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

that, instead of diminishing, certain

inequalities with respect to Italian poetry

have almost become more prominent.

It is not by chance that, right in the

aftermath of the political unification of Italy,

there was an increased interest in the

ethnological research and a widespread

proliferation of studies on folklore and

popular culture, which required numerous

transcriptions from the oral tradition. Just as

it is not by chance that there was a

concomitant general flowering of poetry in

dialect which a long time, with a stance

which was certainly different from the one

dictated by Romantic practice. Everywhere,

though, a few essential questions came

forcefully to the fore. They were tied,

nevertheless, to formulations not altogether

new, especially when they touched on

certain peculiar characteristics of textuality