found convergence and confirmation in
Twentieth Century sensibility and quest for
an “essential” poetry.”
1 Cf. Luigi Biscardi, “Eugenio Cirese”, in Poesia Dialettale
del Molise. Testi e Critica (edited by Luigi Bonaffini,
Giambattista Faralli, Sebastiano Martelli), Isernia, Marinelli,
1993, p.118.
2 Indeed, to this epoch belongs the publication of La Lapa
(1953-55), a review of Popular History and Literature, edited
by Eugenio Alberto Mario Cirese, and of the Canti Popolari
del Molise (1957),edited by the same authors.
3 L. Biscardi, op. cit., p. 126.