The best known English translation of the _Divine Comedy_ is
that of Cary, first published in 1806. Other English versions
are by Dayman, Pollock and J. A. Carlyle. Longfellow made a
translation in verse which is musical and cast in the _terza
rima_ of the original.
A mass of commentary on Dante has been issued of which only a
few noteworthy books can be mentioned here. Among these are
Botta, _Introduction to the Study of Dante_ (London, 1887);
Maria Francesca Rossetti, _A Shadow of Dante_ (London,
1884); Butler, _Dante: His Times and His Work_ (London,
1895); Symonds, _Introduction to the Study of Dante_
(Edinburgh, 1890); Lowell, _Among My Books_, one of the
finest essays on the great poet and his work (Boston, 1880);
Macaulay, _Essays_, Vol. I; Carlyle in _Heroes and Hero
Worship_.
One of the largest Dante libraries in the world was collected
by the late Professor Willard Fiske of Cornell University. At
his death this splendid library was given to the university
which Professor Fiske served for over twenty years as head of
the department of Northern European languages. Professor
Melville B. Anderson, recently retired from the chair of
English Literature at Stanford University, is now completing
a translation of Dante, which has been a labor of love for
many years.