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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... suffering as an instance rather than the specific and actual case . The relationship between reader and translation in Shelley and Medwin's version corresponds , in fact , to that between Ugolino and the dream he has while in prison ...
... suffering as an instance rather than the specific and actual case . The relationship between reader and translation in Shelley and Medwin's version corresponds , in fact , to that between Ugolino and the dream he has while in prison ...
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... suffering he witnesses in his journey through Hell ) makes it difficult for a reader to participate in Dante's fear . In canto xxiii , Dante and Virgil seem to have escaped a crowd of enraged devils but , as they go on , Dante begins to ...
... suffering he witnesses in his journey through Hell ) makes it difficult for a reader to participate in Dante's fear . In canto xxiii , Dante and Virgil seem to have escaped a crowd of enraged devils but , as they go on , Dante begins to ...
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... suffering perceived . His strangely cracked face seems lifeless [ . . . ] yet even here Dante is passively afflicted , enduring dumbly the horror of those he sees.12 Dante's patient endurance acknowledges the horror as well as the ...
... suffering perceived . His strangely cracked face seems lifeless [ . . . ] yet even here Dante is passively afflicted , enduring dumbly the horror of those he sees.12 Dante's patient endurance acknowledges the horror as well as the ...
Contents
Illustrating Dante | 39 |
Symbols in | 68 |
Morti li morti e i vivi parean | 119 |
Copyright | |
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