Volume 47, Number 14 · September 21, 2000
Stairway to Heaven
By Bernard Knox
Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri, translated by Merwin W.S.
Knopf, 359 pp., $30.00
When I met Robert Pinsky, at the first meeting of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, I congratulated him warmly on his splendid translation of the Inferno, which I had reviewed in these pages. I told him I looked forward with eager anticipation to his versions of the Purgatorio and Paradiso. He shook his head. He had spent too much time, he said, on the Inferno; he had neglected his own poetry and his responsibilities as Poet Laureate. He was leaving the rest of the poem to others.
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