The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy Criticism

• Purgatorio
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • An introduction to Prisoners of Hope: An Exposition of Dante's Purgatorio
    • Preliminary Chapter
    • The Metaphor of the Journey
    • Purgatorio, Canto V: The Modulations of Solicitude
    • A Note on Purgatorio IX, 16-18
    • Three Dreams
    • Flesh, Spirit, and Rebirth at the Center of Dante's Comedy
    • The Analogy of a Poem: Dante's Dream
    • The Art of Dante's Purgatorio
    • Dante's Notion of a Shade: Purgatorio XXV
    • The Last Wound: Purgatorio, XXVI
    • Pilgrim Text Models for Dante's Purgatorio
    • Dante's Purgatorio as Elegy
    • Dante's Purgatorio XXXII and XXXIII: A Survey of Christian History
    • The Visual Arts: A Basis for Dante's Imagery in Purgatory and Paradise
    • Beatrice as a Figure for Mary
    • Shadows on the Mount of Purgatory
    • The Poem's Center (Purgatorio XII-XVIII)
  • Further Reading
• Paradiso
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • The Science of Love
    • Dante
    • The Ladder of Vision
    • Introduction to The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine, Cantica III, Paradise (Il Paradiso)
    • The Imageless Vision and Dante's Paradiso
    • Paradiso X: Siger of Brabant
    • Introduction to The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Paradiso
    • The Eternal Now: Union with Being and Dante, Poet of the Future
    • The Otherwordly World of the Paradiso
    • ‘Shadowy Prefaces’: An Introduction to Paradiso
  • Further Reading