Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, Fiction, Classics, Literary

Many of these translations stand alongside Longfellow's most famous original poems -- "The Psalm of Life," "The Children's Hour" and "Hiawatha." Perhaps his most important were those based upon Dante, which he began in 1843. This second volume, The Purgatory -- with its visions of the Wanton, the Gluttonous, the Sodomites, the Tree of Knowledge and the River Lethe -- is second in the three-volume poem that begins with the Inferno. Smiling said she to me, "Recollect thee now That thou this very day hast drunk of Lethe . . ."

• | Author: Dante Alighieri
• | Publisher: Aegypan
• | Publication Date: Jul 01, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 204 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1606647636
• | ISBN-13: 9781606647639