Epic Poetry
by Allen Mandelbaum / Laury Magnus / Anthony Oldcorn / Daniel Feldman / Barry Moser / Dante Alighieri · The Divine Comedy series
The ascent of Mount Purgatory, where souls labour to purge their sins through suffering and patience. Dante climbs through seven terraces, each devoted to a different transgression, toward the garden at the summit where he will meet Beatrice. The middle canticle—neither hell's despair nor paradise's rapture, but the long work of becoming worthy.
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