The Divine Comedy
By Dante Alighieri.
Description
Renowned poet and critic Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation into English verse of Dante’s The Divine Comedy.The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and this translation―decades in the making―gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent and compulsively readable lyric poem. Written in the early fourteenth century and completed in 1321, the year of Dante’s death, The Divine Comedy is perhaps the greatest work of epic poetry ever composed. Divided into three books―Hell, Purgatory and Heaven―the poem’s alleg...
ISBN(s)
0871404486, 9780871404480
