Dark Wood to White Rose

Helen Luke's exploration of Dante's journey is a sensitive one...The result is a convincing meditation on the poem's pertinence to our own life's faring in the dark wood of the late twentieth century. - Joseph Carey, Professor of English, University of Connecticut

Reading Helen Luke is like sitting by a pool and watching a water lily unfold. - Marion Woodman

I know of no woman of our time who has made a richer and significant contribution, in a truly contemporary way, to man's understanding of himself. - Sir Laurens van der Post

From its beginning on the threshold of Hell to its end in the vision of God, the poem resounds with the double nature of reality which is the single truth: without divinity there can be no conscious humanity and without humanity the divine remains an abstraction. - Helen M. Luke, Dark Wood to White Rose

In this now classic provocative study of Dante's Divine Comedy first published in 1975, Helen M. Luke takes the reader on an intense spiritual and symbolic journey. Beginning with the dark wood, which the pilgrim must go through to find his path, Luke explores each of Dante's poetic images, ascending to the white rose, the final emblem of joy and regeneration.

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This book is published by Apple Farm Community, Inc., a not-for-profit organization founded in 1962 by Helen Luke as a center for people seeking to recognize and respond to the transforming power of symbols in their lives. The Community seeks to preserve the literary heritage of Helen Luke whose works embody this principle.