The sudden and spectacular growth in Dante's popularity in England at the end of the eighteenth century was immensely influential for English writers of the period; yet his impact on English writers has rarely been analyzed and its history has been little understood. Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Blake, and Wordsworth all wrote and painted while Dante's work--its style, project, and achievement--commanded their attention and provoked their disagreement. The Circle of Our Vision discusses each of these writers in detail, assessing the nature of their engagement with the Divine Comedy and the consequences for their own writing.

The Circle of Our Vision: Dante's Presence in English Romantic Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Pite, Ralph

British & Irish

Clarendon Press

Internationally renowned as the author of Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, Wessex Poems and Other Verses, and Winter Words, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) nonetheless remains an elusive and enigmatic figure. His own diligent efforts to guard his privacymaking bonfires of his papers, ghost-writing his own biography to be published after his deathhave obscured many aspects of the author’s personal life. This book, the first major biography of Hardy in decades, draws on new and extensive archival research to present a more complex picture of Hardy than has been possible to date. Author Ralph Pite investigates the validity of long-accepted views of the author: Was his early life devoted to his preparation for becoming a writer? Did his first wife, Emma, trick him into an unwanted marriage? Was his poetry far dearer to his heart than the novels? And was Florence, his second wife, as conflicted and passionate as caricatures have suggested? Pite examines the relationships and contexts that shaped Hardy mostthe women in his life, his friends and mentors, social and family pressures, career structures of his day, the Devonshire landscapeand offers new insight into the man who, until now, was hidden behind an opaque public image he helped to create.

Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Yale University Press

Thomas Hardy: the Guarded Life

Picador, 2006

This edition features all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - "Inferno", "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" - with explanatory notes on each canto. It includes Botticelli's illustrations of "The Divine Comedy", drawn in the 1480s.

The Divine Comedy: The Vision of Dante (Everyman's Library)

DANTE, ALIGHIERI

Poetry

Everymans Library

In this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writings, as well as into the art of 19th-century biography.

Lives of the Great Romantics, Part II, Volume 1: Keats, Coleridge and Scott by their Contemporaries

Mullan, John

Robertson, Fiona

Wallace, Jenny

Reference & Collections

Routledge

Lives of the Great Romantics, Part II, Volume 2: Keats, Coleridge and Scott by their Contemporaries

Lives of the Great Romantics, Part II, Volume 3: Keats, Coleridge and Scott by their Contemporaries

Collected here are the biographies which revealed aspects of their subjects that the more favourable "official" accounts tended to hide. The life of the author of each text is described, and their relation to the writers they portray is sketched in.

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 1: George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson by their Contemporaries

Marshall, Gail

Russell, Corinna

History & Criticism

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 2: George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson by their Contemporaries

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part I, Volume 3: George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Alfred, Lord Tennyson by their Contemporaries

Bevis, Matthew

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