Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

Read Dante’s ‘Purgatorio’ for All Souls’ Day. We do the poor souls a great kindness by our prayers and pious acts to help speed them on their journey to Paradise.

The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s ...

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Going to hell is usually a tough break. But the poet Michael Palma doesn't seem to mind. In 2002, he published a translation of Dante's Inferno – the first book in Dante's epic poem The Divine ...

This reinvention of “Purgatorio” in the spirit of James Joyce’s Ulysses replaces Dante’s cast with contemporary figures including Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Putin and Marina ...

6 February 2025, 3.30 PM - 6 February 2025, 5.00 PM. Professor Phillip Terry (University of Essex) Arts Complex, Lecture Theatre 3 ...

Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the final installment and continues her style of lively, lyrical translation.