The personification of Love literally feeds a lady the speaker's burning heart in a sonnet in this collection addressed "to every captive soul and gentle heart.
A character in this book delivers to the speaker the blistering insult, "I am like the center of a circle, equidistant from all points on the circumference; you, however, are not." The speaker of a poem in this collection closes his eyes and pictures the floating faces of women crying "You will die! You will die!" Yeats titled his poem "Ego Dominus Tuus" after words spoken to this book's speaker in a dream. The personification of Love literally feeds a lady the speaker's burning heart in a sonnet in this collection addressed "to every captive soul and gentle heart." This book describes how the narrator was nine when he met a girl who was eight, and is unable to complete the final (*) canzone when that woman suddenly dies. This book begins by describing the narrator's "book of memory," which contains a heading reading "here begins the [title thing]." This book, which consists of poems sandwiched by prose autobiographical glosses, helped establish the Tuscan dialect as the standard for the Italian language. For 10 points, name this collection by Dante inspired by his love for Beatrice.
A character in this book delivers to the speaker the blistering insult, "I am like the center of a circle, equidistant from all points on the circumference; you, however, are not."
La Vita Nuova [or The New Life]