This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition."The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner."Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University."Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor"
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition."The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner."Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University."Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor"
"Solid text, useful notes."--Sahron Ann Jaeger, University of
Pennsylvania
"Sinclair's commentary shows his complete awareness of the
extraordinary beauty of Dante's lines...and is remarkable for its
concentration on the poem as an expression of Dante's own spiritual
history. There is hardly a single beauty of detail to which he does
not draw attention with an apt remark on its particular
significance."--Times Literary Supplement
"I have adopted it. It is a good translation, the prose appears
more accessible to undergraduates. The side-by-side Italian/English
is very helpful, and the notes at the end of each canto are
excellent."--Helen Regueiro Elam, SUNY - Albany
"It's convenient to have The Comedy in one volume. Good translation
and notes. More economical for students."--Reverand James Collins,
Holy Family College
"The introduction gives essential biographical and historical
background and a discussion of the form of the poem, and the
extensive notes contain new material."--Manuscripta
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