![]() ![]() Raffa draws important attention to issues of social justice and freedom that animate Longfellow’s appreciation of Lincoln and Dante, alluding also to Dennis Looney’s book Freedom Readers ( University of Notre Dame Press, 2011) on the reception of Dante in African-American culture. ![]() The Dante-Longfellow connection has also been the subject of a recent special issue of Dante Studies(2010), edited by Giuseppe Mazzotta and Arielle Saiber. Guy Raffa, casting a glance further back in the UT Austin history blog Not Even Past, considers Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s appreciation of Abraham Lincoln in the light of his contemporaneous work of translating Dante’s Commedia into English. Kennedy’s relationship to Dante and in particular his persistent use of a line he attributed to Dante, “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those, who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” In the June 2018 issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly, Deborah Parker has examined John F. The afterlife of Dante in American culture and politics has long been the subject of study. ![]() Teddy Roosevelt and the Man in the Arena.Teddy Roosevelt, Dante, and the Man in the Arena ![]()
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