The Figure Of Beatrice
The Figure Of Beatrice

Author: Charles Williams

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Published: 2020-05-02

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13:

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This study of Dante is intended to pay particular attention to the figure of Beatrice and to the relation which that figure bears to all the rest. That figure is presented at the beginning of Dante's first book, for Dante is one of those poets who begin their work with what is declared to be an intense personal experience. That experience is, as such, made part of the poetry; and it is not only so, with Dante, at the beginning, but also when, in his later and greater work, the experience is recalled and confirmed. He defined the general kind of experience to which the figure of Beatrice belongs in one of his prose books, the Convivio (IV, XXV). He says there that the young are subject to a 'stupor' or astonishment of the mind which falls on them at the awareness of great and wonderful things. Such a stupor produces two results-a sense of reverence and a desire to know more. A noble awe and a noble curiosity come to life. This is what had happened to him at the sight of the Florentine girl, and all his work consists, one way or another, in the increase of that worship and that knowledge.

The Figure of Beatrice: a Study in Dante: Large Print
The Figure of Beatrice: a Study in Dante: Large Print

Author: Charles William

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Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781676310273

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One of the most ambitious essays in the interpretation of Dante our time has seen...his interpretation of the role of Beatrice is a subtle and individual one. Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed to the mythopoetic revival in contemporary culture.

The Figure of Beatrice
The Figure of Beatrice

Author: Charles Williams

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0859914453

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Dante is unequalled among poets in conveying an extraordinary intensity of thought and experience, but this very power may make his work seem formidable to approach. Charles Williams's Figure of Beatriceis outstanding amongst Dante scholarship and criticism for the sympathetic enthusiasm and clarity with which he eases that approach without simplifying the achievement in a highly personal introduction to Dante's work. The first half of the book traces the way in which the central image of Beatrice, representing transcendent beauty in feminine form, animates Dante's earlier works. The second half richly expounds The Divine Comedy, meditating on its significance in Dantesque terms. Williams foreshadows the valuable modern emphasis on Dante as philosopher-poet; he also touches on many later concerns in Dante criticism, including ambiguities of language, the inherent self-contradiction of all powerful discourse, and the place of the feminine. The Figure of Beatrice is also a moving and poetic work in its own rightCHARLES WILLIAMS(1886-1945) is known to many as a prolific and unusual playwright, novelist and critic; his poetic works include Taliessin through Logres' and The Region of the Summer Stars'.

Figure of Beatrice
Figure of Beatrice

Author: Charles Williams

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Published: 2005-10

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781955821438

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One of the most ambitious essays in the interpretation of Dante our time has seen...his interpretation of the role of Beatrice is a subtle and individual one. Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed to the mythopoetic revival in contemporary culture.

The Figure of Beatrice: a Study in Dante
The Figure of Beatrice: a Study in Dante

Author: Charles William

Publisher:

Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781676310297

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One of the most ambitious essays in the interpretation of Dante our time has seen...his interpretation of the role of Beatrice is a subtle and individual one. Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed to the mythopoetic revival in contemporary culture.

Dante, Beatrice, and the Divine Comedy
Dante, Beatrice, and the Divine Comedy

Author: Charles Tomlinson

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781230342412

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. BEATRICE. Italian commentators on the Vita Nuova are numerous, but by no means in agreement as to the intention of the author with respect to the character of Beatrice in the narrative. They agree that the Vita Nuova is a necessary preparation for the study of the Divine Comedy. They do not agree in the rendering of what Dante calls the rubric, Incipit Vita Nova, some translating it, "Here begins the new or regenerate" others the "youthful or early life of the poet." They do not agree as to the nature of the narrative, whether it is a real history of persons and events, or whether it is a fiction or allegory, and as such the parent or suggester of the romances which afterwards appeared in various parts of Europe. The elder Rossetti adopted the opinion of some of his predecessors, that Beatrice is an imaginary character, that the Vita Nuova is a treatise on Love, purely intellectual, in the form of an allegory; that Wisdom in its most extended sense, personified under the name of Beatrice, was the object of Dante's love; that by Love he meant Study, in the same way as he confesses he used it in the Convito, where he imagines Philosophy "in fashion like a gentle Lady, nor could I fancy her otherwise than piteous, whereupon so truly did I gaze upon her with ordinary eyes, that scarcely could I turn myself away.... In short time I began so much to feel her sweetness that her love chased away and destroyed all other thoughts in me." In the Vita he also remarks that his love withdrew his thoughts from all meaner things, an idea which is repeated in the second canto of the Inferno: --O Beatrice, why Dost thou not succour him who loved thee so That he, for thee, the vulgar herd did fly? The theory that I am now advocating explains that...