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基本説明
Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Blake, and Wordsworth all wrote and painted while Dante's work commanded their attention and provoked their disagreement.
Full 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. 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.
Contents
Introduction - "the archetype of all modern poetry"; illustrating Dante; Coleridge, Dante and "The Friend" - symbols in a waking dream; the fall of Hyperion - "Morti li morti e i vivi parean vivi"; "The Lucifer of that starry flock" - Shelley in "Purgatorio"; Byron turning to stone.
