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“His character as one of the fathers of the English language would alone make his works important, even those which have little poetical merit. He was as simple as Wordsworth in preferring his homely but vigorous Saxon tongue, when it was neglected by the court, and had not yet attained to the dignity of a literature, and rendered a similar service to his country to that which Dante rendered to Italy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)