. . . . "By catching something of Leopardi's cadences and tonality in a version that still reads as idiomatic modern English (with an occasional Irish or American accent), Leopardi: Selected Poems should win for the Italian poet the wider appreciative audience he deserves. Hist themes are mutability, landscape, love; his attitude, one of unflinching realism in the face of unavoidable human loss. But the manners of the poems are a unique amalgam of philosophical toughness and the lyrically bitter sweet. In a way more pure and distilled than most others in the Western tradition, these poems are truly what Matthew Arnold asked all poetry to be, a \"criticism of life.\" The translator's aim is to convey something of the profundity and something of the sheer poetic achievement of Leopardi's inestimable Canti." . . "Translations" . . . "Ausgabe" . . . . . "Leopardi : selected poems"@en . "Leopardi : selected poems" . "Lyrik." . . "Italienisch." . .