THE TWELVE IMMORTALS
Mr. Rudyard Kipling's speech in which ho referred, to the twelve immortals has created considerable interest in the United States as to their identity. The "Independent of Boston" says: "In presenting the following list of candidates, our judgment is perhaps warped in favour ot those who wrote in English or who have been most felicitously translated into English, The selection is necessarily confined to the Eastern world. Within these limitations we submit, with all possible modesty, these twelve names for the consideration of our readers: Homer, AEschylus, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Goethe, Fielding, Balzac, and Dostoievsky. Not an American among them; in fact, the only American candidates seriously considered were Emerson and Whitman, but these, upon reflection, went the way of Pindar, Euripides, Moliere, Flaubert, Dickens, and Tolstoy. And not a woman! Even the most ardent feminist could consider only Sappho, with Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and George Eliot well down the slope of immortal fame."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 109, 4 November 1926, Page 18
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162THE TWELVE IMMORTALS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 109, 4 November 1926, Page 18
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