Giorgio Caproni (1912-1990)
Giorgio Caproni was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator. His poetry speaks about recurring themes as Genoa, Livorno, language and travel, with a sense of immediacy and a broken meter.
Hermeticism
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)
Salvatore Quasimodo was a Sicilian novelist and poet, and one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. His works are divided into hermetic and post-hermetic period. He also translated authors from Roman and Greek antiquity. In 1959 Quasimodo won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970)
Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet and journalist, leading representative of the experimental trend known as Ermetismo (“Hermeticism”). He was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th century Italian literature, also influenced by symbolism and futurism. He served in World War I and during the interwar period he was a foreign-based correspondent for …
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981)
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet (from Genoa), also writer, editor and translator. He had received honorary degrees from several universities and had been appointed in the Italian Senate.He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1975. His poetry explores solitude, nature and the “little” and “insignificant” things, using the concept of the objective correlative.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one of the foremost American poet of 19th century. She is known for her innovative use of form and syntax, such as short lines and unconventional capitalization and punctuation.