Dante's Inferno

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Halpern is the author of eight collections of poetry and editor of numerous anthologies, most recently The Art of the Story . He has received numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Klappentext A new telling of Dante's Inferno, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet, and?with all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O'Brien's own poetry?manages the near-impossible task of preserving the subtle power and lyric nuance of the Italian original, while seeking out an entirely natural English music. No other version has so vividly expressed the horror, cruelty, beauty, and outrageous imaginative flight of Dante's original vision. Zusammenfassung A new telling of Dante's Inferno ! this translation is the most fluent! grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet! andwith all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O'Brien's own poetrymanages the near-impossible task of preserving the subtle power and lyric nuance of the Italian original! while seeking out an entirely natural English music. No other version has so vividly expressed the horror! cruelty! beauty! and outrageous imaginative flight of Dante's original vision.

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Daniel Halpern is the author of eight collections of poetry and editor of numerous anthologies, most recently The Art of the Story. He has received numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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A new telling of Dante's Inferno, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet, and?with all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O'Brien's own poetry?manages the near-impossible task of preserving the subtle power and lyric nuance of the Italian original, while seeking out an entirely natural English music. No other version has so vividly expressed the horror, cruelty, beauty, and outrageous imaginative flight of Dante's original vision.