Word: purgatorio
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Warren has taken the text for his lesson from Dante's "Purgatorio." Man is not lost "so long as hope retaineth aught of green." Warren's selection of this particular line to serve as epigraph for his novel furnishes the key to the evolvement of his thought across the past few years. All of Warren's work has been informed with an acute and very private sense of Doom. But in his maturer poems, and now in "All The King's Men," Warren has translated this vision of Evil into one of religious affirmation. Willie Stark is corrupted and dies...
...slickest-and some of this novel is pretty slick-there is a sense of doom and blood on the moon that Warren has gradually shifted into religious terms. Though the title of this book comes from a nursery rhyme, its epigraph comes from a passage in Dante's Purgatorio: "By curse of theirs man is not so lost, that eternal love may not return, so long as hope retaineth aught of green...
...work of especial interest at this time is a translation of Dante's "Paradiso" by Courtney Langdon, professor of romance languages at Brown University. This is the final volume in a series of translation of Dante's works by Professor Langdon, the others being "Inferno" and "Purgatorio". The "Paradiso" is especially opportune at this time, coming as it does in the year of the 600th anniversary of Dante's death. In the celebration in Italy on the occasion this summer, Professor Langdon will be one of America's delegates, and the "Paradise" will be the University's contribution...
...week which Dante passes in his journey through the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso is synchronical of the time...
While the atmosphere dominant in the "Inferno," is that of night, and in the "Purgatorio," that of morning, in the "Paradiso," it is that of high noon with its glorious light, happy repose, and above all, divine love...