Dante Alighieri

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Standard Name: Dante Alighieri

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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.
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Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking.
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. She also wrote some non-fiction on Italian writers (including...
Intertextuality and Influence Christina Rossetti
The most highly-regarded piece in this collection is Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets (whose title means that it has as many poems as a sonnet has of lines). CR 's preface to this sequence...
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Rossetti
At first a private tutor of Italian, Gabriele gained some prestige but no direct financial advantage when he was appointed Professor of Italian at King's College (founded in August 1829).
Rossetti, Christina. “Memoir; Notes”. The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, edited by William Michael Rossetti, Norwood, pp. xlv - lxxi; 459.
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He was also a...
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Rossetti
CR 's sister Maria was three years her senior and the bond between them was close. She became a governess and an author of textbooks (Exercises in Idiomatic Italian through Literal Translation from the...
Education Christina Rossetti
From 1878 to 1880, she took classes on Dante 's Divine Comedy at University College, London , perhaps in part because she was helping Alexander Grosart to trace references from Italian poets for his edition...
Intertextuality and Influence Christina Rossetti
Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...
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 Production Vita Sackville-West
VSW followed her Behn biography two years later with Andrew Marvell, to open Faber and Faber 's series The Poets on the Poets (in which the second volume was provided by Eliot writing on Dante ).
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS published the first of her three-part translation of Dante 's Divine Comedy into English verse: Cantica I: Hell.
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan.
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British Book News. British Council.
(1950): 197
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 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.
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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
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...
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.
death Elizabeth Siddal
Dante Gabriel Rossetti commemorated ES in a posthumous painting of her as Dante 's Beatrice, entitled Beata Beatrix.
Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books.
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