DANTE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -an introductory essay-
DANTE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -an introductory essay-

Summary/Abstract: For Borges, a writer of genius, such as Shakespeare, is one whose original work comes down to us through time like some vast literary snowball, gathering to itself an accretion of commentary, exposition, imitation, and controversy, so that not merely does our idea of ‘Shakespeare’ change and develop through the centuries following his death and the publication of his plays, but it grows constantly as it gathers new material, and (to shift the metaphor) sends out ripples across the whole of subsequent literature.

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