We took that class together, and I bet I can find my books before David Ball gets back to you :)
(As I recall there were two translators - a former poet laureate did Inferno, then we were stuck with a very literal, dry translation of the remaining volumes. Best literary insult ever came from Prof. Ball - he said, "The only way you can tell it's poetry is that the lines don't go to the edge of the page.")
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Date: 2009-09-21 10:53 pm (UTC)(As I recall there were two translators - a former poet laureate did Inferno, then we were stuck with a very literal, dry translation of the remaining volumes. Best literary insult ever came from Prof. Ball - he said, "The only way you can tell it's poetry is that the lines don't go to the edge of the page.")