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From: Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceeding Him[In this introduction to his translation of the poem, Rossetti argues that the Vita Nuova laid the foundation for some of the most salient features of the Divina Commedia.] The Vita Nuova (the Autobiography or...
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From:Evelyn Waugh Studies (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"Did Rossetti really need to exhume his wife?" by Jan Marsh appeared in the Times Literary Supplement on 15 February 2012. Evelyn Waugh describes the death of Elizabeth Siddal in Rossetti, but Marsh dismisses Waugh's...
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From: Studies in Romanticism[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Scott offers a descriptive overview of artworks inspired by “La belle dame sans merci” and considers the various interpretations in relation to Keats’s text.] Keats figures...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 50, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedWhen the year is young, when vain Aquarius washes his mane, when frost copycats its thick-skinned sister snow, the laborer, Joe Blow, with nothing but incentive, slaps his thigh at the white countryside, and returns to...
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From: Ballads and Sonnets[(essay date 1881) In the following poem, Rossetti reflects upon reveries he and his lover enjoy in a natural landscape, common elements of the sonnet sequence House of Life from Ballads and Sonnets. Rossetti first...
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From: The New Life[(essay date 1910) Reprinted below, the first poem in Dante’s The New Life, “A ciascun’alma presa e gentil core” (“To every heart which the sweet pain doth move”), is the poet’s invitation to dialog with other poets who...
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From:Supernatural Literature (Vol. 3: Monsters and Beasts. )Dante Alighieri Completed circa 1320, the Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is a long narrative poem, written in Italian, that recounts an allegorical journey through Hell. It is the first and best-known part of...
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From:Supernatural Literature (Vol. 3: Monsters and Beasts. )Dante Gabriel Rossetti Drawing from Jewish myth as well as German and English romantic poetry, the depictions by poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) of the figure of Lilith in the poems “Lilith”...
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From:Italica (Vol. 82, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe wisdom of Solomon is proverbial; it is exalted among others by St. Thomas and St. Bonaventure, Dante's two spokespersons in the two circles of the wise in the Heaven of the Sun. Indicating the brightest light Thomas...
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From:Annali d'Italianistica (Vol. 20) Peer-ReviewedIn his "L'esperienza di Dante 'exul immeritus' quale autobiografia universale," Giuseppe De Marco analyzes, by means of textual and intertextual examples, the most noble manner in which Dante lived, accepted, and...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI The most famous aestheticized object of Victorian culture is Robert Browning's Duchess, a woman whose utility as a wife has been elided with the result that all who come upon her transformed condition must...
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From:Victorian NewsletterOne does not immediately associate Dante Gabriel Rossetti with rural walking tours. Of the major male Victorian poets, he shares with Browning exclusively urban origins and, consequently, a broad range of cosmopolitan...
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From:Victorian Newsletter (Vol. 116)Among the least discussed works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's final decade is The Question, the highly finished pencil drawing of 1875 for which he composed two explanatory sonnets of the same title on 5 April 1882, four...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhat motivates poetry translation? Perhaps its inescapable resemblance to the very act of poem-making--the conversion of sudden, distant beats into words. By trying to capture in words the powerful "spirit" of the...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 57, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLook again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. --Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot:...
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From:Italica (Vol. 94, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The traditional tendency to valorize the figure of Virgil as Dante's guide and symbol of reason is responsible for a lot of the misunderstandings and misinterpretations of Dante's Commedia. At a closer look,...
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From:Italica (Vol. 86, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAwhile ago, I was asked to give a paper on Dante as part of the tradition, begun by Lucretius, of "philosophical poetry." (1) The title of the session made unmistakable reference to George Santayana's Three...
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From:New Criterion (Vol. 19, Issue 7)The composer Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) was of mixed Italian-German parentage, but his life and career was spent largely in Berlin. In his lifetime, he was famous throughout Europe and the United States as a...
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From:Annali d'Italianistica (Vol. 20) Peer-ReviewedAnthony Cassell, in "The Exiled Dante's Hope for Reconciliation: Monarchia 3:16.16-18," provides a convincing explanation of a difficult passage of Dante's political treatise, which thus offers all exiled people,...