Our failure to create a body of art comparable with that of Germany, Italy and France has sometimes been attributed to inherent lack of the dramatic instinct in music, but that view is contradicted by the historical facts.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
In short, M. Maurice Maeterlinck has given us the greatest work of genius of our time, and the most extraordinary and the most simple also, comparable, and-shall I dare to say it-superior in beauty to whatever is most beautiful in Shakespeare.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
At no other Italian town was there any outburst of book-illustration at all comparable to those at Venice and Florence in the last decade of the fifteenth century.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard