Reading Mystical Literature: Dante

"the complex intellectual and emotional experience created in metaphors" --

"our inner responses to images, events, characters, phrases that have stirred meanings in us deeper than our thoughts" --

http://www.dwildepress.net/critica/mystic7.html

This, I believe, applies as well to literature which is not strictly "mystical", like Eliot's poetry, if you like.

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