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Dante and the romantics / Antonella Braida.
Van Pelt Library PQ4328.E5 B73 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braida, Antonella.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Translations into English--History and criticism.
- Dante Alighieri.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation--History.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Appreciation--Great Britain.
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
- Translating and interpreting--Great Britain.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Italian language--Translating into English.
- Italian language.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Criticism--Great Britain.
- Criticism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Summary:
- The British Romantic poets were among the first to realize the centrality of the "Divine Comedy" for the evolution of the European epic. This study explores the significance of Dante for Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and William Blake. What was their idea of Dante? Why did they feel the need to approach his Christian epic on the afterlife? This study aims to answer these questions by focusing on the three poets' preoccupation with form and language.
- Contents:
- Part I (Pre)-Romantic Receptions of Dante
- 1 The Eighteenth-Century Reception: Dante and Visual Culture 9
- Dante and the sister arts 10
- 2 The Romantic Translation of the Divine Comedy: Henry Francis Cary's The Vision 27
- Reception studies and the material text transfer 27
- Literary translation and its theory: Cary and his contemporaries 28
- Henry Francis Cary: the translator of Dante 34
- The Vision 40
- Cary's approach to translation: the critic 41
- Cary's translating practice 45
- 3 Dante and High Culture: the Romantic Search for the Epic 56
- The early reception: reviews of Boyd's and Cary's translations 61
- Dante and British Romantic criticism 65
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge's criticism of Dante 70
- Ugo Foscolo and Samuel Rogers: the Ghibelline Dante 77
- Across the Channel: The Vision, John Taaffe Junior and Italian reviewers 87
- Part II Romantic Palimpsests
- 4 'L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle': Shelley on Dante and Love 95
- 'Beneath that opening spot of blue serene': Shelley's early contacts with Dante 99
- Epipsychidion and The Triumph of Life: Shelley's palimpsests 110
- 5 John Keats and Dante: Speaking the Gods' Language 128
- Keats's Italian readings: approaching the Divine Comedy 129
- Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion: Milton's 'stationing or statu[a]ry', 'the brief pathos of Dante' and the language of the gods 136
- 6 William Blake: the Romantic Illustrator of Dante 151
- Interpreting Dante: the ideology of the Ghibelline 153
- The commission for the illustrations 158
- The Romantic illustrator of Dante 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403932336
- OCLC:
- 56655006
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