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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... dream . A dream happens to a sleeping , a vision may happen to a waking man . A dream is supposed natural , a vision miraculous ; but they are confounded.36 Johnson's insistence that humanity cannot distinguish between deceitful dreams ...
... dream . A dream happens to a sleeping , a vision may happen to a waking man . A dream is supposed natural , a vision miraculous ; but they are confounded.36 Johnson's insistence that humanity cannot distinguish between deceitful dreams ...
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... Dream . ( CN , ii . 2584 ) 38 The oscillation between sleeping and waking is continued in his conscious recollection of the dream ' yet as a Dream ' . The waking dream may have led him to within sight of the truth , but in order to see ...
... Dream . ( CN , ii . 2584 ) 38 The oscillation between sleeping and waking is continued in his conscious recollection of the dream ' yet as a Dream ' . The waking dream may have led him to within sight of the truth , but in order to see ...
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... Dream , 52-5 , on the importance of Andrew Baxter , An Enquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul , 2 vols . ( London , 1745 ) . Adair recognizes ' the dream- like method of [ Coleridge's ] composition , a mingling [ . . . ] of conscious ...
... Dream , 52-5 , on the importance of Andrew Baxter , An Enquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul , 2 vols . ( London , 1745 ) . Adair recognizes ' the dream- like method of [ Coleridge's ] composition , a mingling [ . . . ] of conscious ...
Contents
Illustrating Dante | 39 |
Symbols in | 68 |
Morti li morti e i vivi parean | 119 |
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