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Beatrice and the Ineffable Smile: Canto XXIII of Paradise by Dante Alighieri, Translated by Stephen Binns

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May 24, 2023
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. Beatrice and the Ineffable Smile: Canto XXIII of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns Just as a bird that stands watch to ensure __the safety of her brood, beside the...
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DoorWay Canto 2 Extract from James Sales’ Epic Poem

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May 6, 2023
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. DoorWay Canto 2, Extract The Poet has gone through the ‘DoorWay’ and entered heaven. Here in the second Canto and in the constellation of Libra he meets his dead grandfather (who was a Libran: 30/7) and...
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Beatrice Does Not Smile: Canto XXI of Paradise by Dante Alighieri, Translated by Stephen Binns

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April 24, 2023
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. Beatrice Does Not Smile: Canto XXI of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns And now my eyes were fastened once again __upon my lady’s face, and all the while __Beatrice __my...
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Beatrice Smiles: Canto XXXI of Purgatory by Dante Alighieri, Translated by Stephen Binns

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March 15, 2023
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. Beatrice Smiles: Canto XXXI of Purgatory by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns “You, on the other side of the sacred river,” __Lethe __she called to me, and sharply to the point,...
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Dante Meets Paolo and Francesca: Canto V of Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Translated by Stephen Binns

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February 15, 2023
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. Dante Meets Paolo and Francesca: Canto V of Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns And so from that first circle I went down __into the second, where there is less space __and...
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The Best Poems of 2022: Winners of SCP International Poetry Competition

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February 1, 2023
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The Best Poems of 2022: Winners of the 11th Annual SCP International Poetry Competition Judges Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, Evan Mantyk Past First Place Winners James A. Tweedie (2021) Susan Jarvis Bryant...
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StairWell Canto 8: ‘Covid-Priest’ by James Sale

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January 28, 2023
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. Canto 8: Covid-Priest from The English Cantos Volume 2: StairWell StairWell is the Poet’s Purgatory, and as in HellWard where we met with contemporary challenges such as Brexit, so here in StairWell the...

‘Moments from Dante’s Inferno’ by Paul Buchheit

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January 20, 2023
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. Moments from Dante’s Inferno Prepared to travel, if the gods allowed, I saw the woods were dreary, dark as death. I chose to heed a blessing there endowed, before emerging spirits took a breath. And that...

‘Where Ever-present Joy Knows Naught of Time’ and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson

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December 29, 2022
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. “Where Ever-present Joy Knows Naught of Time” ---Dante, Paradiso, Canto X, D.L. Sayers translation a rondeau redouble Where ever-present joy knows naught of time, The music of infinity is sung In...

StairWell Canto 10 Extract 2 by James Sale

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September 19, 2022
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. StairWell Canto 10 extract 2 Context: In the 10th Canto of HellWard we met 4 poets condemned to Hell. Now in the 10th Canto of StairWell, we meet another 4 poets stuck in Purgatory. This extract takes us to...

StairWell Canto 10 Extract by James Sale

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September 5, 2022
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. StairWell Canto 10 extract Context: In the 10th Canto of HellWard we met 4 poets condemned to Hell. Now in the 10th Canto of StairWell, we meet another 4 poets stuck in Purgatory. This extract takes us to...

‘Judge Not’ by C.B. Anderson

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June 11, 2022
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. Judge Not We notice, Signor Alighieri, that You have a rather well developed bent For taking your opponents to the mat And showing them that in the Main Event They will be pinned like insects to a wall To...

Winners of the 100 Days of Dante Poetry Contest

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April 18, 2022
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Judges Angela Alaimo O’Donnell James Sale . OVERALL WINNER . Papa’s Commedia by Nicholas Walz That was hellish—the hulking chopper plunging Through the top: the battered fuselage yawed, Dipped, and...

An Extract from Canto 4 of James Sale’s StairWell

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January 21, 2022
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. The English Cantos: StairWell Canto 4 Leaving a broken relationship of the past behind in Canto 3, the poet enters a new world of education and what that means. Before entering a specific establishment, the...

100 Days of Dante Poetry Contest

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December 3, 2021
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100 Days of Dante Poetry Contest Sponsored by the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing with the Society of Classical Poets . . Introduction 100 Days of Dante is a collaborative resource aimed at educating...

‘The English Cantos: Volume 2: StairWell. Canto 3 Ex-Wife’ by James Sale

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August 6, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry
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. The Argument: The Poet, with Dante and Virgil, has arrived on the third step of the StairWell, or Purgatory. Dante at the start of Canto 3 has been at pains to explain to the shocked Poet what just has...

‘Advice from Dante’ on Mask Wearing and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson

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March 11, 2021
Covid-19, Culture, Dante, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
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. Advice from Dante “If you hear nostrums* in the market cried, Behave like men, and not like witless sheep.” ---Dante, Paradiso, Canto V Behave like men, and not like witless sheep. The CDC has shown no...

‘The English Cantos: Volume 2: StairWell. Canto 1 Ascent’ by James Sale

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March 7, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry
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. The poet has now escaped Hell, and has arrived in Purgatory or what he calls the StairWell. But he seems to have been abandoned by Dante, and has a fresh set of problems to confront. In this first section of...

‘The Unknown Circle of Hell’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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April 8, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Humor, Poetry
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  Personae and scene: Vergil and Dante, somewhere in the mid-region of Hell. Dante: Honored Vergil, tell me where we’re going— It’s hard for me to take in what you’re showing Without some...

Three Poems from Divine Comedies, by James Sale

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March 29, 2019
Culture, Dante, Poetry
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The following are excerpted from James Sale's upcoming book Divine Comedies.   Exit from Hell I did well in life. But everything is real in Hell –Dante, Canto 29 The exit from Hell is always...

Translation of Dante Canzoni ‘Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona’

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January 26, 2018
Beauty, Dante, Poetry, Translation
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By David B. Gosselin The nature of the subject matter discussed in Dante Alighieri’s lyric poetry, his canzoni, has been debated time after time, generation after generation. While the Dantisti as they...

‘Re-visiting Dante’ and Other Poetry by James Sale

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September 22, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Dante, Poetry
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  Re-visiting Dante “For Dante it was a strict rule not to rhyme the word ‘Christ’ with any other word except itself” – Clive James Inferno Down we went like no other care were there; No...

Translation of Dante’s Inferno, Canto I and Poetry by J. Simon Harris

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July 14, 2017
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Dante’s Inferno, Canto I (Poem by Dante Alighieri / translation by J. Simon Harris in terza rima) In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself again in a dark forest, for I had lost the pathway...

Classical Book Review: Dante’s Vita Nuova and Reflections on Divine Love (Folio)

Joshua Philipp
June 20, 2017
Dante, Essays, Poetry, Reviews, Translation
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By Joshua Philipp The Italian poet Dante Alighieri is best known for his journey into hell, purgatory, and heaven which he told of in his "Divine Comedy." But before he took that journey, he took a very...

‘On Viewing Dante and Beatrice by Henry Holiday, 1884’ by Beatriz Fernandez

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October 4, 2013
Culture, Dante, Poetry
From Dante, to Beatrice In your father’s garden we first met, a pair in exile, two children playing without a care, in our shared exile. You were eight, I, nine, you in crimson and I blind to all...




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