Imagination and Fancy; or, Selections from the English Poets

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The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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          <ptr target="ukred-16931">"You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been struck however by your mention of Dante - which seems founded entirely on the Inferno - a poem I can only read bits of - the subject being to me so antipatetica but the Purgatorio &amp; Paradiso - the Poet revels in beauty &amp; joy there to the full as much as the horrors below - and some of his verses &amp; even whole Cantos lap one in a gentle sort of Elysium - or carry one into the skies - Can anything be so wondrously poetical as the approach of the boat with souls from earth to Purgatory - Shelley"s most favourite passage - the Angels guarding Purgatory from infernal spirits - the whole tone of hope - &amp; the calm enjoyment of Matilda is something quite unearthly in its sweetness - &amp; then the glory of Paradise - I do not rely on my own taste but the following verses appear to me to belong to the highest class of imagination; they occur in the last Canto of the Pardiso after the vision he has of beatitude
-il mio veder fu maggio
Che"l parlar nostro, ch"a tal vista cede.
E cede la memoria al tanto oltraggio
Quale e colui ch soguando vede,
E dopo "l sogno la passione impressa
Rimane, e l"altro alla menta non riede
Cotal son io, che quassi tutta cessa
Mia visione, e ancor mi distila
Nel cuor lo dolce, che nacque da essa.
Cosi la neve al sole disigilla
Cosi al vento nele foglie lievi
Si perdea la sentenzia di Sibilla - 

Will you think me hypercritical about a most beautiful stanza of Keats - It was the sky lark not the nightingale that Ruth heard ""amid the alien corn"" - the sky lark soars and sings above the shearers perpetually - The nightingale sings  at night - in shady places - &amp; never so late in the season - May is her month -
Excuse all this"

[letter to Leigh Hunt]</ptr>
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