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

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Dante’s Afterlife, 1321–1997 ....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Foreseeing and Foreknowing: Dante’s ‘Ugolino’ and the Eton College Ode of Thomas Gray....Pages 17-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Dante and Blake: Allegorizing the Event ....Pages 33-48
Figuration in Shelley and Dante ....Pages 49-59
The Shelleys and Dante’s Matilda ....Pages 60-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Moral Luck in the Second Circle: Dante and the Victorian Fate of Tragedy ....Pages 73-89
‘The Perilous Depth of Doubt’: Dante, Plumptre and Victorian Faith ....Pages 90-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Ezra Pound: Quotation and Community....Pages 113-127
Dante and Louis MacNeice: A Sequel to the Commedia ....Pages 128-139
Purgatory Regained? Dante and Late Beckett ....Pages 140-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Micòl and Beatrice: Echoes of the Vita Nuova in Giorgio Bassani’s Garden of the Finzi-Contini....Pages 167-184
‘Una Fitta di Rimorso’: Dante in Sereni ....Pages 185-208
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
‘Prosperous People’ and ‘The Real Hell’ in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills....Pages 211-222
The Place of the Poet: Dante in Walcott’s Narrative Poetry ....Pages 223-241
Dante’s Versatility and Seamus Heaney’s Modernism ....Pages 242-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Translation of Inferno, Canto 2 ....Pages 261-264
Back Matter....Pages 267-269