Poet and translator Steve Ellis translated the Inferno in 1994, and it was greeted with great acclaim. The Divine Comedy is a vision of the afterlife, the three regions of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, through which the narrator must journey in order to better understand the workings of the universe, the love of God, and his place in the world. This is the starting point of one of the most extraordinary and important journeys in western literature, a stunningly ambitious flight of imagination and philosophy which has reverberated down the years since Dante Alighieri first wrote it down in the fourteenth century. Greed, deception and pride have led you away from the ideals and dreams you cherished in younger days. Halfway through life, you find yourself lost, unsure of the right path. Poet and translator Steve Ellis completes his new version of Dante's Divine Comedy, the astonishing epic that has shaped art and culture since the 14th centuryĭiscover this fresh, pacy, modern translation of an enduring literary classic.
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