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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2003
Online ISBN:
9780511804731
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511804731
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, English Literature: General Interest, European Literature, European Studies
Series:
Landmarks of World Literature (New)
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Book description

In this accessible critical introduction to Dante's Divine Comedy Robin Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller. He addresses important questions such as Dante's attitude towards Virgil, and demonstrates how an early work such as the Vita nuova is a principal source of the literary achievement of the Comedy. His detailed reading reveals how the great narrative poem explores the relationship that Dante believed to exist between God as creator of the universe and the human being as a creature of God. In addition, Kirkpatrick takes due account of the historical and philosophical dimensions of the poem.

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Contents

Contents
References
Guide to further reading
Guide to further reading
Armour, Peter. ‘Purgatorio I and II’, in Dante Soundings, ed. D. Nolan (Dublin 1980).
Barolini, T. Dante's Poets: Textuality and Truth in the Comedy (Princeton, 1984).
Barolini, T. The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante (Princeton, 1992).
Cunningham, Gilbert F. The Divine Comedy in English: A Critical Bibliography, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1965–7).
Davis, Charles Till. Dante and the Idea of Rome (Oxford, 1957).
Ellis, Steve. Dante and English Poetry (Cambridge, 1983).
Foster, K. and Boyde, P., eds. Dante's Lyric Poetry (Oxford, 1967).
Freccero, John, ed. Dante: A Collection of Critical Essays (Englewood Cliffs, 1965).
Freccero, John. The Poetics of Conversion (Cambridge, Mass., 1986).
Getto, Giovanni. Aspetti della poesia di Dante (Florence, 1966).
Gilbert, Allan H. Dante's Conception of Justice (repr. New York, 1965).
Hawkins, P. Dante's Testaments (Stanford, Calif., 1999).
Hollander, Robert. Allegory in Dante's Commedia (Princeton, 1969).
Kirkpatrick, Robin. Dante's Paradiso and the Limitations of Modern Criticism (Cambridge, 1978).
Kirkpatrick, Robin. Dante's Inferno: Difficulty and Dead Poetry (Cambridge, 1987).
Ulrich, Leo. ‘The Unfinished Convivio and Dante's Re-reading of Aeneid’, Medieval Studies 13 (1951), 41–64.
Limentani, Uberto, ed. The Mind of Dante (Cambridge, 1965).
Mazzeo, Joseph A. Structure and Thought in the Paradiso (Ithaca, NY, 1958).
Mazzeo, Joseph A. Medieval Cultural Tradition in Dante's Comedy (Ithaca, NY, 1960).
Mazzota, G. Dante, Poet of the Desert (Princeton, 1979).
Mazzota, G. Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge (Princeton, 1993).
Pipa, A. Montale and Dante (Minneapolis, 1968).
Richards, I. A. Beyond (London, 1974).
Singleton, Charles S. An Essay on the Vita nuova (Cambridge, Mass., 1949).
Topsfield, L. T. Troubadours and Love (Cambridge, 1975).
Beckett, Samuel. ‘Dante and the Lobster’, in More Pricks than Kicks (London, 1970).
Blake, William. Illustrations to the Divine Comedy (repr. New York, 1968).
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Earliest Lives of Dante, trans. James Robinson Smith (repr. New York, 1963).
Eliot, T. S. Dante (London, 1929).
Heaney, Seamus. Station Island (London, 1984).
Phillips, T. The Inferno (London, 1985).
Pirandello, Luigi. Reading of Inf. XⅫ, in Letture dantesche, ed. G. Getto (Florence, 1965).

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