Monday, November 09, 2020

 

The Skies of Italy

Walter Savage Landor, Last Fruit Off an Old Tree, LIX (To Shelley), lines 13-15, in his Poems, Dialogues in Verse, and Epigrams, Vol. II: Poems and Epigrams (London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1892), p. 253:
He who beholds the skies of Italy
Sees ancient Rome reflected, sees beyond,
Into more glorious Hellas, nurse of Gods
And godlike men: dwarfs people other lands.
Here "dwarfs" is a noun, subject of the verb "people" (probably obvious to everyone else, but it confused me at first).



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