Robin Kirkpatrick's translation of the Divine Comedy?

[crjs1]

I have been meaning to read Dante's Divine Comedy for a good couple of years, and recently received the Inferno for Christmas. Anyway, the edition I have is the relatively new Penguin Classics edition translated by Robin Kirkpatrick.

I was just wondering if anyone here had encountered this translation, and if it was good\bad in comparison to other translations.

Anyway I’m off to begin the (rather long) introduction...