Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Requiem is an epic poem, chronicling a spiritual journey to the underworld, in which the poet finds mentors, some familiar, such as Dante, some obscure, who guide him on a journey upward from inconsolable anguish, helping him to find peace of mind and heart, and finally redemption. It is the first book-length poem in the English language to be written entirely in the Spenserian stanza since The Faerie Queen over four hundred years ago, a narrative poem rivalling The Divine Comedy in length. Set against a backdrop of traditional Christian theology, The Requiem is thoroughly modern in its outlook.