House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work

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House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work
Paul Brooks
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great biography.......2005-05-07

I read this book without many preconceptions about Rachel Carson and found the book engaging and enlightening. She had an interesting life and her affect on the environmental movement is profound.

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HOUSE OF LIFE RACHEL CARSON AT WORK
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The House Of Life Rachel Carson At Work
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The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work, with Selections from Her Wri

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The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work, with Selections from Her Wri
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The House Of Life: Rachel Carson At Work: With Selections From Her Writings Published And Unpublished

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The House Of Life: Rachel Carson At Work: With Selections From Her Writings Published And Unpublished
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The House of Life Rachel Carson At Work with Selections from her writings

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The House of Life Rachel Carson At Work with Selections from her writings
Paul *SIGNED by author on endpaper!!* Brooks
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·The most comprehensive, up-to-date guide on spas in North America and the Caribbean, with listings of 244 resorts and retreats where you can feel good, find yourself, get away from it all, and maybe even jump-start your fitness program.
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This is a ! reference I will likely use for years to come.

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A real surprise!

Excellent work

Purgatorio: A New Verse Translation
Dante
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At the pinnacle of a grand and prolific career, W. S. Merwin has given us a shimmering new verse translation of the central section of Dante's Divine Comedy -- the Purgatorio.

Led by Virgil, inspired by his love for Beatrice, Dante makes the arduous journey up the Mountain of Purgatory, where souls are cleansed to prepare them for the ultimate ascent to heaven. Presented with the original Italian text, and with Merwin's notes and commentary, this luminous new interpretation of Dante's great poem of sin, repentance, and salvation is a profoundly moving work of art and the definitive translation for our time.

From the Hardcover edition.

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A real surprise!.......2007-05-28

So many "translations" by poets are really not translations at all, but adaptations. Some of these can be quite interesting on their own merits. But they are so free as to not count as an experience of the original work.

Not so here. Merwin is seriously respectful of the meaning of the original Italian. And yet his version reads quite well as (rather plain) English verse. By the end one is completely won over. Notes are spare but to the point.

If the Comedy has a weak sister, the Purgatorio would be it. But you would not think so from this very committed translation.

Let's hope Merwin gives us his Inferno and Paradiso.

Excellent work.......2007-02-09

The Purgatorio continues Dante's Divine Comedy. Here Dante relates the second portion of his journey, up the mountain and terraces of Purgatory. While it is not as interesting to me, personally, as the Inferno or Paradiso. I nonetheless found it to be indispensible. While it suffers from the same flaws as many intermediary books of a given trilogy it provides an excellent bridge between the two other works.

Purgatorio: A New Verse Translation (Borzoi Books)

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among the most brilliant poetry ever written
A beautiful translation of a beautiful poem.
Beautiful Forward

Purgatorio: A New Verse Translation (Borzoi Books)
Dante Alighieri
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The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition

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Release Date: 2000-03-28

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In the foreword to his version of the Purgatorio, W.S. Merwin dwells on the quasi-insuperable hurdles that any translator of Dante must face. Choosing just a single line from the first canticle, he asks: "How could that, then, really be translated? It could not, of course." This makes Dante's masterpiece sound like the literary equivalent of Mission: Impossible ("Your mission, Mr. Merwin, should you choose to accept it...") Happily, however, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet decided to give it a try. He spent several years wrestling with Dante's inexhaustible tercets, and rather than applying himself to the fire-and-brimstone-scented thrills of the Inferno, Merwin turned to the middle and most humane portion of the entire work: Purgatorio. It's here, in a kind of spiritual halfway house between heaven and hell, that the poem reaches a peak of tenderness and regret--and rises quite literally from the dead.

Merwin's version must be measured against a good many predecessors, from John Ciardi's reader-friendly approach to Allen Mandelbaum's free-versifying to Charles Singleton's prosaic trot. How does this Purgatorio stack up? Very decently indeed. Merwin is something of a strict constructionist, who wants to hew as closely as possible to the syntax and sound of the original Italian. Yet he's no Nabokovian naysayer, slapping himself on the wrist every time he deviates from Dante's text, and he's wisely thrown the rhymes overboard. That leaves him with enough flexibility to echo some of the poem's loveliest effects:

A sweet air that within itself was
unvarying struck me on the forehead,
a stroke no rougher than a gentle breeze,

at which the trembling branches all together
bent at once in that direction where
the holy mountain casts its first shadow,

without ever leaning over so far from
the upright as to make the small birds stop
the practice of their art in the treetops...

