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Inferno (The Divine Comedy)

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Inferno (The Divine Comedy)

An extraordinary new verse translation of Danteâ€™s masterpiece, by poet, scholar, and lauded translator Anthony Esolen

Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In theÂ Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poemâ€™s line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding anÂ InfernoÂ that will be as popular with general readers as with teachers and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.

Esolen also provides a critical Introduction and endnotes, plus appendices containing Danteâ€™s most important sourcesâ€”from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic theologiansâ€”that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.
Country USA
Brand BALLANTINE GROUP
Manufacturer Modern Library
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780345483577
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2005-10-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345483577

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