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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

James Russell Lowell
Loyalty, Ideas, Sublime
James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904). “The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell: Among my books”
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.