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The Dante Club.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

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Date: 20030301
Author:Tekulve, Susan

MATTHEW PEARL Random House 372 pages ***

In 1865, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow began the first full-length American translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. He collaborated with the poets James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes, historian George Washington Greene and publisher J.T. Fields, forming a literary group called the Dante Club. In this historical thriller, Pearl imagines what could have happened during this critical time in literary history. As the Dante Club fights against the Harvard authorities, who find Dante's journey through the torments of hell too ...

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