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26 mai 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.apu.20288
- isbn: 9782848323565
- eisbn: 9782848324661
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Alex Shakespeare, « Figures, Drawn from Life: Robert Lowell’s Dantesque Poetics of Homage », Artois Presses Université, ID : 10.4000/books.apu.20288
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At the age of seventeen, as a student at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Massachusetts, Robert Lowell started reading Dante in a boyish spirit of literary adventure. He may not have understood much of what he read, but he was nothing if not diligent: following various translations, trots, and commentaries, he would go on reading Dante for forty-three years. There were other writers whom Lowell read as intently (Milton and Hopkins spring to mind), but Dante was perhaps peculiar in that he s...