Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Finally there is a poem of the father who died, and a few days later appeared to his son and told him of the experiences he had after death. He had been through Hcll and seen punishments, and through Heaven and had seen rewards...
Perhaps the most significant literary work done by a Harvard professor for a number of years is Professor Norton's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Hell, the first division of the poem, is as yet the only volume published, but the Purgatory and Paradise will probably be out before the winter is over...
...form of the translation must differ in the effect it produces from the original, is it better to use an English metre or English prose? Professor Norton has judged that the literal prose version which the clear and simple verse of Dante allows, gives a fuller sense of the poem than can blank verse; for in using blank verse the translator is often forced into awkward inversions and tempted to elaborate displays of rhetoric...
...even Cary, but to the reader who is at all familiar with the music of the Italian Dante it is hardly to be doubted but that Professor Norton's will be the most generally satisfactory English rendering. Such a reader in the vividly reproduced sentences of the great poem will have suggested in his own mind the melody of the Italian...
...series of notes run through the book and explain such difficult passages as are necessary to a clear understanding of the poem's meaning...