The Divine Comedy - Clive James

Pgt;igt;finally I Realised That I Had Been Practising For This Job Every Time I Wrote A Quatrain. I Had Spent All This Time - The Greater Part Of A Lifetime Preparing My Instruments.'brgt;igt;brgt; Bgt;igt;the Divine Comedy Igt;is The Precursor Of Modern Literature, And Clive Jamess Vivid Translation His Lifes Work And Decades In The Making Presents Dantes Entire Epic Poem In A Single Song.bgt;brgt;brgt; While Many Poets And Translators Have Attempted To Capture The Full Glory Of Igt;the Divine Comedylt;igt; In English, Many Have Fallen Short. Victorian Verse Translations Established An Unfortunate Tradition Of Reproducing The Sprightly Rhyming Measures Of Dante But At The Same Time Betraying The Strain On The Translators Powers Of Invention.