John Freccero enables us to see the Divine Comedy for the bold, poetic experiment that it is.
The essays.
For Dante, body and soul go together and there is no salvation that\'s purely intellectual, no poetry that is simply literary.
Freccero argues that to fail to see the convergence of the letter and the spirit, the pilgrim and the poet, is to fail to understand Dante\'s Poetics of conversion.
Too many critics have domesticated Dante by separating his theology from his poetics.
John Freccero enables us to see the Divine Comedy for the bold, poetic experiment that it is