Dante
by Erich Auerbach, Kurt Flasch, Ralph Manheim
1961Dante alighieri, 1265-1321Criticism and interpretationItalian PoetsBiography and criticismCriticism, interpretation
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A precursor and companion to Erich Auerbach's majestic Mimesis, Dante: Poet of the Secular World is both a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets and a brilliantly provocative and stimulating essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, acclaimed by writers and scholars as various as Terry Eagleton, Guy Davenport, and Alfred Kazin as one of the greatest critics of the twentieth century, argues paradoxically but powerfully that it is to Dante, supreme among Christian poets, that we owe the concept of the secular world. Dante's poetry, Auerbach shows, offers an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, and individual and the universal, that redefined notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity.
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Dante alighieri, 1265-1321Criticism and interpretationItalian PoetsBiography and criticismCriticism, interpretationPolitical and social views
First published 1961Characters & people
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Erich Auerbach
1892 – 1957
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