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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... finds pleasure in the journey itself . The easy progress Coleridge enjoys when reading Cary is implicitly set against what the Biographia describes as an ' unsustained composition ' in which ' meaning ' separates from wording . Without ...
... finds pleasure in the journey itself . The easy progress Coleridge enjoys when reading Cary is implicitly set against what the Biographia describes as an ' unsustained composition ' in which ' meaning ' separates from wording . Without ...
Page 114
... finds in Coleridge's prose a con- tinual yearning whose intensity rests on Coleridge observing ( and only observing ) that it cannot be fulfilled . " As Christensen sees it Coleridge ( who has accepted the impos- sibility of putting ...
... finds in Coleridge's prose a con- tinual yearning whose intensity rests on Coleridge observing ( and only observing ) that it cannot be fulfilled . " As Christensen sees it Coleridge ( who has accepted the impos- sibility of putting ...
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... finds when he describes Saturn as a ' man of the earth | Bewailing earthly loss ' . There is in both a comic incapacity to avoid banal - sounding repetitions . The iterations point towards the object's inscrutability and towards the ...
... finds when he describes Saturn as a ' man of the earth | Bewailing earthly loss ' . There is in both a comic incapacity to avoid banal - sounding repetitions . The iterations point towards the object's inscrutability and towards the ...
Contents
Illustrating Dante | 39 |
Symbols in | 68 |
Morti li morti e i vivi parean | 119 |
Copyright | |
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