{"product_id":"9780141193878-canti","title":"Canti","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCovers radical public poems of Leopardi 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'So my mind sinks in this immensity:\u003cbr\u003eand foundering is sweet in such a sea'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevisited 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 \u003ci\u003eCanti\u003c\/i\u003e influenced the following two centuries of Western lyric poetry, and inspired thinkers and writers from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche to Beckett and Lowell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Galassi's direct new translation sensitively responds to the musicality of the \u003ci\u003eCanti\u003c\/i\u003e, while his introduction discusses the paradoxes of Leopardi's life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40942932951137,"sku":"9780141193878","price":12.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32391449.jpg?v=1737218722","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141193878-canti","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}