A Glimpse Into Dante's Poetics of Language

The relationship between language and poetry is an important topic in Dante’s poetics. In Dante’s poetics, language is not merely instrumental; like poetry itself, it possesses its own Eros and movements of Eros. It is precisely on the basis of Eros and the movement of Eros that language and poetry are internally linked in the Divine Comedy. This is also where the originality of Dante’s poetics lies.

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