Recapping Dante: Canto 5, or A Note on the Translation
Alberto Martini, Minós (Inferno V) (detail), 1937. With multiple translations come disagreements—different scholarly notes, interpretations, and even titles. But often what allows a translation itself...
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Detail from the cover of Neil Diamond’s Serenade, 1974. “Increasingly rare is the scholar who braves ridicule to justify the art of Longfellow’s popular rhymings,” the critic Kermit Vanderbilt once...
View ArticleRecapping Dante: Canto 5, or A Note on the Translation
Alberto Martini, Minós (Inferno V) (detail), 1937. With multiple translations come disagreements—different scholarly notes, interpretations, and even titles. But often what allows a translation itself...
View ArticleThe Universal Language of Mankind
Detail from the cover of Neil Diamond’s Serenade, 1974. “Increasingly rare is the scholar who braves ridicule to justify the art of Longfellow’s popular rhymings,” the critic Kermit Vanderbilt once...
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