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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... Interest in non - classical literatures ( Scandinavian , Old High German , Medieval English and Italian , Oriental ) bears witness to the continuance of the desires that prompted Gray's reading in Welsh and Gaelic . These impulses do ...
... Interest in non - classical literatures ( Scandinavian , Old High German , Medieval English and Italian , Oriental ) bears witness to the continuance of the desires that prompted Gray's reading in Welsh and Gaelic . These impulses do ...
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... interest in the poem from what Dante sees and who he meets to the process of seeing and meeting , the didacticism that Warton looked for is replaced by the pleasure and interest that are considered to be inherent in imaginative ...
... interest in the poem from what Dante sees and who he meets to the process of seeing and meeting , the didacticism that Warton looked for is replaced by the pleasure and interest that are considered to be inherent in imaginative ...
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... interest in view : ' Are ye aware , that he who comes behind Moves what he touches ? The feet of the dead Are not so wont . ' My trusty guide , who now Stood near his breast , where the two natures join , Thus made reply : ' He is ...
... interest in view : ' Are ye aware , that he who comes behind Moves what he touches ? The feet of the dead Are not so wont . ' My trusty guide , who now Stood near his breast , where the two natures join , Thus made reply : ' He is ...
Contents
Illustrating Dante | 39 |
Symbols in | 68 |
Morti li morti e i vivi parean | 119 |
Copyright | |
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