Dante's Lyric Poetry : : Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova' / / Teodolinda Barolini.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• HerausgeberIn: Barolini, Teodolinda,
• TeilnehmendeR: Frisardi, Andrew; Lansing, Richard
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante's early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante's Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing, illuminating Dante's transformation from a young courtly poet into the writer of the vast and visionary Commedia.Barolini's commentary exposes Dante's lyric poems as early articulations of many of the ideas in the Commedia, including the philosophy and psychology of desire and its role as motor of all human activity, the quest for vision and transcendence, the frustrating search for justice on earth, and the transgression of boundaries in society and poetry. A wide-ranging and intelligent examination of one of the most important poets in the Western tradition, this book will be of interest to scholars and poetry-lovers alike.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Dante's Lyric Poetry: From Editorial History to Hermeneutic Future -- Editions Cited in the Introductory Essays and Notes -- Abbreviations -- Note on Italian Versification -- Tenzone between Dante Alighieri and Dante da Maiano -- La tenzone del duol d'amore -- Tenzone between Dante Alighieri and Dante da Maiano -- Alphabetic Index of First Lines -- Index