The Paradiso

Informationen zum Autor John Ciardi was a distinguished poet and professor, having taught at Harvard and Rutgers universities, and a poetry editor of The Saturday Review . He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. In 1955 he won the Harriet Monroe Memorial Award, and in 1956, the Prix de Rome. He died in 1986. Klappentext In The Paradiso , Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity? an immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and Love. Zusammenfassung In The Paradiso ! Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature! this epic discovery of truth is a work of mystical intensity? an immortal hymn to God! Nature! Eternity! and Love.

Product details

• Authors: Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi, Edward M. Cifelli, John (TRN) Dante Alighieri/ Ciardi, John Freccero
• Assisted by: John Ciardi (Translation)
• Publisher: Signet USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.10.2009
• EAN: 9780451531414
• ISBN: 978-0-451-53141-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 172 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Signet Classics; Signet Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama