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Title: The Complete Poems of Michelangelo by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Buonarroti, John Frederick Nims ISBN: 0-226-08033-1 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: "[Michelanglo's] beauty,new to me,spurs,goads me on"
Comment: I must confess that I am not a mushy person, I hate lovey dovey music. But the first time I ever read Michelangelo's poems directed towards Vittoria Colonna I knew that I was in love. The intensity and the beauty of it is so touching especially considering he was an old man when they were penned. Make it much more real, like a man who is truly pouring out his heart as opposed to someone who is just spouting words to gain the "favors" of a lady. Michelanglo is one of the few artists who have ever lived who have shown the true meaning of beauty. "My lady, these eyes see vividly-far, near-/your radiant face, wherever it is here,there."-absolutely.

Rating: 3
Summary: A splendid poet, but better translated elsewhere. . .
Comment: How can us mere mortals quibble with the creature of nature that was Michelangelo?!? I simply want to alert poetry fans to a book that I very highly esteem, and that I think edges the Nims' version out as a translation: check out Sidney Alexander's edition of the "Complete Poems," which won an award for best translation of the year! Nims is good, but Alexander is simply better!