Frank Sewall introduces Carducci with two essays on the Hellenic reaction in Italian letters and on the poet’s classic realism, then gives English versions of the poems themselves: ‘Roma’, the notorious hymn ‘To Satan’, ‘Homer’, ‘Virgil’, ‘Invocation to the Lyre’ and others in which ancient gods outlast the Church.
An early English doorway to the poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1906. Download the free EPUB.