The Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was the creator and major representative of Italian hermetic poetry.Giuseppe Ungaretti was born on Feb. 10, 1888, in Alexandria, Egypt, of Italian paren...
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When the soldier Giuseppe Ungaretti saw his first volume of poetry, Il porto sepolto (The Buried Port), published in 1916, Italian writers and artists were in the process of restoring their nation to ...
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In the following essay, translated by John deMeo and David Jacobson from the Italian version originally published in 1974, Anceschi investigates the arc of Ungaretti's poetic career by examinin...
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In the following essay, Mandelbaum introduces translations of Ungaretti's poetry and traces the heritage from which Ungaretti's poetry emerges.
In 1958, I published, under the title Life...
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In the following essay, Jones details the aesthetics of Ungaretti's poetry through multiple brief examinations, as well as considering Ungaretti in relation to other major poets.
Any attempt to...
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In the following essay, Wells discusses the influence that Ezra Pound had on the poetic career of Ungaretti.
Giuseppe Ungaretti and Ezra Pound did not establish personal contact until the late 1950s, ...
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In the following essay, Musolino compares two anti-war poems, a subgenre emblematic of Ungaretti and poet Wilfred Owen.
The tradition of war has traditionally given rise to an equal imperative in powe...
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In the following essay Lang explores the relationship of Ungaretti's verse to his relationship with his birthplace, Egypt, versus his ancestral homeland, Italy. Lang conducts this analysis by u...
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In the following essay, Frisardi offers a general assessment of Ungaretti's poetry through the lens of many of the details of the poet's life.
When I read a “hermetic” poet...
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Critical Essay by Glauco Cambon
[The "I" of "I fiumi" (The Rivers)] defines itself more strongly and completely than anywhere else in L'allegria. (p. 584)
Bits of pe...
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Critical Essay by Andrew Wylie
Ungaretti's poems are of their time to such an extent that within the volume that collects Vita d'un uomo, four divisions are easily seen. These divisions ...
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Critical Essay by Takis Papatzonis
[On first reading Ungaretti's poetry,] I was greatly moved by his delicate poetic sensibility, by the aesthetic beauty of his immaterial forms which seemed to...
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Critical Essay by Tom O'neill
[Ungaretti's] sense of guilt, of corruption in the nature of man—… man who, without the help of God's grace, cannot hope to redeem hims...
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Critical Essay by Margaret Brose
Ungaretti endows his verbal structures with thematic force [in L'Allegria]; the syntactic and semantic encodations converge in such a way that the former become...
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Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti
