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    <![CDATA[The Divine Comedy: The Vision of Dante (Reprint; 1908) (Everyman's Library (Paper))]]>
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    <![CDATA[NB -- This is not a CD-ROM. This is an electronic book on three diskettes.  These works are here presented in a public domain edition.  The material on these diskettes is in plain (ASCII) text, formatted for a PC(not Macintosh). You can manipulate it with your favorite word processing program to enhance the format or to print out portions just the way you want.  The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio) in the original Italian and in three different English translations.  <p>Disk #1 -- original Italian and translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br/> Disk #2 -- translation by H.F. Cary<br/> Disk #3 -- translation by Charles Eliot Norton</p>]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Dante Alighieri]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Thomas Hardy: the Guarded Life]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2006</published>
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    <![CDATA[Hardy's Geography: Wessex and the Regional Novel]]>
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    <![CDATA[Hardy's Geography reconsiders a familiar element in Hardy's novels: their use of place and, specifically, of Dorset. Hardy said his Wessex was a 'partly real, partly dream-country'. This study examines how reality and dream interact in his work. Should we look for a real place corresponding to Casterbridge? What is the relation between one person's feelings for a place and society's view of it. He author concludes that Hardy addresses these issues through a distinctive regional awareness.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Circle of Our Vision: Dante's Presence in English Romantic Poetry]]>
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    <![CDATA[The sudden and spectacular growth in Dante's popularity in England at the end of the eighteenth century was immensely influential for English writers of the period.  But the impact of Dante on English writers has rarely been analysed and its history has been little understood.    Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Blake, and Wordsworth all wrote and painted while Dante's work - its style, project, and achievement - commanded their attention and provoked their disagreement.  The Circle of Our Vision discusses each of these writers in detail, assessing the nature of their engagement with the Divine Comedy and the consequences for their own writing.  It explores how these Romantic poets understood Dante, what they valued in his poetry and why, setting them in the context of contemporary commentators, translators, and illustrators, (including Fuseli, Flaxman, and Reynolds) both in England and Europe.  Romantic readings of the Divine Comedy are shown to disturb our own ideas about Dante, which are based on Victorian and Modernist assumptions.    Pite also presents a reconsideration of the concept of `influence' in general, using the example of Dante's presence in Romantic poetry to challenge Harold Bloom's belief that the relations between poets are invariably a fight to the death.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1994</published>
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    <![CDATA[Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: Carroll, Stevenson and Swinburne by Their Contemporaries: Pt. VI]]>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Internationally renowned as the author of <em>Far From the Madding Crowd</em>, <em>Tess of the D&#8217;Urbervilles</em>, <em>Jude the Obscure, Wessex Poems and Other Verses</em>, and <em>Winter Words</em>, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) nonetheless remains an elusive and enigmatic figure. His own diligent efforts to guard his privacy&#8212;making bonfires of his papers, ghost-writing his own biography to be published after his death&#8212;have obscured many aspects of the author&#8217;s personal life. This book, the first major biography of Hardy in decades, draws on new and extensive archival research to present a more complex picture of Hardy than has been possible to date.<br/>Author Ralph Pite investigates the validity of long-accepted views of the author: Was his early life devoted to his preparation for becoming a writer? Did his first wife, Emma, trick him into an unwanted marriage? Was his poetry far dearer to his heart than the novels? And was Florence, his second wife, as conflicted and passionate as caricatures have suggested? Pite examines the relationships and contexts that shaped Hardy most&#8212;the women in his life, his friends and mentors, social and family pressures, career structures of his day, the Devonshire landscape&#8212;and offers new insight into the man who, until now, was hidden behind an opaque public image he helped to create.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">344248</id>
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    <![CDATA[Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: Henry James, Edith Wharton]]>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Thomas Hardy: the Guarded Life]]>
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    <![CDATA[Few writers are as strongly associated with a particular place as Thomas Hardy. His role as unofficial historian of Wessex has come to define his reputation, yet it can only begin to hint at the complexities of a man who cultivated aristocratic friends, spent several months each year in London, and wrote some of the most popularbut also most villifiednovels of the Victorian period. Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life challenges some of the long-held views of Hardy and, by examining the influences that shaped both man and author (his relationships with women, friends, and mentors; the social, family, and work pressures he experienced; his attachment to the Dorsetshire landscape), it reveals the personal and emotional life of a public figure who has, despite his fame, remained largely obscureuntil now.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Brownings, the Brontes and the Rossettis by Their Contemporaries: II]]>
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    <![CDATA[The three volumes that comprise this set are facsimile reproductions of contemporary biographical material. They include letters, memoirs, poems and articles on three outstanding Victorian literary partnerships. These are the Brownings, Brontes and the Rossettis.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[John Mullan]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.53</average_rating>
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        <name><![CDATA[Simon Avery]]></name>
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  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
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