...Henry Bellamann Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 DANTE FOR TODAY HENRY BELLAMANN New York City THE EFFORT to obtain a perspective of existence to view the significant relation of the parts of life to the whole must seem a problem of great complexity to any thinker in any age...

...William A. Webb Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 Dante and His Influence Upon the English Poets William A. Webb President of Randolph-Macon Woman s College. When the poet in Tennyson s Palace of Art built for his soul a lordly pleasure-house he adorned its walls...

...Joseph Conrad Fehr Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 THE UNIVERSALITY OF DANTE JOSEPH CONRAD FEHR TRAVELERS who in recent years have bowed their heads before the sacred tomb at Ravenna, Italy, and with dimmed eyes read its pitiable inscription Hie claudor Dantes, patriis...

...Clyde De L. Ryals Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Limits of Victorian Vision . By Riede David G. . Ithaca, N.Y., and London : Cornell University Press , 1983 . Pp. 287 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 436 The South Atlantic Quarterly at all by Kaplan...

... with (a) Dante's project of forging a “vulgar eloquence” grounded in a sophisticated elevation of the Italian vernacular and (b) Derek Walcott's parallel achievement of creating an Anglophone Caribbean “pseudo-epic” in language that is indebted to the tonalities and rhythms of his native St. Lucian Creole(s...

...David B. Comer, III Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 "Quali ColombeDoves, Venus, and the Holy Ghost A Brief Speculative Note on Inferno, V.82-87 David B. Comer III When, in the second circle of the Inferno, among the sinners who in life succumbed to lust, Dante summons...

..., between the domestic and the foreign, even as it refuses to sequence the relation between the verbal and the visual, between ‘‘original’’ text and its ‘‘subsequent’’ illustrations. Blake was asked to do these Dante illustrations...

... serve to create more interest in an important form of eighteenth century writing, and suggest lines of investigation which may yield solid results. E. P. McCutcheon. Wake Forest College. Book Reviews 107 Discourses on Dante. By Charles H. Grandgent. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924. viii, 201...

... meter is equivalent to excellent meter. Surely no harm is done when Dante is followed by a person who delights in writing but lacks originative power, if such a production is judged as English poetry, not as translation. Charles Eliot Norton wrote of his prose Dante: Every fresh attempt at translating...

... Copyright © 1920 by Duke University Press 1920 BOOK REVIEWS Life of Dante Alighieri. By Charles Allen Dinsmore. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919. xvii, 306 pp. Into his widely used Aids to the Study of Dante (1903), Dr. Dinsmore put little of his own writing, the volume being largely made...

... that wooden meter is equivalent to excellent meter. Surely no harm is done when Dante is followed by a person who delights in writing but lacks originative power, if such a production is judged as English poetry, not as translation. Charles Eliot Norton wrote of his prose Dante: Every fresh attempt...

... that the effect of verse in one is rendered by verse in another. That is equivalent to saying that wooden meter is equivalent to excellent meter. Surely no harm is done when Dante is followed by a person who delights in writing but lacks originative power, if such a production is judged as English poetry...

... sociological changes that preceded the Floren­ tine Renaissance. Under the surface of medieval world-finance a prelude to industrial revolution had developed, an economic trans­ formation which was affecting the whole of social life on the thresh­ old of the Renaissance. In Dante s Divina Commedia a violent...

... say too dominant a man, to borrow much from others. At least one writer has sought to establish Rossetti s indebtedness to Dante; but perhaps the only sane comparison which could be made between these two would be one of personalities. Both were born leaders of men, both were creatures of strong...

... (Mobility is one of the chief attributes of Queen Cytherea, / che lterzo cielmoveze5 The final image, of shadow through water on rock bottom, while continuing the playful (synaesthetic) music of the foregoing, is a timely reminder of the matter of Dante s paradiso, the glass under water. Quite a livable...

...: but though the source be indifferent, the translations are always well done and make us wonder at the patience and enthusiasm of the transla­ tor. Of poets before Dante, there are very few Fazio degli Uberti, Franco Sacchetti, and a half a dozen others in an oc­ casional poem who were worthy...

..., the poet, like Dante and Donne, lives in an age in which the prevailing theology makes a sacramental world view easy. Even though his particular culture is chaotic, however, the sacramentalistpoet sees all experience as a whole and so develops a sense of his own age. Looking at his age, he feels...

..., the Ramayana; of ancient Greece, the Iliad and the Odyssey; the Aeneid of Vergil; the Divina Commedia of Dante; the Para­ dise Lost and Paradise Regained of Milton; the dramas of Shakespeare; the Faustus and Wilhelm Meister of Goethe; the French Revolution and the essay-lectures of Carlyle; the essays...

... and in all his manifes­ tations excellent, his is an unequaled excellence; one might dare to utter the partial opinion that he is the greatest poet of the century and may be compared only to the great of earlier times, finding his equals on the roll that claims a Petrarca, a Tasso, a Dante. But impressions...

.... Lukacs bears comparison on this point to other writers, of whom 46 Marianna Torgovnick Dante and T. S. Eliot can serve as examples. During an audacious scene near the beginning of the Inferno, Dante has just been ushered by Virgil into Limbo, the anteroom to Hell, where the virtuous pagans are housed...