Volume 22, Number 7 · May 1, 1975
Dante Agonistes
By D.S. Carne-Ross
The Divine Comedy, Inferno
by Dante Alighieri, translated, with a commentary, by Charles S. Singleton
Princeton University Press, Part II, Commentary, 683 pp., $80.00 complete
The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri, translated, with a commentary, by Charles S. Singleton
Princeton University Press, Part II, Commentary, 851 pp., $80.00 complete
The Divine Comedy, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri, translated, with a commentary, by Charles S. Singleton
Princeton University Press, Part II, Commentary, 610 pp., $80.00 complete
A late starter on the road to classic status, Dante stands very high today. The Modernist masters and critics joined in paying him homage. His prestige in the literary world is unquestioned. And now Professor Singleton's great edition of the Divine Comedy has been completed, each cantica with a volume to itself, the verse beautifully spaced and disposed in the most elegant of columns, each cantica with its volume of intensive commentary, 3,296 pages in all. Whatever may be the place in modern society of the classic texts of our literature, with Dante at least all seems to be well.
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