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Introduction, a par with Homer and the benchmark authors of classical antiquity In the preface, Johnson raised Shakespeare to the dignity of an ‘a(chǎn)ncient’ — what nowadays we would call a ‘classic’ — someone whose fame and canonicity are beyond the vicissitudes of passing fashions. As Johnson put it, ‘it would not

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Scott 1871,evoted to the memory of a unique individual or event that can at best be replicated at intervals of 100 years. On the other hand, as this volume amply shows, the idea of publicly celebrating the memory of great writers, and, in particular, the idea of lavishly celebrating the 100th anniversary of th

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Moore 1879,s under discussion in this volume are depicted: Schiller is there, and Shakespeare, and Cervantes and Dante. And in the farthest left corner, there is the nod to native genius: Thomas Moore (1779–1852), known in the 1880s (when the library was built) as ‘Ireland’s national poet’, the ‘bard of Erin’.

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Dante 1865,ablished the medieval Florentine poet’s status as unique among the three crowns of the Italian literary canon: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Over the course of the 19th century Dante eclipses the latter two, emerging as Italy’s national poet. Collectively, the studies narrate the tale of a Dante w

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Petrarch 1874,es Langues Romanes,. published a book entitled . As the title indicates, the work reviewed the celebration of the idea of Latinity with particular reference to the recitation, by the Occitan poet Octavien Bringuier, of an ode entitled . (‘To the Latin Races’) on the occasion of a philological and li

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Voltaire 1878,ch equivalent of the national celebration of Schiller in 1859 or of Shakespeare in 1864. The similarities are only superficial, however, as a closer look at their place within the French tradition of honouring great men, from the Revolution to the First World War, will show. Whereas in other countri

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Vondel 1867,entative of the flourishing city culture of Amsterdam in the decades that saw the emerging independence of the United Provinces. His Mennonite parents had fled religious persecution from Antwerp to Amsterdam by way of Cologne (where Vondel was born) and Utrecht. Settled in Amsterdam from 1597 onward