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 between that city and a property his family had in...

Eugenio Montale, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1975, is regarded as one of the dominant voices of modernism, not only within the context of Italian letters but also internationally. His poetry, from the first publications in the 1920s to...

Eugenio Montale, Gianfranco Contini. Eusebio e Trabucco: Carteggio di Eugenio Montale e Gianfranco Contini. Dante Isella, ed. Milan. Adelphi. 1997 (released 1998). L.48,000. xvii + 328 pages. ISBN 88-459-1342-2. How can the correspondence between Eugenio Montale, to all intents and purposes Italy's...

Eugenio Montale: The Poetry of the Later Years. By EANNA O CEALLACHAIN. Oxford: Legenda. 2001. xi + 199 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-45-9. How and to what extent does Montale's later poetry reveal important shifts in the poet's ideological perspectives? This...

In the following excerpt, Cambon arques that thematic and formal unity links the "Motets" in The Occasions.

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 into his thoughts about the function of poetry.

An Italian-born educator and critic, Cambon has written extensively on Montale and edited his Selected Poems (1966). Joseph Brodsky called him Montale's "most perceptive critic." In the following essay, Cambon comments on the style and worldview of Montale's early poetry.