Dante : Poet of the Secular World

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Auerbach's analysis of Dante, first published in 1929 by Walter de Grutyer GmbH and Co., has retained all its surprise and persuasiveness through ensuing decades of Dante scholarship. Arguing that the secular world of the modern novel first took form in the Divine Comedy, Auerbach illuminates both the overall structure and the individual detail of Dante's work, showing it to be a synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, the particular and the universal. In his introduction, Dirda provides an overview of Auerbach's argument. Annotation 2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)