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Article: Boyd's Dante, Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner,' and the pattern of infernal influence.(Reverend Henry Boyd; Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
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- September 22, 1998
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As a literary critic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the first in the English language to assess the particularities of Dante's Divina Commedia. Indeed, his lecture on Dante in 1818 remains one of the most significant landmarks in the popularizing of the Italian epic. Yet in discussions of Coleridge and his poetry, especially The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, his relationship to Dante is usually neglected. Coleridge's first exposure to him came relatively early in his poetic career; he borrowed from the Bristol library the first two volumes of a recent translation by Reverend Henry Boyd from 23 June to 4 July 1796. In The Road to Xanadu, John L. Lowes writes further ...
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