This book is designed to provide an introduction to Dante that is at once accessible and challenging. Fifteen specially commissioned essays by distinguished North American and European scholars provide background information and up-to-date critical perspectives on Dante's life and work, focusing on areas of central importance. They explore the ...
John Freccero enables us to see the "Divine Comedy" for the bold, poetic experiment that it is. Too many critics have domesticated Dante by separating his theology from his poetics. Freccero argues that to fail to see the convergence of the letter and the spirit, the pilgrim and the poet, is to fail to understand Dante's poetics of conversion. For ...
This collection of essays about Dante includes insight from major poets of the early 20th century, like T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, and W. H. Auden, as well as late-20th-century voices J. D. McClatchy, W. S. Merwin, Rosanna Warren, Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, and Mary Campbell, among others.
Essays on the most celebrated Italian poet by eminent poets of the twentieth century "Perhaps confessions by poets, of what Dante has meant to them, may even contribute something to the appreciation of Dante himself." -T. S. Eliot The great fourteenth-century poet has been an unequaled influence on many writers in the twentieth century, whose ...
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