I'm used to seeing the phrase "the ____ poet" which does have a specific meaning for me: the poet who wrote ____. (I suppose it could also mean "the poet who is a character in ____, but I don't think I would use it to mean the person ____ who was a poet.) This "Dante poet" business, then, is (for me) introducing ambivalence where there otherwise wasn't really.
Maybe I should learn Italian and go into the field of Dante studies, so I can push for a switch in terminology to "Dante the poet" instead of "the Dante poet! Actually, learning Italian would be a good idea, anyway. :)
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Date: 2006-03-23 08:22 pm (UTC)I'm used to seeing the phrase "the ____ poet" which does have a specific meaning for me: the poet who wrote ____. (I suppose it could also mean "the poet who is a character in ____, but I don't think I would use it to mean the person ____ who was a poet.) This "Dante poet" business, then, is (for me) introducing ambivalence where there otherwise wasn't really.
Maybe I should learn Italian and go into the field of Dante studies, so I can push for a switch in terminology to "Dante the poet" instead of "the Dante poet! Actually, learning Italian would be a good idea, anyway. :)