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:
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He who beholds the skies of ItalyHere "dwarfs" is a noun, subject of the verb "people" (probably obvious to everyone else, but it confused me at first).
Sees ancient Rome reflected, sees beyond,
Into more glorious Hellas, nurse of Gods
And godlike men: dwarfs people other lands.
