The Divine Comedy

Halfway through Iife, you find yourself lost, unsure of the right path. Greed, deception and pride have led you far from the ¡deais you once cherished. How do you go on? This is the starting point of one of the most extraordinary and important journeys in Western literature. The Divine Comedy ¡s a visión of the afterlife, the three regions of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, through which the narrator must journey ¡n order to better understand the workings of the universe, the love of God, and his place in the world. Poet Steve Ellis's 1994 translation of the Inferno was greeted with great acclaim. Now his translation of the entire poem is published here for the first time, and Dante's epic can be experienced afresh, the physicality and immediacy of his verse rendered in English as never before.