Introduction to Italian Poetry

Introduction to Italian Poetry
Author: Luciano Rebay
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2012-09-06
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0486121828

Treasury of 34 poems by Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, d'Annunzio, Montale, Quasimodo, and others. Full Italian text with literal translation on facing pages. Biographical, critical commentary on each poet. Introduction. 21 black-and-white illustrations.

First Italian Reader

First Italian Reader
Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-08-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 048612035X

Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome these selections of poetry, fiction, history, and philosophy by 14th- to 20th-century authors, including Dante, Boccaccio, Pirandello, and 52 others.

An Anthology of Modern Italian Poetry

An Anthology of Modern Italian Poetry
Author: Ned Condini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2009
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Italian poetry of the last century is far from homogeneous: genres and movements have often been at odds with one another, engaging the economic, political, and social tensions of post-Unification Italy. The thirty-eight poets included in this anthology, some of whose poems are translated here for the first time, represent this literary diversity and competition: there are symbolists (Gabriele D'Annunzio), free-verse satirists (Gian Pietro Lucini), hermetic poets (Salvatore Quasimodo), feminist poets (Sibilla Aleramo), twilight poets (Sergio Corazzini), fragmentists (Camillo Sbarbaro), new lyricists (Eugenio Montale), neo-avant-gardists (Alfredo Giuliani), and neorealists (Pier Paolo Pasolini)—among many others.

Introduction to French Poetry

Introduction to French Poetry
Author: Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-04-18
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0486119998

Works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, many more. Full French texts with literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical, critical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illustrations.

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry
Author: Geoffrey Brock
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780374105389

More than a century has now passed since F.T. Marinetti's famous "Futurist Manifesto" slammed the door on the nineteenth century and trumpeted the arrival of modernity in Europe and beyond. Since then, against the backdrop of two world wars and several radical social upheavals whose effects continue to be felt, Italian poets have explored the possibilities of verse in a modern age, creating in the process one of the great bodies of twentieth-century poetry. Even before Marinetti, poets such as Giovanni Pascoli had begun to clear the weedy rhetoric and withered diction from the once-glorious but by then decadent grounds of Italian poetry. And their winter labors led to an extraordinary spring: Giuseppe Ungaretti's wartime distillations and Eugenio Montale's "astringent music"; Umberto Saba's song of himself and Salvatore Quasimodo's hermetic involutions. After World War II, new generations—including such marvelously diverse poets as Sandro Penna, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Amelia Rosselli, Vittorio Sereni, and Raffaello Baldini—extended the enormous promise of the prewar era into our time. A surprising and illuminating collection, The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry invites the reader to examine the works of these and other poets—seventy-five in all—in context and conversation with one another. Edited by the poet and translator Geoffrey Brock, these poems have been beautifully rendered into English by some of our finest English-language poets, including Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, Ezra Pound, Paul Muldoon, and many exciting younger voices.

Italian Poetry

Italian Poetry
Author: Luciano Rebay
Publisher: Dover Publications
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1971
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance

Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Virginia Cox
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2013-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1421408880

This is an amazing book, a major achievement in the field of women's studies.--Renaissance Quarterly, reviewing Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650

Italian Stories

Italian Stories
Author: Robert A. Hall
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2012-09-20
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0486120309

Eleven great stories in original Italian with vivid, accurate English translations on facing pages, teaching and practice aids, Italian-English vocabulary, more. Boccaccio, Machiavelli, d'Annunzio, Pirandello and Moravia, plus significant works by lesser-knowns.

Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli

Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli
Author: Giovanni Pascoli
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0691198276

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.

Introduction to Spanish Poetry

Introduction to Spanish Poetry
Author: Eugenio Florit
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2012-09-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0486120015

From the 12th-century Cantar de Mío Cid to the 20th-century poetry of Garcia Lorca, Salinas and Alberti, this book contains 37 poems by Spain's greatest poets. Spanish texts with literal English translations; biographical, critical commentary.