Napoleon did not make it to America. Instead, he gave himself up to the British, who banished him to St. Helena. On seeing an Englishman reading Milton’s Paradise Lost on board the Northumberland, the ship that conveyed him to exile, Napoleon reportedly said,
>Your British Homer lacks taste, harmony, warmth, naturalness. Read again the poet of Achilles. Devour Ossian. Those are the poets who lift up the soul, and give to man a colossal greatness. (10)
Was he right on Milton?
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Ethan Diaz
Yes. Milton is one of the worst English poets and definitely the most overrated
Wyatt Murphy
Anglos are not human so it works out
Ethan James
No. Milton is one of the greatest English poets and definitely is not to be underrated.
Jonathan Jenkins
>lol I should write my sentences all wonky because that's how it is in Latin lmao
Brayden Perez
>Torquato
>Homer
>Dante
>Ariosto
>Virigl
>Milton
>Camoes
This is the correct order.
Ian Sullivan
>Tasso, Ariosto, Milton, and Camoes on the same list as Homer and Dante
Confirmed for not having any taste or critical judgement. If you read him in Greek you'd know that Homer BTFOs those hacks so much that it's not even funny.
Jonathan Turner
>hurr I am too much of a retard to understand structured verse so I will blame the author
Gabriel James
>implying there was a single homer and his works are not the product of a pre-literate oral culture
Leo Rogers
>give to man a colossal greatness.
>gave himself up
>on board the Northumberland, the ship that conveyed him to exile
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