Word: rima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people have the necessary time and period knowledge for elucidating its multitude of hints to the imagination." Shelley thought Dante's Divine Comedy superior "to all possible compositions." In The Triumph of Life, his last long poem, half finished before he was drowned, he wrote in the terza rima of Dante and with something like Dante's conciseness; Blunden suggests that it holds terrible irony as well as a power of imagery like Goya's. Perhaps the ethereal young lyricist had greater capacities still...