Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation...
...bold symphony of Dante's volgare comes to life with renewed vitality in Boston University professor Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of Inferno, the first and mostfamous of the three cantiche of the Divine Comedy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...Pinsky's translations, passion triumphs over literalness and the result is that Pinsky--the author of several poetry collections--reveals his true identity in his work: He is more a poet than a translator. The fruit of Pinsky's labor, a vivid and passionate Inferno, is the benefactor of this bias...
...were then either rammed by a floating object or simply collapsed. In any case, about 200,000 bbl. of gasoline and diesel spewed into the water, floated to the surface and at 8:30 a.m. ignited. Flames and smoke shot more than 100 ft. into the air as the inferno raced downstream at speeds of 80 m.p.h., gobbling up trees, boats, barges and several homes...
...remember one lecture [Cole gave] on the 33rd Canto of Dante's Inferno," Cameron E. Half '97 says. "He just went through a few times pointing out different elements of the story each time through. He did a wonderful job bringing forth meaning that had not been readily apparent...