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Available
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Publication
Pelican (2004), 272 pages
Description
This anthology contains the works of writers from the 16th to the early 20th centuries who evoke the night to set a scene, twist a plot, or explain something inexplicable, like madness or time travel.
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Welcome: The First Circle of Hell
Virgil greets us at the gates of the underworld, beneath a sign that reads "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here," the famous line from Canto III of Dante's Inferno.
In the first room, an imprisoned Ezra Pound warns us of the perils that lie ahead, reading from his
(Ezra Pound was incarcerated at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital for more than twelve years. He referred to that place as "the hellhole.")
You Will Need
A tour-guide dressed as Dante's Virgil
Prison bars
Red or orange lighting
Extra Credit
A heater
More poems about the underworld
Virgil greets us at the gates of the underworld, beneath a sign that reads "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here," the famous line from Canto III of Dante's Inferno.
In the first room, an imprisoned Ezra Pound warns us of the perils that lie ahead, reading from his
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own ghastly Canto XIV of "living pus, full of vermin, / dead maggots begetting live maggots..."(Ezra Pound was incarcerated at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital for more than twelve years. He referred to that place as "the hellhole.")
You Will Need
A tour-guide dressed as Dante's Virgil
Prison bars
Red or orange lighting
Extra Credit
A heater
More poems about the underworld
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
272 p.; 9 inches
ISBN
1589801768 / 9781589801769
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