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" I much wonder that you should listen to the idea, that a fondness for Italian poetry is the corruption of our taste, when you cannot but recollect that our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton have been professed admirers of the Italians,... "
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Memoir of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M. A., Translator of Dante ..., Volume 1

Henry Francis Cary - 1847 - 542 pages
...further light on his pursuits at this important period of a student's life. TO MISS SEWARD. Ch. Ch., Oxford, May 7, 1792. DEAR MADAM, As I expect my father...us, according to the degree of estimation in which t hey have been held. The poetry of the French is diametrically opposite to that of the Italians :...
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Memoir of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M. A., Translator of ..., Volumes 1-2

Henry Francis Cary - 1847 - 740 pages
...pursuits at this important period of a student's life. TO MISS SEWARD. C7i. Ch., Oxford, May 7, 1 792. DEAR MADAM, As I expect my father will soon pass through...us, according to the degree of estimation in which ttiey have been held. The poetry of the French is diametrically opposite to that of the Italians :...
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Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary (c. 1380-1844)

Paget Jackson Toynbee - Comparative literature - 1909 - 784 pages
...LETTER TO MISS AKNA SEWARD (from Christ Church, Oxford). [Gary advises his correspondent to read Dante] I MUCH wonder that you should listen to the idea,...degree of estimation in which they have been held. . . . Give a few months to the acquisition of Italian ; go and see the wonders of Dante's Inferno,...
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The Translator of Dante: The Life, Work and Friendships of Henry Francis ...

Robert Wylie King - 1925 - 394 pages
...already formed ; moreover he was no longer in awe of the Swan. He makes short work of her " authority " : I much wonder that you should listen to the idea,...degree of estimation in which they have been held. He goes on to explain, very sensibly, that the prejudice against Italian poetry (which Miss Seward,...
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The Translator of Dante: The Life, Work and Friendships of Henry Francis ...

Robert Wylie King - 1925 - 394 pages
...already formed ; moreover he was no longer in awe of the Swan. He makes short work of her " authority " : I much wonder that you should listen to the idea,...cannot but recollect that our greatest English poets, Ghaucer, Spenser, and Milton, have been professed admirers of the Italians, and that the sublimer province...
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Publications: Second Series

Chaucer Society (London, England) - 1921 - 666 pages
...Seward, [dated] 7 May 1792, [printed in] Memoir of the Rev. HF Cary, 1847, 2 vols., vol. i, p. 42. Our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and...Milton, have been professed admirers of the Italians. [For Miss Seward's letter in reply to this, see above, pt. i, p. 494.] [1792.] Maeklin, . Proposals...
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Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion 1357-1900, Volume 3

Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925 - 386 pages
...Seward, [dated] 7 May 1792, [printed in] Memoir of the Rev. HF Cary, 1847, 2 vols., vol. i, p. 42. Our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and...Milton, have been professed admirers of the Italians. [For Miss Ssward's Utter in replj to this, see above, pt. i, p. -191. 1 [1792.] Macklin, . Proposals...
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The Vision of Dante: Cary's Translation of The Divine Comedy

Edoardo Crisafulli - History - 2003 - 364 pages
...(ibid: 57). On May 7, 1792 Gary, after reading Miss Seward's letters, replied with a eulogy of Dante: I much wonder that you should listen to the idea,...cannot but recollect that our greatest English poets, Ghaucer, Spenser, and Milton have been professed admirers of the Italians, and that the sublimer province...
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Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, Volume 1

Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 390 pages
...Seward, [dated] 7 May 1792, [printed in] Memoir of the Rev. HF Gary, 1847, 2 vols., vol. i, p. 42. Our greatest English poets, Chaucer, Spenser, and...Milton, have been professed admirers of the Italians. lFor Min Saward'i letter In reply to thli, лл above, pt. i, p. 4M.] [1792.] Macklin, . Propoxdi for...
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