To: urtax$@work
I know we’re in the age of relative quality, but what about the complete works of Shakespeare, or Dante, or Homer?
5 posted on
04/06/2007 5:39:07 AM PDT by
Jagman
(I drank Frank Rabelais under the table!)
To: Jagman
Plus greats like Milton, Twain, Doyle, Kipling, Stevenson, and so many others.
12 posted on
04/06/2007 5:45:42 AM PDT by
Stonewall Jackson
(Sir, I protest! I am not a merry man! - Lt. Worf)
To: Jagman
Shakespeare, or Dante, or Homer? DWE need not apply............(Dead White Europeans)........
15 posted on
04/06/2007 5:47:57 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
To: Jagman
I can think of nothing a person could do to turn kids off from reading quicker than forcing them to read Dante.
To: Jagman
Shakespeare, or Dante, or Homer Interesting. Each was among the first to write in the new language, and each is in the poetic form. Homer, of course, didn't write at all, but it was a new language.
139 posted on
04/06/2007 8:56:19 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(3 May '07 3:14 PM)
To: Jagman
"what about the complete works of Shakespeare, or Dante, or Homer?"
That would ideally require a good mastery of Elisabethan English, Tuscan Italian, and Classical Greek. The first is more likely, but is not to be found in "see spot run" crowd.
219 posted on
04/06/2007 4:20:37 PM PDT by
GSlob
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