Why Dante matters : an intelligent person's guide /

Why Dante matters : an intelligent person's guide /

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Author / Creator:	Took, J. F., author.
Imprint:	London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020. ©2020
Description:	x, 207 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321 -- Criticism and interpretation. Dante Alighieri, -- 1265-1321. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13465774

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ISBN:	9781472951038 1472951034 9781472951045 1472951042 9781472951052 1472951050
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index.
Summary:	"Dante is the poet that everyone knows of yet also knows little about. And yet he was probably the most important and powerful poet that the Western world has ever produced. There are many translations of his work in English, but of Dante himself, most people only know about his love object Beatrice, that he was exiled from Florence and that he wrote The Divine Comedy--but maybe little else. In his Intelligent Person's Guide, Professor John Took introduces the reader to the principle themes of Dante's work: the polarities of existence, time and eternity, freedom and destiny, individuality and existence, the multiplicity of human loving. It is by self-confrontation and self-transcendence that we come to understand our human journey through hell, purgatory and on to paradise. These ostensibly somewhat complex ideas are here explained by John Took with pellucid clarity. In the course of this book we are caught up by the imaginative excitement in this study of a poetic genius which we cannot fail to be drawn into ourselves, and to find infectious."--Amazon.ca
Other form:	Ebook version : 9781472951045

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