The Early Italian Poets

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Purcel, Sally (editor); Wain, John (foreword)

ISBN 10: 0856460540 ISBN 13: 9780856460548

Published by Anvil Press, London, 1981

Language: English

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Title

The Early Italian Poets

Publisher

Anvil Press, London

Publication Date

1981

Language

English

ISBN 10

0856460540

ISBN 13

9780856460548

Binding

Card Wrappers

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

Book Type

Book

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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.

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