The Inferno of Dante
By Dante & Pinsky &Publisher Description
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.
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About Dante
Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (1265 – 1321), was an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
A former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University and has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley. His translations include The Separate Notebooks by Czeslaw Milosz and The Inferno of Dante; his poetry collections include At the Foundling Hospital and The Figured Wheel (winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize); and his nonfiction includes Poetry and the World and The Sounds of Poetry.
Artist Michael Mazur (1935-2009) won acclaim for his illustrations of The Inferno of Dante, which became the subject of a traveling exhibition.
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