A sonnet inspired by this work notes how "sorrow, and a care that almost killed, kept me from what I may accomplish yet.
A sonnet inspired by this work notes how "sorrow, and a care that almost killed, kept me from what I may accomplish yet." This work's plural titles a collection including "Lost in Translation" and the apocalyptic The Book of Ephraim that won the Pulitzer Prize for James Merrill. The first part of this work was recently translated into English by Robert Pinsky. The aforementioned sonnet takes its title from this work's first line and begins, "Half my life is gone, and I have let the years slip from me." That sonnet, "Mezzo Cammin," was written by the first American to translate this work, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who rendered one of its lines as "all hope abandon, ye who enter in!" For 10 points, name this three-part epic poem by Dante.
A sonnet inspired by this work notes how "sorrow, and a care that almost killed, kept me from what I may accomplish yet.
The Divine Comedy [or La Divina Commedia; prompt on Inferno]