Dante's Inferno by Philip Terry
Following his irreverent, inspired Oulipean reworking of Shakespeare's Sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the twelfth to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - and relocating it to the modern 'walled city' of the University of Essex.
'The lineation speeds along at a nice articulated pace, the Dantesque pitch is right and propulsive, the cast of villains is energising, the balance between language and lingo, the allusive and the obscene just right.. Berrigan the perfect shambling guide...' --Seamus Heaney 'It is brilliant... the pattern and rhythm very forceful and the lingo just stunning.' --Marina Warner
Philip Terry was born in Belfast in 1962. He has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing. His fiction, poetry and translations have been widely published in journals in Britain and America. His books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (2000), Fables of Aesop (2006) and the poetry collection Oulipoems (2006).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847772206 |
| ISBN 10 | 184777220X |
| Title | Dante's Inferno |
| Author | Philip Terry |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2014-06-27 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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