The Comedy of Dante Alighieri
| First published | 1958 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Grabhorn Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Novel |
| Pages | 535 |
| Price | $45.00 |
{{Tr|Mary Prentice Lillie}} into English unrhymed hendecasyllabic verse.
Review by Dudley Fitts, NY Times 1959-04-05 pBR28, "How Best To Say It" focuses on the translation.
"It engages 'The Divine Comedy' with more regard than is usually shown for the athletic, colloquial quality of the original. ... fortunate avoidance of rhetorical splendor ... pure, in this respect, and unpretentious."
Unfortunately the project "to discard Dante's rhyme and keep his meter" is a failure inevitably. Eleven-syllable blank verse doesn't work in English, no more than the rhyme would.
- Published in 3 volumes, in slipcase. The page count is for the combined 3 volumes. Only volume 1, "Inferno", is viewed as genre.
- Cream boards, spines gilt-lettered; cloth slipcase with wide ribbon.
- Limited edition of 300 copies.
- Data from PBA Galleries
- Data from WorldCat, "[1958]"
- Price from review by Dudley Fitts NY Times 1959-04-05 pBR28 "How Best To Say It" ("magnificently printed", but negative focusing on the translation, which retains Dante's meter without his rhyme, and the lack of annotation)
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