What I love about Dante is how he doesn't invoke the Muses, unlike Homer, or Virgil, and that he goes straight to the heart of the matter, and straight in to the poem, i.e. "In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, gone from the path direct". In the middle of his l...
It's Book Circle day, and also the 24th day of the Doubleday UK meme which invites one to consider which book is most reminiscent of that dread and drear individual, The English Teacher. http://tinyurl.com/la754n4 It's poetry. The ***ONLY*** reason I read poetry is that it's somehow assigned rea...
My third Robert Pinsky book and another amazing read. My favoritesSamurai SongAutumn QuartetABCAn Alphabet of My DeadThe Haunted RuinTo TelevisionThe Green PianoIn Alphabet of My Death he goes through a list of people he once knew. Relatives, friends and famous. In an alphabetical slaughter thought...
After Reading Gulf Music I thought I would try some of Pinsky's earlier work. This is a collection of some of his previous work.New PoemsCity of Dark (this gave me an idea for my own story, I am currently writing)SootDesecration of the Gravestone of Rose P.The Want Bone (1990)MemoirWindowThe HeartsT...
Robert Pinsky is a beast. And I mean that as great if we are speaking ebonics.This is one of my favorite books, it would be easier for me to say I didn't care for a certain poem in this book, but still found it interesting ★Overall Favorites★-The Thicket-The Forgetting-If the Dead Came Back-Eurydi...
An outstanding work in an outstanding edition. Dante’s erudite journey through Hell is overflowing with references to the classical tradition. Homer, Aristotle, Virgil, Ovid, Augustine and the Bible are among the countless contributors to Dante’s nightmare. The Italian on the opposite page provid...
Picked up the book to fill in the Italian around the audiobook.
Not for me.
Quite a revelation reading through this.
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