Dante: Poet of the Secular World AUTH-8720985 ISBN10: 0994101651

ISBN10: 0994101651

this time in Egypt

and all thoughts turn to the incredible brightness of even the smallest

" and "Goats

" John and his wife

Dante: Poet of the Secular World AUTH-8720985 ISBN10: 0994101651Erich Auerbach's Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth century scholar critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his Divine Comedy, that the