ROBERT HOLLANDER: "Dante's Virgil: A Light That Failed."
 
Abstract: The past half of this century has seen a movement in Dante studies away from aestheticism toward the theological. This view, however, ignores the presence of Virgil. Yet, as clearly demonstrated in Paradiso XVII, 31-33, Virgil's presence must always be a consideration when reading the Divine Comedy.

Abstract from the American Dante Bibliography 1989
Reproduced by courtesy of the Dante Society of America