02713cam a2200397 i 4500 1336250415 TxAuBib 20240624120000.0 210412s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021015236 9781681376059 paperback $19.95 1681376059 paperback $19.95 17165514 (OCoLC)1227976258 TxAuBib rda eng ita Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, author. Purgatorio English. Purgatorio [Book] / Dante Alighieri ; translated and with commentary by D. M. Black ; preface by Robert Pogue Harrison. New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2021] xxiv, 459 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier New York Review Books classics "An NYBG classics original"--Page 4 of Cover. "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"-- Provided by publisher. 20240624. Parallel text of English translation and Italian on facing pages; introduction and commentary in English. Purgatory Poetry. Poetry. Black, D. M, 1941-, translator., (David Macleod.) Harrison, Robert Pogue, writer of preface. New York Review Books classics. RV8