is a vision of the afterlife, the three regions of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, through which the narrator must journey in order to better understand the workings of the universe, the love of God, and his place in the world. Poet and translator Steve Ellis translated the in 1994, and it was greeted with great acclaim. Now Ellis's translation of the entire poem is published here for the first time, and Dante's epic can be experienced afresh, the physicality and immediacy of Dante's verse rendered in English as never before.