Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli

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The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetry Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)-the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets-has been compared to Robert Frost for his evocation of natural speech, his bucolic settings, and the way he bridges poetic tradition and the beginnings of mod

Taije Silverman teaches poetry and literary translation at the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of the poetry collection Houses Are Fields. Marina Della Putta Johnston is a lecturer in Italian at the University of Pennsylvania.

"Shortlisted for the John Florio Prize, The Society of Authors" "A welcome addition to Princeton University Press's excellent series, the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation."---David Cooke, Modern Poetry in Translation