T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe Edited by Paul Douglass T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe, Edited by Paul Douglass This book first published 2011 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2011 by Paul Douglass and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-2878-5, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-2878-9 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments......................................................................................ix Guide to Abbreviations Used in Citations..................................................xi Note on the Citation of Dante's Works.....................................................xiii Invocation..................................................................................................xv Richard Berengarten Introduction.............................................................................................xvii Paul Douglass PART I:DANTE AND ELIOT—AESTHETIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL CONVERGENCES Chapter One.................................................................................................3 Enlarging Immediate Experience: Bradley and Dante in Eliot’s Aesthetic Jewel Spears Brooker Chapter Two..............................................................................................15 Eliot, Dante and the Poetics of a “Unified Sensibility” Viorica Patea Chapter Three............................................................................................29 “Gerontion” and The Waste Land: Prelude to Altered Consciousness Nancy K. Gish Chapter Four..............................................................................................39 The Dantean Rose and the Hindu-Buddhist Lotus in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot P.S. Sri Chapter Five..............................................................................................53 Squaring the Circle: Dantesque Aspects of “The Point of Intersection of the Timeless with Time” Temur Kobakhidze vi Table of Contents PART II:DANTE'S GHOST AND ELIOT'S MODERNISM Chapter Six................................................................................................63 Dantesque Perspectives in T. S. Eliot's Inventions of the March Hare Arianna Antonielli Chapter Seven............................................................................................75 Paradise Deferred: Eliot’s Truncated Dantean Pilgrimage David Summers Chapter Eight.............................................................................................87 T. S. Eliot, Dante, and Irony Andrija Matic Chapter Nine..............................................................................................95 “...[R]estoring / With a New Verse the Ancient Rhyme”: T. S. Eliot’s and Ezra Pound’s Poetic Homages to Dante Stefano Maria Casella Chapter Ten.............................................................................................111 Types of Ecstasy—Paradise Regained in Eliot and American Modernism Massimo Bacigalupo PART III:ELIOT,DANTE, AND THE IDEA OF EUROPE Chapter Eleven........................................................................................123 Dante as Guide to Eliot’s Competing Traditions Randy Malamud Chapter Twelve.......................................................................................133 T. S. Eliot’s European Tradition: The Roles of Dante Alighieri and Matthew Arnold Paul Douglass Chapter Thirteen......................................................................................145 T. S. Eliot’s Die Einheit der Europäischen Kultur (1946) and the Idea of European Union John Xiros Cooper T. S. Eliot, Dante, and the Idea of Europe vii Chapter Fourteen.....................................................................................159 T. S. Eliot and Dante: A European Anxiety of Romantic Contamination Mafruha Mohua Chapter Fifteen........................................................................................167 Our Own Field of Action: T. S. Eliot, Verse Drama, and the Mind of Europe Patrick Query Chapter Sixteen.......................................................................................175 “Dante, e poi Dante”: T. S. Eliot, Wendell Berry and “Europe’s Epic” Dominic Manganiello Benediction..............................................................................................195 Richard Berengarten Works Cited.............................................................................................197 Contributors.............................................................................................209 Index........................................................................................................217 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The editor wishes to thank Richard Berengarten for his "Invocation," which alludes to the tradition of the guide embodied in Dante's relationship to Virgil and Eliot's to Dante; and also for the concluding "Benediction," which invites us to "join hands through poetry." The assistance of Stefano Maria Casella was indispensable to the assembling of this volume. The editor is also deeply grateful for the counsel and guidance of Jewel Spears Brooker, Dominic Manganiello, Temur Kobakhidze, and John Xiros Cooper. The same and more must be said of Massimo Bacigalupo, who provided not only counsel and guidance, but editorial skill and finesse that served to improve the entire volume. Molto grazie, Massimo.