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The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Clive James (Paperback, 2015)

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Now in paperback. An excellent new version of Dante's masterpiece. Eschewing Dante's terza rima, he has opted instead to write in rhyming quatrains, but without spaces between them, so each canto is a solid block of text.

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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 instruments The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's new translation - his life's work and decades in the making - presents Dante's 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 translator's powers of invention. For Dante, the dramatic human stories of Hell were exciting, but the spiritual studies of Purgatory and the sublime paramas of Heaven were 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Picador, Pan Macmillan
brand
Pan Macmillan Australia
GTIN
9781447244226
ISBN-10
1447244222
ISBN-13
9781447244226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
213520244

Product Key Features

Author
Clive James, Dante Alighieri
Format
B-Format Paperback, Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies

Dimensions

Weight
459g
Depth
34 mm
Height
198mm
Width
130mm
Length
Main Market Ed.

Additional Product Features

Weight (kg)
0.45
Place of Publication
London
Publication Country
GB
Spine
34mm
Pagination
560
Subjects
Travel
Audience
General
Original/Reproduction
Original
Prizes
Short-Listed for Costa Book of the Year 2014.
Author Biography
Clive James is the author of more than forty books. As well as verse and novels, he has published collections of essays, literary criticism, television criticism and travel writing, plus five volumes of autobiography. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia, and in 2003 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins memorial medal for literature. His other poetry collections include Collected Poems, Angels Over Elsinore, Opal Sunset and Sentenced to Life, and he is also the author of a verse commentary on Proust, Gate of Lilacs.
Dimensions (cm)
19.7 x 13.3 x 3.6
Cookery Topic
Travel Writing
Bibliographic Information
FICTION & RELATED ITEMS; POETRY
Recommended Age Range
12+ years
Date of Publication
04/06/2015
Dimensions
198x130x34mm
Edition Statement
Main Market Ed.
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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A comedy for all time.
A classic and for good reason. Everyone should have read it once in their lifetime and this is the most accessible translation.
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Of this timeless and essential classic. Clive’s voice makes Dante more accessible.
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