The Circle of Our Vision: Dante's Presence in English Romantic PoetryThe sudden and spectacular growth in Dante's popularity in England at the end of the eighteenth century was immensely influential for English writers of the period; yet his impact on English writers has rarely been analyzed and its history has been little understood. Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Blake, and Wordsworth all wrote and painted while Dante's work--its style, project, and achievement--commanded their attention and provoked their disagreement. The Circle of Our Vision discusses each of these writers in detail, assessing the nature of their engagement with the Divine Comedy and the consequences for their own writing. |
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... continues to illuminate his vision as far as he allowed it to do while alive , but his determination to take things ' as they are ' , prevented and pre- vents the divine light from extending to the perception of imme- diate objects . 60 ...
... continues to illuminate his vision as far as he allowed it to do while alive , but his determination to take things ' as they are ' , prevented and pre- vents the divine light from extending to the perception of imme- diate objects . 60 ...
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... continues in this phrase amidst the most intense feeling , and is opposed to the self - love or self - protective- ness that would rather despair and ' Let them pass ' ( ibid . , l . 243 , p . 168 ) . Shelley's style in these moments of ...
... continues in this phrase amidst the most intense feeling , and is opposed to the self - love or self - protective- ness that would rather despair and ' Let them pass ' ( ibid . , l . 243 , p . 168 ) . Shelley's style in these moments of ...
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... continues , that is to say , his resistance to political and religious despotism . Dante's attentiveness epitomizes ... Continue it ! —Alas ! what could Dante himself now prophesy about Italy ? ' . exemplary patriotism is no longer ...
... continues , that is to say , his resistance to political and religious despotism . Dante's attentiveness epitomizes ... Continue it ! —Alas ! what could Dante himself now prophesy about Italy ? ' . exemplary patriotism is no longer ...
Contents
Illustrating Dante | 39 |
Symbols in | 68 |
Morti li morti e i vivi parean | 119 |
Copyright | |
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