The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky
by:
Robert Pinsky (author)
Format: hardcover
Publish date: 1995
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 427
Edition language: English
What I love about Dante is how he doesn't invoke the Muses, unlike Homer, or Virgil, and that he goes straight to the heart of the matter, and straight in to the poem, i.e. "In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, gone from the path direct". In the middle of his l...