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In the final line of Canto VII of the Inferno, winding about an arc of the swampy river Styx, ‘to a tower’s low base [al piè d’una torre] we came’ (Cary: 30; Inferno, vii. 130). Dante begins Canto VIII by returning ‘to a narrative moment logically earlier than the end of the previous canto’ (Inferno: 134):
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Clarke, E. (2012). The Very Last Poems. In: The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230357907_6
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