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The Poets' Dante

The Poets' Dante

Jacoff, Rachel
Hawkins, Peter S.

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $33.00

ISBN10: 0374528403
ISBN13: 9780374528409
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: Apr 3 2002
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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, 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.

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