Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Teachings of Dante
De Quincey divides literature into the literature of knowledge and the literature of power. Surely in the literature of power the Divine Comedy is unsurpassed. Dante makes a continuous and irresistible appeal to the imagination, compelling it to range through strange, soul-stirring expe riences, stimulating it with pictures of rarest beauty, taxing it to the uttermost to conceive that which no thought can grasp. He carries the mind at once into the region of the loftiest and most commanding truths, and in that invig orating moral atmosphere it comes to a new con sciousness of itself and its possibilities.
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