Giacomo Leopardi 
Leopardi [PDF ebook] 
Selected Poems

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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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Eamon Grennan has published three collections of poetry:
What Light There Is & Other Poems,
As If It Matters, and
So It Goes. He has a degree in English and Italian from University College, Dublin, and a doctorate in English from Harvard University. A native of Ireland, he divides his time between there and Poughkeepsie, New York, where he is the Dexer M. Ferry, Jr., Professor of English at Vassar College.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 120 ● ISBN 9781400884100 ● File size 2.2 MB ● Translator Eamon Grennan ● Publisher Princeton University Press ● City Princeton ● Country US ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5492097 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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