Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity

by Prue Shaw

Book Overview

Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.

This is far more than an exegesis of Dante's three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dante's poetry--the qualities that make the Commedia perhaps the greatest literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631490060
• ISBN13: 9781631490064
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.1"