The Inferno: A Verse Translation by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander by Dante Alighieri

The Inferno: A Verse Translation by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander Dante Alighieri ebook
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780385496988
Format: pdf
Page: 736

The complete text of this translation, by the scholar Robert Hollander and his wife, the poet Jean Hollander, is available on line along with audio readings of the Italian. Dec 30, 2012 - January 20 • James Arthur & Jean Hollander February 17 With Robert Hollander, she is the author of the very highly regarded verse translations of Dante's Inferno (Doubleday, 2000), Purgatorio (2003) and Paradiso (2007). Now their Paradiso (Doubleday; $40) is out. Apr 9, 2008 - Translators usually either attempt to retain the tercets or dispense with verse altogether and plump for prose, but this one seems to have gone for a rather unpleasant mixture of verse and prose, two verse lines to every printed . The translation had had some good reviews and the conceit of leaning on is a dual language text, the fruits of the massive Princeton Dante Project. Robert and Jean Hollander published their translation of the Purgatorio in 2003, but I've never seen anything like the edition pictured. Jul 27, 2008 - I'm reading The Inferno, in the translation by Robert & Jean Hollander. Authors like Paul Biegel, Annie M.G. Jan 16, 2014 - (as Robert and Jean Hollander say in the introduction to their translation of Dante's Inferno). I figured if I liked it I would continue on to Purgatory and from thence to Paradise. My friend misidentified it as Dante's Inferno while we were watching, but yes it did look like Virgil to me. Nov 26, 2009 - The idea of Dante had been taunting me for a while and I finally I bought Ciaran Carson's translation of the Inferno at the London Review Bookshop. Aug 28, 2007 - If you haven't yet read the Divine Comedy—you know who you are—now is the time, because Robert and Jean Hollander have just completed a beautiful translation of the astonishing fourteenth-century poem. The Hollanders' Inferno was published in 2000, their Purgatorio in 2003. Jean Hollander, a poet, was in charge of the verse; Robert Hollander, her husband, oversaw its accuracy. Feb 21, 2012 - So I made a little list and started reading, and in due course I got to Robert and Jean Hollander's translation of Dante's Inferno. In recent months, when short of time but wanting to read something, I've read the opening verses several times. Apr 15, 2011 - Leafing through the commentary that Robert Hollander has prepared to accompany the new translation, one is immediately aware of a fierce rift between different schools of opinion on the poem: the romantics, who were convinced that Dante .. Nov 9, 2007 - Recently, the poet Robert Pinsky offered us an English “Inferno”; W. Dec 9, 2011 - I don't think it has been translated, which is a shame.