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CIRCLE OF OUR VISION C
By Pite
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Description
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 themin 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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
1994-07-01
Publication Date:
2016-02-04
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0198112947
ISBN13:
9780198112945
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
571 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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