James Fenimore Cooper | fashioned after the same models |
So far as taste and forms alone are concerned, the literature of England and that of America must be fashioned after the same models. The authors, previously to the revolution, are common property, and it is quite idle to say that the American has not just as good a right to claim Milton, and Shakspeare, and all the old masters of the language, for his countrymen, as an Englishman.
—James Fenimore Cooper, Notions of the Americans, first American edition, 1833
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