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Returning to Dante, going to hell.(Books)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19980503
Author:Driscoll, Kevin

In 1994, when the poet Robert Pinsky published his verse translation of Dante Alighieri's "Inferno" - a valiant and largely successful rendering into English of Dante's ornate, earthy 14th-century Italian - a curious thing happened: Bookstores had difficulty keeping the handsome volume in stock.

The interest kicked up by Mr. Pinsky's translation surprised most observers - and why shouldn't it have? Given the contemporary academic preoccupation with "texts" and their deconstruction, it would seem an odd time for a resurgence of interest in Dante, a poet whose uncompromising ...

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