Giacomo Leopardi

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Leopardi: Selected PoemsPaperback, 25 May 1997

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Part of Series
Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Part of Series
Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Part of Series
Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 125
Print Length
120 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
25 May 1997
ISBN-10
0691016445
ISBN-13
9780691016443

Description

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 inestimable Canti.

Product Details

Author:
Giacomo Leopardi
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
25 May 1997
Dimensions:
23.47 x 15.42 x 0.91 cm
Genre:
Italy
ISBN-10:
0691016445
ISBN-13:
9780691016443
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
120
Weight:
195.04 gm

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