Poet, reading the Iliad, mostly stunned (5,9)

I believe the answer is:

dante alighieri

'poet' is the definition.
(poet of The Divine Comedy)

'reading the iliad mostly stunned' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'stunned' is an anagram indicator.
'reading'+'the'+'iliad'='readingtheiliad'
'readingtheiliad' with its last letter taken away is 'readingtheilia'.
'readingtheilia' is an anagram of 'DANTE ALIGHIERI'.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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