14 JANUARY 1944, page 20

Shorter Notices Tms Volume Completes The Late Laurence...

translation into English of Dante's Divine Comedy. Binyon observed the three fundamental essentials of a good translation, namely, fidelity to (r) the sense, (2) the rhythm, (3)......

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