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Purgatorio: Critical Essay by Susan Baker

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SOURCE: “The Analogy of a Poem: Dante's Dream,” Sewanee Review, Vol. 74, No. 2, April-June, 1966, pp. 438-49.

In the following essay, Baker explores how Dante sought to represent pure beauty through images that function allegorically.

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