Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, commonly known by his name of art Dante Alighieri or simply as Dante, was an Italian poet during the Late Middle Ages.
George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman. He’s best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life.
The Oxen relates to a West Country legend: that, on the anniversary of Christ’s Nativity, each Christmas Day, farm animals kneel in their stalls in homage.
