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"Ulysses." Unaltered.

A line of this poem was quoted by Thomas Carlyle, in "Past and Present" (1843), p. 49, from which we may conclude that the first edition of these Poems had fallen into his hands, and been read by him.

The poem of "Ulysses" is founded on a passage in the "Divina Commedia" of Dante.

In the following lines—

there seems to be a remarkable resemblance of thought and expression to a speech of Ulysses, in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" (act iii. sc. 3).