Reader recommendation: The Divine Comedy
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
By
S.F. Pierce, Captain Cook, Hawaii
Every spring, I reread Dante Alighieri鈥檚 masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, beginning with 鈥淭he Inferno.鈥� I usually complete all 100 cantos in 90 days. I hold to my habit because a favorite professor once told me, 鈥淚t is [the West鈥檚] best poem by our best poet.鈥