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The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics)
by Dante Alighieri
from Oxford University Press, USA

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Boring blank verse
  This translation was done in 1980 in free blank verse.
  I find it incredibly bland, plain, un-visionary and extremely un-poetic.
  The opposite of these are the qualities that make Dante's Divine Comedy immortal and entertaining...
  It's as if Sisson is "trying" to make Dante's epic un-interesting!
  I often recommend having at least 2 different translations, and as I am dissapointed by this one I stand by Ciarni's and Huse's beautiful and magisterial versions.
  Good luck!
  

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