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Princeton, New Jersey, USA: Princeton University Press, Date: 1997. Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Third Paperback Printing. Trade Paperback in Fine Condition. Translated by Eamon Grennan. Clean and unmarked blue and black wraps, glued binding tight and solid, internals as new. These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi, 1798-1837, render into modern English verse the works of a writer widely regardsd as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition. 93 pages. 6 x 9.25 inches. 1997, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA 1997. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691016445 9780691016443 [US]

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Paperback / softback. New. Features translations of poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837) that render into modern English verse - the work of a writer who is regarded as one of the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary tradition. ISBN 0691016445 9780691016443 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691016445, ISBN13: 9780691016443, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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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