TY  - BOOK
AU  - Slavitt, David R.
AB  - The fact that Cavlacanti?s friend, Dante Alighieri, was a supremely fine poet ought not blind us to Cavalcanti?s own, rather different excellence. Both men were attracted to the dolce stil nuovo, the ?sweet new style? that emerged in thirteenth-century Florence. While Dante?s poetry was devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Beatrice, Cavalcanti?s poetry had more the tang of real-world experience: he struggled against unruly passions and sought instead to overcome love ? a source of torment and despair. It is chiefly through the translations of Rossetti and Pound that English-speaking readers have encountered Cavalcanti?s work. Pound?s famous translation, now viewed by some as antiquated, is remarkably different from the translation provided here in the graceful voice of poet David Slavitt. Working under the significant restraints of Cavalcanti?s elaborate formal structures, Slavitt renders an English translation faithful to the original poetry in both rhyme and rhythm.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 15067
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Italian
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Translations
L1  - http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120211
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/53232
PB  - Athabasca University Press
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9781926836850
SN  - 9781926836867
SN  - 9781926836843
TI  - The Metabolism of Desire: The Poetry of Guido Cavalcantinull
ER  - 
