pleasurable reading

[novapsyche]

I've finished Aristotle's Poetics, although I need to go back through it and really evaluate the footnotes and appendices. Currently, I'm fairly deep into Dante's Inferno. On deck: Paradise Lost.

(I'm not terribly pleased with the translation of Inferno that I possess [by John Sinclair]; it's rendered into prose instead of trying to emulate the Italian versification. Can anyone suggest an English translation that retains the poetry of the work?)

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[davidfcooper.livejournal.com]

Try Robert Pinsky's translation. You can preview it on Amazon.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip. :)