The Inferno of Dante Alighieri

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.

Author: Dante Alighieri
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 10/31/2004
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.18w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781590171141