num_pages: 320
description: This startling new translation of Dante's Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland's most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante's epic, Carson's virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thing—a translation with the heft and force of a true English poem. Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid, Ciaran Carson's Inferno is an extraordinary modern response to one of the great works of world literature.
language: English
title: The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
titlecomplete: The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
characters: Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Paolo, Dante Alighieri, Odysseus, Charon (mythology), Francesca, Beatrice (diverse works)
genres: Literature, Classics, School, Italian Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Medieval, Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy
ratings_count: 174813
series: La Divina Commedia
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Премія імені Максима Рильського
publisher: Granta Books