{"product_id":"the-inferno-of-dante-alighieri-9781590171141","title":"The Inferno of Dante Alighieri","description":"This startling new translation of Dante's\u003ci\u003e Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland's most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante's epic, Carson's virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thing--a translation with the heft and force of a true English poem. Like Seamus Heaney's \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e and Ted Hughes's \u003ci\u003eTales from Ovid\u003c\/i\u003e, Ciaran Carson's \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary modern response to one of the great works of world literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCiaran Carson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1948 in Belfast. He has been awarded the Forward Poetry Prize, The Irish Times Literature Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Yorkshire Post Prize. \u003ci\u003eShamrock Tea\u003c\/i\u003e was longlisted for the Booker Prize and \u003ci\u003eThe Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e won the Weidenfeld Translation Prize in 2003. Carson's prose books- \u003ci\u003eLast Night's Fun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Star Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFishing for Amber\u003c\/i\u003e - form a body of work unique in Irish literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50634892345618,"sku":"9781590171141","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a1a168d-7faf-4ca9-ad8e-e340080e4472.jpg?v=1732824253","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-inferno-of-dante-alighieri-9781590171141","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}