Fowlie, Wallace

Dante Today: A Personal Essay

Asheville, NC: The Asheville School / French Broad Press, 1994. Limited First Trade Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Wallace Fowlie, James B. Duke Professor of Romance Languages at Duke University through three decades, is the author, among many other writings, of a previously-published book-length examination of the "Inferno." This latest essay, "Dante Today," guides the new reader into the fourteenth-century creation of a stubbornly modern poet. From an invocation of Dante's proper place in the secondary school and university curriculum, through the influence this Italian poet has exerted on world literature, to a personal memory of the discovery of the source of T.S. Eliot's opening line in the poem 'Ash Wednesday,' Wallace Fowlie's "Dante Today" is an immersion in a poet's world that is so particular as to be divine." So writes J.W. Bonner, a former student of Fowlie's during the spring of 1979. Fowlie is perhaps known to most Beat-&-Beyond readers as the translator of the particular, early edition of Arthur Rimbaud's work which inspired Jim Morrison and Patti Smith, among many other familiar names. Chapbook in stapled wrappers, one of 464 copies in a limited trade edition as noted in colophon. Book in very fine condition with only minute rusting to staples at exterior; sparse, a few tiny scuffs to front [at center-left, near spine] & back covers [at bottom-right, nearest rightmost fine-edge]. Very Fine. [Item #3762]

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