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 ...

Dear Dante A poem ought to be free to lie its way to the truth.-John Ciardi, poet & translator. All poets are liars. St. Thomas says so. Yet you choose verse to tell the truth.

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.

McCrae has been exploring the afterlife in his poetry for several years now, and here his reimagining of Dante’s Inferno is immersive in the best ways — captivating, terrifying and occasionally ...

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 .