Gerard Manley Hopkins (born on 28 July 1844) was an English poet and Jesuit priest whose posthumous fame placed him among the best Victorian poets. None of his poems were published during his lifetime. In a period of traditional verse. he was an innovator in prosody (especially as regards his “sprung rhythm”, based on the… Read More Pied Beauty
Please scroll down for the English version Gli anni ’60 e ’70 in Italia furono l’età d’oro delle cover, che ci permise di importare il meglio dei nuovi ritmi provenienti dall’estero (beat, soul, pop) riproducendoli fedelmente ad eccezione dei testi. Questi a volte venivano tradotti , altre volte reinterpretati, ma più spesso riscritti totalmente, con… Read More The Sound of Silence/La tua immagine
Cassandro, whom some of you know, sent me this beautiful poem to translate into English. As you know, it is easier for me to translate from English, which is not my mother tongue, into Italian. I have had problems with the rhymes and the form, so I’m asking you for help . Do you have… Read More Asking for help
Both Geoffrey Chaucer (see here) and American poet Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 –1965) start their most famous works by mentioning “April” in the first line but with completely different connotations.If in Chaucer’s work, “sweet” April has a positive connotation, it means a vigorous, fertile rebirth of nature, animals and men which pushes people to embark… Read More T.S. Eliot & April /2
Dedicato a te, Donna che smorzi il tuo coloreper donar più lucea chi ti sta accanto – incapace di apprezzareil tuo splendoreunico in ogni stagione – che a volte scambipossessoper passione – prodiga sempredi vitae di amore queste parole sono per teDonnaper cantare il tuo valore. (L.Z.) – revisione – This is dedicated to you,… Read More Donna
Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” was written by the American poet Robert Frost in 1923 and published in the… Read More Nothing Gold Can Stay
“People One Ought To Know” was the first book Christopher Isherwood (see here) ever wrote, in 1928, a collection of nonsense verses about animals, in the tradition of Edward Lear. It was done in collaboration with a child he was tutoring. At the time he was living with prominent musician André Mangeot, and working as… Read More The Common Cormorant
Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet born in St. Louis, Missouri on 8 August 1884 In 1918, she won the Columbia University Poetry Society Prize for her collection Love Songs.The prize was later officially renamed the Pulitzer Prize. after newspaper publisher Joseph PulitzerWeakened after a difficult bout with pneumonia, she died by suicide in… Read More Wisdom
William S. Burroughs, a central member of the Beat Generation and an avant-garde author, died on 2 August 1997.In this short film was shot in 1990 by Gus Van Sant (best known as the director of films like Good Will Hunting) the author recites his poem “Thanksgiving Prayer”.The poem had been published the previous year… Read More Burroughs
Tears, Idle Tears Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,Tears from the depth of some divine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,In looking on the happy autumn-fields,And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,That brings our friends up from the… Read More Lord Tennyson’s Tears
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