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

formulas not far removed from the usual

sketches and from the vignettes to which

theater has also contributed, above all

Petrolini’s. One can say at any rate that,

contrary to other regions and other

metropolis, there is no perceptible lag with

respect to schools and trends or teachings of

Italian poetry: the “Crepuscolari”

immediately find a willing audience, as do

the Futurists, the “Rondisti,” the “Ermetici,”

the Neorealists.

It would be interesting to see where the

reasons for such a direct correlative come

from, and it would also be interesting to

investigate why nearly the whole prolific

output in Roman dialect (as in the

Neapolitan as well, where the exceptions are

few, such as Serrao, Sovente and Di Natale)

almost completely lacks the note of a feeling

or color which is not oleographic. The