T.S. Eliot wrote that “Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them; there is no third.” I think Eliot got the order right, and not only chronologically. If the two poets divide the world between them, then the part of the world that belongs to Shakespeare—roughly, all that we can know about ourselves in this life—is finally smaller than the part that belo (...)
October 08, 2010
Books
The Sacred Poem
Dante’s CommediaTheology as PoetryEdited by Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew TreherneUniversity of Notre Dame Press, $40, 400 pp.
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