![]() ![]() ![]() An approach like Mark Vernon’s is precisely the remedy required if one wants truly to see the poem for what it is, and to see through the poem to what it adumbrates.” David Bentley Hart This is an unfortunate state of affairs in regard to any literary text of consequence, but in regard to a work of the magnitude and splendor of The Divine Comedy it is tragic. “We scarcely remember how to see poetry-or any of the arts-as belonging to a fuller vision of reality, with spiritual as well as purely aesthetic dimensions. ![]() A marvellous book that blew away a lot of my assumptions.” Susanna Clarke I started highlighting sentences I wanted to think about, but ended up with yellow stripes everywhere: there are insights on every page. “This is not just a description of what happens and who we meet, it’s an invitation to read The Divine Comedy as a way to change our own consciousness and embrace a more spacious reality: everything is bigger on the inside. Here at last is one for which we can be grateful.” Iain McGilchrist “There has long been a need for a scholarly but deft guide to Dante’s masterpiece, not just as a literary curiosity, but as a profound examination of the meaning of life in a world less material than ours. ![]()
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