{"product_id":"leopardi-selected-poems-9780691016443","title":"Leopardi: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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), \u003ci\u003eLeopardi: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCanti\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Giacomo Leopardi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #45\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.07w x 0.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691016443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Literary Award - Winner","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713662259337,"sku":"9780691016443","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_24c3ee16-3e58-4c50-90af-5ecfe3d9e62a.jpg?v=1719619099","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/leopardi-selected-poems-9780691016443","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}