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Born October 12, 1896 • Genoa • Italy
Died September 12, 1981 (aged 84) • Milan • Italy
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1975)
Notable Works “Ossi di seppia (Cuttlefish Bones)”
Movement / Style Hermeticism

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Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
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Vittorio Sereni
Italian poet, author, editor and translator
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Cesare Pavese
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Elio Vittorini
Italian author
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
American poet and critic
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Samuel Putnam
American editor and author
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Paolo Antonio Rolli
Italian author
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Attilio Bertolucci
Italian poet, literary critic and translator
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Melchiorre Cesarotti
Italian author
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Robert Bly
American author
H.D.
H.D.
American poet
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John Ciardi
American poet and critic
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Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet.
Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet
American author
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Dudley Fitts
American teacher, critic, poet and translator
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Donald Justice
American poet and editor
Monti, detail of an oil painting by A. Appiani; in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Vincenzo Monti
Italian author
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Anna Banti
Italian author and critic

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