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Jan 8, 2024 · ‘The New Colossus’ was commissioned to help raise money for the statue’s construction, but it was only after her death, in 1887, that the poem was published. But it would not be until 1945 that the poem would achieve widespread fame, when it was inscribed over the entrance to the Statue of Liberty.
Nov 17, 2016 · Yet, Dante’s nearly 700-year-old, three-part epic poem, the Divine Comedy—of which “Inferno” is the initial part—remains an influential piece of literature in exploring the origins of evil.
May 14, 2001 · There is still another reason to grant literature an important place in the life of nations. Without it, the critical mind, which is the real engine of historical change and the best protector...
Lurcio (Howerd) — slave of Ludicrus Sextus (Hordern), Ammonia (Murray), Erotica (Madeline Smith), and Nausius (Royce Mills) — is helping to plan for his master's latest orgy before the arrival of Emperor Nero (Cargill), when the soothsayer Cassandra (Rita Webb) warns of great trouble to come.
- A Poetic Statement
- My First Dante
- The Life of Dante Alighieri
- Socially and Politically Significant
- Why Dante Matters Today
"I can't think of any other poem in the history of literature, before Dante, which claims a kind of consistent intellectual, theological and philosophical framework. It's a vision of the universe, as well as a poetic statement. "Dante is, above all, the poet of order — and a kind of universal order. Together with the horrific illustrations of Gusta...
"My first introduction was in an English translation, the first English translation, which was by Henry Francis Cary and published around 1805. Even today, as one reads Cary's translation, it sounds like Wordsworth; there's a wonderful, romantic musicality to the speech that doesn't have very much to do with the original Italian, but it's captivati...
"We don't know much about Dante Alighieri — but we're not terribly interested in what happened to him before certain critical moments in his life, which are recorded in his written work. "His very first work is a work called La Vita Nuova (The New Life), which had enormous success in the 19th century, particularly among pre-Raphaelites. "In the 19t...
"The thing about Dante, and the time in which he lived, is that poetry was so much more a sort of collaborative or public adventure. This is another reason why Dante's poetry is so significant. "Before Dante, in the Middle Ages, one ordinarily thought of poetry as a kind of handmaiden for courtly life — nobles, kings, queens, dukes and that sort of...
"In many ways, the most modern part of his poem, paradoxically, is the last part: The Paradiso. "It's the most modern. It's a kind of poetry dedicated to its own inability to say all that it wants to say. It's a poetry of shadows, of light on light. "It's a poetry that Dante thought of as being absolutely unique and that nobody had ever tried — rep...
Successful 70s BBC comedy series Up Pompeii gets the big screen treatment, its star, camp comedian Frankie Howerd, reprising his role as downtrodden Roman slave Lurcio, who on this occasion becomes unwittingly embroiled in a plot to assassinate Emperor Nero.
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Jun 23, 2024 · The 20th century was a period of extraordinary creativity and innovation in literature, marked by the emergence of modernism, the impact of two world wars, and the rise of major writers and...
