Great Regulars: When a crisis strikes, the path of our life

turns crooked. Whether we suffer from an unforeseen illness, the loss of a job, or a friend's betrayal, our most confident assumptions are shaken to the core.

We feel horribly alone, but many have trod the same ground before. Crisis is the starting point, for instance, of perhaps the greatest epic poem ever written, Dante's Divine Comedy--here translated from the Italian by the Anglican clergyman Henry Francis Cary in a style reminiscent of Milton.

from Christopher Nield: The Epoch Times: The Antidote--Classic Poetry for Modern Life: An Extract from The Divine Comedy by Dante

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