Complete Poems/quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo; Jack Bevan [Translator]

ISBN 10: 0805207570 / ISBN 13: 9780805207576

Published by Schocken, 1984

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Complete Poems/quasimodo

Publisher: Schocken

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

Poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning Italian author explores themes such as love, childhood, death, solitude, and myth

About the Author:

Jack Bevan was born in Blackpool in 1920. He read English at Cambridge and was then pitchforked straight into the Army, where he served with the Gunners as a commissioned officer in Iceland and Italy. He fought in the Italian campaign during the Second World War, and after the war returned to Cambridge. His subsequent career has been in education as head of a variety of departments in teaching and teacher training. During this time he also worked intensively on the translation of contemporary Italian poetry, in particular that of Salvatore Quasimodo.