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Just When You Think You Have Comedy Figured Out, It Breaks You: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 64 - 87
Popes In Hell: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 46 - 63
Let's Go Down Into The Third Evil Pouch: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 31 - 45
Everybody Gets A Chance To Break The Church: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 13 - 30
Of Prophets, Poets, And Pilgims: Inferno, Canto XIX, Lines 1 - 12
EFlattery And Feces, Together At Last: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 115 - 134
EThe Moldiest, Muckiest, And Grossest Bits Of Inferno (So Far): Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 100 - 114
The Fine Art Of Seduction Can Land You In Hell: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 67 - 99
Pimps, Fraud, And Metamorphosis: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 40 - 66
EOur First Glimpse Of Old-School Demons: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 22 - 39
Welcome To The Eighth Circle Of Hell: Inferno, Canto XVIII, Lines 1 - 21
A Look Back Over The Seventh Circle Of Hell In Dante's COMEDY
Flying By The Seat Of Your Pants (Also, Geryon): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 100 - 134
Buck Up, It's Geryon (And Modern Narrative Techniques): Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 79 - 99
The Poetics Of Color And Usury: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 46 - 78
Poet And Pilgrim, Walking Alone Along The Cliff: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 28 - 45
Behold The Beast Of Fraud And Poetic Technique: Inferno, Canto XVII, Lines 1 - 27
Laying My Cards On The Table: How I Read Dante's Comedy
Swearing The Truth About The Beast Of Fraud: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 124 - 136
Cords, Leopards, Medieval Poets, And Medieval Pilgrims, All Straightened Out By Classical Poetry: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 106 - 123
Tumbling Over A Simile About A Waterfall: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 91 - 105
Civic Unity, Truth-Telling, And (Not) Making A Difference In Hell: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 79 - 90
Stopping The Mouth Of History With The Words Of A Prophet: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 64 - 78
The Answer To Dashed Hopes Is Far Harder Than Anger: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 46 - 63
When History Speaks, It Doesn't Always Tell The Truth: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 28 - 45
Brunetto Is Gone But Not Forgotten On The Burning Sands: Inferno, Canto XVI, Lines 1 - 27
An Interview with Kristen Hook, A Dantista Writing Her Dissertation On Inferno, Canto X
Are These Really The Homosexuals Punished In Inferno, Canto XV?
Gossip, Ambivalence, And The Strangeness of Virgil's Presence: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 100 - 124
A Pilgrim Walking Across Hell? Not Really. More Like A Writer: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 79 - 99
Unanswered Questions and Unasked-For Prophecies: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 46 - 78
The Fourth Great Sinner Of Hell, Brunetto Latini: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 25 - 45
The Long View Across The Burning Sands: Inferno, Canto XV, Lines 1 - 24
An Interview with the poet and novelist J. Simon Harris, a translator of Dante's INFERNO
Exploring A Coda To A Canto And Cleaning Up The Canto As A Whole: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 121 - 142
The Old Man Of Crete PART TWO--Sewing The Canto Back Together: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 94 - 120
The Old Man Of Crete PART ONE--A Statue Rises From Four Other Texts: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 94 - 120
Dante Calmly Tells The Tale And Virgil Makes A Wild Claim: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 76 - 93
Blaspheming Against Jove Smack In The Middle Of A Christian Poem: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 43 - 78
It's Snowing Fire And You're Naked: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 19 - 42
Welcome To The Arid Plains Of The Blasphemers: Inferno, Canto XIV, Lines 1 - 18
Further Questions About Inferno, Canto XIII
One Last Suicide, One Last Irony, One Last Intertextuality: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 127 - 151
The Limits Of Credulity In A Poem About The Afterlife: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 109 - 126
Sorrows And Windows For Sorrow: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 79 - 108
The Third Great Sinner of Hell, Pier delle Vigne: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 46 - 78
Maybe You Can't Trust Those Old Roman Poets: Inferno, Canto XIII, Lines 1 - 45
Getting Ready For Canto XIII Of Dante's Inferno
