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By Philip Terry

ISBN-10: 184777220X

ISBN-13: 9781847772206

Following his irreverent Oulipian transforming of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new booklet Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, moving the motion from the 12th century to the current day and moving it to the fashionable walled urban' of the college of Essex. Dante's Phlegethon turns into the river Colne; his popes are changed by way of vice-chancellors and schooling ministers; the warring Guelfs and Ghibellines are re-imagined because the sectarians of Belfast, Terry's domestic urban. in the meantime, the guiding determine of Virgil takes on new shape as Ted Berrigan, one-time traveling professor at Essex and a poet who had himself imagined the underworld: I heard the lifeless, town lifeless / The devils that encompass us' ( Memorial Day'). In reimagining an Inferno for our occasions, Terry remains ironically precise to the spirit of Dante's unique text.

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Following his irreverent Oulipian transforming of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new booklet Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, transferring the motion from the 12th century to the current day and moving it to the trendy walled urban' of the college of Essex. Dante's Phlegethon turns into the river Colne; his popes are changed through vice-chancellors and schooling ministers; the warring Guelfs and Ghibellines are re-imagined because the sectarians of Belfast, Terry's domestic urban.

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