Hart Crane, The Bridge
The Bridge by Hart Crane My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Bridge (1930) is a long poem seven years in the making. It was written under several varieties of … Continue reading
Dante, Paradiso
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri My rating: 4 of 5 stars Here is what you’ve heard about the Divine Comedy: the Inferno, with its poignantly vivid tortures and its cacophony of wicked … Continue reading
Dante, Purgatorio
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri My rating: 4 of 5 stars Allen Mandelbaum begins his introduction to his wonderful translation thusly: For the Virgil of Dante’s Purgatorio, “love is the … Continue reading
Dante, Inferno
Inferno by Dante Alighieri My rating: 5 of 5 stars You know the story: a man in the middle of life is lost in a shadowy forest of ignorance and … Continue reading
Derek Walcott, Omeros
Omeros by Derek Walcott My rating: 5 of 5 stars Nothing like the literal—rather than the theoretical—death of the author to inspire one to read his masterpiece. As I wondered … Continue reading
Dante, Purgatorio
The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m specifically talking about the Dorothy L. Sayers translation here. In her preface, Sayers notes that … Continue reading
