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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 110 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 42 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 24 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 16 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 16 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 14 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource] 14 0 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 12 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], House of Delegates. (search)
Italian friend finds fault with us for not classing the great Italian poet with Homer and Shakspeare, in our article upon the poems of Homer the other day. We did noHomer the other day. We did not mean to deny his claims to rank with them, and yet the omission was not made through inadvertence. We were thinking of the Divine Comedy, all the time, while we wayings may serve to give us an idea of his character, he is as unknown to us as Homer himself. The names of the two men are mere symbols — symbols of the poetic gif Probably no two poets that ever lived have said so little about themselves, as Homer and Shakspeare. This has been considered a remarkable trait in each, and the moed therefore. We see nothing remarkable and nothing deserving of praise in it. Homer wrote epics. Shakspeare wrote dramas.--The first tells the tale of heroes who all other writers. His poem is the most original book that ever was written.--Homer, undoubtedly, made free use of the materials that had been left by older Rhapso