Canto 11 is key to understanding how the Inferno is organized, which is to say, how Dante classifies sin. This canto explains the logic of Hell. To summarize there are three parts to Hell: 1. Upper ...
Robert Pinsky (“The Want Bone,” “History of My Heart,” “An Explanation of America,” etc.) is a major American poet and a nearly unique one. Casting about through the literary past, the sole ...
The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary criticism. It seeks to publish articles which offer new readings of familiar works or authors, or which draw critical attention to new or neglected ...
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