Sepulchres and Other Poems

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Dual-Language Edition.
Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English language, his most significant poems are collected in J.G. Nichols"s lucid verse translation.
Expressing the author"s political, civic and sentimental concerns, these poems will surprise the English reader with their immediacy and intimacy. Sepulchres, Foscolo"s masterpiece, as well as being one of the pinnacles of European neoclassical literature, is still one of the most widely studied poems in Italy. Foscolo"s poetry reveals the inner recesses of a passionate, restless and surprisingly modern mind.
This edition includes notes on the text, extra material on Ugo Foscolo"s Life and Works and a select bibliography.
Contents: Sonnets, Fugitive Pieces and Odes, Sepulchres.