The Inferno

Book Author

Dante Alighieri

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Description

This startling new translation of Dante’s *Inferno* is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland’s most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante’s epic, Carson’s virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thing—a translation with the heft and force of a true English poem. Like Seamus Heaney’s *Beowulf* and Ted Hughes’s *Tales from Ovid* , Ciaran Carson’s *Inferno* is an extraordinary modern response to one of the great works of world literature.

Additional information

Book Author

Dante Alighieri

Book Series

NYRB Classics Series

Format

Ebooks

ISBN-13

9781590171141

Language

English

Pages

307

Publication Date

10-30-2004

Publisher

NYRB Classics

About Author

Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/June 13 1265 – September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language; with the comic story-teller Boccaccio and the poet Petrarch, he

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