Dante Alighieri

Much of this poem is Dante sque in its style.

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...

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...

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...

She says that, not being personally known to Beecher Stowe, she has not asked leave for her dedication, but that Stowe 's work for the black slaves suggests she would favour a work written to...

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.

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