Keats e Leopardi: coincidenze biografi che, ideali e consonanzed’ispirazione

Keats and Leopardi: Biographical coincidences, ideals and affinities of inspiration – In the history of poetry, the English John Keats and the Italian Giacomo Leopardi, in their personal life, poetry, and letters are phenomenal in a special way. Both poets have always been regarded as key figures in the European Romantic Movement and have steadily grown in stature despite all changes of fashion. They never met, never were in Rome together, wrote in two quite different languages and their poetry is different in style, form and in almost every other way. Yet, despite the distance and the cultures that separated them, surprisingly, the two poets had certain biographical experiences in common; both early understood the intimations of their mortality and had the premonition of death, and many of their poems have the same evocative power, not to mention the many fascinating correspondences and resemblances both in ideals and inspiration