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Articolo | Omaggio a un poeta. Sereni e d’Annunzio

Omaggio a un poeta. Sereni e d’Annunzio

Abstract

This article explores Vittorio Sereni’s attitude towards the literary legacy of d’Annunzio, as expressed in particular in the poem “La poesia è una passione?”, in which Sereni explicitly quotes some lines from d’Annunzio’s Novilunio and appears to refer to a long, and apparently somewhat arduous, process of distancing himself from d’Annunzio’s cumbersome legacy in his early development as a poet. The main point that we try to make is that Sereni’s departure from d’Annunzio and the Liberty style is prompted not so much by a radical shift in poetic sensibility, but rather by a recognition that the world, and the social reality, have changed, and therefore require a renewal of the means of poetic expression. This is contrasted with the poetry of Montale, arguably the most influential Italian poet in the second half of the 20th century: we make the case that Montale’s innovation, decisively influenced by the English-language modernism, is much more radical, and involves not just an updating of the poetic language, but a more fundamental and theoretical renewal of the very idea of poetry and literature and of what they stand for.


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Presentato: 20 Febbraio 2022 | Accettato: 02 Giugno 2022 | Pubblicato 28 Ottobre 2022 | Lingua: it

Keywords Gabriele d’Annunzio • La poesia è una passione? Novilunio • Modernism • Vittorio Sereni • Eugenio Montale

Copyright © 2022 Giulia Raboni. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/AdA/2421-292X/2022/01/015


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