The Divine Comedy
- Author Dante Alighieri
- Narrator Kristin Atherton, Jot Davies, Robin Kirkpatrick
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Run Time 17 hours and 17 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Poetry by individual poets.
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The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. This major translation, described by Bernard O'Donoghue as 'likely to be the best modern version of Dante', is published here for the first time in a single volume.
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Critics Review
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The perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism . . . Likely to be the best modern version of Dante
Bernard O'Donoghue -
Kirkpatrick brings a more nuanced sense of the Italian and a more mediated appreciation of the poem’s construction than nearly all of his competitors
The Times -
We gain much from Kirkpatrick’s fidelity to syntax and nuance… His introduction…tells you, very readable indeed, pretty much all you need for a heightened appreciation of the work
Guardian
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