Dante's Inferno: Difficulty and Dead Poetry

by Robin Kirkpatrick

This book represents a major re-assessment of Dante's Inferno, and of the place which the Inferno occupies in the plan of the whole Commedia. On evidence drawn also from the Paradiso and Purgatorio, Dr Kirkpatrick argues that Dante's thinking and poetry are subject to far greater internal tension than is commonly supposed. He then proceeds to analyse each of the thirty-four cantos of the Inferno, and to relate each canto in turn to its thematic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052107052X
• ISBN13: 9780521070522
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"