Dante: An Essay (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Dante: An EssayDante's Divine Comedy, t/ze Inferno a Zz'z'eml Prose Dons/anon, wz'z'fz t/ze Text of t/ze Original. By]. A. Carlyle M. D. London. 1849. I have neve1 quite forgiven myself for not having said' m01e of the unpretending but honest and most useful volume which stood at the head of this essay when it fust appeared as an article. It was placed there, according to what was then a custom of article writers, as a peg to hang remarks upon which might or might not be criticisms of the particular book so noticed. It did not offer itself specially to my use, and my attention was busy with my own work. But this was no excuse for availing myself of a good book, and not giving it the notice which it deserved. To an English student beginning Dante, and wishing to study him in a scholarly manner, it is really more useful than a verse translation can be; and I have always greatly regretted that the plan' of translating the whole work was dropped for want of the appreciation which the first instalment ought to have had. (1878)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.