Ugo Foscolo | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 25 pages of analysis & critique of Ugo Foscolo.

Ugo Foscolo | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 25 pages of analysis & critique of Ugo Foscolo.
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SOURCE: “From Gray's Elegy to Foscolo's Carme: Highlighting the Mediation and Sublimation of the ‘Sepulchral,’” in Symposium, Vol. 47, No. 2, Summer, 1993, pp. 117-31.

In the following essay, Illiano examines Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which was known to Foscolo, for the influence it had on Foscolo's Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis and The Sepulchres. The critic also discusses Ippolito Pindemonte's I Cimiteri and its effect on The Sepulchres.

Widely acclaimed as a masterwork of poetic expression, Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard had a far-reaching impact on Italian literature of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Gray was hailed as the new Pindar of England, “poeta caldo, fantastico, armonioso, sublime,”1 and the Elegy, his major composition, was soon featured among the most challenging projects in literary translation. The first version, a masterful Elegia di Tommaso Gray sopra un cimitero di campagna in unrhymed...

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