Dante Alighieri

Her further translations included many poems which were printed in her own volumes of verse, as well as selections from Charles of Orleans and Gaspara Stampa , Literature in the Vernacular (a rendering of Dante

One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...

AR 's earliest translations were from Italian, of Dante and Eugenio Montale . She first thought of translating a libretto for performance when she was asked to do so by Jane Glover , who later...

Although her daughter says that her interest in literature (like that in science) came much later than her childhood enthusiasms for drawing, calligraphy, and scholarship, Margaret Scott (later MG ) at seventeen so admired Dante

The title poem, wrote a critic some years later, wrestled towards a vision of poetic transcendence in the person of James Joyce , while the volume as a whole reflects...

This novel is set in a villa in Tuscany, which is known for having been the setting for a sixteenth-century (published) dialogue on love. At the present moment of history a comparable dialogue is...

Hafiz, who mixed orthodox Islam with Sufism, is considered heretical for his ideas about God's nature and for his celebration of drinking alcohol as a religious practice. GB was especially impressed by his love poetry...

Bruno's conversion from Catholicism to Pantheism is described in a sexual analogy: Night after night he would steal out, moved by the same thoughts, penetrated by the same rapture . . . The more ardently...

An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...

The story opens at an art school, with male students discussing female models. Bonyng, a fair, slim youth, is, unlike the other students, embarrassed by women. Among the models one is conventionally voluptuous, but...

MC details the various manuscripts left by Hester: a journal describing everything she read, a journal about bee-keeping, and a notebook containing brief biographies of important figures, as well as notebooks of quotations, poetry, and...

The British Council website on writers points out that despite its slangy style and up-to-the-minute references (contemporary, bathetic and very funny), this work has its structural roots in medieval poetic dialogues, in the...

Much of this poem is Dante sque in its style.

Although Frances had no quarrel with her step-mother, shortly after her father's remarriage she and her sister went to live with their brother at 27 Keppel Street, London, where he had obtained a clerkship...

In 1856, CR published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...