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ISBN10: 0374176744, ISBN13: 9780374176747, [publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux. 01.12.1994.] Softcover XXIV, 427 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Robert Pinsky’s new verse translation of the Inferno is above all a poem, and shows the contemporary reader as no other version in English has done why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power, intensity, and vision. -- Strikingly readable, rapid and various in style, this is a faithful rendering by a widely admired American poet. Pinsky preserves the form of Dante’s poem, terza rima, without distorting the flow of English, using slant rhyme and near-rhyme to approximate the sweeping formal energy of the original. -- As the distinguished Dante scholar John Freccero explains in his foreword, Dante wrote "not in Latin, as one might have expected, but in the everyday speech of his city. Ultimately, this is the justification for another contemporary translation, aside from its power and extraordinary accuracy . . . Robert Pinsky renews for us a Dante for our own time and does so with admirable clarity and grace." -- Pinsky’s English translation is presented alongside Dante’s original Italian text, and ...
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ISBN10: 0374176744, ISBN13: 9780374176747, [publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux. 01.12.1994.] Softcover XXIV, 427 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Robert Pinsky’s new verse translation of the Inferno is above all a poem, and shows the contemporary reader as no other version in English has done why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power, intensity, and vision. -- Strikingly readable, rapid and various in style, this is a faithful rendering by a widely admired American poet. Pinsky preserves the form of Dante’s poem, terza rima, without distorting the flow of English, using slant rhyme and near-rhyme to approximate the sweeping formal energy of the original. -- As the distinguished Dante scholar John Freccero explains in his foreword, Dante wrote "not in Latin, as one might have expected, but in the everyday speech of his city. Ultimately, this is the justification for another contemporary translation, aside from its power and extraordinary accuracy . . . Robert Pinsky renews for us a Dante for our own time and does so with admirable clarity and grace." -- Pinsky’s English translation is presented alongside Dante’s original Italian text, and ...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994 Hardcover Michael Mazur As new in as new jacket Bilingual Edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1994. second printing 1995. 427pp., illustrations Michael Mazur. 8vo. As new hardcover, as new d/j.

ISBN10: 0374176744, ISBN13: 9780374176747, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] Hardcover Bilingual Edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1994. second printing 1995. 427pp., illustrations Michael Mazur. 8vo. As new hardcover, as new d/j.
[Columbia, MO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]
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ISBN10: 0374176744, ISBN13: 9780374176747, [publisher: Farrar Straus, NY] Hardcover First Edition This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing) . In an As New dust jacket. A new verse translation by Robert Pinsky. This is a Bilingual edition. Illustrated by Michael Mazur. This copy is Signed by Robert Pinsky on the half title page. No other names.
[Portland, ME, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994]