Leopardi : selected poems / translated by Eamon Grennan.

Leopardi : selected poems / translated by Eamon Grennan.

Poems. English. Selections

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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997.

English

xxii, 93 pages ; 24 cm.

PQ4709.E5 A13 1997

(OCoLC)35796512

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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