L'allegria

L'allegria ("Joy", "Happiness", or better, "Merriness") is a collection of poems published by Giuseppe Ungaretti in 1931. It was an expanded version of a 1919 collection Allegria di naufragi ("Merriness of Shipwrecks"). Many of the poems were written in reaction to Ungaretti's experience as a soldier of World War I.[1]

Giuseppe Ungaretti wearing a beret

Poems from L'allegria have been translated by Charles Tomlinson.[2]

References
  1. Gaetana Marone, ed. (2007). Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1931–3. ISBN 978-1-57958-390-3.
  2. Richard Swigg (1994). Charles Tomlinson and the Objective Tradition. Bucknell University Press. p. 162. ISBN 978-0-8387-5249-4.

Further reading
  • Hand, Vivienne, 'Ambiguous Joy: contradictions and tensions in Giuseppe Ungaretti's L'allegria', The Italianist, 16, p. 76-116
  • Suvini-Hand, Vivienne, Mirage and Camouflage - Hiding behind Hermeticism in Ungaretti's L'Allegria, Troubadour, 2000
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