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Desiring Italy
By Cahill, Susan Neunzig
- ISBN
- 978-0-44991-080-1
- Publisher
- New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1997.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1997
In her collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American authors writing about Italy, Powers (The Brooklyn Reader, LJ 12/93) has chosen the somber, brooding poetry of the Romantics--Robert Browning, Byron, and Shelley--and the self-reflective contemporary verses of Joseph Brodsky, Richard Wilbur, and Charles Wright. She represents the American and British confrontation with Italian manners through two short stories (by Malamud and Wharton) and in excerpts from the fictio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
