Dante's Inferno : Difficulty and Dead Poetry Joseph H. Boyett Author: John Keegan

Author: John Keegan

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Dante's Inferno : Difficulty and Dead Poetry Joseph H. Boyett Author: John KeeganThis 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