The Inferno of Dante, Dante Alighieri
The Inferno of Dante, Dante Alighieri
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The Inferno of Dante
A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky

Author: Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky

Narrator: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück

Unabridged: 5 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/17/2014

Synopsis

Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of the Inferno makes it clear to the contemporary listener, as no other in English has done, why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power, intensity, and strength. This critically acclaimed translation was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award given by the Academy of American Poets. Well versed, rapid, and various in style, the Inferno is narrated by Pinsky and three other leading poets: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, and Louise Glück.

Canto XXI (The Lawyers) (detail), 1992. Michael Mazur, 1935-2009. © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

About The Author

Robert Pinsky's poems are collected in The Figured Wheel (1996); his most recent book is The Sounds of Poetry. He is currently Poet Laureate of the United States and teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on March 09, 2024

whoa this book is wild. in place of a review of this whole book, i'm just going to write about this single line in Inferno that i full on cannot stop thinking about. warning: this is completely nasty. blame Dante. also: all credit goes out to my literary foundations professor. i'm essentially regurgi......more

Goodreads review by Glenn on July 03, 2023

Dante’s Inferno - the first book I was assigned to read in my high school World Literature class. Back then I couldn’t get over how much the emotion of fear set the tone as I read each page. I recently revisited this classic. Rather than a more conventional review – after all, there really is nothin......more

Goodreads review by Joshua Nomen-Mutatio on April 28, 2011

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT HOW HELL IS GONNA SUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on November 10, 2020

I did not expect Dante’s Inferno to be easy, but it was not as hard as I expected it to be. In order to make sure that I gave it my all, over the course of about 40 days I listened to it twice, had a physical copy that I skimmed and referenced, looked at online study guides, and discussed with some o......more

Goodreads review by Manny on July 13, 2011

The other day, in the comment thread to her review of The Aeneid, Meredith called The Divine Comedy "lame": specifically, she objected to the fact that Dante put all the people he didn't like in Hell. Well, Meredith, you're perfectly welcome to your opinions - but I'm half Italian, and I've been pol......more

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