Dante Alighieri

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Standard Name: Dante Alighieri

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Intertextuality and Influence Roxburghe Lothian
RL sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this...
Intertextuality and Influence Hilary Mantel
She begins with a Dantesque evocation of a mid-life questioning of potential never realised. At this stage, she says, You think of the children you might have had but didn't. When the midwife says, It's...
Intertextuality and Influence Samuel Beckett
The publisher's blurb, talking about a new independent spirit at work and humour, the last weapon against despair, was remarkably percipient.
qtd. in
Federman, Raymond, and John, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970.
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Like Beckett's other early prose works in English, these stories are deeply Joycean
Intertextuality and Influence Evelyn Underhill
EU celebrates the life of this singer, poet, lawyer, and mystic as one marked by extraordinary (Catholic ) spiritual awareness, though his texts have not been officially adopted by the Church: Called, like Dante
Intertextuality and Influence Eavan Boland
Here she retains her focus on history and on women's lives. The relation between the two is paradoxical. Mise Eire (meaning I am Ireland)
McEvoy, Anne, and Isobel Grundy. Conversation about Eavan Boland with Isobel Grundy. 23 Sept. 1999.
opens: I won't go back to it.
Boland, Eavan. Outside History. Norton, 1990.
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Yet in...
Literary responses Sarah Pearson
The Sheffield Register carried two poems (a sonnet and an ode) in September which welcome and praise this volume.
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Sarah/Susanna Pearson, Harriet Downing. 16 May 2016.
The Critical Review, too, welcomed it warmly. It quoted in full the introductory sonnet addressed...
Occupation Frances Trollope
Her next idea was an exhibition of Dante 's Infernal Regions.Hervieu painted the scenes, and the museum's own wax manipulator, Hiram Powers , created the figures.
Hiram Powers later became a celebrated sculptor...
Occupation Gustave Doré
GD 's work was cosmopolitan. In addition to writers from other European countries like Dante and Cervantes , he illustrated Milton and Coleridge , and did a series of engravings of London for a work...
Occupation Giovanni Boccaccio
Like Dante before him, GB held various public offices in Florence and was sent to other cities on diplomatic business.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Occupation Giovanni Boccaccio
GB 's writings began with Filocolo, a retelling of the traditional Floris and Blanchefleur love-story written between 1338 and 1400. Other narratives were Ameto, a pastoral-allegorical novel, Teseida (which contains the story re-used...
Performance of text John Oliver Hobbes
JOH delivered a lecture entitled Dante and Botticelli before the RuskinSociety of Birmingham.
Hobbes, John Oliver. “Dante and Botticelli”. Saint George, Vol.
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, No. 17, Jan. 1902, pp. 3-17.
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Author summary Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS is best-known as a pre-second-world-war detective novelist, particularly as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. But the financial success she enjoyed from these novels permitted her to turn to other genres...
Publishing Christina Rossetti
In 1856, CR published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York.
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
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. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
Residence Frances Trollope
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...
Textual Features Mary Cholmondeley
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...

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