The Resource The divine comedy, Dante ; a new verse translation by Clive James
The divine comedy, Dante ; a new verse translation by Clive James
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- Summary
- Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James' new translation - his life's work and decades in the making - presents Dante's entire epic poem in a single song. While many poets and translators have attempted to capture the full glory of The Divine Comedy in English, many have fallen short. Victorian verse translations established an unfortunate tradition of reproducing the sprightly rhyming measures of Dante but at the same time betraying the strain on the translator's powers of invention. For Dante, the dramatic human stories of Hell were exciting, but the spiritual studies of Purgatory and the sublime panoramas of Heaven were no less so. In this incantatory new translation, James - defying the convention by writing in quatrains - tackles these problems head-on and creates a striking and hugely accessible translation that gives us The Divine Comedy as a whole, unified, and dramatic work
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- Extent
- xxx, 527 pages
- Contents
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- Book I: Hell
- Book II: Purgatory
- Book III: Heaven
- Isbn
- 9780871404480
- Label
- The divine comedy
- Title
- The divine comedy
- Statement of responsibility
- Dante ; a new verse translation by Clive James
- Language
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- eng
- ita
- eng
- Summary
- Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James' new translation - his life's work and decades in the making - presents Dante's entire epic poem in a single song. While many poets and translators have attempted to capture the full glory of The Divine Comedy in English, many have fallen short. Victorian verse translations established an unfortunate tradition of reproducing the sprightly rhyming measures of Dante but at the same time betraying the strain on the translator's powers of invention. For Dante, the dramatic human stories of Hell were exciting, but the spiritual studies of Purgatory and the sublime panoramas of Heaven were no less so. In this incantatory new translation, James - defying the convention by writing in quatrains - tackles these problems head-on and creates a striking and hugely accessible translation that gives us The Divine Comedy as a whole, unified, and dramatic work
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1265-1321
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dante Alighieri
- Dewey number
- 851.1
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Italian
- LC call number
- PQ4315
- LC item number
- .J36 2013
- Literary form
- poetry
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1939-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- James, Clive
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dante Alighieri
- Italian poetry
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The divine comedy, Dante ; a new verse translation by Clive James
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- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Book I: Hell -- Book II: Purgatory -- Book III: Heaven
- Control code
- 1428592
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xxx, 527 pages
- Isbn
- 9780871404480
- Lccn
- 2013003584
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 1428592
- (OCoLC)871481969
- Label
- The divine comedy, Dante ; a new verse translation by Clive James
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Book I: Hell -- Book II: Purgatory -- Book III: Heaven
- Control code
- 1428592
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- xxx, 527 pages
- Isbn
- 9780871404480
- Lccn
- 2013003584
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 1428592
- (OCoLC)871481969
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