Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

the experiences of the Futurists and La Voce,

Hermeticism and Symbolism, the Vestru of

Guastella (Ragusa, 1819-1899) and the

Parisian Mallarme’s “L’après midi d’un

faune” (which Vann’Antò translated).

His poetry made good use of rhythms

and cadences of folksongs, which lend so

many of his compositions an air both

magical and disenchanted, between

reflection and playfulness.

Criticism: R. Spongano, Poesia di Sicilia,

in Il Baretti, November 1927; P. P. Pasolini,

Passione e ideologia, cit.; A. M. Cirese in

“Letteratura”, July-August 1954; A.

Piromalli, Vann’Antò, in I contemporanei.

Letteratura italiana, IV, Milan 1974; I poeti del

Novecento, edited by F. Fortini, Bari 1977; S.

Orilia, in Inchiesta sulla poesia. La poesia

contemporanea nelle regioni d’Italia, Foggia