Head what he says of them in the first canto of his poem.

The first canto opens a scene of lazy luxury that fills the imagination.

We extract some of the opening lines of the first canto of the poem.

Nino resigned himself and began repeating the first canto of the "Inferno."

What are the main divisions of the first canto?

This my first literary effort was carried to somewhere about the middle of the first canto.

Take the third line of the first canto,-

I actually began my heroic poem in hexameter verse, but could not get through the first canto.

In the first canto the author says,-

They are found in the first canto.

The first canto describes Lisbon, Cintra, the ride through Portugal and Spain to Seville and thence to Cadiz.

See introduction to the first canto of "Marmion":

The main difficulty, too, seems soon to have manifested itself to him,-sincethe poem never advanced beyond the first canto.

The teacher should study with the pupils the Invocation of the three opening stanzas and ask them to read the first canto.

He had now become intimate with Thomson, to whose Castle of Indolence he contributed the three stanzas which conclude the first canto.

In three days he had composed the first canto of 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' which he shortly after finished,-hisfirst great original work.