Reviews for Sense of place

The average rating for Sense of place based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-08-12 00:00:00 Eddie Bellemin From Litsy: "A pretty edition and a nice writer, but there‘s not much here. Bibliography is thin, and it devolves into a chapter by chapter Schmoopy book report of the Comedia. Maybe I would have liked it better if it was the first book I had read on Dante. (side note - never thought of reading the bibliography first. Maybe I should do that more often. Here it‘s four not-really-filled pages.)" That maybe says enough. I'll add that on a good note he filled in/clarified some biographical details, left some sense of Dante's neighborhood, his experience as military man in the cavalry in a couple battles, his role in Florence, as a leader given weight from opposing forces, his personal relationships with poets, his life traveling and settling post-exile, and a little about his sons and descendants. Lewis tried to give a sense of Dante's influence on 19th and early 20th-century poets, but it felt recycled. A lot of the book's information felt recycled, as in he is reporting other's research without really being intimate with the "raw data" behind it. The slim bibliography hints at that being more than a feeling. ----------------------------------------------- 54. Dante : A Life by R. W. B. Lewis published: 2001 format: 205 page paperback acquired: Library read: Nov 3-9 time reading: 5 hr 45 min, 1.7 min/page rating: 3

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-31 00:00:00 Michael George Read this just to get a more broad summary of his life for the context of his Divine Comedy. The details can get trivial, but still an excellent book: may Dante's legacy live on.