The Art of Translating Dante.
- Author / Editor
- Sayers, Dorothy L.
The Art of Translating Dante.
- Published
- Nottingham Medieval Studies 9 (1965): 15-31.
- Description
- Surveys and comments on English poetic translations of Dante's "Commedia" from Chaucer to Laurence Binyon, opening with mention of the Ugolino episode from MkT (based on "Inferno" XXXIII 1-90), followed by quotation of SNP 8.36-56, calling it a "rendering of great beauty" of "Paradiso" XXXIII, 1-2, and observing Chaucer's alterations of the original.