Seven Days: Author Seth Steinzor Reflects on His Now-Complete Trilogy Inspired by ‘The Divine Comedy’
Author Seth Steinzor Reflects on His Now-Complete Trilogy Inspired by ‘The Divine Comedy’
South Burlington poet Seth Steinzor recently completed a 17-year project: writing a modern, personalized version of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. Steinzor’s three books — To Join the Lost, ...
The Washington Post: Robert Hollander, towering scholar of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ dies at 87
In “The Divine Comedy,” the 14th-century poem by Dante Alighieri that is one of the foundational works of Western literature, the Roman poet Virgil serves as Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory ...
Wall Street Journal: ‘Dante’s Divine Comedy’ Review: Enduring Visions of the Afterlife
The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on ...
NPR: Poet Mary Jo Bang reaches the end of her 20-year journey through Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
Poet Mary Jo Bang reaches the end of her 20-year journey through Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! So warns the inscription on the gates of the inferno, the first realm of Dante Alighieri’s celebrated work, now known as the Divine Comedy. “La Commedia”, as Dante ...
Yahoo: The women who appear in Dante's 'Divine Comedy' are finally getting their due, 700 years later
When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the “Divine Comedy,” a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries. The “Divine Comedy” ...