Inferno

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Epic journey through the afterlife

This book is a timeless classic that takes you on a poetic journey through the depths of hell, purgatory, and paradise. With extensive notes and reproductions of Dante's sources, it's perfect for those interested in literature, theology, and philosophy. The illustrations by Gustave Doré also add a unique and immersive visual dimension to the experience.

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry (1995)
  • Премія імені Максима Рильського (2015)
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Inferno

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ISBN: 9780812970067
Publisher: Modern Library
Date of Publication: 2003-12-09
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Poetry, Fantasy
Related Topics: Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 4.02
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Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. 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. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.Esolen also provides a critical Introduction and endnotes, plus appendices containing Dante’s most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic theologians—that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.
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Epic journey through the afterlife

This book is a timeless classic that takes you on a poetic journey through the depths of hell, purgatory, and paradise. With extensive notes and reproductions of Dante's sources, it's perfect for those interested in literature, theology, and philosophy. The illustrations by Gustave Doré also add a unique and immersive visual dimension to the experience.

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry (1995)
  • Премія імені Максима Рильського (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.