Poetry:

The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $15.00

The complete Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) in one volume from Vintage Classics. The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wickstead translation, with full notes.

Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory... Read more >

The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Written by Dante Alighieri

Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $9.99

Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory by Virgil--author of the Roman epic the Aeniad--Dante encounters mythical, historical, and contemporaneous figures in their respective afterlives. Relying on classical (pagan) mythology and Christian imagery and... Read more >

Red Doc>

Written by Anne Carson

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $24.95

Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc> continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names.

To...

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Paradise

Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen

Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: February 6, 2013
Price: $9.99

“If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”–Robert Royal, Crisis

In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved... Read more >

Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems

Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $18.00

Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon
 
Derived from the Modern Library’s esteemed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this new volume, extensively revised and updated by its editors, contains Milton’s two late masterpieces, the brief epic Paradise Regained and the tragic drama Samson... Read more >

Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems

Written by John Milton
Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich and Stephen M. Fallon

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $11.99

Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon
 
Derived from the Modern Library’s esteemed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this new volume, extensively revised and updated by its editors, contains Milton’s two late masterpieces, the brief epic Paradise Regained and the tragic drama Samson... Read more >

Purgatorio

Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: July 25, 2012
Price: $14.99

Now I shall sing the second kingdom,

there where the soul of man is cleansed,

made worthy to ascend to heaven.

In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at... Read more >

Paradiso

Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

Format: eBook, 1024 pages
On Sale: July 18, 2012
Price: $14.99

With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >

The Changing Light at Sandover

Written by James Merrill
Edited by J.D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Price: $30.00

A welcome return to paperback: James Merrill’s most famous and celebrated work. Read more >

To the House of Collateral Damage
Centuries of the Civilian Dead
Written by William La Riche

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $17.95

This incredibly ambitious, book-length poem takes on the modern problem of war. The poem's great achievement is that it situates our own age, not as a golden age, but as one notable for its harshness and brutality, especially towards noncombatants, as well as for the beauty of the language that can... Read more >

To the House of Collateral Damage
Centuries of the Civilian Dead
Written by William La Riche

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $17.95

This incredibly ambitious, book-length poem takes on the modern problem of war. The poem's great achievement is that it situates our own age, not as a golden age, but as one notable for its harshness and brutality, especially towards noncombatants, as well as for the beauty of the language that can... Read more >

Paradiso

Written by Dante
Translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

Format: Trade Paperback, 1024 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $19.95

With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar... Read more >

Paradise

Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.00

“If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen’s] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come.”–Robert Royal, Crisis

In this, the concluding volume of The Divine Comedy, Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved... Read more >

Paradise

Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen

Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $27.95

The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion," wrote T.S. Eliot.  "The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach."

The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature... Read more >

Purgatory

Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: March 9, 2004
Price: $14.00

A new translation by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré
 
Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest epic poem of all time—presenting Dante’s brilliant vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. In this...

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Purgatorio

Written by Dante
Translated by Jean Hollander and Robert Hollander

Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $21.00

Now I shall sing the second kingdom,

there where the soul of man is cleansed,

made worthy to ascend to heaven.

In the second book of Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at... Read more >

Inferno

Written by Dante
Illustrated by Gustave Dore
Translated by Anthony Esolen

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: December 9, 2003
Price: $14.00

Translated by Anthony Esolen
Illustrations by Gustave Doré

A groundbreaking bilingual edition of Dante’s masterpiece that includes a substantive Introduction, extensive notes, and appendixes that reproduce Dante’s key sources and influences. Read more >