Dante Alighieri

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...

FD 's first experience at a convent school (in France) lasted just one week. She later wrote, To her dying day Ijain will never forget that dreary time when she said good-bye to Rorie...

Much of this poem is Dante sque in its style.

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...

Reflections on her own life are intertwined throughout CB 's journey, as she writes on her childhood experience of Catholicism, and her roles as mother, wife, lover, and Irish woman writer. She deals trenchantly...

This sets out to explore the effects of various technological media on the novel genre. It begins with the apparent forcible entry into a story by Jane Austen of a great German contemporary of Austen:...

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) opens: I won't go back to it. Yet in...

Like Dante before him, GB held various public offices in Florence and was sent to other cities on diplomatic business.

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...

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...

The publisher's blurb, talking about a new independent spirit at work and humour, the last weapon against despair, was remarkably percipient. Like Beckett's other early prose works in English, these stories are deeply Joycean

Though the essays were solicited and overseen by Joyce , SB did much of the editorial work and designed the cover. Contributions included Samuel Beckett 's Dante . . . Bruno , Vico ...

Anna was with Valeriya Tyulpanova , a neighbour and a life-long friend; Nikolay was with his brother Dmitry. Nikolay fell madly in love with the young poetess, but she apparently did not share his romantic...