Guido Cavalcanti is a key figure in the early development of Italian poetry, along with his younger friend Dante Alighieri. Cavalcanti is also essential to the course of modernist poetry in English, influencing, among others, Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky. The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti: A Critical English Edition provides the best introduction in English to this medieval Italian poet. The selection of annotated verse translations includes the famous Donna me prega and the correspondence sonnets to Dante. The introduction covers thematic and metrical issues, as well as examining the rich history of Cavalcanti in English.
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The book aims to be the most useful and engaging introduction to the medieval Italian poet Guido Cavalcanti in English.
Simply the best translations of Cavalcanti I have ever seen ... a considerable contribution to our understanding of Duecento Italian literature

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ISBN
9781906510725
Publisert
2009-08-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Troubador Publishing
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
140 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

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Biographical note

Simon West lectures in Italian studies at Monash University. He has published widely in the area of poetry and translation, and is the author of one volume of poetry, First Names (Puncher and Wattmann, Sydney, 2006).