id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt cn69m329k1v Guido Caponigri Guerra After the 'Spring of '59': Dante's Inferno in the 1860 Leaves of Grass 2019 .txt text/plain 142 4 52 In this thesis, I will present evidence from the works of Walt Whitman to suggest he implemented his reading of Dante Alighieri's Inferno seven years earlier than current scholarship believes and that he used explicitly Dantean words in Leaves of Grass. Neglected is Dante's presence in the earlier, 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, which followed his initial, 1859 reading of the Inferno. cache/cn69m329k1v.txt txt/cn69m329k1v.txt