This book is a history of the influence of Dante on English poetry.
The focus us not primarily upon stylistic influences or attempts to
imitate Dante's manner of writing, but rather on the different
guises in which the enormous presence of Dante has made itself
felt, and how that presence has affected some of the central
concerns of the poets in question. The poets considered are
Shelley, Byron, Browning, Rossetti, Yeats, Pound and Eliot. In
addition to analysing the way Dante is approached by these poets in
their major poetry, Dr Ellis also discusses relevant critical
works: Shelley's Defence of Poetry, Pound's The Spirit of Romance
and Yeats' A Vision. The critical survey is unified by the attempt
to show certain recurrent preoccupations in the work of these
writers, such as the need to define a tradition in which Dante is a
necessary forerunner. Ellis also shows that Dante has been read in
a very partial way by these poets and the images of him which
emerge in their works are inevitably varied and contradictory.
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