Memory and Enthusiasm: Essays, 1975-1985

by W.S. Di Piero

Book Overview

In this remarkable collection of essays, poet and translator W. S. Di Piero draws us toward fresh encounters with literary artists from both sides of the Atlantic--Dante, Keats, Leopardi, Whitman, Pound, William Carlos Williams, Pavese, Sartre, William and Henry James, and others--as well as with filmmakers Robert Altman and Michelangelo Antonioni. Di Piero is a skillful and fervent interpreter of the productive tension between Europe and America...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691014639
• ISBN13: 9780691014630
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"