The Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars
Ebook
Dante's Divine Comedy has long enchanted its readers with its gruesome depictions of sordid sin, the lengths we go to find cleansing, and the hope of eternal life. In this book, Mosley seeks to respond to Dante's great poem with poetry of his own. For each of the one hundred cantos, Mosley has provided a ten-line poem written in terza rima, the rhyme scheme of Dante's epic. These poems are intended both to stand on their own and serve as a reflection on the Divine Comedy. Readers unfamiliar with the source text will be inspired to pick it up. Longtime readers of Dante's journey through the afterlife will find familiar themes presented in a new way.
“Dante’s splendid Divine Comedy receives here a thoughtful, innovative commentary-in-verse. By adding his own voice to Dante’s, David Mosley reveals the drama of salvation and damnation at the heart of the Divine Comedy; the speaker takes us through hell as through the darkness of his own soul and gazes upon heaven as upon a realm where he might one day belong. Mosley’s collection is a lovely companion volume for reflecting on the Divine Comedy, full of lines that flash out with their own light.”
—J. C. Scharl, author of Sonnez Les Matines
- Title: The Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars
- Authors: David Mosley, Matthew A. Rothaus Moser
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666780680, 9781666780673, 1666780677, 9781666780666, 1666780669, 1666780685
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666780680
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-08-19T02:17:53Z
David Russell Mosley serves at the Chesterton Academy of Notre Dame. He is the author of On the Edges of Elfland (2016), Being Deified: Poetry and Fantasy on the Path to God (2016), and Liturgical Entanglements (2022), and his debut poetry collection, The Green Man (2021). When he’s not reading, writing, or teaching, David likes to wander the woods of Washington state, where he lives with his wife, Lauren, and twin sons, Theodore and Edwyn.