 | Ruth Morse, Barry Windeatt - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 296 pages
...patina of age: In the first place, as he 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; learn'd in all Sciences; and, therefore speaks properly on all Subjects:... | |
 | Lee Patterson - Poetry - 1991 - 508 pages
...since the mid-fifteenth century) but to the great originators of antiquity: "I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil" (280). 2b In linking Chaucer to the great classical poets, Dryden rescued him from the Gothic darkness... | |
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In the first place, as he 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... 
