This startling new translation of Dante´s Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland´s most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante´s epic, Carson´s virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thing—a translation with the heft and force of a true English poem. Like Seamus Heaney´s Beowulf and Ted Hughes´s Tales from Ovid, Ciaran Carson´s Inferno is an extraordinary modern response to one of the great works of world literature.