No contemporary writes of torture.
In 1801 his resignation from office caused extraordinarily little sensation; a contemporary wrote that "nobody speaks of him; no addresses, no subscriptions, no stir of any kind any where".
As a contemporary wrote, "Men of learning have sucked her brains and made a great deal by publishing works, of which she furnished the contents, while she derived none of the advantages".
The Scots poet, Robert Burns (1759 96), a near contemporary, wrote a number of works celebrating the tragic romanticism of the Jacobite cause.
Ma Zhiyuan, another contemporary, wrote 14 plays, of which the most celebrated is Hangongqiu ("Sorrow of the Han Court").
Wang Shifu, Guan's contemporary, wrote Xixiangji (Romance of the Western Chamber), based on a popular Tang prose romance about the amorous exploits of the poet Yuan Zhen, renamed Zheng Sheng in the play.
In Rates Of Exchange, the imaginary Slakan language was largely invented over several years by the combined contributions of the polyglot participants of the council's annual Cambridge seminar of contemporary writing, of which Bradbury was the founder and, for many years, chairman.
His contemporary, Walt Whitman, wrote of the ideal he called "higher progress", in other words the liberation of human beings from wage slavery in favour of lazing about and reading books.
Donne's contemporary, Richard Baker, wrote of him at this time as "not dissolute [i.e., careless], but very neat; a great visitor of Ladies, a great frequenter of Plays, a great writer of conceited Verses".
Jordanes, to whom the Venethi meant his contemporary Slavs, wrote of past fighting between the Ostrogoths and the Venethi, which took place during the third quarter of 4th century in today's Ukraine.
While her contemporaries wrote poems of domestic unhappiness and the supermarket sublime (so this story goes), Forché was making engagé poetry out of Reagan-era dirty wars.
