> He wanted her to be remembered always as the Beatrice to his Dante, the moral force behind his religious conversion, and the inspiration behind some of his most beautiful poems. And the Regine to his Søren, perhaps.
Not quite as TS Eliot was heavily influenced by Dante which shows in his poems/writings. Eliot considered Dante to be the greatest writer. So if there was any comparison Eliot would have been comfortable with, it would have been to Dante.