The Modern Language Review, July 1st, 2005
The Vision of Dante: Cary's Translation of 'The Divine Comedy'. By EDOARDO CRISAFULLI. Market Harborough: Troubador. 2003. xii+348 pp. 25 [euro]; 13.99. [pounds sterling] ISBN 1-899293-09-4.
H. F. Cary's translation of Dante into Miltonic blank verse was one of the most culturally significant productions of nineteenth-century Britain. Writers as different as John Keats and John Ruskin carried it about their person and, illustrated by Gustave Dore, it would grace many a Victorian parlour table. Through its cunning allusiveness to a broad range of English poetry, it enabled a foreign medieval...
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