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...broke out. He wrote his first poems in the trenches of Carso, on the French border, and published Il Porto Sepolto (The Submerged Seaport) in 1916. These earliest poems, laconic and unpunctuated, implied from the beginning a break with d'Annunzio and the traditions of Italian poetry. Glauco Cambon's study of Ungaretti in the Columbia series recalled the war poems as "flashes of insight bursting through the shell of established prosodic convention to capture the immediacy of inner experience." And Ungaretti himself reflected (in an essay titled "The Mission of the Artist") on the extent to which his culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giuseppe Ungaretti | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

...poésie pure, the publication of his complete works under the title Vita d'un Uomo, and finally his unanimous election as President of the European Community of Writers in 1962 signaled a waking from the turbulence of his younger years to the task of what Glauco Cambon called "a generous asceticism." The narrative poem, "Choruses Descriptive of Dido's States of Mind," written during the Fifties, brings to Ungaretti's work the knowledge that, in Cambon's words, "Experience is the progressive exorcism of illusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giuseppe Ungaretti | 5/7/1969 | See Source »

SELECTED POEMS by Eugenia Montale; translated by Glauco Cambon, G. S. Fraser, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Mario Praz and others. 161 pages. New Directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Name of the Void | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

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