The Circle of Our Vision Dante's Presence in

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; 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.

Ralph Pite is Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

List of Plates
Abbreviations
Introduction: 'The archetype of all modern poetry'	p. 1
Illustrating Dante	p. 39
Coleridge, Dante, and The Friend: Symbols in a Waking Dream	p. 68
The Fall of Hyperion: 'Morti li morti e i vivi parean vivi'	p. 119
'The Lucifer of that starry flock': Shelley in Purgatorio	p. 161
Byron Turning to Stone	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 259
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The Circle of Our Vision Dante's Presence in English Romantic Poetry

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