Leopardi: Selected Poems - Rilegato

Leopardi, Giacomo

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0691016437 ISBN 13: 9780691016436

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition. In spite of this reputation, and in spite of a number of nineteenth-and twentieth-century translations, Leopardi's poems have never "come over" into English in such a way as to guarantee their author a recognition comparable to that of other great European Romantic poets.

By catching something of Leopardi's cadences and tonality in a version that still reads as idiomatic modern English (with an occasional Irish or American accent),Leopardi: Selected Poems should win for the Italian poet the wider appreciative audience he deserves. His themes are mutability, landscape, love; his attitude, one of unflinching realism in the face of unavoidable human loss. But the manners of the poems are a unique amalgam of philosophical toughness and the lyrically bittersweet. In a way more pure and distilled than most others in the Western tradition, these poems are truly what Matthew Arnold asked all poetry to be, a "criticism of life." The translator's aim is to convey something of the profundity and something of the sheer poetic achievement of Leopardi's inestimableCanti.

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Recensione

Winner of the 1998 Poetry in Translation Award, PEN American Center
"[Leopardi's] contribution to 19th-century European poetry second only to Baudelaire's . . . there's plenty to be grateful for in this lucidly translated selection. . . "--Boston Review

Contenuti

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction to Giacomo Leopardi
	Translator's Introduction: "Attempts and Preludes"
	Infinitive	3
	Sunday Evening	5
	To the Moon	9
	Dream	11
	The Life of Solitude	17
	Sappho's Last Song	23
	Chorus of the Dead	27
	To Silvia	31
	The Solitary Thrush	35
	Memories	39
	The Clam after the Storm	49
	Saturday in the Village	53
	Night Song of a Nomadic Shepherd in Asia	57
	To Himself	67
	The Setting Moon	69
	Broom or The Flower of the Desert	73

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691016437
• ISBN 13: 9780691016436
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 93
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile