The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation - Softcover

Dante

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374524521 ISBN 13: 9780374524524

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (1265 - 1321), was an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called "Commedia" and later called "Divina" (divine) by Boccaccio hence "Divina Commedia"), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

Robert Pinsky is the author of several books of poetry, including Gulf Music, Jersey Rain, The Want Bone, The Figured Wheel, and At the Foundling Hospital. His bestselling translation The Inferno of Dante sets a modern standard. He was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000. Among his awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the PEN/Voelcker Award, the Korean Manhae Prize, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. He teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University.

Michael Mazur illustrated The Inferno of Dante from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374524521
• ISBN 13: 9780374524524
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Mazur Michael
• Number of pages: 384