About the Author

Peter Dale was educated at Strode's School, Egham, Surrey and St Peter's College, Oxford. He was head of English at Hinchley Wood Comprehensive School for 21 years, and is now a full-time poet,editor and translator. He was co-editor of the poetry journal 'Agenda' for many years. His New and Selected Poems, 'Edge to Edge', is also published by Anvil, as are his collection 'Under the Breath' and his facing-text verse translations, 'Poems of Jules Laforgue' and 'Poems of Francois Villon'.

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'Dante's is a visual imagination. It is a visual imagination in a different sense from that of a modern painter of still life: it is visual in the sense that he lived in an age in which men still saw visions' - TS Eliot, 1929

'Dante's is a visual imagination. It is a visual imagination in a different sense from that of a modern painter of still life: it is visual in the sense that he lived in an age in which men still saw visions' - TS Eliot, 1929