The Divine Comedy Dante
The Divine Comedy Dante "Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. Eliot "Dante's poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature." - Ian Thompson. There is no…
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The Divine Comedy Dante
"Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them. Eliot "Dante's poem is, for many, the greatest single work of Western literature." - Ian Thompson. There is no third." - T. S.
He is my spiritual food, the rest is ballast." - James Joyce.In the middle of our life's journey, I found myself in a dark wood/Bewildered, and I knew I had lost the way: so opens Dante's Divine Comedy, "the best book literature has achieved" as Jorge Luis Borges writes.The poem, a journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise, "the most original and audacious treatment of the afterlife in Western literature" dazzles with its vivid and inventive storytelling and imagery. "I love my Dante as much as the Bible. "All life is contained in the poem, for Dante's was an all-encompassing imagination, that interwove classical