"A valuable and timely collection of essays that illuminates and deepens our understanding of Eliot's lifelong creative debt to Dante, bringing an impressive array of texts and traditions—Eastern and Western, medieval and postmodern—to bear upon Dante's dynamic, tutelary presence, not only in Eliot's work, but in the innovations of modern literature throughout Europe and America. It is a great service to scholarship and teaching to bring together so many lucid and thoughtful essays by both established scholars and new voices. The essays collected here will enjoy a wide and continued readership."—Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Author, The Passions of Modernism, Co-editor, The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, Vol. 2