Dante's Poem of Light: Conversing with Dante {1}
About this eBook
The Divine Comedy of Dante inspired the present work to follow its form and substance as much as it is possible by a novice. The dreamer’s Tale One consists of thirteen episodes, each called Song (similar to Dante’s Canto):
Song 1: Dante and a Dreamer
Song 2: Conception of the Divine Comedy
Song 3: Poetic Transfiguration
Song 4: The Aeneid of Vergil: Book Six
Song 5: On the Nature of Things by Lucretius
Song 6: The Myth of Er in The Republic of Plato
Song 7: The Epic of Astral Messenger Er-Dante
Song 8: Enigma of the Limbo
Song 9: Invention of Religions by Theocracies
Song 10: Beholding God as a Simple Light
Song 11: With Beatrice in the Paradise
Song 12: Farewell between Beatrice and Dante
Song 13: Confession of the Dreamer
About the author
Since 2003, AEON PRESS in Canada has published three genres of Art Aeon’s poetry.
[A] Lyric Poems: The author sings of the mysterious changes, magnificent beauty and sublime spirituality of nature in the thematic collections of his simple, short poems: “Flowing with Seasons,” “Hymn to the Canadian Rockies,” “Hymn to the Range of Light,” and “Hymn to Sea.”
[B] Narrative Poems: Based on the philosophical and poetic literatures of ancient Greece, Rome, and China, the author imagines inventive variations on the classic narratives. For example, in “Socrates with Xanthippe on his Last Day,” the author makes it a dialogue between the character ‘Xanthippe’ (the widow of Socrates) and the character ‘Plato’ (who visits Xanthippe soon after the execution of his revered mentor Socrates) about what Socrates discussed with his devoted friends on his last day in the Athenian prison and how he met his death. The substances of their philosophical discussions are also imagined to be quite different from those of the historical philosopher Plato’s dialogue: “Phaedo.”
Art Aeon imagines similar inventive variations of the classic narratives in his other narrative poems: “Tragic Comedies of Humans: Following Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus,” “Virgil’s Last Dream of Aeneas and Homer,” “Mystery of Dao [道],” and “Du Fu [杜 甫] with his Last Pilgrim.”
[C] Epic Trilogies: The author has toiled over three decades to transform The Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer into a coherent epic trilogy: “Following Homer’s Odyssey,” “Human Causes of the Trojan War,” and “Awakening to One’s Conscience.”
Inspired by Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Art Aeon looks into humans’ origins and the nature of the universe based on current scientific researches: “Dante’s Poem of Light,” “Journey of Life on Earth,” and “Mystery of the Universe.”
