Poetry of Dante's Paradiso

Jeremy Tambling is Professor of English at SWPS Warsaw (University of Social Sciences and Humanities), Poland. Prior to this, he was Professor of Literature at Manchester University, UK, and Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He has written widely on Dante, psychoanalysis, urban literary studies, and Victorian literature. Previous publications on Dante include Dante and Difference: Writing in the Commedia (1988), Dante: A Critical Reader (ed.1999), and Dante in Purgatory: States of Affect (2012).

• 1. Introduction: On Reading Paradiso: Dante’s Dualism.- 2. Chapter 1: The Inconstant Moon, Paradiso and the Feminine.- 3. Chapter 2: Mercury: Roman History.- 4. Chapter 3: Poetry and the Violence of Venus.- 5. Chapter 4:  ‘Dancing in the Sun: The Trinity in Motion' (Paradiso 10-14).- 6. Chapter 5: ‘Mars and Mutilation: Florence and the Baptist’.- 7. Chapter 6: ‘Time and Chronology in Jupiter and Saturn’ (Paradiso 18-22).- 8. Chapter 7: ‘Fixed Stars and Diasporic Times: Paradiso 22-27’.- 9. Chapter 8:  ‘Dante’s Angels: Paradiso 28 and 29’.- 10. Chapter 9: ‘The Ultimate Vision: Multiple Relationships: Paradiso 30-33’.

“If one is looking for an understanding of Dante’s cosmos informed in equal parts by Walter Benjamin, George Herbert, and Ptolemy, it is to be found in Tambling’s book. … his book undeniably shows that ideas explored in Paradiso continue to matter beyond Dante’s own immediate context.” (Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė, Modern Language Review, Vol. 117 (3), July, 2022)