When Hell Gets So Bad You Despair Of Your Own Craft: Inferno, Canto XXXII, Lines 1 - 15
We've come to the ninth circle of hell. But not quite yet. Dante opens Inferno, Canto XXXII with a metapoetic moment, a passage in which he talks about the limits of the very form he's using to craft these verses.He offers up his second invocation of the poem and finds himself at a place of despair as an artist--the very same emotional landscape that makes up the last circle of hell.Here are the segments for this episode of WALKING WITH DANTE:[01:17] My English translation of INFERNO, Canto XXXII, Lines 1 - 15. You can find this translation on my website, read along, or even drop a comment…
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