TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leopardi,Giacomo
AU  - Barnes,John C.
AU  - Grennan,Eamon
TI  - Leopardi: Selected Poems 
T2  - The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
SN  - 9780691016443
AV  - PQ4709.E5A13 1997 
U1  - 851/.7 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - POETRY / European / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION. TO GIACOMO LEOPARDI --; TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION "ATTEMPTS AND PRELUDES" --; ONE --; L'Infinito / Infinitive --; La sera del d' di festa / Sunday Evening --; Alla luna / To the Moon --; Il sogno / Dream --; La vita solitaria / The Life of Solitude --; Ultimo canto di saffo / Sappho's Last Song --; Coro dei morti / Chorus of the Dead --; Two --; A silvia / To Silvia --; Il passero solitario / The Solitary Thrush --; Le ricordanze / Memories --; La quiete dopo la tempesta / The Calm after the Storm --; Il sabato del villaggio / Saturday in the Village --; Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell' Asia / Night Song of a Nomadic Shepherd in Asia --; Three --; A se stesso / To Himself --; Il tramonto della luna / The Setting Moon --; La ginestra o il fiore del deserto / Broom or The Flower of the Desert; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
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