Merwin also does a good job capturing Dante's asperity, including his near-proverbial response to a rebuke from main squeeze Beatrice in Canto XXX: "As a mother may seem harsh to her child, / she seemed to me, because the flavor / of raw pity when tasted is bitter." There are moments, of course, when the translator's taste for literalism gets him in trouble. When, for example, Dante is surrounded by a crowd of souls in the second canto, who are astonished to see one of the living among them, he describes them as "quasi oblïando d'ire a farsi belle." A difficult phrase to translate, yes, but Merwin's solution--"forgetting, it seemed, to go and see to their own beauty"--makes it sound as though they're late for an appointment at the hairdresser's. Still, these are minor flaws in a major and often marvelous piece of work. Can we look forward to a paradisiacal follow-up? --James Marcus

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among the most brilliant poetry ever written.......2003-08-04

I think the reason the Inferno is the most popular canzone of Dante's Divine Comedy is just that it's where to start with Dante's amazing incredible eternal epic. Also the Inferno has more shoot-em-up sort of action than the other 2, Purgatorio & Paradiso. Purgatory is of such poetic brilliance; it's full of poetic philosophy from Dante's critical genius, & beautiful scenes, interesting spirits -- a feeling wholly different from the grimness of the Inferno. & W. S. Merwin too is brilliant & masterful enough for a repartee with the medieval guru. Merwin is a poet & translator whose verbal & syntactical decisions you can trust. He renders Purgatorio with great exciting faithfulness to Dante's original language, with mellifluous music, with merit worthy of the high praise this has gotten from Robert Pinsky, Harold Bloom, & others. The Comedy is notoriously difficult to translate, & this is one of the best translations of Purgatorio into English ever, I'm sure.

A beautiful translation of a beautiful poem........2001-01-12

One of the greatest literary tragedies is that so many readers believe that the Divine Comedy, or that even Dante himself, is no more than the Inferno. Such ignorance leads to a vast reading public who have never experienced the most immediately human section of the Comedy: the Purgatorio. Unlike Inferno, which is full of characters whom we either revile or pity, Purgatorio introduces us to spirits who, like most of us, try to do the right thing, but aren't always successful. If we look down upon the shades in Hell, we identify with the shades in Purgatory, and it is in this understanding that the Purgatorio gains its beauty. An absolute must read for anyone with any interest in literature, history, theology, spirituality, philosophy, psychiatry, or beauty.

As for Merwin's translation, he has managed to take a giant step in solving the problem that I mentioned above. His translation does justice to the original not only in its accuracy, but in its poetry, which is so important to Dante's works. I have read two other translations of Purgatorio (Mandelbaum and Ciardi), and this is, by far, the most readable and the most engaging of the three. Merwin captures the hopeful but unfilled tone of the poem with considerable grace while still maintaining the structural and thematic tension that are crucial to an understanding of Dante's works. As for the scholarly aspects of the work, scholastics, clearly, were not Merwin's intent. His explanatory notes are minimal (which is preferable to Mandelbaum's copious, and sometimes condescending glosses) and the foreword is more an exploration of the art of translation than of Dante's work. Not that this is a bad thing. Understanding Merwin's reservations concerning translation, and the difficulties of performing it, makes his version of Purgatorio all the more human and touching. But, any reader seeking critical commentary should look elsewhere (and by elsewhere I mean a supplemental source as passing over this translation just because it lacks scholarly material would be criminal). Whether for readers experiencing Purgatorio for the first time, or for Dante aficionados, I can't recomend this volume highly enough. First, Pinsky's Inferno, then Merwin's Purgatorio, now, if only someone would do Paradiso similar justice!

Beautiful Forward.......2000-04-14

I will confess that I haven't had a chance to read Merwin's entire translation of Dante's _Purgatorio_, though I have read about a third to this point. I will say, though, that I have read his Forward, and I found it to be one of the more moving testaments to the emotional, spiritual, and intellectual impact that the _Commedia_ has had on readers, poets and non-poets alike, through the ages. There isn't much new information for the Dante scholar--Merwin acknowledges that his notes are largely based on Singleton's--but this is a translation written out of love, not necessarily scholarship. This is Merwin's editon for the lover of both poets and poetry

THE DIVINE COMEDY - THE INFERNO, PURGATORIO AND PARADISO - A NEW TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE BY LAWRENCE GRANT WHITE

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THE DIVINE COMEDY - THE INFERNO, PURGATORIO AND PARADISO - A NEW TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE BY LAWRENCE GRANT WHITE

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The DIVINE COMEDY. Inferno. Purgatorio. Paradiso. A New Verse Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Allen Mandelbaum.

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The DIVINE COMEDY. Inferno. Purgatorio. Paradiso. A New Verse Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Allen Mandelbaum.
Alighieri [1265 - 1321]. Mandelbaum, Allen - Translator. Moser, Barry - Illustrator. Dante
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The Divine Comedy: the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, a new translation into English blank verse

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The Divine Comedy: the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, a new translation into English blank verse
Dante; White, Lawrence Grant; Dore, Gustave (illustrator) Alighieri
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Purgatorio, a New Verse Translation By W. S. Merwin

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Purgatorio, a New Verse Translation By W. S. Merwin
Dante Alighieri
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