{"product_id":"the-divine-comedy-9781447242192","title":"The Divine Comedy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time  the greater part of a lifetime  preparing my instruments The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature  and Clive Jamess new translation  his lifes work and decades in the making  presents Dantes entire epic poem in a single song. While many poets and translators have attempted to capture the full glory of The Divine Comedy in English  many have fallen short. Victorian verse translations established an unfortunate tradition of reproducing the sprightly rhyming measures of Dante but at the same time betraying the strain on the translators powers of invention. For Dante  the dramatic human stories of Hell were exciting  but the spiritual studies of Purgatory and the sublime panoramas of Heaven were no less so. In this incantatory new translation  James  defying the convention by writing in quatrains  tackles these problems head-on and creates a striking and hugely accessible translation that gives us The Divine Comedy as a whole  unified  and dramatic work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647284076597,"sku":"ByrdShop_144724219X","price":277.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781447242192.jpg?v=1781691621","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-divine-comedy-9781447242192","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}