...enduring place in the largest of literary contexts, and the declaration of the triumph of English: Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom...scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time! (1l. 41-3) In writing his elegy for Shakespeare, Jonson established the model for...

...Jonson memorialized his friend and rival as one who shone brighter than all other dramatists and poets: Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom...scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time . . . (41-3) But universality is a tricky concept: often what we believe to have comprehensive...

...observes in his famous elegy, he equaled the ancients, but "when [his] Socks were on, / Leave [him] alone, for the comparison / Of all, that insolent.../ Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come" (lines 37-40). This opinion would have been particularly true of Shakespeare in 1599, before he had...

...Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage; or when thy socks were on, Leave , By but for all time; And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came forth to...

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...dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage: or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all that insolent...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. The comment about Shakespeare's "small knowledge" of Latin and Greek cannot be taken seriously. Nowadays,...

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