Ezra Pound belatedly conceded that T.S.Eliot "was the true Dantescan voice" of the modern world. With this assertion in mind, this study examines the relationship between the two poets. It attempts to show how Dante's total vision impinges on Eliot's craft and thought.

Acknowledgements - Dante according to Eliot - Death by Water and Dante's Ulysses - The Poetics of the Desert - Eliot's Book of Memory - The Aesthetics and Politics of Order - Eliot's Dante and the Moderns - Index