Dante Poet of the Secular World

Name: Dante Poet of the Secular World
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ISBN: 9781590172193

ISBN-10: 1590172191

ISBN-13: 9781590172193

Edition: 2006

Authors: Erich Auerbach, Ralph Manheim, Michael Dirda, Ralph Manheim

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Erich Auerbach' s "Dante: Poet of the Secular World" is an inspiring introduction to one of world' s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his "Divine Comedy," that the secular world of the modern novel ﬁ rst took imaginative form. Auerbach' s study of Dante, a precursor and necessary complement to "Mimesis," his magisterial overview of realism in Western literature, illuminates both the overall structure and…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 1/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.99" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist and the author of the memoir An Open Book and of four collections of essays: Readings, Bound to Please, Book by Book, and Classics for Pleasure.