"Good! forget the lot."
"Really?"
"Read Homer as representative of antiquity; Virgil among the Latin poets; Dante in the Middle Ages. I am giving you giants' marrow to feed on."
"And among the moderns?"
"Ronsard, Mathurin, Régnier, Milton, Goethe, Uhland, Byron, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, and especially a little volume which has just been published by Latouche."
"What is the name of it?"
"André Chénier."
"I have read it...."
"You have read Marie-Joseph.... Do not confuse Marie-Joseph with André."
"But how am I to read foreign authors when I do not know either Greek or English or German?"