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Article: BOOKS: THE ART OF CRITICISM: 11 FAMILIARITY
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 19, 1995
- Author:
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In the first place, as he {Chaucer} is the father of English
poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the
Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual
fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore
speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he
knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by
few writers, and scarcely by any of the Ancients, excepting Virgil
and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation,
because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way;
but swept like a drag-net, great and small. There was plenty
enough, but the dishes were ill sorted; whole pyramids of ...
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