The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri, Clive James
Category: Classic
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Tags: Classic, Poetry
Renowned poet and critic Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation into English verse of Dantes The Divine Comedy., The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and this translationdecades in the makinggives us the entire epic as a single, coherent and compulsively readable lyric poem. Written in the early fourteenth century and completed in 1321, the year of Dantes death, The Divine Comedy is perhaps the greatest work of epic poetry ever composed., Divided into three booksHell, Purgatory and Heaventhe poems allegorical vision of the afterlife portrays the poets spiritual crisis in terms of his own contemporary history, in a text of such vivid life and variety that modern readers will find themselves astounded in a hundred different ways. And indeed the structure of this massive single song is divided into a hundred songs, or cantos, each of which is a separate poetic miracle. But unifying them all is the impetus of the Italian ve
