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Dante was the first poet since ancient Rome to achieve full mastery of a spoken language as a supple medium for conveying complex thought and emotion; and his achievement remains unsurpassed. His style is direct and simple, propelled by vivid imagery and sounding emotional depths. Only a verse translation can attempt to capture some of these effects in English. The present translation sails as close as possible to the wind of Dante's actual words while remaining recognisable as contemporary English poetry. Playing it straight, the translation achieves a kind of transparency that allows Dante's stories of passion, violent crime and rollicking satire to make their visual and emotional impact. The intense drama and poetry of the Inferno can be experienced directly in this translation, but a more detailed appreciation of what Dante is doing requires access to scholarly materials that explain at a minimum who Dante meets in hell and why they are there. The extensive notes provided with this translation, intended for students and the general reader, provide that aid but also illuminate the structure of Dante's hell and offer parallels from the philosophy, science, theology and art of the Middle Ages as context for Dante's world view and its relation to classical antiquity. AUTHOR: Dante was born in Florence in 1265. In the last 15 years of his life he wrote his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, which begins in autobiography and becomes by its end the single most universal and transcendent work in Western literature. Translation and notes by Peter Thornton. Peter took a PhD in English literature at Stanford and taught for several years at Bradley University in Illinois. A leading lawyer, he he has spent decades translating Dante and Petrarch into English verse.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781909954120
  • Publisher: Barbican Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Barbican Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • Width: 138 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1909954128
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English


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