Today’s poem, read from the translations of Anthony Esolen and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is an eerie passage from Dante’s Inferno that not only paints a chilling (pun intended?) scene but showcases the use of analogy at the very heart of the poet’s project. Happy reading.
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