Read full poem →earth went to the moon. An Italian poet, Ariosto, uses this notion in a
poem with which Pope was familiar ('Orlando Furioso', Canto XXXIV), and
from which he borrowed some of his ideas for the cave of Spleen.
Dictionary Entry
One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
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Common Phrases
. cantoii cantoiii cantoiv cantovi canto1 cantocanto belcanto first
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Poetry examples for “canto”
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Read full poem →As to the following Canto's, all the passages of them are as fabulous,
as the Vision at the beginning, or the Transformation at the end;
Read full poem →+ A rtfereflce to Divtna.in.'a datnpliaa of paintiag
the lix dajt' creation in Gandlbtrff canto Vl.
Read full poem →Dedication to Queen Elizabeth
Canto I
Canto II
Read full poem →Between 30 and 87 stanzas comprise a _canto_ (Italian, "song"), a
term borrowed from Lodovico Ariosto, the Italian poet, whose work
Read full poem →poem are given in the condensed form BCN.SN, where B = book
number (from 1 to 7), CN = canto number (from 01 to 12; canto 00
is the proem), and SN = stanza number (from 1 to a maximum of 87;
Read full poem →continuing rather than ending the story of Scudamour and Amoret.
Spenser also added a new stanza at the beginning of Book I, Canto
xi, rewrote some single lines, and made sundry adjustments to
Read full poem →repetitious glossing would be locally irritating, I have glossed
the word once or twice only at the beginning of each canto. Thus
it is possible that you will alight somewhere and find an unknown