The Divine Comedy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Picador
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 526 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time the greater part of a lifetime preparing my instrumentsThe Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive Jamess new translation his lifes work and decades in the making presents Dantes 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 translators 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.

ISBN: 9781447244226