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Posted on October 17, 2018

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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Posted on October 11, 2018October 11, 2018

Canto XV, Inferno, illustrated by Gustav Dore

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Posted on July 23, 2018

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…

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Posted on July 18, 2018July 18, 2018

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…

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Posted on June 19, 2018

“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…

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Posted on February 28, 2018February 28, 2018

“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…

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Posted on February 14, 2018February 14, 2018

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…

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Posted on September 13, 2017

“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…

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