Modern Italian Poets: Translators of the Impossible

by Jacob Blakesley

In 1948, the poet Eugenio Montale published his Quaderno di traduzioni and created an entirely new Italian literary genre, the "translation notebook." The quaderni were the work of some of Italy's foremost poets, and their translation anthologies proved fundamental for their aesthetic and cultural development.

Modern Italian Poets shows how the new genre shaped the poetic practice of the poet-translators who worked within it, including Giorgio...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144264642X
• ISBN13: 9781442646421
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"