O’Donnell offers 39 poems in this short book, 13 for each of Dante’s three canticles (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), with three additional poems as prologue or epilogue. She likes things that ...

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 ...

Dante Alighieri. Bandanna Books, $11 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-942208-09-2 Rosetti selected, translated and adapted poems by Dante and his contemporaries to form this volume, a classic piece of Victoriana.

I have always been a sucker for a good love story, so when I was told that J. M. Coetzee — who has been awarded the Nobel ...

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection ...

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 ...