Monday, January 19, 2009

Italian Poetry

Italian poetry

Eugenio Montale

Nobel Prize 1975

He was against fascism

“Doubt”

 

Salvatore Quasimodo

Nobel prize for lyrical poetry

“Street in the Agrigentum”

 

Primo Levi

Placed in Auschwitz in 1944 for 11 months.

His poems reflect his experience in the camps

“Shema”.

“Reveille”

 

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Figure head in fascist movement

He was a pilot fighter for france

Given the title of principle di montenevoso, and made president of the Italian royal academy

“Canto Novo”

 

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