Jiang says he cannot comment authoritatively on Indian poetry but still insists that this classroom must begin from the assumption that Dante speaks universally across cultures, ages, and time.
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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