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Fletcher, Jefferson Butler

 
9781334516115: Dante (Classic Reprint)

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But it is needful, wrote Charles Eliot Norton, to know Dante as man in order fully to appreciate him as poet. Norton was contrasting Dante with Homer and Shaksi)ere. Of Homer the man, and of Shakspere the man, we know, and need to know, nothing; it is only with them as poets that we are concerned. The mirror they hold up to nature hides them behind it. Dante faces his own mirror, and so appears in the mid-foreground of his reflected world. Interest in the man Dante has also had historical warrant. For four centuries the writings of Dante suffered relative depreciation or neglect. To the Renaissance and the pseudo-classic taste it developed, Dante sscholastic subtlety was repugnant, his graphic but often homely style vulgar. The romantic critics of the early nineteenth century cared little more for the accurate meaning of his great poem. They saw rather in his personality full embodiment of their picturesque middle ages. They were fascinated by the tragic romance of the life of one who as Library of the WorUT a Best Literature: Essay on Dante.
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