Re: question on Dante translations (Pages from the Past: Good Reads Message Board)

Re: question on Dante translations
Author: Wanda W.	August 16, 1999 at 19:56:03
in reply to: catalogs of classical books and question on Dante translations* posted by Kay on June 28, 1999 at 17:42:56*

You also might want to check out the chapter in INVITATION
TO THE

CLASSICS by Louise Cowan. There is a short paragraph on translations.

Last year I used an ultra modern free verse one (don't
throw too many

stones!) by Ellis with my 8th grade son. I then made up comprehension
questions using the commentary in Dorothy Sayers version. When we were

both really stumped at a passage, I had an old prose
Everyman Library version from the 1920's that also was
helpful.

>
> Also, is there a site on the web that compares the English
> translations of Dante's Divine Comedy? Or that compares
> English translations of other classics? I would really,
> really like to find it if it is out there.

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> You also might want to check out the chapter in INVITATION > TO THE > > CLASSICS by Louise Cowan. There is a short paragraph on translations. > > Last year I used an ultra modern free verse one (don't > throw too many > > stones!) by Ellis with my 8th grade son. I then made up comprehension > questions using the commentary in Dorothy Sayers version. When we were > > both really stumped at a passage, I had an old prose > Everyman Library version from the 1920's that also was > helpful. > > > > > Also, is there a site on the web that compares the English > > translations of Dante's Divine Comedy? Or that compares > > English translations of other classics? I would really, > > really like to find it if it is out there.
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