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Spring 1953 • Vol. XV No. 2 • Communications |

The English of Englished

By Dana J. Pratt

Sirs:

I have just been reading your Dante number (Spring 1952) with particular interest, since we have the good fortune to be publishing Fergusson’s Dante’s Drama of the Mind in April and Auerbach’s Mimesis in May.

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