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Excerpt from In the Footprints of Dante: A Treasury of Verse and Prose From the Works of Dante The translations from the Canu'm'a and Latin works (as well as such other renderings as are signed T.) are by the Editor, save in so far as an occasional word or phrase has been borrowed from one or other of the existing translations. For convenience of reference two indexes are appended (one of the passages quoted, with their respective titles, the other an index of subjects), besides a list of translators. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Dante, Translated Into English Verse Ann an interval of several years, the translator returns to his work with renewed ardour; and, having devoted much are to the present edition hopes he has succeeded in effect ing considerable improvements, especially m the Paradiso. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Stories From Dante Latin language. Astronomy must also have been specially congenial to the future poet, who mastered all that was known at his day as to'the courses of the stars and the place of the world in the universe. Music, too, was another source of delight to him, and he often alludes to the sweet sounds of various instruments, or to the art of singing, in the manner of one to whom music was a real solace and a great joy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Dante and Beatrice Every commanding personality has some one characteristic that colours all others, permeates all. In Sara Wiley Drummond, ardour was this quality. She seemed incarnate youth, one whose hope, energy, and fire could not be quenched by any weariness, or care, or grief. One purpose bound together all the diverse and eager interests of her life. Hers was the poet's great desire, hers the poet's noble satisfaction. With humility she moved, as was meet in the follower of great masters, and yet with dignity as a labourer in a high calling. Not for an instant did she doubt her task, and into it she threw an enthusiasm and a courage such as are never content with easy achievement. Born to ease, she counted all the fair surroundings of Use adjuncts, pleasant, at times powerful, but to be dismissed without a thought if need were. Her delight in luxuries was as candid as the enjoyment of a child, her indifference to them was superb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Dante, Vol. 1: The Inferno To enable us to understand the design of Dante's poem, it may be useful to take a short review of the time in which he wrote. In the beginning of the fourteenth century, Italy presents a lamentable picture of darkness and misery. At that unhappy period, the pure religion of the primi. Tive Christians had been wholly corrupted by the super. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Some Scraps of Verse and Prose by Dante Gabriel Rossetti In this general view my brother was, I think, not far from agreeing with myself: in the case of such poets as Coleridge, Shelley, or Keats, he would - for the purposes of any edition affecting to be complete - have put in every thing he could lay his hands upon, although he would always have preferred, for his own reading, a compendium of the masterpieces. But, as regards himself individually, personal sensitivene'ss gave him' a different bias. He de tested the very idea that some of his boyish crudities (such as Sir Hug/t t/ze Heron, for which ingenuous persons are willing to give some ten times the price of his Collected Works) should ever be brought forward. I therefore, in compiling the Collected Worles, excluded all such crudities; and to this day I would not publish, even in a casual and. Scattered form, those writings of his which I believe he would have considered essentially poor or bad. But there are some other things, of minor importance or completeness - sometimes intentionally jocular - which appear to me considerably removed from being bad or poor, and which he himself would probably have thought admis sible for eventual printing, though not for publication dur ing his lifetime, or as a portion of his solid literary life work. The pieces which I have here put together are of this kind. They all belong to the days of his youth - the latest of them to 1853 or thereabouts, when he completed his twenty-fifth year. I think that every one of them has its value, whether on the ground of intrinsic merit, or as illustrating some phase of his mental development and practice. I have grouped them together as best I can, and added a few remarks by way of elucidation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Dante, Vol. 5: The Divina Commedia and Canzoniere Foa fairer waters now before the wind Her sails my spirit's little boat doth spread, Which leaves so dark and stem a sea behind; And I will sing that second realm instead, Wherein man's spirit frees itself from stain, And groweth worthy Heaven's high courts to tread. Let Poesy, that was dead, rise again, 0 holy Muses, since that yours am I, And let Calliope lift up her strain, Following my song with that sweet melody Which smote the wretched pies, and made them own All hope of pardon passed for ever by. The orient sapphire's hue of sweetest tone, Which gathered in the aspect, calm and bright, Of that pure air as far as Heaven's first zone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
