Rossetti / Wilmer Selected Poems

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-79412-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 164 Seiten

Reihe: Fyfield Books

For critics like John Ruskin and Walter Pater, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1892) was one of the great creative figures of the day, a painter and a poet of major stature. Yeats and the young Pound regarded him as an exemplary figure of solitary dedication to art and beauty.

He called the sonnet 'a moment's monument', and his best short lyrics are instants of oppressed emotion cut free of time. In this, as in the suggestiveness of his imagery, he anticipates the French Symbolists. He can also be regarded as the founder of modern verse translation, not only for the freshness of his versions but also for his choice of poets---Villon, Cavalcanti and the young Dante.

In this selection, Clive Wilmer has made a personal choice, emphasizing the 'pure poetry' of the lyrics at the expense of the more conventionally Victorian monologues and narratives. He has also included a generous selection from the translations, and provided a biographical and critical introduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Wilmer, Clive

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Note on the Text / Suggestions for Further Reading From The House of Life / The Blessed Damozel / My Sister's Sleep / Ave / The Portrait / The Card-Dealer / Jenny / A Trip to Paris and Belgium / Near Brussels-a Half-way Pause / Antwerp and Bruges / Sonnets and Pictures: For Our Lady of the Rocks(Leonardo); For A Venetian Pastoral(Giorgione); For An Allegorical Dance of Women (Mantegna); For Ruggiero and Angelica (Ingres); For A Virgin and Child (Memmelinck) / Sister Helen / Dawn on the Night Journey / A Young Fir-Wood / The Mirror / During Music / The Honeysuckle / Sudden Light / The Woodspurge/ Even So / A Little While/ Sunset Wings / Three Shadows / Verses for Rossetti's own works of art: Aspecta Medusa; Astarte Syrica / Speral Change / 'I saw the Sibyl at Cumae' / The Orchard-Pit Translations: From Dante and His Circle:St Francis of Assisi; Frederick II; Guido Guinicelli; Giacominiano; Pier Moronelli; Nicclò degli Albizzi; Dante Alighieri; Guido Cavalcanti; Cino da Pistoia / Poems from the French: Anon: 'John of Tours'; François Villon Index of Titles and First Lines