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Far above the nursery slopes
From: The Spectator
Date: 20020323
Author:Waldman, Guido
Far above the nursery slopes Guido Waldman INFERNO by Dante Alighieri, translated by Michael Palma Norton, L28, pp. 391, ISBN 039304341X
It has to be said, The Divine Comedy is not only one of the greatest works of the human spirit, but also one of the most attractive - not least to translators: there seem to have been at least four new English translations in the last 20 years, by Kenneth MacKenzie, Mark Musa, Peter Dale (in terza rima) and now Michael Palma. The poem is a little like a great mountain peak that climbers want to scale `because it is there'. Its attraction lies partly in the ...
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