The Italian poet, translator, and critic Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968) was one of the chief exponents of Italian hermetic poetry.Salvatore Quasimodo was born on Aug. 20, 1901, in Modica, Sicily, whe...
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Born on 20 August 1901 in Modica, near Siracusa, Sicily, to Gaetano Quasimodo, a station master, and his wife, Clotilde Ragusa, Salvatore Quasimodo, the 1959 Nobel Prize winner for literature, followe...
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Critical Essay by Louis R. Rossi
Salvatore Quasimodo has always worked to remove the barriers that prevent understanding between men. This preoccupation brought about a change in his poetic and critic...
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Critical Essay by Francis Golffing
[Quasimodo's] voice is not only unique in contemporary European poetry but it is a voice of rarest distinction: absolutely free of rhetorical inflation, at on...
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Critical Essay by Thomas G. Bergin
Assaying [the letters of Lettere d'amore a Maria Cumani] collectively, the first thought that comes to mind is that they are truly and exclusively love letter...
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In the following essay, Molinaro traces the image of willows in Quasimodo's poetry and explores the biblical, mythic, and popular influences in Giorno dopo giorno.
In his introduction to Quasim...
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In the following essay, Jones traces the development of Quasimodo as first a hermetic and later a more socially engaged poet. Examining Quasimodo's oeuvre from Acque et terre (1930) through Dar...
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In the following essay, Hays addresses the striking originality of Quasimodo's translations of Sappho and Catallus in Lirici Greci, compares Quasimodo's translations to that of Foscolo a...
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In the following essay, Livorni makes connections between Quasimodo's translation of Homer's Odyssey, particularly the trope of exile, and the hermetic poetry of his first three collecti...
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
