Il volume raccoglie oltre alla biografia dell'autore, l'esperienza siciliana e gli influssi dell'isola nei futuri romanzi di DHL. Sono stati inseriti il racconto Sun ambientato in Sicilia, il primo capitolo di Sea and Sardinia che raccoglie le memorie dello scrittore a Taormina, le poesie scritte a Fontana Vecchia sulla frutta, sui fiori e sugli animali, chiude il volume l'introduzione di "Little Novels of Sicily," ovvero note su Verga scritte da Lawrence nella traduzione delle novelle dello scrittore siciliano.
It is a selection of diaries, letters, poems... written by anglophone travellers like Coleridge, Wilde, Woolf, Ruskin, Pound, Lawrence, Durrel, Forster. They visited Sicily and left their memories. At the end of the book there is a list of all famous british and american writers that visited the island. Il testo raccoglie una selezione di viaggiatori di tradizione anglofona quali Coleridge, Wilde, Woolf, Ruskin Pound, Lawrence, Durrel ecc che tracciano dei percorsi originali e innovativi nel periplo dell'isola e in particolare Taormina il territorio Etneo. Ogni testo, tratto dalle fonti originali viene, presentato con una breve contestualizzazione storica e biografica di ogni autore e una ricostruzione dell'itinerario di viaggio e delle principali tappe. In appendice l'elenco di tutti gli scrittori anglofoni che hanno visitato l'isola.
In the book there is a selection of texts about Sicily written by british writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Lawrence, Durrel....The reader will be trasported to this secret land and will discover the poetic meaning of this mysterious island than only poets can explain.
In the book there is a selection of texts about Sicily written by british writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Lawrence, Durrel....The reader will be trasported to this secret land and will discover the poetic meaning of this mysterious island than only poets can explain.
In the book there is a selection of poems about Sicily by anglophone writers. Among the most well knownn we can list Wilde, D.H. Lawrence, Dickinson, Shelley. They relate some interesting aspects of Sicily even if some of them didn't visit the island. There are poems about the myths of Arethusa and Enceladus, the volcano Etna with its destructive magma, the sicilian landscape with its flowers and trees, important Sicilian towns like Catania with its monks, Taormina that smells of almond blossom, Syracuse with its greek history and Palermo with its arab dome. The reader will be transported to this secret land and will discover the poetic meaning of this mysterious island that only poets can explain
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