1850 - 1889
author of
Development of English Literature and Language
first published in 1882
Professor Welsh comments on the following important
authors,
covering Style, Character, Rank, and Influence:
| Alfred | Caedmon | Mandeville | Shakespeare |
| Bacon, Lord | Chaucer | Milton | Spenser |
| Bacon, Roger | Hooker | More | Sydney |
| Bede | Jonson | Raleigh | Wycliffe |
| Caedmon | ? - 680 | The Milton of our Forefathers - D'Israeli |
| Bede | 673 - 735 (62) | The Father of English learning - Burke |
| Alfred | 849 - 901 (52) | The most perfect character in history. He is a singular instance of a prince who has become a hero of romance, who, as such, has had countless imaginary exploits attributed to him, but to whose character romance has done no more than justice, and who appears in exactly the same light in history and in fable - Freeman |
| Roger Bacon | 1214 - 1294 (80) | Hail, Heralds, messengers of God and men! - Homer |
| Mandeville | 1300 - 1371 (71) | Now I an comen hom to reste |
| Wycliffe | 1324 - 1384 (60) | Honored of God to be the first Preacher of a general Reformation to all Europe - Milton |
| Chaucer | 1328 - 1400 (72) | Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath
Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still. - Tennyson |
| More | 1489 - 1535 (46) | Like Cato firm, like Aristides just,
Like rigid Cincinnatus nobly poor, - A dauntless soul erect, who smiled on death. - Thomson |
| Sydney | 1554 - 1586 (32) | Warbler of poetic prose. - Cowper |
| Hooker | 1553 - 1600 (47) | There is no learning that this man hath not searched into ... His books will get reverence from age. - Pope Clement |
| Raleigh | 1552 - 1618 (66) | A great but ill-regulated mind. - Hume |
| Spenser | 1552 - 1599 (47) | Who, like a copious river, pour'd his song
O'er all the mazes of enchanted ground. - Thomson |
| Shakespeare | 1564 - 1616 (52) | Mellifluous Shakespeare - Heywood
The thousand-souled. - Coleridge His thoughts, passions, feelings, strains of fancy, all are of this day as they were of his own; and his genius may be contemporary with the mind of every generation for a thousand years to come. - Prof. Wilson |
| Jonson | 1574 - 1637 (63) | Then Jonson came, instructed from the school,
To please in method, and invent by rule; His studious patience and laborious art By regular approach essay'd the heart. - Samuel Johnson |
| Lord Bacon | 1561 - | Who is there that upon hearing the name of Lord Bacon does not instantly recognize everything of genius the most profound, everything of literature the most extensive, everything of discovery the most penetrating, everything of observation of human life the most distinguishing and refined? - Burke |
| Milton | 1608 - 1674 (66) | Three poets in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty, in both the last: The force of nature could no further go, - To make a third, she joined the other two. - Dryden |
I believe that Alfred Welsh, were he alive
today, would recognize
Ellin Anderson
as a poet of the highest rank, whose work belongs to the ages.
In
Memoriam
a tribute to Professor Welsh
by
Rev. Wm. H. Scott, LL.D.,
President Ohio State University
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