John S. Major > Quotes

“My invariable criterion for whether a poem deserved to be included in these pages was this: that it should be able to surprise and delight the common reader. Every page should be a source of pleasure and discovery.”
― John S. Major, World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time

“people who gradually traded a lifestyle based on the harvesting of wild plant and animal resources”
― John S. Major, Ancient China: A History