Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

Literature & Fiction

Pascoli, Giovanni

Dramas & Plays

Princeton University Press

The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetry
Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912)―the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets―has been compared to Robert Frost for his evocation of natural speech, his bucolic settings, and the way he bridges poetic tradition and the beginnings of modernism. Featuring verse from throughout his career, and with the original Italian on facing pages, Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli is a comprehensive and authoritative collection of a fascinating and major literary figure.
Reading this poet of nature, grief, and small-town life is like traveling through Italy's landscapes in his footsteps―from Romagna and Bologna to Rome, Sicily, and Tuscany―as the country transformed from an agrarian society into an industrial one. Mixing the elevated diction of Virgil with local slang and the sounds of the natural world, these poems capture sense-laden moments: a train's departure, a wren's winter foraging, and the lit windows of a town at dusk. Incorporating revolutionary language into classical scenes, Pascoli's poems describe ancient rural dramas―both large and small―that remain contemporary.
Framed by an introduction, annotations, and a substantial chronology, Taije Silverman and Marina Della Putta Johnston's translations render the variety, precision, and beauty of Pascoli's poetry with a profoundly current vision.

Poetry. Italian Studies. Translated by Geoffrey Brock. An essential new translation of one of Italian literature's most celebrated poets. Giovanni Pascoli stands as a towering figure at the threshold of modern Italian poetry, yet he is little known in English. He wrote his best poems in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first few years of the twentieth, in an extraordinary burst that included his three most important collections, Myricae, Canti di Castelvecchio, and Primi poemetti. In this volume, translator Geoffrey Brock offers a personal anthology that conveys the wide-eyed spirit and formal beauty of the originals. "This collection is a revelation. In Geoffrey Brock's impeccable versions, Pascoli becomes a poet who demands to be read out loud. Time and again I found myself stopping to savor a phrase, a line break, a rhyme, a stanza. And then reading the poem over from the start. 'The Sleep of Odysseus' is heart-stopping. It's difficult to overstate my admiration for that tact, grace, and formal imagination that shape these remarkable translations."--Clare Cavanagh "A champion of childlike intuition, muted tones, and 'small things,' Pascoli has until now been confined to his corner of the map. In this personal anthology, poet and translator Geoff Brock conveys to us the best of Pascoli. His Pascoli is the author of subtle, bewitching poems that look both inward and outward, celebrating the natural world and the inner life of humble objects: kites, walking sticks, the little nests of spring. Brock has kept the rhymes and meters, and his deeply intelligent remakings breathe new life into the old idiom."--Will Schutt

Last Dream

Poetry

World Poetry Books

Canti di Castelvecchio (Italian Edition)

History & Criticism

Legare Street Press

Sotto Il Velame Saggio di Un'Interpretazione Generale del Poema Sacro

History

BiblioLife

Minerva Oscura: Prolegomeni ; La Costruzione Morale Del Poema Di Dante (Italian Edition)

Nabu Press

La Ginestra: Pace : L'Era Nuova : Il Focolare (Italian Edition)

Myricae (Italian Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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