Hermeticism, Futurism, and post-war neo-realistic poetry are some of the movements covered in the lengthy and detailed introduction. Selections from Quasimodo, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959, Pavese, Ungaretti, Montale, and Bartolini.

This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press''s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.
Hermeticism, Futurism, and post-war neo-realistic poetry are some of the movements covered in the lengthy and detailed introduction. Selections from Quasimodo, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959, Pavese, Ungaretti, Montale, and Bartolini.