Word: forester
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Waltz, "Spirits of the Forest," Zach...
...following were the points made: University of California, 35; Michigan University, 17; Iowa State College, 16; Illinois University, 13; University of Wisconsin, 12; Chicago University, 11; Iowa University, 10; Northwestern, 7; St. Albans, 3; Centre College, Kentucky, and Lake Forest University, 1 each...
...Waltz, "Legends of the Forest," Strauss...
...time of Dante's wonderful journey through the spiritual realms was in the year 1300. On an afternoon in April he found himself wandering in a deep gloomy forest, not knowing how he had come there or where he was. His mind seemed weighed down with heaviness as if he had just awakened from a deep sleep. After trying for some time to find his way out of the wood, he came at length to the foot of a mountain, over which the sun was setting, spreading its red gold rays in a beautiful glow upon the summit. The poet...
...allegorical significance of this introduction to the Inferno is plain. Dante finds himself wandering helplessly in the dark, wretched forest of evil, and in order to reach the light attempts to climb the mountain of virtue, but is met and repulsed by passion and sensuality in the form of wild animals. He then meets reason in the person of Vergil, which shows him that the process of redemption is slow, and is not to be achieved by one great effort. He must rise through the purgatory of penitence. Dante tells us that there are many senses to his poem. Beside...