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. But the impact of Dante on English writers has rarely been analysed 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 theirengagement with the Divine Comedy and the consequences for their own writing. It explores how these Romantic poets understood Dante, what they valued in his poetry and why, setting them in the context of contemporary commentators, translators, and illustrators, (including Fuseli, Flaxman, andReynolds) both in England and Europe. Romantic readings of the Divine Comedy are shown to disturb our own ideas about Dante, which are based on Victorian and Modernist assumptions.Pite also presents a reconsideration of the concept of `influence' in general, using the example of Dante's presence in Romantic poetry to challenge Harold Bloom's belief that the relations between poets are invariably a fight to the death. |
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... opening paragraph begins the revised version with a different idea of how the golden age is remembered . It appears in 1809 as ' the tradition which the self - dissatisfied Race of Men have every where preserved and cherished ' ( Friend ...
... opening paragraph begins the revised version with a different idea of how the golden age is remembered . It appears in 1809 as ' the tradition which the self - dissatisfied Race of Men have every where preserved and cherished ' ( Friend ...
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... opening . ( The Story of Rimini , iii . 404-18 , Milford , 22 ) 415 The finest part of the garden , Hunt goes on to say , lies " twixt the wood and flowery walks , halfway ' ( ibid . iii . 434 , p . 22 ) but his description prefers ...
... opening . ( The Story of Rimini , iii . 404-18 , Milford , 22 ) 415 The finest part of the garden , Hunt goes on to say , lies " twixt the wood and flowery walks , halfway ' ( ibid . iii . 434 , p . 22 ) but his description prefers ...
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... opening of Purgatorio , xxviii ( where at dawn Dante enters a new world ) ; astronomy is not mentioned in the latter canto , in part because successiveness is forgotten . 41 Orsino in The Cenci suggests that Shelley perceived this ...
... opening of Purgatorio , xxviii ( where at dawn Dante enters a new world ) ; astronomy is not mentioned in the latter canto , in part because successiveness is forgotten . 41 Orsino in The Cenci suggests that Shelley perceived this ...
Contents
Illustrating Dante | 39 |
Symbols in | 68 |
Morti li morti e i vivi parean | 119 |
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