Eugenio Montale Summary

The Italian poet and critic Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) was one of the major representatives of Italian hermetic poetry.Eugenio Montale was born on Oct. 12, 1896, at Genoa, and his youth was spent bet... Read more

Critical Essay by Alfred Corn [Despite his English affinity], Montale still belongs to the continental European tradition. Since the 19th century, French, Italian, German, and Spanish poetry has tole... Read more

Critical Essay by Russell Fraser Definition is the staple of critical discourse. Eugenio Montale in his poetry frustrates definition. His music is crepuscular as it enfolds and merges dissimilar thin... Read more

Critical Essay by Blake Morrison [Montale's Selected Essays] is a collection well worth having, one which lets us see this major poet's reaction not only to his Italian predecessors, bu... Read more

Fraser is an American educator and critic specializing in the works of William Shakespeare. In the following essay, he argues that Montale takes an agnostic stance in his poetry by raising issues with... Read more

An English journalist, novelist, and critic, West championed equality for women and other liberal political views. In the following excerpt, she studies Montale's prose writings for insights in... Read more

In the following essay, Simonelli holds that the foundation of Montale's poetics was established in Cuttlefish Bones and developed in later works. To talk about Montale's poetics is a... Read more

In the following excerpt, Cary explicates poems from Montale's "war-book," Land's End (Finisterre,). Dismissed from the directorship of the Gabinetto Vieusseux in 1938&#... Read more

Spender was an English man of letters who rose to prominence during the 1930s as a Marxist lyric poet and as an associate of W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, C. Day Lewis, and Louis MacNeice. His p... Read more

In the following excerpt, Craft highlights dominant subjects in Montale's poetry: contemporary values, the human condition, and the search for meaning in life. In October the Swedish Academy... Read more