"Dante is eminently the poet of beatitude. He has not only no rival, but none second to him. But if we were asked to name the poet who most nearly deserved this inaccessible proxime accessit, I should name Shelley. Indeed, my claim for Shelley might be represented by the proposition that Shelley and Milton are, each, the half of Dante."
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C. S. Lewis, "Shelley, Dryden, and Mr. Eliot," in Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939).
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