Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, author of Spoon River Anthology.
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Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet and politician. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He died in 1973, probably killed on orders of Augusto Pinochet. Neruda wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, love poems and political manifestos, like Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), Residence on …
James Joyce (1882-1941)
James Joyce was an Irish writer and poet, best known for Ulysses (1922). He contributed to the modernist avant-garde.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet. He is considered as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers due to his mystical, lyrical and existential themes and style. Duino Elegies (1923) and Sonnets to Orpheus (1922) are among his most famous works.
Emily Dickinson – Per un istante d’estasi / For each extatic instant
Jacques-Louis David, Andromache Mourning Hector, 1783 For each extatic instant we must an anguish pay in keen and quivering ratio to the extasy – For each beloved hour sharp pittances of years – bitter contested farthings – and coffers heaped with tears! Per un istante d’estasi noi paghiamo in angoscia una misura esatta e trepidante, …
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Emily Dickinson – Il gelo della morte era sul vetro / The Frost of Death was on the Pane
Ford Madox Brown, The last of England, 1855 The Frost of Death was on the Pane – “Secure your Flower” said he. Like Sailors fighting with a Leak We fought Mortality. Our passive Flower we held to Sea – To Mountain – To the Sun – Yet even on his Scarlet shelf To crawl the …
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