![]() ![]() For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem's line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with teachers and students. ![]() In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. Publisher's description: Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. ![]()
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