Studies in the Poetry of Italy
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One day the poet sat down to write a poem in praise of her and had finished one stanza when the news came that Beatrice was dead. At first he seemed too benumbed even for tears, and after a quotation from Jeremiah — "How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! How is she become a widow, she that was great among the nations !" — at the beginning of the next paragraph, he gives a fan- tastic discussion of the symbolical figure nine and its connection with the life and death of Beatric...e. Then the tears began to flow, and unutterable sadness took possession of his heart. A whole year after he tells us how one day he sat thinking of her and drawing the picture of an angel, a picture, alas! which was never finished, as he was interrupted by visitors. ' At another time he tells how one day he saw a number of pilgrims passing through Florence on their way to Rome, and to them he addressed one of his most beautiful sonnets: Oh, pilgrims who move on with steps so slow, Musing perchance of friends now far away; > " You and I would rather see that angel, Painted by the tenderness of Dante, Would we not?
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
One day the poet sat down to write a poem in praise of her and had finished one stanza when the news came that Beatrice was dead. At first he seemed too benumbed even for tears, and after a quotation from Jeremiah — "How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! How is she become a widow, she that was great among the nations !" — at the beginning of the next paragraph, he gives a fan- tastic discussion of the symbolical figure nine and its connection with the life and death of Beatric...e. Then the tears began to flow, and unutterable sadness took possession of his heart. A whole year after he tells us how one day he sat thinking of her and drawing the picture of an angel, a picture, alas! which was never finished, as he was interrupted by visitors. ' At another time he tells how one day he saw a number of pilgrims passing through Florence on their way to Rome, and to them he addressed one of his most beautiful sonnets: Oh, pilgrims who move on with steps so slow, Musing perchance of friends now far away; > " You and I would rather see that angel, Painted by the tenderness of Dante, Would we not?
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