England Quote by William Cowper

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton .”

— Joseph Devlin

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

— Mary MacLane

O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once…

— Henry David Thoreau

The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded…

— Joseph Jacobs

“No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.”

— Philip Pullman

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

— John Milton

There were poets before Homer.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

— John Dryden

Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

— Homer

“Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention of any writer whatever. The praise of judgment Virgil has justly contested with him,…

— Alexander Pope