Longfellow.
It shows how little Dante was read during the last century that none of the commentators on Spenser notice his most important obligations to the great Tuscan.
[310] Faery Queen, B. II. c. iii. 40, 41.
[311] Ibid., B. I. c. v. 1.
[312] Ibid., B. II. c. viii. 1,2.
[313] B. III. c. xi. 28.
[314] B. I. c. i. 41.
[315] This phrase occurs in the sonnet addressed to the Earl of Ormond and in that to Lord Grey de Wilton in the series prefixed to the "Faery Queen". These sonnets are of a much stronger build than the "Amoretti", and some of them (especially that to Sir John Norris) recall the firm tread of Milton's, though differing in structure.
[316] Daphnaida, 407, 408.
[317] Faery Queen, B. I. c. x. 9.