Italian readers have long known that Michelangelo's poetry is far
more than a footnote to his long career as an artist, but few
English language translators have managed to render all three
hundred or so poems by the famous Florentine. Wordsworth,
Longfellow, and Emerson made half-hearted attempts, but John
Addington Symonds's late Victorian versions - full of ornate poetic
diction - were the standard until these wonderful translations by
Nims, himself a master craftsman, whose "blunt, direct,
plainspoken" diction perfectly matches Michelangelo's rough-talking
poems and their formal complexities. With his biographical
introductions, based on the well-documented lives of the artist,
and his scholarly notes, Nims gives us Michelangelo whole: the
polymorphus love sonneteer, the political allegorist, and the
solitary singer of madrigals. (Kirkus Reviews)
There is no artist more celebrated than Michelangelo. Yet the
magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist often
overshadow his devotion to poetry. Michelangelo used poetry to
express what was too personal to display in sculpture or painting.
John Frederick Nims has brought the entire body of Michelangelo's
verse, from the artist's ardent twenties to his anguished and
turbulent eighties, to life in English in this unprecedented
collection. The result is a tantalizing glimpse into a most
fascinating mind.
"Wonderful. . . . Nims gives us Michelangelo whole: the
polymorphous love sonneteer, the political allegorist, and the
solitary singer of madrigals."--"Kirkus Reviews"
"A splendid, fresh and eloquent translation. . . . Nims, an eminent
poet and among the best translators of our time, conveys the full
meaning and message of Michelangelo's love sonnets and religious
poems in fluently rhymed, metrical forms."--"St. Louis
Post-Dispatch"
"The best so far. . . . Nims is best at capturing the sound and
sense of Michelangelo's poetic vocabulary."--"Choice"
"Surely the most compelling translations of Michelangelo currently
available in English."--Ronald L. Martinez, "Washington Times"
John Frederick Nims (1913-1999) was the author of eight books of
poetry, including Knowledge of the Evening, which was nominated for
a National Book Award. Among his many translations is "The Poems of
Saint John of the Cross," also published by the University of
Chicago Press.
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