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Dante: An Essay

By Richard William Church

2018-11-15 23:27:01

Excerpt.......The Divina Commedia is one of the landmarks of history. More than a magnificent poem, more than the beginning of a language and the opening of a national literature, more than the inspirer of art, and the glory of a great people, it is ... Read more
Excerpt.......The Divina Commedia is one of the landmarks of history. More than a magnificent poem, more than the beginning of a language and the opening of a national literature, more than the inspirer of art, and the glory of a great people, it is one of those rare and solemn monuments of the mind's power, which measure and test what it can reach to, which rise up ineffaceably and forever as time goes on, marking out its advance by grander divisions than its centuries, and adopted as epochs by the consent of all who come after. It stands with the Iliad and Shakspere's Plays, with the writings of Aristotle and Plato, with the Novum Organon and the Principia, with Justinian's Code, with the Parthenon and S. Peter's. It is the first Christian poem; and it opens European literature, as the Iliad did that of Greece and Rome. And, like the Iliad, it has never become out of date; it accompanies in undiminished freshness the literature which it began. Less

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File size261.924 KB
Print pages358
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2016-08-25
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781361694831
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Richard William Church
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Richard William Church (25 April 1815 – 6 December 1890) was an English churchman and writer, known latterly as Dean Church.Richard William was the eldest of three sons of John Dearman Church, a win...

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