Tag Archives: Inferno

A Shadow Falls, the Book Glows

As we enter a season of darkness, this Rilke poem reminds us to listen for the numinous.

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Dante’s Version of Heaven on Earth

In talking to Solomon in Paradiso, Dante gets a new vision of heaven on earth.

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Philip Pullman’s Unorthodox Afterlife

In “Amber Spyglass,” Pullman rebels against orthodox versions of the afterlife and creates his own.

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Homer, Virgil, Dante and the Afterlife

Literary afterlives, such as we encounter in Homer, Virgil, and Dante, are as much about this world as the next.

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Halloween Horrors in the Aeneid

For Halloween, check out the monsters who greet Aeneas on his way to the underworld.

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Man of Property and the Dobbs Decision

In Galsworthy’s “Man of Property,” Soames sees his wife as property. With its Dobbs decision, meanwhile, the Supreme Court sees women similarly.

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Do Not Stand by My Grave and Weep

As Slovenes this past week visited the graves of those who have passed on, I thought of Frye’s poem “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep.”

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Reaching Out to the Poor and Oppressed

Martha Serpas calls out America on how it treats the poor and unfortunate.

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Frozen in the Ice of Indifference

The difference between politicians who care and those who don’t is the difference between Dante’s Purgatory and Inferno.

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