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Giuseppe Ungaretti

    February 8, 1888 – June 1, 1970

    Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet whose work left an indelible mark on 20th-century verse. Deeply influenced by symbolism and initially aligned with futurism, his writing evolved into a distinctive style known as ermetismo. Ungaretti rose to prominence as a poet writing from the trenches of World War I, capturing raw reality and the human experience with profound intensity. His poetry is characterized by its conciseness, its search for the essence of language, and its contemplation of existence, solidifying his status as a pivotal figure in the Italian literary avant-garde.

    Giuseppe Ungaretti
    Vida de un hombre
    Vitta d'un uomo
    El arte del hambre
    Vita d'un uomo : tutte le poesie
    Gedichte
    Allegria
    • Allegria

      • 204 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
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      Geoffrey Brock, whose translations have won him Poetry magazine's John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, finally does justice to these slim, concentrated verses in his English translation, alongside Ungaretti's Italian originals. Famed for his brevity, Giuseppe Ungaretti's early poems swing nimbly from the coarse matter of tram wires, alleyways, quails in bushes, and hotel landladies to the mystic shiver of pure abstraction. These are the kinds of poems that, through their numinous clarity and shifting intimations, can make a poetry-lover of the most stone-faced non-believer. Ungaretti won multiple prizes for his poetry, including the 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He was a major proponent of the Hermetic style, which proposed a poetry in which the sounds of words were of equal import to their meanings. This auditory awareness echoes through Brock's hair-raising translations, where a man holding vigil with his dead, open-mouthed comrade, says, "I have never felt / so fastened / to life."

      Allegria
    • Voluto dallo stesso autore nel 1969, il volume raccoglie sotto il significativo titolo di Vita d'un uomo l'intera produzione lirica di Ungaretti, da L'Allegria fino al Taccuino del Vecchio, oltre ad alcuni componimenti sparsi mai usciti in raccolta e alle fondamentali traduzioni di classici, da Shakespeare a Mallarmé. Dall'esperienza tragica ed epocale della Grande Guerra, in cui Ungaretti si riconobbe "docile fibra dell'universo", alla riscoperta della tradizione poetica e artistica italiana che domina le più complesse liriche di Sentimento del Tempo, fino alla conquista della fede che accompagnò la vecchiaia del poeta. In questi componimenti è racchiusa l'intera esistenza di un uomo, ma soprattutto di un poeta.

      Vita d'un uomo : tutte le poesie