단테, 엘리엇의 고갈되지 않는 자원

Dante was the inexhaustible resources for Eliot for whole his life. Dante mentioned Exodus theme about The Divine Comedy. In the first part of this thesis, Eliot’s three major poems will be explicated in the structure of The Divine Comedy. However, it seems Eliot didn’t intend to write his poems according to Dante’s design of Inferno-Purgatory-Paradise. Only when we consider all his poetic works retrospectively, we can connect his major poems with Dante’s, as follows The Waste Land with “Inferno”, Ash-Wednesday with “Purgatorio” and Four Quartets with “Paradiso.” In the second part, we will see how Eliot got important clues for his poetics and literary theories from Dante’s first little book Vita Nouva and his masterpiece The Divine Comedy. Lastly, in “Paradiso” Canto 33, we will see how Dante expressed Christian Dogma such as Trinity and Incarnation and how Eliot could explain the vision of rose-garden according to Incarnation.