Answer:
2. Great literature addresses universal experiences and remains relevant over time.
Explanation:
The passage by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the fact that some literary works written some hundreds of years ago before our birth can still be relevant to us today, and we find so much joy when we can relate with such works.
Emerson listed some poets of long ago, like the great English poets of Chaucer, Dryden, and Marvell whose works we read with so much pleasure because of their relevance to all times.
