Poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. July 1870 Issue. Share. Save. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. Boston : Roberts Brothers. IT will always be a question, we think, whether Mr. Rossetti had not better ...

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 ...

In the 14th century, “Dante’s Inferno” was the first part of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem “The Divine Comedy,” a memorable and in-depth trip through hell that has… ...

Concerning Dante’s didactic poems in general, it may be said that, even to an Anglo-Saxon who has personally, and vicariously through Puritan ancestors, listened for centuries to moral preaching ...

Completed just before Dante died in 1321, it consists of three parts—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Divine Comedy is a long poem recounting the author’s journey among the damned in ...

Nothing makes you crave mercy quite like Dante’s avant-garde, modernist poem of pain and human failure. Thus, the failure of vision becomes a major theme in Inferno.

The Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is best known for his epic poem, the "Divine Comedy." Hulton Archive/Getty.

Ric Burns’s splendid two-part PBS documentary, “Dante: Inferno to Paradise,” has brought Dante’s achievement beyond the groves of academe and into America’s living rooms.

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 ...

On January 19, a new edition of the classic poem Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, will hit bookstores. Del Rey Books will release the book to coincide with the release of the Dante’s Inferno ...

But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. In 2002, he published a translation of Dante's Inferno – the first book in Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy .