TY  - CHAP
A1  - Jacoff, Rachel
T1  - Reclaiming "Paradiso" : Dante in the poetry of James Merrill and Charles Wright
T2  - Metamorphosing Dante : appropriations, manipulations, and rewritings in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart ; Cultural Inquiry ; 2
N2  - The 'fortuna di Dante' among English and American poets of the twentieth century is a rich story that continues on into this millennium with new permutations and undiminished energies. Pound and Eliot canonized Dante for more than one generation of poets and readers. It was "Purgatorio" rather than "Inferno" that both Pound and Eliot valorized, its charged and affectionate poetic encounters serving as a model for key moments in both their works. [...] Yet it was two American poets, James Merrill and Charles Wright, who focused their attention and delight specifically on the "Paradiso", a much less common predilection for both poets and general readers. [...] Wright says that he writes for the dead; sometimes he seems to write as the dead. It is this premature identification with the dead, even if sporadic, which makes Wright so different from both Dante and Merrill, for whom the afterlife is ultimately an affirmation of life. Both Dante and Merrill make us understand the usefulness of the fiction of the afterlife as a way of staging a dialogue with the dead - which is what much of poetry, perhaps much of life, is about. What all three poets share is a dream of paradise as a site that emboldens the imagination.
KW  - Dante Alighieri
KW  - Divina Commedia. Paradiso
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Merrill, James Ingram
KW  - Wright, Charles
KW  - American poetry
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51582
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-515821
UR  - https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-02/jacoff_reclaiming-paradiso.pdf
SN  - 978-3-85132-617-8
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 123
EP  - 136
PB  - Turia + Kant
CY  - Wien
ER  -