Halcyon – Gabriele D’Annunzio (Paperback / Soft Cover)

Gabriele d’Annunzio (1863-1938), the most influential and controversial Italian poet of the 20th century, published his masterpiece”Halcyon”in 1903. It is a carefully organized sequence of 88 lyrics which, to gain their full effect, must be read as a whole. Halcyon is a”solar diary”of a summer spent in Tuscany, part of the time with the legendary Eleanora Duse. The poems evoke specific times and places; more importantly, they conjure up emotions, memories and myths associated with each place. Beginning in early summer, they move through the seasons, changing in verse-form and mood, always delighting in the sensuous qualities of language. J.G. Nicholls’s translation makes the richness and subtlety of d’Annunzio’s poetry accessible to the English-speaking reader, and his introduction illuminates the complex themes and structure of the work. He provides a full glossary of places and references.

Author: Gabriele D’Annunzio
Format: Paperback / Soft Cover
Pages: 263
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