Poesie

Quel est le sujet du livre "Poesie"

Negli anni del dominio letterario di D'Annunzio, due piccoli libri portavano ai lettori una nuova idea di poesia. Erano opera di Guido Gozzano, morto prematuramente a trentatré anni, e illustravano un mondo popolato da personaggi comuni e «buone cose di pessimo gusto». Ma dietro l'apparente semplicità di quel linguaggio così diretto sino a essere prosaico si percepiva la raffinatezza di uno stile aggiornato alla luce delle esperienze francesi più innovative. E, su tutto, una sottile e persino affettuosa ironia. Questa edizione, magistralmente annotata e introdotta da unodei maggiori studiosi italiani, Giorgio Bárberi Squarotti, presenta entrambe le raccolte edite da Gozzano e una scelta amplissima delle poesie rimaste inedite, a partire dall'incompiuto poemetto Le farfalle.

Guido Gustavo Gozzano was an Italian poet and writer.

He was born in Turin, the son of Fausto Gozzano, an engineer, and of Diodata Mautino, the daughter of Senator Mautino, patriot and supporter of Giuseppe Mazzini and Massimo D'Azeglio. He spent his life in Turin and in Agliè (in the Canavese area), where his family owned several buildings and a large estate: Villa Il Meleto.

Of delicate health (but nevertheless practicing sports such as ice-skating, cycling, and swimming), he completed primary school with mediocre results, and attended Liceo classico Cavour; in 1903, after secondary school, he studied law at the University of Turin but never graduated, preferring to attend the crepuscolari torinesi, i.e. literature lessons by poet Arturo Graf, who was well liked by the young men of letters.

Graf exercised great influence over Gozzano. His Leopardi-inspired pessimism was mitigated by a spiritualistic form of socialism, a combination which young Turinese intellectuals (who saw in his thought an "antidote" to the style of Gabriele D'Annunzio) particularly favoured. Graf helped Gozzano depart from D'Annunzio's canon, which imbued his early work, by "going back to the sources" and devoting himself to a thorough study of the poetry of Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarca, which helped refine his poetic sensibility.