Seven Sonnets and a Canzone
Seven translated sonnets and a canzone connect love with artistic creation, confront aging, and turn from earthly desire toward divine love. They consider art’s survival beyond its maker, mourn Vittoria Colonna, and honor Dante while condemning his exile. The closing speaker laments years consumed by passion and feels his strength failing.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Sonnets, Lyric Poetry, Translation · 1,470 words
First lines
[The following translations are from the poems of Michael Angelo as revised by his nephew Michael Angelo the Younger, and were made before the publication of the original text by Guasti.]
I. The Artist
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Sonnets, Lyric Poetry, Translation
- Length: 1,470 words
- Structure: 1 section, 17 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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Genres
- Sonnets — Seven fourteen-line poems address artistic creation, love, aging, remembrance, and exile before the concluding canzone.
- Lyric Poetry — First-person speakers express frustrated desire, hopes of spiritual renewal, grief for a dead woman, and regret over vanished years.
- Translation — The introductory note identifies these English poems as translations of Michael Angelo’s poems in versions revised by his nephew.
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sonnets · translation · art · aging · divine love · mourning · exile