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The Divine Comedy

By (author) Dante Alighieri
Translated by Clive James
Format: Paperback
Publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York, United States
Published: 11th Mar 2014
Dimensions: w 140mm h 210mm d 25mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN-10: 0871407418
ISBN-13: 9780871407412
Barcode No: 9780871407412
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The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James s translation decades in the making gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza rima composition of the original Italian a measure that strains in English to the quatrain. The result is rhymed English stanzas that convey the music of Dante s triple rhymes (Edward Mendelson). James s translation reproduces the same wonderful momentum of the original Italian that propels the reader along the pilgrim s path from Hell to Heaven, from despair to revelation."

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James gives us something sublime: a new way of reading a classic work. James' version is not merely a mirrored word, but a transfigured word. As such, it will no doubt enter the essential Dante canon, and remain there for years to come. --Earl Pike"