The most comprehensive English translation of the work of Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888 1970,) the leading representative of the experimental literary movement called Hermeticism, or Hermetic poetry. This edition includes poems from all of his major collections: "Porto Sepolto (1916,) "L'allegria di naufragi" (1919,)"L'allegria" (1931,) "Sentimento del tempo" (1933,) and "Il dolore," (1947.)