Eliot and Dante: A Modernist Perspective
In this contribution, I analyze the outstanding encounter of two great masters of poetry, Dante and TS Eliot. I shall attempt to highlight how important Dante’s poetry was, not merely for Eliot’s own poetics, but also for his art making. I shall focus on four issues: Within Eliot’s poetics, Dante r...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Lenguas (CIFAL), Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Avenida Enrique Barros s/n, Ciudad Universitaria. Córdoba, Argentina. Correo electrónico: revistacylc@lenguas.unc.edu.ar
2022
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| Sumario: | In this contribution, I analyze the outstanding encounter of two great masters of poetry, Dante and TS Eliot. I shall attempt to highlight how important Dante’s poetry was, not merely for Eliot’s own poetics, but also for his art making. I shall focus on four issues:
Within Eliot’s poetics, Dante represents the great model of classic poet, capable of blending ethics and aesthetics, poetry, and philosophy.
For the above reason, Dante would become a model exemplifying Eliot’s theory on “the impersonality of the poet” and on the objective correlative.
For Eliot, as a modernist poet, Dante’s linguistic revolution and the features of dantesque language represented a model to imitate.
Eliot uses various literary strategies to imitate Dante, and the characters portrayed in Dante’s work reappear in Eliot’s own works.
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