New Life

The New Lifeis the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, this work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love. The New Lifeis published here in the beautiful translation by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an inspired poetic re-creation comparable to Edward Fitzgerald'sRubaiyat of Omar Khayyamand a classic in its own right.Rossetti, Dante Gabriel is the author of 'New Life' with ISBN 9780940322875 and ISBN 0940322870.