Dr. Larry Allums
"Is this Heaven?" It's a question often asked by fictional characters as diverse as Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams and King Lear in Shakespeare's great tragedy. For a possible answer to the impossible question, there's only one place to go: Dante's Paradiso, the final part of the greatest poem to come out of the Middle Ages. Having escaped Hell by the barest and struggled up Mount Purgatory, Dante the Pilgrim is now launched upward into the heavens--and what amazing sights he sees! It's not that Dante the Poet presents his incredible images as the way Heaven really is, but surely it's something close! A difficult poem--but a journey whose demands are richly rewarded.
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Text: Paradiso, trans. Allen Mandelbaum.