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<p><P>A new telling of Dante's <i>Inferno</i>, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet, and&#151;with all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O'Brien's own poetry&#151;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.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In this adventurous and stimulating experiment in translation, contemporary poets of quite varied persuasions--from Richard Howard to Deborah Digges--reconsider a looming ancestor, Dante. The 34 cantos of the Inferno are shared among 20 poets all known for their strong original work in English, and some, too, for their distinguished accomplishments as translators. The effect of the book is to summon a multiplicity of voices from the one, and to direct readers not only back to the source but to the varying tempos and temperaments of modern poetry in English. Some readers may, it's true, find the plurality of this Inferno engulfin

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Author

Dante Alighieri; Daniel Halpern

Publisher

HARPER COLLINS Publishers

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780880012911

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Romance, Fiction, Religion

Rating

3.98 / 5 (105 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14