Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Great Poets of Italy, in Prose and Verse: Including a Condensation in Rhyme of Dante's Divine Comedy, and a Critical Introductory Review of Italian Poets and Poetry From Mediaeval to Modern Times
Some time ago the perhaps too ambitious idea sug gested itself to me to write The Lives of the Poets, a cosmopolitan work embracing many names, memoirs and countries. I felt that with our modern and rapid means of communication and transportation, with the vast amount of world travel and interchange of lan guage and ideas between the scholars and literary men and women of the different nations of the Earth occur ring to-day (or at least until temporarily arrested by the present great international cataclysm), the poet and the poetical biographer should be able to say with Wesley of old, The World is my parish. I felt, too, that the only work that claims to-day that all-embracing title, that of the famous Samuel Johnson, in spite of its wit, its scholarship, its many classical allusions and.
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