dantean in English
adjective
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of or reminiscent of the poetry of Dante, especially in invoking his vision of hell in The Divine Comedy.
To my knowledge, Grimus is the first and last work by Rushdie to consider Dantean transcendence as the goal of the descent to hell.
noun
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an admirer or student of Dante or his writing.
I did not ‘endorse’ Gombrowicz, I said that his essay on the Inferno would anger Danteans and was worth reading along with Beckett's ‘Dante and the Lobster’.
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1. References in periodicals archive ? In his 1944 Presidential Address to the Virgil Society, Eliot placed the Latin poet 'at the centre of European civilization', and Apotheosised him, in Dantean fashion ('Tu se' lo mio maestro' [Thou art my master] Inf