Dante's Modern Afterlife

MARK BALFOUR Lecturer on Dante for the National Extension CollegeSTUART CURRAN Professor of English at the University of PennsylvaniaSTEVE ELLIS Lecturer, Department of English, University of BirminghamHUGH HAUGHTON Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Related Literature, University of YorkWILLIAM KEACH Lecturer in English Department, Brown UniversityALISON MILBANK Member of the Cambridge University English FacultyBERNARD O'DONOGHUE Fellow of Wadham College, OxfordRALPH PITE Lecturer, Department of English, University of LiverpoolMATTHEW REYNOLDS Lecturer, Department of English, University of OxfordPETER ROBINSON Visiting Professor, Tohoku UniversityJOHN ROE Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of YorkJEREMY TAMBLING Teaches Comparative Literature in the University of Hong KongJUDITH WOOLF Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Dante's Afterlife: 1321-1997; N. Havely (editor) Selective Bibliography Pre-Romantic Prologue: Foreseeing and Foreknowing: Dante's 'Ugolino' and the Eton College Ode of Thomas Gary; J. Roe Romantic Readings: Dante and Blake: Allegorizing the Event; J. Tambling Figuration in Shelley and Dante; S. Curran The Shelleys and Dante's Matilda; W. Keach Victorian Evaluations: Moral Luck in the Second Circle: Dante and the Victorian Fate of Tragedy; A. Milbank 'The Perilous Depth of Doubt': Dante, Plumptre and Victorian Faith; R. Pite Modern Revisions: Ezra Pound: Quotation and Community; M. Reynolds Dante and Louis MacNeice: a Sequel to the Commedia; S. Ellis Purgatory Regained? Beckett and Dante; H. Haughton Echoes in Post-War Italy: Micol and Beatrice: Echoes of the Vita Nuova in Giorgio Bassani's Garden of the Finzi-contini; J. Woolf 'Una Fitta di Rimorso': Dante in Sereni; P. Robinson Contemporary Directions: 'Prosperous People' and 'The Real Hell' in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills; N. Havely The Place of the Poet: Dante in Walcott's Narrative Poetry; M. Balfour Dante's Versatility and Seamus Heaney's Modernism; B. O'Donoghue 'The Deep and Savage Path': Translation of Inferno , Canto 2; S. Heaney Index