 | Graham Clarke - 1993 - 600 Seiten
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 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1997 - 378 Seiten
...had never been a "good" American poet by predicting that this situation will no doubt have changed when "we shall have existed as a people as long as...and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton." Jefferson added, in a footnote, that in any event there were only two poets, Homer and Virgil, who... | |
 | Gunnar Myrdal - 1995 - 814 Seiten
...as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans, a Virgil, the French, a Racine, the English, a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will inqnire from what unfriendly cause it has proceeded." How analogous to this is the reproach which you... | |
 | Willie Lee Nichols Rose - 1999 - 558 Seiten
...single poet, whether of comedies or fables? But, perhaps, he would answer, as he has already done: "When we shall have existed as a people as long as...Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakspeare and Milton, should the reproach be still true, we will enquire from what unfriendly causes... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1999 - 577 Seiten
...inferiority by arguing that it was unfair to disparage American culture for not producing a poet until "we shall have existed as a people" as long as the Greeks and Romans had before producing a Homer or Virgil. Yet later on, in the same work, he reasoned that... | |
 | Eve Kornfeld - 2001 - 296 Seiten
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When we shall have existed as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will enquire from what unfriendly... 
