A new translation of Dante\'s Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy.
His most recent book is Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age ..
Robert Pogue Harrison is a critic, radio host, and the Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature at Stanford University.
He is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and lives in London.
He edited Psychoanalysis and Religion in the 21st Century: Competitors or Collaborators? (2006), and is the author of Why Things Matter: The Place of Values in Science, Psychoanalysis and Religion (2011).
Black is the author of seven poetry collections, including Claiming Kindred (2011) and The Arrow Maker (2017).
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NYRB Classics also publishes Dante\'s Inferno in a translation by Ciaran Carson.
About author(s): Dante Alighieri \'s (1265-1321) most famous works are The New Life , which is available in the NYRB Poets series in a translation by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
De vulgari eloquentia , a defense of the use of the vernacular in literature; and his epic vision of the afterlife, The Divine Comedy .
Black, a distinguished psychoanalyst as well as a poet, provides an introduction and commentary to this masterpiece by Dante from a contemporary point of view in this bilingual edition.
Eliot, is a book full of human stories and philosophical inquiry; it is also a tale of individual reintegration and healing.
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Dante\'s Purgatorio , which has been an inspiration to poets as varied as Shelley and T.
The slow and initially arduous climb up the mount of Purgatory that ensues, guided as always by Virgil, his poetic model and mentor, is simultaneously a reckoning with human limits and a rediscovery of human potential in the light of divine promise.
After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pilgrim staggers back to the clear light of day in a state of shock, the sense of pervasive dread and deep bewilderment with which he began his pilgrimage as intensified as it is alleviated by his terminal vision of evil.
Black makes wonderfully clear.
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Purgatorio , the middle section of Dante\'s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one\'s way in the middle of one\'s life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of The Divine Comedy , as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D.
This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator.
A new translation of Dante\'s Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy
