The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante

by Charles Williams

Overview

This study of Dante is intended to pay particular attention to the figure of Beatrice and to the relation which that figure bears to all the rest. That figure is presented at the beginning of Dante’s first book, for Dante is one of those poets who begin their work with what is declared to be an intense personal experience. That experience is, as such, made part of the poetry; and it is not only so, with Dante, at the beginning, but also when, in his later and greater work, the experience is recalled and confirmed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782383831280
Publisher:	Librorium Editions
Publication date:	10/01/2021
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	421 KB

About the Author

Author and scholar Charles Williams (18861945) joined, in 1908, the staff of the Oxford University Press, the publishing house in which he worked for the rest of his life. Throughout these years, poetry, novels, plays, biographies, history, literary criticism, and theology poured from his pen. At the beginning of the Second World War the publishing house was evacuated to Oxford where, in addition to his own writing and his editorial work for the Press, he taught in the University.

Table of Contents

I Introduction 7

II Beatrice 17

III The Death of Beatrice 31

IV The Convivio 52

V The Noble Life 69

VI The De Monarchia and the Exile 86

VII The Making of the Commedia 100

VIII The Inferno 107

IX The Purgatorio 145

X The Re-Assertion of Beatrice 175

XI The Paradiso 190

XII The Recollection of the Way 224

Index 233