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This book features translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837) that 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry anthologies (various poets)

• Full title: Leopardi
• Subtitle: Selected Poems
• Author: Giacomo Leopardi
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• EAN: 9780691016443
• ISBN: 0691016445
• ID: 04113187
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 196 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 154 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. May 1997

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