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Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio

Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio

Fergusson, Francis

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 2142

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0691649375
ISBN13: 9780691649375
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Apr 19 2016
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The individual insights employed in this reading of the Purgatorio are those of a twentieth-century mind, as are the author's references: T. S. Eliot, Henry James, I.A. Richards, Jacques Maritain, and many others. Purposely avoiding the pitfalls of Dantean scholarship, Mr. Fergusson reveals the drama of the order of Dante's vision, the developed form of the poetry, and the meaning of the canticle for modern man. The Purgatorio, he says, has light to shed upon history and its making; upon psychology, ethics, and education; upon politics and the transmission of our tradition. There are many reasons for learning to read it; it is a central clue. This brilliantly written book by the author of The Idea of a Theater is itself a central clue to the meaning of the Purgatorio.

Originally published in 1953.

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