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

(Marcin) #1

contemporary Italian poetry, that the choice


to write in dialect had not been made only


out of love of “country,” but because (and


Croce reiterated it on more than one


occasion) he was firmly convinced that


poetry “is not subjected to limitations of


genre or enslavement of form.”


He died in Naples in 1934.

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