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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Contents
Illustrating Dante | 39 |
Symbols in | 68 |
Morti li morti e i vivi parean | 119 |
Copyright | |
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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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