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Inferno of Dante Bilingual Edition

by Dante/pinsky

Inferno of Dante Bilingual Edition Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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 U.S. Poet Laureate 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.

Synopsis:

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 U.S. Poet Laureate 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,"

Product Details

ISBN:
9780374524524
Translator:
Pinsky, Robert
Foreword:
Freccero, John
Translator:
Pinsky, Robert
Foreword:
Freccero, John
Author:
Dante Alighieri
Author:
Dante
Author:
Freccero, John
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Single Author *
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Continental european
Subject:
Dante alighieri, 1265-1321
Subject:
Hell
Subject:
Hell -- Poetry.
Subject:
General Poetry
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st paperback ed.
Series Volume:
106-562
Publication Date:
April 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
355
Dimensions:
7.86x5.58x1.01 in. .90 lbs.

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