The complete online text of Modern Italian Poets by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

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The Italian poet Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) was an aficionado of the void, of thresholds and enclosures, of stony enclaves and seacoasts. "I always begin with the real," he once said, and he wrote often of his first landscape -- a walled-in garden near the...