Abba Abba

Anthony Burgess

first published 1977 Little, Brown, 1979 127 pages

Abba Abba is about two poets who may or may not have met in Rome in 1820-1821. One was John Keats, who was dying in a house on the Spanish Steps. The other was Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli a great poet, though little known outside Rome. The first part of the book is about Keats and Belli. The second part presents Belli himself as poet, translated by Mr. Burgess.

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Abba Abba edition · 2000 · Penguin Random House · 9780099282723
Abba Abba paperback · 1989 · Minerva · 128 pages · 9780749390389
Abba Abba. edition · 1987 · Faber
Abba Abba edition · 1979 · Corgi · 141 pages
Abba Abba edition · 1979 · Little, Brown · 127 pages
Abba Abba edition · 1977 · Faber · 127 pages

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