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Dante for Today

Poetry Off the Shelf

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How Do You Translate Dante?

The first three lines of dante were found in a poem by Caroline bergvall. No one had translated it identically to another so i began to be curious about other ways of patterning this language, says Ritwik Ghatak. He went to the library and got 20 translations starting with longfellow's 19 67 which was the first american english translation up until the year two thousand.

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