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Chapter Four—The Influence of Dante |
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Part One—The Dantean Concept of Love |
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The Presentation of Love in the Divine Comedy |
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Shelley’s Response to the Dantean Ideal |
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Dantean Love in Eliot’s Early Poetry |
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Part Two—An Infernal, or Purgatorial View? |
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Meeting the Damned in Shelley’s ‘Julian and Maddalo’ |
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Contact with the Damned in Eliot’s Early Poetry |
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Eliot’s Purgatorial View |
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‘Restored by that refining fire’: Purgatorial Suffering in ‘Little Gidding’ |
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‘The Triumph of Life’: Shelley in Purgatory? |
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Chapter Five—The Limits of Language |
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Shelley on Language |
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‘It is impossible to say just what I mean!’: Linguistic Problems in Eliot’s Early Poetry |
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“A Voice is wanting”: Language in Prometheus Unbound |