Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold. Arnold Matthew

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misery toucheth me not, neither doth the flame of this fire strike me." —Inferno, II, 91-93.[Arnold.]

83

"In His will is our peace."—Paradiso, III, 85.[Arnold.]

84

Henry IV, part 2, III, i, 18-20.

85

Hamlet, V, ii, 361-62.

86

Paradise Lost, I, 599-602.

87

Ibid., I, 108-9.

88

Ibid., IV, 271.

89

Poetics, § 9.

90

~Provençal~, the language of southern France, from the southern French oc instead of the northern oïl for "yes."

91

Dante acknowledges his debt to ~Latini~ (c. 1230-c. 1294), but the latter was probably not his tutor. He is the author of the Tesoretto, a heptasyllabic Italian poem, and the prose Livres dou Trésor, a sort of encyclopedia of medieval lore, written in French because that language "is more delightful and more widely known."

92

~Christian of Troyes~. A French poet of the second half of the twelfth century, author of numerous narrative poems dealing with legends of the Round Table. The present quotation is from the Cligés, ll. 30-39.

93

Chaucer's two favorite stanzas, the seven-line and eight-line stanzas in heroic verse, were imitated from Old French poetry. See B. ten Brink's The Language and Meter of Chaucer, 1901, pp. 353-57.

94

~Wolfram von Eschenbach~. A medieval German poet, born in the end of the twelfth century. His best-known poem is the epic Parzival.

95

From Dryden's Preface to the Fables, 1700.