Leopardi : Giacomo (1798-1837), Italian poet, scholar, & philosopher.
... comes in some absolute moments a native voice of the spirit". 18 In European poetry of the time the spiritual note is also heard here and there. The greatest figure of Italian Romanticism, Leopardi, was a kind of paradox, for he made a cult of classicism and hated the word "Romantic", understanding by it Mediaeval trappings such as his father had immured him amongst during his boyhood. But... which the mind has little control and there was the desire to feel (sentito), as well as know ( conosceva ) the truth. However, where the English Romantics felt a positive divinity everywhere, Leopardi had the living sense of an Infinite Nothing which he embraced with an unflinching gusto. This Nothing makes for him all life endless filth and frustration; but a hint is found in a few places in ...
... to the meaning of the words but to the rhythm that precedes the words and follows them, as if they were inscribed on a backdrop of eternity or, rather, by Eternity itself. So, too, this line by Leopardi does not owe its greatness to the meaning but to that something so subtly more than the meaning, which quivers behind it: Insano indegno mistero delle cose. Or this line by Wordsworth: ...
... of the occult comes in the Macbeth-lines. Virgil's verse has also no such view, even if it does rise to a universal level out of a passage related to particular objects and incidents. The phrase of Leopardi, a wild indignant pessimism instead of the Virgilian majestic sadness, holds no recognisably spiritual notion, either. As Sri Aurobindo 8 observes about the absolute poetic word and rhythm which ...
... 463 Kurtz, Benjamin 306 Lal,P.357 Last Poems 41,458 Lawrence, D.H. 388 Leeuw.J.J.Van Der 334 Lele, Yogi 11,81,327,458 Leopardi 309 Lewis, C.S. 174,326,337 Life Divine, The 5,30,32-37, 111, 112,126, 210,282,293,294,298,323,329,347,359, 400,411,416,417,440,446,459 Lodge, Sir ...
... Insano indegno mistero delle cose (The insane and ignoble mystery of things); 48 —Leopardi Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain; ...
... technique works. Here and elsewhere the very body and soul of the thing seen or felt come out into the open. The same dominant characteristic can be found in other lines which I have not cited, — in Leopardi's L'insano indegno mistero delle cose (The insane and ignoble mystery of things) 2 1 Virgil's opening phrase, literally rendered, would be: "There are tears of things" or "Tears... economy and direct force Virgil manages to combine with his subtle and unusual turn of phrase" is: Haunted by tears is the world and our hearts by the touch of things mortal. (K.D.S) 2 Leopardi's original has one different word and is spread over parts of Page 54 or in Wordsworth's Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Milton's line lives by ...
... technique works. Here and elsewhere the very body and soul of the thing seen or felt come out into the open. The same dominant characteristic can be found in other lines which I have not cited,—in Leopardi's L'insano indegno mistero Jelle cose (The insane and ignoble mystery of things) 2 1 Virgil's opening phrase, literally rendered, would be: "There are tears of things"... force Virgil manages to combine with his subtle and unusual turn of phrase" is my own: Haunted by tears is the world and our hearts by the touch of things mortal. (K.D.S.) 2 Leopardi's original has one different word and is spread over parts of two lines: Page 119 or in Wordsworth's Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Milton's ...
... technique works. Here and elsewhere the very body and soul of the thing seen or felt come out into the open. The same dominant characteristic can be found in other lines which I have not cited, — in Leopardi's Insano indegno mistero delle cose (The insane and ignoble mystery of things) 8 or in Wordsworth's Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. 9 Milton's line... any other word, it would no longer have been an Overhead line, even if the surface sense had been exactly the same. On the other hand, take Shelley's stanza — 8 Le Ricordanze, 71-72. Leopardi's original has one different word and is spread over parts of two lines: I'acerbo indegno Mistero delle cose... "The Prelude, III. 63. Page 31 We ...
... technique works. Here and elsewhere the very body and soul of the thing seen or felt come out into the open. The same dominant characteristic can be found in other lines which I have not cited,—in Leopardi's l'insano indegno mistero delle cose "The insane and ignoble mystery of things" or in Wordsworth's Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. Milton's line lives by its ...
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