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HalcyonGabriele D'AnnunzioTranslated by J.G. Nichols10% off
Categories: 19th Century, 20th Century, Italian
Imprint: Fyfield Books Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (264 pages) (Pub. Apr 2003) 9781857546934 £12.99 £11.69
My words
are as profound as roots in the ground, sometimes serene as the firmament as hot as the hot vein of the adolescent (from 'The Roots of Song')
Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938), the most influential and controversial Italian poet of the last hundred years, published his masterpiece Halcyon in 1903. It is a carefully organized sequence of eighty-eight lyrics which, to gain their full effect, must be read as a whole. Halcyon is a 'solar diary' of a summer spent in Tuscany, part of the time with the legendary Eleanora Duse. The poems evoke specific times and places; more importantly, they conjure up emotions, memories and myths associated with each place. Beginning in early summer, they move through the seasons, changing in verse-form and mood, always delighting in the sensuous qualities of language.
J.G. Nicholls's translation makes the richness and subtlety of d'Annunzio's poetry accessible to the English-speaking reader, and his introduction illuminates the complex themes and structure of the work. He provides a full glossary of places and references.
Table of Contents
Introduction HALCYON The truce The youngster By the side of the Affrico on an evening in June after rain Evening at Fiesole The olive The ear of corn Works and days The bard without a lyre Beatitude Fvrit aestvs First dithyramb Peace The tenzon Mouth of the Arno Between two Arnos The rain in the pine wood The roots of song The name Before dawn The two eyes of a Pleiad The tributaries The camels Noon The mothers Calm The highest Alps Gombo Orphic anniversary Terra, vale! Second dithyramb The oleander Mouth of the Serchio The stag The hippocampus The wave The coronal of Glauco Mélitta-Sour grapes-Nico-Nicarete-To Nicarete- Gorgo-To Gorgo-The flautist-Baccha Stabat nvda Aestas Third dithyramb Versilia The death of the stag The asphodel Summer madrigals Supplication-The sands of Time-The footprint-At dawn- At midday-Towards evening-Circean charm-The wind writes- Sea-lanterns-In the slime-The Grecian grape August festival The many-headed song Triton Roman sarcophagus Ocean laurel The prisoner The Victory of Samothrace The rupestrian peplos The vulture of the Sun The wing on the sea Altivs egit iter Fourth dithyramb Sadness The Sea-Hours A goddess of the shore Undulna The Thessalian The goatskin The signs Dreams of distant places The shepherds-The baths-The flock and the herd- Lacus luturnae-The loggia-The pack-The carobs New moon Envoi Glossary |
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