Six of the essays in the volume were first delivered as papers at a conference on Dante and the moderns, March 15, 1996, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London.
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Dante's Afterlife: 1321-1997; N. Havely (editor) Selective Bibliography Pre-Romantic Prologue: Foreseeing and Foreknowing: Dante's 'Ugolino' and the Eton College Ode of Thomas Gary; J. Roe Romantic Readings: Dante and Blake: Allegorizing the Event; J. Tambling Figuration in Shelley and Dante; S. Curran The Shelleys and Dante's Matilda; W. Keach Victorian Evaluations: Moral Luck in the Second Circle: Dante and the Victorian Fate of Tragedy; A. Milbank 'The Perilous Depth of Doubt': Dante, Plumptre and Victorian Faith; R. Pite Modern Revisions: Ezra Pound: Quotation and Community; M. Reynolds Dante and Louis MacNeice: a Sequel to the Commedia; S. Ellis Purgatory Regained? Beckett and Dante; H. Haughton Echoes in Post-War Italy: Micol and Beatrice: Echoes of the Vita Nuova in Giorgio Bassani's Garden of the Finzi-contini; J. Woolf 'Una Fitta di Rimorso': Dante in Sereni; P. Robinson Contemporary Directions: 'Prosperous People' and 'The Real Hell' in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills; N. Havely The Place of the Poet: Dante in Walcott's Narrative Poetry; M. Balfour Dante's Versatility and Seamus Heaney's Modernism; B. O'Donoghue 'The Deep and Savage Path': Translation of Inferno , Canto 2; S. Heaney Index