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Poet, not hurried, withdrawing article (5)

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I believe the answer is:

dante

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'poet' is the definition.
(13th- and 14th-century Italian poet)

'not hurried withdrawing article' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'not' could be 'nt' (synonyms) and 'nt' is found within the answer.
'article' could be 'a' (the indefinite article in English) and 'a' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'de' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for dante that I've seen before include "La divina commedia poet" , "Thirteenth-fourteenth century Italian poet" , "Author of the Divine Comedy, d. 1321" , "Inferno poet" , "Finally stand before" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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