Problems In The Poetry Of The Elysian Fields: PURGATORIO, Canto VII, Lines 64 - 81
Help keep WALKING WITH DANTE sponsor-free by donating to help me cover its licensing, hosting, streaming, and royalty fees. You can use this PayPal link here to make a contribution.Sordello leads Virgil (and Dante the pilgrim, whom Sordello has hardly noticed) on to the beautiful dale on the lower slopes of Mount Purgatory.This passage is one of the first where the poet has to write about beauty. And in doing so, he has to renegotiate his position toward Virgil's great poem, THE AENEID.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we look at the steps up to the ridge that overlooks what will become the…
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