T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe
'A valuable and timely collection of essays that illuminates and deepens our understanding of Eliot s lifelong creative debt to Dante, bringing an impressive array of texts and traditions Eastern and Western, medieval and postmodern to bear upon Dante s dynamic, tutelary presence, not only in Eliot s work, but in the innovations of modern literature throughout Europe and America. It is a great service to scholarship and teaching to bring together so many lucid and thoughtful essays by both established scholars and new voices. The essays collected here will enjoy a wide and continued readership.' --Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Author, The Passions of Modernism, Co-editor, The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, Vol. 2