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Short of that new and sweeter style I hear,
Is now disclosed: I see how ye your plumes
Stretch, as the inditer guides them;”
Artistic and verbal fidelity to the very modes of experience is
the secret of the sweet new style.
This concern to follow the very process of intellection
rather than to arrive at a private point of view, is what lends
the air of “universalism” to much scholastic meditation. The
same concern with the inherent modalities of thought and
being enable us to feel that “Dante is many men and suffers as
many.” (34)
Paolo Milano introducing Dante to an English public
writes: