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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... objects . Thus the gate of hell , on which that withering inscription is written , seems to be endowed with speech and consciousness , and to utter its dread warning , not without a sense of mortal woes . This author habitually unites ...
... objects . Thus the gate of hell , on which that withering inscription is written , seems to be endowed with speech and consciousness , and to utter its dread warning , not without a sense of mortal woes . This author habitually unites ...
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... objects before his eyes and a consequent ordering of life by ap- pearances alone . The self - centredness of this is intimated by the reduction of ' ne son lontano ' to ' son ' : Farinata perceives objects at a distance and not those ...
... objects before his eyes and a consequent ordering of life by ap- pearances alone . The self - centredness of this is intimated by the reduction of ' ne son lontano ' to ' son ' : Farinata perceives objects at a distance and not those ...
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... objects genuinely under threat within this ' Unity ' , Coleridge could not attend to their vulnerability with such pleasure . The warmth of his feeling comes from gratitude and relief that the single object is explained and ...
... objects genuinely under threat within this ' Unity ' , Coleridge could not attend to their vulnerability with such pleasure . The warmth of his feeling comes from gratitude and relief that the single object is explained and ...
Contents
Illustrating Dante | 39 |
Symbols in | 68 |
Morti li morti e i vivi parean | 119 |
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