The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation

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Synopsis
The prize-winning verse translation of Dante’s epic journey through hell: “splendid . . . fast-paced, idiomatic, and accurate” (Edward Hirsch, The New Yorker).This widely praised version of Dante’s masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante’s terza rima form without distorting the flow of English idiom. The result is a clear and vigorous translation that is also unique, student-friendly, and faithful to the original: “A brilliant success,” as Bernard Knox wrote in The New York Review of Books.
Copyright:
1994

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
427 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781466878471
Related ISBNs:
9780374176747
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Pinsky

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