Volume 6, Number 2 · February 17, 1966
Keeping Up With Dante
By Francis Fergusson
The Divine Comedy in English: A Critical Bibliography, 1782-1900
by Gilbert F. Cunningham
Barnes & Noble, 206 pp., $6.75
Dante into English
by William J. De Sua
University of North Carolina, 138 pp., $3.50
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (Text with Translation in the Metre of the Original)
by Geoffrey L. Bickersteth
Harvard, 795 pp., $8.95
Dante, A Collection of Critical Essays
edited by John Freccero
Prentice Hall, 182 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Essays on Dante
edited by Mark Musa
Indiana, 206 pp., $2.45 (paper)
The Mind of Dante
edited by U. Limentani
Cambridge, 199 pp., $5.00
Dante Alighieri, His Life and Works
by Paget Toynbee, edited with an Introduction by Charles S. Singleton
Harper Torchbooks, 316 pp., $1.95
Dante
by Thomas G. Bergin
Orion, 326 pp., $6.50
A Concordance to the Divine Comedy
Edited for the Dante Society of America by Ernest Hatch Wilkins, by Thomas Goddard Bergin, Associate Editor, Anthony J. De Vito
Harvard (Belknap Press), 636 pp., $17.50
About sixteen years ago the late Erich Auerbach told me that the current output of writing on Dante in all languages had reached such a point that no man could keep up with it, even if he devoted full time to the job. The flood has not diminished, and 1965, the seventh centenary of Dante's birth, brought a new crest. The books briefly described below are only a sampling of recent works in English, but taken together they give some idea of the Dante cult in our time. I have arranged them in groups according to the intentions of the authors.
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