
- 168 pages
- English
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Dante's Inferno
About this book
Following his irreverent Oulipian reworking of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the twelfth century to the present day and relocating it to the modern walled city' of the University of Essex. Dante's Phlegethon becomes the river Colne; his popes are replaced by vice-chancellors and education ministers; the warring Guelfs and Ghibellines are re-imagined as the sectarians of Belfast, Terry's home city. Meanwhile, the guiding figure of Virgil takes on new form as Ted Berrigan, one-time visiting professor at Essex and a poet who had himself imagined the underworld: I heard the dead, the city dead / The devils that surround us' ( Memorial Day'). In reimagining an Inferno for our times, Terry stays paradoxically true to the spirit of Dante's original text.
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INDEX
- 1984, 1
- 20/20 vision, 1
- 62 (bus), 1
- 9/11, 1
- Abbey National, 1
- Aberfan, 1
- Achilles, 1, 2
- Act of Union, 1
- Adams, Gerry, 1
- Adès, Dawn, 1
- Aeneas, 1
- Aesop, 1, 2
- AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council), 1, 2, 3, 4
- Alps, 1
- Al’s Bulge, 1, 2, 3, 4
- Alumni, 1
- Alverstoke, 1
- Amarillo, 1
- Amis, Kingsley, 1
- Amphion, 1
- Angry Brigade, 1
- Arab spring, 1
- Arbus, Diane, 1
- Archive of Dreams, 1
- Areas, 1
- Arethusa, 1
- Arias, Óscar, 1
- Aristotle, 1
- Arles, 1
- Art History, 1
- Arts Council, 1
- Ashbery, John, 1
- Auden, Wystan Hugh, 1
- Ayres, Pam, 1
- Baghdad, 1
- Bahia, 1
- Balkan Sobranie, 1
- Balmoral Furnishing Company, 1 ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- CANTO I
- CANTO II
- CANTO III
- CANTO IV
- CANTO V
- CANTO VI
- CANTO VII
- CANTO VIII
- CANTO IX
- CANTO X
- CANTO XI
- CANTO XII
- CANTO XIII
- CANTO XIV
- CANTO XV
- CANTO XVI
- CANTO XVII
- CANTO XVIII
- CANTO XIX
- CANTO XX
- CANTO XXI
- CANTO XXII
- CANTO XXIII
- CANTO XXIV
- CANTO XXV
- CANTO XXVI
- CANTO XXVII
- CANTO XXVIII
- CANTO XXIX
- CANTO XXX
- CANTO XXXI
- CANTO XXXII
- CANTO XXXIII
- CANTO XXXIV
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Philip Terry from Carcanet
- Copyright