Description: For the first time, John Ciardi's translations of Dante's three soaring canticles have been gathered together in a single volume.
Review Quotes: "Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them--there is no third."--T.S. Eliot
"Ciardi has given us...a credible, passionate persona of the poet, stripped of the customary gauds of rhetoric and false decoration, strong and noble in utterance."--Dudley Fitts "A sensitive and perceptive translation...a spectacular achievement."--Archibald MacLeish "I think [Ciardi's] version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen."--John Crowe Ransom