Dante Alighieri

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 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

MO published The Makers of Florence: Dante , Giotto , Savonarola ; and Their City.

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 ...

MO 's Dante appeared as the first of Blackwood 's Foreign Classics for English Readers, a monograph series of which she was editor.

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 ).

Two months later he reported it as attracting much favourable attention when hung at the Portland Gallery , while AMH 's mother wrote that it was immediately sold, and brought in two commissions. One...