Abba Abba: By Anthony Burgess
| Autor: | Burgess, Anthony |
|---|---|
| EAN: | 9781526138033 |
| Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 312 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Howard, Paul |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 18.02.2019 |
| Schlagworte: | Fiction - General |
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Students of the sonnet will know that the first eight lines of the Petrarchan form rhyme according to the pattern abba abba. A title is only a name, however. The book itself is about two poets who may or may not have met in Rome in 1820-21. One was John Keats, who was dying in a house on the Spanish Steps. The other was Giuseppe Gioachino Belli - a great poet, little known outside Rome, since he wrote in the rough, dirty, blasphemous dialect of the Roman streets. The first part of the book is about Keats and Belli. The second part presents Belli himself as poet, translated for the first time into English (as opposed to American and Scottish). If Belli knew Keats, did Keats influence him? If Keats knew Belli, would Keats, if he had lived, have become a sort of English Belli? Hard and unanswerable questions. This book is meant merely to be enjoyable, perhaps touching.
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