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Purgatorio
- Title
- Purgatorio / Dante Alighieri ; translated and with commentary by D. M. Black ; preface by Robert Pogue Harrison.
- Author
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Publication
- New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2021]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxiv, 459 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "The 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. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. 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 alleviated by his terminal vision of evil. 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 both a reckoning with human limits and a rediscovery of human potential in the light of divine promise. Dante's Purgatorio, which has been an inspiration to poets as different as Shelley and T. S. Eliot, is a book full of human stories, of philosophical inquiry, that is also a tale of individual reintegration and healing. Black, a distinguished psychoanalyst as well as a poet, provides notes to the poem and an introduction to this masterpiece by Dante from a contemporary point of view"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Purgatorio. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Purgatorio.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Note
- "An NYBG classics original"--Page 4 of Cover.
- Language (note)
- Parallel text of English translation and Italian on facing pages; introduction and commentary in English.
- Call Number
- JFD 23-132
- ISBN
- 9781681376059
- 1681376059
- LCCN
- 2021015236
- 17165514
- OCLC
- 1227976258
- Author
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, author.
- Title
- Purgatorio / Dante Alighieri ; translated and with commentary by D. M. Black ; preface by Robert Pogue Harrison.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books classicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Language
- Parallel text of English translation and Italian on facing pages; introduction and commentary in English.
- Added Author
- Black, D. M. (David Macleod), 1941- translator.Harrison, Robert Pogue, writer of preface.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Purgatorio New York : New York Review Books, [2021] 9781681376066 (DLC) 2021015237
- Other Standard Identifier
- 17165514
- Research Call Number
- JFD 23-132