Halcyon

Manchester: Carcanet, 1988. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. softback with stiff wrappers 263pp., Masterpiece by the great Italian fascist poet

Paperback / softback. New. J.G. Nicholls's translation makes the richness and subtlety of d'Annunzio's "Halcyon" accessible to the English-speaking reader, and his introduction illuminates the complex themes and structure of the work. He provides a full glossary of places and references.

Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1988. Originally published in Italian in 1903. Translation, introduction and glossary by J. G. Nichols. Cover design: Stephen Raw. Typeset in Palatino. Halcyon is a carefully organized sequence of 88 lyrics, that must be read as a whole: as an idyll which does not exclude violence and savagery, 'sometimes serene / as the firmament, / as hot… Read more about this item

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.