The Inferno of Dante Alighieri

Overview

This startling new translation of Dante's Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland's most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante's epic, Carson's virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thing—a translation with the heft and force of a true English poem. Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid, Ciaran Carson's Inferno is an extraordinary modern response to one of the great works of world literature.

Details

Publisher

New York Review of Books

Published

2004-10-31

Pages

328

Language

EN

Categories

Poetry / Epic, Poetry / European / General, Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious

ISBN-13

9781590171141