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

grounded on an experimentally hermetic

neo-Romanticism (Lucecabelle) [Fireflies],

1951; and, posthumously, Poesie molisane

[Molisan Poems], 1955.

There are, however, certain observations

to be made, based on a less widely accepted,

less academic and even less stereotyped

review of the poetic world of this author,

undoubtedly regarded as the founder of

Molisan poetry in dialect.

In truth, on the mimetic/objective side of

his creativity, Cirese still wanders, with a

romantically “aristocratic” vocation, on the

surface of the reality he is portraying,

perceived and assumed in tones that tend

more towards an “idealization”of bourgeois

origin, “urban,” of the rural and pastoral

universe, than an authentically and

impulsively suffered empathy: Cirese stops

at the gates of Hell, on the threshold of the