Book description
The Divine Comedy is a fugue and a black comedy. In delicious and bawdy
detail, an unnamed narrator offers snapshots into the lives and loves
of an astonishing cast of philanderers and fuckups while along the way,
the evidence amasses for a comic, cosmic conspiracy. Craig Raine was
born in 1944 and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He became editor of
Quarto in 1979 and was subsequently Poetry Editor at Faber from 1981 to
1991. He is now an emeritus Fellow at New College, Oxford, and has been
the editor of Arete, the arts tri-quarterly, since 1999. He is the
author of six works of poetry, and his Collected Poems 1978-1999 were
published in 2000. His verse drama, '1953' was directed by Patrick
Marber at the Almeida Theatre in 1996. He is the author of two
collections of literary essays and, most recently, a critical study T.
S. Eliot (2007). The Divine Comedy is his second novel.
