Leopardi: Selected PoemsPrinceton University Press, 30 Haz 2016 - 120 sayfa 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. |
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... Italian poetry; it has remained an unforgettable experience, and I remain always in her debt. To the late David Nolan, who was friend, teacher, and fellow enthusiast for the poems of Leopardi. To Rachel Kitzinger, who was there when I ...
... Italy's second poet (after Dante), Leopardi is certainly (with Petrarch) one of her two greatest lyric poets. For the most part his poetry is intensely pessimistic in its view of the human condition. Three of its central motifs are ...
... Italian thinker of his age), and at times this is one of the ingredients of the Canti, though his great moral and ... Italy with the publication of an article by Madame de Stael in the Milanese magazine Biblioteca italiana. At first ...
... Italian literary Romanticism found its private voice in Leopardi and its public voice in Manzoni and his followers. Since questions of nationalism were as important as they were in Italy in the first half of the nineteenth century, Italian ...
... Italian at University College, Dublin, in 1962. My enthusiasm was stimulated by a wonderful teacher of Italian poetry, Dr. Gioia Gaidoni, who simply walked us through the texts themselves, showing us how to care for and be responsible ...