The JSA #21 searches for Jim Corrigan while the Spectre hunts for a new host. What could possibly go wrong with divine ...

The following article is adapted from the introduction of Clive James’ new translation of The Divine Comedy, out now from Liveright.* The linked rhymes of the terza rima were a gesture toward form, ...

ROME, June 10 – Italian epic poet Dante is going to heaven – again. Dante, Italy’s greatest poet, divided his monumental Divine Comedy into three parts – Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The allegory ...

The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on ...

Literary translation is suspect; it is too often a reply masquerading as an echo. Given as much, the deft translation of even pedestrian works is at best a daunting task; Dante's "Divine Comedy" is on ...

When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the “Divine Comedy,” a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries. The “Divine Comedy” ...

What happens when you take the poetry out of Dante? If you replace the verse with another art -- say, Seymour Chwast's diabolically witty, devilishly expressive cartoon drawings -- you end up with a ...