| The Inferno of Dante Alighieri Contributor(s): Alighieri, Dante (Author), Carson, Ciaran (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590171144 ISBN-13: 9781590171141 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: 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 |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Medieval - Poetry | Epic - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 851.1 |
| LCCN: 2004017963 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.18" W x 8" (0.73 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |