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Monday, September 11, 2000
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Prof examines rose in Italian poetry |
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 In The Rose in Contemporary Italian Poetry, UGA professor of Italian Thomas Peterson surveys the use of the rose topos or theme in 20th-century.
Peterson provides a cross section of the work of all the major poets and the movements in which the rose appears. He examines the development of the theme, the individual instances of its appearance and the cultural and linguistic contexts from which these instances emerge. The result is the delineation of a new topography of the contemporary Italian lyric.
Beginning with the exploration of the origins and development of Italian poetry, Peterson surveys French usage of the theme from symbolism forward as a preface to his survey of Italian usage.
By studying the gamut of Italian uses of the image, Peterson demonstrates the importance of the theme for Italian lyric and its status as a central vehicle reflecting the changing tradition, tendencies and styles of the Italian lyric in the 20th century.
Beverly Allen of Syracuse University says the book is “an original and significant contribution to scholarship in the fields of 20th-century poetry, Italian literature and European literature. . . . The rose demonstrates both the skeletal similarities between ancient and recent lyric and the peculiar marks that distinguish the poetry of our time from its traditional heritage.”.
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