The epic of the fall of man; a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton . stayed, and he remains for everwedged in transparent ice. Moreover the era of the poem is fixed, by thepoet himself, at thirteen hundred years after theIncarnation, when the divine forecast regarding theSerpent, as narrated in the Hebrew version of theFall, was already being fulfilled : She shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait forher heel, so that, when Dante visits, in his Vision, the greattripartite kingdom of his imagination, he finds Hell,Purgatory, and Paradise thickly peopled with theshades of a h
The epic of the fall of man; a comparative study of Caedmon, Dante and Milton . stayed, and he remains for everwedged in transparent ice. Moreover the era of the poem is fixed, by thepoet himself, at thirteen hundred years after theIncarnation, when the divine forecast regarding theSerpent, as narrated in the Hebrew version of theFall, was already being fulfilled : She shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait forher heel, so that, when Dante visits, in his Vision, the greattripartite kingdom of his imagination, he finds Hell,Purgatory, and Paradise thickly peopled with theshades of a hundred and fifty generations. The huge cone or chasm of Dantes Hell, formedby the fall of the Archangel, is represented as the torture-house of the lost, and as consisting of anumber of circles or zones in which the torments Three Poetic Hells 315 gradually increase in severity as the zones decreasein circumference, until, at the apex or centre of theEarth the Arch-Traitor stands, wedged in a lake ofeverlasting ice, the punishment of an Archangel,traitor to his God. .^^£/^>^ These various zones of Dantes Inferno, throughwhich the poet and his guardian Virgil pass on theirway to Purgatorio or the intermediate state, weshall presently notice more at length, when we 3i6 Epic of the Fall come to compare Dantes Inferno with the Hell ofCaedmon and Milton. Purgatorio, as imagined by Dante, is an immenseconic mountain with its base on the Earth, and PURGATORIO.
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