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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... perception of immediate objects . 60 For Dante's view of perception , see P. Boyde , ' Perception and the Percipient ' , Italian Studies , 35 ( 1980 ) , 19-24 . 61 See Cary's note to l . 98 , first added in his Vision ( 3rd edn ...
... perception of immediate objects . 60 For Dante's view of perception , see P. Boyde , ' Perception and the Percipient ' , Italian Studies , 35 ( 1980 ) , 19-24 . 61 See Cary's note to l . 98 , first added in his Vision ( 3rd edn ...
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... perception . Consequently , ' Tradition ' applies both to the estimation of this earlier eternity , its traditional ... perceive temporal movement by contrast with eternity . The further sense of ' tradition ' as an ever - present ...
... perception . Consequently , ' Tradition ' applies both to the estimation of this earlier eternity , its traditional ... perceive temporal movement by contrast with eternity . The further sense of ' tradition ' as an ever - present ...
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... perception that continues to reveal the earthly scene , is bound up with Shelley's sense of himself as a poetic and political agent . In reconsidering , through his narrator and Rousseau , the desire to claim a true perception of actual ...
... perception that continues to reveal the earthly scene , is bound up with Shelley's sense of himself as a poetic and political agent . In reconsidering , through his narrator and Rousseau , the desire to claim a true perception of actual ...
Contents
Illustrating Dante | 39 |
Symbols in | 68 |
Morti li morti e i vivi parean | 119 |
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| Title | The Circle of Our Vision: Dante's Presence in English Romantic Poetry |
| Author | Ralph Pite |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 12 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 0198112947, 9780198112945 |
| Length | 267 pages |
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