The Divine Comedy
Lost in a dark wood at the midpoint of his life, the poet is led by Virgil down through the circles of hell and up the mountain of purgatory, then by Beatrice through the spheres of heaven. Every soul he stops to question is placed exactly where its own desire put it. A descent through hell to reach the light; the soul's journey mapped as cosmic geography.
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Lineage
- influenced by ↑ The Aeneid
- influenced by ↑ Genesis
- alludes to ↑ The Song of Songs
- alludes to ↑ The Song of Roland
- ↑ The Egyptian Book of the Dead
- ↓ The Pilgrim's Progress
- ↓ The Waste Land
- ↓ Lanark
- ↓ The Periodic Table
- ↓ Dead Souls
- ↓ La Dolce Vita
- ↓ Pedro Páramo
- ↓ Canzoniere
- ↓ The Aleph
- ↓ Omeros
- ↓ Field Work
- ↓ Station Island
- ↓ Seeing Things
- ↓ Ulysses
- ↓ The Fall
- ↓ The First Circle
- ↓ The Fall of Hyperion
- ↓ The Triumph of Life
- ↓ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- ↓ Ash Wednesday
- ↓ Four Quartets
- ↓ Murphy
- ↓ The House of Fame
- ↓ The Parliament of Fowls
- ↓ Pierre
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Hero's Journey (Campbell)
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