Essays · Character
Dante Alighieri
Italian poet, author of 'The Divine Comedy'.
minor
First appearance: self reliance
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Mentioned as one of the great individuals (like Phidias and Shakespeare) whose 'interfering volitions' are the organs through which man works, momentarily complicating but not…
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- Archetypes of Genius
- Protagonist
- Mystics and Spiritual Exemplars
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- Closing
The excerpt presents the emotional peak by contrasting the "silent arts" of civilized dignity with the viscera…
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