Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746- 1828) had a prolific career and spent the last four years of his life living in Bordeaux with other political emigres from Spain and South America. In those years and just before his departure from Spain he created a body of work that is little known to the public and consists of small-scale, intimate ...
Winner of the Weidenfeld Translation Prize and the Premio Montale, an acclaimed translation of Italy's greatest modern poet Eugenio Montale is universally recognized as having brought the great Italian lyric tradition that begins with Dante into the twentieth century with unrivaled power and brilliance. Montale is a love poet whose deeply ...
In his second collection of poems, the esteemed book editor and chairman of the Academy of American Poets writes love poems, homages to Man Ray, meditations on aging and children. The poems are often formal, but they wear their form lightly, focusing attention on their subjects rather than their rhymes.
For this paperback edition the author has added more than twenty poems from his first collection, Morning Rain , originally published in 1988. The poems in North Street concern themselves with the space between "Turning Forty" and "Turning Fifty", between the assumption of maturity and the sightings of limits. Each poem resonates ...
Eight-year-old Giotto the shepherd boy confesses his dream of becoming an artist to the painter Cimabue, who teaches him how to make marvelous pigments from minerals, flowers, and eggs and takes him on as his pupil.
This work, based on letters discovered in the Gamba archive, studies the relationship between the poet Lord Byron and his lover Countess Guiccioli, nee Gamba. Many details about Byron's political activities in Italy are included.
Although Montale published a substantial amount of work after the years covered by this COLLECTED POEMS, editor and translator Galassi has here compiled what is generally regarded as the Nobel Prize-winning Italian's best work. The first three books--OSSI DI SEPPIA, LE OCCASIONI, and LA BUFERA E ALTRO--are complemented in this edition by a long ...
A cycle of unrhymed sonnets dealing with public and private crises, marriage, middle age, and fatherhood, "Notebook 1967-68 "is considered by many readers to be one of Robert Lowell's most innovative and searching works. Yet these freeform sonnets (which Lowell reworked in later volumes) are not included in their original form in his "Collected ...
Jonathan Galassi's second book of poems opens with a group of "dithyrambs", extravagent irregular compositions that evoke both the flow and ebb of the seasons and the currents of feeling in a life. Like the book as a whole, they draw on nature, history, and personal history, the world outside and the world within - and on the treasure - house of ...
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