So my mind sinks in this immensity: and foundering is sweet in such a sea'. Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for his ideas, feelings and deepest preoccupations. It encompasses drastic shifts in tone and material, and includes early personal elegies and idylls; radical public poems on history and poli...
So my mind sinks in this immensity: and foundering is sweet in such a sea'. Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for his ideas, feelings and deepest preoccupations. It encompasses drastic shifts in tone and material, and includes early personal elegies and idylls; radical public poems on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as "To Silvia"; and, later masterworks such as "The Setting of the Moon", written not long before Leopardi's death. Infused with classical allusion and nostalgia, yet disarmingly modern in their spare, meditative style and their sense of alienation and scepticism, the Canti influenced the following two centuries of Western lyric poetry, and inspired thinkers and writers from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche to Beckett and Lowell. Jonathan Galassi's direct new translation sensitively responds to the musicality of the Canti, while his introduction discusses the paradoxes of Leopardi's life and work.
.......
But I, if I cannot avoid
crossing the hateful
threshold of old age,
when these eyes say nothing to another’s heart,
and the world is blank to them, and the day to come
duller and darker than the one at hand,
what will I think then of this wish of mine?
And of my life? And my own self?
Ah, I’ll repent, and often
look back, unconsoled. (查看原文)
Yet I feel the familiar
illusions reviving,
my breast is amazed
at all that it feels.
From you, heart, this spirit,
and my innate fire:
all of my comfort
is coming from you.
I know that the high and pure
soul is deprived
of destiny, nature,
the world and its beauty.
But if you live, sad one,
and don’t bow to fate,
I won’t call heartless
who gives me breath. (查看原文)
Penguin Classics(共1203册)，
这套丛书还有
《Henry James: A Life in Letters》《Frankenstein》《The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism》《Collected Poetry》《Fools Crow》
等
。
1 有用 TARDELLINO 2012-08-06 21:48:21
最治愈的诗人没有之一（不可能比他更不开心了！） 英译非常易读，并有良心注解。
0 有用 White Egrets 2020-04-12 08:47:13
他告訴了我們沉思的力量。
0 有用 梵 φαν 2021-02-20 02:05:33
All'Italia, O patria mía, vedo le mura e gli archi e le colonne e I simulacro e l'erme torri degli avi nostri, ma la gloria non vedo.
0 有用 月雪走原 2019-10-13 11:16:35
村庄 孤独 痛苦 与我
0 有用 小岛 2020-08-28 08:50:02
@2013-01-12 11:41:47
0 有用 梵 φαν 2021-02-20 02:05:33
All'Italia, O patria mía, vedo le mura e gli archi e le colonne e I simulacro e l'erme torri degli avi nostri, ma la gloria non vedo.
0 有用 小岛 2020-08-28 08:50:02
@2013-01-12 11:41:47
0 有用 White Egrets 2020-04-12 08:47:13
他告訴了我們沉思的力量。
0 有用 月雪走原 2019-10-13 11:16:35
村庄 孤独 痛苦 与我
1 有用 TARDELLINO 2012-08-06 21:48:21
最治愈的诗人没有之一（不可能比他更不开心了！） 英译非常易读，并有良心注解。