Week Two: Poets 1300 years apart being compared.

Dear god. What...?

I think I remember where this came from. It must have been during David Daniel's Introduction to Literature class, and though I forget exactly which poets we were comparing, I remember thinking how strange it was to tear writers away from their place in history and compare the words they'd written on the merits of their words alone. 

I mean, how many words did Shakespeare invent? Even 700 years ago, Dante didn't have access to "pious" or "radiance."

(Or "multitudinous," but I guess you don't often find opportunity to use that one.)

Anyway. I have no idea what to do with this. Quite the "inauspicious" start...