Cavalcanti is a key figure in the development of Italian poetry, and a fascinating character in the shadow of his contemporary and friend Dante Alighieri. Caval

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For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of majo

Cirigliano's readable introduction supplies ... an understanding of poetic dicta without being overimposing or arcane. -- Choice. Cirigliano is to be thanked fo