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Dante
Feeding Our Fascination With Hell
CS Lewis's hell is less "abandon all hope" and more "abandon all joy."
July 22, 2024
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Nicole James
Painting Dante’s Epic Poem ‘The Divine Comedy’
Where are we heading—heaven or hell? Poet Dante Alighieri explores that question in his epic poem “The Divine ...
June 8, 2023
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Lorraine Ferrier
England’s Epic Poet: James Sale and His New Work, ‘StairWell’
The Renaissance poet Philip Sidney considered the epic or “heroical” genre to be the “most accomplished kind of ...
May 9, 2023
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Andrew Benson Brown
The Force of a Thought: Rodin Brings the Poet Dante to Life in ‘The Thinker’
Few works of art are as well-known today as "The Thinker" by French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The monumental ...
August 12, 2022
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Da Yan
Reasons Why the Written Word Still Packs the Biggest Punch
Parents may be challenged by their child’s homework frustration—“Why do I have to do these writing assignments? I ...
July 18, 2022
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Poppy Richie
Dante’s Heavenly Legacy
Nearly 700 years ago, in September 1321, the Italian literary great Dante Alighieri died. Dante wrote poetry and important ...
May 11, 2021
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More Dante Now, Please! (Part 4): The Road of Repentance
This is the fourth and final article in this particular Dante series. We remember that we read Dante ...
January 7, 2021
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James Sale
More Dante Now, Please! (Part 3): Let Beauty Begin
In our last article, we saw how the issue of human free will played out in Dante’s Hell. ...
December 11, 2020
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James Sale
More Dante Now, Please! (Part 2): Let’s Hear It for Free Will!
In Part 1 of this article, we spoke of the importance of young minds being exposed to great ...
November 25, 2020
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James Sale
More Dante Now, Please! (Part 1): How Dante Provokes Thinking
Recently, a top American academic at a highly prestigious American university dropped me a line and said, “The ...
October 19, 2020
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James Sale
What The Joker Teaches Us About Utopia
In this episode of Crossroads we analyze the Joker movie [minor spoilers] and its deeper themes of ontological ...
November 2, 2019
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Joshua Philipp
Artist Gustave Doré and Recognizing Hell on Earth
What is the worst thing you’ve ever done? Take a moment to think about it. What is the ...
August 19, 2019
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Eric Bess
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