The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi 1817-1837

ISBN-13: 9780901286970 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 302 str.

Giacomo Leopardi

Opis

Giacomo Leopardi, Italy's great poet of the Romantic age, is the author of some of the most beautiful and best-loved poems in the Italian language and some of the most remarkable letters in European literature. The interest of the letters is both biographical and literary: they document the background -- the difficult personal circumstances, the intense and troubled family relationships, the contacts and friendships with other writers -- against which a haunting and compelling poetic voice came to maturity. The letters, not previously available in English except fragmentarily, are here offered in a new translation undertaken to celebrate the poet's birth in 1798.

Spis treści

Introduction; A note on the translation; The Letters

O autorze

Prue Shaw