The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of
human emotion," wrote T.S. Eliot. "The last canto of the Paradiso
is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or
ever can reach."
The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world
literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the
most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of
individual destiny with universal order. Having passed through Hell
and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper
sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will
and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of
God.
"A spectacular achievement," said poet and critic Archibald
MacLeish of John Ciardi's version of Dante's masterpiece. "A text
with the clarity and sobriety of a first-rate prose translation
which at the same time suggests in powerful and unmistakable ways
the run and rhythm of the great original."
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