From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The ...

Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty or by Dante’s creative use of tradition in its three-part journey through hell (“Inferno”), purgatory (“Purgatorio”) ...

Dante’s Commedia (or Divine Comedy, written in the opening decades of the 14th century) is already a heavily and explicitly ...