Dante and the poetry of meeting. From: The American Poetry Review | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Stewart, Susan | COPYRIGHT 2006 World Poetry, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

ONE OF THE GREATEST RESOURCES OF world poetry is a kind of poem that Dante seems to have invented and then gone on to enter. To put it simply, so simply it may border on the perfectly obvious, it is the poem of meeting. For English language poets there are many etymologies and sources that meet up in the meaning of meeting and words that are well-met: a meeting that fits--a fit or shape that meets or measures; a meeting of minds and makers, to meet the eye of, to exercise a meet ju...

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