Dante: Poet of the Secular World

by Erich Auerbach

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590172191
• ISBN13: 9781590172193
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"