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

therefore the children of a truly separate

linguistic civilization, although they

consider themselves very much children of

the great Sardinian mother, with which they

retain very close ties. The question, in the

end, is almost frivolous and idle since if one

stops to consider it is not even relevant if a

poet writes in dialect or in Italian, if it is true

that he is such not on the basis of the

linguistic instrument adopted, but

exclusively on the strength of the results

achieved. The dialectologic querelle that

from time to time gains new momentum,

from different angles and perspectives

(whether dialect has already disappeared or

is about to become extinct, so that it would

be better to file away any question relative

to it; whether it is legitimate to place on the

same level dialect poetry and Italian poetry;

whether one should reserve for dialect a