by A. N. Wilson
9 Bernard, Sancti Bernardi Opera, Rome, 1957–77, vol. 8, letter 250, p. 247.
10 Bernard, vol. 8, letter 247, p. 141.
11 Bernard, Sermon on the Song of Songs, 20.1., Opera, vol. 3.
12 Steven Botterill, Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia, Cambridge, 1994, p. 142. The whole of Botterill’s book is invaluable and influences this chapter throughout.
13 Erich Auerbach, ‘Dante’s Prayer to the Virgin and Earlier Eulogies’, in Gesammelte Aufsätze zur romanichen Philologie, Berne and Munich, 1967, pp. 123–44.
14 Williams, p. 231.
XXI DANTE’S AFTERLIFE
1 Bemrose, p. 249.
2 David Bindman et al., Dante Rediscovered: From Blake to Rodin, Grasmere, 2007, p. 70.
3 Nicolas Boileau, L’Art poétique, Chant III, Oeuvres complètes, Paris, 1966, p. 175.
4 Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Die Italienische Reise, 1950, p. 419.
5 John Morley, Voltaire, London, 1872, p. 275.
6 Morley, p. 153.
7 P. R. Harris., ‘Henry Francis Cary’, ONDB, vol. 4, pp. 1151–3.
8 Quoted Delmont, p. 866.
9 Delmont, p. 312.
10 P. R. Harris, ‘Henry Francis Cary’, ONDB, vol. 10, pp. 432–3.
11 P. R. Harris, ‘Sir Anthony Panizzi’, ONDB, vol. 42, pp. 562–6.
12 R.G., old DNB, vol. 3, pp. 1151–3.
13 Keats, The Poems, ed. Miriam Allot, London, 1970, p. 501.
14 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Boston, 1852, vol. 1, p. 240.
15 R. W. Emerson, Letters, ed. R. L. Rusk, New York, 1939, vol. 5, p. 531.
16 Jan Marsh, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet, London, 1999, pp. 1–3.
17 Milbank, p. 119.
18 Agatha Ramm, ‘Gladstone as Man of Letters’, quoted Anne Isba, Gladstone and Dante: Victorian Statesman, Medieval Poet, Woodbridge and New York, 2006, p. 118.
19 W. E. Gladstone: ‘Did Dante Study at Oxford?’, The Nineteenth Century, XXXI, June 1892, pp. 1032–42.
20 The Nineteenth Century, June 1892, p. 1040.
21 Isba, p. 125.
22 Isba, p. 43.
23 A superb exhibition of Dante illustrations at Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage in the Lake District, and its accompanying catalogue, Dante Rediscovered, edited by David Bindman, inspire much of this chapter.
24 Bindman et al., p. 234.
25 George P. Huntingdon, Comments of John Ruskin on the Divina Commedia, Boston and New York, 1903.
26 John Ruskin, Fors Clavigera, Letter XII.
27 Burckhardt, p. 83.
28 Burckhardt, pp. 84–5.
29 Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era, London, 1975, p. 320.
30 T. S. Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays, London, 1969, p. 44.
31 Eliot, pp. 98–9.
32 Eliot, p. 196.
33 Quoted on the back of Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound, ed. William Levey, Rotterdam, 1975.
34 Certain Radio Speeches of Ezra Pound, unpaginated.
35 Attempts to do so in New York seem frustrated – in the as yet unfinished Cathedral of St John the Divine, on which construction began in 1892, the north transept was destroyed by fire in December 2001.
36 Robert Lowell, Collected Poems, London, 2003, p. 38.
37 Quoted Dante in English, ed. Eric Griffiths and Matthew Reynolds, London, 2005, p. 415.
38 Geoffrey Hill, The Orchards of Syon, LXVII, quoted Griffiths and Reynolds, p. 421.
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Over 8,000 titles relating to Dante and his work are found in the British Library catalogue. What follows is a list either of books which I have consulted, or which are referred to in the text.
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