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Contemporary with the Romantic generation, peer of Keats, Holderlin, and Goethe, and forerunner of Valery and Pound, Ugo Foscolo is nevertheless little known outside Italy. In an endeavor to "discover" this exemplary European poet for English-speaking readers, and to "rediscover" him for Italian readers, Glauco Cambon examines both textually and co



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Chapter I. Introduction: The Poetry of Exile, pg. 1*Chapter II. The Demon of Suicide and the Demon of Fiction, pg. 27*Chapter III. Vatic Exorcism: The Lyrics and the Sepulchers, pg. 117*Chapter IV. Vatic Conjuring: The Graces, pg. 182*Chapter V. The Act of Writing, pg. 300*Appendix. Sample Translations, pg. 333*Works Consulted, pg. 345*Index, pg. 351

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691615714, 978-0691615714
      ISBN10: 0691615713
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Contemporary with the Romantic generation, peer of Keats, Holderlin, and Goethe, and forerunner of Valery and Pound, Ugo Foscolo is nevertheless little known outside Italy. In an endeavor to "discover" this exemplary European poet for English-speaking readers, and to "rediscover" him for Italian readers, Glauco Cambon examines both textually and co



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Chapter I. Introduction: The Poetry of Exile, pg. 1*Chapter II. The Demon of Suicide and the Demon of Fiction, pg. 27*Chapter III. Vatic Exorcism: The Lyrics and the Sepulchers, pg. 117*Chapter IV. Vatic Conjuring: The Graces, pg. 182*Chapter V. The Act of Writing, pg. 300*Appendix. Sample Translations, pg. 333*Works Consulted, pg. 345*Index, pg. 351

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