INFERNO: A New Verse Translation
Dante Alighieri, . . Norton, $35 (392pp) ISBN 978-0-393-04341-9
In the high-stakes field of translating the great 14th-century Italian poet Dante, for years the stellar prose efforts of John Sinclair (Oxford) and Charles Singleton (Princeton) ruled because they focused on meaning rather than poetic effect. Those efforts were recently bolstered by the unrhymed, unmetered verse of husband-and-wife team Robert and Jean Hollander, who delivered a version rich in sense late last year. The Dorothy Sayers translation for Penguin, which mimicked Dante's original
Reviewed on: 11/19/2001
Genre: Nonfiction
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