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by Ralph Manheim,Michael Dirda,Erich Auerbach
- ISBN: 1590172191
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- Author: Ralph Manheim,Michael Dirda,Erich Auerbach
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- Language: English
- Publisher: NYRB Classics; 1st THUS edition (January 16, 2007)
- Pages: 208 pages
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A precursor and companion to Erich Auerbach’s majestic Mimesis, Dante: Poet of the Secular World is both a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets and a brilliantly provocative and stimulating essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, acclaimed by writers and scholars as various as Terry Eagleton, Guy Davenport, and Alfred Kazin as one of the greatest critics of the twentieth century, argues paradoxically but powerfully that it is to Dante, supreme among Christian poets, that we owe the concept of the secular world.
Erich 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
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Erich Auerbach; Translator-Ralph Manheim; Dirda. Published by NYRB Classics (2007). ISBN 10: 1590172191 ISBN 13: 9781590172193. Condition: New. An inspired introduction to one of the worldâ s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here, Auerbach makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among the religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his Divine Comedy, that the secular world of the modern novel first took imaginative form.
DANTE Poet of the Secular World ERICH AUERBACH Translated by RALPH MANHEIM Introduction by. .
Michael Dirda, from the Introduction. Erich 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 secular world of the modern novel ?rst took imaginative form.
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Erich Auerbach, Ralph Manheim, Michael Dirda. Erich 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
Erich Auerbach, Ralph Manheim, Michael Dirda. 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 secular world of the modern novel first took imaginative form.
A precursor and companion to Erich Auerbach's majestic Mimesis, Dante: Poet of the Secular World is both a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets and a brilliantly provocative and stimulating essay in the history of ideas
A precursor and companion to Erich Auerbach's majestic Mimesis, Dante: Poet of the Secular World is both a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets and a brilliantly provocative and stimulating essay in the history of ideas.