B (After Dante) by Denny, Ned

B (After Dante) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784109592)

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B (After Dante) by Denny, Ned

B (After Dante)

$25.99
B (After Dante) by Denny, Ned

B (After Dante)

$25.99
Format: Paperback
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"It was dusk, when the dark earth stains the blueing air
and soothes bird in tall tree and beast in silent lair;
I alone amidst all that hush of soil and leaf
prepared for the war of the way and the way's great grief,
of which an undistracted heart may speak or sing..."

Published to coincide with the 700th anniversary of Dante's death, Ned Denny's baroque, line-by-line reimagining - the follow-up to his Seamus Heaney Prize-winning collection Unearthly Toys - shapes the Divine Comedy into nine hundred 144-syllable stanzas. Audacious, provocative and eminently readable, tender and brutal by turns, rooted in sacred doctrine yet with one eye on the profane modern world, this poet's version - in the interpretative tradition of Chapman, Dryden and Pope - is a living, breathing Dante for our times. Hell has never seemed so savage, nor heaven so sublime



Author: Ned Denny
ISBN-10: 1784109592
ISBN-13: 9781784109592
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2021
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.30w x 1.10d
By Ned Denny
By Ned Denny
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Ned Denny was born in London in 1975. He has worked as a postman, art critic, book reviewer, music journalist, and gardener. His debut collection Unearthly Toys: Poems & Masks was published by Carcanet in 2018.

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