SOURCE: "Dante's Theory and Practice of Poetry," in The World of Dante: Essays on Dante and His Time, Clarendon Press, 1980, pp. 146-65.
In the following essay, Grayson contends that the Divina Commedia is a summa of poetic knowledge and technique.
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