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March 8.- The Divine Comedy: Hell...
...personae and the gist of an old myth, and burlesquing the whole by the introduction of all sorts of modern matter. And in this he has shown a very keen eye for caricature. Take, for instance, his fusion of the Greek Pluto with the modern Devil, of Hades with Hell, and then further burlesquing the composite by making Hell a sort of modern hotel, into which no sinless person can obtain admission; this is excellent burlesque. His working-out of this comic donnee is as ingenious and clever in detail as the idea itself. Of course there is some variety...
...have gone up to this time in the Divine Comedy, said Professor Norton, Dante has travelled through the regions of Hell and Purgatory in a world of realities, where all was visible and tangible, but from this time on we are to follow him through a spiritual world, and to the journey we must bring greater imagination than has been necessary heretofore. Up to this time the experience of Dante in the world of the dead has been preternatural; from this time on it is supernatural. That there is much in this part of the Divine Comedy that will seem...
Reason in the person of Virgil, has guided Dante through the realms of Hell and Purgatory, and has finally departed from him in the Earthly Paradise. There Revelation meets him, in the person of Beatrice, and conducts him through the seven heavens to the throne of God. The picture of Hell was one of darkness and horror; that of Purgatory was one of light, color, and hope; and that of Heaven is one of light, glory...
...change of poetic tone which takes place at the beginning of this part of the Divine Comedy is no less marked than is the change of sentiment. The harsh, rough rhymes, fitted to the picture of Hell, give way to sweeter, gentler cadences, and the poem begins to have more light and happiness...