Jiang says Dante's hope in this canto is to return from exile to Florence and be crowned there as the greatest poet.
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Laurel crown
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"okay all right so again we have to remember the image of dante alone in exile in isolation random and comedy and what his..."
"...poet as put and put on and my baptismal font the laurel crown"
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The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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