Dante Alighieri

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Much of this poem is Dante sque in its style.

One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith met Mary Hunt , with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches...

AR 's earliest translations were from Italian, of Dante and Eugenio Montale . She first thought of translating a libretto for performance when she was asked to do so by Jane Glover , who later...

AS published Dante for Beginners. A Sketch of the "Divina Commedia" with Translations, Biographical and Critical Notices, and Illustrations.

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

DLS published the first of her three-part translation of Dante 's Divine Comedy into English verse: Cantica I: Hell.

Her further translations included many poems which were printed in her own volumes of verse, as well as selections from Charles of Orleans and Gaspara Stampa , Literature in the Vernacular (a rendering of Dante

DLS published the second instalment of her verse translation (with her introduction) of Dante 's Divine Comedy: Cantica II: Purgatory.