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“... has created an all-too-believable heroine. Finally, an unfinished novel by the Triestine poet Umberto Saba (1883-1958). Written and then abandoned in the mid-Fifties, Ernesto consists of a series of brief episodes deftly outlining a young boy’s sexual awakening. There is a thin line between fiction and autobiography here, since (as Mark Thompson ...”

“... poem in a foreign tongue. Several of McKendrick’s selections do a similar thing similarly well: Umberto Saba translated by Derek Mahon, Ungaretti by Patrick Creagh, Maria Luisa Spaziani by Beverly Allen. But many others are more limited. In Biographia Literaria Coleridge illustrates the workings of metaphor with some made-up lines which do not pretend ...”