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T. S. Eliot and Dante (Hardcover)
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T. S. Eliot and Dante (Hardcover)
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Ezra Pound belatedly conceded that T.S.Eliot "was the true
Dantescan voice" of the modern world. This is the first study to
deal with this assertion and the relationship between the two
poets. It attempts to show how Dante's total vision impinges on
Eliot's craft and thought. Eliot's indebtedness to his Italian
master, whose poetry he deemed "as the most persistent and deepest
influence" upon his own verse, manifests itself in a variety of
literary strategies, including imitation, parody, citation and
allusion. At the same time Eliot's debt transcends the literary to
embrace Dante's total vision, or his philosophy, theology and
politics. Various aspects of Eliot's recourse to Dante's craft and
thought may appear in a new light - his recurring fascination with
Ulysses in "Inferno XXVI" and especially with Arnaut Daniel in
"Purgatorio XXVI"; the exodus motif as it informs "The Waste Land",
"The Hollow Men" and "Ash Wednesday"; the metaphor of Dante's book
of memory as it applies to Eliot's work; the notion of order in its
ethical, aesthetic and political dimensions. Finally, light is shed
on some of the reasons why Eliot's Dante ultimately differs
radically from that of the other mod
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