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

fairly present and active in the cultural

milieu of the province in the Twenties and

Thirties.

It is not by chance that the diacronic line

of Twentieth-Century Molisan literature is

marked by two strong curves determined by

the linguistic option of dialect, and both

coinciding with the most intense phases of

the development of a regionalistic

consciousness: the first, beginning with the

immediate aftermath of W.W.I, crosses the

Twenties and Thirties; the second, beginning

with the late Fifties, spans the decades of the

Sixties and Seventies, and both go through

lively periods of research and study of the

popular culture and traditions of a Molise

that, still in the early Sixties, awaited to be

recognized as an autonomous region.

From the first decade of the Twentieth

Century there is evidence of active and