Dante (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Critical essay
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Italy or Italians, Middle Ages
Critical Evaluation:
In his poetry T. S. Eliot experimented with a number of techniques, one of the best known of these being the persistent use of direct and indirect allusions to other poets and poetry. These allusions are from an impressively wide range of sources, but one of the most important sources is the poetry of Dante.
The epigraph of Eliot’s first volume of poetry, PRUFROCK AND OTHER OBSERVATIONS, is from the PURGATORIO, while the epigraph to the poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” is from the INFERNO. There are a number of...
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