Italian Poetry Research Articles

EUROPEAN PETRARCHISM AS TRAINING IN POETIC DICTION

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the circumstance that the impact of Petrarch's Italian poetry on the literatures of Western Europe coincides with attempts in these various literatures to find a new poetic diction. There are those who maintain that this is an accident of chronology. I hope to show that that is not the case.

Some New Trends in Italian Poetry of Our Times

Some New Trends in Italian Poetry of Our Times

Tradition and Innovation in the Occidental Lyric of the Last Decade III. Italian Lyric Poetry of the Fifties

Tradition and Innovation in the Occidental Lyric of the Last Decade III. Italian Lyric Poetry of the Fifties

A Rhetorical Pattern in Renaissance and Baroque Poetry

Thanks especially to the work of Professor Dámaso Alonso, the study of correlative poetry has made notable strides in recent years. He has concentrated mainly on Spanish and Italian poetry, but has made an excursus into Greek and Latin verse as well. It goes without saying that the phenomenon is universal in its scope.In this paper I am concerned with only one of the aspects of this poetry, the disseminative-recapitulative type, because both chronologically and geographically information on it can be extended further than hitherto, and because the influences that have played a primary role in establishing its vogue are still in need of being traced with a greater degree of precision. I shall deal with this type chiefly in connection with its vogue in the Romance-speaking countries and England during the Renaissance and baroque periods.

A Neglected Translator of Italian Poetry: Emma Lazarus

A Neglected Translator of Italian Poetry: Emma Lazarus

The Imperfect Rhymes E:I, O:U in Early Italian Poetry

The Imperfect Rhymes E:I, O:U in Early Italian Poetry

Form, Tone and Rhythm in Italian Poetry

Form, Tone and Rhythm in Italian Poetry

The Golden Book of Italian Poetry

The Golden Book of Italian Poetry

The Golden Book of Italian Poetry

The Golden Book of Italian Poetry

Italian Poetry Since the War

Italian Poetry Since the War

Some Tendencies of Italian Lyric Poetry in the Trecento

It is not easy to form an adequate conception of the course of Italian lyric poetry in the fourteenth century; partly because not all the relevant material has been published, partly because the admitted faults of the period have been held to justify a neglect of most of its representatives in favor of a concentrating of attention on the great names of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Such an attitude, however, involves the disregard of much that is needed for an accurate view of the time, and the neglect of many poets who, while not uniformly inspired, give us much of genuine beauty and significance. It is accordingly my design to set forth, in broad but not unfaithful fashion, the main causes which gave this large body of verse not only its easily noted defects, but also its real, tho not always recognized, merits.

Some Tendencies of Italian Lyric Poetry in the Trecento

Some Tendencies of Italian Lyric Poetry in the Trecento

The Forerunners of Dante. A Selection from Italian Poetry before 1300

The Forerunners of Dante. A Selection from Italian Poetry before 1300

Early Italian Poetry.

Early Italian Poetry.

Early Italian Poetry.

Early Italian Poetry.

Italian Poetry.

Italian Poetry.

Origin of Italian Poetry.

Origin of Italian Poetry.

II. Italian Poetry and Patriotism at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

The subject of the present paper was chosen some time ago. As to why a preference was shown for this and not for something touching on the better known, more widely appreciated French and German, would lead me to answer with as much justice, but perhaps the same amount of human nature, as that other enlightened citizen of another free country: “I am tired of hearing Aristides called the Just”—weary of learning that in spite of Volapük, the revised English e tutti quanti, French is still the language of the world, Parisian the language of the Gods; worn out by the constant refrain, that German is the “Open-Sesame” to all questions, physical, metaphysical, theological, psychical. This feeling is legitimate not only with me, as Montaigne says, “simply because it is it and I am I” but from a wider point of view, including all who sympathize with struggling humanity, and the above-named title suggests a question replete with interest for its historical importance as well as its literary claims and one that cannot fail to be attractive; for, what was Italy's literary position at the beginning of this century, when England, Germany, France, even Spain and America were sending into the arena champion after champion who recoiled before no question the human brain can propound ? What could be expected of a country overrun by foreign troops, split up into petty states, down-trodden and oppressed, without authority in the councils of Europe, without commerce, without colonies ? Could it ever repeat its superb record, still retain the ancient stamp and not belie Leopardi's proud claim, “Ancor per forza italian si noma, quanto ha più grande la mortal natura?”