Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Dante” in chapter 1, page 37 of James Russell Lowell, Among my books:
...stands alone.
While we can in some sort account for such representative men as Voltaire and Goethe (nay, even Shakespeare) by the intellectual and moral fermentation of the age in which they lived, Dante seems morally isolated and to have drawn his inspiration almost wholly from his own internal reserves.
Of his mastery in style we need say
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