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LEA ; Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente, 2020-01, Vol.9, p.197-584
Ort / Verlag
Firenze: Firenze University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
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Literature Online (LION eBooks)
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The essay analyzes one of the most celebrated poems by Richard Wilbur (“A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra”, 1955) along three critical lines: 1. as an original example of a modern ekphrastic text, which proposes to establish a fruitful dialogue between a piece of poetry and a Roman fountain, a (not completely “silent”) work of art; 2. as the result of a dense textual “intercourse” with other – less known – poems in the Anglo-American tradition (by Louise Bogan and Anthony Hecht); 3. as the occasion for an ethical discourse, that can be read in the context of two poems in the German language (by R.M. Rilke and C.F. Meyer). The concluding remarks point at the deep significance of Wilbur’s post World War Two residence in Rome, as well as the multiple humane echoes originating from his literary stance.