Dante (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Considered one of the world's greatest writers, Dante was also a great political and philosophical thinker. Examined here are Commedia, Paradiso, Purgatorio, Vita Nuova, Inferno, and "Counterpass." This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index.

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