Posted by bagchucker on 12/28/2019 10:46:00 PM (view original):
The Dante Club
bostocentric
makes the case that dante was a soldier and a patriot and a christian and a seer
and to my mind a bust
but it does kick the sh*t out of Harvard
I liked it actually. I have to reread it maybe to see what you are saying about Dante, because I didn't get that. But maybe it's there but knowing Dante fairly well, I don't really see him that way (a Christian yes, but a somewhat modern one before his time).
The Boston-cetricity I liked because it shows the importance of this gang of rejects from Harvard, who were really intellectually superior to the pedants at the universities in that time, who first translated Dante, especially Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whom we once used to memorize and whose poetry I still like (I know, it's outdated but it's still good).