The Metabolism of Desire
The Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti
The fact that Cavlacanti's friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti's own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the sweet new style that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence. While Dante's poetry was devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Beatrice, Cavalcanti's poetry had more the tang of real-world experience: he struggled against unruly passions and sought instead to overcome love - a source of torment and despair. It is chiefly through the translations of Rossetti and Pound that English-speaking readers have encountered Cavalcanti's work. Pound's famous tra…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-926836-86-7
- EAN: 9781926836867
- Produktnummer: 29066693
- Verlag: Au Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 149 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 231 KB
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David R. Slavitt is a widely known poet, novelist, critic, and translator who prepared these English versions of the poems because he loved them.
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