The Poetry Foundation’s website has a brief essay on Montale, helpful mostly for its generous quotations from critics and … More
Tag: Italian Poetry
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
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
66. (Dante Alighieri)
No poem rivals Dante’s Commedia in providing so many opportunities, so many temptations, for a poet (both as the poet recollecting and … More
Critical Provisions 