Dante Alighieri

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Standard Name: Dante Alighieri

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Textual Features C. E. Plumptre
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...
Textual Features Frances Arabella Rowden
An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820)
Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times.
1829, iv
explains that the book is written for the young scholar and hopes to demonstrate the connexion between ancient and modern literature (the...
Textual Features Margaret Legge
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,
Legge, Margaret. The Price of Stephen Bonyng. Alston Rivers.
3
but...
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...
Textual Features Deborah Levy
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...
Textual Features Caroline Clive
Much of this poem is Dante sque in its style.
Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press.
122
Textual Features Seamus Heaney
The title poem, wrote a critic some years later, wrestled towards a vision of poetic transcendence in the person of James Joyce ,
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
4601 (7 June 1991): 28
while the volume as a whole reflects...
Textual Features Julia O'Faolain
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...
Textual Features Gertrude Bell
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...
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS published the second instalment of her verse translation (with her introduction) of Dante 's Divine Comedy: Cantica II: Purgatory.
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan.
117
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1189
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW published her first novel, In a Dark Wood, exploring connections between a present-day London family and the Emperor's court in seventeenth-century China.
The phrase in a dark wood (which has appealed to...
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
The third section of DLS 's translation of Dante 's Divine ComedyCantica III: Paradise—was published posthumously; Barbara Reynolds completed those parts that Sayers had not finished when she died.
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan.
121
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS published Introductory Papers on Dante, which she followed in 13 December 1957 with Further Papers on Dante.
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 765; (1957): 505
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2759 (17 December 1954): 823; 2911 (13 December 1957): 762
Textual Production Fanny Aikin Kortright
She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe 's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to...
Textual Production Arabella Shore
AS published Dante for Beginners. A Sketch of the "Divina Commedia" with Translations, Biographical and Critical Notices, and Illustrations.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

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