This article introduces a special issue that, mobilising the idea of lyric communities as a critical question and a heuristic tool, explores the multiple relationships between lyric poetry and comm...

Leopardi’s philosophical questions are often approached in straightforwardly ontological terms, thus detracting from the distinctiveness of his theoretical struggle. This article argues instead tha...

In contemporary Western societies, lyric poetry is often considered an elitist or solipsistic literary genre. Yet a closer look at its history reveals that lyric has always been intertwined with the p...