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

A History in Two Parts

Luigi Reina

A critical definition of Twentieth-

Century dialect poetry in southern and

insular Italy entails dealing with problems

not easily assimilated, even if in appearance

not difficult to catalogue. Because they are

related to, and often depend directly on,

very heterogenous factors. Simultaneously, a

priority appear to be those factors

determined by the different anthropologies

from which they stem or on which they tend

to take root (at least in the very long first

half of a history that substantially trails until

the turning point clearly recognizable with

very rare exceptions, even of great

significance^3 in the last quarter of the

century, with the emergence of the

neodialect line), and those more directly