Word: rima
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...preface of the first volume Professor Norton sets forth briefly his reasons for choosing prose. The impossibility of adopting the "terza rima" which Dante used because of the paucity of rhyme words in English as compared with Italian throws out all chances of producing an English version of the Divine Comedy, which, even approximately, shall produce the effect of the original. Since the 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...