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Fifteen specially-commissioned essays by distinguished scholars provide an introduction to Dante that is at once accessible and challenging.

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Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy "has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often stymied readers with its multitudinous characters, ... More

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One of the greatest works of world literature, Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy "has, despite its enormous popularity and importance, often ... More

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While the structure and themes of the "Divine Comedy" are defined by the narrative of a spiritual pilgrimage guided by Christian truth, Winthrop ... More

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This volume explores connections between Dante and literary contexts of periods earlier than his own, from the pre-Christian era to the thirteenth ... More

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The Divine Comedy is perhaps one of the greatest Christian classics ever written, and probably the greatest adventure story ever told. Dante wrote ... More

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-- User's guide -- A comprehensive biography of the poet -- Detailed thematic analysis of each poem -- Extracts from major critical essays that ... More

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"DANTE AND SHAKESPEARE DIVIDE the modern world between them; there is no third." Understanding Dante attempts to explain and justify T. S. Eliot's ... More

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The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new ... More

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This Critical Insights volume is intended to make Dante's Inferno more accessible to inquiring students who will wonder like so many of us at his ... More

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A study of Dante from an Arabo-Islamic perspective.

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Reading Dante: The Pursuit of Meaning examines the problem of thematic coherence in Dante's Divina Commedia. Unlike many Dante scholars who maintain ... More

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For Yeats, Dante Alighieri was 'the chief imagination of Christendom'; for Eliot he was of supreme importance, both as a poet and philosopher; ... More

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Erich Auerbach's "Dante: Poet of the Secular World" is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and ... More

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Examines Dante through his works and includes an introduction from Yale scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology of Dante's life, a bibliography for ... More

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"The Divine Comedy" has been a cornerstone of Western literature for the better part of a millennium. In this work, Joseph Gallagher brings the power ... More

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The Dante Encyclopedia is a comprehensive resource that presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works and the cultural context in ... More

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This new critical volume, the second to appear in the three-volume "Lectura Dantis, "contains expert, focused commentary on the "Purgatorio "by ... More

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A concise account by one of Dante's earliest biographers, with a biographical and critical account of Dante's life, education, friends, exile, ... More

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This book uses a variety of computer-based processes to construct a systematic analytical description of the sounds of Dante's Divine Comedy in the ... More

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