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The bestselling Complete Poems from the Nobel Prize-winning Salvatore Quasimodo, reissued as a Carcanet Classic.

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was an Italian poet and novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. During the 1930’s Quasimodo was a leader of the “Hermetic” school of poetry, however his later works chart his change from individualism toward sociality. Jack Bevan (1920–2006) was born in Blackpool and read English at Cambridge. He fought in the Italian campaign during the Second World War, and after the war returned to Cambridge. His subsequent career was in education and during this time he also worked intensively on the translation of contemporary Italian poetry, in particular that of Salvatore Quasimodo.
* This Complete Poems (a Carcanet bestseller), reissued as a Carcanet Classic. * Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. * This translation of Quasimodo’s entire poetic oeuvre fills a great gap in our knowledge of twentieth-century European poetry. * Poems that testify to the human (and inhuman) realities which have created our modern world. * Includes an introduction by Jack Bevan.
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