Hear Dante's Inferno Read Aloud by Influential Poet & Translator John Ciardi (1954) On the 750th birthday of Dante Alighieri---composer of the dizzyingly epic medieval poem the Divine Comedy---English professor John Kleiner pointed to one way of helping undergraduate students understand the Italian poet’s importance: an “obvious comparison” with Shakespeare. They both occupy singularly definitive places in their respective languages and literatures as well as in world literature, Kleiner suggested, and indeed no less a critical personage than T.S.
Eliot once wrote, “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.” And yet, those who know the epic English poems Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained—heavily influenced by Dante’s work—may find John Milton a more apt comparison. Milton also made complex uses of theology as political allegory, and wrote political tracts as passionate and resolute as his poetry. Indeed, Dante’s literary persecution of his opponents presents one of the foremost difficulties for modern readers of the Inferno. Disaster Resilience Education For Schools | DREFS. Kids Earthquake Safety Tips. Pages - Australian Emergency Management. This website provides the key online access point for emergency management information from the Australian Government. The Minister for Justice is responsible for national emergency management and disaster resilience. The site provides information about Australian and regional emergency management, in a national security context, including content on policy formulation, national emergency operations and development of national and international capability.
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