Tuesday 29 March 2016

How to Read Dante in the 21st Century

How to Read Dante in the 21st Century

T. S. Eliot called Dante’s Divine Comedy the most beautiful poem ever written—and yet so few of us have ever read it. Readers intrepid enough to take on Dante have tended to focus on the first leg of his journey, In truth, some of the most sublime moments in The Divine Comedy, indeed in all of literature, occur after Dante makes his way out of the Inferno's desolation. Joseph Luzzi on breaking the code of “The Divine Comedy” with patient reverence.
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