The Poets' Dante: Twentieth-Century Responses
by Peter S. Hawkins (Editor), Rachel Jacoff (Editor)
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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 "confessions" may well foster a deeper appreciation of Dante. Previously published essays by some of this century's most renowned poets-Pound, Eliot, show more Mandelstam, Robert Fitzgerald, Borges, Merrill, Montale, Lowell, Duncan, Auden, Yeats, Charles Williams, Nemerov, Heaney-join new essays commissioned by the editors. Contemporary poets Mary Campbell, W. S. Di Piero, J. D. McClatchy,W. S. Merwin, Robert Pinsky, Rosanna Warren, Alan Williamson, and Charles Wright reflect on Dante as well as on their own complex (and often contentious) relationship to his legacy. Their engagement with his work offers a fresh perspective on the Commedia and its author that more academic writing does not provide. As the editors write, a new consideration of Dante "should generate insights not only about his work but also about poetry written in our own language and time. show lessTags
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It is generally true that one cannot learn less. I came close in this rather slap-dash collection of essays and essay-fragments. If anybody can indeed proft form it, mazel tov. The overall message of these Editors seems to be that Dante can be all things to all persons -- which is patently false.
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Peter S. Hawkins is Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School. His work has centered on Dante, but he has also written widely on the history of biblical reception and on contemporary fiction. He is the author of numerous books, including Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination, Dante: A Brief History, and show more undiscovered Country: Imagining the World to Come. show less
Rachel Jacoff is Professor of Italian at Wellesley College. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- People/Characters
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 851.1 — Literature & rhetoric Italian, Romanian & related literatures Italian poetry Early Italian; Age of Dante –1375
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- PQ4381.2 .P64 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Italian literature Individual authors and works to 1400
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