I bought the Carcanet translation of the Canti a few months ago
and wasnt impressed very much. It left me wondering where Leopardi
got his reputation from. (Leopardi is a poet who ought to appeal
to me very much for obvious reasons.) Then a few weeks ago I
bought Edwin Morgan's `Translations' and he had a little Leopardi
in there. That was much more to my taste and I feel the Carcanet
translator to be inadequate. I think Leopardi is my sort of poet.
To be young and in love is marvellous and the rest of life quite
dreadful. I am pleased that I felt the love in me so long into
my fifties.
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