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The Inferno of Dante

A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky

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The Inferno of Dante

By: Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky - translator
Narrated by: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück
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 Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of the Inferno makes it clear to the contemporary listener, as no other in English has done, why Dante is universally considered a poet of great power, intensity, and strength. This critically acclaimed translation was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award given by the Academy of American Poets. Well versed, rapid, and various in style, the Inferno is narrated by Pinsky and three other leading poets: Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, and Louise Glück.

Canto XXI (The Lawyers) (detail), 1992. Michael Mazur, 1935-2009. © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Ancient, Classical & Medieval Literature Death, Grief & Loss Epic European Poetry Themes & Styles World Literature Classics
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The story is ok, but the narraration wasn't great.

Having more than one narrator was a mistake. The female voice had too much volume variation, and wasn't well suited overall.

The other issue is the audio between chapters. I had to halve my volume, when they came on, to avoid bursting my ear drums.

Ruined but a few small things

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The reading was terrible. I could not continue due to the voice of the narrator.

Could not listen to.

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There are three people sharing the reading of this audio version of the book and their readings are not equally sublime. It’s unfair that the one on the sample is the competent reader. Of the other two, one has a strong accent so that some words are unclear and the other gives a dull toneless reading. Help, I cannot finish the audio book. It’s as excruciating as the book’s subject.

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