File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 916


From: Patsloane-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 00:46:47 -0500 (EST)
Subject: PLC: Dante & Cervantes


In a message dated 97-11-22 00:22:36 EST, you write:

> Well, bear in mind that Cerv is working in a Catholic country, center of
>  Loyola and devotionalism etc. in 16/17C's. Dante was much better known in
>  Spain in 16/17C than in England for example -- and even a Milton knew
>  Dante's work of course, though Dante did not really become as well-known
in
>  anglophone countries as he is now till the Romantic period, starting in
the
>  very late 18th and early 19th cents....
>  
>  Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing-AT-nyu.edu or downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu
>  
>  
>  
Could you give a brief critical rundown on Dante's early reception. Thanks if
you can.  With all those literary allusions, and originally no annotation, he
must have had a really small audience at the beginning.  

pat sloane


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