This article aims at analysing the role of American poetry in Cesare Pavese’s poetic activity. The first part of this study focuses on the influence of Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass on Cesare Pavese’s poetry collection Lavorare Stanca. The second section provides an analysis of some examples of Pavese’s poetic translations from Lee Masters and Whitman.…
