This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.
Dante's masterpiece is undoubtedly one of the supreme works of world literature. Peter Dale's achievement has been to produce a complete version in modern English that echoes Dante's "sweet new style" while keeping to the poet's demanding terza rima verse pattern. It is a handsome reader's edition - ...
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In the third part of Dante's epic poem, The Divine Comedy, about the three realms of the Christian afterlife, having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise. Reprint.
Detailed notes accompany a modern English translation of Dante's epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim led by the ghost of Virgil through the circles of hell.
<b>An extraordinary new verse translation of Dante’s masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen</b><br><br>Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the <i>Inferno</i>, Dante ...
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Our reading of Dante's Comedy is affected by what has accrued to the work during the seven centuries since it was composed. Translation and illustration are a form of reading. Dante has entered the knowledge of English-speaking readers much colored by the Romantic imagery and sentiment to be found i ...
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