Guido Mazzoni: Sulla poesia moderna
Literary criticism

On Modern Poetry


ISBN: 9788815259509
publisher: Il Mulino
year: 2015
pages: 256

 

Between the mid-eighteenth century and mid-twentieth century western poetry is transformed. Poets acquire unprecedented freedom; they can write in an obscure manner, break the rules of metre and syntax, regenerate vocabulary, eliminate any mediation between their own biographical person and the character which says ‘I’ in the texts. Poetry becomes the most self-centred genre in modern literature. By analysing some exemplary texts, the author reconstructs the successive stages in this metamorphosis and interprets them as a symptom of profound historical changes.

Translations

Guido Mazzoni: Sur la poésie moderne
Classiques Garnier (France) 2014
Guido Mazzoni: On Modern Poetry
Harvard University Press (USA) 2022
Guido Mazzoni: О современной поэзии
NLO Books (Russia) 2023