Note 644 — V 1706-1816

He admires Cicero—not only as philosopher and orator but as a ‘sublime poet’! (O Homem (1815), p. 98)—and Seneca, calls Petrarca immortal, Tasso incomparable, and is generous in his appreciation of English writers. At about the same time John Keats, as Petrarca five centuries earlier, was also reading Homer in translation, but in a somewhat different spirit.