9780140448962
Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri
ISBN 13: 9780140448962
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Softcover
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Depicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, this poem transforms the traditional Christian idea of Purgatory by showing how the free will of the aspiring soul could change wordly perversions into perfection.
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"In an age that provides more and more opportunities to enjoy blockbuster thrills and to behold dazzling real-looking terrors, the fewer and fewer occasions we get to experience authentic human feelings anew are not to be wasted. Despite its shortcomings, Merwin's new PURGATORIO is one such occasion, and we should be grateful for it."
Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Times Book Review, 07/23/2000
Review:"He transports Dante's own natural perceptions with a sure hand, whether by his clear and easy-to-follow version of the extended simile in canto XXX, where the spring winds and the snow melting in the Apennines intricately simulate Dante's own hardened heart, now melting into sighs and tears, or in his attention to render well those details that give Purgatorio its physical veracity--as when Dante panics because he does not see Virgil's shadow."
Brett Foster, Boston Review, February/March 2001
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