The poet's Dante / edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Hawkins, Peter S.

Jacoff, Rachel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Appreciation.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Influence.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Poetry, Modern--20th century--Sources.

Poetry, Modern.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 406 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Summary:

This collection is a testament to Dante's continuing, uncanny presence in twentieth-century poetry; a presence that appears, as Robert Lowell observed, "in the way most gratifying to a poet -- in the works of his fellow poets who write long after, in other styles and other languages." The collection brings together previously published essays by some of our most renowned poets: Pound, Eliot, Yeats, Montale, Borges, Lowell, Merrill, Nemerov, Auden, and Heaney. But the editors have also commissioned new reflections on Dante by a number of others: Charles Wright, Jacqueline Osherow, J. D. McClatchy, W. S. Merwin, Robert Pinsky, Geoffrey Hill, Rosanna Warren, W. S. Di Piero, Daniel Halpern, Alan Williamson, Mark Doty, C. K. Williams, Mary Campbell, and Edward Hirsch. These poets approach Dante as both model and foil, in fresh responses to his legacy that are contentious as well as admiring. Together they attest to what Mandelstam called Dante's "inexhaustible contemporaneity."

Contents:

from Dante / Ezra Pound

from A vision / William Butler Yeats

from The figure of Beatrice / Charles Williams

What Dante means to me / T.S. Eliot

Conversation about Dante / Osip Mandelstam

Dante, yesterday and today / Eugenio Montale

The Divine comedy / Jorge Luis Borges

from The vision of eros / W.H. Auden

Mirroring the Commedia : an appreciation of Laurence Binyon's version / Robert Fitzgerald

Dante's actuality and fecundity in the Anglo-Saxon world epics / Robert Lowell

The sweetness and greatness of Dante's Divine comedy / Robert Duncan

The dream of Dante / Howard Nemerov

Divine poem / James Merrill

Envies and identifications : Dante and the modern poet / Seamus Heaney

Dantino Mio / Charles Wright

She's come undone : an American Jew looks at Dante / Jacqueline Osherow

His Enamel / J.D. McClatchy

Poetry rising from the dead / W.S. Merwin

The pageant of unbeing / Robert Pinsky

Between politics and eternity / Geoffrey Hill

Words and blood / Rosanna Warren

Our sweating selves / W.S. Di Piero

Dante in perpignan / Daniel Halpern

The tears of Cocytus / Alan Williamson

Rooting for the damned / Mark Doty

Souls / C.K. Williams

Wrath, order, paradise / Mary Baine Campbell

Summoning shades / Edward Hirsch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [405]-406).

ISBN:

0374235368

OCLC:

43985462