Dante's British Public: Readers and Texts from the Fourteenth Century to the Present.
- Author / Editor
- Havely, Nick.
Dante's British Public: Readers and Texts from the Fourteenth Century to the Present.
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 355 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- Assesses the general or "public" familiarity with Dante and his works in British culture, acknowledging his impact on poets such as Chaucer, Milton, and T. S. Eliot, but exploring instead a more pervasive presence. Includes references to Chaucer's familiarity with Dante's works, to the knowledge of Dante among clerics in "the time of Chaucer," and to how Dante's and Chaucer's canonicity developed in Tudor England. Also comments on possible connections between Chaucer and Adam Easton, an English Benedictine who "possibly anticipated Chaucer as the first English writer to refer to Dante by name."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion