'So my mind sinks in this immensity: and foundering is sweet in
such a sea' Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this
extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for
his ideas, feelings and deepest preoccupations. It encompasses
drastic shifts in tone and material, and includes early personal
elegies and idylls; radical public poems on history and politics;
philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as 'To
Silvia'; and later masterworks such as 'The Setting of the Moon',
written not long before Leopardi's death. Infused with classical
allusion and nostalgia, yet disarmingly modern in their spare,
meditative style and their sense of alienation and scepticism, the
Canti influenced the following two centuries of Western lyric
poetry, and inspired thinkers and writers from Schopenhauer and
Nietzsche to Beckett and Lowell. Jonathan Galassi's direct new
translation sensitively responds to the musicality of the Canti,
while his introduction discusses the paradoxes of Leopardi's life
and work.
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