of the spirit, the one gathering flowers, the othergazing at her face in the glass. It is curious that Blake has made noattempt, in these drawings, to make Dante resemble any of his portraits,especially as he had, years before, painted Dante in a series of por-traits of poets, of which many… … BLAKES ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DIVINE COMEDY 41 body of Dante, and read The Divine Comedy as a vision seen not in thebody but out of the body. Both the figures of Dante and Virgil have theslightly feminine look which he gave to representations of the soul. W. B. Yeats.
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