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OverviewAt the pinnacle of a grand and prolific career, W. S. Merwin has given us a shimmering new verse translation of the central section of Dante's Divine Comedy -- the Purgatorio. From the Hardcover edition. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dante Alighieri , Dante Alighieri , W S MerwinPublisher: Knopf Publishing Group Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.581kg ISBN: 9780375708398ISBN 10: 0375708391 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 09 October 2001 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Language: English & Italian Table of ContentsReviewsIn the years of my reading Dante, after the first overwhelming, reverberating spell of the Inferno, which I think never leaves one afterward, it was the Purgatorio that I had found myself returning to with a different, deepening attachment, until I reached a point when it was never far from me . . . Of the three sections of [The Divine Comedy], only Purgatory happens on the earth, as our lives do, with our feet on the ground, crossing a beach, climbing a mountain. All three parts of the poem are images of our lives, but there is an intimacy peculiar to the Purgatorio, Here the times of day recur with all the sensations and associations that the hours bring with them, the hours of the world we are living in as we read the poem. --from the Foreword <p> From the Hardcover edition. Author InformationW. S. Merwin has been awarded most of the principal prizes in American poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry. He lives and works on Maui, where he maintains a garden of rare palm trees. <p> From the Hardcover edition. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |