Category: poetry
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Dante’s Purgatorio
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante AlighieriMy rating: 4 of 5 stars The translation into rhyming verse is no doubt a daunting task. It does make the poetry more esoteric, and most likely more difficult to read and comprehend. Dorothy Sayer’s commentary, however, is gold. The book is worth reading…
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Dante’s Purgatorio
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante AlighieriMy rating: 4 of 5 stars The translation into rhyming verse is no doubt a daunting task. It does make the poetry more esoteric, and most likely more difficult to read and comprehend. Dorothy Sayer’s commentary, however, is gold. The book is worth reading…
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In the Year 3019 or 1419 S.R.
Today is Annunciation Day [see: Luke 1:26f]. It is also the day in which the Great Ring fell, along with Gollum, into the fires of Orodruin. In Appendix B of the Lord of the Rings, Tolkein writes, “After the fall of the Dark Tower and the passing of Sauron the Shadow was lifted…
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In the Year 3019 or 1419 S.R.
Today is Annunciation Day [see: Luke 1:26f]. It is also the day in which the Great Ring fell, along with Gollum, into the fires of Orodruin. In Appendix B of the Lord of the Rings, Tolkein writes, “After the fall of the Dark Tower and the passing of Sauron the Shadow was lifted…
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On Dante’s Purgatorio
“Press him [the one pontificating Dante without knowing the whole], rather, for an intelligent opinion of the Ship of Souls and Peter’s Gate; on Buonconte, Sapia, and Arnaut Daniel; on the Prayer of the Proud, the theology of Free Judgement, Dante’s three Dreams, the Sacred Forest, and te symbolism of…
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