W.S. Merwin

W.S. Merwin is the seventeenth Poet Laureate of the United States. His most recent collection of poems, The Shadow of Sirius‚ won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize.

Purgatorio‚ Canto XXIX

  • Dante Alighieri
  • W.S. Merwin

Purgatorio, Canto XXIX

Translated by W. S. Merwin

  • W.S. Merwin
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