| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxvi, 406 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
from Dante / Ezra Pound -- from A vision / William Butler Yeats -- from The figure of Beatrice / Charles Williams -- What Dante means to me / T.S. Eliot -- Conversation about Dante / Osip Mandelstam -- Dante, yesterday and today / Eugenio Montale -- The Divine comedy / Jorge Luis Borges -- from The vision of eros / W.H. Auden -- Mirroring the Commedia : an appreciation of Laurence Binyon's version / Robert Fitzgerald -- Dante's actuality and fecundity in the Anglo-Saxon world epics / Robert Lowell -- The sweetness and greatness of Dante's Divine comedy / Robert Duncan -- The dream of Dante / Howard Nemerov -- Divine poem / James Merrill -- Envies and identifications : Dante and the modern poet / Seamus Heaney -- Dantino Mio / Charles Wright -- She's come undone : an American Jew looks at Dante / Jacqueline Osherow -- His Enamel / J.D. McClatchy -- Poetry rising from the dead / W.S. Merwin -- The pageant of unbeing / Robert Pinsky -- Between politics and eternity / Geoffrey Hill -- Words and blood / Rosanna Warren -- Our sweating selves / W.S. Di Piero -- Dante in perpignan / Daniel Halpern -- The tears of Cocytus / Alan Williamson -- Rooting for the damned / Mark Doty -- Souls / C.K. Williams -- Wrath, order, paradise / Mary Baine Campbell -- Summoning shades / Edward Hirsch. |
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divine comedy.
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Appreciation.
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Influence.
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Hawkins, Peter S.
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Jacoff, Rachel.
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| ISBN |
0374235368 alkaline paper |
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