Italy and English Literature, 1764-1930

A. C. Swinburne achievement admiration artistic attitudes to Italy attractive beauty become Browning Browning's Byron civilisation classical colour contemporary contrast conventional Corinne Corvo creative D. H. Lawrence Dante death decay Della Cruscans Dickens Dipsychus E. M. Forster eighteenth century England English essay Etruscan example experience F. M. Crawford feeling fictional Florence George George Eliot George Sand Gibbon Gissing Gothic Gothic novel hero Ibid imagination interest in Italy J. A. Symonds James Lawrence's Letters literary literature living London Madame de Staël modern moral Naples nineteenth century novel novelists Ouida painting Pater peasant Pisa poem poetic poetry poets qualities reader realisation Renaissance response to Italy Romantic Rome ruins Ruskin seems Shelley Shelley's significant society spirit stimulating Stones of Venice story Swinburne T. A. Trollope Tour treatment of Italy Turner Tuscany Venetian vivid W. D. Howells writing