Franklin Mayo, Epicurus in England (1650-1725) (Southwest Press, 1934)
Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1861–1957), American lawyer and author, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, He wrote these books in support of Epicureanism: Essays on Great Writers (1902, among others on M. Montaigne); Memoirs of an Epicurean (1940), Horace: A Biography (1947), Art of happiness; or, The teachings of Epicurus (1970). "Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school."
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) "Conference of College. Teachers of English Studies", 1990 Sept. Oct.: an article on historical American Epicurean character.