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Leopardi : Selected Poems /
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. Hist themes are mutability, la...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Italiano |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. Hist 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 bitter sweet. 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (120 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781400884100 |