Description
Dante's Purgatorio has been described as the most 'human' of the three parts of his Comedy, and it can also be seen as a 'singing school' for poets. This new complete translation by sixteen contemporary poets enters into dialogue with Dante's text by rendering it in a variety of different Anglophone voices - American, Australian, British, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Singaporean. The poets in this Purgatorio adopt a range of forms, from blank verse to terza rima, and their translations are accompanied by explanatory notes, a 'prelude' of poems about Purgatory, and a 'postscript' of newly-translated medieval Italian lyrics relating to Dante and his poem.
Author: Nick Havely
Publisher: ARC Publications
Published: 07/15/2021
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9781908376763
ISBN10: 1908376767
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Poetry | European | Italian
- Poetry | Medieval
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