The other day, with my post on The Brothers Karamazov being a difficult but satisfying read, it got me to thinking about some of the more difficult books I’ve read over the course of the last couple of years. So this wonderful Sunday morning, I thought I’d go ahead and discuss further some of my [...]
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Review of The Paradiso
February 7, 2010
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I just completed Dante’s The Paradiso. Out of the three canticles, I found this one to be the most religious, philosophical, and political, of The Divine Comedy. I continued to see the theme where Dante is full of pride, not only about his ability as a poet, but that his style of poetry is the [...]
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January 20, 2010
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With the completion of the second canticle, The Purgatorio, of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, I will now finish the epic by reading the third canticle, The Paradiso. As with the previous canticles, I will be reading the Barnes and Noble Classics version of the book, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Here is what the back [...]
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My Classics Club Selections
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