[Xenalyte]

Mostly that no one sucks like Whitman, except maybe Thoreau. (I can’t stand the Transcendentalists.)

/hijack

[Tanniker Smith]

No, sorry, I meant you were missing my point, not the other way around.

Why would anyone be surprised that Italian children in Italy are learning about an Italian poet in school?
Why would anyone be surprised that American children are reading American authors in school (okay, and British, too, because we only go back 230 years) instead of reading Italian poets?

[SuziQ]

(I can’t stand the Transcendentalists.)

They were so very 'Massachusetts'.