ABSTRACT
Carnevali (b. 1897) was an Italian poet and critic who was briefly on the staff of Poetry. He contracted encephalitis and was hospitalized in his native Italy from the twenties until the 1939 war. During this time Pound was in correspondence with him and generously tried to get him financial support (Letters, p. 299). Robert McAlmon's Contact Editions published Carnevali's A Hurried Man (1925). He has written that 'Carnevali's critical articles . . . in those days were about the best, so far as intellectual content and "sensibility" (however hysterical) were concerned' (Being Geniuses Together 1920-1930, revised and with supplementary chapters by Kay Boyle (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1968), p. 151). Kay Boyle has compiled and edited The Autobiography of Emanuel Carnevali (New York: Horizon Press, 1967).
