scholarly journals Pepe-Lamartine Una polemica letteraria e un duello per il Risorgimento

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 64-79
Author(s):  
Gabriele Paolini
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron ◽  
Alphonse De Lamartine ◽  
Giacomo Leopardi

Il saggio ricostruisce le reazioni  provocate a Firenze dalla pubblicazione di Le dernier chant du pelerinage d’Harold di Alphonse de Lamartine (1825), ispirato all'opera incompiuta di Lord Byron. Il ritratto dell'assoluta decadenza dell'Italia contemporanea, con la definizione dei suoi abitanti di "polvere d'uomini", indignò gli intellettuali, che avrebbero voluto rispondere nell'Antologia di Vieusseux, il periodico più importante dell'epoca. Pietro Giordani intendeva anche rispondere a Lamartine pubblicando un saggio sulle Operette Morali del giovane (e ancora sconosciuto) Giacomo Leopardi, interpretato come un grande e vivente italiano. La censura ha impedito questa e altre risposte, ma non un aspro riferimento contenuto in un opuscolo dell'esiliiato napoletano Gabriele Pepe.  Ferito nell'orgoglio, Lamartine (all'epoca responsabile dell'ambasciata francese a Firenze) sfidò Pepe a duello. La vittoria di Pepe suscitò un grande entusiasmo a Firenze e in tutta Italia. Il tema dell'onore offeso e vendicato con una prova di valore divenne una costante e fu imitato molte altre volte, nella realtà e nella letteratura, alimentando l'immaginazione di diverse generazioni.

Had Lord Byron read Utopia

Moreana ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (Number 49) (1) ◽  
pp. 49-50
Author(s):  
F. De Mello Moser
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron

Lord Byron. Lyrical poetry translated by Georgy Shengeli

2019 ◽  
pp. 284-289
Author(s):  
L. V. Egorova
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron ◽  
Lyrical Poetry

The book features Byron’s early poems Hours of Idleness, hitherto unpublished in Russian, as well as selected poems from 1809–1811 and 1816, and Hebrew Melodies. The book is relevant within the context of Byron’s legacy and Shengeli’s work. It is since the late 1980s that Shengeli’s previously unpublished poems have appeared in press, and we are on a path to better understanding the scope of his achievements. The book opens with Vladislav Rezvy’s excellent introduction to Shengeli’s life and work. Despite the article’s many merits, it still fails to discuss one important topic: Shengeli’s perception of Byron, the ‘comprehensive assimilation of the ideas, imagery, style and poetic techniques’ as described by A. Veselovsky in his time.

The History of Missed Opportunities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Galperin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Levels

This study is about the emergence of the everyday as both a concept and a material event and about the practices of retrospection in which it came to awareness in the romantic period in “histories” of the missed, the unappreciated, the overlooked. Prior to this moment everyday life was both unchanging and paradoxically unpredictable. By the late eighteenth century, however, as life became more predictable and change on a technological and political scale more rapid, the present came into unprecedented focus, yielding a world answerable to neither precedent nor futurity. This alternative world soon appears in literature of the period: in the double takes by which the poet William Wordsworth disencumbers history of memory in demonstrating what subjective or “poetic” experience typically overlooks; in Jane Austen, whose practice of revision returns her to a milieu that time and progress have erased and that reemerges, by previous documentation, as something different. It is observable in Lord Byron, thanks to the “history” to which marriage and domesticity are consigned not only in the wake of his separation from Lady Byron but during their earlier epistolary courtship, where the conjugal present came to consciousness (and prestige) as foredoomed but an opportunity nonetheless. The everyday world that history focalizes in the romantic period and the conceptual void it exposes in so doing remains a recovery on multiple levels: the present is both “a retrospect of what might have been” (Austen) and a “sense,” as Wordsworth put it, “of something ever more about to be.”

Madness Writing Poetry/ Poetry Writing Madness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
William Wordsworth ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Percy Bysshe Shelley ◽  
John Keats ◽  
William Blake ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
The Public ◽  
John Clare ◽  
Romantic Poetry

The final chapter returns to the scene of Romantic poetry, looking at poetry by William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Clare. It reads these Romantic texts as poised articulations of the idea of poetic madness, and discusses generally how these writers contributed to, or interwove with their own lives and works, new and rediscovered mythologies of madness, sometimes anticipating or resisting the public images created by journalism, criticism, or biography, previously described. Finally, the Romantic mad poet is considered in relation to criticism and the canonical role of Romanticism in English literature.

The Complete Poetical Works, IV, V. Lord Byron and Jerome J. McGann.

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-178
Author(s):  
Frederick L. Beaty
Keyword(s):  
Lord Byron

Deleuze and Italian Thought

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felice Cimatti
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Political ◽  
The World ◽  
Giacomo Leopardi ◽  
The One

The tradition of Italian Thought – not the political one but the poetic and naturalistic one – finds in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze a way to enter into the new century, the century of immanence and animality. In fact, Deleuze himself remained outside the main philosophical traditions of his own time (structuralism and phenomenology). The tradition to which Deleuze refers is the one that begins with Spinoza and ends with Nietzsche. It is an ontological tradition, which deals mainly with life and the world rather than with the human subject and knowledge. Finally, the text sketches a possible dialogue between Deleuze and the poet-philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, one of the most important (and still unknown) figures of Italian Thought.

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