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Mr. Longfellow's Translation of the Divine Comedy
May 9, 1867 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This first volume of the work on which Longfellow has been so long engaged fulfils the justly high anticipations with which it has been awaited. The remarkable beauty of the book is appropriate to the character of the translation and the claim tacitly asserted by the elegance of the external appearance of the volume is justified and maintained by its intrinsic merit. In accordance with this disposition, Longfellow has undertaken to give readers as faithful a rendering of Dante as could be made, avoiding on the one hand the unfidelity of mere literalism.

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DIVINE Comedy of Dante Alighieri, The (Book); LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882; BOOKS; HUMANITIES; LITERATURE; COMEDY
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