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therefore, even in the rest of his poetry

collections (Trilogia [Trilogy], 1901; Viole e

ortiche [Violets and Nettles], 1906; Sorrisi

[Smiles], 1914; Peccati [Sins], 1916; Lu

Calavrise ‘ngrisatu, [The Anglized Calabrese]

1916; Accuordi e suspiri [Chords and Sighs],

1930; Garibaldina, 1949) is the fluctuation

between romantic longing and need for

judgment, sentimental abandon and a manly

sermonizing attitude, emotional, nostalgic

torpor and titanic shout, mythos and

mimesis animated by an ethos, even firmly

defined, in his contrast between a static

image, still patriarchal, of regional life

deposited in conscious memory and the

image of the restless turmoil of American

culture.

In Pane’s poetry abound the small

sketches, the vignettes, the scenes which