FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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6
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3
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10
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Canto 3 of Dante’s Inferno provides a description of the Underworld. The main points of that canto consist of the description above the Gate of Hell, the Ante-Inferno, which contains a large number of condemned shades, as well as the passage across the River Acheron.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards.
Detailed explanation-3: -discussed in biography …into three sections, or canticles, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Technically there are 33 cantos in each canticle and one additional canto, contained in the Inferno, which serves as an introduction to the entire poem. For the most part the cantos range from about 136 to about 151 lines.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some famous poems that employ the canto division are Dante’s Divine Comedy (with 100 cantos), Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri (49 cantos), Camões’ Os Lusíadas (10 cantos), Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (20 cantos), Byron’s Don Juan (17 cantos, the last of which is unfinished) and Ezra Pound’s The Cantos (116 cantos).