DANTE, THE GREAT CHARACTER POET

IN galleries peopled by the sculptured forms of those who, from Thames to Tiber, grandly sang the truths they saw, we find none that impresses us more solemnly than that of Dante-the poet who panted for what he believed best in two worlds, and who seemed to be denied the less that he might gain the greater, thus illustrating in his own personal consciousness a lesson which he devoted years of agony to teach: