In our Beadroll of the world's greatest writers I shall mention only one more, Goethe.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman
Yet the works of those great writers, those immortals 'On Fame's eternall Beadroll worthie to be fyled' are stable in our affections as is the sun in the firmament.
"The Book-Hunter at Home"
P. B. M. Allan
The famous reference in the Faerie Queene to Dan Chaucer, well of Englishe undefyled, On Fames eternal Beadroll worthie to be fyled, has become part of the Chaucerian critic's stock in trade, and is as apt and as well-known as Dryden's phrase which speaks of Chaucer as "a perpetual fountain of good sense."
"Chaucer and His Times"
Grace E. Hadow