The dedication of "The Waste Land" quotes this author's description of Arnaut Daniel as the "better smith."
This author's metaphor of a runner "who gains the victory, not one who loses" is cited in "Tradition and the Individual Talent." A book by this author inspired lines such as "Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew Undid me" and "I have heard the key / Turn in the door once and turn once only." The dedication of "The Waste Land" quotes this author's description of Arnaut Daniel as the "better smith." A stanza by this author ending "I answer without fear of being shamed" provides the (*) epigraph of "The Lovesong of J.Â Alfred Prufrock." "The Waste Land" takes the line "I had not thought death had undone so many" from Canto III of a poem by him, which also contains the words "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." For 10 points, T.Â S.Â Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" and "The Waste Land" are often analogized to what Italian poet's Purgatorio and Inferno?
This author's metaphor of a runner "who gains the victory, not one who loses" is cited in "Tradition and the Individual Talent."
Dante Alighieri [or Durante degli Alighieri]