Dante's masterpiece is a foundation stone of European poetry.
It was a profound influence on T.
Eliot and Ezra Pound, and in our own day has inspired Seamus Heaney.
It is simple in style yet complex in its layers of meaning, episodic in manner yet architectonic in its over-arching vision.
It is simultaneously a journey through life and a spiritual biography, a portrait of the internecine Italy of Dante's time and a pilgrim's progress through the tripartite afterworld of Catholic mythology.
Carcanet Press Divine comedy, paperback/dante alighieri
