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...
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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 p...
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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 toler...
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Critical Essay by George Kay
[Where] does Quaderno di quattro anni come exactly, in Montale's oeuvre? That inevitably raises the larger question—how is the whole course of his poetry to ...
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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 thing...
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Critical Essay by William Bedford
As Professor [G.] Singh argues in his excellent "Introduction" [to Selected Essays], working as a freelance journalist in much the same situation as Eli...
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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, but...
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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." ...
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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...
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Kessler is an American educator, poet, short story writer, translator, and screenwriter. In the following excerpt from the transcript of a radio broadcast, he states that Montale is more "outsp...
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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...
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An English educator and critic, Gifford has written extensively about Russian literature. In the following essay, he provides an overview of Montale's verse, noting a message of hope implicit i...
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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 abov...
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In the following excerpt, Cambon arques that thematic and formal unity links the "Motets" in The Occasions.
The Centrality of the twenty "Mottetti" to Montale's deci...
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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 ...
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In the following excerpt, Cambon states that Miscellany (Satura) departs from the style of Montale's earlier poetry.
The poet himself once intimated that his three major books of verse, Ossi di...
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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...
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An Indian-born educator, critic, and poet, Singh has translated several selections of poems by Montale and is the author of Eugenio Montale: A Critical Study of His Poetry, Prose, and Criticism (1973)...
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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 an...
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Brodsky is a Russian poet and critic who emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 and became an American citizen in 1977. His view of poetry as a relief from the horrors and absurdities of life and the...
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Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
