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

organized into a system, all substantially

referable to genetic factors or problems of

destination.

As for the genesis, it is clear that the

anthropological structures of the collective

imagination (being at any rate a question of

literature) played a priority role. Through

them, regional and subregional differences

were able to gain ground simultaneously

with their own distinctive traits, as well as

with their standardizing features. But the

paths followed necessarily led, from time to

time, to forcing the system sometimes

downward (elective application in the

management of local peculiarities),

sometimes upward (tendency to record

minimal data connoting the human

condition globally). It was therefore natural

for dialect poets to align themselves with the

two veins that would on the whole