Luciano Erba

Italian poet

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Luciano Erba was an Italian poet associated with the "Fourth Generation" of post-World War II poets in Italy. This generation, as noted in a 1954 anthology edited by Erba himself, included poets like Nelo Risi and Giorgio Orelli. Erba, along with others such as Roberto Rebora, was seen as continuing a "Lombard line" characterized by sober moral realism. His work is part of a vibrant period in Italian poetry following the war, despite a noted scarcity of readers compared to the number of poets.1

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Italian literature
Poetry after World War II
…edited by Pietro Chiara and Luciano Erba—include Erba himself and the poet and filmmaker Nelo Risi, both of them Milanese, as well as the Italian Swiss Giorgio Orelli. All three are from northern Italy and, along with Roberto Rebora and others, have been seen as the continuers of a hypothetical…
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…edited by Pietro Chiara and Luciano Erba—include Erba himself and the poet and filmmaker Nelo Risi, both of them Milanese, as well as the Italian Swiss Giorgio Orelli. All three are from northern Italy and, along with Roberto Rebora and others, have been seen as the continuers of a hypothetical…
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