It relegates him at once to a lower place.

The greatest poets are loved by all, and understood by all who think and feel naturally.

Homer was loved by Pericles and by the sausage-seller.

Vergil was read with joy by Maecenas and Augustus, and by the vine-dressers of Mantua.

Dante drew after him the greatest minds in Italy, and yet is sung to-day by the shepherds and peasants of the hill-villages of Tuscany.