The Poetry Foundation’s website has a brief essay on Montale, helpful mostly for its generous quotations from critics and … More
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95. (Elizabeth Bishop)
The poems are about the failure to communicate or translate an esoteric, charged experience of the commonplace. Where poets who … More
93. (Elizabeth Bishop)
She shares with Eugenio Montale a novel sense of what epiphany a poem can or should seek or record. She only … More
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