The War of the Mice and the Crabs (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Giacomo Leopardi
- First Published: 1842
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, War, Italy or Italians, Animals, Greece or Greek people, Fables, Rats or mice, Frogs
Critical Evaluation:
Italians consider Giacomo Leopardi one of the great poets of the nineteenth century, although his work is relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. His life was short and bitter, and he was crippled by disease, usually in need of money, and cut off from the world about him. Most of the poetry for which he is praised is his lyric poetry, which is marked by the beauty, concreteness, and exactness of its language. Leopardi’s language is, in itself, an assertion and creation of human value, yet in all of his work, both prose and poetry, he expresses a...
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