A review by sams84
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri

3.0

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this as I'm not a big poetry reader as I find the reading of such books a bit slow and arduous. I have to say on the whole Carson's translation was vivid and flowing and what I would image the original to have been like. It was a bit slower and clumsy-ish in parts but on the whole it was very enjoyable, descriptive and imaginative. I flicked through a few different versions in the library and this was the one that stood out as the most reader friendly of all the translations. The descriptions of each circle were brilliantly descriptive and brought to mind full colour, sound and life of each to the mind of the reader. I thoroughly enjoyed Dante's combination of mutliple faiths, religions and myths in the people present along his journey through the Inferno. I found this particularly refeshing and amusing.