Dante and Cosmopolitanism in British Romanticism

对但丁《神曲》的认真借鉴为第二代浪漫主义者提供了思想上和美学上的可能性，使他们能够超越传统文学标准所规定的视觉限制，创作出现代的、世界主义的史诗。通过浪漫主义的创作和现代但丁的背书，诗人在“欧洲”文学的新形态中获得了新的优势。浪漫主义开创的现代“欧洲”文学拥抱了特殊与普遍之间的但丁式联系，在清晰描绘的但广阔的轨迹中，传播着嵌入世界主义的各种思想。

The serious attempt to appropriate Dante's Divine Comedy allowed the second-generation Romantics the ideological and aesthetic possibilities to generate their modern and cosmopolitan epic, transcending the limits of vision as prescribed by conventional literary criteria. Through the Romantic creation and endorsement of a modern Dante, the poets gained a fresh ascendancy in a new formation of "European" literature. The modern "European" literature which the Romantics inaugurated embraced the Dantean correlation between the particular and the universal in clearly delineated but wide trajectories within which to circulate diverse ideas embedded in cosmopolitanism.