Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri Fiction Classics Literary

<p><strong>Many of these translations stand alongside Longfellow's most famous original poems -- The Psalm of Life The Children's Hour and Hiawatha. </strong>Perhaps his most important were those based upon Dante which he began in 1843. This second volume The Purgatory -- with its visions of the Wanton the Gluttonous the Sodomites the Tree of Knowledge and the River Lethe -- is second in the three-volume poem that begins with the Inferno. Smiling said she to me Recollect thee now That thou this very day hast drunk of Lethe . . . </p>