{"product_id":"reading-dante-from-here-to-eternity-paperback","title":"Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePrue Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, \u003cem\u003eReading Dante\u003c\/em\u003e brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is far more than an exegesis of Dante's three-part \u003cem\u003eCommedia\u003c\/em\u003e. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and the emotional intensity of Dante's poetry--the qualities that make the \u003cem\u003eCommedia\u003c\/em\u003e perhaps the greatest literary work of all time and not simply a medieval treatise on morality and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book provides a graphic account of the complicated geography of Dante's version of the afterlife and a sure guide to thirteenth-century Florence and the people and places that influenced him. At the same time it offers a literary experience that lifts the reader into the universal realms of poetry and mythology, creating links not only to the classical world of Virgil and Ovid but also to modern art and poetry, the world of T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDante's questions are our questions: What is it to be a human being? How should we judge human behavior? What matters in life and in death? \u003cem\u003eReading Dante\u003c\/em\u003e helps the reader to understand Dante's answers to these timeless questions and to see how surprisingly close they sometimes are to modern answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eReading Dante\u003c\/em\u003e is an astonishingly lyrical work that will appeal to both those who've never read the \u003cem\u003eCommedia\u003c\/em\u003e and those who have. It underscores Dante's belief that poetry can change human lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703529238835,"sku":"9781631490064","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/Vit5Z1JzWExtV2MzcExqbXh1SEhkZz09.webp?v=1763326879","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/reading-dante-from-here-to-eternity-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}