The Inferno: A Verse Translation by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander by Dante Alighieri

The Inferno: A Verse Translation by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander



The Inferno: A Verse Translation by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander book

The Inferno: A Verse Translation by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander Dante Alighieri ebook
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780385496988
Page: 736


I've read Inferno several times, in different translations, and hope to read it several more before I find out how much of it is true. Mar 1, 2009 - Jean Hollander Reading/Signing THE INFERNO/ORGANS & BLOOD The epic grandeur of Dante's masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years. Indeed, translating the intricate, rhyme-rich tercets of Comedia has been the ambition (and despair) of many a Robert Hollander, who has taught Dante for nearly four decades at Princeton, supplies the scholarly sinew, while his wife, acclaimed poet Jean Hollander (Organs & Blood), attends to the verbal music. Jun 30, 2010 - The biennial Italian reunion of the Princeton Dante course, which just celebrated its tenth anniversary, is a tribute to the alto ingenio of Robert Hollander, the great scholar and famous teacher who taught Dante at Princeton for many years. His wife Jean is a poet who, while respecting to a very large degree Sinclair's phrasing, has made some adjustments, under her husband's meticulous eye, allowing the translation to fit into unrhymed verse. Authors like Paul Biegel, Annie M.G. Sep 6, 2010 - by Dante Alighieri [translated from the Italian by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander] . Jean Hollander, a poet, was in charge of the verse; Robert Hollander, her husband, oversaw its accuracy. Hollander's In recent years he and his wife Jean (herself a poet and teacher of poetry) completed their three-volume, copiously annotated edition and translation of the Divine Comedy to popular and scholarly applause. Dec 2, 2011 - First, there's the newest English translation of Le Deuxième Sexe by Simone de Beauvoir; second, there's the Hollander and Hollander translation of Dante's Inferno; third, there's Vicente Fox's English translation of his own Spanish this week. Jul 5, 2007 - Lambert, Billie, Wallace Mary, Sjostrand, Janice, Bentley, Robert, and Trout, Janet Achieving Excellence in Sunday Volume I Achieving Amphitryon: Three Plays in New Verse Translations. Apr 17, 2009 - I'm speaking of Robert and Jean Hollander, and their excellent verse translation of Dante's Inferno. Aug 28, 2007 - The Hollanders' Inferno was published in 2000, their Purgatorio in 2003. Dec 9, 2011 - I don't think it has been translated, which is a shame.