The Divine Comedy: A New Verse Translation by Clive James

"Under James's uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new."-Stephen Greenblatt

The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James's translation-decades in the making-gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold choice of switching from the terza rima composition of the original Italian-a measure that strains...