And, though he was eager for literary recognition, he was also the most ill-suited candidate for this kind of canonisation, at least until the similarly elusive Bob Dylan came along a decade later.
More than 20 separate new ministates, including one for a drought-stricken area incongruously named Greenland, have sprouted up across Somalia, some little more than Web sites or so-called briefcase governments, others heavily armed, all eager for international recognition and the money that may come with it.
If Shakespeare was the peculiar genius of the age, an ever-observant man from the countryside who looked at the foibles of the world with detachment, Jonson was the city man, hot-tempered and slightly out of control, at once eager for the recognition of his betters and unable to stop himself from creating controversies.
Grisolano, a gruff and stocky Iowan, spent years in the shadow of his mentor, Obama's founding strategist, David Axelrod, happily so, but he now seemed eager for his own recognition.
Don't try to impress in meetings; don't start calculating how to find favour with your seniors; don't seem eager for praise and recognition; always acknowledge the contribution of others.
And she seemed eager to suggest that the Taliban, the fundamentalist Muslim militia that controls most of Afghanistan and is eager for American diplomatic recognition as its rightful government, has no hope for formal ties to the United States unless it expels Mr. bin Laden, who is reported to live in the war-ruined Afghan city of Kandahar.
If it is "common knowledge" that rugby is the father of American football, as some claim, in the US the game can nonetheless seem more like an eager but overlooked child, jumping up and down at the back of the schoolroom, eager for rare and fleeting recognition.
If you're eager for attention, fans and face recognition, scientific research is not for you.
And designers working today like Marc Newson and Karim Rashid, whose designs are available new, are entering the market, at its invitation, and are eager for major collectors and museum recognition.
