The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition

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.

Author: Dante
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/01/1997
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.81h x 5.99w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780374525316

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/23/1997 pg. 48
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 97

About the Author

A former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky was born and raised in Long Branch, New Jersey. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University and has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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