Excerpt from The Divine Comedy of Dante: A Version in the Nine-Line Metre of Spenser by George Musgrave; The Inferno, or Hell The measure of the Italian - the terza rima - has been discarded as too alien to the genius of the English tongue. Even in original poetry (with the notable exception of certain lyrics, Mr. William Morris' Defence of Guinevere, and some fragments of Shelley) the terza rima, down from the time of Surrey, who first attempted to naturalise it, has never proved acceptable to our English taste. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.