A silent Inferno from 1911 – “arguably the first ever blockbuster
Via the the twitter account of Ewan Morrison, I came across this gem. The oldest existing feature length film is none other than a 1911 silent version of Dante’s Inferno…
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Dorothy L Sayers on Dante’s Inferno as a portrait of social collapse
From Introductory Dante Papers, Dorothy L Sayers: That the Inferno is a picture of human society in a state of sin and corruption, everybody will readily agree. And since we…
Non-Binary Review call for submissions on Dante’s Inferno (deadline 24th Oct 2018)
More info here: NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue’s theme. We invite authors to explore each theme in…
“Sibhse ghabhas tríomsa, cuiridh uaibh gach dóchas” – Dante’s Divine Comedy as Gaeilge
Recently I acquired a copy of Padráig de Brún’s translation into Irish of “Inferno”. de Brún translated the whole Divine Comedy. The fly jacket of my copy states that “it…
“Where will and power are one” : Dantean Memes
In Inferno, Dante is accompanied by the soul of the poet Virgil. Virgil, amongst other things, has to warn off the various guardians of the underworld to leave the still-living…
T.S. Eliot: Ash Wednesday
Originally posted on The Broken Tower:
Today is Ash Wednesday and although I did not want to provide a reading of a long poem for some time, I thought not…
“Hell is where the damned stay, immobilized by their choices” – Rowan Williams on The Divine Comedy, TLS, September 12th 2017
From this review There is still a tendency among not very attentive readers – not to mention people who have read almost nothing of the work but have picked up…
Séamus Sweeney 