{"id":287,"date":"2016-05-09T21:29:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T01:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=287"},"modified":"2016-07-24T07:32:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T11:32:26","slug":"suid067","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Samuel Rogers, <i>Italy, A Poem<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=67 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd> Rogers, Samuel<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd> Italy, A Poem<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 43<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd> Moxon<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd> London<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1842<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<pre class=\"aei-poetry1\">\r\n                                             But who comes,\r\nBrushing the floor with what was once, methinks,\r\nA hat of ceremony? On he glides,\r\nSlip-shod, ungartered; his long suit of black\r\nDingy, thread-bare, tho&apos;, patch by patch, renewed\r\nTill it has almost ceased to be the same.\r\nAt length arrived, and with a shrug that pleads\r\n&apos; &apos;Tis my necessity!&apos; he stops and speaks,\r\nScrewing a smile into his dinnerless face.\r\n&apos;Blame not a Poet, Signor, for his zeal &mdash;\r\nWhen all are on the wing, who would be last?\r\nThe splendour of thy name has gone before thee;\r\nAnd ITALY from sea to sea exults,\r\nAs well indeed she may! But I transgress.\r\nHe, who has known the weight of Praise himself,\r\nShould spare another.&apos; Saying so, he laid \r\nHis sonnet, an impromptu, at my feet,\r\n(If his, then PETRARCH must have stolen it from him)\r\nAnd bowed and left me; in his hollow hand\r\nReceiving my small tribute, a zecchine,\r\nUnconsciously, as doctors do their fees.\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n&nbsp;\n    <\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> DP<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogers describes the poverty, humility, and dedication of a poet who lays an improvised sonnet at his feet, and compares said sonnet to one of Petrarch&#8217;s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}