Abstract
Abstract Dante is our unique epic poet whose medium is song, the canto. He is also a cruel theologian punishing not only lovers for misbehavior, but the great pre-Christian figures like his guide Virgil for not having been baptized. On love he journeys through hellish love on low earth and ultimately into the highest Empyrean where, guided by evermore beautiful and remote Beatrice, he is enveloped in light and can see God. Jack Kerouac takes his title On the Road from the first line of Canto 1. His ecstatic love takes place not with angels of the Primum Mobile but with wild drunken outsiders like himself. He seeks in his way a fun Inferno to find Zen satori. These two wondrous cranks, drunk on language, seize us with their wayward adventure on earth and in their celestial escapades.
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