T.S. Eliot’s Dante
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Like many modern authors, T.S. Eliot looked to Dante both as a model for what it meant to be a poet and to Dante’s poetry for inspiration on how to represent the ills of his world. In this video, Lummus discusses how Eliot uses the figure of Guido da Montefeltro as an exemplar of modern man’s capacity for self-deception.
3 minutes
Speaker:
David Lummus