At Long Last, The Violent Appear: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 103 - 139
Astride a Centaur: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 76 - 102
The Centaurs--A Rider Without A Horse Or A Horse Without A Rider: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 49 - 75
More On Virgil's Life Outside Of Comedy: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 31 - 48
This Way To The Violent, Down The Slope, Past The Minotaur: Inferno, Canto XII, Lines 1 - 30
Too Many Footnotes and Not Enough Time to Reflect
Usury + Violence = A Theory Of Art: INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 91 - 114
Virgil, Your Map Of Hell Needs Work: INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 67 - 90
The Greatest Sin Isn't Pride--It's Fraud: INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 52 - 66
The Sins Of Violence Explained (Sort Of): INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 28 - 51
Mapping the Uncharted at the Beginning of the Age of Discovery: INFERNO, Canto XI, Lines 16 - 27
The Dazzle of Beatrice, The Stench Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto X, Line 121b, through Canto XI, Lines 15
Where Is My Son? A Thematic And Structural Overview Of INFERNO, Canto X
Repenting To A Heretic: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 94 - 121a
How To Be Human And How To Quit Being Human: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 73 - 93
Poetic Rivalry And Poetic Guilt: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 52 - 72
The Second Great Sinner Of Hell, Farinata degli Uberti: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 22 - 51
Cosmic Battles And Interpersonal Squabbles: INFERNO, Canto X, Lines 1 - 21
Straight On, Then Right For The Burning Tombs Of The Heretics: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 107 - 133
Saved At Last . . . By Mercury, Jesus, The Archangel Michael, Someone: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 64 - 106
How Much Classical Imagery Can One Poem Take? INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 34 - 63
An Interpolated Episode: Did Dante Intend All These Interpretive Games In COMEDY?
The Witch Erichtho And The Complications In Virgil's Backstory: INFERNO, Canto IX, Lines 1 - 33
Being Human, Even In Hell: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 97 - 130
The Walls Of Dis, Virgil's Limits, and Our Poet's Folly: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 64 - 96
An Angry Pilgrim Among The Angry Sinners: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 31 - 63
Consider The Plot: An Overview Of INFERNO's Fifth Circle Of Wrath
Dante, The Poet Between The Classical And Modern Worlds: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 7 - 30
An Interpolated Episode: Nothing In Dante's Hand, Or A Brief History Of COMEDY's Manuscripts
Hell's Biggest Crack Is In The Poetry, Not The Landscape: INFERNO, Canto VIII, Lines 1 - 6
On To The Wrathful, Sort Of: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 97 - 130
O, Fortuna: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 67 - 96
Fate And The Cracks In Dante's Poetry: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 36 - 66
Jousting With Greedy Plutus: INFERNO, Canto VII, Lines 1 - 35
Virgil Gets The Apocalypse Wrong: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 94 - 115
The Bloodbath That Was, Is, And Will Be Florence: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 58 - 93
The Curious Case Of Ciacco: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 34 - 57
Wide Awake With Cereberus: INFERNO, Canto VI, Lines 1 - 33
The Case For Francesca: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 88 - 142
The Case Against Francesca: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 88 - 142
Damning Lust, Then Confusing It With Love: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 52 - 87
The Lush Poetry Of The Lustful: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 25 - 51
An Interpolated Episode: An Introduction to the Seven Deadly Sins
Minos, The Connoisseur Of Sin: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 1 - 24
An Interpolated Episode: A Look Back At The First Four Cantos of INFERNO
Cataloguing The Greats You Know And The Ones You Wish You Knew: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 115 - 151
The Great Poets Of Limbo: INFERNO Canto IV, Lines 85 - 114
Virgil's (Mis)Understanding Of The Harrowing Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 46 - 84
An Interpolated Episode: Limbo Unraveled
Welcome To Virgil's Home Turf: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 45
When Crossing Acheronte Into The First Ring Of Hell, Don't Faint: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 109 - 136
Charon, The Pagan Ferryman Of The Christian Damned: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 70 - 108