Hints and tips:
...., miglior fabbro”, the better craftsman; the laurel wreath Dante had bestowed on the troubadour Arnaut Daniel....
...Tim Hayward FT food critic and restaurateur I’m on holiday at the moment and, as Englishmen abroad must, reading Dante’s The Divine Comedy. It’s remarkable how current it remains....
...He has been revered by an extraordinary number of the greatest poets and writers of the past hundred years — Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Beckett, Borges, Montale and the great Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents, to...
...In the past 11 months, she has lost 70 pounds, more than 20 per cent of her weight, and is still shedding half a pound a week....
...Hot wax alone will not a multi-million-pound jewellery business make....
...There were puns and pop culture references, evocations of Goya and Bosch, nods to Kafka, Yeats, Dante and Pound, as well as Keats....
...“Almost enough to make the rest of us shut up shop”, Ezra Pound noted on receiving the manuscript of what Eliot dismissed as “just a piece of rhythmical grumbling”....
...Dante, Mainardi observes, counts out steps as a means of depicting distance in the Divine Comedy....
...Another Pre-Raphaelite article on sale is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Io Sono in Pace” (1875). A chalk drawing of two red-headed maidens, Sotheby’s hopes it will fetch £300,000....
...For postwar iconoclasts such as Ezra Pound and the members of the Bloomsbury group, Horace was the problem, not the solution....
...Eliot haunts these later poets but is himself haunted, particularly by Dante, and the book ends with a Ricksian tour de force showing how the Brunetto Latini episode from Dante’s “Inferno”, in which Dante...
...His Dante-inspired Hell’s Half Acre show in The Old Vic Tunnels last October, in collaboration with Old Vic Theatre artistic director Kevin Spacey, was a particular success and a pointer to future direction...
...Shakespeare, Michelangelo and Dante all prospered thanks to patronage, performance and other pre-copyright funding mechanisms....
...Nobody, certainly not me, tried any supplementary questions about Dante....
...His years in London were devoted partly to learning to write in a modern way – paradoxically, by immersing himself in the poetry of Dante, and classical China)....
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