Not every man is a poet gifted with a lexicon of language so extraordinary as to inspire a nation to rethink their relationship with God.

Satan is reduced to a grotesque; a shrieking bestial distortion, shrunken to a tragic parody of the Trinity; the antithesis of Divine glory.

The monstrous beast, Minos, works to the law of Contrapasso, dictating that for every sin there is an equal and fitting punishment.

These classics are ripe for rediscovery and should not be abandoned purely because of a reluctance to decode archaic text.