"A Finger of Time". Tardiness and destiny in Milo De Angelis

Authors

  • Alessandro Baldacci University of Warsaw

Abstract

The article deals with the characteristics of the late style in the poetry of Milo De Angelis, analyzing its beginnings in the mid-nineties, starting from the collection Biografia sommaria (1999), and developments until the publication of Incontri e agguati (2015), his most recent work. The study focuses on the changes produced by lateness in the oeuvre of the poet, which transformed his style from mental, opaque, and self-communicative into a register which is more inclusive, at times more distended, but still never restless, nor less lyrical or less dramatic. In practice, De Angelis’ late style produces an enrichment of his poetic vision, now capable of embracing elegiac dimension and tragic tension. Finally, the article investigates the figure of an author for whom the passage of time and the conscience of the approach of the end lead the poet to reobserve, from a posthumous perspective, his own adolescence and his own past, which constitute the basis of the character and destiny of a man and of a poet.

Author Biography

Alessandro Baldacci, University of Warsaw

Alessandro Baldacci insegna presso il Dipartimento di Italianistica dell’Università di Varsavia. È fra i curatori dell’antologia Parola plurale. Sessantaquattro poeti fra due secoli (2005). Ha pubblicato due monografie su Amelia Rosselli e i libri Andrea Zanzotto. La passione della poesia (2010), Controparole. Appunti per un’etica della letteratura (2010) Le vertigini dell’io. Ipotesi su Beckett, Bachmann e Manganelli (2011), La necessità del tragico (2014), Giorgio Caproni. Un’inquietudine in versi (2016). Ha recentemente curato il volume Dal nemico alla coralità. Immagini ed esperienze dell’altro nelle rappresentazioni della guerra degli ultimi cento anni (2017).

Published

01-11-2018

How to Cite

Baldacci, A. (2018). "A Finger of Time". Tardiness and destiny in Milo De Angelis. Elephant & Castle, (18). Retrieved from https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/398

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