Dante's Modern Afterlife: Reception and Response from Blake to Heaney

by Nick Havely (Editor)

Overview

Dante's persistent and pervasive presence has been a remarkable feature of modern writing since the late eighteenth century. This collection of essays by an international group of scholars emphasizes that presence in the work of major British and Irish writers (such as Blake, Shelley, Joyce and Heaney). It also focuses on responses in America, the Caribbean and Italy and deals with appropriations of Dante's work by poets (from Gray to Walcott) and novelists (such as Mary Shelley and Giorgio Bassani, and Gloria Naylor).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349269778
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/12/1999
Series:	Reception and Response from Blake to Heaney
Edition description:	1st ed. 1998
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

MARK BALFOUR Lecturer on Dante for the National Extension College STUART CURRAN Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania STEVE ELLIS Lecturer, Department of English, University of Birmingham HUGH HAUGHTON Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York WILLIAM KEACH Lecturer in English Department, Brown University ALISON MILBANK Member of the Cambridge University English Faculty BERNARD O'DONOGHUE Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford RALPH PITE Lecturer, Department of English, University of Liverpool MATTHEW REYNOLDS Lecturer, Department of English, University of Oxford PETER ROBINSON Visiting Professor, Tohoku University JOHN ROE Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York JEREMY TAMBLING Teaches Comparative Literature in the University of Hong Kong JUDITH WOOLF Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Dante's Afterlife: 1321-1997; N. Havely (editor) Selective Bibliography Pre-Romantic Prologue: Foreseeing and Foreknowing: Dante's 'Ugolino' and the Eton College Ode of Thomas Gary; J. Roe Romantic Readings: Dante and Blake: Allegorizing the Event; J. Tambling Figuration in Shelley and Dante; S. Curran The Shelleys and Dante's Matilda; W. Keach Victorian Evaluations: Moral Luck in the Second Circle: Dante and the Victorian Fate of Tragedy; A. Milbank 'The Perilous Depth of Doubt': Dante, Plumptre and Victorian Faith; R. Pite Modern Revisions: Ezra Pound: Quotation and Community; M. Reynolds Dante and Louis MacNeice: a Sequel to the Commedia; S. Ellis Purgatory Regained? Beckett and Dante; H. Haughton Echoes in Post-War Italy: Micol and Beatrice: Echoes of the Vita Nuova in Giorgio Bassani's Garden of the Finzi-contini; J. Woolf 'Una Fitta di Rimorso': Dante in Sereni; P. Robinson Contemporary Directions: 'Prosperous People' and 'The Real Hell' in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills; N. Havely The Place of the Poet: Dante in Walcott's Narrative Poetry; M. Balfour Dante's Versatility and Seamus Heaney's Modernism; B. O'Donoghue 'The Deep and Savage Path': Translation of Inferno , Canto 2; S. Heaney Index

Editorial Reviews

Fifteen contemporary essays show what Dante's afterlife has meant to poets and novelists from the 19th century to the present. Discusses British authors such as Blake, Shelly, Beckett, and Heaney, along with American, Caribbean, and Italian writers, and novelists such as Shelly, Bassani, and Naylor. Includes a modern translation of Canto 2 of the Inferno by Seamus Heaney. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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