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THE CIRCLE OF OUR VISION
DANTE'S PRESENCE IN ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY |
| By: |
Ralph Pite |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£37.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198112947 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198112945 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 June, 1994 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
The 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. Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Blake, and Wordsworth all wrote and painted while Dante's work commanded their attention and provoked their disagreement. In the first detailed study of the subject, 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, and setting them in the context of commentators, translators, and illustrators both in England and Europe. |
| Synopsis: |
The 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 their engagement 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, and Reynolds) 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. |
| Illustrations: |
4 halftones |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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