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Category: Eugenio Montale

173. (Eugenio Montale)

The final poem in La Bufera e altro, “Il sogno del prigionero,” “The Prisoner’s Dream,” is also the second poem in the … More

Eugenio Montale, modern poetry, Poetry

172. (Eugenio Montale)

  The Poetry Foundation’s website has a brief essay on Montale, helpful mostly for its generous quotations from critics and … More

Italian Poetry, Modernism, Montale, Poetry, T.S. Eliot

170. (Eugenio Montale)

A second in a series of readings of poems by Eugenio Montale, from his collection La Bufera e altro.  Here, from the … More

close reading, Eugenio Montale, modern poetry, Poetry, Translation

168. (Eugenio Montale)

I’m going to devote a few posts to readings of Montale’s poems from La Bufera e altro, Montale’s 1956 collection that … More

close reading, Eugenio Montale, Italian Poetry, Poetry

110. (Eugenio Montale)

Montale’s best translator, William Arrowsmith, writes of the collection La Bufera e altro: “these are love-poems, both personal and cosmological, without … More

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poetry, modern poetry, Poetry
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