The Early Italian Poets: 7 (Poetica) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856460540 ISBN 13: 9780856460548

Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry, 1981

Synopsis

Poetica 7

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's versions of early Italian poetry are masterpieces of the art of poetic translation. Although his work first appeared over a hundred years ago, it is still the fullest survey of the period's poetry. Cino da Pistoia, Guido Cavalcanti and a host of others are represented, but the centrepiece is the version of Dante's `The New Life', of which Ezra Pound wrote: `I saw that Rossetti had made a remarkable translation of the Vita Nuova, in some places improving (or at least enriching) the original; that he was indubitably the man "sent", or "chosen" for that particular job... Rossetti made his own language.'

This edition includes a Foreword by John Wain, and an Introduction and Supplementary Notes by the medievalist and poet Sally Purcell.

Edition details

• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856460540
• ISBN 13: 9780856460548
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Sally Purcell