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I begin with this two-part proposition: that Dante exerted the greatest influence on Shelley of any Italian writer, and that Shelley in turn was the best, because the deepest, reader of Dante among major English poets.1
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Curran, S. (1998). Figuration in Shelley and Dante . In: Havely, N. (eds) Dante’s Modern Afterlife. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26975-4_4
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