An extensive influence-study comes from Ralph Pite...he shows the importance of Dante, both in Italian and in Cary's translation, to those works and others, beyond doubt. He has amassed a great quantity of useful information. * English Studies Offprint from Volume 77 Number One January 1996Essays in Criticism * Ralph Pite's account of Dante's presence in works by Blake, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron combines impressively the scholarly and the nuanced...The Circle of our Vision offers its reader the difficult pleasure of keeping company with a mind in search of precise discriminations...One of the rewards of reading The Circle of Our Vision is the light shed on Dante's poetic practice. This is a learned, subtle, complex and strange book...fascinating * Forum for Modern Language Studies * combines impressively the scholarly and the nuanced ... As with the best moments (and there are mmany of them) in The Circle of Our Vision, the contrast grapples with detail while attending to issues of wide significance. * Michael O'Neill, University of Durham, Review of English Studies, Vol. XLVII, No. 188, Nov '96 * Pite is sure-footed in his tracking down of Dante partly because he knows his Dante so well. ... Such is his rigour that his study represents a good deal more than what it claims; it is the most perceptive and sensitive analysis I have read of Romantic poetry for a long time, and will be tremendously useful to all Romanticists. It is beautifully written, to boot. * Year's Work in English Studies, 1994 *
