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The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy

Alighieri, Dante
Palma, Michael

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $29.99

ISBN10: 1324095547
ISBN13: 9781324095545
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: Dec 3 2024
Pages: 624
Weight: 2.11
Height: 1.53 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.37
Language: English
When Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante's intricate terza rima form simply could not be rendered in rhyme-poor English. But Palma's achievement in rhyming tercets was quickly received as a spectacular feat of poetic artistry that was accurate... admirably clear, and readable (Richard Wilbur) and that, in capturing the sense, sound, and spirit of the original... comes close to perfection (X. J. Kennedy). Now, more than two decades later, Palma has applied the same virtuosic attention to the form and flow of the Purgatorio and Paradiso, attending to both the tiniest details and the grand design of the entire Commedia and offering a fluid and readable English version that reveals to contemporary readers the sound, sense, and awe-inspiring beauty of Italian literature's greatest poem.

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