Richly illustrated with black and white reproductions of paintings inspired by Dante’s masterpiece, Luke explores each of Dante’s poetic images, ending with the "white rose," the final emblem of joy and regeneration.
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The most memorable book I've read in the last 3 years,
By Theodore M. P. Lee (tmplee@mr.net) (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Wood to White Rose: Journey and Transformation in Dante's Divine Comedy (Paperback)
The moment I saw the references to Charles Williams and Dorothy L. Sayers I was hooked. Culturely familiar with, but never having studied, Dante's poem, I had always understood it as an allegory of life after death. Wrong! The intersections between Dante's journey as portrayed by Helen Luke and portions of my spiritual journey were intense, meaningful, detailed -- and totally unexpected. The reality of the passage through Hell and Purgatory in this life points to the hope of a portion of the feast to come also in this life. It is not an easy read, but I found myself unable to put it down -- except when the power of a passage would so resonate in me I had to pause to mark it and reflect on it.
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one of the most wonderful books i ever read,
By the sparrowhawk (attending the carnival of surface) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dark Wood to White Rose: Journey and Transformation in Dante's Divine Comedy (Paperback)
helen luke is dead now but i wish she wasn't. thisis the best book i ever found about dante. if dante's comedy seems a mystery to you, if it seems hard to reach, or if it seems like it has nothing to say to us now, you need this book. helen luke used dante's poetry to write a magnificent jungian deconstruction of growth and love. it makes everything simple. it is magnificent. i was interested to see that she liked dorothy sayers' translations (of all the dante translations that there are) the best. if you have this book, you don't need any other growth book, you don't need any other literary analysis of the comedy. she knew dante very well.
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This review is from: Dark Wood to White Rose: Journey and Transformation in Dante's Divine Comedy (Paperback)
This marvellous book opens up Danteland for the contemporary reader. Helen Luke's masterful guidance on the paths of Dante's three-tiered cosmos not only helps us to reenter and relish the Divine Comedy - the towering literary achievement of the medieval imagination - but to use it to enter deeper levels of reality through meditation and active imagination. I have based deeply moving group meditations on this, along the lines of those decribed in my own book "Dreamgates", and we have found that Dante's gates can actually take us into imaginal realms that people appear to inhabit after physical death. As the life dreamer she was, Helen Luke reminds us of the way the radiant guide keeps calling the seeker through dreams, which are so often ignored or forgotten until the BIG moment of spiritual trial and eventual initiation. I would recommend using the middle section of the book in tandem with W.S.Merwin's excellent recent translation of the "Purgatorio", which is more readable than the older versions quoted by Ms. Luke.
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DOROTHY SAYERS wisely stressed that by far the best approach to the poem is to read it through for the first time purely as a story, an exciting adventure story, not bothering about explanations of obscure passages, intricacies of medieval cosmology and so on. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dorothy Sayers, Peter's Gate, City of Dis, Primum Mobile, Vita Nuova, Barbara Reynolds, Charles Williams, Holy Spirit, Santa Lucia New!
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DOROTHY SAYERS wisely stressed that by far the best approach to the poem is to read it through for the first time purely as a story, an exciting adventure story, not bothering about explanations of obscure passages, intricacies of medieval cosmology and so on. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dorothy Sayers, Peter's Gate, City of Dis, Primum Mobile, Vita Nuova, Barbara Reynolds, Charles Williams, Holy Spirit, Santa Lucia New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Adventure Inward by Morton T. Kelsey on page 133, page 176, and Back Matter
- Images of the Journey in Dante's Divine Comedy by Professor Charles H. Taylor in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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