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Book 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 U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and nearContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Jamming up the Flax Machine
Throughout the 19th century, Italian critics attributed to Dante’s Commedia the formal and linguistic unity they desired for their country. It is ‘a national Bible’, de Sanctis said; ‘harmony,’ Mazzini affirmed, ‘flows throughout in full tide.’ Simil ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 355 Pages
- Edition: Bilingual
- ISBN-10: 0374524521
- ISBN-13: 9780374524524
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Pub date: Mar 30, 1996
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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| 9780374524524 | Paperback | $11.00 | $7.92 | bn.com |
| $12.00 | $9.49 | The Book Depository | ||
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Jessie Hsu 
The trump and the rump
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri translated by Ciaran Carson 296pp, Granta, £14.99 There were at least 50 English translations of The Inferno in the 20th century alone, and now we have another, by the Belfast poet and novelist Ciaran Carson. It is a br ... (read full critics)