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A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.

Accessible and informative account of Dante's great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genre

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Eu

The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential i