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Article: Lirica moderna e contemporanea.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2001
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Lirica moderna e contemporanea. By ERMANNO KRUMM. (Biblioteca, 5) Florence: La Nuova Italia. 1997. viii + 178 pp. 15,000 lire.
It is no easy task to understand the complexities of modern Italian poetry. Ermanno Krumm, a poet himself and an art-critic for Corriere della sera, has written a fascinating guide to modern poetry in general, and this may allow readers from abroad a vantage-point from which to place some major Italian figures. Krumm's book has an impressive extent of reference, from French philosophy to Russian, German and Spanish poets and theorists, but is lucidly written, albeit with a poet's felicity and ease of language. He reminds us at the start of ...