Selected PoemsRoutledge, 14 de jan. de 2014 - 164 páginas For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young Pound regarded him as an exemplary figure of solitary dedication to art and beauty. He called the sonnet 'a moment's monument', and his best short lyrics are instants of oppressed emotion cut free of time. In this, as in the suggestiveness of his imagery, he anticipates the French Symbolists. He can also be regarded as the founder of modern verse translation, not only for the freshness of his versions but also for his choice of poets---Villon, Cavalcanti and the young Dante. In this selection, Clive Wilmer has made a personal choice, emphasizing the 'pure poetry' of the lyrics at the expense of the more conventionally Victorian monologues and narratives. He has also included a generous selection from the translations, and provided a biographical and critical introduction. |
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BALLATA Beatrice beauty bird Blessed Damozel breath CANZONE Cavalcanti Cino da Pistoia cloud Cumae Dante Alighieri Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante's dark dead death doth dream earth eyes face fair flame flowers gaze gentle heart golden grace grass grief Guido Guido Cavalcanti Guinicelli hair hand hast hath hear heard Hell and Heaven hills hour Italian Jenny John of Tours kiss lady Lady Death lady's leaned light lips Little brother live look Lord lost Love Love's Mary Mother night o'er painting pass perfect pain poem poetry poets praise pray Pre-Raphaelite Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood rose round saith seems shade shadow shame sighs silence Sister Helen sleep song SONNET soul soul's speak speech stars sweet tears tell thee thine things thou thought thy heart translations trees turn unto voice weep wind wind's wings woman Woodspurge words