British Literature/old English Literature 449-1066

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    “However British you may be, I am more British still.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)