Eliot and Dante: A Modernist Perspective
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Eliot, Dante, poetryAbstract
In this contribution, I analyze the outstanding encounter of two great masters of poetry, Dante and TS Eliot. I shall attempt to highlight how important Dante’s poetry was, not merely for Eliot’s own poetics, but also for his art making. I shall focus on four issues:
- Within Eliot’s poetics, Dante represents the great model of classic poet, capable of blending ethics and aesthetics, poetry, and philosophy.
- For the above reason, Dante would become a model exemplifying Eliot’s theory on “the impersonality of the poet” and on the objective correlative.
- For Eliot, as a modernist poet, Dante’s linguistic revolution and the features of dantesque language represented a model to imitate.
- Eliot uses various literary strategies to imitate Dante, and the characters portrayed in Dante’s work reappear in Eliot’s own works.
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